What does this even mean? People shouldn’t talk about it because it doesn’t have as many users?

I miss Two Best Friends Play.

Honestly the learning curve isn’t that atrocious. I’ve always advocated for following a build guide then start looking at ways to personalize it at level ~70 (and with Exarch altars you can farm regrets to respec.)

Learning the skill tree is hard but it’s made much easier when you have a base to modify.

The learning curve gets really bad when you start trying to craft though. And expensive.

Easily Path of Exile. There’s something so relaxing about blowing up the entire screen with one flick of my wrist, and it really gets my endorphins flowing to minmax my stats using third party tools like Path of Building and testing out items on the trade site / changes to my skill tree to see how they’d affect my build.

To some people it sounds like work, but for me it hits that sweet spot of minmaxing and complexity that no other game really can.

Edit: I should also mention that lately I’ve been mostly playing on Steam Deck which has been a revelation for me. Endgame “alch and go” mapping is so perfect for the pick up and play style, only enhanced by having access to it from the couch/toilet.

Exilecon in July should have more information on PoE2 (and PoE Mobile which sounds like it’ll be neat.)

According to Steam it’s Path of Exile (610 hours on Steam, probably 400 on standalone client Id reckon) followed by FFXIV (500 hours on Steam, probably 200 on standalone from ARR launch)

Overall it’s probably Phantasy Star Online – between GameCube, PSOv2 PC and Blue Burst I’ve probably lost 4000 hours.

Also Street Fighter IV but that’s not trackable since my gameplay is split between multiple consoles, offlines at friend houses and time at locals and tournaments.

If I had to guess I’ve got probably 2,000 hours in SFIV.

Kappa/Kappachino. This place doesn’t feel like Reddit without the degenerates of the fighting game community.

Yeah, this is an aspect I don’t see most people talking about. Everyone is focusing on them killing third party apps to force people onto their app but it seems more like they want to cash out on the fact that so many AI bots are training on Reddit data.

Unfortunately for them they’re going to lose a fair amount of engagement from real users and the bots will just switch to web scraping to gather their data, so it’s a lose lose for Reddit from my perspective.