Thoughts on the Yoshi P AMA?

[Palin]

Why'd nobody ask him about unrestricted Glamour...?

Possibly those are only questions he could/wanted to answer

[KenZentra]

His answers are really nothing tbh. Also telling Viera and Hrothgar to wait patiently after they've been waiting for 4 years, what a joke. Almost half the game's lifespan to have a gear slot actually appear on the character model. Absolutely insane.

[Jeeqbit]

not the changes we actually need. Like shortening the patch cycle

The patch cycle is very frequent though. Developing things takes time. The only thing that conceivably make it faster is switching to the Unreal 5 engine or using AI for everything.

increasing the longevity of content

I think that's what people really want when they say more frequent patch cycles.

I can't see this game lasting more than 5 years if nothing is done

It takes more than 5 years for everyone to stop playing a high-population game they have played for 10 years, especially when it is regularly producing top-quality content such as extreme, savage, ultimate, criterion, items and story.

It would take at least 10 years for people to slowly leave and then for returners to stop returning and if SE keeps creating top-quality content like this then many of them will probably just return anyway.

Currently there still isn't really a good amount of statistical evidence of this in the first place.

[Nestama]

Who in the flying F uses potions in low level dungeons when everything is such a face roll?

Edda and Avere roleplayers? idunno

[SannaR]

Different situation though, because it's meant to be one consistent (and recently invented) device that you're using in combination with an assortment of guns you've acquired from other sources.

To continue your car analogy, it's not that all cars ever manufactured look like Model T, rather that it is the equivalent of 1908 and you have a new and shiny Model T that you are using all the time.

Even if it's supposed to be something fairly recent invention wise I doubt every user is going to keep it looking or even want to keep it looking as fresh off the assembly line the day they got it. Someone will have put stickers on it or painted some graffiti on it. Maybe it has some scuff marks. Just like with a car a person might want to change out the hubcaps their car came with; with something else that fits their style. Slap on a "I'm a proud parent of an honor student" bumper sticker equivalent. Or hot rod flames down the sides. You know for that person who loves Hades soul fragment purple. Or you know maybe Inventingway somehow got a hold of it and slapped on some LED lights on the outside.

[Iscah]

Even if it's supposed to be something fairly recent invention wise I doubt every user is going to keep it looking or even want to keep it looking as fresh off the assembly line the day they got it. Someone will have put stickers on it or painted some graffiti on it. Maybe it has some scuff marks. Just like with a car a person might want to change out the hubcaps their car came with; with something else that fits their style. Slap on a "I'm a proud parent of an honor student" bumper sticker equivalent. Or hot rod flames down the sides. You know for that person who loves Hades soul fragment purple. Or you know maybe Inventingway somehow got a hold of it and slapped on some LED lights on the outside.

Sure, but actual customisation requires you to really own one single item, whereas this is a combination of two things: by lore, a single item, and by the way the game functions, identical copies of the item attached to every weapon.

To be able to customise it, they would have to totally rearrange how their system handles the equipment.

[SannaR]

Who in the flying F uses potions in low level dungeons when everything is such a face roll?

Me if I'm in a bad party and suddenly I'm the tank on bard who only has 2nd wind. Heck it's why I use them even in high level dungeons in hopes that the other dps who has a raise or if the boss is low enough in Hp we can still eek out a win or recover. Like my last run of Malikah's Well where the war and me again on bard duoed the final boss with 20% hp left on it. Cause the healer died to too many vuln stacks and not really knowing the fight. The other dps was melee who also didn't really know the fight or how to use their own healing tools. Or ending having a healer who is struggling. And no I'm not including anything under Halatali as that's probably the 1st dungeon where you could run into some problems with trash pulls. I'm also not saying that is a normal thing or what you and I would consider as the average player should be struggling with even Halatali or anything below Dusk Vigil when it comes to healing in low level stuff.

[SannaR]

Sure, but actual customisation requires you to really own one single item, whereas this is a combination of two things: by lore, a single item, and by the way the game functions, identical copies of the item attached to every weapon.

To be able to customise it, they would have to totally rearrange how their system handles the equipment.

Which I understand and probably why they have repeatedly said hiding them or removing them is a no can do. Why I am in the could they at least change in color camp. I'm willing to accept that at least how they currently are the devs probably unable to give us an option to remove or hide them. I as I have said just want them to stop looking the same way they always have is all. I doubt I'm the only one who would also settle for what could be seen as a compromise if the box could match the gun in color scheme at least.

[Iscah]

Which I understand and probably why they have repeatedly said hiding them or removing them is a no can do. Why I am in the could they at least change in color camp.

They already do change colour if the weapon is dyeable.

[CidHeiral]

Also telling Viera and Hrothgar to wait patiently after they've been waiting for 4 years, what a joke. Almost half the game's lifespan to have a gear slot actually appear on the character model. Absolutely insane.

If anyone was waiting for the devs to do what they specifically said from day one they weren't going to do that is definitely on them and not the devs.