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Post by dfunked on Jun 21, 2023 20:19:55 GMT
It is a bit rubbish that the battle pass can't be progressed at all on a non-seasonal character, but no skin off my nose really as I'll be rocking a new one regardless. At the very least they should've made that sort of thing crystal clear months before release.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 21, 2023 20:24:56 GMT
Interesting, so I guess there's a ton of new players for this game. I did laugh at "I'm a D2 and D3 veteran, they didn't have seasons ". I guess if people only played D2 and 3 offline, they could have still spent ages on them and been unaware of how online and seasons worked. It being online only means this kind of stuff is part and parcel of the experience now
This all just means the marketing department did their job
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 21, 2023 20:34:43 GMT
Interesting, so I guess there's a ton of new players for this game. I did laugh at "I'm a D2 and D3 veteran, they didn't have seasons ". I guess if people only played D2 and 3 offline, they could have still spent ages on them and been unaware of how online and seasons worked. It being online only means this kind of stuff is part and parcel of the experience now
This all just means the marketing department did their job
Perhaps, but if you're specifically using the word "veteran" to describe yourself in regards to the game then yeah I think you would have heard about seasons in D3 you know through like, I don't know, using the internet.
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Post by ned on Jun 21, 2023 20:36:46 GMT
Think I’m enjoying it more after finishing the campaign. I don’t feel a sense of urgency to get that done. Now I can wander around enjoying the game and world for what it is.
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Post by Vortex on Jun 21, 2023 21:36:27 GMT
Balls.
Just got bounced out midway through a main quest. Wonder how much progress will be kept.
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Post by Danno on Jun 21, 2023 21:42:46 GMT
I forgot about that ad for a second and was like wow, oddly specific chain of events there, Danno. Classic spooky 🙄
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Post by Danno on Jun 21, 2023 22:03:58 GMT
Can anyone help on how the comms works, we joined a game and instantly got a hello message from another player. I looked on the local players to find who it was but couldn’t then send a hi back from this screen, looked on the map and couldn’t even see where they were.. I guess could have been in part of the region we hadn’t explored. Not wanting to look anti-social all I could do was send a broadcast hi, but then who receives that everyone around us? Same for someone asked for help, was that like a broadcast help to anyone or specifically to us? Couldn’t find them at all, but they then fortunately appeared next to us and we joined to help them out on a boss in their region. Any info appreciated! :-) No idea on the Comms thing Did you join the FG clan?
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Post by zagibu on Jun 21, 2023 22:09:26 GMT
Actually I know a lot of people who have been playing games for a long time and still don't accept the fact that playing games is always a waste of time. They get attached to virtual items and character levels as if they had some meaning outside of the game.
Is it maybe a strange form of sunk-cost fallacy? Are meta-gaming platforms providing badges for ingame achievements to blame?
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 21, 2023 22:10:48 GMT
Enjoying yourself is a waste of time?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2023 22:16:45 GMT
Weird argument to make on a video games forum.
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Post by wunty on Jun 21, 2023 22:19:56 GMT
By that margin then pretty much anything you do is a waste of time
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 21, 2023 22:20:35 GMT
Weird argument to make on a video games forum. Not just any forum, but a middle aged person's forum, where wasting time writing about how one thinks playing games is a waste of time is actually a waste of time.
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Post by wunty on Jun 21, 2023 22:22:42 GMT
I’d reply to you jambo but it’s a waste of time. Shit. Even reading your post was a waste of time. This is a waste of time. Time is a waste of time.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2023 22:24:31 GMT
I would like to do my part and start recycling my time from here on out.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 21, 2023 22:25:46 GMT
I waste less time by playing on a console
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 21, 2023 22:28:02 GMT
And I only allow myself an hour of gaming time a night so I've got time for more important things like watching television and wanking
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 21, 2023 22:29:01 GMT
Everyone needs hobbies.
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 21, 2023 22:31:04 GMT
It's important to always be battering yourself
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Post by Aunt Alison on Jun 21, 2023 22:31:14 GMT
Bettering
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2023 22:33:04 GMT
You can truly save time by doing both, as Danno demonstrated
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Post by Danno on Jun 21, 2023 23:15:13 GMT
Weird argument to make on a video games forum. Not just any forum, but a middle aged person's forum, where wasting time writing about how one thinks playing games is a waste of time is actually a waste of time. Never go full Donlan
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Post by Danno on Jun 21, 2023 23:16:15 GMT
You can truly save time by doing both, as Danno demonstrated MY CAMERA WAS OFF FOR EVERYONE ELSE
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Post by zagibu on Jun 21, 2023 23:35:33 GMT
Enjoying yourself is a waste of time? Yes. Where do you think the word "pastime" is coming from. That's what you're doing, you are passing time. Of course, you are doing it because it's enjoyable, and that in itself can have a subjective worth (for me as well, obviously, or I wouldn't be here talking about it). But objectively, the time is wasted.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 21, 2023 23:51:25 GMT
Or the opposite is true. In a finite existence, any time spent not enjoying yourself is time wasted. Regardless, I enjoy time wasted.
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Post by Danno on Jun 22, 2023 0:30:41 GMT
Enjoying yourself is a waste of time? Yes. Where do you think the word "pastime" is coming from. That's what you're doing, you are passing time. Of course, you are doing it because it's enjoyable, and that in itself can have a subjective worth (for me as well, obviously, or I wouldn't be here talking about it). But objectively, the time is wasted.
Capitalism, distilled
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 22, 2023 0:47:12 GMT
Tbf, there is something about loot grinders that feels especially time-wastey, with the whole "numbers go up" skinner box element of the genre. The modern ones in particular are actively designed to keep you playing more and more, for hundreds of hours, and as I reach middle age I feel like I should be valuing my time more.
I enjoy it! I wouldn't be here otherwise! But I don't think I'm going to obsess over D4 the way I've done with previous games in the series.
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Post by quadfather on Jun 22, 2023 1:40:59 GMT
Define wasted?
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Jun 22, 2023 2:21:24 GMT
Started scosglen renown tonight, 2 strongholds down and a most of the map unlocked.
Finally got a decent wand upgrade. Sacred with 4 alternate bucket stats. I did a single reroll to get lightning DMG off for int, cos damn it's expensive and even with a slight off-roll on the other none crit stat it's still nearly 500 DMG better. Shit exploded
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 22, 2023 3:27:39 GMT
About a dozen too many beers.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jun 22, 2023 6:21:00 GMT
Hey, at least our hobby isn't hurting anyone, part of some propaganda machine, power struggle or some other shitty thing. You can easily waste your time in worse ways than playing games.
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