Agreed, I could see fire arrows being tools used for only two purposes, hitting the rigging and sails of an enemy ship (as already mentioned) to disable their mobility, leaving the attacker literally and figuratively able to “sail circles around” their target.... or for demoralization/wanton destruction purposes when…

Please Stop reinforcing the design philosophy that rewards throwing real money at a progression based unlockable item or mechanic. Seriously stop. STAHP IT! Remember when these sorts of things were linked to player accomplishments or level breakpoints, or game progression instead of how hard you can throw money at the…

I think they probably would have been fine to remove the mats grinding and other things that acted as drains on people’s time without getting “boredom” complaints if they’d replaced it with something else. I suspect that Ashran failing to entertain most people and the assumption that the garrisons would carry the…

The raiding in the current game is still enjoyable, it’s actually one of the things they seem to have nailed properly. It’s just that outside the two or four hours a week where you’re doing that, there’s not much to do. In Vanilla or TBC that typically didn’t happen, because you had to busy yourself running all over…

Agreed, you can argue all day about whether it’s sustainable content-wise over the long term (which is why other large companies like EverQuest had progressive unlock servers to combat the stagnation. So your vanilla server would transition to TBC after three years or so, allowing you to ride along with it, or re-roll…

Sure you could avoid cookie cutter builds, you could also build a character around a legendary you got on another character. For example you could make a sorceress with a maxxed out block rate built around a Stormshield instead of just soaking vit, or have three different sorcs that all played entirely differently…

Yea I’m sure he’s a nice enough guy in person, but a lot of the ideas I’ve seen enter production under his tenure are... cause for concern in my opinion. The Real Money AH (D3) and Garrisons/Shipyards (WoW) both de-stabilize the player controlled economy, replace or artificially force into obsolescence portions of…

Well to be fair, WoD is right up there with Launch day D3 on the list of “half-finished, poorly executed, gameplay undermining ideas that never should have left development”. RMAH is to Diablo Gameplay/Economy as Garrison [or worse the Shipyard] is to WoW Gameplay/Economy. If this means an end to these sorts of ideas…

Rifts/Bounties/Seasons I agree are good ideas that Diablo 3 brought to the table. A proceedurally generated endless dungeon someplace that got harder/more rewarding and created its own bosses and such would not have been remiss as well, all of which I’d consider improvements over Baal farming.... however I think…

@Strawhat

My issue with Jay Wilson and Diablo 3 aren’t a commentary on his writing though, I’m not sure he actually wrote for that game at all (I think it was all Metzen, which is why it has all the usual garbage tropes like “Surprise! The female protagonist is secretly corrupted by evil and becomes a monster and this totally…

As a male I never had to be worried about predators or anything like that when I was on the trains, but on days when I was on the Yamanote Line during the peak transit times when available straps and rails were at a premium, I definitely noticed the decorum around personal space shift to “You are now furniture” during…

I spent a month there last year, couldn’t agree more. There’s a ton to love about Japan, it’s beautiful, their customer service and attention to detail are second to none, their dining and concern for the customer in particular is on a level so far above any other country I’ve ever been to that it’s difficult to even…

Not really, by definition most of these vaccinated illnesses are highly infectious (prompting vaccine research) and most have typically plagued humanity since forever. Tuberculosis for example has a vaccine and yet it’s still infected about a third of the planet regardless, it’s been doing so since the dawn of mankind…

So do you see different content in the movie depending upon which theater conglomerate you purchase your ticket from? Is there a seven dollar surcharge on top of the ticket price for more attractive pants in the movie? Will the actors randomly plummet through solid matter into some indeterminate location inside the…

Far more depraved things take place in Goldshire’s Lion’s Pride than murder. That entire place is like... sticky.

Two months ago today I was standing in that very spot, delicious Tako-Yaki on Dotonbori... I wish I was back there right now!