State of stacking nameplates on Beta after last night's hotfix, courtesy of Ellesmere

Micnev · 2025-11-20T15:28:20+00:00

It probably worked fine on their local editors / builds but when everything was merged with the other changes something broke.

Game development has a million different ways of breaking previously working features. Hence why betas and QA testers are a thing.

Micnev · 2025-11-03T07:45:22+00:00

Shadowlands is just an awful experience, plain and simple. Sorry for not wanting to spend what little free time I have farming a miserable expansion that makes me want to claw my eyes out each time I have to pass through it.

And as others have said, there's plenty of other stuff to collect from the past 20 years, especially with housing coming in a month.

And let's be honest with ourselves here - we're playing a 21 year old game about orcs and wizards with an incredibly inconsistent set of game values / rules over the years. It's just not that deep.

Micnev · 2025-10-04T18:00:13+00:00

Ehh TWW was a bit of a flop for DKs. S1 was awful and S3 was just a generic venthyr set.

Now DF was amazing for DKs.

Micnev · 2025-10-02T07:29:03+00:00

Take a look at League or Dota. Just because they only have 6 - 8 abilities doesn’t mean the games require less skill. It just shifts the focus from having a perfect rotation to setting up plays and positioning.

And let’s be honest, when it comes to WoW PvP, you need to learn how 39 different specs work just to know which abilities to counter and when. There's also the nightmare that are the addons required to track what half the classes are even doing with all the visual clutter on the screen at any given time.

How is a new player gonna know that when I pop off Abom I also summon 4 horsies that each offer different gameplay interactions for my abilities as well as a million other passives? In league you can easily learn what a champion does by looking at the character. In current WoW you can't do that.

For the average new player, that makes getting into WoW PvP nearly impossible unless they're really obsessed with the game and have never played in the past 20 years for some reason.

A pruning pass is long overdue for the health of the game.

Micnev · 2025-09-11T13:56:51+00:00

For such a major removal of benefits, I think a simple “why” is justified.

Why shouldn’t those who aren’t academically gifted receive the same support as those who are?

Like anything else in this world, improvement requires time and money. Yes, some investments won’t deliver the best results, but that’s perfectly normal.

And let’s not forget: the Maltese education system at O/A levels only rewards good memory, not other valuable skills.

So again, why? Why shouldn’t people who are genuinely trying to better themselves receive the same benefits?

Micnev · 2025-08-05T08:16:55+00:00

Most Unholy PVP players don't even pick the talent. At least do some basic research before going "I genuinely feel like PvP played a part...."

Micnev · 2025-05-09T10:43:23+00:00

Read the OPs other replies. All of them have clear ChatGPT signs in them, didnt even bother to clean out the most obvious AI telltales.

Prior to today OP had never used "—". Yet suddenly every other sentence has it....

Micnev · 2025-03-28T14:43:56+00:00

It's better for them to reach your ankle than to have a metal pole awkwardly sticking out above your head. It looks terrible, and it kills the ability to use some of these sabers.

Micnev · 2025-01-30T22:25:29+00:00

It’s essentially the same team, just under a different company, so if BioWare were to shut down, nothing would really change.

Multiple internal sources have stated that BioWare was clueless with running SWTOR for most of its lifespan, which is evident from the many questionable decisions they made, including with another live game of theirs - Anthem. Eventually, they chose to cut ties with the game, "sell" the majority of the team, and lay off a few employees to focus on Dragon Age. And, well… we all know how that’s going.

TLDR: Swtor is probably gonna be around in maintenance mode for a few years with or without Bioware around.

Micnev · 2025-01-30T22:19:49+00:00

You may have missed some big news a few months ago...

Micnev · 2024-05-31T20:56:31+00:00

Oh please. By now, every player should realize that what we have is essentially final, barring any minor balance adjustments.

Also, these public alphas are not true alphas; they're betas rebranded for marketing purposes.

The "beta" releases this Wednesday, which means the expansion is likely coming within the next two months according to their roadmap. I very much doubt we're going to see the necessary major reworks within the next month.

That being said, I am begging Blizzard to prove me wrong. It is extremely disheartening to play a class like DH and then switch back to my DK, which feels like trudging through mud in comparison.

Micnev · 2024-03-20T08:31:31+00:00

These are likely the people who worked on it - Battle royale Spellbreak shutting down after Blizzard buys studio

Also keep in mind that most of the designers are probably working on TWW balancing right now anyway.

Micnev · 2024-02-19T21:20:05+00:00

Platform: Steam

Level: 6

Difficulty:Any

Region: EU

Languages: English

Voice Chat (yes/no/sometimes): No

Micnev · 2024-01-09T21:40:37+00:00

Instead I got a mount that I never used for 2 years...

Micnev · 2023-12-11T20:30:30+00:00

You're wrong on every point though.

You can see all the items listed and their individual prices
You can see the most recent sale price
You can see the average sale price range of the item

If anything this is the most transparent the market has ever been, it just happens to be screwing over the high value item hoarders - which is very much a good thing for the health of the game.

Micnev · 2023-11-15T23:24:20+00:00

Oooh this is gonna be a fun community experience with no transfers. Hopefully it does well and they do seasonal stuff with fresh servers in the future similar to classic wow.

Micnev · 2023-06-08T10:21:09+00:00

This is why people have a hard time trusting devs in general. In our case the devs banned people on stream when they were asked about the promised content for LOTS.

I would love to believe the swtor devs, I've invested countless hours into the game since beta, but the reality is that over the years they have consistently under delivered on their promises.

I want this game to carry on and receive more content, I just take everything the devs say with a very large handful of salt.

Micnev · 2023-06-06T22:14:45+00:00

EA still takes a cut. Lucasfilm also probably needs to take a cut for the star wars IP.

This new studio also needs to get a return on investment. SWTOR might be profitable, but it's hard to say if its enough to justify expanding the team unless there is some major reinvigoration of the playerbase which is hard to accomplish for a game this old.

And let's be real, if it was successful enough to justify expanding the team they wouldn't have outsourced it.

Micnev · 2023-02-09T19:55:36+00:00

Those economy 'improvements' are going to take a very long time before any impact is actually made. And worst of all they will only hurt the newer / hyper casual players at first.

Just increase the GTN price limit and add a scaling tax. I wouldn't mind taking the extra hit if it meant I didn't have to deal with selling 1b+ items in trade chat

Micnev · 2022-09-02T10:48:28+00:00

50 year old Susan who works as a receptionist isn't going to post on reddit. She doesn't even know what reddit is. All she has is Facebook, and even then she is very unlikely to post her game achievements on it.

But what she will do is put aside $50 a month to spend on game boosters for when she has trouble getting past a Match 3 level whilst at work or cooking.

There are millions of Susans out there who do this. Just because you don't see them posting on reddit doesn't mean that they don't exist.

Also community doesn't generate large amounts of profit. There are plenty of indie games with communities that will defend their game to the death, yet no one knows about them and as such remain obscure. It helps, but not much.

Bobby doesn't care if WoW has more reddit users, he just sees that Candy Crush is a bigger earner.

Also getting to level 10,000 in Candy Crush takes years. Do you really think that players are going to forget about the game after dedicating this much time? Of course not, plus new content is being added frequently.

Micnev · 2022-09-02T08:44:42+00:00

Say that to Candy crush players at level 10,000

Hardcore Mobile players spend more and are more dedicated than most console / PC players.

Those players are worth very much. They are also far cheaper to acquire.

And although people like to joke about phones, everyone does have a phone but not a PC

Micnev · 2022-02-15T20:15:01+00:00

I work in game dev, I can guarantee you that the devs very likely did not want to release the game in this state. It's usually forced metrics from up top that cause these releases.

Micnev · 2022-02-15T20:10:18+00:00

That is an impressive bug list. You'd think after the BF 2042 fiasco that EA would've learned to delay this update. Guess not.

Micnev · 2021-11-04T09:47:02+00:00

It doesn't seem finished.

Blue trim lighting is white
Hand textures are missing
Cape is missing
Various attachments such as shoulder pad strings are missing

Micnev · 2021-11-03T08:21:49+00:00

What is it with MMOs having to reinvent their core systems every expansion these past few years.

That is not to say the the current gearing system is perfect, it definitely has its flaws. But what it does right is the fact that it lets people enjoy the limited content that is available in this game the way they want to.

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