It’s true though

The iVerge era

Valve remembered on August 22 that they have a tournament starting in two weeks

There was a PvE ARPG dungeon crawler inside DotA calle Aghanims labyrinth which was essentially a custom game which valve made as part of its pre-International battle pass. Absolute blast. Now, they won’t release it as a custom game and they won’t release it as a standalone game and absolutely no one understands why. It’s something that they had sitting already and they just chose to not let people play it anymore and no amount of requesting has even earned a response from Valve. I wish I had a job, not because of money or prestige, but entirely the ability to fuck around and do whatever you want

o7 to everyone posting OC boobs

It looks like it was made by someone who has not played even a single Borderlands game before.

Brother, it’s your cost of living. Almost every other country which has a footprint on the video game market and isn’t known for black policies has better working hours and balance of life. It’s just that paying Americans a liveable wage is three or four times more expensive than giving a reasonably comfortable wage to a developer elsewhere.

The other part of it is to look at where your game companies are clustered in the US. It’s either the bay area, Seattle, or Florida. None of those places are exactly cheap to either hire employees with these conditions or to hold an office space.

I think one of the major reasons why they are having to do PoE 2 is because the game has garnered a reputation of being a spreadsheet simulator, which really hurts any new users from picking the game up. This is, of course, an almost imminent death to any game. There is also some truth in it, in how the game has bloated itself to where it is now, where any seasonal character has to click 50 buttons between running maps.

PoE2 lets them not have to invest time in their current set of issues and start fairly afresh. Even if half of their committed users don’t pick up 2, it is still bound to outperform 1, I feel.

YOU FOOL. YOU SHOWED ME YOUR KEY NOW I CAM ACCESS WHATEVER IS BEHIND THAT LOCK. CLASSIC MISTAKE.

I don’t know what this is talking about. The only dank things I knew were memes and kush.

I really tried to not buy anything this time around but the last couple of games I picked up are all pretty difficult for my middle aged brain so I went compulsive shopping again

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What does 196 have to say about this?

That’s a bit of an unsolvable problem at this stage as well because when not enough new people pick up the game, they can’t be matched with new players. Naturally, you end up getting matched with other low skill players who are, in a good number of cases, in that skill bracket because of this behaviour.

That’s a hot take and a half

I have multiple thousand hours on DotA but I feel like the problems here might be the same. These games have bloated themselves to the extent that it becomes impossible for a new player to be able to pick up the game because it is near impossible to create and maintain an in game tutorial. With hundreds of heroes/champions it’s like a thousand different mechanical interactions and expecting new users to be willing to put up to that is asking for too much.

You’re reading too much into this. I’m sure it was because of lack of usage

Knowing nothing about the source, the one movie I know this isn’t about is the Angelina Jolie starrer Hackers

I usually respect ars technical for writing great stories. This time, however, they could’ve included the name of the app so it wasn’t clickbaity. It’s newsbreak for those wondering.

TF do they mean stubbornly popular? My windows 10 works perfectly fine and I have absolutely no reason to change anything about it. What is this weird ass ‘if you’re not upgrading, you’re being stubborn’ when there is no reason to and windows 11 looks ass on top of it