Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Kolsykol]

Can't be worse than Facebook (thank god I deleted that years ago).

[Caurcas]

Well, in Malenia's defense, I think she's barely sane. She requires Miquella's Needle in order to not just be a festering bag of organs. The more she relies on the Scarlet Bloom, the more she's giving herself over to the power of the Outer Gods.

Wish I could get Radahn a needle too. Maybe it'd fix his brain. Maybe not.

I still prefer Radahn, given Maleina kind of bionuked a whole region when she was losing. Also, kind of shoot herself in the foot because this led to Mohg kidnapping and doing....very not good stuff to Miquella. However, all is moot because Ranni is the way.

[Cincierta]

Well, since today is St. Patty's Day, we've gotten all of our St. Patty's products out for sale, except for what little Irish soda bread dough they sent us.

Our warehouse only sent 2 cases per store out this year. This was not enough as we were supposed to get 15 cases of the stuff.

The amount of people who lost their minds at us because of not having Irish soda bread out today (we could only reserve the bread for those who ordered ahead), was absurd. Every store in our chain is experiencing this. I know, how dare we, because of worldwide shortages and supply chain issues that caused it, that we did NOT have their holiday bread out in massive surplus.

To those people: it's not the end of the world. We have plenty of rye bread for you to make your other sammiches. Go buy some cases of beer and corned beef we have in stock and make yourself some open-faced Ruben sandwiches. You won't die if you don't have your holiday bread for a year. Same thing will probably apply to our Easter bread. You will be fine.

[Kolsykol]

I was so focused on Sith and Jedi that I forgot Imperial Agent was in SWTOR too xD.
I remember I had an Operative and played the melee knife build which was fun, animations aren't as bad either it seems.

Got me a bit hype to hop in again then I remember oh it's EA and Bioware ( also time sink ).
Eew.
I am very picky about who I financially support nowadays, VERY picky.
Tbh even just being a statistic by playing altogether makes me think twice.
Just want nothing to do with it.

On a side note for Kotor fans I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OagQ818xZXo

Pretty well made Malak vs Revan, the models are a little goofy at times but overall it's quite well-made.

[ReynTime]

I enjoyed raiding back when I played WoW though the atmosphere and attitude towards it was very different back then. It feels too much like a second job these days and finding people who are reliable, friendly and genuinely trying their best is pretty tough. I'd rather not team up with a bunch of complete strangers and instead build up rapport with the same band of players each time.

Though particularly in this game, a lot of players just don't seem to want to team up even for easier content. I guess that comes with the territory - aside from FFXIV being treated like a visual novel by many players, every other individual I encounter seems to have 'anxiety' these days. I don't say that to be mean but Yoshi-P's decision to gradually turn more and more aspects of FFXIV into a single player experience isn't really my cup of tea. I just hope that another viable MMO emerges within the next few years and by that point interacting with other players becomes a novelty again that many people want to do because it's more engaging than just logging on and doing everything with NPC's.

I don't expect that to happen. Nowadays everyone wants to play MMORPGs but no one wants to commit to them. And that affects the design of mainstream MMOs. Personally I gave up waiting. There is only one MMORPG I'm interested and it has been in the making for so long that it will either never launch or will fail to meet expectations... Or third, it might meet expectations but because it targets a niche audience (like me) in terms of MMORPG, it will be fated to resort to heavy monetization or die young. (You might have heard of the game)

I don't think I'll find what I want from games like FFXIV outside of single player RPGs anymore.

I'll die in the hill that 1.23 had way more potential than everything since ARR and I would probably be enjoying XIV a lot more if they didn't scrap almost every design choices from back then.

[SturmChurro]

I don't expect that to happen. Nowadays everyone wants to play MMORPGs but no one wants to commit to them. And that affects the design of mainstream MMOs. Personally I gave up waiting. There is only one MMORPG I'm interested and it has been in the making for so long that it will either never launch or will fail to meet expectations... Or third, it might meet expectations but because it targets a niche audience (like me) in terms of MMORPG, it will be fated to resort to heavy monetization or die young. (You might have heard of the game)

I don't think I'll find what I want from games like FFXIV outside of single player RPGs anymore.

I'll die in the hill that 1.23 had way more potential than everything since ARR and I would probably be enjoying XIV a lot more if they didn't scrap almost every design choices from back then.

Old school mmorpgs or mechanics are deemed tedious, and archaic. Something like that really would only fit with a niche audience, and in turn that means a triple A studio/publisher that actually has the resources to create and maintain something along these lines will most likely not bother investing in it. Heavy monetization won't save a game people don't want to play. Might put it on life support for awhile though.

[Misplaced_Marbles]

I don't expect that to happen. Nowadays everyone wants to play MMORPGs but no one wants to commit to them. And that affects the design of mainstream MMOs. Personally I gave up waiting. There is only one MMORPG I'm interested and it has been in the making for so long that it will either never launch or will fail to meet expectations... Or third, it might meet expectations but because it targets a niche audience (like me) in terms of MMORPG, it will be fated to resort to heavy monetization or die young. (You might have heard of the game)

I don't think I'll find what I want from games like FFXIV outside of single player RPGs anymore.

I'll die in the hill that 1.23 had way more potential than everything since ARR and I would probably be enjoying XIV a lot more if they didn't scrap almost every design choices from back then.

This isn't a "nowadays" thing at all. People who want grouping to be a requirement to get anything done were ever a niche.

[Larirawiel]

Old school mmorpgs or mechanics are deemed tedious, and archaic. Something like that really would only fit with a niche audience, and in turn that means a triple A studio/publisher that actually has the resources to create and maintain something along these lines will most likely not bother investing in it. Heavy monetization won't save a game people don't want to play. Might put it on life support for awhile though.

Och, WoW Classic has also tons of tedious and archaic mechanics. And it was a huge success for Blizzard. I do not see, that tedious and archaic mechanics always lead to a niche game.


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[Kolsykol]

Och, WoW Classic has also tons of tedious and archaic mechanics. And it was a huge success for Blizzard. I do not see, that tedious and archaic mechanics always lead to a niche game.


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Would WoW Classic have been as successful if it wasn't WoW Classic tho?
It was more of a nostalgia thing I think.

I mean a lot of the stuff in question in WoW Classic was quite unpopular too, especially stuff like world buffs.
People kinda regretted the whole '' no changes '' thing.
Few people also stuck around, the game is essentially dead at this point.

[Larirawiel]

Would WoW Classic have been as successful if it wasn't WoW Classic tho?
It was more of a nostalgia thing I think.

I mean a lot of the stuff in question in WoW Classic was quite unpopular too, especially stuff like world buffs.
People kinda regretted the whole '' no changes '' thing.
Few people also stuck around, the game is essentially dead at this point.

This guy also thought, that it was all nostalgia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k5K4a-teWo

And yes, some things in Classic like World Buffs were way too powerful and overused. And yes, some changes would be good. But the people feared, that if Blizzard makes changes, then the changes would make the game similar to the Retail version.


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