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You were not the hero in Everquest. Heck, Everquest barely had quests for a very long time. Sure, 50% of the player base want a single-player RPG where they can play with people at times, but that's not what MMOs were supposed to be. What EQ had was backstory, not story. One of the advantages...

/worf

Procedural generation "works". You can feed it rules, like, say "an inn is based with a large common room with bar+stools, plus storage, plus cooking room, then optionally..." and you get functional inns. But once the procedural generator explores the space of "functional Inns", it WILL stumble...

That's why I said "advanced" procedural generation. We can actually generate stuff that feels different - the problem is that the generators at one point make weird/surreal stuff that screams "random generator" because it stops making sense to the human mind. You need to couple procedural...

Defiance of the Fall is slow as fuck as well. As one comment on the latest update says: "One chapter for dragon materials. One for viewing the reward. One for choosing the reward. One for the vision. One for the starting town perspective during all this. One for viewing gains. One for the fight...

That's weaksauce cliffhanger. More of a boathanger...

Yea. One of my old dreams designs for MMO would be the "single server non instanced MMO". Use next-gen procedural generation to create a continent with 50 times the size of current WoW, and like 8000 static dungeons. You use a GW2-style event system rather than an on-rail story-driven quest...

The problem is that most of the recent MMOs were short-term ones. It's all asian cash grabs that look completely copy-pasted: action combat, flashy effects, knockdowns (seriously, every game I see features the characters being knocked on the ground as soon as they don't dodge the attack), with...

Some new video devoted to the sad state of MMOs. (the only real MMO launched in 2020 is... a 10-year old game now released internationally)

Best part from an article I've seen: "we're not technically in breach of contract. It's still ongoing. Forever" :trollface:

It is good, but the pacing has been slow at times, and now, he's sprinkling cliffhangers to artificially feel like the pacing is faster.

Youtube as well is now full of ads. During most of the year, you had maybe one when starting a video. Now, it's two, unskippable, almost every time, and then you get a pair somewhere if the video is longer than 10mn. Looks like advertisers have money again.

NASA is old-tech. SpaceX streams at 1080p, but when they make joint streams with NASA for astronaut launches, the SpaceX stream goes down to 720p max to match NASA's.

Koreans hate Japanese, Mongolians, Chinese... pretty much all of Asia. But you have the choice between K-Pop and this: What would you take (well, what? walking on popcorn? Maybe the koreans are right).

What could possibly go wrong? :smart:

Should check that one at one point. But I'm at a stage where I'm probably following too many serials simultaneously. The Infinite Realm: Monsters & Legends added a nice little bit of cosmology, and Ryun is back to the stage at least for a while. I wonder if Zach is going to show up at the...

Also, 100th SpaceX successful launch.

It's not gacha. It's specific, targeted drop. Random? Sure. Rare? Sure. But it is something that requires a very specific, narrow, targeted ability - while every single other activity rewards completely different things. You know what is a gacha lootbox? The WoW weekly M+ chest. Contains...

Ah, SurrealBelief. Love most of his CK3 videos, but I did skip the BG3 (mostly because I don't want to even hear about EA BG3, period)

"You will play exactly how we intend it, the way we intend it, on the rails we laid on. And nothing else is allowable."

Aaand, for our weekly cliffhanger of He Who Fights with Monsters... See you next week, same bat-time, same bat-channel!

Facebook decided, out of the blue, that they needed a picture ID of me to let me keep the account I used once every five years. Until I send them one, my account is locked and unusable. I am never ever going to send my ID to Facebook. Nope.

It's not for her arms. It's for her legs. The arm straps are the small ones (you see behind). Proper use:

And yet it was half-empty 80% of the time. All the popular locations were easily accessible by everyone. If you needed a third party to get there, only a handful of premade went there, on a scheduled run planned long in advance.

You have to realize that modern WoW design is "every expansion is a standalone game. New systems, new balance, new everything. Ain't nobody need to understand what happened before"

Charasis. Considered by many to be awesome, but hogtied by keying requirements. City of Mist. Extremely good dungeon, too remote to be popular. If you want to maximize your content use - the cost of designing said content vs the number of players who will use it, yes. Those zones are anathema.

Oh, believe me. If it were me, there would be the open-world version AND NOTHING ELSE. But I'm also keenly aware that, based on how players have played in literally every game since, if you put an instanced version where it's loot guaranteed, no competition, the same items, etc... 95% of the...

If I can get the same items in a non-contested instanced version, why should I even bother doing the non-instanced one and find my targets gone? The only reason would be "I want the item to twink", which will not be the primary motivation of players, or "I want the item to sell at the AH", which...

In other words, you have everyone in the instanced dungeon, and the Chinese farmers competing for the outdoor version. Neat.

I remember only a handful of bad decisions. Besides the shitty optimization of the client. Hard factions (on that, I agree wholeheartedly) The stupid "I'll wave to you to show you I have a quest for you" The pick shit on the ground collection system An uninspired, overly complicated class...

Pfff, call me back when they start getting near Plank Time. (EDIT: Preserving my mistake for posterity. Should walk that plank)

Seeds of Destruction. When you start going back in time because Zebruxoruk is going to destroy the universe. Or something.

The previous series from the author (The Outer Sphere) was in the same vein. Unfortunately, he had problems keeping the series alive, so it ended abruptly. You can see comparing the two he got significantly better.

Just don't tell him you're there for that, and you can let him do it while you go set up what's important. https://www.wowhead.com/news=318569/new-way-to-skip-warlords-of-draenor-introductory-quests-in-shadowlands-pre-patch

As I said before. When Lindon says "Gratitude" (2 lines above), the strongest must pale.

While the judgement isn't going to come for a long time, things are happening. TL;DR Apple: "The exclusive store and 30% fees we do is nothing special, everyone does it." Epic: "Yes, but the console market sells at cost, while you already made lots of profit on your iphones!" Judge, looking at...

Yes. Ahhh, old memories.

Speak for yourself. This is the first expansion I'm only barely vaguely interested in maybe, someday in the future, checking. By then, I'll probably have problems finding my authenticator and stuff, so who knows.

Dunno about that software, but anything about the history of mass GPS use always remind me of a few things: 1) That small village in Wales that had to SUE Garmin because their maps led all the local trucks through their village, and notably though a street that was too narrow to turn if you...