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posted by redbeard at 10 47 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels atari blizzard tbc classic video game art video games wow wow classic wrath classic thursday march 28 2024 it all comes back to balance with a few notable exceptions tabletop rpgs are a cottage industry of sorts sure there s the 500 lb gorillas known as wizards of the coast and paizo but beyond that there s a lot of small operations out there about the only large gaming operation not under hasbro is the embracer group which owns asmodee the french company that had been using embracer s money to gobble up a lot of other gaming companies such as fantasy flight z man catan studio and exploding kittens still in tabletop rpgs embracer really only owns the star wars rpg license courtesy of buying fantasy flight and hasn t exactly done a lot with it other than moving the property to edge studio yes the same hated holding company owns both catan and tomb raider yikes this never gets old however like i said you re not going to find many rich tabletop rpg developers around so these companies are very often a passion project i was thinking about that when i noted that the latest kickstarter for a savage worlds addition the science fiction companion just ended from kickstarter com savage worlds is one of those universal roleplaying products that i ought to do an rpg from the past on but i was considering this kickstarter as just one way that a small company can fund product releases that they re assured of people buying if you set up your kickstarter right and also make sure you have your budget properly figured out you know you ought to at least break even on your product gmt games with their p500 program which predates kickstarter by at least a decade is another game company that uses the crowdfunding model to create games that they know will have an audience and will break even when they release the game to the public for me however all of these small companies creating fantastic games and gaming products have one major drawback i can t afford to buy all of them i d love to but i can t i m not made of money additionally i want to make sure that not only do the game companies get my money but that i support the local game stores as well this 20 length silver dragon named strategios yottazar takes up a good portion of the wall at my flgs local game stores are kind of the forgotten person in this era of instant delivery sure you may not technically need a friendly local game store flgs to obtain games or even find out about them but they are a watering hole for the community some stores have places for organized play and others such as mine help to organize game nights at outside locations so how can i reconcile all of these conflicting desires pick and choose i guess i can t be there for everybody and i can t afford to give everything to everybody either control what i can and accept what i can t basically that s what i ve been doing when i ve been playing video games lately if i subscribed to all of the mmos that i like and play i d have no money left therefore i limit my subscriptions to two at maximum keeping my subs within my budget for the longest time those two were world of warcraft the mmo that got me into the genre and star wars the old republic when i stopped subscribing to wow after mists of pandaria i didn t pick up another mmo to replace it i was seriously considering adding the elder scrolls online in 2018 but blizzard announced wow classic and i resubbed in 2019 while i d love to give other mmos such as lotro some love i simply can t without giving up something else and given that i spend most of my mmo time in wow and swtor it makes sense that i d keep a subscription for each so when i see blog posts in multiple locations that subscription numbers for world of warcraft that show volumes that just feel higher than i expect from game traffic i observe i have to remember that people will hang onto subscriptions even when they re not actively playing because that s where their social network is one thing that i do wonder about is whether blizzard counts people purchasing game time as subscriptions if they go based on the strict understanding that only recurring subs count in their numbers i do not count as a subscriber and haven t since oh 2011 or so my guess is that they do count me as a subscriber even though i would argue otherwise in an automatically recurring subscription such as that found in a wireless or streaming service it s actually harder to unsubscribe as you have to be the initiator whereas if you purchase game time on a month to month basis it s actually harder to remain subscribed since you have to initiate the purchase each time obviously blizzard would prefer me to set up a recurring service since they know this but i ve resisted over the years since it has forced me to ask every couple of months am i having fun and is it worth it to keep playing at any rate the conjectures about subscriber numbers are believable although i am surprised they are not lower i would have figured that blizzard would have been happy to maintain these subscriber numbers and announce them at quarterly intervals but perhaps the reason why they don t post sub numbers has less to do with saying just how many people play wow but rather they don t want people to know just how much money they re getting from the cash shop i guess we ll never know now since activision blizzard is but a small line item on the overall microsoft balance sheet yes wotc is by far the larger of the two but paizo wields a lot of outsized influence in the gaming world because pathfinder is still incredibly popular among people who prefer the d d 3 x style of play they ve also led the way in moving away from the wizards led open gaming license that wizards and hasbro attempted to modify last year to make it much harder for anybody third party in d d space to make any profit at all you d think that corporate america would understand and learn from previous mistakes but apparently institutional memory is very very short i presume the truism about wine that if you want to make a small fortune in wine begin with a large fortune holds for game companies as well i m keeping this capitalized in the post as blizzard does not for any other reason posted by redbeard at 10 04 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels boardgames mmos musings rpgs savage worlds video games wow monday march 25 2024 meme monday tired of movie memes i suppose it comes as no surprise that i m kind of tired of the steady stream of genre movies by that i don t mean science fiction or fantasy or rom com in general but rather marvel movies star wars movies dc movies a steady stream of sequels upon sequels it has nothing to do with quality per se but everything to do with quantity as i remarked to one of my kids a couple of months ago i jumped off the star wars bandwagon a while ago because there was simply too much stuff being pumped out for me to really care all that much about it remember this joke from airplane 2 if they changed it from rocky to a marvel movie it might actually be accurate i ve not been one of those toxic haters out there for all these movies and streaming series because obviously people are watching and enjoying them but given that i ve not really had an enjoyable time watching movies in the theater at all for a couple of decades now i guess it comes as no surprise that i m just not that into sequels upon sequels definitely empire strikes back still there s no shortage of memes for those who are tired of star wars or superhero movies or if you remember disney and their direct to video avalanche back in the 90s and 00s all the princess stuff they were pumping out alas that i don t agree with a lot of those memes very much but if life gives you lemons you have to cherry pick the best ones to make some lemonade need i point out that the first two christopher reeve superman movies were in 1978 and 1980 and the keaton batman movie was 1989 or the first tobey maguire spider man movie was in 2002 three decades indeed from imgflip sheesh missing the point mr redditor who created this on imgflip you don t have to be a film connoisseur to be tired of superhero films die hard wasn t available yeah it s not an empty declaration to me either and i m not being contrarian about it because i saw the big marvel schedule back in the late 2000s and thought that s way too much from max weiss on elon musk s plaything mainly due to the other people in the audience being assholes kind of hard to enjoy a movie when the person next to you is on their phone having a loud conversation with the person next to them or letting their kids run amok in the theater i kind of miss the days when the worst thing you had to deal with in a theater is the people near you making out or otherwise fooling around posted by redbeard at 6 00 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels meme monday memes sunday march 24 2024 we ve been through death and life together oh we won t give in let s go living in the past living in the past jethro tull the longer i ve delved into the past the more i ve come to the conclusion that the present day is the best place for me that s not how i expected a medieval prostate exam to look like from memebase that s not to say that i don t find the study of history and archaeology fascinating but rather an acknowledgement that if i were born at most other periods in the past i would have likely not lived to adulthood that doesn t take into account all the times that i developed bronchitis or strep throat but the earliest major illness i had was scarlet fever when i was about 4 or so were it not for antibiotics i would have likely died from it that s just the most obvious instance of an illness that required a dosage of antibiotics to survive and really any of the dozens of illnesses requiring amoxicillin or an actual shot of penicillin could have killed me but scarlet fever was the earliest and likely worst illness of the lot i was also a curious kid and i broke my collarbone when i was 2 when i fell down the stairs i was one of those kids who was able to unlock multiple locks driving my parents crazy and i did so on that fateful day when i slipped and rolled down the steps landing on the concrete basement floor if you took those antics and transported them into oh 16th century english farmland i would have been the sort to provoke a horse and get kicked in the head or fall in a pond and drown even if i didn t actually die from doing anything stupid if i had merely broken my collarbone it would have potentially maimed me for life after all a physician would have had to set it properly and restrain it so that it would heal and without an x ray people might not even believe that i had a broken bone since it wasn t something obvious such as an arm or a leg and being two years old it s not like i was able to sufficiently articulate what was wrong with me aside from it hurts myself aside my wife would have likely died during the birth of our first child due to a medical condition that was easily solvable today but would have likely proven fatal only 140 years ago and that s not even counting issues with infection and disease that accompanied childbirth because doctors couldn t be bothered to wash their fucking hands why those gloomy thoughts well i was thinking about long term survivability in the past and how it fed into people s religious beliefs a furore normannorum libera nos domine an 8th century prayer i think it is difficult to understand just how much terror the vikings struck in the populace of europe because we have no modern equivalent in the us and western europe in a similar fashion the recent global pandemic is but a faint echo of the black death of the 14th century in terms of death it wasn t even as bad as the 1918 1920 flu and we have modern medicine to thank for that but when death is omnipresent it can affect your view toward the world with so many people dying around you what do the survivors cling to do they adhere to the straight and narrow of their religious practices do they change their worship because their god s obviously abandoned them or does their old societal structure break down due to so few survivors i don t have the answers here because i don t have enough exposure to psychology to speculate properly what i do know is that in the past the fear of hunger especially during the winter months was very much in the forefront people s minds when you re laser focused on one thing it can be difficult to appreciate the beauty of small things a couple of months ago i was up earlier than usual for some reason or another so i made some coffee and sat in the kitchen looking outside as the sunlight kissed the frosty yard i was struck then at how beautiful the morning was but if you had other things on your mind you would have missed it and worrying about such things as the amount of grain you have left in your stores or whether that smoke you see in the distance are viking raiders would probably qualify as other things on your mind nuff said but let s turn this thought exercise on its head and focus on life instead what would be the impact on a society where people could be brought back from the dead that core mechanic of rpgs both pencil and paper and video games is used primarily to keep a game going forward without having to create new characters on a regular basis but how would society change if death wasn t something to be truly feared since you could be brought back or maybe more precisely you could be brought back if you had enough money think about the implications of that little chestnut where the rich and powerful could pay to be resurrected on an ongoing basis does that mean they could live forever and what does that mean to the mass of people who couldn t afford to be raised from the dead how does religion respond to that religions today have enough trouble explaining why some good people are saved when others who are just as good aren t so it s not a big leap imagining priests struggling to explain that while some people are worthy of being raised from the dead the rest of you heathens aren t religion as the opiate of the people indeed monty python poked fun at the unexpected side effects of being healed in the movie monty python s life of brian then again in most rpgs deities and pantheons are not only present but actively so in the world they grant their priests the ability to cure and smite in return for following their teachings but what do those deities think of the grifting performed by their priests in their name or in the case of world of warcraft why does the holy light allow such fanatics as the scarlet crusade to wield the power of the light against obviously good people who merely disagree with them i guess those 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