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    Luseth reacted to phil bottle in Microtransactions and their place in gaming   
    Plenty of companies still release games on PC for around £35 and without microtransactions. 
     
    If people want to pay to win in single player games that's up to them, sad but I don't care to be honest.
     
    Pay to win in multiplayer is obviously a massive no no.
     
    Paying for skins, again, I don't care.
     
    And gating or  deliberately removing game features simply to make money is shitty imo it wasn't always like this, so it kind of tarnishes gaming for me personally.
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    Luseth reacted to GazzaGarratt in Microtransactions and their place in gaming   
    I don't mind them much really - you don't have to buy them.
     
    I think sometimes gamers aren't able to take a step back and put themselves into the developer/programmer company side of things, just to help give some balance. No doubt about it, its income for a company, but i'd suggest thinking about what its used for. If I had made a great game and there was an outcry to add certain cosmetics or even extra enemies then I'd have to think how do I pay for the devs to make it. Thats just common sense. There is a reason we're seeing not many AAA games being made now and its purely down to cost.
     
    People can say 'it wasn't like that back in the day', but we have to be mindful that gamers expectations change and shift over time. Demand for the best graphics, the biggest games, the largest content drops, etc...its relentless and I don't envy any company that makes games these days. Social Media and the way we gorge content is just something that can't be matched in terms of delivery of content in games.
     
    I may be widening the discussion but I hope you can understand why I try to take in both sides of the story before thinking immediately from the gamer side that 'they're just crap'. However, you still need morally correct businesses to choose the right reasons to implement MTXs. That's my initial 2p anyway.
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    Luseth reacted to GazzaGarratt in FG Feedback Time   
    This is brilliant, thank you all so far. I've known for a while we have underutilised sections and its a cyclical thing really. We really removed things over time to make it simplistic and then I added new features on top over time to keep the place fresh and worth coming back to it. This feedback really helps work out where we can potentially remove certain areas off the main focus when they don't seem to be being used and try and circulate more key features.
     
    I think I've always been clear on one principle that has to stay for FG to work for me and that's the website being our main HOME. WhatsApp is chill and great for connecting, as is Discord, but its not personable as this place as is viewed as 'your place', not standardised bland group chats. One thing is for sure, I need to pick Announcements again, which are similar to what Welchy picks up around what's on. It was essentially a notification system of telling you all there's some new shit this week, go and check it out. It was just something that takes a while to get used to doing because everything requires time. Time around work, life, home, kids, etc. We can all make time though, if we want stuff to work.
     
    And I'd love to try yet another way of getting more people involved, I won't stop trying different ways to ask people if they want to get in on the FG act - just note that's its not the first I've asked everyone so its on everyone to recognise that a little more stepping up to the plate is all that's needed for FG to grow and flourish.
     
    So with that in mind, whilst I take some thought on some changes, let this be the place for the first way to gather interest on who would love to be involved in this stuff. Even if its just one small part of FG, it all counts. Remember, there's many things where people can immediately add value by just going into that section and creating or interacting with it. Quizzes, for example, ANYONE can create one if you are an FGer. I have also linked very many medals and achievements for interacting with this type of stuff, including responding to Events so it all counts, especially if you can see a nice shiny medal on your FG profile.
     
     
    Please keep the feedback coming in here everyone - its great we've had 4 comments above but more feedback and dialogue in here between us all will really help get things going at FG 👊
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    Luseth got a reaction from GazzaGarratt in FG Feedback Time   
    Honestly, there is probably too much? Maybe condense it a little and make some of the things more of a feature i.e. if you were to keep quizes, do them more regularly? Or alternatively see if we can get some FG members to take ownership of certain areas? I.e. Someone running prediction league or someone who might be keen enough to regularly add quizes?
     
    I haven't put anything next to everything but have put a little reply next to a lot of them 🙂 
     
    Forums - Fine as they are, generally I just read the new topics and see if there is anything new for me to respond to. Articles - Honestly, I'm not sure of the purpose of this area? Is it just an FG article or can it be an article on anything? I.e. review of a game etc? Blog  - I did not know there was one?  Might be good to do this whether it's the summary of upcoming events like your whatsapp posts you were doing or sessions that have been done the week before. Videos - I don't think anything need's to change here Quizzes - Just need's more of them, see note above maybe about ownership. Events - Trying my best to keep on top of adding them but need people to engage more sometimes 🙂 Once one or two reply to an event others then follow Predictions - Fine, I just found it difficult to find time to sit down and put them in sometimes. Merch - I don't suppose you could get a hoody sorted with a zip down the middle could you? I do like the white one's but I find general hoodies a little restrictive (I know it's a personal preference thing) Achievements / Medals - Good as they are. Memberships - I keep meaning to resub, will sort it out later this month. Game Hubs - Not sure what these were? Guides and Tips - This is one of those areas that unless people ask for a guide nothing will probably get posted. It's also maybe too restrictive in that it's got the 6 games and it's not obvious where to post guides related to other games? History - Apparently FG has no history since 2013 😛  Raffles - We need more of these, unnanounced so it encourages people to check the site more regularly.  
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    Luseth reacted to Riff Machine in Dice To Pixels   
    Episode 89 is LIVE!!!  We talk about Daggerheart, the new TTRPG system by the folks at Critical Role, Adrian's new column about gaming history, and and  Xbox contest for a working and non-working system.  Check it out.
     
     
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    Luseth got a reaction from Riff Machine in Hello All   
    Oh Lee is going to love you, he's eager to get Destiny nights up and running again.
     
    With the dlc coming to ps plus I was going to redownload it so might see you on there soon 🙂
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    Luseth got a reaction from Riff Machine in Video game club   
    I don't know if this will get any interest as most people are here for multiplayer gaming but thought I'd give it a try.
     
    I was thinking it might be a nice idea to try doing a game club similar to how a book club runs, we all vote on a relatively inexpensive single player story driven game to buy and play through over the course of a couple of months and then jump on chat one night a week or even discuss it in here and how we are getting on with it, what we are enjoying and not enjoying etc etc, talk about the writing, the story etc.
     
    Would that peak anyone's interest? With games such as Baldurs gate down the road where you can approach things so differently it could be good fun I thought.
     
    Anyway, yeah will see if there's any interest first 🙂
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    Luseth got a reaction from IRaMPaGe in Video game club   
    I don't know if this will get any interest as most people are here for multiplayer gaming but thought I'd give it a try.
     
    I was thinking it might be a nice idea to try doing a game club similar to how a book club runs, we all vote on a relatively inexpensive single player story driven game to buy and play through over the course of a couple of months and then jump on chat one night a week or even discuss it in here and how we are getting on with it, what we are enjoying and not enjoying etc etc, talk about the writing, the story etc.
     
    Would that peak anyone's interest? With games such as Baldurs gate down the road where you can approach things so differently it could be good fun I thought.
     
    Anyway, yeah will see if there's any interest first 🙂
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    Luseth reacted to GazzaGarratt in Video game club   
    A great idea Matt - we did try it briefly before but as always its about getting enough people behind the idea. Its likely it would work best if its maybe 1 game a month and as you say, something cheap or free to get involved in that we can all focus efforts on to have a good chinwag over it on here. We also did FG Film Club like this but I noticed doing it weekly was a hard slog (although would love to see that back too).
     
    Loving the ideas of FG scores. I've never found a way yet to record them in a smarter way but that doesn't stop us sticking them on posts like Phil has mentioned.
     
    I think if you can have a think of some certain games that could be potentials to maximise the amount of people that could get involved in this, lets then see if we can make it work for the upcoming month perhaps!
     
    Nice one Matt! @Luseth
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    Luseth got a reaction from GazzaGarratt in Video game club   
    I don't know if this will get any interest as most people are here for multiplayer gaming but thought I'd give it a try.
     
    I was thinking it might be a nice idea to try doing a game club similar to how a book club runs, we all vote on a relatively inexpensive single player story driven game to buy and play through over the course of a couple of months and then jump on chat one night a week or even discuss it in here and how we are getting on with it, what we are enjoying and not enjoying etc etc, talk about the writing, the story etc.
     
    Would that peak anyone's interest? With games such as Baldurs gate down the road where you can approach things so differently it could be good fun I thought.
     
    Anyway, yeah will see if there's any interest first 🙂
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    Luseth got a reaction from GazzaGarratt in Hello All   
    Oh Lee is going to love you, he's eager to get Destiny nights up and running again.
     
    With the dlc coming to ps plus I was going to redownload it so might see you on there soon 🙂
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    Luseth reacted to slamminbones in Hello All   
    Welcome to FG.
    This may give a few of us a reason to fire up the game again.
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    Luseth reacted to WelchyTV in Hello All   
    Welcome to FG! 
     
    Hopefully see you online at some point!
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    Luseth reacted to phil bottle in Video game club   
    A nice idea, could be up for it depending on games chosen and time available.
    Maybe a part of the conversation could be to agree an FG review score for the game out of 10 or 100 whatever...and post it on the forum.
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    Luseth reacted to phil bottle in Stalker - original trilogy now updated for console   
    Did not see this coming and out now apparently...
     
     
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    Luseth got a reaction from phil bottle in Video game club   
    I don't know if this will get any interest as most people are here for multiplayer gaming but thought I'd give it a try.
     
    I was thinking it might be a nice idea to try doing a game club similar to how a book club runs, we all vote on a relatively inexpensive single player story driven game to buy and play through over the course of a couple of months and then jump on chat one night a week or even discuss it in here and how we are getting on with it, what we are enjoying and not enjoying etc etc, talk about the writing, the story etc.
     
    Would that peak anyone's interest? With games such as Baldurs gate down the road where you can approach things so differently it could be good fun I thought.
     
    Anyway, yeah will see if there's any interest first 🙂
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    Luseth reacted to oldskoolrave in Hello All   
    Cool, I'm on most evenings. Not great at it but always have a laugh 🙂
     
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    Luseth reacted to IRaMPaGe in Hello All   
    Nice to meet you man. I'm not a destiny player, but any friend of Plumber is a friend of ours! 
     
    Welcome to the family. 
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    Luseth got a reaction from IRaMPaGe in Hello All   
    Oh Lee is going to love you, he's eager to get Destiny nights up and running again.
     
    With the dlc coming to ps plus I was going to redownload it so might see you on there soon 🙂
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    Luseth reacted to oldskoolrave in Hello All   
    Hi, was recommended to this site by "Plumbers Crack". I'm a 50 year young gamer, been gaming probably 40+ years. Main console now is PS5, sometimes on PC too. Still wasting time on Destiny 2. Anyone wanna shoot some aliens in the face, send me a DM/friend request
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    Luseth reacted to GazzaGarratt in Dune Awakening   
    Really intriguing, agreed!! I think like with most MMO or open world games it will probably depend on how much content will go live at the launch to be able to keep people engaged in this. I do fancy giving it a go though just based off what I've seen above.
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    Luseth got a reaction from GazzaGarratt in Dune Awakening   
    I came across this the weekend, I am definately intrigued! I can see it being something I might try and get the missus into as well with it being a bit of a survival mmo
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    Luseth got a reaction from TurboR56Mini in FG Feedback Time   
    Honestly, there is probably too much? Maybe condense it a little and make some of the things more of a feature i.e. if you were to keep quizes, do them more regularly? Or alternatively see if we can get some FG members to take ownership of certain areas? I.e. Someone running prediction league or someone who might be keen enough to regularly add quizes?
     
    I haven't put anything next to everything but have put a little reply next to a lot of them 🙂 
     
    Forums - Fine as they are, generally I just read the new topics and see if there is anything new for me to respond to. Articles - Honestly, I'm not sure of the purpose of this area? Is it just an FG article or can it be an article on anything? I.e. review of a game etc? Blog  - I did not know there was one?  Might be good to do this whether it's the summary of upcoming events like your whatsapp posts you were doing or sessions that have been done the week before. Videos - I don't think anything need's to change here Quizzes - Just need's more of them, see note above maybe about ownership. Events - Trying my best to keep on top of adding them but need people to engage more sometimes 🙂 Once one or two reply to an event others then follow Predictions - Fine, I just found it difficult to find time to sit down and put them in sometimes. Merch - I don't suppose you could get a hoody sorted with a zip down the middle could you? I do like the white one's but I find general hoodies a little restrictive (I know it's a personal preference thing) Achievements / Medals - Good as they are. Memberships - I keep meaning to resub, will sort it out later this month. Game Hubs - Not sure what these were? Guides and Tips - This is one of those areas that unless people ask for a guide nothing will probably get posted. It's also maybe too restrictive in that it's got the 6 games and it's not obvious where to post guides related to other games? History - Apparently FG has no history since 2013 😛  Raffles - We need more of these, unnanounced so it encourages people to check the site more regularly.  
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    Luseth got a reaction from phil bottle in Dune Awakening   
    I came across this the weekend, I am definately intrigued! I can see it being something I might try and get the missus into as well with it being a bit of a survival mmo
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    Luseth reacted to phil bottle in Dune Awakening   
    Not going to lie, quite like the look of it 🙂
     
     
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