@Weirdo said in Can we not cut out anymore story scenes and stop it with censorship in general.:

The Harriet basewear as well.

This is actually interesting to see, kinda neat. Though also it kind of sucks, because even though I have one of the harriet basewears, I didn't expect it to be changed so I never bought the corresponding correctly-colored innerwear for it. Oh well.

@IAMCRAIG said in Questionaire: Why aren’t you buying anything?:

@Brittany_Rose_C said in Questionaire: Why aren’t you buying anything?:

@IAMCRAIG A lot of online games are action oriented. It's the nature of online games, if the servers are bogged down due to traffic it will lag. The lag has since been resolved due to the initial rush ended and the fixes they put in.

What is your definition of an action game? In my head I'm thinking of games like Devil May Cry and God of War when I say action.

To a lot of people I think action game just means a game with fighting where the combat is reflex-based and usually fast. I don't play DMC/GoW, but from what I've seen those specific types of action games sometimes get referred to as "character action" games.

@Antiseptic said in Questionaire: Why aren’t you buying anything?:

@Akonyl Oh, I've searched the marketplace but haven't been able to find the hairstyle ticket in PSO2. I heard it may have been a Mission Pass reward item.

Oh, I was working under the assumption you already had it since you said "I want it back" (unless you're a JP player and had it there but lost it going to global, or something). Looking it up it looks like the mohawk never made it Global-side, the only thing we got was the "undercut mohawk" which is hardly a mohawk at all.

@Antiseptic said in Questionaire: Why aren’t you buying anything?:

Gimme my got dang mohawk and I'll drop more money. I just want my mohawk back!

If it's just a PSO2 hairstyle you should still have it, hairstyles can be used with any head/body type. It's not like bodypaints/outfits which get locked to a specific type of body. Unless you just want a sexier, higher-def mohawk.

I remembered them saying something about potentially locking certain shop features behind titles to try to prevent bots from so easily using the shop, so I was holding out hope for the titles patch.

And now that that's just listed as "TBD", rip me.

Most of my answers on the survey were along the lines of "I don't have enough confidence in NGS to spend money yet/premium's not worth it/I don't buy scratch because I can't sell the duds on the market without premium".

It was kind of a shock to me to see the price tiers in the first question being like, <$10/mo as the lowest tier, then $10-$40/mo, and then there were 4 more categories or something capping out at something crazy like $350/mo iirc. If someone spends $40 a month on the game that's pretty huge imo (averaging out my PSO2 spending I'd probably be ~$10-$15/mo), so it's a little crazy to me that that's only considered by SEGA to be one tier up from the <$10 "might as well be F2P" tier.

I know that F2P games go after whales, but it felt really telling to see that the "middle tier" of spending in the survey was like $100/mo or something.

The only real incentives I remember from PSO2 were the triboost, healing and buffs. Not having the triboost's fine, and with how healing/buffs work in NGS it doesn't matter if you're partied for those either, so I think it's a win all around tbh.

I play on Ultra and don't usually have this problem, but I will say I see similar things in the item preview window:

So, I'm not sure how the preview window chooses its graphical settings, but I'm wondering if whatever issue's causing the preview window to use worse graphics (if it's not an intentional choice for performance, which seems weird when it's a window made for you to compare looks) is also affecting users in the real world for whatever reason.

Specific blocks getting filled can be pretty misleading when you get content like gigantix that rewards the population for grouping up in huge numbers, since that'll cause people to just naturally congregate in the more populated blocks until they fill up, instead of the more spread out pop we had before.

If the game has 50 blocks, you could fill 3 of them from 0 to 100% with only seeing a ~6% drop in the other 47 blocks' pops, which wouldn't be very noticeable, but you'd still think "dang look at those 3 blocks that filled, that's crazy" even though the pop hasn't actually increased at all.

@AiC-L said in Are Critical hits the same?:

They do more damage now. Blue also isn't crits anymore, it's weakpoint damage.

This was something that kind of confused me, I was wondering if weakpoints just made everything auto-crit or something when I saw the text color for hitting them.