Man, I played this for a while and adding yet another item or mission or ticket or whatever sounds completely overwhelming. I’m glad they toned down the pay-to-win, but I wish they would have streamlined the whole experience a bit instead. I’ve played other games-as-a-service types and nothing has left me as…

I have plans nooooooo. Hope I come back to news of 15 pixelated JRPGs nobody has asked for. They’re for me.

Project started “development” 18 months ago, so roughly March 2020. The accusations happened at the start of 2018. Disney would have known while or before the deal was done and had time to cancel before the project started.

Okay, but:

Awesome, a studio that has never done an action game and is famous for its writing, which sucks. And had a big workplace harassment scandal a few years back. Why the fuck would you let them take this property on?

Remember when this starter bird ran the singles meta for a while? Good times.

I never buy this. You’re playing to compete against other people, not stomp endlessly. It’s an opportunity to get better.

I suspect that decision is not up to Luke

Big agree. I’ve been trying to find local smash tournaments recently. Used to be that you would go to Smashboards and find everything scheduled on a publicly available website. Later Facebook, which was doable, too. But now a lot of stuff is on Discord. You have to try and track down all these local discords on the…

The game is really good. I’m excited to see what they can do with the baseline.

Let’s goooooo

Was planning to revisit it this spooky season, nice!

Well do you want a slow death or a hurried one!

Fuck NFTs. All my homies hate NFTs.

Tchia looks like something that would be my jam. Exciting!

Fucked around and found out.

I tried to do a clever dig, but man. Fuck you John. Eat shit.

The game is designed to make you spend money. “Forcing” is an interesting term here. The game doesn’t force you to be a whale, sure, but mechanically it’s entirely designed to push the player in that direction. So the game isn’t forcing you, but it is making that suggestion constantly.

But it takes an immense amount of resources to max out newly acquired characters, so I can’t experience her full potential right away. I’m quick to switch Aloy out whenever an enemy approaches.

Seems like the gov is regulating the players when they should be regulating the (free-to-play) developers