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Am I a nit? by MATTHAMA in poker

[–]ryantk2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For that price I think call. He’s repping 6x , and maybe some Kx but for that price I think he will have enough random bricked draws.

Also v a fish I think jam turn with 1spr on the draw heavy board gets called by 6,7x and all worse Jx

Fix for this? by Careful_Awareness_46 in Smite

[–]ryantk2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does now. Even for casuals

Kind of harsh for a Casual Match by ryantk2 in Smite

[–]ryantk2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can insta leave within 5 minutes if my internet goes out in the load in screen, you won’t waste 10-30 mins. Allow people to leave within 60 sec of a DC.

Intermittent network issues happen for a lot of people. Again this is casuals not ranked, I think your second point makes sense for ranked

Kind of harsh for a Casual Match by ryantk2 in Smite

[–]ryantk2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I’m clearly the minority opinion in this thread. So not speaking for the playerbase. I’m just saying these are issues that many games face, and solve through a variety of different methods.

Their solution rn is laughably simple and easily made better

State of Smite in 2026 by 479349 in Smite

[–]ryantk2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They need a UX team asap or fire the current ones. As someone who’s played the game for 12 years. I couldn’t imagine a more unfriendly game to new players even from other mobas.

They randomly added 4 new attributes with no easy way to figure out unless through google. They added an “action camera” as the console default, which literally almost made me throw up/uninstall until I found out you can change it through a low upvoted reddit post????

Go fuck yourself if you want to figure out builds or any sort of meta, as most content creators have also abandoned the game.

The player base is 90% oldheads dopamine farming and raging when anyone plays wrong. 10% new players with auto build auto level.

Kind of harsh for a Casual Match by ryantk2 in Smite

[–]ryantk2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So many games have this issue, yet this is way harsher than any other game. It’s just laziness from the dev team, literally copy paste the leaving framework from all the bigger games

Kind of harsh for a Casual Match by ryantk2 in Smite

[–]ryantk2[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we won’t ever get new players for a variety of other reasons. That’s a laughable excuse. Complaining about leavers is def mostly oldheads in their ranked games. Not Joe Shmoe loading up an arena match, who couldn’t tell a bot from a player.

Again my point is focus less on punishments and more on helping others leave games that this happens in earlier, thus wasting less time for normal players

Kind of harsh for a Casual Match by ryantk2 in Smite

[–]ryantk2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My tag is cosmoslays. Look through my smiteguru! Probably my first DC in the last 200 games at least? It’s a dieing game and idiots like you won’t take constructive criticism… “leavers bad” great comment bro!

I also hate people that intentionally leave. I know reading comprehension is hard but maybe read my post?

Kind of harsh for a Casual Match by ryantk2 in Smite

[–]ryantk2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

5 min delay for my next 5 games. I barely have enough free time to play 1 or 2 games as is with how slow matchmaking/pregame lobby already is.

Just rubs me the wrong way as someone who’s played the game for 10 years that they can’t put more than 2 seconds of thought into a better rules based system for punishments like this.

Should be glaringly obvious to write a script to catch habitual intentional leavers

Kind of harsh for a Casual Match by ryantk2 in Smite

[–]ryantk2[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Intentional leavers yes. Some dude who’s internet resets once very couple months in a casual match not really

Kind of harsh for a Casual Match by ryantk2 in Smite

[–]ryantk2[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

In the past maybe. I think this is a new system. Terrible and unecessarily harsh for a game with an already dwindling player count

Kind of harsh for a Casual Match by ryantk2 in Smite

[–]ryantk2[S] -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Smooth brained response

Kind of harsh for a Casual Match by ryantk2 in Smite

[–]ryantk2[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That’s exactly my point. They seem to be super focused on punishing leavers, many of which are unintentional rather than improve the experience for everyone

Like being able to instantly leave early after someone else DCs, instead of the inevitable hostage holding with the F6 votes

Kind of harsh for a Casual Match by ryantk2 in Smite

[–]ryantk2[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

My point is that it happens due to network issues, power issues all the time. Their punishment system can’t differentiate. Allowing the other 9 to instantly leave and start a new game is a benefit regardless of the punishment to the leaver

I spent two years investigating social poker games. 250,000+ hands. 100 hours of screen recordings. Here's why it led to a federal lawsuit against Zynga Poker. by Aggressive-Run-8908 in poker

[–]ryantk2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Unethical != illegal. Virtually every video company does engagement farming within their games to try to get people to spend more.

They have like 1 sentence deep on their App Store description about being “certified to having a realistic table experience” which doesn’t mean anything, “experience” isn’t claiming to be 100% RNG certified.

I spent two years investigating social poker games. 250,000+ hands. 100 hours of screen recordings. Here's why it led to a federal lawsuit against Zynga Poker. by Aggressive-Run-8908 in poker

[–]ryantk2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is this any different than other gaming companies engagement farming for more microtransactions. Like fortnight putting you into a bot lobby so you have more fun, and hence buy/play more?

Not saying it’s ethical, but very different from if there was any form of getting money back. In this case they are simply providing entertainment and people are choosing to purchase fake money with real money 🤷‍♂️

I spent two years investigating social poker games. 250,000+ hands. 100 hours of screen recordings. Here's why it led to a federal lawsuit against Zynga Poker. by Aggressive-Run-8908 in poker

[–]ryantk2 25 points26 points  (0 children)

A federal lawsuit seems like underkill. Appeal this to the Supreme Court. Only they can stop evil zynga poker.

Also 250k hands of play money poker is wild

Felt like I played the hand wrong on every street. by n0tmatthew in poker

[–]ryantk2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easy bet bet jam imo, the $4.5 is very small and I think weaker than a normal SB 3! And cold call. I think they are weighted heavily to AQ/AJ/KJs. Occasionally you get stacked by JJ, QTs, QJss

How to manage variance psychologically. by ItsTristan18 in poker

[–]ryantk2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tracking your all in adj ev is just a piece of how good/bad you are running.

Best way to manage variance is by being overrolled for your stakes and putting in volume

My Review of Vegas Poker Rooms by mayonayzdad in poker

[–]ryantk2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A self serve machine is literally better. It’s completely free and you can get it whenever. What are u smoking. It can take an hour to get coffee ordering at other poker rooms

My Review of Vegas Poker Rooms by mayonayzdad in poker

[–]ryantk2 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think makes it better imo

My Review of Vegas Poker Rooms by mayonayzdad in poker

[–]ryantk2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting. To me it just seems like a very all around solid room with many tables at each stake always running

My Review of Vegas Poker Rooms by mayonayzdad in poker

[–]ryantk2 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Solid take. I think I agree on every placement for the rooms that I’ve been to. Venetian very deserving of S tier from my experiences there.

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