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Not only for them, their families stand to profit enormously as well, and they don't even need semi-well paying jobs for that. We had an indian colleague working a menial warehouse job and he sent every last unused cent back home. Every now and then he'd go back on vacation and come back showing pictures of his home and family. Yeah. Said home is a large, beautiful mansion on a huge estate, nice gardens and a really awesome pool. On the wage of a warehouse guy pushing boxes all day.

I bet all those pinko-commie leftist garbage people here will come to complain soon.

I especially liked the comment on how poorly her post was written and that Bethesda would never hire poor writers.

I was more thinking Shub-Niggurath but it could be any one of them - or worse, ALL of them.

I'd also want more and, well, more current games on GOG but only if they don't lose focus on their actual job: Getting the good old stuff to work with no DRM strings attached. Call me paranoid but there is something dark lurking in the deep recesses of Galaxy, patiently biding its time, poised to strike. Wouldn't be the first major disappointment though, there's a reason why I so stubbornly refuse to use Steam for anything after Valve began to mutate into the scary behemoth it is today.

Not really interested. I generally believe Bethesda games to be highly overrated (well Daggerfall was at least innovative) but that is simply my opinion. A bunch of my friends and co-workers racked up hundreds of hours playing them and still can't believe that I don't like them, but they're not really bothered by the combat systems or the utterly boring NPCs that usually populate their games. Nothing I've seen so far would convince me that this one can be any better. I don't know how they manage to be so wildly successful and never really manage to pick up at least SOME writers that can make you care about NPCs or form a coherent plot worth following in a game so choke full of distractions that oooooh shiny...

Why not? Andraste was after all a real person who led a revolt against the remains of the Tevinter Imperium. You're not called Herald of the Maker in the game after all. /wordmincing

If a dwarf dies in a cave and no one is around to witness it, is the combat mechanic flawed? Hm, then what is the sound of one axe grinding?

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Also, I love the 30$ Tier. It's just plain epic and had me laughing hard.

Back the Early Bard Premium Collector's Edition.

Psssst. A game was ready for launch when McPartyson doesn't experience a bug playing it and it clearly isn't working ticky boo when he does. You could of know that, silly. It's the only sane and objective measurement for buggyness.

Well that's awesome, I'm not sure how you get the idea that this particular gamer is fifty years old because "just shy" of a quarter of a century is a little less than 25 years. So in essence that guy isn't even old enough to be able to use nostalgia goggles on the good old days of computer gaming where you bought a game and actually had no idea if you even could make it work in the first place (the CD version of Strike Commander was an especially egregious case because early CD-ROM support by Microsoft required a truckload of memory, and by that I mean 45 kilobytes), but that was all at a time probably long before that guy diddled himself for the first time. So more realistically for that guy we can go back 15 years and look at Baldur's Gate 2, a game that had an annoying habit of corrupting your savegames without you noticing because some area you haven't visited in 40 hours but needed to go to after coming back from Spellhold died, or scripting bugs that rendered your game unfinishable if you saved at the wrong time and then loaded that save. That took some fiddling around with Near Infinity to get those damaged saves fixed. Which we did on the tech support forum without ever thinking whether or not we should be paid for that (well Interplay did give each of us a free copy of Lionheart before it died, but I'd rather not talk about that game). Coz we, you know, cared. And people would wait patiently for those fixed save games and politely say thank you instead of raging on like the whiny entitled kids of today. There are some good points on that opinion piece by the way, especially about DLCs and microtransactions. The gaming nostalgia not so much, at least not for PC gaming. On consoles, oh yeah, you never had a chance to get a patch 20 years ago so the games really just had to work but they were also a lot less complex than today's games. Having to download 10GB patches before you can play a console game these days while waiting hours for it to be installed, well THAT really is ridiculous.

Don't tell me that you believe that Hollow Earth crap too? Oh well, why am I surprised...

Just watched Kung Fury. Twice. Now I'm off to watch Iron Sky again.

I wonder, if making more templars would be as easy as simply infusing someone willing to fight with a dose of lyrium then why is the Chantry close to collapsing because of a mage rebellion and a renegade templar faction? That's the sort of quirks expected whenever you represent years of training as a click of a button or finishing a quest. By all rules of Thedas a player character should never be able to pick up being a templar as specialization but as a base class giving you a rich background similar to being a mage in Origins. It doesn't however and so everything that has to do with your own PC gaining powers falls squarely into story and gameplay segregation. It's a necessary tradeoff and not something worth constructing a conspiracy from. Especially if it involves a retcon by David Gaider. Seriously. DA:I very strongly hints at lyrium being more than just the mineralized essence of magic it was in the earlier games, what with red lyrium apparently having being corrupted by the blight and growing rapidly under the careful guidance of Imshael.

Quest items are always stashed and are automatically removed when you need them, so there is something else preventing you from progressing with the associated quests.

Oi, looks fun aaaand is backed.

Odd, for me there were no fade-touched materials available, and I was level 25 when I first went to the Emporium. I'll double-check that when I get the chance. Also, only tier 2 materials were unlimited. Maybe there is some sort of restocking that triggers upon returning or going back there after the first visit. Hrm. So, uhm, to quote myself: Nope, I can't get any fade-touched materials from the Black Emporium. I've seen lists where it also should have materials for runecrafting, which it doesn't have in store for me either. Just tier one to four leather, metal and cloth stuff. The DA wiki also only lists the normal materials. Other people say it stocks everything that isn't limited to the Jaws of Hakkon DLC. So dunno, it's either working as intended and people are imagining it selling fade-touched stuff, bugged as hell or limited to an inquisition perk I don't have (I do have the Short List, so it's not that).

Odd, for me there were no fade-touched materials available, and I was level 25 when I first went to the Emporium. I'll double-check that when I get the chance. Also, only tier 2 materials were unlimited. Maybe there is some sort of restocking that triggers upon returning or going back there after the first visit. Hrm.

For me loading times are annoying the first time around, i.e. when I load up a savegame after not having played for a while. I guess that would depend on the amount of RAM you have, the game seems to cache a lot to buffer the loading times once you've been to Skyhold and then my loading times drop off to almost not noticeable. Still, going to Skyhold and then to the war table will always be annoying, why doesn't going to Skyhold via the world map simply drop you off in front of the door to Josephine? I for one had hoped that the Black Emporium would actually stock fade touched crafting materials, at least some of them. The weapons and accessories are a bit weird. Not sure why I would want to wear a +5 DEX / +5 CUN ring when there are straight +5% crit rings around. The legendary schematics are pretty neat though. I was getting tired of not having purely offensive weapons or heavy armor with silly things like cloth utility slots.

Dude, like, Bioware released the Black Emporium 20 days ago. Oh and they also fixed the Flask of Fire / Focus bug which means my Tempest rogue playthrough just went out of the window. Yeah, I'm cheap like that.

I don't think Magran's true reason to destroy Waidwen/Eothas is all that complicated. Selfish yes, but not really complicated - it's probably because she's a prissy bitch just like Durance always says. By bringing conflict, strife and war to the mortal realm, Eothas intruded on Magran's domain and that's good enough a reason as any to get to killing and blowing stuff up by secretly working with the pariah of the gods. The real MYSTARY I'd say is the question what the hell drove Eothas to interfere like that disregarding all the rules and drawing the ire of the other gods by doing something silly like that? When you talk to them the other gods all make it plenty clear that they do not want to see Woedica empowered and ruling again, and with Thaos having been Woedica's reach for thousands of years, which they quite clearly know about, why would they not believe Eothas when he says he found this nice little annoying plot to reinstate Woedica?

Just that it's currently at place 5 (Hero) and 16 (Champion) of gog's charts - no absolute numbers. PoE has consitently been in the upper half of the top 10 selling games on GOG ever since it came out. It only dips a bit when a weekend promotion includes a sale like the current one, 75% off on all Unreal games and 50% off on Mortal Komabt 1-3 (speaking of which, I think it's time to buy something). For the better part of this week the Hero Edition was the best selling item that wasn't The Witcher 3. But that only means it is popular on GOG which still is rather niche compared to Steam. CD Projekt's past sales figures have shown GOG to make up less than 20% of their sales, so... that might not mean too much.

So that's it then. Just like every other conspiracy nut on this planet when faced with evidence to the contrary you just retreat further into your world of self-delusion and make-believe. It's funny how you dismiss the Seekers as proof to the contrary saying "there is no proof that they don't secretly do lyrium" when all you do is talking about how faith-based abilities SHOULD REQUIRE NO PROOF as to not turn them into science. I'd bet my ass that if Bioware had a lot of story DLCs lined up or even planned they'd sell a season pass right now like all the other good boys do, so that doesn't look too good. Personally I was hoping for a Leliana's Song type of DLC about what happend with Solas before Inquisition retelling how Corypheus got his orb.