otter
They sleep upside-down, vespertine, and roam the woods at night to forage for wolves.
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Hell, I hope someone over there is reading this:
Considering your crowd-funded game’s MSRP floor as equal to a donation tier of said backers?
Easy solve.
Announce the sale and follow immediately with “Backer’s Choice”: either a refund of the difference or a free copy to gift to someone.
Boom. Sales through the roof like beanstalks.
Now, go get me that golden egg, ya marketing spooks.🤌🏼
Personally, I think BG3 will fit very neatly into that feast/famine mode. I’ve been playing it since early beta when there was only the initial map, and I’ve come back to it for nearly every update for the new classes, races, options galore, and the meta is deeep (if that’s of interest).
On top of that, the mod community is lively, so there’s a non-zero chance that whatever you might find annoying can be easily resolved to your liking. (eg. dice rolling, etc.)
Lastly, it’s been my experience that nearly every RPG-adjacent Di$cord server I’m on has at least a searchable conversation if not an outright channel for BG3 chatter. From local gaming shops to online RPG guilds to 3D-printing groups and such, there are millions of people that’re totally game to hang out & bullshit and/or theorycraft on the topic. I’ve connected with more than one D&D campaign that way, so maybe give it a shot! 🫡
Back in the early Sim days (~97?), I lived with a bunch of friends in a duplex and shared one house computer (always on, seeding, etc.) that had a perpetual session running. Any housemate at any time could pop down to check on their Sims, some more than others. Me, though? Not at all.
It took them months to talk me into it, and even then I gave in, exasperated. So, I decided to be the weird house. Started with a second floor on stilts/pillars and made the first floor a hedge garden & statuary promenade with a pool out back. At first, it was funny to see the random burglars have no idea what to do with a front door that opened directly to stairs —and that’s only if they found the front door before wandering into the hedge maze. IIRC, they despawn eventually (environmental effect, not actual Sims), but I didn’t expect the neighbors to wander over and into that maze…
Quite a while went by before I logged in again to check on my crime family, and it was really only inspired by a few housemates complaining the game was losing their Sims or something. When I looked in on my house, I soon found their Sims… A couple of them had yet to succumb to their neglect, but most died of starvation and/or fire inside the unintentional maze under my house.
Oops 😅🥹
Speaking as a fellow peasant, I’d like to point out that you seemed to understand earlier that proxy-use is assumed to be agreed on by the group and therefore open to all players. This latest comment implies a lie-by-omission ambush tactic, which is indefensible of course, so I’m not sure why you bring it up.
I’ll restate for crystal-clarity:
- If everyone in the group is able to proxy, why wouldn’t each of them craft their perfect deck? The game is all about synergy, efficiency, situational adaptivity, etc.
Unless, of course, the commercial component is essential to your personal validation of the gameplay — which, let’s be honest, is basically just painting a new face on clown punching.
In other words, Pay-to-win systems’re pretty commonly regarded (worldwide) as greedy corpo bullshit, so how do you reconcile this Pay-to-feel-like-a-winner tradition?
By simply not looking it in the face? 😶🤷🏽♂️
If proxies are allowed, then why wouldn’t everyone in said group reconfigure their decks to include their clutch cards? That sounds like an unnecessary and illogical parameter, and implies an unavoidable need by the group to purchase their cards “normally” to feel that they’re doing it correctly. 🤌🏼
Brings us right back to “Fuck WotC, GW, CMON, etc.”, eh? 🤷🏽♂️
Not many FLGS owners I’ve met in the last 20 years would’ve tried that sheisty tactic. Sorry that was your experience.
To be fair to your memory of it, imagine what would’ve happened had you pulled it from the booster? Nevermind the nat-20 IRL that would’ve been 🤌🏼, I’m talking about the selling it too soon or hemming & hawing over it until the stress clinched it (see: the former). You’re better off without that Black Lotus, most likely.
Like they say, “The story’s not in the crits.” 🤘🏼
Uniquely gorgeous and blithely quixotic? I’m listening.