Just craft and break down the Maxdoc mk3, its an epic healing item that you use common/uncommon components to make and gives common/uncommon/rare/epic components when dismantled. Still time consuming but a bit of a shortcut compared to upgrading components directly through rare and epic. Until they fix the crafting,…

Alot. Im 55 hours in on my playthrough and I pickup and breakdown everything as well as crafting things just to break them down to get the legendary components and I am still only at lvl 16 crafting. I cant say for certain but I would assume it is a very real possibility.

Been playing it on XSX, 50 hrs or so into it and I’ve only had two or three crashes so far and some GPU freakout with visual texture glitching a couple times which usually preceded the crash.

Dark Souls II feels like fast food: It tastes okay in small doses and will do in a fix, but it’s mostly an imitation of something better. (Unless you like Souls PvP, then this game rules.)

“Shortcut ahead”

Huh... don’t recall hearing about that. It makes sense with the cross gen compatibility and since there isn’t going to be next gen exclusive titles for a couple years. Guess I just didn’t put 2 and 2 together on that one.

Only current gen versions are being released? Unless I missed something...

The issue of crunch culture exists outside the vacuum of a single company and a single six week period. This instance may not be particularly egregious but the over all issue and the effects it can have on staff is much larger. Don’t be willfully ignorant of the topic nor the negative costs it can incur on those…

I bet his family complains all night after that feast...

I never said anything about concern being overblown...

Again with the hyperbole. You do not need to keep them “running all the time.” As it isn’t a true statement, the argument falls flat. Look, I’m not trying to be rude or combative so if I came off as such, I apologize. Admittedly it was late for me so I was a bit tired. I was trying to get you to reflect on why you…

While your points are valid, it doesn’t quite apply to the one I was making regarding the OP.

It’s a shame that there isn’t much in the way of options but that in no way whatsoever means people have to keep giving them money. These are not essential products or services and they don’t control the only means of production... they can’t control the market unless people let them.

While i can understand the exhaustion of remembering usernames and passwords, its still better than having a single one with a monopoly on a given market. More launchers and storefronts means less stagnation. Do they always get it right, definitely not, but it’s still better than the alternative.

Seems to be an issue with resizing to fit the page. Clicking them for the expanded view, they are crystal clear.

And with that same mentality, just because he points out the foolishness doesn’t mean he condones it or otherwise thinks the act or outcome was acceptable. It’s a saying that has existed for hundreds of years after all.

Pro tip, disconnect your physical-based console from the internet first, it will install it straight from the disc. You will still have to download any day one patches but it will be a hell of a lot faster, depending on your internet speeds of course. If nothing else, if one is unfortunate enough to be stuck with…

I hate to be negative nancy here but do you really believe that raising the base price by $10 is going to make them no longer want “recurrent user spending?” You really expect them to throw away potential tens, hundreds or even thousands (in the case of the occasional ‘whale’) of dollars per user for a one-time extra …

With —full priced— digital sales that have next to no overhead doing so well and only increasing... not a very good argument for raising the cost. Or blindly accepting it.