yeah thats the main reason i see and i get why it is a pretty crap monetization model
there is a thing called grasscutter that essentially lets you run your own private server but i'm not entirely sure how functional it is
I wonder when the story is all over and they don't want to host the servers anymore will they just re-pack it as a stand alone game you pay $60 for
It is claimed he was given to oda who then trained him and made him a samurai
The issue with that claim is oda nobunaga was a prolific poet who wrote poetry about damn near anything
Yet oddly he never made any poetry about this black slave turned samurai
It's part of the reason why I have no problems with occasionally giving them money, there is quality on display here from the visuals to the music to the story and voice acting and I fully endorse rewarding good behaviour.
Voice acting in 4 languages and some pretty high caliber vas in each one can't be cheap, hiring out orchestras and other performers to record about an hour or two of music on average every patch really can't be cheap, and I know they bring in more money than god at this point due to the gatcha but £5-£10 every couple of months just to say "keep at it" is in my opinion perfectly acceptable, I will leave the whales to whatever it is they do.
Their composers are an in house team, although it started out as mostly just yupeng Chen until inazuma where they expanded the team. It was sad to see yupeng Chen go (people call him the music archon because he was responsible for so much early on) the people he evidently had a hand in training and advising like dimeng yuan have out done themselves with the fontaine ost so I think they will have no problems in keeping the quality up.
Also, from what I understand mihoyo have no issue with you using their music as background music in streams and videos with the exception apparently being "the divine damsel of devastation" as that is owned by the opera company they hired to create it
have a listen to "stories of remote antiquity" and "inevitable conflict"
they are both variations on the same theme one more calm and somber with the other being more action but written to sync up so when in game the two tracks can be crossfaded between each other depending on your actions
https://viewsync.net/watch?v=mgOCMnnAkdg&t=0&v=ZuV38DZQgvM&t=0&mode=solo
unfortunately one of the two youtube videos is slightly out but if you mute and unmute them you should be able to hear what i mean
as for not playing it, i get it its not for everyone and the gatcha mechanics... exist unfortunately
for me i decided to try it partially because there were some big name japanese voice actors in it and it looked like it was an actual game (quite rare on mobile) but also because with a lot of game sound tracks the context of the gameplay and the story adds a little extra
and in some cases a piece does not get that little extra until a few patches after the release, for example, the pieces "for riddles for wonders" and "Le Souvenir avec le crepuscule" both tracks introduced in their regions initial release both played in their respective capital cities as just background music (i think the fontaine one plays in the city) acquire new 'meaning' after the 3.2 and 4.2 main story quests respectively
Don't forget some absolutely top tier music
I decided to give genshin impact a try after spotify suggested the music, quite a good game shame about the gatcha mechanics, voice acting in Japanese is top tier (Korean and Chinese I'm told is also good but I can't really comment on that)
The developers for the most part tend to give the audience what the audience likes (anniversary events however appear to draw some ire)
One of the things I dislike about contemporary classical music in a lot of games though is its usually only one or two minute snippets that I wish were just longer and had more time to do things.
Yu peng chens work is superb and the composers they have in house now in hoyomix are certainly continuing with a similar level of quality.
japanese or japanese?
are these actually japanese people born and raised in japan or are they foreigners?
if they were born in japan did they go to a foreign communist brainwashing camp in their teens years aka western universities
sims 3 is good but requires some mods to make it run correctly
unless on deep discount just pirate the fucking thing though when not on sale its far too expensive for its age
sims 4 is... OK? don't buy the DLC just pirate the entire thing there's a mod that removes a bunch of the gay pedo shit on based mods but there's no getting rid of the transformers settings
there's a fuck ton of custom content you can add available from many different websites for both games
the pope is an infidel (that is to say, of a different faith to Christianity)
we have seen some priests protest against his infidel ways but incorrectly call him a heretic (that is to say, follows Christianity but does it wrong or different)
hypothetically speaking this entire issue could be solved in minecraft by just setting up machine gun and sniper nests in minecraft to shoot the fuckers as they come across the english channel in minecraft
once word gets out that you could be shot while illegally invading the country in minecraft these parasites will stop trying to come across in minecraft
no he is actually correct
the more immigrants illegal or not the more government spending goes up
as government spending goes up the GDP goes up because for some fake and gay reason government spending is part of the GDP calculations
therefore the more the government pisses away money the better because GDP line go up
didn't she claim her husband or boyfriend abused her and claimed the revealing clothing was his idea and now that was over she could wear normal clothing
and then a few weeks later was back to being basically naked
or was that one of the other many ethots out there
you know how in star trek they have the prime directive that tells them to not interfere with developing cultures because changing a culture entirely by just giving them hyper advanced technological shit without letting them figure most of it out for themselves would be massively damaging?
i really have to wonder if they were talking about the western countries meddling in africa or if it was an accident
Western meddling in Africa is the reason why their famines would be so deadly if it were not for the continued western meddling
"Oh no the harvests in Africa are bad send them food" people who would have died don't die, breed more leading to more people needing food "oh no the harvests in Africa are bad send them more food" oh no if we don't send them food thousands will die
Also the food being sent to Africa makes it hard for the farmers to compete because there's no competing with free leading to lower and lower local harvests and more and more free food from the west
what i find worse about discord is the amount of games that use it in lieu of proper forums
the amount of mods for games that have all the information as to how they work on some random discord server is too damn high
all the information on those servers is only available so long as the server exists (if the server is shut down by the owner throwing a shit fit its all gone), is only available to people who have joined the server ("free" users can only join so many servers at a time) and by extension is only available to people who can actually join the server, if you get banned you can't access it
none of the information on those servers is cached in archives none of it is findable with a search engine, discord is just one great big massive information blackhole where information goes in but rarely comes out again
how many times do you search about a problem you are having and you find the answer on some forum no one has ever heard of posted 20 years ago? with discord its not there and never will be
I have noticed that Korean mmos come out of the gate in a pretty decent state
Then some three or four years down the line the updates and new content have managed to fucking ruin everything
Take archeage for example at the start the life skills were super important and you could get a fair amount done just focusing on those because the product was sought after and the labour and land system somewhat restricted supply so the prices were not insane (it was possible to keep your sub up by making an alt in the other region, buying raw materials and then processing them because the processed product was worth more due to the labour system, in other games like runescape and wow buying the raw materials and selling the processed result is usually a loss)
Then with updates they added ways to get character power (gear usually) that did not require the life skills and instead just required endless daily quests and grinding