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Dax symbiote would also be pretty fucking old by then. If I recall, they could live for centuries, but they weren't immortal and after a time, they wouldn't be able to be implanted in hosts anymore and they would return to the pools for the rest of their lives.

The thing to keep in mind is Twitch is just responding to the DMCA complaints levied by the music labels, they aren't hunting for this shit on their own. But a musician being DMCA'd by his own label is pretty fucking lul and shows how fucking brain dead they are. Especially if they use...

Animaniacs poked fun at politicians during its original run also. If people are getting sensitive of Trumpclops, they're thin skinned bitches lol

Right, there are a lot of MMO lite games out there that don’t have monthly subs and rely mostly on micro transactions for cosmetics or p2w shit. Stuff like The Division, Destiny, GTA:O. Hell, even stuff like FO76

Pretty much. I’m trying to remember a conversation 20 years ago, but the reasoning was there couldn’t be any perceived favoritism and profit. Like even if they spawned some shit to attack people, the crappy coppers you could loot off the corpses could fall under that rule. There was some...

Depends on the server. On Cazic Thule the GMs and guides seemed to always be around, although that is from the perspective of an Uber guild lol. But they used to fuck around a bit. In Vanilla, guide named Melachite put together some home brew mini RP events and used guide powers to make it...

Pretty much. They weren't going to keep Mookie without offering him a fuckload of money they weren't willing to pay.

Finding broken game elements frequently becomes a one-off, though, as most dev houses now remove those broken elements once discovered

Horizons always lives in my memory as “most ambitious MMO design document ever”, but the actual game only delivered on like 5%, if that.

People have been playing coy/vague about it, though, for the past year it feels like.

It was out of place, but I think that had more to do with the fact they weren't sure how to create some additional tension at the end in their race against time and give the other characters something to do to save the world. Otherwise, Leeloo would have solved the stone thing right away and...

Looks better. Her keeping the red wig thing looked silly lol

They need to release Ash as a MK character

Ya, every MMO under the sun has things people have envy over, instanced or not.

Momoa is a good example of success. Got the right roles and even in the movies that underperformed (like Justice League), people tended to like his character so it didn't impact him as much. He is in the new Dune movie.

It isn't a unique problem to her. History is littered with actors or actresses who had a major hit role and then failed to replicate that same success outside of it. Some are able to make a good living doing steady bit parts, others are smart and invest their boon early and wisely so they have...

Got a last second win in Zombie Royale today. There was only 2 humans left. I was able to kill one and become human and all the surviving zombies swarmed the last dude. He died right after I respawned and that clutched the win lol I also got pretty much a solo win in Juggernaut Royale...

I remember late in Vanilla EQ it got so bad that you could zone into SolB and literally walk all the way to Nagafen's lair without seeing a single mob. People were so desperate for XP they were even killing the fire giants and had FG camps. I remember we used to keep the Azrak and Djinn spawn...

DS9 mostly developed after he died from what I recall.

People remember loot in WoW as well. The main thing people remember in a MMO is either overpowered shit or rare status symbol shit. For every cloak of flames or fbss, there were dozens of shit items no one cared about or were marginal upgrades to tide you over and we’re just as soon forgotten...

Going into Dusk til Dawn completely ignorant is a big “what the fuck moment?”. My uncle used to say the moment The club turn into vampires is the exact moment Tarantino ran out of ideas for the film. I mean, it’s kinda true. It is like he had some half finished crime film and then couldn’t...

So basically you like loot box gacha mechanics, except in Soviet MMO, you’re in the box!

You have to give the established Playerbase a reason to run it, or it becomes a ghost town. FFXIV’s job setup makes it very easy to level a class, so you see much more people leveling. Square Enix had to keep pumping up the rewards for MSQ Roulette to make established players want to even...

It does bring up a good point, though: How do you deal with a grouping required game that doesn’t have a healthy enough population for a given level range at any given time? How do you attract new players if your established Playerbase has long since moved past the low level content? The 2nd...

But that also applied to EQ1: People did the most efficient shit, aka camp. In a game with XP loss, there was extremely little incentive to risk losing gains during the leveling process.

Nintendo has always been iron fist. They stuck with carts instead of moving to CDs, because they controlled the production and could demand greater fees from the developers/publishers. They were the ones who tried to challenge the rental market on games (and lost) - they wanted to ban video...

lol what? I have literally never watched a streamer for whatever music they played that wasn't the game's actual music. I could give a fuck and I seriously doubt it impacts the music industry in any meaningful way. You can't exactly turn it on like a Youtube or Vimeo video and listen to just...

Anti-cheat costs money. Mr Kotick wants another gold plated toilet, so clearly his shiny shitter is worth more.

Taste is subjective, but I fail to see how sitting in a fucking room for 5 hours is superior to clearing a dungeon. I mean, I guess it is easier to AFK and do something else while doing EQ1 style camping.

Ya, they outdid themselves with the Halloween event. There are ghost trains and phantom people that charge at you if they see you and stuff like that. Prison has Jigsaw video on the security monitors down in the basement.

That is also why only the music industry files DCMAs against Twitch, because they're sad people spend money on games vs. music lol And the dude making that tweet is creative director of Stadia. STADIA. That is like the head of marketing at Pizza Hut getting butthurt over shit like Grub Hub...

You can actually make your ship fly to you if it has enough fuel to take off. There is a summon ship/exocraft option and you can make your ship land right in front of you if you like.

They could, but it would be suicide. It isn’t like music...multiplayer games or complex single player games really benefit from hands on, which requires purchase (or playerbase for f2p). Cosmetics and micro transactions for skins are the gamer equivalent of some person seeing a celeb wear a...

Chardok was very good xp from what I recall, but it was much harder than most dungeons so you needed decent gear. Our monks got their epics fairly easy because of our farming there for xp and loot and we would get the staff drops off the trash.

Shit like Fall Guys, Among Us, and that phantasmawhatever ghost hunt game are helped massively by Twitch. It’s the virtual equivalent of your friend getting a game and you watch them play it and buy it, except on a massive scale. I’ve lost count of the games I’ve bought after watching...

City of Mist lagged like a mofo back then. ..you were more likely to die to slideshow performance. It also had a confusing layout, shitty pathing and aggro mechanics, and so-so loot. I also think the xp multiplier wasn’t that hot? Pretty sure last time I ever visited that zone was when we...

Right, it ultimately comes down to a crowded market and people are only willing to pay so much for niche streaming services. CBS and DC and that Stargate thing already crashed and burned. The Apple thing who knows, but they can afford to shovel cash.

Before they nerfed it, in WSG as a gnome I stacked the world enlarger engineering item with the shrink potion. Gnome was like the size of an ant after doing that, so I’d grab flag and hit rocket boots and all you would see is a tiny trail of flames as I ran off with the flag lol

Factions are just memberberries and them trying to force “war in Warcraft!!!!” Even though the vast majority of the Playerbase doesn’t PvP. If Tracer and Reaper can be on the same team in Overwatch, KEK the Orc and Stumpy the Dwarf should be able to run a dungeon together.

Agree on the cross faction PVE. I mean holy fuck, every expansion both sides end up working together anyways to combat threat of the week in the story, just let us queue up or raid together.