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I think alot of people are gonna be resubbing around this time now that the new expac is getting close.
Alot of folks (me and my FC, included) weren't all that hyped for whatever was in store for 7.x MSQ.
So expect player numbers/queues to get a lil more active again come 7.5
Only in the big opening scene in OPLA Season 2 but it just feels so cool that this exists.
It’s allowed to be weird and fun in a way a lot of other adaptations don’t even bother to try with.
The attention economy (not to mention responsibilities) of today means that that thing being fighting games is increasingly unlikely. So MK11 and SF6 sell millions off singleplayer content + a ranked mode people dabble in and no one will ever play Virtua Fighter with me. Not even Pat. Not Even Me.
Absolutely fascinating write up by Pat but I have to admit I'm a little baffled by the conclusions here in some cases. I'm loathe to criticize as Pat's a smart guy, but I feel like there are some hidden expectations not factored in that miss the mark on a fairly major point. 1/x
Finally, some good fucking news
Individually, a person who plays fighting games may have a bunch of different complicated nuanced motivations and emotions that are served by different parts of the fighting game experience — not limited to the game itself on their console, but the broader journey of mastery and connectivity. The high-minded ideal FGC stuff I mentioned above is real and does exist! It just doesn’t exist enough to sell the millions of copies that go into funding the next Street Fighter or Tekken. At scale, building and selling games as a service looks a lot more like making a theme park or a casino, where you have customers entering at a given point, you give them choices on what kind of experience they can have in your game, and you give them clear signs and paths to choose from in order to make it easy for them. In the above section, we established that people play video games because they want to feel something specific. It’s a brief moment of agency in a day where you were otherwise probably at the mercy of some stupid bullshit at your job, or at school, or in your family, or on the bus, or whatever. We spend most of our day pushing the boulder up, and the brief moment of rest we get is choosing the video game we play in between eating dinner and going to sleep, where we get to act like the person we imagine ourselves to be as the boulder rolls back down the hill.
"Why ranked sucks and we can't get rid of it"
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in my opinion, there should be consequences for what they did with Strive's UI.
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I think it's important that if you are covering something like this you don't write this kind of sentence. As a journalist you shouldn't try to justify or normalize these companies completely illogical business moves. They are performing mass layoffs that guarantee they get zero return on investment
Coming back to this because making Mary Jane a reporter instead of a supermodel or actress because its more “empowering” fucking sucks. That plus the way Miles is written make these games reek of white men who think they’re being progressive not realizing they’re being problematic in a different way
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I know there's throwing good money after bad but this is just making sure you don't make a dime and it's 100% losses AND you scare off other creatives from jumping ship to work with you.
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I do wish the Philippines-side of FGC was more diverse and open to cool stuff.
A lot of the locals here and major events are purely centered around Tekken, but that's more of a downside if you fuck with SF/2D FGs in general LMAO
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Picked up the Hydaelyn & Zodiark Amahagan whiskies courtesy of a friend I got to see while I was in Tokyo last year. Completing my collection of the whole set. These definitely check the most recent and most expensive categories of my XIV collection.
