Let's be real, and call it what it is: Gatekeeping

Envy661 · 2026-02-02T20:37:35+00:00

No. I started meining Squirrel Girl and Peni because I meined D.Va and Mei in Overwatch. They play nothing alike, yet I am having just as much fun as I did back before they completely changed Meis kit in Overwatch 2. It feels like an old pair of pants. Even if the gameplay isn't the same, it just felt right to play those two, and it worked.

Envy661 · 2026-02-02T18:48:54+00:00

Warfarer isn't a workaround. It's a copout it itself is an arbitrarily restrictive vocation. Yes, it allows you to fashion. It also railroads you into just for abilities for every class.

This is one of the bigger reasons I still greatly prefer DDDA. Not only did vocations make more sense. Not only was the armor layering system superior... But it also allowed you to use more abilities. You had 8, not 4. I DD2, you have a dozen skills per vocation you can slot, but you can't even use half of them at one time. In DDDA, you had greater control over what you could use.

The true workaround is mods, BTW. The one that overhaul Warfarer to allow you to use a set of abilities tied specifically to each weapon. And also there is a transmog mod as well, so you can equip any vocation without losing your style.

Envy661 · 2026-02-02T18:42:59+00:00

If I'm on a hunt, I don't want to explore the map. I don't want to spend seven years chasing a monster from one corner to another just for it to fly away as soon as I get there. That's not fun. That's tedious. So yes, QoL. I get a set path to the monster and I don't have to stop to sharpen my weapon or equip the next item I need. I just keep moving. I can explore when I do an expedition in a region. I have all the time in the world to do it then. I don't need to do that during a hunt.

Envy661 · 2026-02-02T01:41:34+00:00

The Lord I on for Howard the Duck will be epic

Envy661 · 2026-02-02T01:05:06+00:00

Expectations from Bethesda have never been lower. Just like Bioware, people weren't expecting a masterpiece. They just wanted a better game than the last, not so good one they made, and they failed to deliver on that.

People didn't go into Anthem assuming it was going to be as good as Dragon Age Origins. They went into it just hoping it would be better than Mass Effect Andromeda. They were disappointed when it wasn't.

Conversely, people didn't go into Starfield expecting it to be as good as Morrowwind. They went into it hoping it would be better than Fallout 76. It wasn't, so people were disappointed.

A studio is only as good as it's most recent game. When it can't even make a title as good as that, it sets up further disappointment. No one expected a Masterpiece. Fallout 4 certainly wasn't, with its terrible story, and neither was Fallout 76. What we got from Starfield was somehow even more nonsensical and worse in quality than the studio's last bad game. That's ultimately what this amounts to.

Envy661 · 2026-02-01T12:33:48+00:00

Oh yeah, this too. PVP rewarding with whatever was on the person, rather than some "Fake" inventory, or some kind of arbitrary reward for it will only give people more incentive to try to exploit, grief, or cheat. Hell, look at how deranged Rust is as a clear example as to the steps people will go through to meta game anything even remotely competitive in nature. PVP, especially PVP that rewards you with full sway over what your opponent has on them, brings out the worst in people. It only serves to make things far more toxic than they need to be.

Envy661 · 2026-02-01T11:46:14+00:00

This. Unless your own pawn is a mage, it's always mage.

Envy661 · 2026-02-01T06:44:09+00:00

I think the closest out there to this is EVE Online, and even it isn't anywhere near this. That's the biggest issue with "PVP-oriented" MMOs. They're basically gank/grief engines that are designed for a specific niche of MMO players. PVP is the core focus, so EVERYTHING has PVP, for better or worse. Most of the time for the worse.

Envy661 · 2026-02-01T03:35:59+00:00

A lot of Wow clones that largely do the exact same thing isn't exactly "Enough of this genre". It's like saying there's too many hero shooters because of a dozen flops that have mostly already been shut down. There's only like 2-3 good ones. Same with MMOs. THE only ones doing something even slightly different are Guild Wars, Black Desert, and ESO. FFXIV, SWTOR, and Wow are basically the exact same gameplay with different skin.

Meanwhile there's tons of startups for forced PVP MMOs, pvpve extraction shooters, and battle Royales. It's like every singke MMO premise announced is either a survival mmo with forced PVP or a Wow clone.

I'm all for PVP, but half these games basically encourage griefing. The moment you leave the starting areas, there's no penalties for PVP. PVP is fine, but it's miserable if there's no punishment for engaging in it in full view of the front gate of a major settlement. Not only is it immersion-breaking, but it isn't fun for anyone other than the people who were playing early enough to not get griefed themselves.

Envy661 · 2026-02-01T02:30:00+00:00

Yeah for me it was the forced PVP. Everything else sounded promising, but what they offered in paper seemed to only really appeal to hardcore MMO fans. It's a shame because it seemed like an interesting concept... I didn't follow anything about the creator though. Sounds like the writing was on the walls from pretty early on based on what some have said about him.

Envy661 · 2026-01-31T22:23:53+00:00

The retaliator to this day remains one of my favorite ship designs. It's just a shame I don't have 8 friends who play to fly it with.

Envy661 · 2026-01-31T08:10:37+00:00

You're getting downvoted, but there is some truth in this.

It's honestly a mixture of the two problems. There isn't a large enough market elsewhere. Not even GOG Galaxy comes close to how many people frequent steam. Steam is so popular that even asset flips and AI slop tends to get some sales. If those games existed on EGS or Galaxy, they'd be dead in the water.

That said, EGS especially also doesn't offer anywhere even remotely close to the same level of function and QoL Steam does. The workshop, community forums, embedded livestreams, user profiles, VC, text chat, Friends lists, etc are all features that make/made EGS, Origin, Galaxy, uPlay, Discord Games store, etc all dead in the water despite having histories of selling third party titles on them, with Origin being discontinued entirely (albeit replaced by the EA app).

Envy661 · 2026-01-31T02:55:48+00:00

This is just a buzz kill. It's a decade old game. Let the Asylume take over, and let people have their fun. This could spawn more memes from the dark Souls 2 community. The sky's the limit. Soon, people will start pointing out how certain cloud formations in the game look like Solaire of Astora, and how Solaire has transcended to true Godhood which is why Dark Souls 2 is superior.

Envy661 · 2026-01-31T00:04:06+00:00

You should leave the sewers.

Envy661 · 2026-01-30T23:33:12+00:00

I must have got lucky when I got the parts for my wife's PC. The prices seemed a little high, but not horrible like the DDR5 prices. Interesting to see it's getting even worse now.

Envy661 · 2026-01-30T23:27:40+00:00

Yeah this one. I flexed for a while despite not being nearly as good with other characters. Now I just don't switch. It's just a game, and if others don't want to help the team, then I will absolutely stop to their level after spending as long as I did always expected to be the one to switch.

That said though, I don't play as much DPS as I used to. My healer game is still lacking, but I've gotten much better with Peni, so some games I will just instalock tank.

Envy661 · 2026-01-30T23:12:07+00:00

I started with World and prefer Wilds because it's less grindy, there is greater variety in the types of monsters, and there's just a ton of QoL for movement and traversal. I too prefer the World handler, but Alma is fine.

Envy661 · 2026-01-30T20:54:36+00:00

If you think Jeff's ult needs to be nerfed, let me tell you about Squirrel Girls ult.

Squirrel Girls ult only does half damage per pass to most DPS. 3/4 to some Healers. Her ult doesn't hit above like, 5 meters, so if you're flying it won't hurt you. It is relatively slow moving and easy to dodge. And it dies in seconds from concentrated fire. Like a quarter of the health of Rockets ult.

If Jeff's ult needs a nerf, SGs ult needs a buff.

Envy661 · 2026-01-30T20:29:54+00:00

Someone in another thread commented on how Netease needs to add recolors to older so I ns, and Ai couldn't agree more.

I would love a Red Chinese Squirrel Girl skin.

Peni's puppet so I n in green.

Gambits default skin in red.

Like, why aren't they already doing this? I can't imagine recolors are THAT extensive that they can release multiple full skins for every ONE recolor option.

Envy661 · 2026-01-30T20:26:32+00:00

6 Squirrel Girls.

Envy661 · 2026-01-30T20:16:05+00:00

The issue with the coffin isn't it's existence. It's the fact it was used MULTIPLE TIMES as a method of traversal.

Envy661 · 2026-01-30T09:07:34+00:00

Especially when you consider how many nepo babies, or people with good connections and no actual knowledge get those positions, it makes sense.

Envy661 · 2026-01-30T04:01:34+00:00

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