Dark Alliance was a bit of a mess from what I hear.

Critical Role does great, but for the most part Wizards has left its own setting to languish. Most of the lore from Faerun is now 100+ years out of date (in-game) with new sourcebooks rehashing versus moving the world forward. Unless you’re a Drizzt fan, you’re not getting a ton as far as… well, anything is concerned. Even Dark Alliance is a rehash of Salvatore’s fiction.

And when they again need people, they’ll whine about how no one wants to work for them. Or how workers are “taking advantage.”

Story killed gaming? Nah… story-driven games are what took games out of the basement and into the mainstream. One can only make so many “I have a gun / sword and I kill the things” games before it gets repetitive.

Concur. Larian is a breath of fresh air in a field saturated with pay-to-win, monetized, microtransaction nonsense. I’m not convinced they haven’t traveled across dimensions to restore fun and sanity to a hobby that has been all but ruined by greed and laziness.

I’ve made the “promotion later” mistake once. I was as new at what I do as he was; taught me not to trust corps to do the right thing if it isn’t in writing and even then, not.

Dude really just needs to step away from the drugs, I think.

So a guy registered on lemmynsfw, an instance whose users have been known to post exploitative pictures, is bitching about… gacha games. Oh wow. Wow.

Funny story, my partner sent me a gacha game and I have yet to spend a dime. I play for maybe 20 minutes a week. If someone is unable to control their spending on make-believe prizes, then they have underlying issues they need to work out.

Your assertion that gacha = slavery is about the most ridiculous thing I’ve read all day, and I had to open Twitter.

Sometimes, you just have to poke the bear. ;-)

Are you just… angry it lacks anime tiddys or something? Maybe someone can point you toward a more suitable gacha game, then.

Did you wake up hangry or something? Your comments are… special.

I’ve been browsing older Forgotten Realms sourcebooks and the love that the authors put into those is amazing. It hurts to see D&D and the worlds I grew up loving destroyed by a soulless entity that cares only about profit.

Yeah, my partner really likes the art but we’re both aware that MtG was just the real world precursor to the current micro-transaction culture.