The pandemic just caused all kind of issues. The launch windows were likely set and production begun by the time the pandemic got into high gear. It also had the side effect of actually ramping up demand for activities you could do at home. And while we now have a global semiconductor shortage both MS and Sony…

But that’s always the excuse. I enjoyed being OP! Well, yeah. But what about challenge? We’ve been down this road in many games and in some games over and over. The players whine about everything. If they don’t fix the OP class then players of other classes whine that their classes are underpowered and…

Maybe there was a good intention here at some point. Letting people enjoy a safer online experience is, after all, a very good thing! But this, this is not the way to do it. Hateful speech is something that needs to be educated and fought, not toggled on a settings screen.

It’s still mostly that. Two articles are directly about those two games and one is about the additions that contained those games. It’s just thrown the spotlight on the service for a bit.  Sort of like how the next gen launches also threw the spotlight on games like Bugsnax.  A mediocre game that at any other time…

Ehh, but if the game is unbalanced then it basically negates the other classes. Then you wind up with a majority of people using one class and/or those people using other classes having a harder time with the game and feeling less useful in co-op games. So then you might say, “Well, buff the other classes”. But…

Nah, there is very little Apple Arcade coverage here. Arcade just happened to get two noteworthy games recently.  

Yeah, you really just have to force yourself to move on. Which can be easier said than done sometimes. I tend to do a lot of side stuff early in open world games and then at some point I’ll start to feel that it’s time to be done and will force myself to charge down the main quest line.

April is probably going to be a lot of Monster Hunter Rise and Outriders for me. Though I don’t consider those backlog games. Those are just the current games I’m playing. I don’t think I’ll get to any backlog games this month.

Exactly.  For most people NSO was already a sunk cost and this was a game they didn’t know was coming anyway.  

I’m not this hardcore. LOL. Skipping a few seconds compared to the long hunts and then eating and changing all my gear between hunts is almost meaningless.

That’s where I’m at. I intend to play Outriders, but MHR has sucked me into a black hole. It’s going to be a while before I escape.

That’s fair. It’s just more popular than I realized. That was back when it felt like MP was getting needlessly tacked onto everything and ME was one of those games where it felt wholly unnecessary. I completely ignored it.

Yes, it is apparently much more popular than I realized.  I never even gave it a second thought. 

I think they are mad about the MP being removed.  Which was news to me that people even gave a damn about MP in a SP focused game.

He’s not wrong.  Own it.

I think the biggest issue is that iOS is already a walled garden and then Arcade is a walled garden within the walled garden.  You would probably see less complaining if you could just buy the games in Arcade without needing to subscribe.

Your argument is still kind of apples to oranges. There ARE some people complaining about the game being exclusive, but the game being exclusive doesn’t really bother me as basically every platform has exclusives. What is kind of annoying is that it is not only exclusive to iOS, but then isolated even further in a…

Looks delicious. 

Except in the end it did benefit D3. It helps control cheating. There was rampant cheating in the console version of D3 because it had offline modes and saves could be hacked on PS3/360 era consoles. Then those items were imported from those saves onto the PS4/X1 even though they were much less prone to that kind…

There isn’t some competitive balance you can destroy by hacking in powerful guns.