PCGamer with the cheeky headlines
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OOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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It burns so good.
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Man, itās a sad day when Ubisoft can say, without being wrong, that theyāve done a better job at something thanā¦ -blizzard-.
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Eh, Iām stayinā put for a few reasons. One, after WoW dies Iām done with MMOs. Two, the AB executive board already has their millions - only thing a mass exodus from WoW will do is hurt more people like the 800 they already laid off.
I actually ran by you yesterday. Your name registered for some reason.
In fact, I think iāve seen a fair few of you guys around. I havenāt been able to play much, but shootinā walking mushrooms has been alright.
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Ubisoft seems to have some strange balance between punching itself in the face and offering people some pretty good games
They released Odyssey and it was a spectacular game butā¦then the final story DLC forces your character to be married to someone of the opposite gender and make you have a child
also the money store
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ā¦seriously?
I play video games for escapist fantasy. Having a child is my nightmare.
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In their defense, having looked over everything on that it didnāt sound like they realized what they were doing might come across wrong. Supposedly, the choice was intended to be between a marriage of love and a marriage of convenience to continue the line of Leonidas.
They apologized for this and changed it so that it was no longer necessary. It doesnāt strike me as an act of malice, just one that wasnāt really well thought out.
Thereās no forgiving the microtransaction schemes, though. Sigh. At least the game was phenominal otherwise.
Theyāve been doing well game-wise, really - they look at community feedback and take it into consideration properly - their games show this. Watch Dogs 2, while not as well-known as the first, was widely well enjoyed. Odyssey was an improvement over an already good Origins in essentially every way (imo at least).
If FF14 land, this elf guy at the archerās guild started insulting me. He said āelbows misalignedā even. Now when I was a kid shooting a bow my dad would smack me with a stick if my elbow got to high, so I automatically hate this elf.
He also went on about ānoble artsā and ātradition.ā This is the kind of guy who has taken one to many smacks to the face from a bowstring cause he anchors at the ear because itās more āmedieval.ā
I think his name was Silvairre, Is he the bad guy? Do I get to shoot em eventually?
Yeah the archer quest guy is a major buttlord. After the level 15 quest he at least promises to stop trying to make you miserable. I dunno if anything follows from that, but Iād be pretty content with not dealing with him anymore.
In short, heās an example of an obnoxious character very well done; you have to deal with him and his personality makes an impact, but then you go do everything else in the world and can forget about him. Unlike Nathanos, who is everywhere.
No idea, but I know the NPC youāre talking about and heās basically the reason Iāll be defecting to Pirate-Land as soon as I hit level 15.
And donāt worry Kopper, I understand, but at the same point, as much as I feel for the employees, the only way weāll see change in the gaming industry is:
A) Massive unionization across the board, which might work great in the short-term, but inevitably the union will become as bad as they folks they stand against and then the employees are now taking it from two directions instead of just one.
B) Seeing the big mega-companies like Blizzard-Activision and the like fall over and die under their own bloated backsides one after another to the point the indie companies rise up and become the new gaming super-stars.
C) Thereās enough of a public backlash against the boards, and enough negative publicity against that type of leadership, that the investors step up and demand a change in the board to secure their own investment and we see the folks making these kinds of pants-on-head decisions getting the boot, and with such a highly publicised case that we get large amounts of folks cheering this on, which will scare those who remain into changing, quitting under their power or cause the remaining gaming companies to restructure rather than go through painstaking legal battles or heavily damaging negative publicity campaigns.
Sorry, itās FFXIV so it ends in a heartwarming tale of inclusion and diversity as the various characters of the archers guild learn to work together.
I think only one of the class quests has you wind up killing someone you meet in the guild.
I love it when people say stuff like this as if itās somehow a problem. Who hurt you?
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What? It was just an observation that you rarely get to kill people you meet in FFXIV so donāt get your hopes up. And for the record I actually kinda like the archers guild story.
Hah, guess that would be a ārektā moment, wouldnāt it? Gotta hand it to Ubisoft for that much, at least!
My bad, I made an unwarranted assumption based on past interactions.
He eases up on you, if it makes you feel better. Heās a snob and a jerk but heās also not exactly wrong about some of the stuff he says and youāll come to see that. Heās not a bad guy, just someone with a stick up his butt.
Yeah, heās a nice touch to the feel of Gridania. Pretty much since convo one when I got off the wagon there has been a feeling of this town being insular. WIth this guy specifically is more open, heās got an ethnocentric āwe better than you.ā
One thing I found interesting was that in the sign up quest for the guild, they mentioned the other forest natives, the cat folk, having a completely different style of shooting, and that archery they practice was a synthesis of the that and the elf one. Seeing as the main characters of the guild so far are two elfs and one cat lady, I wonder if that conflict will be a part of the story going forward.
Also, if a Bastian Waters is here, I was typing in this forums and missed your emote.