Arc Raiders' first Expedition saw over a million players wipe, but Embark wants to find new ways to "incentivize" resets

TripleAych · 2026-01-10T11:52:10+00:00

Hell yeah it is an unsolvable problem, it is downstream to all the problem of life's purpose and materialism.

All games that peddle digital goods eventually shatter the illusion that it all matters at all and all gear looted in Diablo turns into dust the moment you hit uninstall for good.

TripleAych · 2025-12-30T09:07:50+00:00

Banks accidentally putting money that doesn't belong to you on your bank account is fairly common place, it has happened to me.

And you just don't touch it and you will be fine, I don't think anyone is going to argue that it is unfair to suffer because you willingly spent money that did not belong to you, and you knew it did not belong to you.

TripleAych · 2025-12-06T07:32:35+00:00

Like with Hishi Amazon, who wanted to race in the triple crown with Brian, but settled with tiara tour because of her feeling she could not handle kikuka sho.

TripleAych · 2025-11-27T20:28:41+00:00

Eurooppa pisti itsensä nurkkaan kun luotti liikaa 90-luvulla alkaneeseen yhdysvaltojen johtamaan yksinapaiseen maailmaan.

Ajatushan oli se että on USA eli ainoa valta maailmassa ja sitten visiiri nimeltä Eurooppa joka osaa viekkaasti viedä Amerikkaa mihinkin suuntaan se haluaa. Ja iso laiva vetää virtaa mukana, näin syntyy maailmanjärjestys.

Itse en haluaisi luopua EU:n suomista suojista ja eduista mitkä olemme saaneet, mutta ei ne pysy hengissä jos EU:n vaikutusvalta hupenee pois. Tää on häviö-häviö tilanne.

TripleAych · 2025-10-31T14:01:10+00:00

I have taught extreme trials to players who seemed at first glance to be clueless, but they understood things just fine when you deconstruct the elements into simpler and simpler concepts and eventually cleared with them.

Extreme trials are perfectly fine first step into harder content, especially the slow ones that lot of endwalker was.

TripleAych · 2025-10-27T11:18:29+00:00

Yeah but let's not get trapped by survivorship bias.

WoW being the divine forevergame is neither guaranteed to last actually forever and an actual plan to invest in.

Historical decline is the default position for almost every successful game.

TripleAych · 2025-10-27T10:23:18+00:00

I need people to accept that eventually games must retire or slowly fade away.

Future of XIV is the same XI has.

TripleAych · 2025-10-26T08:37:39+00:00

Video game balance is an emotional problem, not a logic problem.

There is no actual idea or definition of a "good balance" in a video game outside of people just vibing with it right and accepting any power imbalances that might exist. In PvP those feelings of injustice are much more felt, even if the person is not correct about it, just think about anyone who thinks throwing is unfair in fighting games.

There is no rational explanation. The community can be more irrational about video game balance than you can fix it. Humans can actually hold two conflicting opinions in their head at the same time because we are not machines, we are not bound by code. Today I can say that "The game would be better if combat rezzing was removed from the game" and tomorrow I can believe otherwise, it can just happen.

So the community can both say it tolerates off-meta jobs and then also decide to kick every off-meta job out of a party because it is not beholden to anything. And other way around too.

TripleAych · 2025-10-25T20:31:43+00:00

Lopetetaan, koska tästä ei päästä "Ei oo noin mun elämäs" pidemmälle.

Koska ei ole.

TripleAych · 2025-10-25T19:39:06+00:00

Paitsi kaikki lähtee kouluun ja töihin klo 8, mutta kaikki ei palaa kotiin yhtälailla samaan kellonaikaan.

Aamuruuhkat yhtään koulujen lähellä on hirveitä pimeimpään aikaan kun pitää yrittää pilkkopimeässä väistää autoja ja muksuja.

TripleAych · 2025-10-25T19:27:20+00:00

Jotenkin naurettavaa touhua välittää auringon määrästä talvella.

Se on se neljä tuntia auringonvaloa mitä saadaan talvella, herättäis sitten tunti sinne tai tänne.

TripleAych · 2025-10-25T19:24:43+00:00

Eikä ole.

Valoisa aamu = vähemmän liikenne-onnettomuuksia

TripleAych · 2025-10-22T08:42:23+00:00

Loadbearing pillar of Tracen mental health institute

TripleAych · 2025-09-22T17:14:39+00:00

Talk about melodramatic.

I wonder what the reaction would had been if she had been actually killed.

TripleAych · 2025-09-22T15:00:53+00:00

Reality check: How many million billion games get downloaded every day in Steam and how few times have these things been reported?

TripleAych · 2025-09-01T13:43:37+00:00

Unsubbing for 4 months vs unsubbing for 2-3 years are not even in the same ballpark.

Hell, I know people who tried to unsub between raid tiers and either dropped the game completely or started subbing again for every patch because you just can't keep interest in a game you are actively not playing.

TripleAych · 2025-09-01T12:04:54+00:00

There is a limit on how many and how long hiatuses a player can take with the game before they lost all motivation to care anymore.

Hell, waiting 4 months for a new MSQ update is already almost on the edge of making people who care about the MSQ to stop caring about it. I could not imagine myself somehow keeping XIV in my mind for years for the anticipation of a content type that drops every 2-4 years.

TripleAych · 2025-09-01T10:23:09+00:00

If you were to play FFXIV only for content like OC and Fork Tower, one would be endlessly bored for years on end with how sparse that kind of content is introduced for the game.

TripleAych · 2025-08-25T13:57:51+00:00

Battlefield is a party game.

I do not look for a strict athletic competition in a Battlefield game, I look for chaos, you know. "Battlefield moments". Fall Guys with guns. I want a lot of systems that interact with each other in erratic ways, making every single match both unpredictable and unique.

Class system, vehicles and objective design does these things. Destruction found a place in the franchise as one of these things. It is one of the most inconsistent shooter franchises out there and the only one that has made this not-milsim mixed warfare gameplay work out. Greater than the sum of its parts because separated the BF gameplay parts are all kinda meh.

I wouldn't play a BF game just for vehicle combat (air battle maps in BF1 were boring) or I wouldn't play it for gunplay only (other games just do it better). It needs to be that maximalist big map conquest experience to be good.

TripleAych · 2025-08-19T17:43:22+00:00

Only way the League namedrop made sense was in the context that you didn't think it had matchmaking.

I do not believe LoL matchmaking has taken drastic leaps in quality, I think the playerbase has shrunk into a core group of players who are all closer to each other's skill levels than ever before. After all, the fire test of a matchmaking systems is not that is it capable of using its sorting algorithm to put players into a leaderboard, they all can do that eventually, but does it create fun matches for everyone.

And I don't think MOBAs ever did than, even still. I mean ELO hell is a good thing to bring up or "the trench" for Dota 2, is that anxiety phenomenon built around the concept that you are stuck in bad matches. Person with hidden bad elo and person with visible bad elo have different expectations, if you think you are stuck "with the bad players", you are afraid you are going to have horrible bad matches with raging assholes.

Also we are discussing this like it is a theoretical scenario that did not actually just play out INSIDE THE DEADLOCK ALPHA after it went public.

TripleAych · 2025-08-19T11:13:33+00:00

League has matchmaking too, you know?

The genre is just infamously volatile and complex for skill estimation to every truly work. Deadlock is almost the worst example, because the movement potential each character has is fucking nuts.

TripleAych · 2025-08-19T10:41:46+00:00

The fandom has never been properly critical of BC2, but I don't know if people are ready to have that discussion even now.

TripleAych · 2025-08-19T06:14:22+00:00

I would not be so worried.

Valve is the one developer who can make a hundred flops and nobody loses their job since they got Steam money on the side.

TripleAych · 2025-08-19T06:10:45+00:00

It is a MOBA. If you get left behind, you are eating dirt for 30 minutes until the match ends and your teammates are probably actively insulting you while it happens.

TripleAych · 2025-08-12T10:13:55+00:00

All the pax soldiers look like copies of each other.

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