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Easy Allies |OT| The New Era
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Dude it seemed too real. I'm worried. It's like surrealist horror.
Either they're low-key geniuses or there is a lot of pent up frustration with them. I'm hoping it's the former lol
In 2019 there'll still be a handful of people sour about Peach Beach Splash.
Kyle is a really good actor. Didn't expect that.
Podcast talk:
Podcast talk:
- I love how everyone can conveniently forget about NSMB to pretend Mario always looked great. People ignore this great series because of its art style.
- That L&R question excluding Overwatch from predatory behavior made me really angry. Please never say such a thing Nikpls or anyone. Heather Alexandra's article on loot boxes touches on that.
That's the thing. I don't want to punish EZA. I did send several messages to Patreon, but I did not get any answer. If you know some better way to let patron know we don't want this change, pls let me know.
Pull your pledge, ask the allies how to send them the money directly. Most importantly write your reasoning in the "why" field so Patreon can see that.
Yes it was great to finally meet them in person as well as a number of the EZA fans
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Man, EzUp was brilliant. Kyle showing us some great acting skills at the end there too.
Glad to hear people had a great time at the meet up. I'm still hoping at least some of them can come to a Gamescom or PGW sometimes in the future. I've been wanting to check out one of these events and having EZA there would make it that much better.
Glad to hear people had a great time at the meet up. I'm still hoping at least some of them can come to a Gamescom or PGW sometimes in the future. I've been wanting to check out one of these events and having EZA there would make it that much better.
The Shadow of the Colossus PS4 theme you can get for doing the "quest" in the PlayStation Live thing (just watch the trailer) is very nice.
Since Huber can't create things, I think a great Easy Update would be Huber channelling his ideas through Ian to make something, rather than Huber just get frustrated with the tools!
Huber channeling his ideas into Dreams sounds like it will be a horror filled nightmare.
That ending of Easy Update was amazing, Kyle and Ian are brilliant in the weirdest of ways, I love them so much.
Jesus Christ. How stupid can some people be?
I don't know which was my favourite line. "Yeah, below the belt, Kyle!" or Damiani's simple "Hey, doofus."
Easy update was fantastic, kyle was on top Form as always.
But seriously, reading the YouTube comments makes me worry about a lot of their fans and their ability to distinguish between clear fiction and reality.
Like I'm sure some are jokes but the fact many thought it was real and that it's some insight into tensions within the group is completely baffling. How do these people function in real life?
But seriously, reading the YouTube comments makes me worry about a lot of their fans and their ability to distinguish between clear fiction and reality.
Like I'm sure some are jokes but the fact many thought it was real and that it's some insight into tensions within the group is completely baffling. How do these people function in real life?
I feel like some people commenting on the videos are just really young. Also, everything is drama these days, a lot of people embrace that, they don't realize that drama is the antithesis to the Easy Allies.
Good to meet all of those of you I did at the meetup! Those are always a blast. A lot of good highlights of the night, like Kyle's over-10-win -streak on the EZA fighting game with his OP character. Looking forward to the next together!
Also, that was one of my favorite episodes of Easy Update in a while, damn what an ending, Kyle with those acting chops.
Also, that was one of my favorite episodes of Easy Update in a while, damn what an ending, Kyle with those acting chops.
Much obliged!
I just realised I would've found it had I just clicked the "Created playlists" header... So thanks for being gracious about my cluelessness.
I guess I need to play Animal Crossing to be in with the jokes, the ending with Kyle was really good even for me though. The Jones bit made me bit uncomfortable to be honest =D
Hah, so true. Give him Palme d'Or instead! It has more merit behind it anyway.
Our thread has been kind of guilty of this at some point. I remember people saying that Damiani and Kyle weren't in good terms because they disagreed on the Fire Emblem mobile game. "Damiani is so silent in the podcast because of the argument with Kyle, he's pissed" and stuff like that.
Oh no, I need to see Allies responses before getting angry myself. I think it depends on the people in the panel how they will respond. I could see Brad, Jones and even Huber being okay with Overwatch loot boxes. I think they have before. But they are also smart guys, with reasoning and discussion I'm sure they would see the "evil" in that too.
Thanks for the clarification!
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In the new mobile game Pocket Camp, there's a new sort of item called Essence and Powder, which are needed in some cases to craft items or projects of a certain theme.
Running errands for campers to get things they want is a good way to raise their friendship with you and gain XP.
For the Huber scene, the way you can invite campers to your site is to have stuff they like available at your site, which costs money and resources to craft.
Overwatch lootboxes contain cosmetic items that you can also buy with ingame currency. You get a free box for every level-up, and multiple per week for weekly activities. I've never bought even a single box, yet I have almost every seasonal skin. The boxes have funded tons of post-launch content already, in a game that wasn't even full priced to begin with.
CSGO gives you boxes at random, but you can't open them unless you pay money for a key. You literally get a reward that you don't get to keep unless you pay up. The skins contained in boxes can be worth anywhere from 5ct to 300+ dollars, and people gamble thousands of dollars on these things. The skins are community-made, and the vast majority of skins made by artists never get picked to be included in the game. It not only exploits players, but also the artists that spend weeks on a great skin, only to never be included in the game or to end up as a cheap non-rare one with little payout.
BF2 boxes contain competitive advantages and are the definition of pay2win.
I don't see how OW is even remotely in the same category as the latter two. Blizzard's monetization strategy for OW is entirely optional cosmetic-only skins which you get for free if you play somewhat regularly.
holy crap Blood is tall
Can't believe people are thinking the ending is real but I also did plenty of bits like that with friends when hanging out lol
There is no justification to Blizzard not allow you to just buy the skins instead of making it a lottery/gambling/gacha fest. It is purely preying on addicting behavior.
"oh but they need the money" Path of Exile has been doing fine.
"oh but you get some boxes for free" see point 1
Can't believe people are thinking the ending is real but I also did plenty of bits like that with friends when hanging out lol
The real mystery of this episode.
There is no justification to Blizzard not allow you to just buy the skins instead of making it a lottery/gambling/gacha fest. It is purely preying on addicting behavior.
"oh but they need the money" Path of Exile has been doing fine.
"oh but you get some boxes for free" see point 1
You can buy them individually with ingame currency.
PoE monetizes the shit out of their cosmetic store, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but as far as I know you can't get those items with ingame currency or for free by playing the game.
Loot boxes are loot boxes. Whether the rewards are cosmetics or p2w items, they prey on the same weaknesses in human psychology. Overwatch is just gentler at applying the pressure points than less smart publishers who go hard on the greed at the risk of public backlash and driving away casual customers. Meanwhile Blizzard has their paying and non-paying players stand in solidarity with each other and confidently declare that the level of post-launch support Overwatch has received couldn't be funded with a RNG-free buy-exactly-what-you-want monetization scheme.
They're in the same category like alcohol and heroin are in the same category, one is just a softer more legal drug than the other.
How do you get that in-game currency?
No offense, but do you seriously think that lootboxes with skins that you can buy with ingame currency if you want a specific one are comparable to lootboxes with skins that you can gamble real money on in hopes for a real world payout, which contain items taken from free community labor?
By opening the free boxes that you get showered with. There's no incentive to buy boxes unless you play rarely or want to support the game.
Edit: I didn't even mention how Valve has built a system where they can dodge international gambling regulation and taxation by hiding behind the fact that the payout is in steam cash, and real-world money CSGO gambling sites are technically third party. That's not even close to what Blizzard does, hence why I described those lootboxes as acceptable and CSGO's as predatory. I know people who've flushed away over 3K on CSGO gambling. You can't do that in OW.
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Overwatch loot boxes are a great thing to those who don't want to spend any extra money in the game. But it screws over and exploits those who do and those people should be prioritized.
I can't and don't want to defend CS:GO loot boxes, but atleast you can also buy/sell directly in the market and trade freely. That's something it does right, besides real money loot boxes.
I can't and don't want to defend CS:GO loot boxes, but atleast you can also buy/sell directly in the market and trade freely. That's something it does right, besides real money loot boxes.
Yes you can exactly because it's randomized and you can't buy items directly so there's no clear hard cap on spending. You have no idea how much money you need to spend to unlock everything. And they keep adding new cosmetics all the time, which again adds to the loop.
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