#battlepass completed cake get

[astravires]

new gameplay elements interrupting cuddles is uncalled for in gabe's opinion

[amywritesthings]

[ + ] = 18+ with explicit content, MDNI

> ATTACK ON TITAN ( SHINGEKI NO KYOJIN )

// series

silver underground. [ongoing] / levi ackerman [+] They say you dedicated your heart to the Scouts. They tell you a lot of things. You remember none of it.

press four for more options. [complete] / levi ackerman [+] After seeing your ex with his new girl at a work party, you take the not-so-smart advice to call a sex hotline to get over him. Your match? Levi. dating on airplane mode. [ongoing] / levi ackerman [+] So you're dating your neighbor who also happens to be a sex hotline dom named Levi Ackerman. Stranger things have happened, right?

seven days. [ongoing] / Armin Arlert gets bamboozled into joining the annual Yeager family beach vacation — and accidentally meets you.

// one shots

first christmas. / armin arlert (holiday ‘23) [+] gingerbread sweet. / reiner braun (holiday ‘23) in the wrong. / levi ackerman (levimonth24) [+] war of clarity. / levi ackerman (levimonth24) happy birthday, levi. / levi ackerman (leviweek24)

> BALDUR’S GATE 3

// series

the better strategy. [hiatus] / astarion/tav [+] After saving Druid Grove, Astarion has one goal in mind: secure his safety. His strategy? Seduce Tav. But what if that plan goes horrible wrong?

// one shots

valentine’s special / astarion

> FIELDS OF MISTRIA

// one shots

halloween at the inn / march

> JUJUTSU KAISEN

// series

operation battlepass: aka the totally awesome plan to play wingman by yuuji itadori. [ongoing] / choso kamo

// one shots

mistletoe on the clock. / nanami kento (holiday ‘23) something in the movies. / gojo satoru (holiday '23) [+] new year, new choso. / choso kamo (holiday '23)

> LOVE AND DEEPSPACE

// one shots

your only, hopefully. / caleb

> THE BUBBLE

// series

famous last words. [hiatus] / dieter bravo [+] Follow Hollywood’s most notorious feud (and secret romance) through Just Old Habits, a one-shot set in 2020, and Same Old Mistakes, the prequel.

// one shots

hallmark, holiday, horny. / dieter bravo [+]

> THE LAST OF US

// series

seeing you, seeing me. [complete] / joel miller [+] After handling a life-or-death favor for Tess, you’re in deep shit. Until she can make things right, she suggests you lay low at her place. The issue? It’s also Joel Miller’s place, and you’re pretty sure he hates you.

// one shots

reckless. / joel miller [+] boston holiday. / joel miller

> MARVEL

// one shots

a first for breathing. / steven grant (moon knight) [+]

> STAR WARS

// series

point a to point b. [hiatus] / din djarin (the mandalorian) [+] Escorting a former Empire prisoner of war to a Rebel Alliance safe zone? It should be a piece of cake. No problems whatsoever.

ownership of mine. [complete] / kino loy (andor) [+] The Empire has integrated their prison systems, one being Narkina 5. The unit manager takes you under his wing - but for reasons you didn’t anticipate.

// one shots

about you. / cassian andor (andor) [+]

> STRANGER THINGS

// series of interconnected one shots for eddie munson

where shadows meet spaces. [+] meet me at the usual.meet me on the other side. [vol2 fix-it] meet me on christmas. (holiday '23)

> MISC

ficlets tag of misc reader pairings. hallo-sleepover '24 drabble challenge '24

[unpopularly-opinionated]

I’m honestly not sure whether linking the video would be better, or not because fuck that guy, I don’t want to give him views, even to make a point.

Your Overwatch posted a video just a few hours ago, and it has by far his most egregious takes yet. The guy has been on a high rise freefall ever since the monetization schemes for Overwatch 2 were announced prior to release, but this video of his really took the fucking cake, I gotta say.

He literally cut in a clip from Seagull’s stream where he points out that an in-game keychain charm costs more than its real world equivalent. Let that fucking sink in. A real keychain costs less than a digital one. And this clown had the gall to go on and defend it.

He goes on to say, and this is a direct fucking quote:

“I’m personally kind of tired of talking about this when there’s such a good game in front of us to play, and to some degree, if I can’t convince you that these skins in the Overwatch Battlepass are far higher quality, more imaginative, more creative, more transformative...I think players sometimes forget that’s almost like designing an entirely separate character.”

Never mind the quality of the skins since, for the sake of fairness, that’s up to the individual (personally, I think the only good skins in the BP are the D’Va and Pharah ones), but his argument here is that because he believes these skins are ‘better’ than the skins we used to get in OW1, that makes them worth a premium.

Regarding the premium skins you can buy from the store he said, and this is a paraphrase: “Since we’ve already learned most people don’t even play 3 different heroes a majority of the time, why would you buy a premium skin for a hero you don’t even play?”

This is, of course, completely disregarding the most basic fact that this is a hero shooter where one of the quintessential elements of gameplay is having to swap heroes to effectively counter the enemy team. Granted, sure, you could get away without doing that, assuming you’re a decent enough player, but we don’t live in Wonderland where everyone is Grandmaster. We live in the real world where sometimes you have to pick an off hero you might not like, or might not typically play, all for the sake of winning. Just because you’re usually playing ~3 specific heroes doesn’t mean you’re not playing any of the other heroes ever.

All of that was of course so he could ‘defend’ Blizzard charging AAA video game prices, we’re talking ~$60-70 per-skin, because in his mind, you’re only buying the skins for the heroes you like, so that gives Blizzard the justification to fleece you for all you’re worth for those few skins you purchase.

He also just blatantly lied, or is willfully ignorant when he argued that lowering the prices in the shop wouldn’t encourage more people to buy them, when that’s so completely and provably false. Look at just about any mobile game ever and you will immediately see just how wrong that is. It’s infinitely easier to convince people to buy 4-6 skins at $10-15 per-skin than it is to convince them to buy a single skin for $60. This man’s ignorance knows no bounds.

And all of this was in the segment of his video where he’s literally discussing a survey that was sent out by Blizzard regarding monetization because even they are noticing that people really find their monetization scheme to be complete and utter bullshit. And none of this even touches his horrifically bad takes on the actual meta itself.

This is just further proof that people give, not only YouTubers, but ‘pro-players’ far too much credibility when it comes to discussing the design of the game. These people shouldn’t be the voices of the people playing these games because 9/10 they are completely detached from the playerbase they claim to represent, case-in-point this utter clown. Games shouldn’t be designed around the sub-1% of the playerbase.

It’s truly bewildering to me that games are designed around pro-players when the entire concept of being a professional player of a video game is that you are someone who is actually good at the game and not someone who the game was built to be good for. Instead, games should be focused on making it fun for the vast majority of players, and the people who are paid to get good at the game should, you know, actually get good at the game instead of having their every need catered to.