Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[BaconBits]

Had a goofy experience as an invader in Elden Ring.

Was doing a couple of invasions in Liurnia as part of a quest and managed to invade the same host twice. First time I invaded, there was a co-invader being hounded by a blue hunter. Naturally I team up with the other invader and we smack him out of existence. Then it turned out the host had used a taunter's tongue to lure out invaders and used their horse to jump to a spot unreachable on foot. So I canceled the invasion and left while my co-invader sunk to their knees in despair.

The second invasion was infinitely funnier than the first. So I load in, see I've invaded the same guy again and sigh. In the distance I see a blue hunter running towards me in a hurry and decide I'll just let him kill me. So I turn my back to him, offering a free backstab opportunity. He just bows at me and stares in confusion because I didn't bow back. So I start lightly jogging towards him saying "hit me, come on do it already". Dude runs away and rolls like 8 or 9 times before finally plucking up the courage to swing and kill me in 2-3 hits.

Don't think I've ever seen another player so thoroughly intimidated by my antics before lmao.

[Vyrerus]

Had a goofy experience as an invader in Elden Ring.

Was doing a couple of invasions in Liurnia as part of a quest and managed to invade the same host twice. First time I invaded, there was a co-invader being hounded by a blue hunter. Naturally I team up with the other invader and we smack him out of existence. Then it turned out the host had used a taunter's tongue to lure out invaders and used their horse to jump to a spot unreachable on foot. So I canceled the invasion and left while my co-invader sunk to their knees in despair.

The second invasion was infinitely funnier than the first. So I load in, see I've invaded the same guy again and sigh. In the distance I see a blue hunter running towards me in a hurry and decide I'll just let him kill me. So I turn my back to him, offering a free backstab opportunity. He just bows at me and stares in confusion because I didn't bow back. So I start lightly jogging towards him saying "hit me, come on do it already". Dude runs away and rolls like 8 or 9 times before finally plucking up the courage to swing and kill me in 2-3 hits.

Don't think I've ever seen another player so thoroughly intimidated by my antics before lmao.

I did the invasions for Varre's questline, and on my first one, the host and his partner both looked at me and shot me with the Frenzy Eye Lasers. I didn't have a chance lol.

[Kaoru_Nagisa]

I did the invasions for Varre's questline, and on my first one, the host and his partner both looked at me and shot me with the Frenzy Eye Lasers. I didn't have a chance lol.

When I invaded for the questline to get that mark for easy access to the rune farm bird cliff, I tended to just wait for the Host to find me, no weapons out, and when they approach I drop a bar of soap and step back and do the fetal position emote.

Sometimes they just kill me instantly with Rivers of Blood or w/e the new OP flavor of the week build is.

Sometimes, though, I see the visible confusion as they approach, pick up my soap, and just stand there like they're trying to process what just happened. I imagine me immediately bolting for the nearest high place to fling myself from only adds to the confusion, lmao.

It's good fun. I hate invading, but I at least try to make it a funny encounter when I do.

[Padudu]

So I went to check back on PSO2: NG the other day, the game I quit for XIV. Man, I know we say FF is dying a lot of the times, but at least we don't have this:



Yup, that is gacha. Yup, that is "buy gacha for a chance to increase the chest slider". And this is a bonus item that you get for whaling a crapton of the gacha.

Oh Sega, how far you've fallen once again, unsurprisingly of course lol.

[RobynDaBank]

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I... That is so, so darn hilarious.

[SturmChurro]

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I don't really see the issue. Not for me (I think it looks dumb), but they obviously know their target audience. Unlike a publisher like Amazon who is seemingly constantly trying to enforce that "they know best" and in turn killing their games.

First thing I notice when I login to GW2 again is how poor I am lol.
Doesn't matter what MMO I play, forever poor.

I always wanted to like GW2. I really like how my tree girls look, but that game never really pulled me in. Not like games like SWTOR, FFXIV, or even Lost Ark have. I like ESO more too, but 'Elder Scrolls' in general is most likely the reason I always came back to ESO.

[Kolsykol]

I don't really see the issue. Not for me (I think it looks dumb), but they obviously know their target audience. Unlike a publisher like Amazon who is seemingly constantly trying to enforce that "they know best" and in turn killing their games.

Tbh even in Lost Ark, I'd say that I kinda view the issue there a bit similarly because of the pricing ( and also stats on skins ).
It's not precisely gacha but they do it still in a fairly predatory way because of the skins being timed.
They prey on the fear of losing out, they release skins for a specific time and then remove them forever from the store, to make people rush to the store and buy it before it's gone.

I think it's kinda the same in PSO2 with the gacha, sliders shouldn't be tied to that and in Lost Ark skins shouldn't have a time limit.

[SturmChurro]

Tbh even in Lost Ark, I'd say that I kinda view the issue there a bit similarly because of the pricing ( and also stats on skins ).
It's not precisely gacha but they do it still in a fairly predatory way because of the skins being timed.
They prey on the fear of losing out, they release skins for a specific time and then remove them forever from the store, to make people rush to the store and buy it before it's gone.

I think it's kinda the same in PSO2 with the gacha, sliders shouldn't be tied to that and in Lost Ark skins shouldn't have a time limit.

So far, timed skins aren't actually that bad in the west, with Amazon as the publisher. The problem is they aren't releasing anything, and they decided to have Omen as the only skin for 35 days! When there are tons and tons and tons of other skins available, which doesn't dispel fears that they will censor the most popular skins from Korea.

Games like ESO do timed skins and I think it's a lot more predatory than how Lost Ark is doing it. Even in Korea you can buy skins with Gold. So, even a determined free to play should be able to get most skins they want (at the cost of progression). ESO even has timed loot boxes (At least last I played). It's horrific. I think PSO2 does timed loot boxes too. The funny thing is, a lot of players actually like timed or limited skins or items, so they can be one of the "few" who has it.

I do wonder.. if Amazon will change up the legendary skin acquisition from how it is in Korea, for Lost Ark. I think that's the one thing that's aquired through actual loot boxes. With all the 'pay to win' bad press, they might have to make some changes.

It's like I've always said, I think mogstation has one of the best monetization methods for an mmorpg currently. I just wish they would update it more often with quality stuff like outfits. I want outfits.

[Padudu]

I don't really see the issue. Not for me (I think it looks dumb), but they obviously know their target audience. Unlike a publisher like Amazon who is seemingly constantly trying to enforce that "they know best" and in turn killing their games.

PSO2 has been long dead lol, but the problem for me is the gacha. The massive amount of money you have to buy to even get the slider is.. well, a lot to put it simply. The only audience left (the people who decided to stay) are pretty much the whales, so yeah, I guess they know their audience. But they forgot to add in actual content *cries*

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that will happen no matter what tbf, we have "learned" as a society that breasts = sexual content. I mean hey there was a reason why for a while there was the huge breastfeeding in public debate.. which is the most stupid thing ever. We just turned out to be prudish in our society :P

I agree though lol, I don't think it's really out of her character, tbh there's a lot, a LOT worse you can do there in terms of sexualization. And like you said, guys nearly don't get that much flack, and likely never will tbh. We just don't view it as more sexual tbh, I guess the most would be the pose. It's just how we're wired honestly.

Ok, the hands and feet make sense, but that guy is still built!! I mean those thighs alone could KILL, man.

[LLSmoothJ]

So I went to check back on PSO2: NG the other day, the game I quit for XIV. Man, I know we say FF is dying a lot of the times, but at least we don't have this:



Yup, that is gacha. Yup, that is "buy gacha for a chance to increase the chest slider". And this is a bonus item that you get for whaling a crapton of the gacha.

Oh Sega, how far you've fallen once again, unsurprisingly of course lol.

That can't be real. I saw the latest Headline and I don't remember seeing something like that.