Arkthos

@Arkthos@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the European Union⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These seem to be the four major points:

  clear and transparent pricing and pre-contractual information;
  avoiding practices hiding the costs of in-game digital content and services, as well as practices forcing consumers to purchase virtual currency;
  respect of consumers' right of withdrawal;
  respecting consumer vulnerabilities, in particular when it comes to children;
  

  First one actually seems pretty well covered by Warframe already. Second point can be met just by displaying the real currency price next to the plat price, calculated based on what people on average give per plat when purchasing through the Warframe website. Third point… Yeah that’s going to be a point of contention for sure. That’ll require a redesign of the plat system. Fourth point I’d also say Warframe does. Their ‘oh shit’ moment when they ended up creating a slot machine with, what was it, kubrow skins? Demonstrates them actually caring about this already. Basically they saw people interacting with a new mechanic much like one would a slot machine, and then soon after rolled it back and refunded everyone who had spent money on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is an engineer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully there is often a pretty big difference between studying and working.

  I found there to be a level of stress in my studies that I never had a problem with later. An idea that any moment not spent pouring over books was contributing, at least in my mind, to inevitable failure; doubly so with exams looming ahead.

  For me finishing my engineering degree was such a massive relief and work is so much better. I’m in anon’s boat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI conversion from nonprofit to for-profit⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it is kind of dumb that you can turn from being non-profit to for-profit if it turns out you’ve struck gold. Cheapens the value of non-profits everywhere if they can turn that around whenever they feel like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The world is ending but here's a side quest - will RPGs ever solve their urgency problem?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In Skyrim the main quest constantly tells you about how urgent it is for you to do the next steps. You must heed the summoning of the greybeards, you must hurry along to the dragon graveyard. Time is constantly of the essence.

  And then every other part of the game encourages you to goof around.

  Oblivion is the same with this. Morrowind went the opposite direction with the story at times pretty much telling you to goof around for a bit before continuing the main quest (probably because people were less used to open world games maybe?).

  I think daggerfall had you on actual timers so if you weren’t at the correct locations in time the game would be impossible to complete. Which sure is a way to resolve the false sense of urgency lmao.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyrim Is 13 Years Old, But Elder Scrolls 6 Is Nowhere in Sight While Bethesda’s First Four Games Took Only 12 Years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Deep or not, I hated the levelling system of Oblivion with a passion. Needing to micromanage which skills I increase for each level so I can get a good attribute increase was such a micromanagement pain, especially when everything kept scaling up your level. Often I felt like I was getting weaker, not stronger, when I leveled.

  I’d much prefer they replace the system with something different (like how it works in fallout 3) than what they did in Skyrim where they just carved out all the annoying bits and left barely anything behind though.