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Something to ask yourself when looking at Heroes versus DOTA/League - Do you actually enjoy the snowball effect in legacy MOBA games? Because from my POV, I've always thought that being on either end of the snowball is a terrible game experience. Being vastly more powerful than the other...

2.2 encounter footage - Also - the Gilgamesh is real. FINAL FANTASY XIV Patch 2.2 - Through the Maelstrom - YouTube

You can grind, but it's not a particularly fast grind. Even with the freebie 2k gold you get at the start, I'm only just at 5,300 gold after somewhere between 12-14 games. In terms of money value, the hero prices (relative to gold) are as follows: 2000 gold hero = 3.99 5500 gold hero =...

Game is actually really fun. No clue about the limitations of it at any sort of extreme high end play yet, but the initial impression is that the game is high quality. I guess to hit some of the fantastic things and awful things - Fantastic: UI. Never thought I'd say it after playing...

2.2's release date is confirmed: March 27th. Letter from the Producer, LV (03/13/2014)

The high point of the series for me was Placebo Effect in Season 2. The difference in quality between that episode and any of the new episodes is staggering. Sad drop in quality for what was once an awesome series.

Just watched the latest episode, and holy shit they need to stop with Pam. They took a character designed for 2-3 jokes an episode and expanded it to practically every scene in an episode. It's completely obnoxious at this point.

You realize that these sorts of things are never mere "convenience" right? If payshop options like this become the norm, you eventually hit a point in where the game designers actively create roadblocks to fuck their players with the only solutions being in the pay shop. Instead of getting...

lol. shades of D3 RMAH, jesus christ.

That's not the actual barrier in playing KR MMOs now. People got around that for years using dubious methods like KSSN generators. The real problem now is that it requires the combination of a KSSNandKR cell phone identification. It's one thing for someone in the US to falsify that sort of...

In fairness, I think rolling warrior initially had a lot to do with your early departure from the game. Warriors being terrible was one area where SE really dropped the ball in early FFXIV, and almost every person I know that rolled warrior as their first class ended up either quitting or rage...

Crafting is only a problem when it becomes ultra mandatory for people who don't like crafting to utilize crafting. There's a definite subset of players who love crafting in MMOs, but you can't piss off 85% of your player base in order to appease the 15% (or whatever, numbers pulled out of my...

FFXIV was a holy shit moment for me. Not because of the combat mechanics or gameplay (which were average), but the overall presentation of the game was at a high enough level to really impress. Blade and Soul's combat system was also good enough to impress (along with the overall level of polish...

^^^^^ This line of thinking sums up my last post, and is a perfect example of why the "LOL JUST COPY WOW" formula is doomed to fail. It's not enough to copy WoW, you need to do some part of your game dramatically better than WoW if you hope to carve out a profitable niche.

Awesome. Simply awesome. You just summed up the thinking that's proven itself a failure time and time again. The reality is, games need to do more than just copy the status quo from another game in order to see a large influx of players. You need to offer players a new "holy shit this is...

Wildstar's main problem is that it's intensely mediocore. It has no niche it excels at over any other game in the genre. It has boring combat compared to newer action mmos, and it has a stale world and setting when compared to FFXIV or even WoW. The game never hits you with a "holy shit this...

If the end game of WildStar has as little soul as what's been presented in beta so far, I don't think anyone is going to give a fuck about the game for any length of time. Game worlds actually need to be interesting and entertaining to make people swallow the grind that comes with the genre...

B&S is really fun, but I can't really recommend the foreign versions for any sort of long term play. I played the chinese version up to about level 22, and then quit when I realized that the ping issues would just end up annoying me more and more as time went on. It's a shame that the game has...

Square Enix Financials Cast Final Fantasy 14 as Saviour : ffxiv Not unexpected, but FFXIV has made Square a shitload of money. Also, that report solidifies FFXIV as one of the most successful post-WoW mmos released.

Worth noting that he also confirmed Gilgamesh as a boss fight. Mentioning that there'd be "a big battle on a big bridge" is a pretty obvious give away.

Given that talking about gameplay experience doesn't fall under LOL NDA BREAK bullshit in shit thread - I did get a chance to play a little bit of Wildstar recently. For me, the game has Rift syndrome. It's remarkably bland, and it doesn't really do anything well enough to really hook you...

Good games don't need an NDA to protect them. The only purpose of an NDA for these kinds of games is to prevent the end consumer from knowing the actual quality of the game. In effect, the NDA is only in place so that people who otherwise would avoid the game might be tricked into buying it via...

Can someone explain how the average user of this board benefits when things like NDA breaks are modded out? Companies use NDAs to protect themselves and to fuck players. Given that players are the main reason this website exists, why exactly is Draegan going with the scumbag move of protecting...

FFXIV really isn't geared to be a "play 24/7 all day err day err month" game. For people who don't like repeating things or doing things for alts, I'd highly recommend just playing the game once every two content patches for a month or two instead. For reference, a list of content that'll be...

Were you one of those people that thought WoW had shit graphics back in the day? FFXIV's graphical appeal comes less from raw engine power (it's still made for PS3), and more from it's incredibly well done art direction and style. Saying you prefer GW2 graphics to FFXIV reminds me a lot of...

Wow. That Scooter guy is a great example of how NOT to manage a community. His responses in that thread created more drama and controversy for the company than letting the thread run its course ever would have. Jesus.

Rift never even had my attention for longer than an hour. The issue was that everything about the game was bland and stale from the word go. Nothing about the combat, graphics, environment or story was enough to pull me in and make me spend more time on the game. Best way to describe it is...

It's the smartest PR strategy. Game companies don't get into trouble because they have portrayals of characters that minority group X might disagree with. Game companies get into trouble because they come out with a hamfisted explanation of why things are that way, and things end up snowballing...

My group is going to ragequit coil. Third week of killing Twintania, and all we've gotten is healer loot. 1 cane and two books. I have an i89 Scholar with allagan book to go with my BIS WHM now, lol.

My complaint is more to do with Wildstar's existence cockblocking Blade and Soul than it is with Wildstar itself specifically. Wildstar doesn't do anything well enough to really capture my attention or interest. Whereas Blade and Soul's combat had me extremely interested from just the first hour...

Apparently Wildstar is the reason that Blade and Soul still hasn't been ported to the US yet. Meaning the sooner this game crashes and burns, the sooner Blade and Soul might get a US release. NCSoft sucks.

Gilgamesh has to be one of the worst servers to sell shit on in general. From what I've heard, even in the past Lamia was selling Titan HMs for 700k+ more than a month and a half after people were killing it regularly. Even to this day people still sell Titan HMs here for 200-250k per.

XM is only 250k on Gilga? Jesus fuck. If there's one downside to Gilgamesh, it's that the people capable of selling ruin their profit margins.

Selling Titan XM carries for 2 million a pop is where its at. All I have to say.

This depended a lot on the server actually. I got rank 14 while still making every raid back in the day, but that's because I had a complete monopoly on AV premade groups for my server. Which meant I could cycle people in/out so everyone knew who would be top 5 in honor for the week...

Nope. Was a fresh set of attempts and their first kill. It's just not a hard fight if the people you play with aren't dumb.

The argument really isn't as cut and dry as you're making it. There are plenty of seasons in where teams across an entire division are going to have a shitty record because they're straight up playing much stronger teams than another division might be. Strength of schedule is a big deal.

The 49ers are almost certainly fucked today. I just can't see people who spend the majority of their time in a temperate climate being able to adjust to Ice Bowl II level conditions. Game is going to be fucking hilarious to watch though, especially if it gets to -20 (pre-windchill) before kick...

Watching this game feels like you're watching an Elf team vs a Chaos team in Blood Bowl. Holy fuck.