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  • There was a PvE ARPG dungeon crawler inside DotA calle Aghanims labyrinth which was essentially a custom game which valve made as part of its pre-International battle pass. Absolute blast. Now, they won’t release it as a custom game and they won’t release it as a standalone game and absolutely no one understands why. It’s something that they had sitting already and they just chose to not let people play it anymore and no amount of requesting has even earned a response from Valve. I wish I had a job, not because of money or prestige, but entirely the ability to fuck around and do whatever you want



  • This is a very bait way to mention the fact. It insinuates India is increasing effort towards coal and gas when that is clearly not true. India is globally the third largest producer of renewable energy and 40 percent of all new energy plants are renewable energy. Also, if you think about it, do you really think it’s possible to generate extra electricity from wind and solar and hydroelectric on demand? Naturally, if your demand goes up, you can only burn more fuel. The best way to do this would be to consume nuclear fuel which India already is moving towards, but the current infrastructure is still significantly reliable on coal. Also, if you want to blame global heat on India, I would recommend looking at per capita statistics instead of punching down at a country which had all of its resources stripped by a nation which built its wealth on colonialism


  • Brother, it’s your cost of living. Almost every other country which has a footprint on the video game market and isn’t known for black policies has better working hours and balance of life. It’s just that paying Americans a liveable wage is three or four times more expensive than giving a reasonably comfortable wage to a developer elsewhere.

    The other part of it is to look at where your game companies are clustered in the US. It’s either the bay area, Seattle, or Florida. None of those places are exactly cheap to either hire employees with these conditions or to hold an office space.


  • I think one of the major reasons why they are having to do PoE 2 is because the game has garnered a reputation of being a spreadsheet simulator, which really hurts any new users from picking the game up. This is, of course, an almost imminent death to any game. There is also some truth in it, in how the game has bloated itself to where it is now, where any seasonal character has to click 50 buttons between running maps.

    PoE2 lets them not have to invest time in their current set of issues and start fairly afresh. Even if half of their committed users don’t pick up 2, it is still bound to outperform 1, I feel.