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https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57172346

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.

So any other details? Seamless zones aren’t new in the mmo space

YoshiP is also an old school MMO player. UO, EQ1, DAOC. He name drops those quite a bit. Plus he played WoW early and I presume he keeps up with their developments even if he doesn’t actually play WoW anymore.

The grind involved also matters. Shit that takes weeks or months to get ingame, but you can buy the same thing for RL cash and offers a significant advantage is bullshit. Bethesda does this with FO76 to a degree. Limits your storage space, but if you subscribe to FO1st, you can get unlimited...

Yes, they will. But if a game day 1 offers a “2x xp potion!” For money, then that is p2w. It isn’t a catch up mechanic, it’s a straight up “use this if you want to be first to higher level content uncontested” itemization

Shortround was cool, plus he was Data in Goonies. I remember during recess we would play Goonies and everyone would want to be Data because he got all the cool gadgets. No one wanted to be Chunk lol

Only reason I bought the lunar whale is because it plays a remix of the lunar whale theme from FF4 lol

There really isn’t anything an 8 person mount gives you advantage wise. Maybe makes it easier hauling noobs around Eureka, which is old content 2 expansions ago. Everything on their store for sale boost wise is just catchup. Bliz has done the same. Basically it boosts you to the highest...

Activision doesn't give a fuck if you hate the game. If you still spend money on the product, that is all they care about.

Personally I'm fine with that. They always just felt like extended training tutorials anyways

The fact the scene in the bug hallway used real bugs is the real NOPE of that movie lol

I couldn't stay up to watch it, so I watched the saved Primals concert. Was great, but I was surprised to learn at the end that Soken had cancer and was currently in remission. Yoshi P got really emotional :( They had kept it secret from most of the team. He actually wrote the final boss...

There are a few knuckle duster looking weapons. These crafted ones are purple lightning knuckle dusters basically. There are others as well, but I can't recall the specific item. https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/playguide/db/recipe/f5e8fd359e6/

Honestly I think that because this ends the Zodiark and Hyd storyline, something happens to the WoL since we are technically an Ascian. Maybe we "die" and there is a time skip and we get restored later. Scions have gone their separate ways in the meantime.

What the heck was that final comment about a "final goodbye" to the characters? Are they doing a full fucking reset for 6.1???

When he showed the housing item guitar, it showed other housing items. The spiral staircase caught my eye, looks nice

Those Citizen watches and Guitar are beautiful. Too bad I use neither lol

Speak for yourself, my first thought was this

I'm not as bothered by quirky cosmetics. WoW always confused the fuck out of me with how inconsistent they were. Like they never let you use holiday shit for transmog. The Valentines Day cosmetic which is a plague mask + a plague backpack was fucking awesome. Perfect for a forsaken or...

EQ1 used slow leveling to hide incomplete content as well. Think about how many times people killed something that had cloth cap loot pools or even incompl He played AA, he should 100% know what p2w looks like. Their entire crafting and gearing system basically revolves around store bought...