I don’t think I saw anymore mention Brotato or Balatro. Both fantastic and worth every penny.

I agree that OW1 was better. They ran a public 6v6 test for the past couple weeks, and there’s another one confirmed coming sometime, so the OW you loved may return at some point.

Are you a Marvel fan in general? As someone who couldn’t care less about Marvel heroes, I played Rivals for a bit, and while it was entertaining, I would rather just go play Overwatch.

Mind if I ask your reasoning for this?

I would call it a complete game that was finished a long time ago but has a passionate developer who provides free content updates. It’s definitely not a live service game, as there are no microtransactions and the updates are free.

Calling Stardew unfinished is hilarious.

A net negative $400 million? Yes?

Yeah I kinda doubt that…

Same, I was hella excited for this remake. FF7 was a mind-blowing experience for me as a child. But I want to play through the whole story and I had forgotten for years that this game existed until seeing this post.

Ah, if only I could read more than one sentence at a time…

Keep in mind that a large portion of players don’t have it installed on Steam and use the Battle.net launcher instead (like me).

But that would cost them hundreds of dollars!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Truss_lettuce

I’ve been watching some streams and it seems good. A couple friends who have played are into it. There’s definitely a good portion of hype from it being Valve though.

Oh true, the partially delivered PvE content that was canceled almost immediately after releasing after a year delay.

Yeah I realize that looks dumb now. I was thinking of microtransactions that affect gameplay. You know, the important kind.

My argument is don’t buy them. It’s really that simple.

I believe new players also have all the characters unlocked immediately.

I did. You also had to pay $40 to play the game though.

There is not anymore. All characters are unlocked for free.

They’re not essential to playing the game. Just don’t buy them.

What macrotransactions? The game is free and the only this that’s monetized is cosmetics.

Oh. Yeah fuck this guy.

Huh?

He surely has enough money from Stardew to live comfortably for the rest of his life. Why would he need to publish anything?

Ah, I pretty much only play draft so I don’t run into those kinds of things often. The lack of right clicking really hampers Arena’s interface.

I’m an MTGO believer as well, but what regular game actions take you 15+ (I know you’re exaggerating) clicks on Arena? The interface isn’t perfect on Arena, but it’s decently functional most of the time. My gripes with Arena are mainly the monetization strategies and the insane amount of time it takes them to add cards (even with the supposed machine learning to program the cards) and features (practically none get added anymore).

They aimed to do better than MTGO with its spaghetti code made by underpaid developers, and they ended up with the flashier looking Arena with spaghetti code made by underpaid developers. They also made sure it was missing half of the game’s cards and the capability to implement much wanted features like more than two player matches and spectator mode.

Yeah they just stopped updating it and let all their RTS talent go to other companies to make their own games.

The one aspect is slightly unintuitive, but mostly you tap and drag like you would on any mobile interface. There is no"virtual mouse" or anything crazy. It’s wild to me that people would be frustrated out of playing because of the interface.

In that case you tap the card and it pops up to show the text. Still pretty intuitive. I guess if you’ve never played a deck building game or RPG it could be confusing?

I’ve always just dragged the cards rather than using successive taps. It’s pretty intuitive in my opinion. I would have never thought to call that a virtual mouse…

Deselecting a card without casting it can be a little tricky, but you can usually tap another card or something without causing an issue.

There’s no virtual mouse, are you thinking of the wrong game?

Agreed, I gave up on beating gold stake when I would lose most of the runs on the first couple antes. I think it’s good to have a brutally difficult mode, I hope they didn’t go overboard on easing it up, but it was good to ease up a bit.

Wow, a bunch of these changes make sense, but I’m not sure how I feel about making so many changes to make things easier.

Could be? Either way it’s a win for the players.

Finding two of those hands with a smaller hand and fewer discards is much harder. I could be miscalculating odds for sure though.

Slay the Spire is the gold standard for me, at least. I haven’t played Monster Train – it doesn’t look that appealing to me, but I’ve heard good things.

Playing on the gold stake, I think I don’t make it past the first ante like 80% of the time. I might be too greedy or just bad at the game, but in StS I can make a decent run on ascension 20 at a much higher rate.

It’s definitely a tough game. The only thing easy about it is taking your turn, missing something important, then dying.