Recent content by Ruin Explorer

I want to be excited about Midnight but I'm not feeling it yet. I've been basically day 1 on every WoW expansion (even if I only played for a month or two in many cases) except TBC and Pandaria, I mean, I guess on a certain level that bodes well because both of those were decent expansions, but...

Yeah Requiem looks amazing and has reviewed extremely well but £60 is a lot, especially when my history of actually finishing RE games is spotty, I will probably also wait for a sale. Currently playing Library of Ruina, a very odd but great turn-based tactical game which defies strict genre...

Maps has the potential to be really good but it's still a long way from where it could be. Though I agree they shouldn't overcomplicate it! There's also a real danger they sacrifice usability for monetisation, but we shall see. But I just don't agree re "trying to make work". They're different...

This reflects my IRL experience of MtG players for sure. All the "serious" or "sweaty" players (at least in my age range) burned out and stopped buying MtG at some point (or play digitally only). Most of the casual-as-hell ones still buy cards now and then.

DDB kinda, maps absolutely not. DDB and Sigil were at war literally from before DDB was acquired by WotC. In the great OGL 2.0 debacle, on thing that leaked was how aggressively opposed the leader of the 3D VTT team was to acquiring DDB. The way WotC handled them internally Maps a mediocre and...

Okay, I'll clarify, you want to hammer on semantics. They did say that they were doing it. Not just that they needed to. That... is not what killed the 3D VTT. Not even slightly. It died because it's fundamentally quite hard to do, and would require a decent-size team of properly-funded and...

Yeah, this is what I'd expect. The trouble is, this isn't the first time we've heard about re-writing Beyond. As far back as 2019, which is now, bear in mind, coming up on 7 years ago (!!!), Beyond was saying "We need to do a major rebuild and redesign so we can properly add new stuff". And then...

Yeah and I don't disagree, but I think d20 caused a temporary burst of investment by companies and people who could barely afford it, and interest ceased much sooner than people expected (in part because a lot of the d20 games were not very good as games, and in a lot of cases there were a large...

So how did that story end exactly? Remind me. No, it's absolutely an offense and disrespect to basically all creative professions. Trying to pretend otherwise is extremely silly. Technical professions it's more complex than that, but creative? Nah.

Manga fans as a group strongly prefer preserving right-to-left, primarily because mirroring the art changes stuff. Every right-handed character becomes left-handed. Badges/medals/etc. of office worn on the right become worn on the left (which can look very weird). A car turning left becomes a...

Not super-chuffed that bloody GitS is now a retrofuture, goddamn the linear passage of time.

Intentionally attempting to destroy competition is not legit. It may be legal sometimes (often it's grey area or even outright illegal but fails to be prosecuted), but it's not legit. It's not honest, it's not capitalist even (as a philosophy), it's actually anti-capitalist in an odd way...

This is a real non sequitur following the rest of your argument, and seems like a very narrow and specific question that I very much doubt even you could answer conclusively (I think it would take serious research to provide a genuinely conclusive answer, in fact), so can you explain in detail...

In the short term that was precisely how it turned out. Just not in the longer term.

I feel like this take doesn't actually understand how the market works, particularly not how it worked when most people obtained RPGs from FLGSes, not via Kickstarter, PDFs, and Amazon. The OGL existing helped, for sure. d20, on the other hand, basically bombed the entire industry, and whilst...