Bosstone

Yes. I'm puzzled by the apparent belief that the company is something more than the people who worked there. Black Isle may be gone, but the people who made Fallout what it is are still around. FONV is as much a mission pack for FO3 as Planescape: Torment was for Icewind Dale.

Anyway, sorry. This is really getting off topic.

Bit of a hijack, but you are aware that the Black Isle guys worked on Fallout: New Vegas, right? It's the same gameplay as FO3 (with a few changes), so that might still be a deterrent, but the story and the setting are very true to the original games.

I wish I had some insight on the main topic, but other than to point out that 'going out of your comfort zone' and 'keeping at something you don't like until you like it or at least don't mind it' are two different things, I got nothin'.

I see what you did there.

The rest of that line doesn't negate the assertion I quoted. Not trying to shut you down, just trying to keep things reasonable.

We can't stop here, this is Standard Code Rant Country.

Pretty much what I've done. I left for two years and came back for Going Rogue.

I would never tell someone to shut up. Walking away from a conversation is easier than trying to make the other guy do it. But while making your opinion heard is certainly valuable, what do you think will happen at this point? "Oh, sorry guys, we didn't realize some people wouldn't like this issue. We're going to pull Issue 20 and rework it. We'll get back to you in August."

I'm not being snarky, I'm truly not. Issue 20 has been announced, either all of it or the big content additions at the very least. That's what it's going to be. You can make your displeasure known and hope they take it into account for the next issue or two (depending on how long their development cycle is), but beyond talking on the forums there's two things you can do at this point; either continue to play the parts of the game you like or unsubscribe, giving the reason for your canceled subscription in the exit survey.

It would be awesome if the dev team had a faster response and turnaround time, it really would. But Issue 20 isn't going to be changed at this point, for better or worse. They've sunk far too many manhours into it already.

Again, not a new complaint.

I mean, really, they're introducing a large new system into the game the game hasn't had before. Of course they're going to swing a lot of resources into getting it up and running. Activating something takes more power than maintaining and updating it.

Imagine an issue that has nothing but badges. All that's being added is new badges. No new content to go with the badges, just new badges, all obtainable with the old content. Stuff like 'kill 100 Banished Pantheon totems' or 'earn the Task Force Commander accolade 5 times', things like that.

Wouldn't you feel justified in posting that there's nothing for you in that issue and you hope the game doesn't continue in that way? If people told you to shut up and try badge hunting, you might like it, wouldn't you get a little defensive? Sure, you might tell yourself that it's just not your issue, but if it was part of a huge marketing push to really ramp up the badge hunting, you don't think you'd be concerned?

I think Sam's rhetoric is sometimes overblown and he tends to state his personal opinions as objective facts (saying "this is bad for the game" when you mean "the game is becoming something I don't like" has a high potential for ambiguity and misinterpretation, even if it is legitimate in a certain sense), but I have a hard time disagreeing with the content beneath the rhetoric. The game's gonna suck for him for the next...I don't know, year? And he's gotten defensive about being told to suck it up. I can sympathize, at least.

Of course, badges are a bad example. They may be the one aspect of the game where the subcommunity who focuses on them also despises new ones being added, because then their collection is never complete.

So stop subscribing if you feel you must. But asking for your money back is just laughable.

Eventually it'll go to you! Maybe! One can hope!

God yes. I've gotten four purple drops, and all have been during the ITF. Totally looking forward to it.

The recipe might be 20 mil, but that recipe requires 3-4 salvage pieces. When I outfit a character, I usually do it all at once, so we're talking like 60-some recipes and 180-240 pieces of salvage. Figure 150 non-rare salvage pieces (which are going to cost 3-4 mil regardless). Unless you're an 88, it seems silly to blow 75 mil on common and uncommon salvage when you could be paying 7.5-15 mil instead. It's only a minor fraction of the total cost of an IO, sure, but it adds up.

Besides, what's that saying? Look after the pennies and the dollars take care of themselves?

Batsy wouldn't know style if it was printed upside down on the underwear he wears over those admittedly smashing tights.

Regardless of his mental state, the Joker is pimpin'.

Also known as "the players who use the Eden top".

Does anyone else feel kind of dirty now?