I felt like going back to swtor. My main account was disabled, expired or something and I can’t recover it without calling some dumb schmucks working for EA support.
Went in on a secondary account I used to bypass the character restrictions and now I’m scratching the itch until it finally dies for good.
It has a daily login reward, some kind of battle pass, everything is paywalled, limited number of rewards, they changed character creation and unified classes, but pvp is active.
Overall, I don’t recommend it.
It is just a cash grab. Bunch of creative minds create a nuclear fallout package that needs you to go online to redeem it.
They can’t even grasp the most simple of concept their games have: stuff that works hundreds of years after a nuclear fallout.
A real storage case would have an offline collection of the games, a guide on the basics of survival after nuclear war, a simple radiation badge and maybe even a glowing Nuka-Cola bottle.
It’s that simple. (Relatively.)
I didn’t have to wrack my brain to know it helps the lazy bums who don’t know or don’t want to do anything themselves.
While I’m out of the loop with the current state of affairs, in the early days there were plenty of comments from people who didn’t know what WinRAR or even an archive was. Couldn’t even install the most basic of mods without a video tutorial. Couldn’t even ask for help properly. “Help! The dumb mods not working!!!”
It was as hilarious as it was tragic.
I got a free fighting game on epic. Dnf Duels or something. One of the tutorials had a combination to block or counterattack, can’t remember, and I tried every which way I could think of yet nothing worked.
So finally, I got out of the game and uninstalled it.
The big moment was figuring out it’s not my job to find a way of fixing some company’s dumbass decisions. That it’s ok to say “this shit ain’t worth the hassle”.
Of the ones I have:
Galactic Civilizations III. I’m about 10 turns away from filling up the Ascension Crystals with a custom civilization focused on research.
The research tree seems endless with many 1-turn tech still left to unlock and I have no idea what to focus on in order to build the Ascension Portal/Gate thing.
But I unlocked the Huge design for ships, so I’m going to try and make one before the time is up.
I spent around 8 hours total on this match, most of it Sunday. I’ll probably finish it tomorrow if I have time to play.
The /s is not needed. I was quite impressed to hear that EA Sports is one of the main money makers of EA despite having each new game as a buggier version of a previous one, only with an updated roster. I had no idea they were so popular and the last FIFA I played properly was in 2003.
So we are out there and we do think like that.
This reminds me of Star Trek Voyager’s Chakotay(?) and total fraud that “helped” with the native background.