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  • There are only 3 developers I will preorder from whenever I find the game they are releasing interesting. Erin “Concerned Ape” (Stardew Valley); Bob the Bot (Survivalist); and Terry Cavanagh, the creator of VVVVVV.
    They keep their games updated, they are pretty chill people, and they keep players informed during development.
    For now, they are the only ones who have earned my trust.

    For everything else, it’s full patientgamer mode for me. Wait until the whole game is released with a single price tag, 90% discount, no online requirements outside of multiplayer, and community fixes.




  • As long as the wealthy can put the finger on the scale with control of media and funding propaganda, the pendulum won’t stop swinging.

    One group does damage.
    The next does some changes that will take about 4-20 years to fix that damage, and do not try to fix everything, letting some damage stay.
    People are unhappy with the after-effects of the damage and switch again fooled by the propaganda, preventing further fixes from continuing.
    The destructive group claims any improvements as their actions, and any problems as caused by the fixing group, and do some more things to make things even worse.
    The damage eventually becomes patent again, so people switch once again.
    And repeat.

    And things slowly ratchet to worse and worse.










  • Yeah. All GW1 pretty much needs at this point is just the Beyond chapter of Elona and 2 professions unique to Prophecies, one heavy armor, one medium armor. And having Prophecies and Factions weapon drops updated to the new system used in Nightfall and EotN, with inscriptions and more upgrades, and making the upgrades have fixed stats like armor upgrades, so they can get their own trader NPC.
    And then rig the trader NPCs to always have supllies at a premium cost so GW1’s economy does not depend on bots to stay supplied.

    There’s no way we’ll ever see new professions , and I doubt they’ll ever update the weapon drops. But they have already done some new quests. So there’s still a bit of hope for “Rise of Joko”.






  • You win the public vote when you get 51% of all the people who had the right to vote. That includes those who didn’t vote.

    If participation is only 50% of the voters, and you get 51% of that participation, you didn’t get 51% of the votes, you got 25.5% of the votes.

    And by this, I don’t mean what the current laws consider “winning the public vote” in any particular country. I mean what they need to be for that to be really true.