Building more complex mechanics by introducing the player to them in layers, or having simple lead to complex, is a tutorial.

Probably because they were a dime a dozen back then, and the kind of runaway success that apps like 2048, Flappy Bird, and Wordle are enjoying is basically capturing lightning in a bottle.

That is pretty much exactly what is happening.

With the box price as an initial barrier, and then the issues with ping when fighting others (it’s no exaggeration, trying to hit a moving target when it’s also “teleporting” due to high latency is no fun), along with the “smurf” accounts of skilled players from China playing in the NA/EU servers (don’t even really…

NA on Aether Datacenter, specifically.

The 5 new ones are the Oceanic servers and those are opening in about 11 days.

Crystal in general seems to not be bad at all, probably because even with the free transfers to preferred worlds (which was most of Crystal) a few months back, Aether is has the reputation as the “center of raiding/end-game play” (though you can certainly find statics or pugs to clear content with on Crystal as well) a…

The spike on Faerie doesn’t seem to hit until 7PM EST most nights, and even tonight it was around 1k when a friend disconnected around 9:30, and it took then maybe 20 or 25 minutes to get back in.

Fun fact - it has more endings that the much praised The Witcher 3.

Yep - unlike most of the other RPGs, such as Fallout or the various Bioware titles, Cypberpunk rarely signposted the consequences immediately.

It’s also a take *largely* based on how the game was designed prior to when the ARR section was condensed.

Seems to be both region and data center dependent. My main is on Crystal and even at like 7 or 8 in the evening (eastern time) my queue is around 3k, and is usually a few hundred as late as 5.

So far the only time I’ve been kicked out was when my computer (newly obtained so I forgot to configure a few settings) decided that 7pm in the middle of a quest was the perfect time to restart for an update.

Actually, what they said was that the 2002 error indicates an interruption of packet information, and that it had two possible causes - one on their end that their were investigating and one caused by issues with connections on the players end.

I remember “consumer choice” before EGS boiling down to “Oh, you’re putting that on your own launcher for a game you made? It better be on Steam too.”

Exactly my take on the messaging. “For the children” and for those “desperate American families that just want a good Christmas for their little loved ones” is more effective as a message than highlighting how it’s a problem year round.

“Anecdotally, I see a lot of players rocking the (kick-ass) EVA helmet, which is earned at level 10.”

If it’s not an RPG, then neither is The Witcher 3.

“Massive effort for something 2% of the playerbase would ever even notice,” etc.

The hate boner Kotaku has for Cyberpunk 2077 is kind of concerning.