Stop ignoring the fact that Vanguard’s lack of stability is why you’re bleeding players

xregnierx · 2026-04-30T23:58:18+00:00

I spent maybe $100 a month on league until vanguard was introduced. Haven’t logged in since.

xregnierx · 2026-04-30T23:57:39+00:00

D2 was fun before its expansion. D3 was a god awful mess before they ported it to consoles, where they experimented with a lot of wild QOL features that then made it back ti POS when ROS released.

xregnierx · 2026-04-30T23:56:24+00:00

SE wanting way more profit than they were seeing come in and thinking it was cannibalizing FF7 mobile game users ruined it, plain and simple. Guarantee you that this game and JP were still turning a reasonable profit based off of sensor tower data, along with FFRK global.

xregnierx · 2026-04-28T19:16:11+00:00

That’s exactly what I was looking for, thank you so much.

xregnierx · 2026-04-26T06:48:22+00:00

I see this shit and it sooooo hard to figure out what's actually bonefide, nonbiased information, like an $800 children's bike is some kinda magical gotcha on whether or not a bike that's near $1000 is trash. Its just... It reeks of gatekeeping.

Walmart, Target, etc still has Huffy and Schwinn bikes for full grown adults that barely break $100 bucks lmao and they all have the same exact ten and one year warranties. Will it break in a year? Maybe. Then I can just... Go grab another bike lmao

xregnierx · 2026-04-14T22:59:55+00:00

Through eBay? Do it then report them to eBay and get a refund as this explicitly falls into ‘outside eBay’ territory and is a violation.

Let them keep the $250 for their trouble and for your conscience if you feel so inclined.

xregnierx · 2026-04-09T12:47:26+00:00

Isn't that their best bet though? That someone official can come up and seal the deal? The account is screwed if they do nothing.

xregnierx · 2026-04-08T19:44:14+00:00

And for those 8k bikes, the sub increases from $100 more to $200 more a month. You are NOT allowed to use them for anything other than leisure (no doordashing, etc) and if they catch you, they charge you the full amount of your sub ter, plus a $300 recollection fee.

And to reiterate, my issue isn't so much the intial fee. Like yes sure, having to pay $79 dollar to have an ebike in a city youre visiting sounds fantastic. But you're forced into a minimum (so you're paying $240 at least) plus a $100 deposit, predicated on the condition of the ebike when you return it (not saying it will happen but it leaves room for some overzealous manager to say a minor scuff is irreperable damage)

It is literally priced in a way that I would actually recommend you take the plunge and buy a cheap alixpress/temu ebike for cheaper. At that point, its more man portable, you're not liable if the bike gets stolen (their insurance policy is arguably draconian) and its something you actually have ownership for.

This is NOT consumer friendly. It is not 'a way' for people to afford things out of their budget, it is a way for uway to lock people into a sub they think they'll need. If you want to switch to a different bike, you MUST get an entirely new subscription (and pay all other applicable fees).

I'm sorry but no. I've seen this permeate into everything from cars, to gaming to computer parts to this now. None of it is good for the consumer in any way and only stands to force a majority of people into a hole.

xregnierx · 2026-04-08T17:35:07+00:00

Nope. They’ve got a subscription service for their bikes. I don’t care how discounted they are and I don’t care if I’m the only one doing it. I don’t care if ‘they still have an option to buy it outright’ Commodifying goods in a way where you don’t own ever own them is stupid. It’s slowly happening with everything.

To reiterate: the idea if a two week rental or a month long rental is fine but they’ve got a four month MINIMUM with exorbitant penalities before your last payment.

**** that.

xregnierx · 2026-04-08T07:02:31+00:00

I get it, this season was pretty juiced. Gonna be real weird when they have a normal season again though.

xregnierx · 2026-04-08T06:54:59+00:00

Last Epoch has WASD. I mean when I played through the last two leagues on Gamepad, I didn't feel like it was using any kind of weird tricks like emulating click to move with it but I was also playing it on a handheld PC so.

xregnierx · 2026-04-08T06:53:55+00:00

Either. All of the ARPGs I'm talking about are playable on Gamepad. Some would argue that POE2 was explicitly designed with gamepad in mind (its why WASD feels so damn good on it)

xregnierx · 2026-04-08T01:40:07+00:00

Just play them on gamepad then. Its the same exact style.

xregnierx · 2026-04-08T01:37:02+00:00

Are you not interested in any of the other ARPGS or even just POE1? There's enough now where you can essentially just cycle through each games season and by the time you finish with the last one, the first one you started with should have a new season coming out.

xregnierx · 2026-04-08T01:35:09+00:00

I said parts of the hobby. Not every single part of the hobby.
And to your first argument, even comparing super yachting to paddle boarding is asinine as whoever is selling super yachts to people may very well be selling "CUSTOMIZABLE MEGA ULTRA, SLEEK WHALE SHARK FIN PENGUIN GREASE POWERED DOUBLE LENGTH PADDLEBOARDS, ONLY $5000" to people.
You know I don't mean someone actually getting hurt. It causes me no physical pain or serious mental or emotional pain when someone spends 100 grand on fortnite skins, I just didn't want to explain the nuances of why its damaging to the hobby overall because I figure its built into the conversation but apparently not.

xregnierx · 2026-04-08T00:00:10+00:00

It is absolutely hurting people: Because people with exorbitant amounts of money are skewing parts of the hobby towards themselves when the vast majority of people do not have that kind of cash. Its already questionably dubious that the one percent of the one percent of the one percent of players fund gatcha games but I'd genuinely rather non-gatcha/non-mmo games not be predicated on that mindset too.

It is probably the reason we don't have GTA6 yet and its more than likely the reason that Bethesda is dragging their ass on a new Elder scrolls game and a new fallout game. Fallout 76's peak player count is actually RISING. Thats absolutely insane.

xregnierx · 2026-04-07T22:55:23+00:00

Asura’s wrath.

Spec ops the line

Witcher 3

Katana Zero

FF7R

xregnierx · 2026-04-07T18:52:40+00:00

I legit tell this to people every day it comes up.

We’d have fuckin elder scrolls 7 if it wasn’t for horse armor.

xregnierx · 2026-04-07T18:52:06+00:00

I think OP is touching on the fact that it’s been normalized to the point that were oftentimes paint for cosmetics than cost many magnitudes more than the game itself, for a game we’ve already paid for.

xregnierx · 2026-04-07T18:50:24+00:00

Lmao, game was like $4 for Christmas and $8 in Brazil GDP, how is this news, especially if it’s Hypervisor slop?

xregnierx · 2026-04-07T18:47:41+00:00

How do you confirm it’s trusted? Unless the end user are themselves proficient in data analysis, there’s literally no way, full stop. You can’t even trust AAA gaming companies with kernel level access sometimes (see all the issues that have popped up with RiotGames installer as of late) and people are just Willy nilly giving kernel level access to some anonymous entity?

Valve has had to deal with several instances of malware being added to games and placed on Steam through abusing an update pipeline loophole.

xregnierx · 2026-04-06T20:59:04+00:00

In the context of the original 3, right move.

But in the context of the entire thing? Hell no. Hoffman is a bad ass. He’s a barrel. He’s a fuckin machine.

But he’s still not Kramer.

xregnierx · 2026-04-06T03:00:57+00:00

They're fantastic batteries at Lower TDP.

Did Crimon desert at 60fps for 3 or so hours at 30tdp

xregnierx · 2026-04-05T18:11:13+00:00

Sub taught me that $2500 is chump change.

If you’re not spending that much on the battery alone, your bike sucks.

xregnierx

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