I have never thought of it that way and it makes sense.

I still use coax because I buy internet from a reseller third party and this is what they have. I have 400/50 for 35$, which is a lot cheaper yhan the competitors. No reason for me to change.

I am a 4K PC little bitch, but playing games on my 1080p TV reminded me that it isn’t all that important. Fun > Smoothness > Graphics.

I think that xbox controller are the best controllers for PC, so I don’t need all the advanced features, but otherwise, you are right.

Their market is now clearly gamepass + Windows. Microsoft is banking on their market share to sell gamepass and capture the market.

Everything Trump does strengthen his position with his base.

He could probably eat dog poo on live television and his base would cheer him for a dumb reason.

Investing in workers cuts into profit for the next quarter

A big corpo comes in and offer you a life changing amount of money. Very few people can say no to that, myself included.

Socialism is the means of production owned by the state or the workers.

Communism is a subset of socialism, where you have a classless society. Different communist doctrines have a different view on how to achieve that.

Edit : clicked on the wrong reply button. Oh well

Capitalism created this expectation. That’s how corpos operate. Capture the market then bleed it.

The IT paradox :

-“Why am I paying for IT? everything runs fine”

-“Why am I paying for IT? nothing works”

Yeah but these pesky workers cut into profits because you have to pay them.

It looks more like its boiled chicken.

Crap, I didn’t read the article, I just wanted to do my joke and be done with it.

At least he didn’t SLAM Democrats. What a relief

D4 is objectively a worst game than LE, I agree. But in my situation, when I play looter, I play D4 because I can get right in. I haven’t played this season, but in 2 mins I could be logged in and on my way to do what I like in D4.

D3 already had adventure mode, so the MMO argument is not valid. D4 iterated on that.

In D4, once you’ve unlocked everything in a realm (hardcore or softcore), the unlocks that matter (skill points, obols and paragon) are forever unlocked in or out of season. You don’t need to do renown unless you want the gp reward and the xp boost. It does not block your character to be at its strongest, unlike LE where I need all the totem slots and passive points in the campaign for each char.

I have 150ish hours in both, thoughI haven’t played LE in a while because I don’t have the will to go through the campaign again and the performance isn’t that great. Though it’s mostly because of the campaign. The performance is just another friction to add to that.

To get the skip in LE, I need to get to act 5, skip to act 9 and complete the quests for totems and passives. I need the keys for the dungeon skips as well.

You can start monoliths after your specialization, but you’ll be level 20ish for level 58 content. So you either twink (not possible on the first character of the season), need to know your build extremely well and still do the campaign rewards after that.

In D4, I create my char, jump in the game, do the introductory mission for the season event and play the game as I want.

LE game loop, just like PoE and D4, is what keep people coming in, and the LE campaign get in the way of that for a lot of people. I play looters for the loot, as the genre implies, not the milquetoast story that I am forced to play.

D4 has got the mechanic right for that and other looters could iterate and benefit from the mechanic.

The campaign is long for what it is. The time travel adds absolutely nothing to the gameplay.

Let’s take D4. For all its flaw, you can start a character without having to re-find all the Lilith statues and nothing is locked behind the campaign.

You venture out in hell tides or do a few dungeons to unlock some legendary aspect right off the bat.

This is what I want with Last Epoch. The campaign is essential because it unlocks totem slots and passive points. Taking an hour and a half of content (probably more if you don’t have as much experience as you) I don’t want to do just so I can start playing my character as I want is not fun.

I only have an hour a night max, every few other nights, so these 2-3 hours to “start” a character is 2-3 nights for me.

When a new season start in D4, I name my character, assign my 10 skill points and go do whatever I want. It it takes a min and I’m started and I don’t need prior equipment to do so.

I know that skip, but it’s not a real solution. Why is it a problem to let people enjoy the gameplay loop without forcing them to go through the pacing of the story?

They were probably brought there through human trade of some sorts. I doubt they covered that range without causing massive issues and destruction on its path in such a short time.

PR speak need to die and anyone caught using it should be shamed into oblivion.