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Think of it this way: you can put those 28 days towards something productive, such as unlocking a bunch of heroes in Battlefront 2. The whole review bombing thing is a pity, because by all accounts it's a solid game and genuinely fun to play. Oh well...

Nuh-uh. No mods allowed. Unless it's JE Sawyer's mod. (as for Tyranny, maybe give it a shot -- I never could get into PoE either but enjoyed Tyranny well enough for a full playthrough or three)

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If it's on GOG, I'll get it there. I have a bunch of Steam games (going back to HL2...) but I don't remember ever buying any from there.

The goalpost hasn't gone anywhere. It's just you realizing how your comparison to WoW's gearing grind is wholly inappropriate. The 40h figure presented in the article was meant to represent not the total grind time (which you assimilated to by comparing it to how long it takes to acquire top-tier endgame gear), but merely an arbitrary milestone to help you understand the scope of the grind, by giving you an idea of what it costs to hit a target that is understood to be desirable by most players in a SW game. Newsflash: these heroes also have unique abilities with several tiers which you upgrade through, you guessed it, lootboxes. Remember, this game is not a F2P MMO. Even though given its monetization model, and considering EA's statements on their business model, the only way to tell may be by the amount of content. Frankly, it's hilarious that you're trying so hard to make it look like you can't understand why people aren't impressed that the only alternative they have to having their time wasted is to engage in virtual gambling. Other than not playing the game at all, that is. Yeah, I also own a phone. Any other irrelevant details you'd like to share with us? Go and play Andromeda, grind for a few hundred hours, report back with your findings. Maybe then you'll have an "argument" to make that isn't 100% of the PIDOOMA variety.

In my current job I've seen two "owners" being forced out because of constant, public (over Whatsapp groups of all things...) disagreements with other "owners" who had a bigger share of the company, and were higher up the decision-making ladder. Being an owner is great when you need to pull rank on the nobodies, but it amounts to very little against someone in your same weight class. There's always two sides to a story, and we're getting one half (of a side), at best. Dude clearly doesn't care that taking potshots at his former coworkers seems to be hurting his image in the eyes of many people though, so, uh... keep on keeping on? The news value of these outbursts keeps decreasing with each episode, because it's so one-sided. I really don't see the point.

Actually, if I ask a question about anything its 99% legit me wanting to know the answer. That's why I take the time to "like" the responses of posters who take the time to answer. Regarding ~40H, that's what the article says, perhaps you will read it? Nah, its more fun to rage into the internet. Tears of a clown. Oh, look. It's you again making fun of people "raging" at X. Yeah, we can't all be as cool as you in your apathy about everything that doesn't affect you. It's a heavy cross to bear. The article says that unlocking one hero is estimated to take 40 hours. One (1). But then you made an irrelevant comparison to top tier full gear in WoW. Maybe take your own advice and re-read the article, and possibly the original Reddit post it links to, seeing how it's plain you didn't understand what's being talked about, yes? Again, have you played any of EA's games featuring their wonderfully consumer-friendly microtransaction schemes? (Y/N)

Haha, that's pretty rich, considering that your go-to routine is basically a fake "guise guise halp me understand pls" passive-aggressive self-affirming wankfest where you ridicule other people's opinions of things you know literally nothing about. Good show bud. laugh.jpeg And 40 hours? Try closer to 1200 hours for a similar level of achievement as "top tier gear", in a game with a fraction of content as that of WoW's.

Yeah, you falling back to "well I'm sure someone must like it" was completely predictable, which is why I pre-emptively addressed it by comparing it to MMO grind. Again, have you played any of EA's $60 titles laden with microtransactions lately? Because if you haven't, you simply don't know what you're talking about. Not that that's ever stopped you before!

They sure are... except for the "Titan guy(s) with a million mooks" variants. Which comprise, uh, about 50% of boss fights in the first two titles? Design is a bit better in City, but even there the boss fights are kinda weak, with turd-man being functionally the same as that Frankenstein dude. Freeze was probably the best. Guess the problem here is that I'm just not a Batman fan beyond Nolan's movies, so playing as the titular character isn't enough for me to overlook some things.

The contention is that the "grind" is made to be soul crushingly long and boring on purpose to entice you to pay. The "grind" here is absurd even compared to traditional MMO grind. How many non-Korean MMOs have you played lately? How many EA games with "progression" systems? Because people who are strangers to neither are rising concerns exactly about this. The progression is designed with microtransactions in mind -- it's not something that was added afterwards as a gracious gift to level the playing field for those poor folks with more money than sense time to play. The issue is that, if there were no microtransactions, the current progression rate would be completely unreasonable, and would be a major factor driving people off. I'm not making this up, I've seen it happen. Of course, nobody has given a satisfactory explanation about why these games need "progression" systems to begin with, when their predecessors were both critical and commercial successes without them. That is, beyond the recurrent consumer spending model. Report to be filed under "Whiny Entitled Manchildren LOL"

"Yo dawg, we heard you like paying so we put a F2P model in your $60 game so you can pay while you pay..."

Oh, sure. It does look fantastic. Extremely brutal, fast-paced, great flow. But on the gameplay department, I remain unconvinced that the system is little more than a glorified QTE. Can't let silly details like slow human reflexes get in the way of awesome cinematic combat, now can we? Anyway, I just started Origins. We'll see how high they dial the nonsense. So far I'm liking the visual style much better, at least. Probably because a cursory search reveals that a workaround is more or less trivial.

I just beat this. The plot is as nonsensical as the first game's and it seems to drag on and on and on... and the finale, while not as bad as Asylum's is fairly underwhelming too. I'm guessing these are staples of the series. Combat was pretty much copy-pasted from Asylum's whack-a-mole "system", so meh. Thankfully there's less forced backtracking, and while the Riddler doodads are a fun distraction, I hated that you GOTTA CATCH EM ALL! to progress a certain sidequest. Compared to, say, Saints Row 4, this game's only saving graces are the Joker's VA and the music which is really top-notch. I can't understand how these games got such high ratings.

Of course the evidence is irrefutable. It's by definition impossible to refute evidence that nobody has actually seen.

"If these are the final numbers for release DICE is going to have a hard time justifying this to the fanbase." I find it hard to believe that anyone could be this naïve in this day and age. DICE/EA don't need to justify anything because any turd with the Star Wars label is a license to print money. Even after all the mismanagement, the content drought and blatant attempts at milking the remaining playerbase in SWTOR, they haven't been able to tank that game yet. Despite all the whining and moaning, and much like with its predecessor, they will laugh all the way to the bank. In related news: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/01/electronic-arts-shares-drop-after-wall-street-raises-concerns-over-star-wars-game-sales.html "EA's stock is up 52 percent year to date through Tuesday compared with the S&P 500's 15 percent gain." Of course, it's not enough (the headline highlights the small drop, and the aggregate increase in value is literally a ****ing footnote), because muh businesses need to make profit u entitled child!!1 lol

I'm not sure what gun violence with clear causes in the areas you mention (civil/ethnic conflicts, drug-related violence) has to do with seemingly random and difficult to explain civilian mass shootings in non-economically depressed areas in the US. Regardless, this isn't about gun violence in general, but rather the specific phenomenon of indiscriminate mass shootings. Australia did not confiscate all guns -- they bought back about 20% of all privately owned guns. Other than the Port Arthur Massacre that prompted the buyout and associated legislation, did Australia have a problem with mass shootings before?

Barring aberrant occurrences (Breivik), mass shootings seem to be a chiefly American phenomenon. Which means that either there's a greater concentration of "evil" people in the US -an absurd proposition- or there's a series of actual causes involved, which hopefully can be explained and tackled. dunno, US is similiar to Middle east? heard there is plenty of shooting Are you trying to be funny?

Barring aberrant occurrences (Breivik), mass shootings seem to be a chiefly American phenomenon. Which means that either there's a greater concentration of "evil" people in the US -an absurd proposition- or there's a series of actual causes involved, which hopefully can be explained and tackled.

It's funny because the law that was to underpin the referendum didn't get enough votes in Catalonia's parliament (72 out of the necessary 90), but the Catalan president went ahead with it anyway. So the referendum was illegal not only under Spanish law, but technically under Catalan law as well. And then last week they went ahead and declared independence with a full 38% of voters' support. Much popular. Such democracy. Wow. Nazis will nazi, Volourn will Volourn. Basically this. Catalan (and Basque, and Navarre) hardcore independence movements have always been marginal. There is a strong nationalist sentiment in those regions, but people in general don't really want to secede. The whole thing is a result of political buggery going back... decades. In Spain, major left- and right-wing parties have always required the support of smaller nationalist parties in order to pass their budgets and have a modicum of parliamentary stability. This has resulted in the aforementioned regions enjoying "preferential treatment" especially in fiscal matters (Basque country and Navarra actually have their own fiscal rules, grounded in historical privileges dating back to the 19th century and preserved for political expediency reasons, which now the Catalans want as well). This understandably is a source of tensions with the rest of -unprivileged- regions. Fast forward to 2006, the Catalan Parliament passed a new autonomy law giving themselves the same fiscal prerogatives as any other region, and established their right to collect their own taxes, among other things. This law required a referendum in Catalonia for ratification, which also passed. Then-minority leader Rajoy counterattacked with some exquisitely hypocritical antics, and by raising a constitutionality question, which resulted in the law's most important articles being declared unconstitutional, and therefore null and void, four years later by the extremely politicized Constitutional Court. After that, and especially after Rajoy's electoral victory, the secessionist movement has been growing stronger and bolder, not necessarily because people in Catalonia want to secede but mostly because they ****ing hate Rajoy's guts and his party of mafiosi and SS larpers and what they stand for, and apparently separatists are the only ones not in bed with them (even though they were until, like, yesterday). So, against a background of economic depression, in one camp you have a bunch of wannabe fascists crying bloody murder because the very law they have zero interest in changing has been offended, and in the other you have a gang of opportunistic crooks (the guy now hiding in Belgium belongs to a party that has been one of the most dependable partners in crime of the party now in power in Spain) on a power trip about how the law doesn't apply to them anyway because "the people" are behind them. Only not really. Both, of course, thoroughly corrupt. TL:DR this is really about gangsters fighting over money, and Spaniards are stupid as ****, on both sides of the Catalan border.

Except for online games, what I usually do is purchase the game, and then download and play the superior pirated version. Sadly, with Denuvo that is pointless because "the scene" has found it's easier to defeat Denuvo by sidestepping it rather than removing it outright. Which means I'm out of luck, and the publisher is out of a sale. Win-win, right? Wait... Heh. There was rampant online cheating enabled by CE scripts that were extremely easy to obtain. And then legit users get shot down for non-existent "tampering". You dirty pirate, you.

AssCreed features not one but two layers of DRM anti-tamper, after crackers make a laughing stock out of Denuvo with Warhammer TW2 and Shadow of War Of course, Ubi assures buyers that there's no performance hit whatsoever due to this... but they're still looking into it.

That's all well and good, but when jobs demand far outstrips jobs supply, the collective bargaining power of workers is greatly diminished. They simply have no leverage because they can be easily replaced. And the gap between demand and supply is only going to get wider. Furthermore, it's contradictory that workers would be unwilling to cause trouble by organizing collective protests and strikes to obtain better working conditions for fear of damaging the company they also are a part of if they are certain they can easily find work elsewhere, if their demands aren't met. However, it's absolutely true that anyone can find work if they really want to. Just ask the Chinese slaves building high rises in Dubai, or the Eastern European girls selling their bodies for £4 in Liverpool. So stop demanding handouts and pull yourselves up by your bootstraps.

How is it a balance issue when your performance isn't affected by your choice of equipment or playstyle nearly as much as it is by how many lootboxes you've paid for? It's not that "weapon X does way more damage than anything else with no drawbacks" or that "tactic Z has no counters". Those are balance issues. It's that just about any "gold" tier weapon does a ton of damage, and any maxed out character has absurd modifiers to their abilities, and the only way to acquire those things is to grind for hundreds of hours or, conveniently, shell out a few thousand to max your manifest. Just because you get trampled doesn't mean it's automatically a "balance" issue. But even if it were... it's not deserving of criticism, why? Because now you can pay through the nose so it doesn't affect you?