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Disgraceful? Really?

I understand this is a big change, and there have been many missteps in handling this, but how is disgraceful for someone to want to be paid for their work? I know it's a lot more complicated than that and there are many sides to this discussion, but I think some people need to re-evaluate their idea of what should and shouldn't be free.

Many of the mods being charged for aren't worth a cent, but many of them are. If someone spends hundreds of hours of their own time creating a high quality piece of content, they should be allowed to charge for that without being labelled as greedy sellouts by a bunch of people that just want free content.

I think the bigger problem is Valve's ridiculous 75% cut for doing literally nothing other than hosting the content on their marketplace.

I don't get it. Unless you're seriously hard up for cash (in which case gaming is the least of your concerns), why not just hold onto them? What is the harm in boxing them up in the event something comes along you want to play? You'll feel like a dumbass if you find yourself re-buying consoles in a year or two because some exclusive game you really want to play comes out.

Yeah, the fact that they have just this past week fixed the portal shenanigans in VoG which have been present since week 1 in unacceptable.

As far as potential challenge in a horde mode is concerned, I think they could find a way to make it challenging in a satisfying way. Firefight in the Halo games was great because more skulls were activated the further you made it. By the end every skull would be active and things would get very challenging. I think something similar for the arena mode could be great as long they add some new and more interesting modifiers (the current ones have been stale for a while). They could make things more interesting in other ways, (ME3 style objectives, Gears 3 style fortifications, etc) but who knows what they end up doing.

The approach I'm taking is not to jump to conclusions about what exactly this mode will entail. At the very least this will be something completely new to the game, which has been a rarity. I would have loved a new raid, don't get me wrong, but this could end up being really great in its own right. And honestly, I'd rather something new than another 30 min raid on the level of Crota's End (which is not nearly as good as VoG). If it turns out we get this new mode now and a much meatier and more substantial raid with the comet, that would okay with me.

Man, way to fucking go nuclear over nothing. I don't know what in that post you've percieved as a slight against you, but going straight to personal attacks loses you the high ground immediately.

A horde mode is something my raid group and I have all thought would be a great addition to Destiny for quite a while now, though I don't think any of us expected or wanted it to come at the expense of having a new raid. Still, a horde mode in Destiny could be great, and I know I personally could live without a raid for House of Wolves if this mode turns out to be just as good as the raids have been.

The expansion pass is specifically The Dark Below and House of Wolves. The next raid they're talking about is more than likely part of the all-but-confirmed fall "comet" expansion, which is not part of the expansion pass.

Stats in Bloodborne have two soft caps, the second of which is really pointless to try to go beyond. The first is 25, after which you still get some benefit for leveling but not as much as from 1-24. 50 is the second soft cap, where you really should stop since above 50 you're looking at several levels for single points of damage increase in strength and about 5 or less HP increase per level for vitality.

Even though you're past the first soft cap with strength and vitality it is still well worth investing the blood echoes to take them to 50, especially with vitality since more health is always good. If you're using a pure strength weapon you'll certainly get a lot of benefit from leveling strength still, but many weapons scale on multiple stats. For example, Ludwig's Holy Blade scales the same with both strength and skill, and since you're skill isn't yet at the first soft cap you'll get more points of damage increase per level of skill than you would per level of strength, at least until your skill hits 25.

The difficulty of the Souls games has always been exaggerated. Sure, they're more challenging than most games, but they're not really as punishing as some people like to make out. On top of that, Bloodborne is the easiest game out of all of them. Aside from the chalice dungeon that cuts your health in half, there really was nothing in the game that gave me much trouble (I have the platinum and have completed through NG++).

I found that abandoning the actual strategy in the third phase was the key to success with that fight. You basically have to give up doing any kind of meaningful damage and just stay behind him and chip away at his ankles. He takes barely any damage from behind so it takes a while, but you're much safer doing that than trying to score big hits on his head in phase 3.

I believe the current release schedule is 2 series' a year. Daredevil and Jessica Jones this year, Luke Cage and Iron Fist next year, and Defenders sometime after Iron Fist (hopefully not too long after).