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Onto the Skald stretch goal now. At least they aren't getting outside of the usual pathfinder stuff yet. They'll hit the next one today too I'm sure. Going to be a wild ride.

You can certainly bar access to places with flying which can make it useful and cool to use. Make flying mounts only 15 minutes per hour and see how people will seethe rofl.

I think they are trying to get across just how skeptical the average person would be. Which is cool and all but they're dragging it on. Even in the face of completely inexplainable evidence and unbelievable coincidence everyone just wants to shrug it away as being bullshit.

This is another poignant point of MMO design. For a game that is at is core a gear treadmill how much should you let new players skip so they get to the new content?

That said. Mounts with other benefits like water walk and glide are cool innovations imo.

I got my last job through LinkedIn and it's my primary resume now.

That's the result of creating a feature because it'd market real well I guess. It severely limits your design space so now you have to go through these shenanigans to create stuff.

This is better than doing a single quest for a key to enter a dungeon or raid dungeon. Or grinding one rep for mats to summon a raid boss. Yes.

Okay so these search and rescue groups never once found a patch of obvious quicksand in the area, or a pop up sinkhole, or something similar and put two and two together? I keep telling you these are interesting because they baffled the search and rescue people.

No it wasn't but getting a group for the place even as a Cleric was terrible. Chardok too.

I haven't played Pillars since release but it had a number of elements that pissed me off. Mercs being available being one and the unbelievable power of the Ambush Arquetype Rogue. Since it has some odd mass stealth mechanic you could just sneak up and unload your 4 arquebus sneak attack...

Yes nobody ever thought of that. You cracked it. Good work sir.

I hope so too. At least they have their engine put together well now but who knows. They are going to have to think up a ton of stretch goals here and mounted combat already looks retarded. I avoided any PF game I could where the DM wanted to do it. Because fuck dealing with a god damn horse in...

Planes of Power is a good example of that. Despite 5 new levels and items and spells Vex Thal was still extremely useful to do for most guilds. However, the keying process was still balls and you had to organize your guild to handle that structural difficulty. But in the end Vex Thal items could...

These are fascinating because they baffle all the search and rescue people. Sure it's easy to say well they must have been eaten by animals or fell in a random hole never to be seen again. But it isn't like that's a new theory. Search and rescue teams explored all obvious angles only to end up...

This is one of those philosophical points about MMO design though. Yes the uber players will always be playing a different game than Little Timmy. But at Blizzard HQ you run into the very real question of how much of the end game content should Little Timmy see? How much should we spend on...

Well MMORPG isn't mean to be played for a week and forgotten about. The perpetual world aspect is what defines MMORPG to me. That and of course the traditional RPG progression appeal. Base management stuff is okay and all but I prefer just to be an adventurer in a big, mysterious and dangerous...

Dark Souls Remaster

If you think about it MMO game design is just out there and nuts. Many core principles of it go against every other kind of game you could make. Game needs to be open ended. There can't be one route to do anything. Needs a strong end game to keep people playing. Traditionally this would be the...

I think this is the argument again to structural vs mechanical difficulty. EverQuest was not a hard game. It had lots of frustration due to lack of knowledge, danger of death and punishment for dying that made your progress slower. However if you played more (the point of an MMO) you would be...

Cool movie if you like unexplained disappearances. https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/611444-missing-411-the-hunted?language=en-US

Yeah lol. She may look 20 but she smells like old wood and she's 500 years old. How can you fuck that?

This looks great.

This was mentioned by someone a while back around here. Watched it today. It is quite fucked up. Just the sheer scale of it. Most striking to me was the, "human traffickers" who the Chinese put in prison for decades for their crimes of... not letting these kids just die. Sure they did make...

Title: One Child Nation Tagline: The truth beyond the propaganda. Genre: Documentary Director: Nanfu Wang, Zhang Jia-Ling Cast: Nanfu Wang, Jiaoming Pang, Brian Stuy, Longlan Stuy Release: 2019-03-29 Runtime: 88 Plot: Through interviews with both victims and instigators...

I'm taking the path of Legend and taking no faggy mythic path. I will strike down some Demon Lords and say, "nay I am but a man!"

Pretty interesting. Fun fact, $30M+ in White Collar crime only gets you 2 years at Club Fed lol.

For real. Many zones and items were a complete mystery. It would go something like this: Find out you had a level 56 spell. Like say Servant of Bones that is ideal for the class and you really need it. Look it up on Allakhazam and discover it dropped deep in Old Seb or Skyfire Mountains only...

I think you overestimate how many people used ShowEQ and all that shit. I was not that retarded of a 13 year old when EQ was released. But I was limited to what I could easily find online or what I could get out of other players in game or what I could discover myself 99% of the time. I would...

Information overload is also an extremely limiting factor. One of my favorite things about EQ was not even in the game but because of the time period it existed. No in game maps so players would draw out maps of the zones and put them out on the internet. EQmaps was the source to understand...

Have you never played DND before? Fags doing shit like that in campaigns is pretty common. Whenever we had someone do that the DM would be a total bitch to them though. Because much like if Liches were real. Players going for the path of lich are almost universally fags.

I didn't back the first one but I did enjoy 140 hours of playing it. Even if the initial release was so shit it boned my first 20 hours so I had to start up again. I will be backing this one.

Reviewers is hilarious. I about died when they went to the Fairy Shop and the madame rode him like an elephant to measure it.

I think this depends on a lot of other factors. If you've been around for a long time at some company, especially smaller ones, working as a developer or something you often, "know too much." At a smaller company your work can be quite critical to operations and just replacing you will be a...

There might be more competition and all but it will only be from professional players. Most neckbeards or enthusiasts could maybe have three characters simultaneously raid ready at any given time. What they won't have is the ability to do total retard shit like buy 50 tokens on another server...

Technically speaking I imagine Limits add-on programmer built out a cool client for the raid. I know Method has some good programmers in the guild who make their add-ons but I wonder how much better it is to have a guy who doesn't play in the raid and just torques out adjustments. I bet he can...

I'm cool with another 140 hour campaign boys.