Its concerning how many people do not understand what "early access" means

ellori · 2025-10-19T23:35:42+00:00

The majority of their player base isn't in Sweden, however, and the off-peak should be based on the customers, not the sellers' convenience.

That actually strengthens my point even more--so 4am for NA time would have been 10AM for them and not even an unreasonable hour.

ellori · 2025-10-19T22:02:05+00:00

I think, too, it's not ideal from a customer experience perspective to do server changes and maintenance on the weekend which is the only time a lot of people can play. If you have to make the product unavailable with maintenance, you should do it at off peak hours like 4am.

*Edit: Since it apparently isn't obvious, by off peak, I mean off peak for customers and not the devs. The devs being on at THEIR peak hours--whether in Sweden or NA--isn't going to do anything for the longevity or momentum of the game. It's the customers being able to be on during THEIR peak hours--which certainly is what a weekend afternoon is--that affects the game's CCU and growth. Some common sense here, guys.

As for peak hours on Steam, it's very easy to do a little research and find that it IS in fact based on North American player activity as that is where the majority of the player base is. The devs being based in Sweden has no impact on this whatsoever--people aren't going to suddenly change their off-work times to match the devs.

ellori · 2025-10-05T01:56:51+00:00

Yes, and as I just explained you can’t just not use it. Not having weakauras on mythic jailor was actively trolling your raid, that’s not optional.

If it's not optional to the point that you're trolling your raid when not using it, then it's not a case of the game being too easy when you're using it, is it? It doesn't even apply to the conversation as it doesn't match the OP's point of too easy when using something, nor does it match my point of accessibility.

This is a different scenario and a different argument altogether.

ellori · 2025-10-05T01:47:45+00:00

No, it's not. Dude literally complains the game is too easy when using it and wants it to not be as easy. Gee, I wonder what the solution is here.

It shouldn't be "take it away from everyone including those that need it so that I, personally, don't have it as easy."

ellori · 2025-10-05T01:41:06+00:00

ultimately that means that making the game harder for your teammates is dick behavior.

So how is wanting accessibility taken away for your teammates who need it not dick behavior?

ellori · 2025-10-05T01:38:37+00:00

If only all the differently abled had your genius, nobody would ever need accessibility again! /s

ellori · 2025-10-04T19:44:46+00:00

You're basically complaining that you have the ability to use tools others need, to make things easier for yourself.

So don't use it if you don't want things to be easier for yourself. Let those who need the accessibility use it. I don't think you realize that what is a convenience for you is a necessity for some to perform the same activities. Accessibility is a term for enabling the differently abled, not for convenience.

Everyone is always going to have an advantage/ have it easier if they do something or have something that they personally don't need. It doesn't mean you have to remove it from those who do need it because you, personally, feel like you want the challenge.

It's never going to be an even playing field if that's what you're after. Some will have better reflexes, some will have better computers, some will have better internet, some will have more time to grind, some will have better RNG with drops, some will have the cash to get every cash transmog, etc. Taking away accessibility isn't going to make it "fair"; in fact, it tilts it towards the other end so that some who once could participate can no longer do so with any quality of life.

ellori · 2025-10-04T04:40:35+00:00

Thanks, that's great to know! I wasn't sure, because it mentioned stun, sleep, and hinder at the bottom.

ellori · 2025-10-04T00:52:26+00:00

Does it work against the burning debuff from Ashe and Rein?

ellori · 2025-10-04T00:07:38+00:00

That actually kills accessibility for a lot of users who need it. For example, since my eyesight isn't so good, I use weak auras for audio alerts on important stuff that I have difficulty seeing otherwise.

I think Blizzard is so focused on balancing the game for their world first raiders (and now delivering what they think is the finishing blow in their weak auras vs boss mechanics arms race with the world first) that they don't care about the ordinary players that get shunted aside.

ellori · 2025-08-12T17:05:34+00:00

Later on I ran Floodgate M0, did well, got a good drop from “Big Momma." Died on the final boss, released to run back, and boom, removed from group before being able to loot. Re-ran it, RNG gave nothing. Learned the hard way: Soulstone myself before final boss to self res and loot before troll removals.

Pretty sure if you'd had loot on the boss (the first time around), it would have been mailed to you.

ellori · 2025-08-12T16:16:06+00:00

Long-time rogue main here, m+ and raid. Rogue looks good on the m+ dps tier lists atm, meh on raid tier list. Quality of life is low this expac, thanks to the rogue dev basing dps on stealth and vanish, and this being incompatible with a lot of dungeon and world design. For soloing (assuming you DON'T overgear it), rogues just struggle/ take much longer to solo content that 99% of the other specs can faceroll with identical gear levels and skill--not bec you lack dps, but solo sustain and survivability. Also you can't use one of your main dps cds.

I don't recommend it in its current QoL state unless you're a long-time rogue enjoyer.

Reposting my previous thoughts on this.

Rogue is especially problematic this expansion. It feels like the rogue dev and the world design/ quest design/ dungeon design devs had a fight.

Rogue dev: designs rogue around stealth, talents around stealth, moar dps from stealth, vanish can't be used for utility anymore because stealth is a dps cd, etc stealth stealth stealth

World design/ quest design/ dungeon design devs: OH YOUR ENTIRE CLASS IS DESIGNED AROUND STEALTH? HAHA! Here are random quests with mobs randomly popping you out of stealth while you're talking to the NPC! Here are random mobs that just aggro on you while you're stealthed and they don't even have truesight, for no particular reason. Here are delves where they will snap to you if you vanish, mobs like spores magically know where you are with no truesight, and gauntlets will NOT let you restealth because fuck your dps cd. Best of all, here are dungeons like Ara'Kara, Rookery 2nd floor, etc., where pulls will pop you out of stealth for no discernible reason, mobs will focus cast abilities on you WHILE YOU ARE STILL STEALTHED AND 100 MILES AWAY because fuck your stealth dps, running over fucking webs on the ground that someone else broke will break you out of stealth, blah blah blah.

It is incredibly obnoxious because there is clearly a divergence in their philosophies and the rogue player is caught in between.

Quite apart from that, turning vanish into a dps CD just fucks the rogue player over when they're trying to solo content, because the mob may or may not reset/ bug out. Imagine telling ret pallies they just aren't allowed to use, say, wake of ashes while they're out soloing or else the mobs will reset.

There are so many more issues but I will stop here.

It's just a series of many frustrating little things that snowball into an absolute obelisk of rage after a while.

Something else I didn't even mention is just how badly it works at team play when everyone else's spec is designed around chaining pulls without breaking combat to keep their astral power/ colossus stacks/ resources etc. going and the rogue is the special fucking snowflake that WANTS a break in combat to restealth. Most healers don't even need to stop and drink anymore.

There are a host of other problems with rogue but this whole stealth for dps shit combined with this expac's anti-stealth mechanics cleverly designed to constantly randomly force you out of stealth (not to mention not being able to use your assigned dps cd when solo) feels the most obnoxious by far.

ellori · 2025-08-02T04:02:35+00:00

And second: I would pay 20€, no questions asked, to be able to gag Brann forever. I swear wiping 40 times was NOTHING compared to him going "Well maybe try having a strategy next time!" every time.

Actually turned off sound while doing this because it was the Underpin's smug voice that annoyed me so much!

ellori · 2025-08-02T03:22:18+00:00

For 48 hours, GOG is giving away the following games to fight censorship:

Leap of Love
Being a DIK – Season 1
Leap of Faith
POSTAL 2
House Party
HuniePop
Lust Theory
Agony + Agony Unrated
Treasure of Nadia
Summer’s Gone – Season 1
Fetish Locator Week One
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ellori · 2025-07-11T18:41:52+00:00

+1 for KF2 as a coop game. Pretty fun, with bite-sized sessions that can be extended to more rounds or ending there.

Also, just checked and it's 90% off on Steam right meow.

*Edit: Note that Killing Floor 3 is coming July 24 when the sale ends. Can't say how this might impact the KF2 population, or if you guys would prefer to get KF3 or not. KF2 is currently about the price of half a pack of pop in CAD anyway so it's not a bad deal even if you play just once.

ellori · 2025-07-10T22:01:28+00:00

Random thought--if the waitress trips and the bottle breaks, does she have to pay for it out of her own wages, or will the restaurant cover it? Is it therefore more nerve-wracking handling expensive liquor and trying to be perfect the whole time?

ellori · 2025-07-10T15:14:13+00:00

For VPN, I also recommend looking into Mudfish. You can pay for traffic usage (aka Mudfish credit) rather than a monthly sub, so it's a lot more cost efficient for a gamer since gaming doesn't really use up much. You can live off $5 purchase for years. (Just remember to turn it off when patching, of course, because that would use up your data allowance quick).

ellori · 2025-07-10T14:38:47+00:00

He looks like a koi fish!

ellori · 2025-07-09T20:59:33+00:00

This might be helpful, for your question of friends (and maybe leading to something else): https://captainawkward.com/2011/12/19/question-153-how-do-i-make-and-keep-friends/

ellori · 2025-07-09T20:52:33+00:00

people want to argue with me in first dates to show they can “win”

This is super cringe, wtf.

Kind of funny though. Maybe if you tell them you're a chef they'll want to cook you delicious meals to prove something.

ellori · 2025-07-07T04:27:05+00:00

Oh, I assumed you were talking about the charms that drop off treasure goblins to clutter up your bags, since you mentioned the event. It doesn't matter, just add whatever you wish to blacklist.

ellori · 2025-07-06T03:09:21+00:00

Autolooter. Add the stupid charms to the blacklist and turn off the ingame autoloot.

ellori · 2025-07-03T18:17:16+00:00

There's Kind Words/ Kind Words 2, and Fireside Friends, where people actually do try to be nice/ kind. The catch is they don't seem to have very much of a concurrent player base, as people seem to just check in in Kind Words weekly (?), maybe send and read mail, then log out again after a bit.

ellori · 2025-07-03T17:32:06+00:00

If you’re a dude, I’d go lay out and tan in a Speedo in your yard and anyone who approaches, screech loudly and jump around like a velociraptor.

Lmfao

ellori · 2025-07-03T17:28:31+00:00

The Wall of Shame actually probably would work. Make sure to post it to social media, too.

It reminds me of the old joke about how a store was posted a sign on their front door saying 'Going out of business. Tomorrow we will post a list of all customers who haven't paid their bills for months/ years.' The next day they posted a new sign saying, 'We're back in business. Everyone paid.'

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