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PP_BOY_, do games w rdr2 question

Once you make it to Valentine (youll know when) the game pretty much gives you the reigns, but until then, as others have said, the tutorial is pretty long and guided

dan1101, do games w rdr2 question

As others have said, it does set you free eventually. Takes too long IMO. The world is really nice and beautiful. I never got totally on board with the control scheme and UI.

CharlesReed, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 1st
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I'm two missions away from the end in Alien: Isolation. This weirdly enough has been one of the most difficult playthroughs that I've done of this game. I accidentally soft locked myself while in the reactor area and spent waaay too much time in that area. But I'm finally passed it, so I hope things go a little smoother to the end.

FlashMobOfOne,
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I loved the atmosphere and general gameplay, but HATED how they reused so many of the areas, some multiple times.

I hope we get another one someday, but with more work put into the level design.

snooggums, do games w rdr2 question
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

Took me about 5 hours to get through the winter intro story that is linear before it gets to being the open world. Not sure if that was slow or not, but it was a bit longer than I would have preferred.

mmcintyre, do games w rdr2 question

You’ll be cut loose before too long.

45D, do games w RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it

Honestly for an MMO it’s still a good price. MMOs in particular people sink a tonne of hours into, so it’s pennies per hour which (like gaming in general) is a pretty good rate for entertainment. That doesn’t mean huge mark ups like these are anything but infuriating.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Runescape should have tiered membership for multiple characters. For example, one character for $10, three for $20, ten for $50, etc. This would make it easier on player’s wallets, and frankly it would encourage people to play the other game modes.

Having said that, I think the larger problem is that the people that develop the game get peanuts for pay. Most of them are fans of the game and just want to work on it, but doing so shouldn’t trap them to a low income. It’s not a good sign when developers can leave the company and earn a higher salary streaming Runescape content.

What can you expect when the company is owned by an investment group.

ILikeBoobies,

I would point more to the massive bot ban wave and banning of a large clan

That’s a lot of memberships taken out of the game

45D,

I see what you’re saying, it is a lot of memberships taken out of the game, but I would argue no one running a bot farm is paying for membership with Earthly currency. They wouldn’t want to tie legitimate credit information to any of those accounts, and so they obtain membership through bonds purchased with in game gold.

It’s in part what has driven the cost of bonds from 5 million gold to 15 million. As a result, I’m of the opinion that bots aren’t a revenue source for Jagex.

FlashMobOfOne, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 1st
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Sorry for the double post, but I DID play something new this week: The demo for the Casting of Frank Stone.

LOVED IT.

It’s a narrative horror game and those tend to be out of my price range at the start, because I only buy a game if I get at least an hour of play time per dollar spent, but still, it’s spooky and fantastic.

theangriestbird,

Make sure you wishlist it! That really helps out games that haven’t come out yet. I didn’t even know Supermassive was making this one, it looks neat!

Renacles, do games w RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it

You should try the other subreddit, RS3 players are more than happy to pull out the pitchforks.

wizardbeard,

OSRS players are too busy trying to optimize everything down to the game tick.

Dark_Arc,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

We’ve been through a lot.

This was the final straw for me. Asking for feedback about MTX and then leveraging that to raise prices. Even if that’s not what they did, their timing is beyond stupid.

Renacles,

Not to mention how bad the last 2 years of content have been.

The new roadmap looks great but I want to see it implemented before I believe any of it is real, especially after how unfinished the newest boss is.

Dark_Arc,
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg avatar

but I want to see it implemented before I believe any of it is real

As you should, they’ve let players down many many times before (myself included) making promises for things to come that never happen. A prime example is the player owned house rework that was promised in one of the original Rune Fests.

The tick rate improvements and client side prediction they demoed … they said they may never happen; however, let’s face it, they could happen they’re just unwilling to commit to hiring the developers that would be needed to make that happen.

Renacles,

The player avatar rework!

FlashMobOfOne, do gaming w Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 1st
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Oddly enough. nothing.

I’m on vacation and I’m planning to start Zoria: Age of Shattering and to pick Solasta: Palace of Ice back up.

I’m in the mood for CRPG’s based on D&D.

NocturnalMorning, do games w Anyone else feels like rdr2 have no bad missions?

Haha, currently playing rdr2 again right now. There are plenty of terrible missions in the game. Depending on if you’re talking regular missions or story missions, some of the story missions where you shoot up the whole damn town are stupid, and then you just go pay a bounty and it’s all okay. But, you can’t enter Blackwater under any circumstances or tye calvary comes in and shoots you up, dead within 10 seconds of stepping foot there.

Lots of essentially fetch quests, especially the ones where you go shake down people for loan money for strauss.

There are missions you can fail for venturing too far away from people, but you’re never told that until you’re too far away already. This is just what I could think of off the top of my head.

hal_5700X, do games w What are your opionions on fortnite?

It’s fine.

dense_crane44, do games w Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before

Eternum (warning: NSFW) is an adult visual novel that keeps touching me with every new update. It’s completely free, and I can’t help but think of the creator as a master of the genre.

The characters are all well written and (those who are meant to be) lovable. The story is interesting, compelling even, and the humor is often hilarious. When you go to the website, you might think “Porn game!!!”, and not be entirely wrong, but Eternum is so much more. It’s a story about love, friendship, and a mystery.

Setting: Orion moves back to the USA after a long time. In recent years, a video game called eternum has been gaining traction, that allows going into virtual worlds, think full dive VR like in Sword Art Online. I’d say about 60% of the story happens IRL.

I can only recommend this masterpiece of a visual novel.

androogee, (edited )

Are you sure you aren’t touching yourself?

dense_crane44,

Oooh, sexual content in media for adults, how scary

androogee,

??

You okay?

Starb3an,

I’m always on the lookout for the next release. Also Ripples is pretty good

dense_crane44,

Ripples was pretty good too yes, but it’s been a while since I looked into that. Many AVNs are hidden gems.

AquaticHelicopter, do games w I'm the developer of WalkScape, the RuneScape inspired fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL. We're now accepting more people to the Closed Beta!

I’ve been wanting a game like this for years!! As soon as Pokemon Go came out I thought it would be awesome to have a similar game that was offline or less Network dependent that modern AR games.
Like you level up and gain experience by walking around but you don’t have to live in a city or busy area to play. You don’t have to have the social element of say Pokemon Go or Wizards Unite to play and have fun.
The entire point is to have a game that ties the fun elements of gaming with the real world effects of exercise!
Thank you for this I’m excited to keep up with the progress 🙂

schamppu,

Thank you so much for the write up! Glad you like it the concept, and I hope you’ll enjoy the game as well ❤️

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it

Wow this is really bad …I’m waiting for the PR saving face “we MiSsEd tHe MaRK” statement In a week

AWittyUsername,

Yeah then they “only” increase it to 13.89 instead of 14

ArmokGoB, do games w RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it

The difference between $12 and $14 is not equal to 50% of $12.

Weslee,

There are other currencies in the world.

Euro is going from 8 to 12.5, which is higher than 50%

ipkpjersi, (edited )

That’s 36% but I’m sure it’s higher in some other currencies. 50% would have to be 16.

edit: This is the worst comment I have ever left on this website. I’m leaving it up so people can see what happens when you do math early in the morning. Embrace it, learn from it, live with it.

Itwasthegoat,

No, it’s a 56% increase. The increase is based on the before number, not after. 8->16 would be a 100% price increase

semi,

12.5/8=1.5625, so the Euro price went up by 56.25%

testo12,

You divide by the old price, not the new one:

12.5 / 8 = 156%

LeroyJenkins,

you’re trolling bro wtf

Enoril,
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Not sure, took me some time to remember we were talking about % increase.

Not everybody is natively good at math ^^

Summzashi,

That’s fine, but then they shouldn’t go around correcting people.

ipkpjersi,

I shouldn’t do math right when I wake up.

intensely_human,

50% would have to be 18

Apollo42,

50% of 8 is 4, so increasing from 8 to 12.5 is an increase of over 50%.

intensely_human,

But we’re starting at 12

Apollo42,

Read the comment you originally replied to and then come back and tell me why we’re not starting at 12.

Apollo42,

8 eur to 12.5 eur is a 56.25% increase. 16 would be a 100% increase.

ipkpjersi,

OP said it’s 20% to 56% depending on currency.

ArmokGoB,

Then he should put that in the title.

Mr_Dr_Oink,

Thats fair, but equally you should read the post.

Like you have never had to dilute a clickbaity title before…

HKayn,
@HKayn@dormi.zone avatar

What we should do is blame OP for deliberately choosing a title that makes it look worse than it is.

papertowels,

Just to be clear, by “read the post” do you mean go through all the comments of the mega thread OP shared? That seems unreasonable as opposed to “OP could’ve been clearer”. I’ve read both OPs post as well as the jagex website linked by Reddit and neither have enough information to back up OPs claims without prior knowledge.

Is there a more summarized version then “all the reddit comments on a mega thread” anywhere? Because that is basically halfway to telling someone to “do your own research”. At least quote some specific comments that could be taken as secondary sources.

We’ve had to dilute clickbaity titles before, we’ve also been pissed off at clickbaity titles before. I’d rather that shit not be normalized, personally.

Tudsamfa,
@Tudsamfa@lemmy.world avatar

By “read the post”, I assume they mean “read the 2nd sentence”.

The increases range from 20% to 56% in price depending on currency.

Sure, to verify this claim would take a bit more work. But the comment in question was just “14$ is not 50% more”.

The more appropriate thing to point out is that the increase in US $ is just 16%, anyway.

papertowels,

I also made the 16% error lol, math is hard.

Yeah I realized the difference is unpacking the clickbait as opposed to providing a verifiable claim.

Mr_Dr_Oink,

The second sentence in ops post here on lemmy.

papertowels,

Ah that’s fair, lol.

I realized we’re talking about two different things, you’re saying that the post unpacks the clickbait, and I’m saying that there’s no documentation of price increases, which tbf isn’t OPs main point anyways.

RvTV95XBeo,

But $12 to $14 is <20%…

olafurp,

Different currencies…

ipkpjersi,

But there’s more than one currency.

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