Right, the excuse they’ve provided is hilariously stupid. In a group DM talking literally about bringing women to your suite, your Cosby suite, in fairly obviously sexist ways...they named it that and had a picture of Cosby at the ready because of the décor.

I actually thought that the show improved on the book the first 4 seasons. It really focused the narrative arc, removed a bunch of superfluous fluff, while still remaining both true to the story and also capturing the relevance of all the nuances within.

To some extent yes, and I still expect the covenant/soul bind/conduit system to be a mess at actual launch. But lately that’s where most of the concern has been in previous expansions in my experience. Systems that are poorly thought out, poorly tuned, poorly implemented.

Thank god...this expansion is so busted it would have been insulting to release it in this state or put this team under significant crunch to deliver.

I suppose, note to CDPR...the feedback to this has been overwhelming positive in the short 30 minutes since the announcement. People that were going to play Shadowlands…

It feels very much like these studio heads just can’t accept pushing the release back, at all. It’s crazy considering customer push back is almost non-existent in that space, but push back on crunch is high. Pushing release dates seems like a fairly strong win/win with only some short term financial pain (probably?)

Right? So basically another procedural around police, policy, etc.

I would say this is probably the correct take, and especially so when they decided to bring Abrams back. Not having even the slightest outline here was really sloppy, and it showed.

I think in this particular case, both of you are right. Like anything, people should do their due diligence when buying something that feasibly should be usable for the next 5-8 years and has this sort of cost associated it with it. So proper research in terms of catalog, specs, what’s important to them, etc. and know…

Good call on the chariots and assassins. Chariots are hilarious in actual battles, just absolutely tearing through pretty much anything like tissue paper.

As someone that cleared most of the content during Vanilla (never got 4HM, Sapph or KT) what sticks out to me about Classic is that it is so a relic of its time.

Weird...apparently if you try to make a good movie rather than stuff it into an under developed overarching narrative of 8 other movies you get a decent movie?

Expectations are a meaningful thing and they should be. Calling something “Reforged” and committing to that by changing things but then simply providing a “Remaster” is shady practice. If all you wanted was a Remaster, you’re probably not disappointed.

Agreed. The only timeline issue I had was the jump between I think episode 5 and 6 was a bit jarring. The rest was more, at least once you realized what was happening, pretty standard and not much of an issue.

Funny enough sometimes it flips the script and makes it too easy. I’ve had a few occasions where I die once on an encounter then when I go back the enemies have respawned but don’t do anything.

This pretty much nails it. It’s worth considering, frankly, that Palpatine wasn’t even necessary either. The concept itself could have been *anyone* creating some Sith army. Making it Palpatine and Rey a Palpatine doesn’t actually change the story beat in any meaningful way.

The amount of time my guild put into BGs last week was disgusting. People hitting 600-700k honor in a week and getting rank 4. My body and my mind can’t handle that like it could 15 years ago.

Agreed, and frankly Blizzard is blowing their wad here a bit. The release schedule is currently in hyper speed and they’ll run out of content within a year. I can’t imagine people will want to continue playing Classic once all the raids are cleared (again) and all the professions are maxed (again) and all the PVP…

World of Warcraft Classic being an absolute subscription powerhouse for the second half of 2019.

We’ve learned two major lessons with this trilogy. First, have a plan ahead of time. Two, if you don’t have a plan and are trusting your directors to move narratively through things dynamically and organically, commit to it. TFA was such an open canvass they could do almost anything in TLJ, and Johnson did that. But…

This appears to be, I would say, the logical conclusion based on how upset people were with TLJ (which I loved for numerous reasons, fwiw). And Johnson’s interview from earlier this week is pretty prescient. Basically Disney tried to course correct from something that arguably didn’t need corrected and you get this…