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  1. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I think every fan's favorite game for the next year is going to be "in which realm is X?", where X is your favorite dead character. Except for the last or last two expansions, since that's apparently when everyone went straight to the Maw instead of being judged by the sorting hat... sorry, the...
  2. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Someone completely new. Shocking, for once.
  3. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Can't have people doing too much of that new thing and being distracted from grinding WQ and BG.
  4. Ukerric

    Pan'Theon: Rise' of th'e Fal'Len - #1 Thread in MMO

    Forumquest >>> AAA games
  5. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The only thing that sounds remotely refreshing in this expansion is the roguelike tower. The rest? Bring back nostalgia with old talents. Bring back nostalgia with level 60. Bring back Legion's headquarters. Bring back moar old stuff. Which is nice, mind you, but that's not what will make me...
  6. Ukerric

    Diablo 4 / IV / IIII / Fore / Cope / Seethe

    Welcome to the modern era of AAA game that are designed to be an endless source of monetization thru "game services". Can't sell "game services" if your game doesn't use said services.
  7. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    WQ lasts for 24h, and 25% of them recycle every 6 hours.
  8. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Instead, you got pickup shenanigans
  9. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Oh, and I just realized. Since we're getting all the dead people from Azeroth, junior can probably say hi to daddy, and by the way, did she really got you killed in Legion?
  10. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    "Hi Darion? Got kicked out of my old job, need a new one. Get out of the way, I'm taking charge of the DKs."
  11. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    If I heard him correctly, they're from the roguelike tower. That one's going to be an interesting new technology, because if they can make it so that you have a randomly generated zone, oh boy. (as opposed to 10 pre-generated floors you get in a random order filled with random spawns, that is)
  12. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Vulpera Deathknights. Just in case you cared.
  13. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I mean, a Legion triumvir (can't remember if it's Kil'jaeden or Archimonde) made that helmet to have an orc control some undeads. And now, you use it to shatter dimensional doors between our world and the world of the dead? Like WTF?
  14. Ukerric

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    Everything else had "You can PREORDER RIGHT NOW, AS IN NOW, NOW, NOW!" except D4.
  15. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Thankfully, the dev panel is free so we can figure out what their non-presentation trailer didn't say...
  16. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    "Got better helm than your shit, ilvl too low"
  17. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Brack has about the charisma of an unbaked potato compared to Morhaime...
  18. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    And Brack is apologizing for China already...
  19. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Dev panels will be free on blizzcon.com
  20. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Fuck, even if I'm not going to play Blizzard games again probably, I'm still on the streaming page...
  21. Ukerric

    Death Stranding

    Saw one review that basically said "masturbatory scifi concepts plus boring gameplay plus awesome outdoors". Basically, you've got life and death mixed, the spirits of the dead trigger a nuclear detonation if they find someone who just died. And they got oil zombies that try to kill you so they...
  22. Ukerric

    Autonomous Systems

    Couldn't figure a better thread, so here it is. This is the future of our games' animations:
  23. Ukerric

    Diablo 3 - Reaper of Souls

    You know, doing a Diablo version of Dungeon Keeper would be... something very good. Which means it's never happening, of course.
  24. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Rofl: TL;DW: The prize pool for the PvP and PvE finals at Blizzcon is... entirely from the sales of in-game pets. Blizzard implied they would put $250,000 and then you'd have 25% of your special pet/mounts added. What they really meant is that all of the prize pool would come from store sale...
  25. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Except that Shadowlands (99% sure) has been designed a year ago, all of its grind-daily mechanics have been planned before Classic launched, and Blizzard can't turn around on a 500$ dollar bill (never mind a dime), so you'll have all the new "interesting" mechanics. I mean, that's the people...
  26. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Is he? I thought his soul was obliterated during WotLK? Or am I remembering wrong?
  27. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Hmmm, what happened about "We removed Reforging because we did not want you to get a piece of gear and it would be useless until you came back to town"??? Gee...
  28. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    I was laughing half the time because of how over the top it goes. It's very obviously a challenge he set himself: "how deep (pun intended) can I go". That's what makes it a classic. You need to like the very raw humor. It goes worse before it ends. After a while, he pretty much stopped the real...
  29. Ukerric

    The Astronomy Thread

    Given the number of satellites launched, he probably had like 4mn "RIGHT NOW, GO GO GO!" to post.
  30. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    They were anticipating too many "What's your position on HK?" questions.
  31. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Blizzcon schedule finally posted. No mystery, there's 6 "Coming soon!" panels, which means WoW xpac, Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 x 2 panels each. And apparently most of them are going to be free of charge for streaming. (they know that the only people purchasing the stream do it for the in-game...
  32. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Yes, but now that he's publishing book 2, he'll have to take down all but 10% of it. That's why you find only the first 22 chapters of book 1, then it goes straight to book 2.
  33. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Once you hit Kindle Unlimited, no more than 10% of your book may be available in electronic form anywhere. (so once he publishes, he'll take down all the chapters save the beginning)
  34. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Saw that before heading to management training. Need to finish before the KU curse hits the book.
  35. Ukerric

    The Sci-Fi Book Thread

    By the way, book 3 comes out Apr 16, 2020. That's... a loooooong time.
  36. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Classic

    15 years later, everyone knows about that quest, and how expensive epic mounts are in general.
  37. Ukerric

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    Told you. It was Blizzard China's decision (that is, Tencent). The HQ only discovered the fiasco after the fact.
  38. Ukerric

    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    Alastair Reynolds is good at "Hard SF".
  39. Ukerric

    The Fermi Paradox -- Where is everybody?

    "All it takes is one." One person per million is willing to do that? That's more than enough for your 1k colony.
  40. Ukerric

    What did you just read?

    Oh, and by the way, there's a brand new LitRPG store on Amazon, since Amazon doesn't have a litrpg/rpg adjacent category: https://amazon.com/litrpg Authors are only starting to get registered there (you need to ask for inclusion), but it's already covering a decent slice of the genre's books.