Get Ready to Par-laayyyyyyyyyy!

From 2.3 Patch Notes:

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Upon completing the side story quest A case of Indecency, players will unlock the Parley mini-game.

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1.0 flashbacks!

For those that don't know, Parlay was a minigame we HAD to complete in order to talk with some NPCs and gain their favour/ability to bargain with them. It was like this strange mix of Match, Connect-4 and Bejeweled - see Parley. Some people hated it cause the difficulty scaled with level and if you went into the parley on a lvl 50 you would get beaten easily. Some people hated it cause it made no sense and they thought it was a waste of time.

I know... I'm shaking my head here... :P

I'm more intrigued as to what the other minigames apparently coming in the patch will be like.

http://static.gamespot.com/uploads/i...3837-ron-p.gif

At least this time we wont be trying to stop Ifrit's summoning by talking about the rise of the price of cotton.

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Originally Posted by Ashgarth

At least this time we wont be trying to stop Ifrit's summoning by talking about the rise of the price of cotton.

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Those lizards couldn't believe how cheap I'm selling my cotton and bought it in bulk...with their fire crystals.

At least it's returned just as an optional mini-game and not a mandatory requirement.

This is how i Parlay with beastmen :
https://fireden.net/4chan/images.4ch...1151834218.png

People hated Parley in 1.0 because the animations were incredibly slow. Also, cause they refused to use their brain to learn a simple minigame like that.

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Originally Posted by Ashgarth

At least this time we wont be trying to stop Ifrit's summoning by talking about the rise of the price of cotton.

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I think this about sums it up.

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Originally Posted by Nuinn

People hated Parley in 1.0 because the animations were incredibly slow. Also, cause they refused to use their brain to learn a simple minigame like that.

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And the idea of talking about mining/crafts/gladiators/whatever with someone to untemper them while a pile of really really angry amal'jaa otherwise ignored you (unless you attacked them) was ridiculous, as was the same thing in order to get information off NPCs.

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Originally Posted by faris

And the idea of talking about mining/crafts/gladiators/whatever with someone to untemper them was ridiculous.

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I fear that's the least ridiculous of illogical decisions SE has made in regards to both story and game mechanics C_C;