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'Cause why make a game with resource management (as in r/l) when you can cater to everybody's power fantasies? Because this is a fantasy game and not r/l? Well there's fantasy and then there's fantasy. I suppose it depends on whether you prefer GoT or Powerpuff Girls.

Salary Cap makes the MLS much more internally competitive, and teams that were down one year can be on top the next. That means you can't take any team (or game) for granted. This is unlike European football leagues where the big powers generally stay on top year after year. I doubt we'll see anything like relegation in the US until the MLS has finished expanding.

Still cheering for the Sounders, although they've been pathetic this year scoring-wise after Morris went down. (Dempsey just isn't the player he used to be.) Hopefully Raúl Ruidíaz, their new striker acquisition from Liga MX, will perk them up.

'Cause why make a game with resource management (as in r/l) when you can cater to everybody's power fantasies?

It's the story that matters. Everything else is window dressing.

I suspect DLCs are fairly economical to make, so they don't have to have huge sales numbers to generate a decent margin. They could be used to fill a scheduling gap, for example, and could be fun to make. Plus we get to enjoy them.

Pretty good camo.

If it is selling decently well after the second DLC comes out in September, do you suppose Obsidian will announce further DLCs after The Forgotten Sanctum? Seems like they could gradually issue a few more along the road to a PoE3 release some years away, thereby maintaining sales.

NWN has a dedicated modding and module building community that many other games lack, so it comes with a built-in audience and was almost guaranteed to sell at least decently well.

Aren't scurrilous rumors based on wild-arsed guesses fun? You can be as cynical as you want and nobody can prove you wrong. Meh.

Oh, I don't know. If you bribe the right people...

France is cruising now.

Just curious, do they do steroid testing at the World Cup?

Croatia looks dangerous on every cross. Fun game so far.

Perfect for those history majors...

But doesn't the DLC itself constitute the "companion quest"? Sounds like it.

You can also try working with modder projects to write interesting interactions for their conversations. I suspect that few modders make good writers, although I have seen one or two. Perhaps another approach is to offer to provide a language conversion for a recent game release.

I'm expecting a game somewhat comparable to ToEE, except using RTwP (unfortunately). It may take time to build an audience, but I'm looking forward to playing it -- if only for the DnD-like ruleset implementation. Hopefully it'll be fun.

This is not an expansion, it's a DLC. Different things. You should be thankful it wasn't just horse armor. Err, hang on just a minute. You mean they'd add rideable mounts just to add DLC horse armor? I think I'd buy that.

Is Vatnir going to be a new sidekick?

Flip a coin.

Meh. World Cup: everyone leaves disappointed. Except the winner, of course. Maybe one day Canada will make it back... for a second go.