Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Kolsykol]

On the topic of FFXIV I guess, but tomorrow Mikepreachwow and his FC will have their PvP tournament which will be pretty interesting.
I think on paper at least FFXIV PvP could be pretty fun to watch.
They're gonna expand it later but the first tournament is more of a test and for his FC only.

I enjoyed both DA 1 and 2. DA:I I could never get into no matter how many times I try. The first one you start in humble ( Or maybe no so humble but ends tragic ) beginnings and work your way up to being important. The 2nd one you also start with nothing but work your way up to being important. The 3rd one is just "Oh you're a terrorist...wait...you fixed the issue we blamed you for? Well hello there King/Queen!"

It was just a huge disconnect for me.

I just dunno wtf Bioware is even doing today lol.
I keep forgetting that Andromeda even exists, it seems terrible.

It's the same with Blizzard tho, I think it's worth remembering that the actual people who were the reason their games were good are all gone.
Diablo 1 and 2 for example was made by a different wing of Blizzard that all left almost 20 years ago and went on to make PoE.
The studio that went on to become Blizzard was the other part.
Sure they were responsible for Warcraft and WoW, but most of those people are also gone.

It's just people who had nothing to do with what made Blizzard so great that work there now.
It's only their IP's in name but in practice it's not really the same games anymore, it's basically other people playing around with IP's they had no hand in creating.
I think it's much the same with Bioware too.

Obviously that's also true to a large degree with FF and FFXIV, but I also think it's worth remembering and why people shouldn't have this inherent sense of loyalty towards IP's or studios.
It's the people who make things great not the studios name or IP.