Longtime WoW player here — from alpha to 2012, then from 2016 - 2017. Blizzard never, ever, locks you out of content that existed when you last played the game, whether you go for an expansion or not. In fact, you often *gain* access to some advantages, indirectly. A few examples:

“we heard that you was hitting a cap in arcade mode and instead of actually removing the cap we moved the cap up a bit so we dont hear as many complaints”

We call this ‘lawful stupid’.

Hey, you have to give them credit - they’re serious about competing with the big boys.

Overwatch with cards

Honestly, I’m thankful for every match I’m in without a Doomfist. His play style just doesnt work in the world of Overwatch.

Just makes you wonder what other things they’ve implemented and aren’t telling the players.

I get that these companies have to make money, but is necessary for them to do it in such a sneaky way? I love video games, but I hate the underhanded tactics of video game publishers.

This is one of those things that if they had just been up front about (“Hey guys, as you repeat low tier activities and earn more bright engrams, the XP required will rise, doing high tier events bypasses that, or just taking a break returns the normal scale”) people probably wouldn’t bitch beyond the normal (and…

Too little too late for Destiny 2. As a huuuuuge fan of D1 with lots of fond memories and merch, I’ve entirely stopped playing D2. The expansion sounds meager, the “raid lair” disappointing, and the overall tenor of the game depressing.

So, they admit they know without investigation yet they don’t like how the system they built behaves. So glad I didn’t get it on xbl sales these past days. Not even worth my 20$. And being this mainstream means they will get away with the backlash easily. Fml and their fans.

Aesthetics are part of the video game experience and absolutely contribute to ones enjoyment of a game. Overwatch could be mechanically identical with no textures but it wouldn’t be near the success it is today.

They’re listening to all the bad press convincing people not to buy their game, which affects their quarterly earnings and bottom line, but that’s all they’re listening to.

Yeah right, this is EA we’re talking about. First chance they get those loot boxes will be back. They just gotta let the heat die down a little.

The tool looks impressive but when you actually play around with it, it’s actually pretty limited. If you look closely in the vidoes you can see how all those sliders only nudge things around a tiny little bit, and you can’t create your own character from scratch, you can just fudge around with their preset ones, and…

The big difference comes in the form of physical card games, the physical card from the pack you earn is yours to keep. Either way, you paid for the physical pieces of cards.

Okay, but what about the actual problems plaguing D2 like the hollow endgame that gives little reason to keep playing past 305, the inability to select the PvP mode we want to play, the fact that the prestige mode raid somehow doesn’t offer any real new loot, and the other array of issues that are currently causing…

Games been out a month and I haven’t even touched it yet this week. Feels weird compared to the first one. There’s just no reason to really sign in. Maybe try the prestige raid this weekend for a few hours but after that there’s almost literally nothing left to do until December.

I’m not opposed to these transactions, games are still $60 while the cost to make them is much more.

Thanks for the videos as usual Chris, but what happened to YouTube? I agree with the person below, this embedded video player is less than ideal.