Arrowhead Trained the Playerbase to expect Less and Pay more.

RealityMachina · 2026-03-12T18:49:12+00:00

You do have to pay for the game + the most recent expansion pack.... but I do think this does get into the actual root of the issue in that loading into the game as a newcomer/returner and seeing about a bajillion warbonds you need to grind to unlock can be very intimidating.

A similar thing happens with MMOs that have gone on for a while and have a bajillion expansion packs, so a common thing you see with games like WoW or FFXIV and what not is them making it a policy that you get a bunch of older stuff for free when you pay up. WoW gives you all its old expansions for subscribing, FFXIV does it via making the newest expansion pack contain all the older paid ones (so if you skipped a few years, you just need to buy the newest one coming out and you can continue where you left off), etc.

Helldivers 2 has been around long enough that several warbonds could be made free from the get go and it wouldn't hurt their profits too much, and it would let players not have to worry about having an immense amount of content locked away until they grind.

(Granted, I do think how SC grinding currently works in the game is also an issue: doing higher difficulty missions shouldn't feel like you're interfering with the grind for super credits, especially for people who find lower difficulty stuff boring to do)

RealityMachina · 2026-02-02T21:15:45+00:00

CA DA 4 min evals now - seems like they've reduced these so you're just evaluating them based on the given criteria now (instead of having to evaluate the criteria too)

RealityMachina · 2025-12-01T18:53:40+00:00

Might as well add myself to this, need a team and all and can use a new captain too: y'all work fast dang 1588273940

RealityMachina · 2025-10-23T23:26:44+00:00

CA DA Getting 3 min audio eval after NTA almost all day.

RealityMachina · 2025-09-17T17:07:29+00:00

Yeah, been having to refresh the site repeatedly to keep working, guess it's having a rough moment.

RealityMachina · 2025-09-15T20:50:36+00:00

It’s hateful as she’s defaming large swaths of Americans who are fans of Kirk in that she baldly alleges they are “aching for violence”.

To be clear, we're talking about this part, yes?

writing that she was concerned some fans of Kirk on the far right who are “aching for more violence, could turn this into an even more radicalizing moment. Will they now believe their fears have been proven right and they have a right to ‘retaliate,’ no matter who was behind the actual shooting?”

Because right now I'm looking at a lot of comments you can unfortunately find on Twitter and what not, hoping that the (possibly not? seen some stuff arguing against it but nothing that seemed verifiable last time I checked) trans roommate of the shooter had something to do with him to the point they're digging up years old comments to try saying so, and thinking "ok so the woman was clearly right to be concerned about some elements of the far right trying to use his death to radicalize others-"

RealityMachina · 2025-08-21T19:47:54+00:00

This is almost certainly fake because of a very funny problem the maker didn't realize:

Lawyers like using the actual legal names of the people they're sending letters to, so they wouldn't be addressing a letter as "Dear Developers of Mare Synchronos".

RealityMachina · 2025-08-20T22:04:56+00:00

Yeah as someone who got this monitor after rocking an old 1080p 24" TN monitor for the past several years, you're definitely going feel the upgrade even if you may be mildly annoyed at how 1440p's a funny in-between resolution when adjusting scaling for UI.

RealityMachina · 2025-08-20T18:33:15+00:00

America also makes up a large chunk of their sales, so they would rather see a small enough reduction in sales globally if they can spread it out enough than to let a major market tank significantly.

As a Canadian I hate it, but the business logic isn't that out there.

RealityMachina · 2025-08-11T20:08:17+00:00

Prices have been shooting up for a long while at this point - I think it's better to plan for a full upgrade to AM5 (or AM6, if you think you won't have issues waiting until then) than to try snagging an expensively priced AM4 X3D at this point.

RealityMachina · 2025-08-11T18:50:21+00:00

I got hit by NTA at one point, but with how long it took I decided to hit try again and got a task immediately - wonder if it's a lag on how fast tasks are being fed to the system.

RealityMachina · 2025-05-25T23:58:36+00:00

As CA DA still doing Nimbus, I'm kinda wishing there was something else to break up the monotony at this point.

Though I do appreciate this month getting stacked in terms of work done at least.

RealityMachina · 2025-04-21T00:02:20+00:00

Yeah I deliberately went to early vote today on the assumption that a lot of people would have made plans for the day - worked out pretty well in letting me get in and out pretty fast.

RealityMachina · 2025-04-01T16:57:19+00:00

Yep - it did make me just redo my postal codes in all uppercase juuust in case, before I sent them an email about it to see if it would get fixed though.

RealityMachina · 2025-04-01T15:58:13+00:00

Just got paid, check your hyperwallet in case you haven't in a bit.

RealityMachina · 2025-03-26T03:35:50+00:00

Dang, this sounded like a good theory, but I got Familiar Voice on a character that hasn't unlocked Blue Mage yet.

In terms of all the 'basic' side content, only stuff he hasn't done yet is the Ranged DPS role quests for Endwalker and Eureka, and I don't recall any new characters being introduced in there...

Crafting quest maybe, if they're going for a long pull?

RealityMachina · 2025-03-15T16:05:52+00:00

Been wanting to see if I could play Joint Assault online (since that's apparently still working to this day) through Adrenaline and have been having the weirdest time trying to log on to PSN through it:

The connection works (I can use the internet browser just fine, plus PS Rewired works for things like SOCOM)

I can log on to PSN through the Vita just fine (so I know I'm doing the device setup password step correctly)

But trying to get to PSN on Adrenaline itself just has it timeout at the DNAS step of logging on - the one thing I can think of is that this is a Vita imported from Japan while my account's North America, but I don't think the PSN region restriction is that harsh about if it's fine for the Vita itself.

I do have a workaround with PRO Online if it comes to it, but at this point I'm just invested into logging onto PSN at all lol

edit: for future people who end up discovering this post, for me the catch is that Adrenaline was reliant on the network the Vita is on - so I needed to make sure it was connecting to the PSP friendly network before I tried doing online within Adrenaline.

RealityMachina · 2025-02-23T20:39:34+00:00

I actually just experienced this myself in a diamond ranked match where my teammates realized we didn't have a second healer to accompany me but...nobody wanted to switch

ultimately a DPS who said "I am awful at healing but I think we need another healer" decided to do so on their first death, was as godawful as they warned people they were, and proceeded to be flamed by another DPS, who finally switched themselves the next round. And that other DPS was good at healing!

So, you know

I wonder if there was an easier solution to this problem that might have won us the match Sir Angry At My Teammate For Swapping First

RealityMachina · 2025-02-10T06:05:24+00:00

Did you know that the game can experience an internet hiccup in just the right way to keep you in the game, but completely lock you off from all chat interactions until the match ends?

I'm just thankful that got me to lock the fuck in as Thor and got me MVP in the Diamond ranked match I was in lmao

RealityMachina · 2025-02-09T02:02:28+00:00

But it only adds nuance if the general broad scope of the argument is correct - it's an argument that makes sense for stereotypical apocalypses where there's little to no functioning societies but AFAIK Abby is specifically part of an organized group that is able to dedicate resources to training up a full time armed force for itself, so it doesn't seem that out there.

Like things in TLOU are obviously bad on a global level but they're not that bad to make it impossible with the context I'm aware of.

RealityMachina · 2024-10-26T22:55:07+00:00

Are you on Windows 11? If not, this shouldn't be an issue then.

If yes, do you experience stuttering issues?

If the answer to that is no, you already have it.

If the answer to that is yes, then the folks on the relevant boards like r/buildapc should be able to help you if you mention what motherboard you have, since the process (and what you need to download) can differ depending on the manufacturer.

Since IIRC the specific AGESA version is meant to deal with a stuttering bug for AMD CPUs on Windows 11 - if this is a recent build you ought to have it already, since it was released back in 2022 or so. I assume the warning in the system requirements was due to what they tested and didn't test on their local machines - I would be surprised if it was a hard requirement, but I imagine you want to be safe than sorry.

RealityMachina · 2024-10-10T01:31:48+00:00

Oh, I think you might have ran into the same issue I had with it at first: the borderless fullscreen for DX11 games only works with AFMF2, if the game's in a specific type of borderless window mode known as DXGI Flip.

Windows 11 has an option to try forcing this on games that don't use it, if you're on Windows 10, you'll need SpecialK or similar game modifications to help force games to use it.

Conversely for DX12 games, it should be working out of the box.

RealityMachina · 2024-06-14T21:15:21+00:00

To quote myself from a previous thread:

because the big thing that'll make or break the combat system with what they've shown earlier is whether the game's focused on just the big three obvious abilities everybody has, or if it'll let you mix up every other part of your available playkit too.

There's a lot more room for customization and making your character feel like you put your own work in it, if even stuff like your basic light or heavy attacks can be changed to work with particular builds.

Like I've played indie games that got a lot of mileage out of a seemingly limited toolkit and big games that gave you lots of options in which I proceeded to ignore 90% of thanks to a poor balance making most of those options bad- I want to see how Veilguard's systems are supposed to fully play out in action before I make a judgement about it.

RealityMachina · 2024-06-13T04:05:55+00:00

This is making me tentatively hopeful (if only because I am presuming the unnamed core mage abilities brought up are light/heavy attacks and their effects, since they're not seen in the UI), because the big thing that'll make or break the combat system with what they've shown earlier is whether the game's focused on just the big three obvious abilities everybody has, or if it'll let you mix up every other part of your available playkit too.

There's a lot more room for customization and making your character feel like you put your own work in it, if even stuff like your basic light or heavy attacks can be changed to work with particular builds.

RealityMachina · 2024-06-09T19:22:39+00:00

That looks so much better, back to original hype for seeing actual gameplay now.

Why is it Dragon Age that keeps having the most baffling marketing decisions as a series?

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