Its a Japanese game, so OF COURSE you will. /s

It is/was very different from Souls-like bosses. Most bosses were enemy “core/robot/whatever they were called in that generation”, and seemingly were limited to only being able to do what a character core could do. They just did everything very fast and very perfectly (or there were like, 4 of them). Its a notable…

amazed the team could afford the markup

The recent slew of EV critical articles here raises some eyebrows....

People want to be assured they have the bigger vehicle in a crash

Feeeling pretty smug that my read during the beta weekend is turning out to be 90%+ correct and I continue to dodge a $70 bullet.

they just want trains (rightfully so).

They got a monthly money printer (WoW subscriptions)

As bad as it is now, the internet is going to be sooooo shit in like 3-ish years

1. Lets say for example, someone budgets $50 a month for games. If you are “forced” to play a grind game with every free “gaming time” you have, good chance your monthly $50 goes there. After all, it is what you play the most.

My gut says a last-gen WRX with an STI drive train swap + $50k worth of mods probably makes a better road car for under 100k.

More Grind == More Playtime == More chance for MTX purchases.

D2 didn’t have nearly as many build enabling/defining uniques as modern loot games. (runes were a bit of a different story) Also, back in the day you had more or less free trading of drops.

they’ll just let the free trial lapse

Also: Home ownership benefits EV’s greatly: Personal garage with personal charger. Home ownership is becoming hell.

We entered the ride-height wars (see also the rise of SUVs followed by crossovers, with the plastic cladding to give an illusion of more clearance).

At the moment it is loot pool. It’s still very much up in the air if they will be removing them from player inventories once the full “fix” is released.

Imagine Diablo 2 if Trist/Baal runs were instantly patched out.

“Hopefully the action-RPG’s most devoted players manage to earn at least one or two of their most coveted Uber Uniques by then.”

I wouldn’t even call this an “explot”. It was just a chest that can drop rare items dropping SUPER RARE items. It’s a bug. It’s 100% a blizzard fuckup.