I'll always remember my auction house experience with diablo 3. I started at launch playing as a demon hunter and avoiding both auction houses. I eventually hit a wall in difficulty in I believe the third act and no amount of grinding for loot would give me a bow/crossbow better than I already had equipped, granted this was pre loot 2.0. I gave in, looked up a bow in the gold auction house and found one that was twice as good as my current, for only 300 gold; I remember the price because it was so low. I bought it, later regretted it, but was able to get through the main story and try a repeat run on a higher difficulty but after a few dozen more hours I hit another difficulty wall, I refused to go back to the auction house and completely lost interest in the game and never went back after that bad first impression.
I just finished it and really enjoyed it, but I probably need to re watch it again before I can feel confident in a verdict. This is probably the most grounded in reality Batman film I've seen, even the nolan films defied reality to an extent. Here the batman only uses the grapple hook in appropriate ways and overall the movie was very CGI lite, whenever they could do things practically they did and that's really refreshing to watch a guy in a suit working with real life limitations.
Please take the time in future articles to avoid spoilers in the title, something like "The walking Dead's Lauren Cohan talks about the finale scene that made her want to throw up"
I think a lot of BF community would just love a BF2 remake at this point, with better visuals and progression. They don't have to reinvent the wheel, just use what features have already worked in the past and make a polish product that is relatively balanced and bug free on release, minus the hated shortcut mtx and gold/ult edition early access cash grab; and it would sell very well. That would go a long way in regaining the BF communities trust.
Good, this franchise needs some tough love. Free to play might bring more players, but it still would support their business model of selling specialist skins. Specialists are one of the major issues fans have with the game and EA shows no signs of reversing course and returning to a more balanced class based system. combine that with all the bugs and negative fiascos this game has had since launch, 2042 would need a major overhaul to become the success they wanted it to be.
Normally articles about Kotick getting payed undeserved amounts of money would boil my blood, but not today, we all knew he was never gonna get fired without a fat check. The money doesnt even matter, the payment is more about pride and respect. lets say money was beans and a person had 100's of millions of them, set for life, and that person then gets 100's of millions more beans to leave their job... its meaningless. Kotick is just enjoying seeing the bean count go up, yet it does nothing for him, and that brings a smile to my face because he is on the way out, he actually lost; though he will never see it that way.
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