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Wildstar had some good housing systems. Unfortunately it didnt have enough other hooks to keep people playing.

Side note, FF14 used to have more skills at lower levels, but over the past couple expansions (especially around Stormblood) they went back and did some serious ability pruning. WoW has done the same - they'll go back and cull abilities, which used to leave you with skill gaps until they did...

Your powerlevel really steamrolls once you get late game, which makes normal mode a joke to be sure.

Ignoring FFXIV, player housing is a proven means of retaining people in a game, be in FF14, or TESO/Fallout76, or whatever. You just need to be to robust enough that the player feels like they can be creative, if that is their goal. Overly restrictive housing systems like SWTOR are less...

Most of the classes don't start to get their resource spender OCD abilities until around 60 of so which greatly increase your pool of OCD stuff, so prior to that the skill rotations can feel kind of slow. If you're in a simple tank n' spank fight that is - once they start making you actually...

I mean, they kind of hint at it. Din isn't going to be a Mandalorian and Jedi, but Grogu would have the potential. It would also help explain away why Grogu is MIA in the new Trilogy - he is busy on Mandalore.

The extra title they gave it is odd - like is it a soft reboot? The intro kind of gave me some DS9 pilot vibes

Ya, basically turns a wide area in Silent Hill. There is a notorious highway section near us that always has accidents when this type of fog settles in because of all the on and off ramps and turns in the road

How the movie pitch went down Studio: Roland, I hear you have a new movie idea? *Roland pauses his game of Mass Effect 3 and Final Fantasy 4, and takes a rip from a bong* Roland: ya man, like the movie is about the moon getting close to Earth suddenly and we get some disaster porn. But like...

Except he is supposed to be a clone

Even if you want a "pure" play through, get the cosmetic mods, like clothing and hairstyles and the like. The base ones kind of suck lol

Wait, that shitty BDO mechanic is here too? Noooooo

Not only that, but cosmetics you barely see outside cutscenes because you are zoomed out like a damned spy satellite in actual gameplay

I am not saying it can’t change, but it’s going to come down to who he really wants to target. If he goes with “play to crush”, then success wise the game is going to flop long term like Shadowbane or New World: Strong showing for a month, but then a massive drop off when people realize they...

I feel like the choice is a test - he cares less about the choice options he provided, but more about what drives Grogu to make a choice based on those options I mean we know he is probably going to end up with Mando regardless, and I suspect he will help Mando better use the dark saber, which...

It isn’t hate, it’s the fact some of the core mechanics they have released thus far have a proven track record of driving players away - the biggest standouts are forced pvp + dropping loot on death, and losing a large amount of time and resources if your town gets destroyed in a war in addition...

That is why Filoni has been good for the franchise - he is able to both simultaneously satisfy OG fans and the "newer" fans that grew up with the prequels and cartoons (with him being responsible for the cartoons that enhanced the prequels). The sequel trilogy failed to really generate any...

He does recognize the dangers. Think back to ROTJ. At the end they exploit his attachment to give into anger

Vanth knew the danger, but he got forced into it because he saw his deputy getting ready to pull his gun (notice he keeps looking to his side, trying to gauge what his deputy is about to do). Cad seemed to shoulder shot him then unloaded into the deputy. Cad is too good a shot, maiming seems...

God that episode was fucking good. I suspect they are going to leave the choice at the end of the episode for season 3 of Mando I like how the marshal knew they were fucked when the deputy started getting jumpy - he seemed to know who he was dealing with

That became a plot point in Ghost in the Shell. Like that one guy they turned into an assassin and had manufactured a life in his memories, then he finds out they were never real and he breaks down. That sort of shit would be scary, but only possible if we cracked the ability to form memories...

Maybe - if they actually gave a fuck about the Castlevania brand lol

I think he mentioned that through OTK he gets group medical as well, so that no doubt helps in cutting costs down as well. A lot of streamers, since they are independent contractors, get no benefits and good luck finding an individual medical plan that doesn’t have ass benefits that is...

He came from a poor background and seems to have an understanding of what is needed to avoid that. He even admits he doesn’t spend much because of the fear of falling back into poverty. His dad/dad’s side of the family is well off from what he tells. I’m sure he has been given decent advice...

Except pvp is a tiny subset of your customer base, and their own lore has us teaming up constantly to fight big bad. War != pvp

Even though they hid the player numbers, you can just take a look at the town ledgers and invasion/war rosters to know population is starting to crater again. A couple weeks ago, purple on our server could easily field 2 war rosters to fight wars at the same time and be successful. Fast...

I would say that up to at least GS600, there are benefits. Legendary GS600+ can roll with an extra perk on them, which is nice. Post 600, the diminishing returns are real.

Speaking of New World, this new roster bug introduced with the patch fucking sucks. Always getting lag detected, says you arent signed up for a war/invasion but you are, then it bugs out and doesnt fill a roster so your invasion is down like 10-15 people

Templars can be pretty powerful with the right melee build and the teleport ability

In the EU, I think they explained that the Sarlacc would absorb the minds of the beings it consumed and their bodies would get fused into the flesh of the Sarlacc.

He always said he planned to retire when he felt like he sucked. While he was still better than most QB in the league, I wouldn't be surprised if he looked at his current performance, his injuries, and the sloppy end of the season in Tampa Bay and decided to call it quits. I won't be surprised...

With a standard subscription, you pay a monthly sub and get to access all the content outside of full expansion packs. The only additional RMT is usually just cosmetics or stuff like server xfers, level boosts, race changes, etc. With F2P or Buy-to-Play, you usually see a couple approaches...

There is a big difference between “pay entry fee and play” and “pay to do anything on an itemized basis because our gameplay encourages players to do this” The later tends to be more predatory in a lot of situations

“No negativity” in that type of setting doesn’t mean all smiles and rainbows, it means “bring solutions / improvements” It’s easy to point out flaws, but without solutions, it isnt always constructive. It’s harder to bring up solutions or improvements to said flaws, but if the idea is sound...

The problem is PvP has always been a small subset of this game. To be sure a passionate one, but still a small one. The story mostly served to support a reason for pvp, because they wanted “war” in Warcraft and could only envision a player vs player war apparently. Now you have a situation...

They should just rename if the Tom Brady trophy at this point

This is another annoyance in their story telling - the need to constantly hit the Horde vs. Alliance reset button like it is a old sitcom resetting consequences between episodes. All the possessed Anduin shit makes me feel like their storybeat will be a) Anduin becomes fucked up from the...

The new patch does a few things wrong. Mutators have a bad mechanic - if your average gearscore is below a certain threshhold, then you do dogshit damage and mitigate like shit. So essentially if forces you to run the GS treadmill to even be able to attempt the new dungeons if you aren't...

Having an Incubus option is fine, that was a common request going back to the 2000s. They just never felt the need to add one until they felt like it would get them bonus social credit points

I suspect S3 will be more about Mandalorian politics/power struggle as a result. I mean don’t forget he barely did any bounty work in S2, beyond jobs that came up while moving Grogu around.