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FoxAssGamer said:
Sure, but what I'm saying is you can say "I am going to use my points for Spock" or whatever and not obsess over getting enough credits to unlock every single hero.
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Sure, but then you buy Spock and go to play and there's already a Spock on your team and you never unlocked the Cylon so now you're screwed and have to play as the starter Colonial Marine.

 
FoxAssGamer said:
Sure, but what I'm saying is you can say "I am going to use my points for Spock" or whatever and not obsess over getting enough credits to unlock every single hero.
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Yes, you can, but then what if someone else is already using Spock? You'd have to be Kirk, or McCoy, or, god help you, Chekov. If you haven't spent any points on them, you're screwed, because the cards give a massive advantage. 50% extra damage on a Vulcan Nerve Pinch, for example, or being immune to damage while Mind-Melding.

I agree with what you said about many multiplayer games. I play Siege a lot and find it to be completely reasonable, but this truly is reprehensible and should not be excused.

 
The obvious difference to Siege is that, once unlocked, you're done aside from the minimal expenditure on a scope/sight, barrel attachment and grip.  You don't have to spend a bunch of point to have a "good" Tachanka versus someone else's Tachanka.

 
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FoxAssGamer said:
That does bring me to the question of...DO YOU HAVE TO UNLOCK ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING?
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Generally no. But I think in games like this, at the very least it should be within reach reasonably speaking (the highest levels and "rarest" crap obviously should take longer than something else) in the case of BFII, its not reasonable. The investment is already there buying the game to begin with. All it amounts to is a park entrance. We're talking about items that have no monetary value outside of the game's enclosed world. Throw in the RNG aspect, the amount of time to unlock "everything" (if a player set that as a goal) is almost impossible.

 
Guys we can't just have 100 Darth Vaders running around all willy-nilly mmmk.   It should be an achievement earned by someone with 200 hours of recorded flight time.  Some of you aren't taking this Star Wars video game seriously enough. 

 
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DD83 said:
"Unlocking everything in Battlefront 2 is a sure fire way to get rid of that pesky wife/girlfriend problem you've been having!"
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I just got rid of my wife and it cost me way more than $2100. What a bargain IMO.
 
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spoderman said:
That's keeping me from buying it. Strange decision to remaster the latest games but not the originals.
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The originals' gameplay and graphics weren't very good even for the time, and aged pretty horribly. Story was quite good, as I recall.

Technically G.U weren't the latest games, either, though what came after was on a smaller scale and was never translated. There was a PSP game, and a fairly lightweight fighter on PS3 that came with a movie. Not sure if there was anything else.
 
gospelman said:
Quoting self for humor. Yeah so 12 hours later I just bought a Destiny 2 pc key (1080 required) on ebay for $25 - $2 ebay bucks. I feel $23 is cag enough to settle into the game after trading in my lauch copy for double that. I think the seller has 1 more available so send me a pm if anyone wants listing/seller info.

I've done everything in D1 and D2 but I'll be starting from scratch tonight if any of you guys are playing. gospelman#1887
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Nvidia has officially released their new Geforce 388.31 GPU drivers, which offers up to 53% performance gains in Destiny 2.

 
My only issue with gaming in general when it comes to games with loot boxes or micro-transactions is that they are getting very close to the level of F2P games and I take issue with fully priced games using the tactics that F2P games implement. I have no issue with F2P games and the way they operate for obvious reasons they have to get a return somehow for it. But when a AAA game tries to see how far it can take it with F2P Mechanics to me it just feel dirty. I also feel that Battlefront 2 is very restricted into what they could with cosmetics only crates since Disney/Lucas is prob very strict with what's in their games 

 
Talking to a non-gamer buddy of mine and absentmindedly said "F2P" and, since he obviously wasn't paying attention before, suddenly his eyes grew wide and he went quiet. Apparently he thought it was something similar to A2M or DtF. Perverts
 
eulogywerd21 said:
Talking to a non-gamer buddy of mine and absentmindedly said "F2P" and, since he obviously wasn't paying attention before, suddenly his eyes grew wide and he went quiet. Apparently he thought it was something similar to A2M or DtF. Perverts
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R Kelly was super into F2P.

 
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Tomasety said:
https://twitter.com/StarCraft/status/930534997915713536
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Really, Blizzard of all companies commenting on micro-transactions???!?!?

Since Blizz made (their mostly cosmetic) loot boxes and micro-transactions in a full-priced $60 MSRP game popular w/ Overwatch and everybody else (EA, Activision, WB, etc) decided to basically take it to new extremes where it's also influencing important gameplay stuff - "Bleh" on Blizz.

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spoderman said:
Marvel Heroes is being shut down by Disney.

https://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-marvel-heroes-1820475273
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So, is an offline mode w/ AI bots incoming?

Or will this game just go into the game graveyard?

 
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I'm OK with blizzard boxes. They're all cosmetics on their non f2p games, and thanks to them I keep playing. All the characters and maps are unlocked. Same with KF2 and others, I keep playing to earn stuff.

I even spent some money on HotS just because I enjoy the game so much.
 
MysterD said:
Really, Blizzard of all companies commenting on micro-transactions???!?!?

Since Blizz made (their mostly cosmetic) loot boxes and micro-transactions in a full-priced $60 MSRP game popular w/ Overwatch and everybody else (EA, Activision, WB, etc) decided to basically take it to new extremes where it's also influencing important gameplay stuff - "Bleh" on Blizz.
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Overwatch got loot boxes right. Now eryone else tryna be Blizzard but they ain't.

 
SW: BF2 limiting the amount of Credits you can earn in Arcade Mode (i.e. Offline Single Player Skirmish Mode where you can test/play the MP maps, scenarios, battles, and all of that stuff):

https://youtu.be/-XNUyf-Hc6k

What's the point of even playing that offline? Might as well just go online and get playing over there.

 
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spoderman said:
Marvel Heroes is being shut down by Disney.

https://kotaku.com/disney-shuts-down-marvel-heroes-1820475273
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Not shocked as the writing has been on the walls for years. Lots of key personnel leaving, as in the ones with the experience and the big paychecks, and it seemed to change focus from building content to just keeping the game running.

It was a cluster fuck in the beginning but still managed to pull my attention away from the Last of Us to becoming something really quite fun in spite of Disney, whose actions hurt the game greatly by cutting access to mutants.

Gazillion never really had a chance after that.

Edit: Servers are up till 31 of December and they are suppose to unlock all the paid stuff soon.
 
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INMATEofARKHAM said:
in spite of Disney, whose actions hurt the game greatly by cutting access to mutants.
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Disney had nothing to do with that mess. It's Marvel's dumbass fault for selling half-rights to Fox. Then it's Fox's dumbass fault for making half-assed movies. And then it's both of their damned faults for this on-going tit-for-tat they have between mutants and FF. Don't blame Disney. If anything, blame Disney for realizing it wasn't making them money and killing it off. They do it pretty across the board when it comes to their games if you ask me.

 
IkedaTeramusa said:
They do it pretty across the board when it comes to their games if you ask me.
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So you actually think its just fine that their no mutants in the newest Marvel vs Capcom? That Disney cancelled statues that where in production of major X-Men because if they don't have the movie rights for said character they don't want it to basically not exist anymore? Etc. etc. etc.

Lets go back to that statue... Its a freaking statue. That's being produced isn't going to help or hinder their bottom line at all. Its not promoting mutants to new people. No one is going to buy a 400 dollar statue to a character they don't know a thing about. Its just sad and petty and the only ones is truly hurting in all of this is the fans themselves... oh, and the poor licenser who worked hard on a product only to have Disney come in one day and change their mind.

Honestly, if you can look at Disney in anything other than poor light than your not really a fan...

 
INMATEofARKHAM said:
Honestly, if you can look at Disney in anything other than poor light than your not really a fan...
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I maintain that it's not so much Disney as Marvel mismanagement. But we can agree to disagree. It's just like the Star Wars thing with Disney. Disney asked Lucasarts to lay out which books were canon and LA CHOSE to say "F'it, none of the books are canon" because they didn't want to waste their time.

 
RE: Marvel Heroes

I never really could get into it. Speaking of 300 Darth Vaders running around, those hub areas were a clusterf*ck of confusion. Just logging in made me almost want to immediately log back out again. 

 
Certainly agree to disagree. :)

Larry Davis said:
Disney didn't own Marvel back when the mutant/FF/Daredevil/whatever deals were cut.
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They also didn't own Marvel when the Gazillion deal happened.

Hubs, outside of some common areas in the campaign (and the hubs themselves) there wasn't much to worry about. Just go to the area you need and do what you need to do.

(Grantred I've always gotten a kick out of user and superhero group (aka guilds) names)
 
Disney is trying to buy Fox just so they can get the rights to X-Men back, btw. Everything will be Disney eventually.

 
elessar123 said:
Except for Taco Bell. Everything else will be Taco Bell.
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Option to buy crystals (the real-money currency) is being removed from Battlefront 2, along with credit/box amounts being retooled.

They say crystals will come back in the future, once changes have been made. I would guess they'll be related to cosmetic stuff. I'm ok with that.

Surprising that the outrage actually made them do something, even if the result hasn't shaken out yet. I fully expected EA to just be like "yeah, whatever, suck it up, nerds."

 
Larry Davis said:
Option to buy crystals (the real-money currency) is being removed from Battlefront 2, along with credit/box amounts being retooled.

They say crystals will come back in the future, once changes have been made. I would guess they'll be related to cosmetic stuff. I'm ok with that.

Surprising that the outrage actually made them do something, even if the result hasn't shaken out yet. I fully expected EA to just be like "yeah, whatever, suck it up, nerds."
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Don't be fooled. They tried fixing it once before and it wasn't much of a fix. What I suspect is much more likely is that they'll once again slightly tweak the requirements to get the hero character unlocks. I just don't see EA backing off of this stance they've taken on nickel-and-diming folks through microtransactions in this game or other future multiplayer shooters.

 
warreni said:
Don't be fooled. They tried fixing it once before and it wasn't much of a fix. What I suspect is much more likely is that they'll once again slightly tweak the requirements to get the hero character unlocks. I just don't see EA backing off of this stance they've taken on nickel-and-diming folks through microtransactions in this game or other future multiplayer shooters.
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Yeah that's why I've said the result hasn't shaken out. It definitely pays to be skeptical, but at least it's some sort of concession. I mean, realize that even just having it disabled during the first week is losing a huge amount of potential Star-Bucks™, so they're not getting off scott-free.

 
The game is also apparently a horribly buggy mess so they are in major damage control mode right now.  I'm sure the P2W stuff will legitimately be gone for a while as they try to keep the game from flopping entirely but if they manage to get it under control and have whatever their target number of players is, it will be back in one form or another.

 
Duel Links is now on Steam

You earn so much gems from events and casually playing that I recommend never to buy any.

It's fun side game to play on the side on your phone and do daily event stuff since they're constantly doing birthday events to giveaways.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/601510/YuGiOh_Duel_Links/

Logging in right now will net you some free gems + blue-eyes white dragon to get you started.
 

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