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Teaser does at least show they will be covering some of the main storybeats: before the fall, life in the safe zone, escaping it, etc

This highlights one of the main issues with the decline of the physical media market: It is significantly easier to essentially erase the availability of media

That is an apt comparison. Reality TV gave you glimpses into "real" people's lives (mostly scripted, but w/e). Streaming basically pushes that concept even further...you still get those glimpses, but you also get to interact with them in real time

In beta they had PvP scaling so PvP was technically viable at all levels, but high levels (rightly) complained that what was the point of getting gear if some level 20 scrub in noob armor can do the same damage as some guy decked out in BIS gear. True normalization scaling would have been a bad...

The patch notes mentioned something related to OPR I think. However, I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a minimum GS scaling (ie, if you are sub 600, you get bumped to 600) vs. full normalization

I would give one piece of advice: Have a good idea on what build you want going in. Respec isn't really viable in this game (it exists but costs a fuckton of money). A lot of weapons and abilities are stat point locked.

These mostly just seem like voiced quests in the game vs. cutscenes.

Now, or in the future?

I can’t imagine there will be much demand for post wotlk classic. Cataclysm will be meh. Maybe MoP+ Cata combined, but then you’re getting into the past 10 years and nostalgia won’t be as strong It feels like the rose colored goggles fall off post WOTLK

Only reason I would even half consider playing this is OG Wintergrasp. Literally the only PvP I enjoyed in this game. I loved using the siege engines and gun emplacements

New World tried a combo. As expected, players usually Zerg the uninstanced stuff and they had to roll back some of the Zerg penalties because humans are assholes and people would intentionally troll. Like Kazack world boss in WoW “oops, sorry I got in range! I didn’t mean to trigger the...

I would argue that non-instanced was less dangerous in highly camped areas, like Sebilis or Lower Guk. It was so fucking camped that you could typically never see a single mob in most areas. The most "danger" was someone training stuff on you. Plus in EQ1, most of the danger was losing a...

WoW’s balance was a function of player limits. Like bringing a King’s buff paladin. That paladin was suboptimal and literally all they brought to the table was a raid buff. So another player lost a slot to a mandatory buff bot. Or take class stacking. Remember those raids where they would...

Because everyone is a meta chaser now, or because hard content caps how many people you can bring In EQ1, bringing sub-optimal classes on raids was no big deal because you could have like 80 people just zerging But when you are player capped, one DPS class that does 1/3rd the DPS of another...

I don't think so, but why would you move for free if you know you can command a decent contract?

Right. Like others have mentioned, Youtube's discoverability for live streaming is total dogshit. It basically uses the same dumb algorithms they use for the regular Youtube videos and recommendations and even if you get to the right area, the UI is pretty suck and makes it hard to even find...

She looked super familiar when I was watching. Looked her up and realized she played the nerdy witch in Good Omens

Not really. Maybe like half an episode, then Leia gets kidnapped by cartoony villains and it goes downhill

I watched the first 3 episodes. It feels like a show that could exist independent of the Star Wars IP and still work. That isn't a bad thing in this case, because it feels really different than normal Star Wars shows or films. It feels more gritty/"real", but not in a grimdark way. Like you...

lol I had forgotten about the reboot of reboot. I never watched it, but apparently it had almost nothing to do with the original show beyond them bringing back Megabyte and Hexidecimal and a brief cameo by Bob, Dot, and Enzo

Right, pretty much everything being banned is some offshore gambling site

Looks like in mid October, Twitch will be banning gambling streams that use gambling sites not registered/licensed in the US

Star Citizen will be taught in future finance courses as a cautionary tale

Emergent gameplay just means “make your own damn content”

The only people against any instanced pve content were ebayers and Uber guilds that wanted to control everything. As for heavy group required, you need a balance. Too much and people quit from frustration because they can’t make any progress without a group and getting groups is hard. Too...

Something something drama. Whenever he gets on his main, there are expectations on what he does. Like react content or certain games, people mad he isn’t playing ff14 even though he is relatively close to shadowbringers, etc

Shroud has even admitted that when he was younger, they used to use your first example when they played online because that was common for gamers to use a lot at the time. Dredging up shit you said 20 years ago as a kid is dumb

I mean did they use back then, video toaster? Some kid could easily churn out better graphics on their desktop on the cheap if they didn’t need it to be high quality modern cg / Syfy level stuff The expensive part would be practical sets

Different types and venues of violence, though. I am going to guess the majority of male violence is external to the home where the majority of female violence is domestic

WoW2 is unlikely, unless you forced wow1 to shutdown. And dusting off old mmo mechanics isn’t a good idea. New World tried that and bled hundreds of thousands of players. All the “easy travel ruins the game” dopes who fail to realize the novelty of traveling every where slowly gets really old...

How many people clicked on this thread to see if it was related to the MMO?

The RTS ship has sailed for now. Even from an esports perspective, team games are the "in" thing. Solo "duels" like you saw in Starcraft don't bring the views like they used to. I still think that if they did some looter-shooter quasi MMO with the Starcraft IP, that would be their best bet...

Pretty much this. It's the sequence of middling or bad expansions that really drive the playerbase away in larger numbers. If Dragonflight ends up being dogshit, WoW numbers will crater and probably never recover.

They picked cartoony, stylized graphics originally because it dates better than "realistic" styles. Playing Super Mario 20 years later vs. something like Metal Gear Solid, Mario is going to look "better" even though MGS had amazing graphics at the time

There will be some fresh start servers when the new zone patch comes out. They'll probably add new servers as needed in meantime, though

Even so, medical care is still too fucking expensive in this country and lots of people get stuck with shitty high deductible plans through their employer Ever looked at an itemized bill from a hospital? Some will charge like $3 for a single Tylenol pill or $20 for a single pair of latex gloves.

I finished up the rest of the show. Episode 7 and onward made it feel like a different show, or at the very least, like it was an Anthology show 1-5 was one arc 6 was sort of like a bridge episode, but ultimately stand alone 7-10 was another arc 11 was really anthology like since it was 2...

Invincible has been pretty awesome

Where do you get Tracer from that? She had a wall phase move, which was the only Tracer-ish thing about her. Based on the video, seems clear this is a support hero since all the stuff they showcased was her healing or buffing her team.

Season was pretty good. Joker as a Bernie Sanders type mayor is great. I also liked the exploration of Bruce Wayne and how absolutely fucked up he is psychologically.