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I don't doubt it was fun, but that fun is also relative. If everyone playing had the same mindset, sure. But they don't, which is why the past 20 years have shown if you take a fundamentally PVE-style game, but add PVP elements to it and the PVP element cannot be opted out of, then eventually...

Garriot himself mentioned that population in UO increases 60% after Trammel came out. Point is that people were more willing to play when you couldn't just get shanked out in the woods and lose all your shit

Huh? You must have done something or said something wrong, because it's pretty easy to get the "we live together in a cabin in the woods" relationship ending. Also I am seeing a recurring theme - people murdering characters then complaining about not getting into the game. You're literally...

Trammel saved UO - the population was on a downward spiral until they released Trammel. Even back then it was clear that when people play games, they don't enjoy the digital experience of walking in the bad part of town at 3am

I saw that - he gets a lot of things wrong about the game, which to me says he didn't have a lot of personal experience with it and he also missed a lot of community complaints. I can tell you what killed the game population just from having played it for hundreds of hours 1) Unsatisfying...

They started to course correct in 7.2 (was too late for 7.1). 7.2 and 7.3 she is there, but not in an oversized role and they tone her down. She gets a heroic moment in 7.3, but it feels more like a team effort heroic moment rather than a "lul kill steal!" moment that 7.0 came across as. 7.4...

PTR notes for the newest update https://duneawakening.com/news/public-test-client-patch-1-3-0-0/

Well we know a few things. Calyx and Sphene were contemporaries and Alexandria suffered the calamity over 400+ years ago. Oblivion was formed after Calyx formed Preservation and they created the means to make endless. If I recall, Endless research was still ongoing when Sphene was originally...

Yes, there are a bunch of quests similar to DMZ

It was a repost of an older post

His dad was in the Vietnam war, but he wasn’t an army brat in the sense of growing up with active military parents

I’ve seen speculation online that the House we see in the bar at the start of the episode is Anthony House, not Robert, because his s personality is more like Anthony and he seems to really like H&H tools Seems plausible

Only 10 years? Pfft, amateurs

The new trial was pretty fun As for MSQ

A while back they realized that PVE needs a different endgame than Deep Desert, I suspect they'll try to flesh out PVP more after they address the PVE stuff

Starfield IMO should have leaned into the multiverse stuff earlier - reduce the scope of MSQ/systems, let the player experience the "base story", then you start jumping to alternate universes that range between "what if?" scenarios to show deviations from the base story to completely off the...

Some good changes there - Lansgrad moving to a personal advancement system makes it more interesting. Some new melee weapons/reworks and scalable dungeons/overland map locations seems cool too. Hopefully it can bring people back.

The show is supposed to be in the game timeline, so fallout 5 acknowledging the show isn’t a huge revelation

They still seem to have the highest drop rates in residential loot containers

They also added the base storage tool - I'm trying to get guildmates to log on and use it so I don't have to login once a week to fuel and pay taxes on shit since they're pretty much in break mode until/if more endgame stuff gets added

The alternative is make them rare, but that discourages people from rerolling and regrinding stuff. Plus them being rare means getting duplicates feels even worse

Assuming you never watched a single trailer, the viewer might not know the guy at the start of the episode was Mr. House because he looks different than the guy in season 1 (who they show in flashback again). So we're working with outside knowledge on who Mr. House is and therefore can connect...

That Firefox CEO is fucking clueless. He also mentioned potentially not allowing ad blockers Dude is going to speed run the abandonment of the browser due to not understanding why people use Firefox

Regarding Clue, I never saw it in the theater but they played it all the time on HBO in the 80s. Butler was my favorite character as a kid so I didn’t like that he died in the “real” ending. Curry was in a bunch of shit in the 80s. Remember that movie “the worst witch”? To this day I’m...

If this happened irl, internet story would be “Kansas City weather girl busts out her beatboxing skills during live broadcast”

This is actually a pretty elegant solution that allows them to mesh the show and game. Since the show has already introduced robobrain technology, the real House could be a well hidden brain and the House body we see in NV is just his ghoulified brother used as a decoy to throw off enemies

The lockers are still around, just not always in the same spot. Sometimes you have to look around - like in Hydroponics, the locker that was in that one building was still there, but it was hidden behind some barrels in a corner instead of its usual location pre-patch They're still a good...

Btw where do you find the berries? I havent seen any on the snow maps

I always think back to Everquest 1 - you could talk to NPCs, but some really only reacted to specific key words Using an AI system, you could have more dynamic quests to provide some backend support. The quest will eventually get you to the same relative spot, but everyone will get there a...

You might be right. The main reason I didn’t want to reset is blueprint farming sucks. If they make it easier, that is less of a concern I also read security lockers will no longer be static spawns

There’s virtually no reason to make a second character unless you lost your account or need to reroll in Europe or Asia or whatever

Generative AI chat bots for random NPCs might work, like Where Winds Meet. You still have handcrafted stuff, but if players want to try to squeeze some conversations in with a character outside of that you can There was a texting mod for cyberpunk that did that also - you could have...

Most gankers don’t want to be at a disadvantage, so random ganking during the noob leveling phase will probably be light.

He used to play a lot of Archeage - this was basically his attempt to recreate something like that

We've played games long enough to know the gamer math: possible dev error + increased player gain = get the most out of it before they nerf lol

In the old SF2 I don't think he really said anything doing his signature kick, but in the later SF games he started talking more

This thread summed up "Eat at these great restaurants first, then go eat at the top rated restaurant in the world that will make those other restaurants taste like mcdonalds"