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When i did potd to floor 50, took a couple hours with a group from what I recall

First thing, preorder the new xpac. You get an earring that gives bonus xp gains until 80 Potd is unlocked during ARR. south shroud? It’s that wood log fort place. There is a quest to unlock potd. Heaven on high is unlocked in ruby sea at the pirate base next to the big jenga looking tower...

Good, maybe they can buy Castlevania off Konami since Konami doesn’t give a fuck about games anymore lol

Rangers being potentially killed confirms it was the Cara Dune vehicle it seems

Alphi was a little shit in ARR, but he improves ALOT. He probably has the most character development of the Scions

tank gets blamed for every loss and mobility basically is discouraged

The Chinese rover is like half a planet away lol That’s like telling the worlds slowest golf cart to drive from Florida to Korea

They probably went through arbitration, settled, and had to sign NDAs. If he had gotten nothing out of it, I doubt he would have been quiet on the matter.

I stopped because unless they are adding dlcs or whatever, what am I farming for?

Keybinds are fairly basic. I just changed my pipboy hotkey to avoid accidently opening it in combat. Special points stop gaining at level 50. Every 50 levels there after, you unlock a legendary perk card slot until you reach the max slots of 6. Scrapping unneeded perk cards gives you points...

On a side note, rumor mill is stating the reason Doc got banned was because he misrepresented offers from Mixer in order to boost what Twitch signed him for. Then when Mixer shutdown, this got exposed and why he was banned shortly thereafter

I do agree. JesseCox had shit on the game for years, then finally slogged through ARR and the game’s story had him by the end of that and now he is the games biggest cheerleader it is rough because the pacing feels off and there is a lot of fluff to be sure. They did trim a lot of post ARR...

It’s part of the reason you see so many YouTube videos sponsored by X, or they have Patreon. YouTube has been slicing back as revenue shares and swinging around demonetization like a cudgel for various reasons for years

It’s an extreme example, but sets a bad precedent. Twitch is basically saying “for reasons, we are still going to profit off you and your new share is 0”

The ARR story is central to the plot of the entire game, though. Skipping that would be like skipping the first season of a show, then the final seasons make all sorts of call backs and you missed the context. It’s tedious at parts, but vastly improved by 2.4 (the whole crystal brave thing...

Ya, shit like elephant aggro and teleporting mobs.

There are two possible reasons: 1) Twitch has heard rumblings and pre-emptively nuked ads to avoid larger headaches 2) Advertisers are doing the same shit credit card companies do and pulling a prude (they only stow the prude if the client is large enough) Part of me wonders if they went after...

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Ya, takeaway from Ice was that fitting in doesn't mean you have to be the same (modded), just that you can display qualities that other people can respect or appreciate. The unmodded brother will never be able to compete on a physical level, but he showed the other people that he had balls and...

Emergent gameplay you described is basically accidental mechanics due to code. That is like saying exploiting to make dupes is emergent gameplay because the developers cant figure out how to fix it.

Cross server grouping is basically a way to avoid server consolidation in an obvious sense and avoid “dead servers”. It is a lesser evil than “sorry your home server isn’t sustainable, we’re merging you and 3 other servers into this other server and now you play on that server”

Even EQ1 got that shit wrong because of penalties for grouping on top of racial and class penalties End of the day, people will gravitate towards the easiest path. If grouping is easiest, people will group. But in turn, you need to make grouping easy. If you make grouping the only realistic...

Sounds like it still needs lots of work Also fuck losing 25% of your shit if you die. That sounds like an express route to dead game ville

the problem is the only way you can force that is to add adversity uninstanced content Forced grouping to progress your character Game mechanics that heavily discourage solo activities While some of you might think that sounds like the perfect MMO, virtually every MMO in the past decade that...

Twitch makes more from ads than streamers, but ads do make up a healthy chunk of streamer revenue for people that lacked in the other fund departments.

Poop sockers are the vocal ones, but I doubt the majority. At the end of the day, these are a business. If you want your business to exclude a large population and only cater to a smaller one, that’s fine, but in turn you cant cry about not making as much money at the same time

Ya, part of 1.0’s failure is they basically said “let’s make ffxi but with better graphics” and didn’t implement any MMO improvements in the genre since ffxi came out

Honestly this just sounds like old men yelling at kids to get off their lawn 1) I am going to guess that younger people are going to be more social in average because they have more free time. A lot of the QoL comes from complaints from people with jobs/responsibilities. When I finish work, I...

Even in old school MMO, most times people didn't give a shit about other people once they got to a certain point where they didn't need to worry about that (ie, they get into a stable guild). In EQ1, for the most part the uber guilds didn't give much of a shit about the plebs beyond showing off...

While states are relaxing mask mandates and venue restrictions, consumer habits are going to lag behind that. Sure, maybe theaters might be full again in the fall, but then again maybe people will realize they like watching shit at home more than in a stuffed theater with overpriced popcorn and...

Ammo isn't much of an issue anymore. Most players sell ammo for 1 cap per round if you wanna buy it, but Daily Ops are good ammo farms (basically a dungeon mission instance you can run - you can do them solo or in a group). If you kill an enemy with a weapon, the enemy drops the ammo type of...

At a bare minimum for a PVP game, anti-griefing should include 1) Mechanisms to prevent high levels from murdering low levels in lower level areas - preferably with some type of scaling mechanism (ie, very low levels can't be killed in starting areas at all, something that prevents or heavily...

In my experience, the only people who usually advocate for griefing mechanics in a PVP game are the people who can only win PVP engagements by doing that lol

When I watched the FFXIV fanfest, I was reminded of how Blizzard used to be in the early days of WoW and the OG Blizzcons. Genuine passion, doing goofy fun stuff, not afraid to show personality. Activision really sucked the soul out of Blizzard.

Right, it's like asking someone who spent 1k on a ship in Star Citizen what they think of the game. Sure, you have to like the game to spend that much, but when you spend that much you also feel like you have to justify why you spent that much.

Price point is still "too much" even at that for many people. The past 20 years have seen such a shift to a free-to-play model that all the zoomer and millenials even scoff if the game has a box price.

Gil has purpose, otherwise RMT/botters wouldn't exist. I do agree that when you get "fuck you" rich, gil doesn't mean a whole lot beyond having mansion money or buying stuff on a whim. However, considering all this, the economy is surprisingly not that fucked. Most items on MB are fairly...

The 3D rendering in Snow was pretty insane. I really had to pay attention in some parts to pick up the "uncanny valley" bits. Also, regarding Ipswich, first thing that comes to mind is Lovecraft.