I played a lot for a few months way back when the level cap was 70(?) Had a couple of pieces of raid gear and some PvP gear, realised it was taking up too much of my social life, and sold the character to a website for a lot more than I had spent. Terrible dollar to hour ratio, but still a profit!
(I got 400 USD out of the 800 USD someone paid for it. 800 dollars to skip playing the game! People are strange)
I would like to avoid paying the subscription in return for playing the game less…
Always strange to hear about money-to-game transactions for hardcore players (see also Eve Online, Star Citizen, Quinns’ video on Entropia Universe)
I suppose that if the bit of the game you enjoy is having a powerful character who can do stuff rather than grinding up to get a powerful character…
(But I remember how revolutionary it was when RPGs - not computer type - started to say that you didn’t have to start as a random nobody, you could begin with a vaguely competent character. “But they haven’t earned it!” said the old-timers.)
Sure, but it seemed to me that all the grinding really started once you hit maximum level. I suppose they might have been paying for the grind from a “fresh” level 70 to the point where you got the gear my character had.
Definitely, once the raid progression for any given expansion started, if you were left behind for some reason it was hard to catch up. I think that WoW has a lot of different game modes to offer but the raid end game is the thing most people really want and I am reasonably sure it is what drives players who still play after 15 years or play classic to experience the raids that are no more…
And the coordinated gameplay of 5, 10, 15, 20 or at the start 40 people fighting a multi-stage boss is something incredible–when it works of course. I just wish there was less drama around the whole thing when it doesn’t work.
Need to stop thinking about it… or I’ll buy a month of game time for a game I don’t have the time for… 
I played WoW from the beginning, had one of just about each class, and… didn’t get any of them to endgame. Levelled a bit further when Witch King came out, eventually hit 70ish but still mostly solo questing. I’m really interested in trying Classic for the original starting areas. Original Shaman builds were great, and Druid.
…and in the meantime I just paid MORE money to Elder Scrolls Online, like I didn’t learn my lesson the previous 5 years of coming back to it occasionally 
Not so much what are you playing but what you are not playing.
This arrived in the post today. In the UK I have another week to wait before The console is released.
I know I’m privileged, but still this is just teasing me.
I am jealous. I will be getting a PS5 at some point, but it’ll probably be a year or so out.
The fan on my PS4 sounds like it’s eating itself. It was a race to update it before it exploded.
Mine is not much better. Then again, that may be expected, as it is one of the oldest possible PS4’s. I won mine from the Taco Bell promotion and got it two days before it was available for sale.
I’m ‘PC G4M1Ng 4 LYFE’ but it’s exclusives like the Demon Souls remake and Bloodborne that make me regret my choices.
But Star Citizen will be finished someday… Right?
Just as a public service announcement, all fighting games seem to be on sale in Steam!
I highly recommend Street Fighter V, Tekken 7 and Dragonball Fighterz.
Tekken 7 just released a new DLC character, Kunimitsu, who is extremely cool and is exactly my character aesthetic and gameplan. Big win for me!
I’ve been enjoying shapez.io as much as I thought I would.
This is a dangerous link, particularly in a world where working-from-home is the norm 
Yes, I should have put a “NSFW” warning on it!
Oooooooooooh. I usually wait 2 years before getting the new console, but this time I’m in my 30s with disposable income it feels different!
Think I’ll still wait until a game is released that sways me. I have an ANCIENT 10 year old 1080p TV that’s in an alcove, so hoping to hold off until I live somewhere with more space for a crazy TV…
The non descript box that was left on our door step containing said PS4. Which my brother drew a baby on because I was super pregnant.
The BTS bundle is out for Beat Saber, and it is a REVELATION. Totally changes up the beat maps with fair more oddly placed blocks and a lot of switching hands around. Definitely feels more like abstracted dancing than air drumming. And it’s pretty damn difficult on Elite. I’m so close to completing Dope, but the damn drum roll pre-chorus catches me out. Crazy how probably the simplest sequence is the most difficult.
Pff. I’ll see your ten year old 1080p TV and raise you a 13 year old 720p 32" TV.
I never use it (to the point where the batteries melted inside the remote from disuse, something I was not aware could happen), so it hasn’t really felt worth upgrading. That said, now that I have a new TV stand with a bit more space I should be able to fit a 43" TV, which means I can bump up to 4K with HDR. And that might be worth it. Even though I’m not console gaming anymore and it’d just be for streaming and the occasional disc. They sell 'em for under $300, after all.
To be slightly more on topic, just finished terrific werewolf visual novel Raging Loop. It’s about a young man who has just had a bad breakup and is on a road trip to get away from it, ending up in a remote mountain town in Japan where he ends up stranded as a mysterious trouble afflicts the town. Namely, The Feast of the Yomi Purge. Which, it turns out, is basically a real-life game of Werewolf that cannot be escaped from, complete with a mysterious mist and terrible deaths for anyone that breaks the rules, hanging those voted on, and of course secret werewolves killing townsfolk each night. In a town that’s quite isolated, set in their ways, and very suspicious of the outsiders present (an amnesiac young girl, our protagonist, and two journalists). That’s not the only problem for our plucky protagonist, though…there’s also the part where every time he dies he wakes back up at the start of the story. Yep, it’s also a time loop story. It’s not as varied and twisted a web, but it uses a similar system to Virtue’s Last Reward where you have a flow chart with scenes and choices you can jump to at any time, and locks some choices off with Keys you earn by seeing certain endings, representing the protagonist learning important information by looping.
I really enjoyed it - the mysteries are substantial and I think fairly well paid off, the horror of various permutations of events is strong, and the translation (it’s a Japanese game) is pretty good. My main quibble would be that there’s some wordplay with different kanji used to write the same thing, which the translation I think tackles about as well as it can…but it’s just not something that English does so it’s a bit weird for me as someone who doesn’t know Japanese.
4K on a 42"?! You are MAD!
