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unction as a character class so missing one could be a reasonably big deal in an action rpg if it is indeed any good it is fair to note parenthetically that popular opinion presumes sony is the villain of this story locking out xbox and pc players with sacks of cash but marvel licensing can also be a complicated creature it was rumored that scarlet witch was out of the question for disney infinity in 2015 because the hypothetical toys to life figure would fall afoul of whatever understanding existed between disney and fox concerning the character being part of both the x men and avengers universes one can imagine a scenario in which square and crystal dynamics weren t willing to pay disney more to add spider man to their avengers game but sony felt it was worth their while if he could be platform exclusive life moves towards the x cloud meanwhile microsoft s ecosystem is moving in the opposite direction sony offers the chance to buy first party exclusive titles that will contend for game of the year awards with microsoft s game pass subscription you never need to buy another first party title again and even relatively high profile third party games come to the subscription within the first year of launch notably for this conversation including square disney crossover kingdom hearts iii for people who can muster the bandwidth i eye my verizon box with suspicion since it seem significantly more flakey than the one i had when i lived in a more densely populated area a few years ago the claim is that you ll even be able to play all these titles via streaming on any android device not apple but that s another tangent if this hadn t happened i would almost certainly have paid full msrp for an xbox copy of avengers now i m in wait and see mode and from experience i can say that once you ve skipped the launch hype it gets easier with each passing month to wait for more information as the price only goes down more to the point i don t make purchasing decisions on xbox recent aaa games simply appear at no additional out of pocket cost to me and no harm if i decide to spend an hour of my time on something that i promptly uninstall i m not boycotting anything if the ps4 version makes more sense when full reviews are in and there is better detail about spidey s role then so be it i m just saying i m at a point in life where my response to the hard exclusive sell is less that i have to have it and more that the other guys are more pleasant to do business with posted by green armadillo at 10 43 pm 0 comments labels business models console wars friday july 24 2020 intermittent ffxiv players better off starting over on expanded free trial ffxiv apparently has so little need of intermittent revenue from low level infrequent players that it is willing to allow permanent free access to its first sixty levels including its entire launch game and first expansion changing the trial so that someone who has the time to binge the game is able to play for a month straight could convince that player to stick around a telling side effect of the change is that i am apparently such a small fish that they don t care if i ever pay them again in 2013 i played 2 months of ffxiv on both pc and ps3 using the game s crossplay i tried a number of the game s jobs ultimately leveling a character named johari jeutremie to 27 as an arcanist and i always meant to go back someday the game is about to launch a patch that overhauls the level 1 50 main story quest i never completed and will allow new players as much game time as they would like without paying there may never be a better time to revisit the game unfortunately johari is not invited upgrading a trial account to a paid account is a permanent one way process that forever cuts off access to the free trial even if you are nowhere near the trial s level cap i can afford the subscription fee but i would inevitably play once and cancel 65 days later having been billed twice more without having logged in again i would be paying to get less access to the game than i would as a free player able to come back for a day every few months if i want when i am unlikely to finish the story and first expansion s level cap in the foreseeable future even if i did someday hit the trial s level cap it could rise again in the future i would be locked out all over again if i paid the only sensible choice is for me to start over and never pay again i don t love free loading but it isn t personal a single player who becomes a year round subscriber is worth more than a dozen tourists like myself and my hypothetical 13 isn t worth risking making it easier for current subscribers not to pay year round posted by green armadillo at 3 46 pm 7 comments labels business models ff online my characters pvd thursday august 13 2015 gamescom 2015 toys to life report i spend most of my gaming time these days on toys to life franchises which i am slowly introducing to my 2 year old daughter as a way to populate her dollhouse with dragons and superheroes in addition to the usual princesses and clothed animals my primary goal during my trip to gamescom was to focus on both the upcoming games and any good opportunities to collect more stuff various observations lego dimensions which won the award for best family game was out in force with a full booth and additional playable demo stations in the family gaming lounge they had the dr who and portal figures and periodic panels at the booth mostly in german but there was a dev from the us who did a walkthrough of the wizard of oz level in english people who like the game praise it for being just like the current lego games i see the glass half empty in that i saw nothing about the actual gameplay to justify why basically the same game needs to cost 5 10 times more there was a modest disney infinity 3 0 area with around 10 demo stations inside the sony portion of the show floor they had all the announced 3 0 figures in display cases and playable demos for twilight of the republic rise against the empire exactly one demo station had the boba fett figure and inside out you could generally walk up and get a controller with little to no wait time oddly they went out of their way to prevent you from playing the disney originals characters there were toy box demo stations with a marvel figure and a disney figure on the portal but there was only one controller and the portal was inside a glass case unlike the star wars and inside out demos where you could switch figures not sure what the reasoning for this was we ve seen these figures playable on youtube and isn t this game coming out in two weeks there was a single skylanders superchargers station in an odd corner of the nintendo booth presumably to showcase the two sky miibo they had donkey kong bowser gill grunt and their vehicles to cover all three types of terrain for racing mode i don t think the demo included any traditional skylanders gameplay the only swag for playing was some stickers and a kaos keychain for an event hot streak i might have considered taking a spot in line from an 8 year old but i couldn t bring myself to do it just to test drive the game since it was literally a single wii u available to the general public nintendo had a large booth with a glass case containing all the amiibo organized loosely by franchise the regular sky miibo no dark variants were included if anyone out there is still a sky miibo denier if there was any information about amiibo support it was in german there was also a local game vendor who had a booth in the corner of the merchandise floor and were selling clearance giants and swap force skylanders including the only new in box magna charge s i ve ever seen i felt the stock was a bit overpriced so i passed on saturday afternoon came back on my way out of the show on sunday to find that they had sold very little and reduced prices i grabbed a s3 prism break and a lightcore drobot for 3 euros each 3 30 or so outside of gamescom i visited saturn known internationally for announcing the disney infinity 3 0 starter pack early media markt kind of like best buy generally has good prices but inconsistent stock and gamestop there was a lot of older skylanders and disney infinity at discounted prices 3 5 euro s and a few discounts on the current game figures i grabbed two trap masters an earth trap with a variant villain and a donald duck disney infinity figure for 26 euros i don t actually collect any amiibo but i do sort of photo safari when i see an amiibo in the wild here in europe that is impossible to find in the us i don t think i m ever going to top a mall gamestop in cologne that had all three of the holy trinity plus deedeedee lucina robin lucario greninja pit and bowser jr not out yet in the us on a single rack that said i could find at least a few of these guys in most stores including a random french supermarket we visited later in our vacation perhaps either supply in europe is catching up or else demand is dying down as the bubble pops out here i think at this point the only amiibo i have not seen in the wild are captain falcon and the yarn yoshi s note writing this from a hotel in france any additional finds from the tail end of my trip will go here so was it a good trip for a toys to life collector probably not if you had your eye on all the free exclusive figures that skylanders and disney infinity handed out in places like e3 sdcc and d23 you would have been disappointed as there was nothing on offer for the general public likewise the shopping was fun but not inherently worth the trip over to mainland europe also an in box collector would probably need to buy and check an extra bag for the return trip if you bought all the rare amiibo i ve seen in my travels i also had some more general cautionary notes on gamescom fun but i can t say i recommend the trip from the us for this experience posted by green armadillo at 3 47 pm 0 comments labels business models pvd wednesday august 12 2015 cautionary notes from gamescom i visited cologne germany last week for gamescom and had more than 140 characters worth to say about the show funny i used to have a blog for that sort of thing overall it is an interesting show but i hesitate to recommend it to people who aren t already in europe due to a number of quirks what you read is not what you get gamescom is technically a trade fair and maintains a separate area for press exhibitors and other trade visitors the new skylanders game was based in the trade area neither swtor nor gw2 were on the floor marvel heroes was not on the floor either though david brevik personally made up for that by hosting a fan gathering at the end of three straight days of interviews point being you can show up and not get any closer to the real news than you would have been from home entrance at the cost of experience gamescom claims over 300 000 attendees annually they do this by selling tickets to the limit of what german fire code permits and then re selling the spots of people who leave the show as space available afternoon tickets as a result there isn t really quiet time at the end of the day when you can avoid the worst of the lines instead most lines have matter of fact markers indicating that you will be waiting 3 hours from this point i m sure it s lucrative for the organizers but it s not a positive experience to walk the floor at 1 30 pm and feel like you have to line up for something now because if you wait any longer the show might close before you can get to the front of a line german is the primary language you won t have trouble ordering food as most signage is also in english most employees speak english and english is definitely the second most common language the assassin s creed demo had english voice acting and german subtitles instructions the wow expansion trailer had german voiceover but many of the heroes of the storm character trailers were in english lego dimensions apparently flew in a developer from america who would hand off the mike to the german community guy periodically just be aware that you will probably miss out on understanding some of the content if you don t speak the language german public transit also german also i found the public transit system hard to use because you need to identify the right stop to know what to pay and then find the right train and not stay on too long and end up on the other side of the country i don t mean to be too negative on the show in some ways us shows like pax suffer from the same crowding issues you do get a very large crowd with all the requisite cosplayers note unlike in the us german cosplayers can use realistic looking guns without running afoul of law enforcement merchandise and access to the top games for the fall if you were prepared to wait i was coming from england and tacking this onto a family vacation so i m mostly okay with the effort and expense i would not have been happy with the effort and expense if i d flown in from the u s your mileage may vary posted by green armadillo at 4 03 pm 3 comments labels business models pvd monday february 23 2015 three weeks in draenor as blizzard wraps up the first content patch of the warlords of draenor era i m marking something like 3 weeks in the expansion i d say that overall it s a good expansion but i m not yet convinced of the staying power given that we are almost certainly at least a year from the next edition my tale thus far advanced my main from level 90 to level 100 in 9 days including full clears of shadowmoon valley gorgrond talador and portions of the spires of arak my garrison is currently as upgraded as possible given my late start with all buildings at level 2 if gated by an achievement i have yet to complete or 3 i ve collected 30 followers all of whom are level 100 and am rapidly working on upgrading them to purple quality and ilvl 630 gear i m actually about to start tearing down some buildings where i have already obtained the best rewards polished off spires of arak and cleared out nagrand captured all pets that can be battled in the wild in draenor i m advancing professions as quickly as the time gates allowed one detour here i m continuing to farm the pandaria farm for cloth so i can make nearly free 28 slot bags every two weeks or so at this point i have some amount of stuff that i can loot for zero effort in about 20 minutes each day at my garrison there s a daily quest that i ve done once to go to a level 100 area and farm a relatively modest amount of an endgame currency i can see this getting old pretty quickly otherwise i can level an alt including the free instant 90 that came with the expansion box for fun and additional garrisons or go do dungeons i don t know that i m going to be sold on doing dungeons there is a lot to like in draenor the world is pretty and does much more to encourage exploration than recent expansions have done there are constant little blips in the world for 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