I know Valentino is the worst but can we give some props to Joel Perez for playing him. He's been doing such a fantastic job, like going from moments of Val's petulant, kid throwing a tantrum type ranting when he's first introduced (and the "Uh...fuck it up?"), to when he's all flirty with people, to when he's threatening and angry at angel to this:
I am looking at the QSMP from the hallway, not exactly getting invested, but Etoiles' fight in the arena got me hyped! :D Not gonna lie there was some severe french pride looking at him having his epic fight. It was so cinematic!
I have the worst timing with this piece : the man lost his daughter and he got a new look! XD Fuck it we ball! :D
I’m pretty sure he talked about other things, but your post makes it seem like all he talked about was Shane and it’s making me laugh 😆
haha nope actually! 😭 i thought about putting this in the original post cause i had a feeling someone would comment about how much shane talk was in the post! :)
my post was a summary of everything that happened at ryan’s interview! yes, my post makes it seem like he mostly talked about shane! but that’s because that’s precisely what happened lmao!
obviously, ryan’s job very closely includes shane, so many of the questions he was asked ended up being pretty shane-related (what is your favorite moment with shane, are you and shane actually friends, what do you and shane do for work, how did you and shane meet, how did shane convince you to do puppet history, etc.)
due to that, most of the show was pretty much about shane and their joint job together! (which is perfectly okay! :) i didn’t mind at all cause i love hearing about them both! this is just an explanation as to the content of my og post 😭)
he talked about aliens, mari, anxiety, making content, and vinny for a good amount of time, but most of it was indeed shane talk haha!
so i hope that explains it!!! thanks for the ask anon! <3
To comment on what an Anon said about grinding, like the daily quests are great and all, but i would love if they had more dailies where you unlock them after you reach a certain rep level with a group. Like in Tailtop village, would love more dailies there. Or even if thy allowed you to unlock a secret questline if you reached admired with a certain factions. Such as if you reach admired with the Warriors, Mystics, and Foresters, it gave you a secret questline where you unite all three herds or something. Just a little more variety for those who don’t like to grind to get clothes or horse tack, but rather like to grind to unlock content.
Regarding the SC, maybe increasing the allowance really isn’t the issue, it’s the fact that theres no other way to get them besides purchasing them or the allowance. Like i would watch adverts or buy merch from them if it gave me SC’s. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think having ads in game still gives them money. That way both parties are happy mostly.
SSE could even set up a shop, where if you buy like 50 dollars worth of merch, you get 50 star coins deposited into your game. But it could be like only with purchase 50 dollars and over, and then 60 dollars = 60 SC - 100 dollars spent at the store = 100 SC. And maybe additionally there could be a thing to where if you finish all the achievements in game, you get 400 star coins for free.
If I had a penny for every time someone described wanting a feature in sso that already exists, I’d have two pennies. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it’s happened twice. Getting quests for completing rep already is a thing. You do unlock more dailies by wrapping up reputation. You’ve just played for so long you’ve done it already.
What you’re describing would still end. You’d finish the special secret quest and that would be All. Back to “no content”. And you’re continuing to ignore the fact that SSE are constantly adding more long term quests for old players, instead going “But there is no content!” because the game isn’t perfectly tailored to your preferences. They’re adding new stuff for older players this month! That will give us something to grind! You’re going to get content!
The SC thing is just bad. I’ve played several games where watching ads and doing things for premium allowance was a thing, and other than purchasing it that was usually the only way to get free premium currency. Unlike SSO that gives a big sum of theirs away For FREE, other companies will have you preform “actions” to gain premium currency. This can be watching ads, but more often than not it’ll be something actively harmful like “go to this gambling site and gamble for the free $20 dollars we’ll provide you with, and you can get the equivalent of 25 SC!” And that’s not. Good. Also illegal in Sweden. You’re not allowed to bake ads into gameplay in any way and you are not allowed to show children ads. They’re very serious about it over here. Children’s shows aren’t allowed to break for any kind of ad, and ads aren’t allowed to target them.
Giving SC for ingame things has never been a thing and it will probably never be a thing. Like I said, SSE are an incredibly ethical company when it comes to premium currency. Not only do they offer lifetime subscriptions, something any other company would never touch with a five pole, they also give their premium currency away for free, which few companies would willingly do. They are actively losing money every single week! It’s a wonder they’re still up and running, and instead of yelling at them for not doing enough, they should be heralded as an example to other game studios to prove that it is possible to survive with lifetime subscriptions and giving away in-game currency.
The merch thing they’ve done before. They used to sell magazines with SC codes, which was cool. Unfortunately I don’t think their focus is on merch, so it’s kind of a moot point. Cant give SC away with merch if there is no merch.
my sis was like 'don't you want to catch up on jjk toji is going to be there today 🥺' so i watched 7 eps plus today's ep only for toji to be in it for 5 second 😑
That post comparing being on your phone all day to taking psychic damage has really stayed with me bc I used to get in trouble in elementary school for daydreaming elaborate fantasy narratives in my head so hard I forgot to do my work and now I just scroll on my phone. Truly don’t believe I have ever been a more productive writer than I was when I was 7-11 years old