Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Theodric]

Would it be against the forum rules if I posted a link to a few books I have out there that have been published?

It should be fine. So long as you're not telling people to buy anything and instead are simply redirecting people to check out something you made then you won't breach the advertisement rules.

Thats the harsh truth thought. Most corporations have a lot of skeletons in there closets. Multiple big name food and clothing companies profit from child labor to this day. Apple, Amazon, Disney, and others profiting from forced chinese labor. Amazon and there crappy US labor policies. More and More companies moving towards automation to avoid paying higher wages. Even Square Enix has more than a handful of controversies.

A wise man once said big corporations are not your friend. They are just after your money no matter what they say. And if you go the route of not buying from companies like that well you'll be soon out of people to buy from.

Yep. I daresay it'd be impossible or at least exceptionally difficult and expensive to boycott each and every business that is involved in something that I dislike. It's a lot easier when it's something that isn't a necessity but I do miss the days when businesses looked to sell a product or service instead of trying to pretend as if they were morally superior.

It's definitely a balancing act, though. For every Netflix and Coca Cola that I've cut out of my life entirely, there's other businesses that I continue to interact with simply because it's convenient. I pick my battles.

[Lium]

It should be fine. So long as you're not telling people to buy anything and instead are simply redirecting people to check out something you made then you won't breach the advertisement rules.

Right on.

I'm a world mythology and world history nerd, so I've created a pretty massive high fantasy universe that blends all the worlds major belief systems together into one coherent story. The whole thing is called The Shattered Star Universe., and the first story arc, titled GABRIEL, is out now.

[Lium]

Would it be against the forum rules if I posted a link to a few books I have out there that have been published?

[Larirawiel]

Tera shuts down forever:
https://gameforge.com/en-GB/play/ter...d-a83f186067f8


This is also a game with so much potential.

Cheers

[Shin96]

Tera shuts down forever:
https://gameforge.com/en-GB/play/ter...d-a83f186067f8


This is also a game with so much potential.

Cheers

Wasn't that a pay to win game anyway? I played it a few years ago up to level 20-30. Never touched it after. Combat was pretty decent though.

[Fukuro]

Tera shuts down forever:
https://gameforge.com/en-GB/play/ter...d-a83f186067f8


This is also a game with so much potential.

Cheers

I had a quite fun time in Tera, until after about a year it went F2P and basically just catered to Elin fans. Elin Online would have been a better fit for most of it‘s lifetime.

[SturmChurro]

Fantasia addiction turned me back into a miqo'te, and probably for at least a full month, because I also dropped $100 on Lost Ark.



I don't feel very good about what I did.

[Kolsykol]

Tera shuts down forever:
https://gameforge.com/en-GB/play/ter...d-a83f186067f8


This is also a game with so much potential.

Cheers

I am surprised it lasted as long as it did, it was a pretty good game when I played I have no idea in more recent years tho.
I am a bit scared of this with Blade and Soul too, have a lot of fond memories with that game and the base story is genuinely really good imo.

10 years is a good run tho, it just always sucks with MMO's that you lose all of that work you put into it ( and cosmetics you spent money on ).
One day it'll happen to every online game I am just more wary of it with games that aren't under more '' mainstream '' publishers.
Happened to Wildstar too, I quit playing it and was gonna return then I found out that the game was shutting down in like a week .

I wish MMO's that closed down got offline modes at least, nothing super in depth necessarily but just the ability to play it as a sandbox without other players offline so it's not lost forever.

Plus, to have seen first-hand the entire débàcle that occurred around Blizzard, the absolute unforgivable things they did... and for customers to indeed, move on like nothing happened... Extremely saddening. No one cares anymore. Everyone wants to tune out stuff and consume without remorse.

Sad but true, .

I just wrote off Blizzard completely, threw away all of their games and all merch and collectors editions I owned of them ( I've played their games since I was like 6 years old, so it's not like it wasn't a big deal to me too ).
It's not even Blizzard anymore to begin with, I just view it as Activison now.
All of the people who made Blizzard great aren't there anymore a lot of them left way back, the people who made Diablo what it was left after 2.

Blizzard just doesn't deserve any extra attention or bias and if I wouldn't give Activison any special treatment I won't give '' Blizzard '' any either.
People are still in love with a company and studios that simply no longer exist.

[Larirawiel]

I wish MMO's that closed down got offline modes at least, nothing super in depth necessarily but just the ability to play it as a sandbox without other players offline so it's not lost forever.

They should allow private server projects. As long as those projects are non profit projects and the game was already taken down. EA did this with Warhammer Online. They tolerate the "Return of Reckoning" p-server.


Cheers

[Kolsykol]

It's always funny and weird to me to see people in FPS games that are going full '' tacticool '' especially FPS that are meant to be a bit more '' realistic '' ( not simulators but not CoD or Battlefield either ).
I like Insurgency Sandstorm a lot it's fun, but you'll have the whole team be pretty standard and easy to identify, then you always have this one guy who's running around in the desert/ cities wearing a Ghillie suit, random gasmasks for no reason, skimasks with skulls painted on them, netted masks etc all in black and their weapons with every accessory imaginable on mic being ultra serious sometimes even using military lingo they heard in a movie.

All that really ends up happening is that you shoot them by mistake because they're always running ahead of everyone and not sticking with the group, so you walk up on them and you have no idea if they're friendly or not because their absurdly overequipped appearance makes it impossible to see.
Often times they'll even look like the enemy too.

Srsly tho, if you look like this ( what r u planning to do with those shotgun shells lol? )



How am I supposed to know if you're a friend or enemy xD?
Tbh you'll look more like an enemy to me than a friend ( there's no name tags over peoples heads either ).

I mean I am not against edgy stuff, my character in FFXIV is pretty edgy lol.
But when it's a game that isn't fantasy it kinda just feels different to me especially a game that isn't super arcadey or like Fortnite.
There's just something really bizarre imo to see people in a more '' realistic '' military setting running around like this, and it also makes it just impossible to know which side you're on.