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Quoting: EikeWhen comments get just too sheepish, it's time to block. Time is too valuable for such nonsense.

Like clockwork. As fragile as an old fortune cookie.
Those of weak mind will always opt to create a bubble to pretend everyone agrees with them instead of facing the opposition...

1. Those with an inflated ego (like children) always think everybody should be required to listen to their bullshit, and every platform should be made available for them just because they have an opinion.
2. The one with the loudest voice is rarely the one with the strongest mind.
3. Social media platforms are sources of noise, not sources of information. Blocking random internet pests has no downsides.

1. Haven't met a single person who thought anything along those lines, but sure, go ahead. You can move your goalposts wherever you want.
2. Agreed. The one who is able to endure opposition without needing "safe spaces" has the strongest mind.
3. Things that are not agreeable = bullshit, everyone who disagress = internet pest. To those with a weak mind, anyway. And thus, the bubble is born, far away from reality. "I do not agree with this, therefore it is nonsense". I do consider giving people the ability to live in a bubble a serious downside as it removes the need to be able to live with dissenting voices. I also consider it a large part of the ever-increasing gap and growing intelorance between people of different viewpoints - instead of dealing with each other, many people just opt to block the other side.
That might give short-term relief, and is super easy to do, but I honestly think it is harmful long-term.

But what do I know? I guess I'm just an internet pest.

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Excellent!
I just hope they find a way to make further character growth interesting. After all, you are going to play a character that was basically maxed out from the previous game.

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Quoting: EikeWhen comments get just too sheepish, it's time to block. Time is too valuable for such nonsense.

Like clockwork. As fragile as an old fortune cookie.
Those of weak mind will always opt to create a bubble to pretend everyone agrees with them instead of facing the opposition...

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Quoting: LinasI really don't get this RGB trend. All the blinking lights is a distraction and totally breaks the immersion. But better support is always welcome, because it means that I can turn the blinking lights off. :D

Blinking is annoying while you are playing, indeed.
It does look nice during some idle or waiting time, but that's about it.

Programmable colors are fairly useful, though.
Especially if you game properly: In a somewhat darkened room (why do you think cinemas are dark?). Hard to see any keys without at least backlight.
Some games come with the hotkeys highlighted for your keyboard already (though that usually only works on Windows).

Personally, I have disabled all animations and just have WASD, F, J, F5, F9 and ß (German keyboard) highlighted in a different color than the rest.
Though I got the keyboard because it is so wonderfully silent while being mechanical and easy to clean (finding that combination was a nightmare). RGB was just a bonus (though it probably was what made it so expensive...).

Also... lots of people with "someone was mean to me on the internet! ;("-syndrome in this thread. Cute.
But, yes, let it all out. Very relieving, isn't it?

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Quoting: Sojiro84I want to shoot stuff, not play a fake Super Mario...

Git gud.
Sorry, I had to.

But that platforming is probably the biggest criticism of the game by most people - and indeed, wtf is that doing in a Doom game?!

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Quoting: psyminI agree with the above posters.

I'd like it to be F2P and there should be a mobile app (not that I'd use the mobile app). The Underlords app is quite functional, but also not quite "right" (text is way too small).

Artifact is a great game. Monetization killed it.

For CCGs a great bit of the fun is *trading* the collected cards.

That wasn't an element of the last one. I sure hope it is an element of this one.

I think you are throwing CCGs and TCGs together here.
CCG = Collectible Card Game, TCG = Trading ...
Every TCG might be a CCG, but not the other way around. There is no "need" for a CCG to have trading.
The majority of digital CCGs have no element of trading.

Quoting: psyminIf cards are only available as drops I think it will suffer from (or maybe benefit from) a gameplay issue that MMOs have IMO. More hours of play means you'll have an advantage, regardless of how good you are. New players would have to grind in order to play the real game with their friends.

Not quite. If there are enough players and if the matchmaking is good, new players will be pitted against other players with similar "low-tier" decks.
And as you advance in ranks, your deck grows higher-tier.

I'd just hope that there is some kind of smurfing prevention.
One of the most annoying aspects of some digital CCGs is ranking up and being regularly faced with decks consisting of only the rarest of cards. Sometimes, that is due to whales, but it seems that won't be possible in Artifact.

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Those placement rules are.... creepy.

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Was nobody interested in the game when the devs reached out or did they not reach out to people?
It is hard to tell in this case, as usually RTS fans see MOBAs as the genre that killed their own and/or too simple, while many MOBA players see RTS as too complicated, so I'm not entirely sure if there really is much of a potential fan base here to begin with.

Either way, I do have the feeling that sometimes developers just don't do any drumming at all, just putting their game on Steam, make a few press releases maybe and that's it.

I have it on my wishlist, just waited for it to release and see what people say about the single player/bot part of the game.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: axredneckCarrot rocket launcher, pineapple frag grenade, durian stink bomb, onion tear gas...

This is like a game I used to fantasize about while working for a grocery store: all your weapons would be things you pulled off the shelves, so you could for instance grab a 12-pack of soda cans and launch them like grenades which would make the floor sticky over time, but which you could clean up by launching paper towel rolls at them, etc. :)

Would also be open to some kind of ad-hoc crafting system.
Condoms + Cola + Mentos = timed bomb.

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Does that mean that eventually we'll no longer have to use mf-install or similar things to be able to run some games?

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