It never ceases to amaze how Kotaku has leaned hard in to creating long op-eds out of literally nothing. E3 came and went, some good game news came out of it but wait! What if we turned this in to a lengthy article about how the world isn’t back to normal yet and we could have just skipped E3? Yes...we shall point out…

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The grind is real in this game regardless of whether you spend or not. Any advancement you get in spending real money is still leaving you at the whims of certain RNG aspects when it comes to gear, boss drops, etc. The adventure rank wall isn’t even a “hard” wall. It is just one that pops up in between two major story…

If I recall correctly the release date for FF3/6 got moved around once or twice? I remember most game magazines would offer up Q1/2/3/4 as release “dates”, or sometimes the month, but I don’t recall ever knowing the EXACT release date of a video game without calling a store and asking. I even remember my cousins…

As a kid growing up in the late 80s and early 90s, this resonates hard as all hell. Didn’t actually own a lot of games then, and had to rely on rentals to satiate my gaming itch since it was easier than convincing parents to spring for a game at full price. I can’t count how many times I felt burned with a crappy game…

Yup! Babbage’s was the go to video game store in our local mall in the early 90s. That and Software, Etc. Eventually it turned in to a EB Games, and Software, Etc. shut down. Then in middle school I became a FuncoLand die hard due to trading in my old SNES stuff to combine with lawn mowing money to get a PS1. I still…

Not really no. In a gear/loot based game your gear doesn’t really matter until you get close to/hit the cap. For this game the soft cap is 130 and the hard cap is 150. Meaning you will only see gear drop at a max level of 130, and using your resources you can boost them higher to get to 150. It’s at that point that…

I thought exotic was orange too? I have an exotic artifact and it definitely looks orange and not red to me. Then again I’m male, and according to my wife that means my brain can’t process anything but primary colors.

I think you’ve got a point here. The hardcore players who “no-life” the game at launch are kind of the unsung heroes though. They find all these bugs, issues, etc. so that by the time us slower players get that far the issues are ironed out.

^ This. You just described the large majority of people who spend time online talking about games.

If I wanted to create some kind of tutorial on the game mechanics and basic mission structure by using what I’d already made instead of crafting a tutorial for only the beta? Yeah, that is absolutely a thing I would do in order to make a smooth transition for the player when they get to the online portion that I’m…

You are hands down my favorite kind of internet commenter. You make definitive statements with such unflappable belief in your own correctness about things you have no way of knowing such definitive things about, or in this case, make completely false statements without doing any research and just double down on it whe…

You are hands down my favorite kind of internet commenter. You make definitive statements with such unflappable…

Why not? If I wanted to test the servers for my game releasing a beta a few weeks prior to launch is the exact thing I would do. In fact, I might even do a cascading release from closed, to semi-open, to open betas just to have time to fix things prior to each phase of said beta. I might even be looking for input,…

I see what you’re saying entirely. I guess my point was more that the negative reaction to this multiplayer marketing push exists solely in specific areas of the internet. A gaming site, or a gaming sub Reddit, or gaming Twitter, are mostly made up of people who are enthusiastic enough about games to talk about them…

Came back here today to post exactly this. The information I had wasn’t entirely accurate. The campaign completion percentage accounts for side missions/character missions as well. 

Um...you do when you want to test the online functionality? 

Well I’m glad you are here to present us all with your unflinchingly, all knowing understanding of the exact intentions of the developers in releasing the beta when they did. I mean, it certainly had nothing to do with testing their servers, matchmaking, etc. They definitely said to each other “let’s make a demo, but…

This almost elicited a laugh, but its just too bad there is a hint of truth to it in our current social climate. I do wonder what it would be like to be so angry that you then become addicted to anger, and then need to pop in to random articles to post nonsense like this to “get your hit” before you go in to…

This I will give you. The Spider-Man exclusivity is some straight bull poop of the highest order. If anything, it’s the biggest stain on the game’s reputation in my opinon.

When did the industry decide that? Because from what I’ve seen there are demos and betas. If they wanted them to be one in the same they wouldn’t choose to call them by different names. A beta of the sort we are discussing here exists to test server functionality and do extra QA. Nothing more, nothing less. A demo, on…