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It should not be a big surprise to anyone that Archeage in NA and EU is finally shutting down. This game, which has been passed from Trion Worlds who handled the initial launch, to Gamigo who acquired it when Trion went out of business, to Kakao Games who got it back when the publishing contract was finished as they are the majority owners of XL games is finally shuttering on 27June 2024.

In the last decade, Archeage was probably the best open world PVP game that has been released on the market. Sadly, while the core organic gameplay loop of the game is amazing, Archeage represents what happens when you build in problems with the gameplay loop so you can sell the solution in the form of Pay-to-win. It also represents the issue with a game that is horribly mismanaged not once, not twice, but three times by publishers who don’t understand that a subscription based game that is properly cared for has the potential to earn more money than a box price game that is littered with flaws.

With Archeage coming to a close, what does this mean for Archeage 2? It worries me as a company that Kakao doesn’t have the financial holdings to support a game with I believe 1 server per region now that they have merged legacy with the Unchained servers, something they said they would never do.

Coupled with this is the fact that 70% of game developers are worried about the live service model. Maybe game developers are worried they can’t sustain a population because they keep making terrible games. Let’s not even talk about Mike Ybarra who thinks tipping on top of a box price is a good idea.

What do you think?

#archeage #i played this game on launch and loved it #skipped school for it and everything #it's a shame but this is what happens when profit takes priority over quality content #the anti-bg3 if you will

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#i cannot outrun a pissed off gorilla but i can find a high up spot where the mambas can't get to me

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Okay okay okay, so,

I've been playing Heart of Thorns again for the bonus events and some achievements for ascended trinkets, and I can't believe I never noticed this before:

Pretty common knowledge now that when you play a sylvari, in the fight with Mordremoth, you have a moment where you nearly give in, but if you bring Caithe in?

Her name goes white, like neutral creatures you can kill, while the Commander is struggling, and while Canach's stays green.

And after you're okay again?

It goes back to green!

I LOVE this detail! I love that this was the expansion that the Commander is seething at Caithe, and when they were near giving in there was a moment they struggled to remember she was an ally. What an awesome little detail that continues to remind us the tension between the two is definitely NOT resolved.

#guild wars 2 #gw2 #gw2 sylvari #heart of thorns #oooh interesting #I've never brought caithe before I'll have to try it sometime

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Feeling absolutely devastated thinking about sylvari commander and aurene rn. something something they both had to grow up too fast because the safety of the world/reality demanded it something something sylvari commander trying to let aurene have as much of a childhood as possible because they didn't get to have much or any time as a sapling and it breaks their heart that their daughter is a victim of destiny like them

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #guild wars 2 sylvari

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#it's constant and i can't explain any of it #“what are you thinking?” fuck if i know

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i'm late but

#elder scrolls #sort of

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I remember years ago reading criticism against Greedfall for glorifying colonialism because the protagonist is "literally a colonialist" and there are likeable and sympathetic characters from colonialist factions and... I'm currently playing it and damn, media literacy really is not a skill everyone possesses, because the game could not be more overt in it's criticism of colonialism, forced assimilation, missionary work and evangelism, eccessive land exploitation for profit...

#greedfall #spoiler: the protag is a native that's been taken and raised by colonialists and has been lied to about their identity for their whole life #it... really can't get more on the nose than that #<- stealing these tags because yeah #that's exactly what i was thinking

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eso affirmations

#eso

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Being on your phone in bed at home during your free time: this sucks I'm wasting my life away what am I doing

Being on your phone at work:

#at my work this means that everything is done and there aren't any customers currently so you can have a little break :)

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more renders of her, soon she will be matching with kaidan and mshep once I get this all imported in game... eventually :)

ashley in long coats is everything to me now

#mass effect #ashley williams #oh absolutely yes

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I love how in Mass Effect 2 after your death your close circle of friends deal with your death by either a) going home, b) becoming a major part of the criminal underworld, or c) becoming the president.

#mass effect

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of course you have a military rank and a plastic crack addiction

#mass effect #commander shepard #well if they didn't keep moving all my collectibles I wouldn't have to put them all back together again!!!

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#a very important poll #polls

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Scruut, Watchling of the Great Eye and Necrom's Premier Third Wheel

#eso #eso necrom #“vomitous”

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Got to play Necrom and Blightcrown calling me a "fool of fate" really did something to me.

Not sure what, but it did something.

#eso #eso necrom #“fool of fate” is living in my head rent free

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#option 1 #i hate being unable to say what i mean it drives me insane #at least in option b it's someone else's problem

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the problem with having an evil mastermind manipulator oc is that i am not particularly good at being any of those things