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Post by Sarge on Oct 1, 2019 9:38:27 GMT -5
Yeah, Miiverse was still up when I played through it. Do any of the online features still work, or are they toast, too? Online gives an easy way to get repair tickets.
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Post by Xeogred on Oct 1, 2019 12:30:14 GMT -5
They still work. I usually just login on the first one for the "immersive single player experience", but yeah you see people at that barracks room, then here and there out in the wild. The tickets come in handy for grabbing some Affinity mission items... after doing a few of those I think I'll hold off until way later, some of the fetch quests have been pretty annoying.
I'm about 15 hours in and on chapter 5, moving along a lot better than I expected. The combat is definitely better than the first game and that helps. Can't wait to get a Skell, which should be soon!
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Post by Sarge on Oct 1, 2019 13:11:47 GMT -5
What class did you decide to start with? I rolled with the Enforcer line, culminating in Galactic Knight. I started hitting up other classes after that, probably Commando.
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Post by anayo on Feb 2, 2020 17:13:09 GMT -5
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Post by Ex on Feb 2, 2020 20:54:56 GMT -5
"I can meet you at your place."
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Post by anayo on Feb 20, 2020 6:15:23 GMT -5
One of the hosts of the popular YouTube channel "Linus Tech Tips" received a six month ban on his WoW account, seemingly for no reason. The only explanation offered was "unauthorized use of third party software". This posed quite the inconvenience as he had been a loyal paying customer for years and years and liked to play WoW with his Dad and brother. He spent a few weeks in customer service hell only to be told something to the tune of, "You know what you did, so we suggest you don't do that again." Finally after telling a YouTube audience of millions about this issue, Blizzard took notice and reversed their decision.
It is believed that Blizzard did this over the use of a service called "Nvidia's Geforce Now". Geforce Now is a streaming service designed to let you remotely play games on your PC over the Internet. Apparently it's comparable to Google's Stadia, except you own the hardware that runs the games. Some video game publishers, such as Blizzard, have been "opting out" of this for no reason other than their reluctance to allow players to remotely play their games without receiving any revenue for this convenience.
Source:
A similar account from another WoW player on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/f6l9c3/18month_ban_for_using_geforce_now_for_5_minutes/
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Post by Ex on Feb 20, 2020 11:00:51 GMT -5
Sounds to me like Blizzard might plan to roll out their own tech for this service, and are attempting to stymie preliminary alternative methods.
It'd be a frigid day in hell, before I'd play a game owned by a company that could detect how I'm playing their game, and arbitrarily ban me from playing it, especially after investing a bunch of money into it. That's extraordinarily anti-consumer, and I wish people wouldn't support such totalitarianism.
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Post by Sarge on Feb 20, 2020 11:39:59 GMT -5
That is definitely ridiculous.
By the way, I stumbled (well, maybe the wrong word given his popularity) onto LTT about a year ago, and I really enjoy their videos. It's a good way for me to keep up on tech news without scouring for articles and whatnot, and it helps that their content feels quite professional. They also seems to legitimately enjoy what they do.
And seriously, why should it be Blizzard's business what I decide to do with the video stream coming from my PC? If I want to play elsewhere, I should have that option and not get banned for it.
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Post by Ex on Mar 9, 2020 14:56:09 GMT -5
Early Access
This is a digital gaming phenomenon I just do not understand. People are literally paying their own money to be beta testers for games still in development. Games that may, or may not, ever be finished. No way am I going to pay a developer for the "privilege" of being their guinea pig.
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Post by toei on Mar 9, 2020 16:28:54 GMT -5
Early Access
This is a digital gaming phenomenon I just do not understand. People are literally paying their own money to be beta testers for games still in development. Games that may, or may not, ever be finished. No way am I going to pay a developer for the "privilege" of being their guinea pig. I think it's weird too, but that's for people who get too excited over previews and just can't wait, basically.
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