I've lost count how many dwarves I've drown. I mean to me, that's just them not drinking fast enough, clearly a skill issue. XD

Thank you so very much and welcome aboard! <3

Chat got both of us XD

@@Welshie1 lol

Just impressed on how this billy was able to do such a sharp turn with it, almost 180

@@Welshie1 yea same honestly probably some addon for that aswell

Aww thanks! I really appreciate the kind words! =3 Welcome to mines!

Gotta get the slap before you get to clap, didn't know my king had such game

Thank you with your kind words and for watching

Actually, that sounds like a really smart idea. Could have been alright if the released in that angle and let the community build off on it.

Agreed, it looked so rough and soulless. Not the biggest fan of the art style of sims 3 or 4, but at least it had style. But, Life By You just looked like everything was taken out of an asset store. Even when the game was in motion, it looked rough. Honestly, good call to pull the plug

@@Welshie1 Life by you is also a good teaching course on how not to develop a video game in 2024

Thanks! But wasn't for my birthday (I'm in Feb) Just wonderful friends that wanted to cheer me up XD

It's a shame with Dark Tide thou, that should be an excuse to print money. "Thankfully" I didn't have friends to play Dark Tide with so I never picked it up, but I'll admit I always wondered. But, loving Rogue Trader and glad to see it getting so much love ^_^

@@Welshie1 I admit that I was curious when DarkTide came out, and bought it on Steam. Two days later, I got a refund. Pretty graphics alone do not make a game good. It's persistently online, with no single-player story campaign. You're stuck with having to team up with people who will stab you in the back constantly, having no concept of what the word "teamwork" means.

Co-op matchmaking in DarkTide was really bad. I got saddled with teammates that were either too high level, or shooter noobs.

Admittedly, I'm not into the tabletop minis flavor of 40k, as it seems like I'd go bankrupt just building my first army, then buying all the rulebooks and codexes I would need. I love the Tabletop RPGs of 40k, however. They allow me to explore the deep grimdark and hilariously absurd future that is Warhammer 40k lore. For tabletop minis, I will always go back to my first love, Battletech.

Oh man, yeah you've just made me glad that I didn't try going solo there. It sounds like "maybe" it could have been good if I could wrangled mates into it, but at the time I think it Final Fantasy Online and Monster Hunter World that was taking our time. Shame, because Dark Tide from the trailers looked like it could have been a great time

I mean, I'm showing my age here. But in the simpler time we had either regular edition of a collectors edition. Got a nice metal tin case, maybe the sound track and statue, usually for an extra $30 bucks. But, never in my life would I imagine to get a complete game, because let's face it the "extra" cosmetics and missions are stripping the base game, that we'd be looking down the barrel of buying double the cost of that of the basic version. I think in the last three years, BG3 is the only one that has done different editions and costs correctly. Hopefully people will push back and not buy for them to take a hint.

Oh sorry the 25.95 model doesn't allow you to keep your shoes, that's the 50 bucks per hour pack! - Ubisoft

Hope everyone does!

I feel like with most of Ubisoft, Like A Dragon hurt, I was looking forward to that, but that price was just outrageous. The Star Wars fan boy in me is screaming for me to turn a blind eye, because I'll admit the kid in me wants a open world Star Wars game. Assassin's Creed...I think I'm in the majority camp, loved Black Flag, everything else has just been meh...

Not sure myself, I dipped outta WoW after Cata and then dipped the toe back in for Warlords. Honestly, I think I'm getting numb to the whole thing XD

@@Welshie1 around MoP it became a daily treadmill. You didn't miss much

Oh man, that's so sad to hear...least I left on a high note I suppose, looking at it from a glass half full sorta way.

​@Welshie1 Yeah, this is a common model we've seen for ages in mmos. It used to be normal, digital premium and colectors edition. Usually mounts and cosmetics for the middle and physical merch for the collectors. Eventually they stared making a digital collectors edition with more cosmetics and mounts. Diablo 3 used this model too. So did 4. This has been around a long time. I feel like the first game I remember doing this which had early access was the Warhammer MMO.

​​​@@Welshie1Far a personal reality check I looked at the WoW one, the only difference between this one and the last is the up shifted the 3 days of early access to tier 3. The High tier also includes a 30 day sub. It's always been a terrible model but it doesnt fit here since you have to buy a wow expansion and sub. In the wow model the highest tier is usually only a bit more expensive if you deduct the free sub month. In Canada the difference minus the sub you pay anyway is $8. For the extra days and other stuff it more the middle tier that's the trap. Your giving up so much lure items and benifits to save 8 dollars. If you can't spend the eight dollars you may as well just dump the mount and cosmetics and grab the basic one and save 20 bucks. Edit :Looking back this has been the case for Ubisoft games for a long time, its industry standard to offer 3 editions. The big strange here is the inflation robbery were the price increase for the other editions is huge. The sub thing is not new either, most sub models give you the "best" version of the game. Just looking up Assasin's Creex the last 4 games used the three price point structure. The sickness has been around a long time it just inflation showing how shifty it always was.

Honestly' you're doing the smart thing, never buy day 1 and never pay at full price

@@Welshie1 the steam deck is amazing because I can emulate all of the great games from the past. No need to buy skull and bones ever

In the early days, yeah, it's hard to look'em in the eye. But, you sort of become "numb" to the stuff and things that happen. Never a dull moment XD

I accept that my actions have consequences 😆

Only Dwarf Fortress 😆

Ah yes I remember that from my brief visit into GW2. I think that would do wonders for new players, though I imagine some purists would be screaming "That's not how you play DF" But, for us new mortals that haven't hit the grindstone, I think it'd really help newer players out. Thanks for the kind words, honestly, meant a lot. Love the way you view drs XD

It's probably not a tough thing to mod in, honestly. With the level of things people have done with mods, it's probably doable. It could even be done as a DFHack script, a command that reads selected item, and opens the system default browser to the wiki page

Thanks! Time to get back into the mines! ^_^

Honestly, you won't regret it...well maybe getting sucked into it, but it's worth it!

It's just so bizarre, I'm putting my tinfoil hat on firmly, I have no proof. But I honestly think it's a plan by Ubisoft to get people to subscribe to their Ubisoft Gold Program

Day 1 DLC or as we call it "Cut content, sold back to us at premium"

My apologizes! I must have overcorrected from last couple of "too louds"! Appreciate the feedback!

Oh...my god! You have no idea how much that made me smile, you are the first person in nearly 10 years to guess my accent right! Just to mess with you more, left the UK when I was 4 to come straight to Aussie...this is the result. But, on the subject that is Ubisoft and Outlaws, I wanted this game, I've been wanting this game for nearly 20 years An open world Star Wars game, where you're a smuggler? Even if it was just an Assassin's Creed reskin, this is a game I dreamed of as a kid. I know I'm not the only one that wanted this, but just seems like Ubisoft have gone outta their way to make it so unappealing. Maybe Skull and Bones had them needing the cash bad. Maybe on a sale, I might give it a look. But not a day 1 for me.

I mean I'm thankful for that being an option for those doing it hard, imagine some parents would look at the prices. But those prices feel like it's been done to almost force you into subbing. At this rate every dev has a sub option, it's getting a little outta hand

Thanks! Truly Appreciated! ^_^

Everyone is mad and yet I know its going to make gang busters

As is tradition with all Ubisoft 😆

Oh lord, if we started that no one would survive the week

Glad I'm not the only one, soon as they started that scene in the trailer, I just groaned and sighed. I think the only time they've made someone we've never heard of or seen sound cool, is John Wick. But the writing in that scene was masterful, this...was just lame.

I can "maybe" meet them halfway for free to play...maybe, I'd still feel gross about it. BUT A $100 FULL PRICE TRIPLE A GAME?!? Nah, no way

​@@Welshie1the good thing is that there are people who have woken up and are basically going against this stuff. But there were some people who were originally against this stuff but now they accept in a way. They say they dont endorse it but that doesn't matter, because money speaks louder then words in this case. So if we dont want gaming to be worse then we have to vote with our wallets, which alot of people seem to misunderstand, and years later down the line they would get angry that gaming has become worse but really they shouldn't be angry. I mean we warned them where this was going to go, they didn't listen, and are now getting mad when it's too late. People don't understand how the modern world works.

Well, he's hoping everyone keeps the pressure and votes no more! We got rid of loot boxes. We just need to get a win over Battlepasses and surprise micros!

For the cost and how much time you get out of the game, it might be a bit steep at the moment. I'd say wait for a sale or more content to be added. As I hit the end of the game pretty quickly. Was enjoyable, but felt little short.

@@Welshie1 bless you son

Thanks for the comment! I respect your point of view and agree to some stance. Mechanically, DBD is in a fantastic spot (Which I mean after 8 years of updates we'd certainly hope so!) But, growth of the game and player retention is in trouble. I think with the failure of the player numbers to jump up with the likes of Chucky or the Xeno, I believe old & new players are looking for something more. Again appreciate you taking the time to watch and jump into the comments to add to the discussion!

You bring up some great points and you are 100 percent right on majority of what you brought up but the fact that behavior is actually listening to us and making it known that the community opinion matters by essentially making a wellness chapter thank you so much for responding like a normal person and not freaking out I love having discussions with people with different views then me and you make great content never change man!

Oh man, if they made a wellness chapter I'd think they'd win a lot of good favor back. No problem at all! Same to you, thanks for not jumping into the comments just to tell me I'm wrong and to jump off a cliff or something XD Always love having discussions/debates =)

Agreed! I've always had this feeling with how spaghetti the code has been with the recurring bugs with certain updates, that BHVR didn't think in OG days DBD would take off as it did. It's mostly like so badly coded that a clean slate with something like a DBD 2 would be needed to build on it and add in major changes.

Thanks =)

Tell that to the lower player numbers even with big dlc like Alien and Chucky or the fact that bigger content creators feel wary of the current state of the game or left the game.

It's not the end of it as I mentioned at the 2:15 mark, but it's definitely end of the "Add a famous IP and the players will flock to the game" I mean if Xeno or Chucky failed to spike the numbers, then I don't know what would. Clearly the players are wanting something more.

I have a love/hate relationship with it XD

Ayeee! I see you too are of high culture! XD

Thank you for the feedback! And sorry to your eardrums! ❤️