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Why it's probably not a good idea to buy a game thats price starts at $0.49.

I've been a bit worried about work lately; as you guys know, the job is still fairly new. One thing though might not know though that in Canada they can fire you your first 90 days for no reason at all (you can also quit without notice). Anyway, all this getting sick nonsense happened within my 90 days. I wrote in asking if there were any jobs that were web-based only, there isn't. BUT they have all my paperwork, and will get in contact with me again a week before I am scheduled to come back (Sept 1st!) which is passed the 90 days. Yay for not being fired! But still semi-not officially begging for money too. >.>

@thenomain Steam is still better for suggestions for me than Netflix is.

@thenomain Oh yeah. I've gotten things like since you watched Brooklyn 99, you might like Human Centipede, and How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, might like Stranger Things. Off the top of my head.

Also check and see what your network name is. Almost sounds like Utopia.

Yeah, I don't believe that entirely. Maybe that's what most of the outrage is now, but that wasn't the case at the start. They announced it on mobile live at Blizzcon and it got immediate reactions. The review bombing was happening even before the Q&A panel even before the one guy asked if it was an early April Fool's joke. There were several hours when the outrage started that were because it was a mobile game, the re-skinning snowballed from that. Because heaven forbid a company go to a company who knows what they are doing, and get help with something they don't know how to do.

Also the whole removing negative reviews? While they probably removed comments, they can't remove likes / dislikes and that was probably Youtube itself; they have been working removing things like bots and spam to help properly reflect the like / dislike ratio.

People were expecting Diablo 4 news, even though they were told not to expect anything huge because of the rumors floating around. And when they didn't get it, they threw a tantrum. It's convenient to latch on to as the reason, but was't the root cause. It's because we live in an outrage culture now, and people believe review-bombing something they don't like will get them their way.

This is also not the first time Blizzard has done this, and they are actually being less sneaky about it than they did before; before WoW came out Blizzard went to Sony and asked them questions about EQ, how to do this, how to do that, but didn't tell them "Btw we're planning on making an MMO!" They got all the information and ran with it.

I'm not a Blizzard fangir defending them here. It was a shitshow on both sides, but Blizzard is getting blamed for some things they had no control over. I just think the reaction to it is way out of proportion, and to say it's because of a farming out a reskin is the issue is disingenuous. It might be part of it, but it's not the whole reason, not by a long shot.

Ne-crow-philia.

Right, there are a lot of PC gamers who go to Blizzcon, and they may be the majority that were there, but Blizzard has a lot of things that are not just PC. Diablo for Switch was launched the first day of Blizzcon - if it were all about PC players being upset about a non PC announcement, you would think there would be some complaining about that as well.

People built it up in their minds and expected it, and then they didn't get it. Blizzcon is for all of Blizzard properties, not all of them are on PC, and not everyone who enjoys Blizzard games only enjoys one of the properties. Diablo itself isn't and hasn't been exclusive to PC for a long time. Now granted Blizzcon started after WoW blew up, and that has always been PC only and a lot of people play Blizzard games only on PC. Platform might have a little to do with it, but again, not nearly as much as the hype the players built up in their minds for expecting a D4 reveal.

I live in the middle of nowhere, and to the left. I'm also a masochist because I decided to give the whole online dating thing a shot again. But the thing is Nova Scotia is a tiny, weird shaped province, so when I put within 50 miles, the site always goes as the crow flies, so it will tell me about people in an entirely different province which would take at least 8 hours to drive through. Or fish.

ETA it's not just dating though; all of those order out apps and the like, or needing to find a carpenter or something. Nope. No Uber either. It's a tiny little province, but everything is so far away.

I mean Blizzard probably should have anchored the opening ceremony reveal with WC3 remaster rather than Diablo Immortal, that was a bit tone deaf. But change.org petitions to stop the game from happening? Just another reason to avoid fandoms.

Like I said when I was ranting about it on stream the other day; It's a silly thing to be angry about. You want to be angry about something? Be angry about the dog that ended up euthanized because he bit off a guys testicles, because that guy put peanut butter on those testicles to have the dog lick them off, and the dog, being a dog bit instead of licked. That's something worth being angry about, and there is so much more for people to be angry about. Or any number of things rather than a franchise people love having more of it, but not what they wanted.

This dumbass.

@auspice In the movies anyway, as I understand it he has Cameos up to the next Avenger's movie already filmed for at least the Marvel specific movies, so Ms. Marvel and Avengers. It was unclear whether he's in the next Spiderman or not.

I went from being slightly near-sighted to my eyes correcting themselves and now I'm a little far-sighted.

Not so much anger as what the hell, eyes?

Oh yeah, it's garbage, but as an example of garbage there are so many more "games" on the store that aren't actually games. Missing .exe files. bitcoin mining viruses, asset flips, and people just taking game maker demos, and renaming them.

But it is a game with mechanics that are semi unique so not really. Someone thought about the game, and made it, and then paid the $100 they needed to get on Steam. No Man's Sky was garbage when it came up. Why is it more of a "real" game that gets to be on the Steam store, but that pooping one isn't?

@auspice I also suck at it. Luckily how good I am at it isn't dependant on people winning keys!

Yeah I logged in to help (Which took my new password) and under the services tab there are issues with the webpage, accounts, and the launcher, so we both reset our passwords for nothing.

Thank you everyone who donated, came by to chat and hang out, or spent most of the stream with me. Thank you for the mentions too! Thank you especially for everyone who put up with my once a year spam! Thanks to you guys I made my goal again. It's you guys who make Extra Life awesome every year!

"Hey why did my pet run away?"
"You have to feed them now."
"WTF?"

Conversation I saw at least 6 times during the beta they had.

Oh and hunters, you need to buy arrows again too! Have fun!
Soulshard farming. Farming MC for that damn bag and the mages always getting the ring. You know who should have got it? THE ONLY WARLOCK WITH YOU ON GARR THAT'S WHO!

Yeah not looking forward to it at all, tbh. But I do want to go back to the old quest places from before Cataclysm.

Roy Clark