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I've had a smooth connected experience, but just a couple hours ago, we were four of my guild doing a dungeon, and we got hit by a lag spike (and wiped), but one of us was disconnected - and found herself with a 3000+ queue, so she wasn't going to come back. The queues themselves have been...

One of the things YoshiP repeatedly said is that FF14 wouldn't exist without WoW. Square Enix learned from WoW. A lot. And that's what Blizzard failed to. Blizzard has - or rather, used to - been able to learn from others, to deliver stuff that distilled the best of a genre. And then, they...

Apparently, this is very specific to the english text, as neither French nor apparently Japanese include the innuendo (couldn't find the german text).

But, but... muh mythic raid testing?

Just a reminder in these times: those 25k/year will never be adjusted for inflation...

Some people got a notification, but even if you haven't, the keys are supposed to be there anyway.

It's a matter of timing. If you take more than 1min between the moment the login server times you out (which may be before the client notifies you) and you re-enter the queue, you lose your place. A friend of mine got a solution: after you're in queue, login again and start a second client, and...

I'm not into RTSes at all. I got a free copy of SC2 which I never ever registered on B.Net, and although I tried WC3 at the time, I quickly removed it from my then-PC. I want my strategy games measured in Minutes-per-Turn, not Actions-Per-Minute.

Prime time in EU isn't the right time to try. It's not the 4k+ queue that's the problem. It's the disconnect, and by the time you managed to relaunch twice the client (because the first time gave you a 2002), you're at the back of the queue, 500 places further away than when you started. Not...

I wouldn't know, since I no longer even have the Battle.net app on my computer.

Blizzard repeatedly gave a day, sometimes three or more of free time when stuff happened. At least, that was the case early on. My sub history would include those free days, so they were easy to spot. But that was always for downtime, not queues. Of course, they almost never had those problems...

It looks like they've moved the AFK code from client-side to server-side. Unless you send a new command to the server because you are doing something, the server will boot you. That's why any interface opened won't work anymore, not any form of auto-stuff (like running or auto-attacking).

Title screen is nice with the moon moving in position and all that. Queues, on the other hand... aren't nice.

Uh, I was notified it was shipped ten days ago. Then again, it has been stalled at the logistic center for ten days.

Just that sentence makes me chuckle so... hard.

I've been selling all my HQ gathers at the AH for a while.

Fun little series that I discovered: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/47931/planetary-cultivation Basically, what's in the blurb shown just above: Typical arrogant cultivator arrives on Earth in the hope to score an easy victory - only to find that Earth has no spiritual components nor...

Aaah, committee. The place where stuff goes to die.

Most of the regular studios that do OSX tend to do a good job. A lot of Paradox titles, for instance, are day 1 clean releases (those that are on OSX). That's why I believed Amplitude, after all. I've written off the game, uninstalled the rest of the Endless stuff (which I tended not to play...

"Will" bring: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/an-incident-with-the-james-webb-space-telescope-has-occurred/

I've yet to play. I should launch it for at least 5mn so that I can review bomb it on steam. I play on OSX. All of Amplitude Games were always on OSX, so when they said for their first game post-SEGA purchase that it would be on Mac, but "shortly after release", I simply pre-ordered, and...

That's what happens if you insist on every single expansion making the others obsolete and having nothing to do whatsoever with the others. You're not playing World of Warcraft, you're playing WoW1: Vanilla, WoW2: TBC, WoW3: WotLK, ... Wow8: BfA, WoW9: Shadowlands.

Yea. And that's also indicative. By the resume, Jen O'Neal looks like the right person to head a Game Development Company for Activision. Ybarra looks like the right person to head a Live Services Business Unit for Activision. Guess what are Bobby's priorities for Blizzard?

FTFY.

Just remember: The best nickname for FF14 is "World of Cinematics". ... although they get your to either hysterical laughter or tears at times, despite everything.

Fractals? Fractals? I haven't played GW2 for over three years, so... Wait, what thread am I in???

There's quite a few impressive bosses of the Library, but I'd go for Erathostenes (the first person to calculate almost correctly the circumference of the Earth). If you want to go with history, then that's probably Aristarchus, the last Librarian before it started to decline, but grammar and...

More on the WoW design, and the time-walking design ("you have only two weeks to experience old content, then it's gone for the next four months! Forget about FF14 raids, or you miss this opportunity!"): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0232318

Automated driving is going to remove some of that mystique...

Looks like the earnings call hasn't been good...

Wow (pun intended). More fun? O'Rly.gif

Haven't seen much about this, just discovered the "minor drama": Yes, that's Blizzard newest co-lead, selling carries in WoW.

I'm pretty sure the original strategy was simply to force everyone into the Facebook ecosystem. If you already have a Facebook account, why aren't you using it for the rest? "Everything you do, you do it via Facebook", that kind of things. Same thing as "use your Facebook account to log into any...

I wonder how much the sales plummeted that they need to "separate the accounts": https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/10/meta-removing-facebook-login-requirement-for-quest-headsets-by-next-year/

They know it's their last opportunity. Because at one point, even Congress won't be able to pass that pork when facing stuff like SpaceShip. I mean, half the two-billion-a-launch SLS missions could easily fit on Falcon Heavy in expandable mode (official price 150M$).

FTFY

Watched a few videos on the topic, the current hypothesis on inner monologue is a repurported self-correction mechanism. When you talk, your language center feeds the physical bits (lung/vocal cords), and simultaneously feeds back into your hearing center, so if you're speaking "wrong", you can...

To be honest, ARR MSQ is a bit of a mess, because they were hurrying to fix from an even bigger mess. But it is tolerable. However, the nickname "World of Cinematics" is appropriate. When you get an explicit prompt "set aside an hour before accepting this quest", you do know it's going to be...

Not only that, but people have noticed that the only feature interesting in 9.1.5 - which lands on Nov 2nd - is the Mage Tower with Legion Timewalking, which comes... "early December". That is, "just in time for you to sub an additional month".