I agree that the vitriol is mostly unwarranted, but the state of the game is far from fine. They've been phoning it in for ages now. And PvP folks have been completely ignored for ages.

Yeah, I’ve been feeling the same way. I don’t really replay RPGs like this, so missing out on a cool bit of content because I failed a persuasion check feels bad. I’ve tried replaying games like Disco Elysium because I know I missed out on a lot of stuff... but I gave up pretty fast. The main story beats are the same…

If it’s legal to trade, it should be legal to use in competition.

Even without the controversy attached to it, Hogwart’s Legacy always looked like the kind of games that you sorta want to play but are okay waiting for it to eventually go on sale before you buy it. 

Agreed, the SteamDB chart for this game looks identical to the chart for the Dead Space remake, or Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, or Atomic Heart, or the Resident Evil 4 remake, all released early in 2023. It’s the standard pattern for non-live service or major multiplayer releases. (Even if a couple of those games I…

The next single player steam game on the top selling list is Jedi Survivor at #5 which has 1492 ppl playing right now, nowhere near the 6800 number the article claims is so low...  

Yup. I didn’t pick up Hogwarts, because it’s not the kind of thing I wanted to put money towards, but this is such an inane article. Shocking news: single player RPG isn’t a live-service game!

It’s a single player RPG, and like the headline says it’s been 6 months after release with several high profile games that have launched in the interim and soaked up the limelight.

Because of the reality of how much absurd time would go into a single individual actually catching/breeding the team they want to use. If you can’t hex-edit the team to just set them to what you intend, the realistic options are a) hire people to grind this shit for you or b) make constant compromises on how your team…

Worth noting that pretty much all of these guys disqualified didn’t actually gen their Pokemon themselves but had them traded to them from someone else who did.

Honestly why exactly is this even an issue? the tournament should be providing the pokemon to play with in the first place to provide a fair and balanced competition. Instead they make players either hack their pokemon or grind for thousands of hours to get the correct EVs

Yeah, no, that's not what I wrote, Steve. 

Why is “challenge” left up to the RNG? That smells like BS to me. Make the mechanics challenging, sure, but not the dadgum conversations and story beats, come on now.

“ Keller also suggested that the promised PvE mode was abandoned because the team realized that core Overwatch players weren’t interested in the mode’s RPG elements, but in Overwatch’s hero shooter aspects.”

Fuck this dude with a rusty fork. Part of the core marketing for OW2 was the PvE content, and it is why lots of…

As I said in the last one, ActiBliz doesn’t make quality games, they just want players with Stockholm syndrome and are using Blizzard’s rotted, old corpse to do it.

Oh plus that patch that made everything more grindy and players weaker.

I stopped playing already. Diablo 3 had way more replayability without the constant live-service tinkering. They had a winning formula — all they had to do was copy it. I will never buy another live service game.

I’m thinking, based on “it was our hosts PC streaming the match and his responsibility”, that the PC with the mod was just spectating and streaming the match (essentially a middleman for outside spectators), and so the only mods that could apply would be visual in nature.

<3 Fahey

It’s kinda stupid, but I kinda love it. From the screenshots, it looks like it could easily be interpreted as just a Wipeout-y obstacle course instead of overtly being a Fall Guys crossover.