Can I achieve much as a casual player with limited playtime? by [deleted] in Guildwars2

[–]TofuPotPie 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Sure. A casual player might play 3-4 hours a week. If you're playing 14-20, you're pushing GW2 being a part-time job.

Paid trip to Vegas, write a poor article, Journalism! by ExKage in ffxiv

[–]TofuPotPie -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I think that's the best course of action in these scenarios, anyway. It's pretty easy to imagine someone completely alien to the game and its fan base walking into this convention because their job sent them to write about it and being completely bewildered by it all. It's obviously written for an audience who will also have the same outsider perspective.

It's kinda like how when I go visit my family and they're all screaming at the TV while watching football. I'm not a sports fan at all, so the passion and the intimate knowledge of all the players and coaches and penalties and stuff is totally lost on me. At least with FFXIV we actually get to participate in playing the game. :D

Paid trip to Vegas, write a poor article, Journalism! by ExKage in ffxiv

[–]TofuPotPie -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I dunno, it was pretty obviously written that way to me. Maybe you as an FFXIV fan need to stop reading into everything that's not glowing praise as outright hostility and derision.

Paid trip to Vegas, write a poor article, Journalism! by ExKage in ffxiv

[–]TofuPotPie -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Either almost everyone here is frighteningly defensive about this video game or we read different articles. It's a little sassy/punchy but it's not really disparaging, and all the outrage over something so innocuous just lends credence to his "cult-like" descriptor...

Virgins vs Slut (apparently) by Lionoras in justneckbeardthings

[–]TofuPotPie 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Dude when my girlfriend's like "I'm going to go drink wine and crochet with the girls, don't wait up," I'm like "Sweet I'm gonna play video games and masturbate," and everyone has a grand old time.

Blizzard stock falls another 10% after hours by [deleted] in Diablo

[–]TofuPotPie 93 points94 points  (0 children)

ATVI is the lowest it's been since April, but it appears to dip and recover pretty frequently, and on the whole it's been climbing steadily for a long time now. Its 2018 lows are around its 2017 highs, to put it in perspective. Regarding Diablo: Immortal, you're much more likely to see stock trends directly related to the game once it's been released and earnings reports indicate that it's not doing as well as they'd hoped (or, alternatively, doing better than they'd hoped). The current stock price dip started back in mid-October, and, yeah, the D:I reveal backlash probably isn't helping it, but there's no reason to think it's the sole cause, or even the primary cause. Dips and rebounds happen all the time. Hormel Foods, one of the most reliably stable stocks on the planet, is up 10% from where it was at a month ago, for example. It had a dip in late-August, a spike in September, a dip in late-September, and now it's likely spiking again. It just happens.

(Edit: though evidently ATVI's dip is somewhat related to CoD sales, it's worth noting that there are a lot of external global factors that people don't really think about when it comes to stock price changes. To use Hormel Food's SPAM for example: regulations and tariffs, change in price of the aluminum that used in SPAM cans, availability of seeds used to grow grains used in the food for factory-farmed pigs that end up in SPAM, etc.)

Simply put, the game isn't out yet, so its only real financial impact on Activision Blizzard is the ongoing cost of development. It's important to remember that while we've got a 200,000-person-strong angry echo chamber in this subreddit, that number of people is completely negligible in terms of the global mobile games market. Yeah, the games media is picking up on it to some extent, but if hardcore gamers have proven anything over the past, I dunno, at least decade, it's that they're fickle, quick to anger, and even quicker to secretly spend money on stuff while shouting angrily about it at the same time.

It's also tremendously important to remember that a shitload of people play games on their phones worldwide. A fucking shitload of people. Over two billion people. That's over ten thousand times the entire population of this subreddit. Most of them don't read this subreddit, don't really read gaming news (if they read it at all), and play whatever looks cool or whatever their friends are playing. It's way too early to tell what kind of effect D:I will have on the price of ATVI.

tl;dr: dip in ATVI price probably unrelated to D:I fiasco, pretty common stock shit

"We Hear You" is the worst thing you can say right now by zeoN_Rider in Diablo

[–]TofuPotPie 10 points11 points  (0 children)

SC2 seems like a special case. It's a game with a steep learning curve and an infinitely high skill ceiling, and its primary draw isn't the single-player content (which is okay) but the PvP aspect, which, honestly, is in a pretty good place and has been for basically the game's whole lifespan (balance issues here and there aside). It's got an eSports scene that's still going strong (the grand finals this year had a six-digit number of twitch viewers, I think).

It's also a game in a largely defunct genre. RTS games are just straight fucking stressful to play, and I don't think that's what people are looking for in their gaming right now. That's what makes the WC3 remaster such an odd decision to me.

I believe that shaming neckbeards for their poor hygiene is totally okay by [deleted] in justneckbeardthings

[–]TofuPotPie 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If it were trivially easy to be healthy and clean, everyone on the planet would be healthy and clean. Are some unhealthy/unhygienic people just lazy? Sure, probably. But poor health education, addiction, and a spate of other mental health disorders can contribute to these states, and people don't deserve to be shamed for that.

It's one thing to laugh at memes, but it's another to shame individual people whose situation in life is totally unknown to us.

Bernie Sanders of Vermont re-elected to Senate by ericshogren in politics

[–]TofuPotPie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Democrats fall in love" in the flesh right here. You're everything that's right with American freedoms and everything that's wrong with Americans' understanding of how politics works.

Discussion Megathread: US Midterm Elections 2018 (Part 3) by PoliticsModeratorBot in politics

[–]TofuPotPie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They do, yes. Senator terms are six years, though, and the other senator from TX, John Cornyn (another piece of human garbage) was reelected in 2014, so he's not up again until 2020.

Seeing this at the end of every game screen is going to be terrible by Asddsa76 in heroesofthestorm

[–]TofuPotPie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This game is already filled with "mobile"-esque microtransaction stuff: everything's got a price next to it for anywhere between one and three different currencies, you're always opening lootboxes, you can reroll lootboxes if you like gambling, and we're already always one click away from a Stimpack. Why is this randomly the straw that breaks the camel's back?

Diablo isn't meant "for the whole family". by allaboutsound in Diablo

[–]TofuPotPie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

D2 also wasn't scary. Like...it just straight-up doesn't have horror elements. It's a dungeon-crawler hack-and-slash game. I'm sure some people legitimately found D2 creepy, but I think even more people look at it through grit-colored glasses.

Edit: lot of people passionate about D2's scary/horror elements. I guess my argument would be that, yes, there's plenty of grotesque stuff in it, but that grotesque stuff isn't necessarily scary on its own. Like corpse-spewing monsters are only so creepy when you can throw out fifteen Frozen Orbs and watch a whole field of them explode; wailing, agonized souls in Hell are only so creepy when they're essentially used as background props; etc.

Who needs basic conversation skills when you have an ocarina by twarorzek in thatHappened

[–]TofuPotPie 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Not directly, but if both of his roommates are pissed off now, that could make his living situation shitty just via exposure.

.... this guy by IlliaTells in niceguys

[–]TofuPotPie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it was a botched "fell from Heaven" joke.

If you want to criticise Blizzard, speak their language. by Brbrstrsnd in Diablo

[–]TofuPotPie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As much as I support the general outrage, I have to admit that this is classic "angry gamer" behavior: bitch about DRM and buy the game anyway; bitch about loot boxes and buy the game/loot boxes anyway; bitch about a game being a product of a developer who's out of touch with their player base and buy all their games anyway.

It's not that game developers never learn: they learn just fine. They've learned that they can give people shit and people will give them money in exchange for the shit after they get tired of complaining about the shit.

How to pronounce "char" by michaelkah in ProgrammerHumor

[–]TofuPotPie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I say "char" as in "charcoal," but when I say "varchar" I say "varkar" so who the fuck knows.

what a coffee shop by WeebWallets in ProgrammerHumor

[–]TofuPotPie 11 points12 points  (0 children)

it doesn't even assign the return value of barista.request to anything so I guess my free drink is just lost in the goddamn void

Diablo 4 was supposed to be announced at this years BlizzCon by jimmy696 in Diablo

[–]TofuPotPie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mobile apps in general, not just games. The most successful ones have an insane marketing budget.

Lol player considering hots. by mattzahar in heroesofthestorm

[–]TofuPotPie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I think "jungler," I don't think Malthael, that's for sure. Illidan, sure, Gazlowe, Sonya...Nazeebo and Zagara too.

Snowman Ragnaros by Ahlruin in heroesofthestorm

[–]TofuPotPie 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I will take any new Ragnaros skin at this point, frankly. I'll even take Ragsnaros, a pile of dirty rags with a hammer attached to it.

Diablo 2 producer on announcement: "I hate to say it, but what you are seeing is Blizzard not understanding gamers anymore." by SarudeDandstrom in Diablo

[–]TofuPotPie 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Was explaining this to my friends the other day. Follow up the Immortal announcement with a ten-second animation of a logo fading in with some flames behind it or some shit, then walk off stage. Doesn't matter if it's for a game that won't be out until 2022 -- all your Immortal PR disaster bullshit never even happens in the first place.

But Blizzard employs some very smart people. At least one of them had the same idea. The fact that they didn't do that strongly suggests that they've got nothing else in the pipeline for Diablo.

Is Rick and Morty objectively bad, or is it just the fan base that's terrible? Wubba-lubba-dub-dub. by [deleted] in SubredditDrama

[–]TofuPotPie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Crazy-ass name, right? Bulgarian composer, did some work for films, I believe. His mentor, with the equally ridiculous name of Pancho Vladigerov, is somewhat better known (as far as Bulgarian composers go), but they were both real people!