FF11 and FF14 are also MMO. So not really part of the conversation. MMO need crafting to pad out their systems. Single player games rarely need them. They only exist as busy work.

I think every action game has waaaay too much RPG-ification going on these days. I love action-RPGs but not every action game needs that. It makes things like Assassin’s Creed or God of War a total slog to me when I’m constantly picking up dozens of different crafting materials and having to do the menu shuffle to…

Folks in these comments: Trust me, you didn't want this. I read both the Warner's and Sony drafts and they were dogshit. It's almost like someone tried to cram a season of weirdly adapted for America high concept anime into a feature film...

This dude really wrote six angry paragraphs about Reddit drama and ended it by calling other people “keyboard warriors.”

IIRC, the API changes will really screw with bots that are used for content moderation

It’s unpopular and also missing important context about the pricing and context. Remember that Reddit only had value because these mods do millions of hours of work for absolutely no pay whatsoever. Reddit only has value because of their input. Also, Reddit isn’t merely charging enough to cover their costs, they’re…

“Now, please let all of the uber-entitled keyboard warriors eager to take up the cause of the week flame me below. Your rage fueled tirades will only serve to make me laugh.”

I like how you write your own tirade and then just immediately, preemptively shut down any possible response by dismissing them as written by…

I’ve seen at least a couple (probably more) videos/articles about how Reddit is the new Google. I think it’s very common to add “reddit” to the end of your search, because you’re almost guaranteed to find a Reddit post, and Google searches are becoming useless otherwise.

You are not alone.

Nothing screams “I’m not bothered or riled up” like a wall of text about how funny it is to you. Reddit is (soon to be was) a platform run by its users, ya dink. All your presuppositions are wrong

Theres one little problem with this argument. The issue isn’t that Reddit wants to charge for it’s API, but that the amount they want to charge is astronomical and way higher than other websites such as Imgur, and the extremely short timeline they gave with pricing information.

So Kotaku likes Critical Role now?  Wasn’t too long ago there was basically a manifesto length article about how this group of friends was too white and that they should kick people out of their game so they could replace them with token POC representation.

Why would the Plot-Armored Protagonist need TT membership?

That’s exactly it.

that’s exactly the thing that bothers me. People ask why companies make f2p mtx games even though they get hated on:
Because they make more money in a year or two than “Game of the year” games like “Elden Ring” make in their whole existence.

“Look, I know video game development is expensive, and this is a free-to-play game so money has to be made somewhere, but hrmm.”

They have every right in the same way that their users, who are the sole content providers and moderators of the site, have every right to walk away over poor management.

I recently soft locked myself with bad decision making 135 hours into a game. I REALLY like that my actions have consequences, but I’m not that big of a fan of unwinnable states. Especially when the unwinnable state is “This person you trusted betrayed you, and since you’re playing a squishy support wizard instead of…

Eh, usually it’s more around weird errors with old games I can’t find anywhere else

I think you would be hard pressed to find a triple A game that does not have DLC and expansions planned before release. That is just how the industry works these days. Most of it was cut content that is not going to make the original release.

September is ridiculously packed too. As you said, BG3 comes out at the end of the August and that’ll easily be a 200+ hour CRPG. Same goes for Starfield. Then there’s Phantom Liberty which will probably be 20-30 hours. Then there’s Witchfire, Lies of P, Mortal Kombat and Payday 3.