Yeah, I almost wonder if they should have a “F2P” ladder seperate from the current ladder. The game has become very P2W over the past few expansions, to the point that I can’t justify grinding dailies in hopes of a rare card anymore because I’ll still be woefully behind the curve. A seperate ladder could create some…

My guess is that because Sony is an electronics hardware company first and foremost they were trying to double dip.  They didn’t learn from the PSP that you can’t gouge consumers on price and features in exchange for a shiny screen resolution.  The results were more of the same, despite a far better library.

This is a fairly common thing to announce in Japan, thankfully.  They’re very tight-lipped about their health in general, so creators will announce a hiatus for “health” or “illness” and never go into detail about what they have.  Given that Nobuo elaborated he has fatigue I’m inclined to believe that’s what he’s…

These are interesting changes, but unless Blizz is going to fundamentally alter their development pipeline so that they don’t break the game every gods-damned expansion, it’s all a bit pointless.

Yeah, the anti-competitor policies of YT and Twitch are pretty anti-consumer.  They only serve the companies that block the practice.

I have a fairly interesting history with Bebop, as a viewer.

My God yes. This is a pretty big feature that’s missing, and I suspect that back-end infrastructure issues are to blame (as this would increase server demands exponentially even to just give people the option).

Dashboard -> Settings(left nav bar) -> Channel.

I’ll agree with you that the Twitch UI is in need of an overhaul.  Latency is an option now, but it’s buried in a location you’d never think to look.

I think Twitch has gotten better about that, but this was definitely a selling point originally.

I think an exec somewhere said “we need to compete with Twitch” and commissioned a team to get into it but didn’t want to either pay for the R&D to make it successful or just wanted something quickly put together and didn’t want to pay money to iterate it beyond its initial concept.

As a streamer I found the tools on YT gaming lackluster when I tried it. A lack of real time metrics and customizability made it an inferior option for what people expect out of a stream.

“Capitalism: A microcosm.”

For fishing.

True, but I don’t think he wants to run his own server, because it really is very much a webdev experience still where you have to set up your own website with code, not a turn-key experience like Discord.

No, it’s not like that at all.

Not a dumb question at all. He absolutely could.

Best thing I can tell you is to just sign up for a different instance. He was on mastodon.cloud, and there’s like a bajillion other instances with more sane mod enforcement and better communities.

Not exactly. It really is a lot like Twitter (including character limit, something Discord doesn’t have), but every person signs up with a separate instance (ranging in size from very big to very very small), and can see only “toots” (think “tweets”) from their own instance, plus toots from other instances that users…

“It won’t make money, the PC port probably didn’t make money, there’s your reasons.”