85 comments at the time of posting this, and NONE of them are talking about Shroud, but rather their own nostalgia for other games. Which is pretty much the perfect example of how badly this game has pancaked, despite being developed for 5 years, and persistent (no server wipes) since July 2016.

This is and always will be my issue when it comes to nostalgia based articles like this. People confuse tedium for accomplishments. “I’m bored out of my mind and suffering, so I MUST be having fun. Right? RIGHT?!”.

What avenues were there for making money outside of grinding? The only real way to make fast cash was by playing the economy and screwing everyone else over by cornering now some kind of monopoly. Gameplay wise the only challenges in the game fame from bosses or PvP, and both of those cost moguls rather than brought…

Well, not anymore.

I could easily sink 12 hours a day back when I was young. Then adulting happened. Many of us have no energy even we have time after work. That’s why we watch streamers play.

You’ll never find it, because that early MMO magic was a combination of the time in which those games came out, your younger self, and the “oh wow!” newness of a living, changing online world. Those times are gone.

“But it’s great — I think a lot of kids want to get into video games. If you’re a creator, I kinda want my own sons to find their own way as opposed to, ‘Yes you should absolutely make games.’” Remember parents, Don’t force your kid down one path make sure they are able to find their own way and that you support…

Yes, but...if you hold B will they let you run?

Clearly you haven’t heard the sneakerheads be like, “oh, he got the velcros!”

and now, to check the queue for a bunch of throwbacks from the edition wars bitching about pathfinder as being too complex.

Yup. Found them. Listen guys, it’s over. Just play the game you want to play. If you want D&D 5th, play it. If you want Pathfinder, play that. If you want Numenera, or WoD, or Shadowrun, or…

My parent’s 401k / retirement find circa 2007-2009 would like to have a word with you.

So, being 35 makes one a geezer?

“In one mini game, the player is given the objective to sexually arouse a sleeping small child holding a teddy bear, whilst she verbally rejects,”

Found ‘that guy.’

“AI leaders afflicted with the dreaded spelling bee bug obsess over things like religion, sometimes to their own detriment, because they have no default values for other important qualities.”

I before E, except after C, or when pulling a feisty heist on your weird beige foreign neighbor.

Give it about an hour or so for some very specific kotaku commenters to say that it’s all about how their age of consent is lower in japan, they’re not really people, and not releasing this game is censorship.

“In one mini game, the player is given the objective to sexually arouse a sleeping small child holding a teddy bear, whilst she verbally rejects” -

Peewee Herman & Lana?