Absolutely. It's got to be the way it is. Just kinda feels bad at first

It accumulates, so there is no money lost. It does kinda suck though that as you start, even though you can make money and did make a bit you don't get to see it yet

Youtube and twitch work this same way. When I was starting there were months where I didnt make any money because I didn't meet the minimum. Hoping next month meets the requirement for you boss 🙏

Exactly. Who cares if it's on steam if you have to have uplay installed and open anyway

Dead money is my favorite dlc, I just adore it. I actually got this exact writing on the wall as a tattoo.

As someone who is involved in that space, I agree and don't find that to be an unpopular opinion. Most people ive talked to about it understand they are one in the same, they just find youtube drama more interesting because some of them really are just normal people.

Thats how I feel. Casual is essentially ranked without having any visual indicators of what rank you are. Also the mess it creates when trying to play with friends of way a lower skill level

Came to say exactly this.

What an absolute banger. Been in my playlist since shortly after release.

100% There are a few companies now that have there own launchers and if they force me to use them I just dont purchase their games.

I played quite a few under randy cause people swear by him but I feel I get a much more satisfying experience under Cassandra

I put this on my playlist a couple years ago. What a banger

100% everything is named something stupid and they arent at all memorable. Thank you for saying it.

Hot take but I'd rather play ds2 and I think this is an insult to ds2. 'Ate elden ring simple as.

No, not a given you are right. But regardless whether its on par with skyrim I'm interested in what they do the same way I was with fallout 4 despite not thinking that game was particularly good myself.

Mods exist now and have since day one. They've already made the game much better, but you are right they arent great yet cause they dont have the GECK. I do like to have a sort of "vanilla" playthrough before super mods. I didn't clarify that.

This is why I bought it really. I never expected it to be good. But always enjoy what the community can do.

You could watch best friends play. They dont make new content but if you havent seen any of it there is plenty to watch. Sad they are gone though

Eating out isn't exactly frugal but if you are going to get fast food and they have an app I'd recommend using it cause you can get some pretty good deals. I often get half off a meal which makes those rare times I decide to eat out that much cheaper.

While the moment to moment gameplay feels better (subjective I know) the design choices for the menus and leveling are completely backwards as far as improvements. Ui suffers from modern ui problems of just being poorly designed and having way to many tabs because icons and banners are so big. The xp coming only from challenges discourages team objective play as people are better of chasing challenges to level rather than complete the mission. And lastly, but probably the biggest issue, is always requiring online to play. Having to matchmake to play solo is horrid. Lagging while playing solo is embarrassing. They should take these server issues as a lesson and completely reverse this design choice because its clearly already showed why it wasn't a good idea to begin with from day 1. Disappointing is an understatement they completely dropped the ball.