On Sunday morning, Blizzard tweeted that it was actively monitoring an ongoing DDoS attack that was affecting latency and connections to its games.
  • iAmTheTot@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Between always online games, and Starfield confirmed not having a physical disc release, I am weary for the future of gaming.

    • hydro033@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Blame the era of rampant gaming piracy. No disc is fine, useless overhead that’s just more plastic in a landfill.

    • simo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I started playing PoE after getting to somewhat endgame in D4. Got to level 60 something and my buddy and I were like…sooo…whatcha wanna do now? Dungeon I guess? Then we just kinda stopped playing. The rubber banding and random lags were super annoying and resulted in many deaths - we had a great time but needs a lot more cookin in the oven.

      PoE on the other hand has been super refreshing and non laggy (the joy of 10 yrs of development I guess) and there’s soo much to chew on. In a way it feels like a natural extension of D2 (played D2R for the first time last year).

        • simo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It’s real good man. D2 I found had a great loot feeling, but the general signposting of where to go was shit. But this was mostly because they didn’t update D2 in the remastered version much because I guess they knew people would be pissed if they updated it too much.

          D4 was initially epic with the bois, but the slow grind and analysis paralysis of loot was annoying in the end. So much garbage loot with no filters and way too many affixes on weapons, you sit there for ages wondering if that bit of loot is better…or worse?? Or maybe good for that thing, but not the other. Urgh, and the legendary aspect thing was annoying to manage (shit, I found a weapon, but uh oh, I don’t have an aspect in reserve to apply to this cool new weapon, so my build will be fucked??? yay!)

          PoE has that D2 loot feeling, power growth and SPEED that D4 simply can’t have due to level scaling. Honestly, why is a group of minions giving me a hard time in D4 when in PoE I can blast a screen worth of little shits in one go? Super fun.

          I don’t mind being a shit character when i’m level 10, NOT 70. It was a pain post campaign in D4, I should be a god not some weak maggot after I saved Sanctuary lol.

          Give it a shot, it’s free :) I think it’s due an update in August [new league].

  • Jaysyn@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I quit buying Blizzard products after the bNetd fiasco. Fuck them straight to hell.