everybody on ilx complains about reddit

Eh, I'm with the Redditors on that. This isn't something I'd ever play, but I'd be pretty unhappy if I paid 60 bucks for a game only to find out that parts of it are locked away like that.
I don't know if the game's marketing made a big deal out of these characters, but I suppose they kinda have to be, given the franchise.

I think I would mind less if you /couldn't/ pay your way out of it, but HAD to "achieve" it. (In fact, my most played game, The Binding of Isaac, has exactly such a system, though it's not a multiplayer game.)
The whole microtransaction thing doesn't make sense to me outside of games that are otherwise free to play.

but I'd be pretty unhappy if I paid 60 bucks for a game only to find out that parts of it are locked away like that.

yeah...but what about, for example, the final mission of grand theft auto, which is locked until you play for a few dozen hours and finally get to it?

but at the same time, joining a game as a new player two weeks after release only to get instantly killed by weapons and characters you have no access to really feels like a scam

i agree that it sucks, but this is a very common scenario for new players playing online games. these days i kind of assume that when i first start playing i will just get murdered over and over again while i try to figure out how to equip pants or whatever. it's one of the reasons that online games usually really really suck (hot take) imo, unless you're 14 years old

the 'getting slaughtered by high level players' thing could potentially be fixed by balancing the game, better player matching, etc.

but the 'parts of the game are locked until you play a ton' is a fundamental feature of videogames. it's just that there's now an option to skip past all that by paying cash, which is really lame, and in order to incentivize people to do it they made the unlockable content part of the game require even more effort to reach without by purely playing the game.

that is fine, it’s the part where you can pay more money to instantly unlock shit, on a game that cost $60 - $80, is bad

either make it pay-to-play or just make me grind

https://media.giphy.com/media/Uj735LXIo8fAc/giphy.gif

lame

the image i mean. loot boxes are fine.

yeah...but what about, for example, the final mission of grand theft auto, which is locked until you play for a few dozen hours and finally get to it?
Well, it's a single player game, so I think that's fundamentally different. The single player experience is in its nature an arc, while (most) multiplayer gaming is more about quicker variations and improvs on a familiar theme. In this Star Wars™ game, you're in theory meeting other players on the same "level" as you. I don't know enough about the game to know if these characters amount to much more than a different player model though. (And I do like the idea of having 15 Darth Vaders jumping around trying to choke one another!)

And I can't say I've seen single player games allowing you to pay to skip ahead. That would strike me as pretty gross, too. The adventure game genre had something kinda in line with this, like the Sierra Entertainment tips hotline. Some of those games had some insane puzzles that led people to suspect they were trying to force them to use the hotline.

I'm not 100% against all sorts of additional costs though. I bought the DLC for XCOM, for instance. The original game felt like a complete experience on its own, while the DLC was a significant addition to it.

polyphonic if yr against grinding i dont kno what to tell u

I once wrote a letter to FTL Games to find out how to get past a difficult bit in Dungeon Master

all it cost me was the postage :)

I understand why it's bad in theory but basically the only thing I could have to balance the scales against the child who plays COD 8 hours a day is some expendable income so if I could buy my way to better weapons I'd be seriously tempted.

I've long wished for old people FPS servers - if you log in more than two hours a week you have to go to the regular servers.

multiplayer should ideally be a sandbox with the same rules and abilities available to all players. but people will become angry anyway if you use certain overpowered or uncouth items which are available to all players. maybe this is a way to include such items while adding an extra layer of visible and agreed upon shame.

there should probably be an extra shame note when you use an item purchased with your mom or dad's credit card

"milo banned you with a flag post they purchased all by himself" vs. "cool_darren banned you with a flag post that his mommy had to buy for him"

this makes me want to have children so that i can give them all flag posts for christmas

is that Hardeep Singh Kohli in the grinding gif?

Reddit partially redeems itself by dragging M1ke C3rnovich to death.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7liww8/im_mike_cernovich_journalist_author_and_filmmaker/

the_penis_wanker has logged off

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSuQwQrXUAI2mc5.jpg

It's all true

if you "stick out" due to no wanking then you're gonna get some attention, yeah

https://i.imgur.com/1wyYqvP.jpg

Pretty sure that's a parody. Regardless, it's prime /r/iamverysmart material, though they should probably retire that subreddit altogether in light of Trump's latest tweets.

where do subreddits go to retire?

they dry up like a raisin in the sun

v normal and good marriage stuff

Jesus a redditor signed a funko pop buying rule contract with his wife pic.twitter.com/nOvnpCxvhM

— nick (@JucheMane) January 18, 2018

there is no emoticon to adequately express the shape of my face right now

https://imgur.com/a/RdTiF

if James were to get a part time job on the side he could probably sneak some extra Pops purchases past his mom, i mean, wife

it’s the amount of special exemptions which really gets me

this is basically that dril tweet about spending $3600 on candles while ur family starves made chilllingly real

holy christ at stevie’s link

googles "funko pops"

drops head on desk, holding back tears

Funko Pops are pretty dumb toys also

Nendoroid on the other hand

googles "nendoroid"

drops head on desk, holding back tears

There must be a German word for the precise blend of pity and contempt I feel for these people.

funko pops are the dirt weed of the nerd merchandise world

Sonny Angel imo

I have a customer who averages 2-3 $400+ statues per month in special orders. He's all over the place from superhero comics to Prometheus merch (with a special emphasis on large-breasted anime statues). I can't grasp being able to afford that (even with the 20% off I give him) but I really can't grasp having the room to put them all.

nice doll collection

I have the theory that consumer impulse purchases and entire production chains created for Funko Pops are propping up the world economy

at the very least, it's a chain of purchases and production that encompasses more real world capital that bitcoin

that's crazy. bitcoin has loads of real world capital it's just all black market.

A few years ago I bought one because they had released a Big Trouble in Little China set. It was me and my wife's favorite movie and I wanted to pick her up the Gracie Law one. So I walked up to my local comic shop and asked "so where are the Big Trouble in Little China bobbleheads?" And the guy said, nicely but still as a corrective, "they're not bobbleheads, they're Funko POP!" And right then and there I decided I was just gonna get that one.

I'm goin' to Louisiana
And get me a funko pop!
I'm goin' to Louisiana
And get me a funko pop!
I'm gonna fix my woman so
I can have more funko pop!s

Now, can't a woman act funny
Ha-ha-ha, when she got a funko man?
Can't a woman act funny
When she got a funko man?
You know, she won't look straight at you
Then she's always raisin' sand, sand

Well, I'm going tomorrow
But I won't be gone long
I'm going tomorrow
But I won't be gone very long
I'm gonna get me a funko pop!, I'm gonna bring it back home
That's what I'm gonna do

a special emphasis on large-breasted anime statues

at that level of obsession, maybe just get a job with the company? like doing marketing or whatever is cool, you don't have to have any skills.

aw, he's a guidance counsellor, that's so... i don't know what that is

I don't even understand why people buy them if the heads don't wobble around.

he does customs, which means he's basically eight friends i went to college with and lost touch with and i am having feelings now.
https://www.instagram.com/jamesbouhuys/

wow at his nicktoon tattoos
okay, i gotta stop looking at this now