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@gundato: Yeah, you're not wrong. There are a few moments in particular that simply wouldn't have been possible without everyone in the chat going as hard as possible, but again that'll come up later. Getting a crowd to rally behind a common cause is its own special thing, even if you end up just being a spectator sometimes, yknow? It wasn't so much about the lol chaos as it was simply accomplishing this feat everyone assumed was impossible.

@gundato: I'll get into some of that in a later post, but we didn't have a ton of democracy cheesing, only really for important inputs or to complete critical saves during chaos. The vast, vast majority of the game was played in anarchy, just sometimes chat had to chill for a bit to get a menu done. Myself I tried my hardest to get chat involved wherever possible, but not everyone had the same attitude.

@imunbeatable80: Yeah, unfortunately the nature of the game was kinda antithesis to the whole "twitch plays" part. While there was a fair amount that everyone could help with, like movement or spamming O during fights, sometimes delicate work was required. This kinda fed into it tho too, as unless you wanted to do everything in democracy chat would have to agree to settle down and let somebody work for a bit. If the chat ever pulled the kind of numbers the original TPP Red did, it would likely have been completely impossible.

Absolutely love this new feature. I will echo that longer poll times are definitely needed (which appears to be coming) but otherwise, this is just great.

One glaring issue, GBTV needs some home page presence. It should at least have a permanent button or something.

Putting aside all the kind of sleezy aspects about Gamestop's trade in business model, this is truly just delaying the inevitable. It might take another twenty years but physical media will eventually disappear. Whether that's a good or bad thing isn't really relevant; this is not a trend that will reverse. Just like how we're no longer riding horses to work, putting all the guys making horseshoes out of business. Technological progress inevitably creates some casualties.

Unfortunately, I don't see how a company of this size can pivot to survive this change. Gamestop is a dinosaur and the meteor is comin.

Holy shit.

I can't even summon the energy to get disgusted anymore. I just expect games will be broken at launch now. It's sad.

2014's Worst Trend: Games broken at launch. Calling it now.

Just as a reminder, Bomb Squad on Aerie Peak is still going strong. Any members can invite to the guild. I'm on pretty much every evening lately, so you can /who Rhaenyse and probably catch me pretty easily.