DemonEyesJason

Important thing to point out is depending on your store, you may have a guy there that loves painting and does commissions and does it not for an large amount of money. I know some people paint for the fun of it and will paint people's stuff for the stuff you provide them so long as nothing comes out of their pocket. They just want stuff to paint without having to spend money. Otherwise, I'm sure commission painters rates vary. Problem is from what I've seen from prepainted stuff, the quality always lacks and the cost to get it done right probably would cost the customer almost double.

And yet none of the things you're pointing out says how going to the Epic launcher benefits people as a consumer for using their service. These services are also more than friend lists. How they allow for user content to be consolidated and make modding easier for those that aren't Lucian levels into modding. How they match regional pricing (this isn't a thing for US, but means a lot to those that are in other countries). The drive they have to included all sorts of control inputs that make it easier for us to use our favorite control schemes. All things Steam has done to make the consumer experience better. I'm not against competition for Steam, but so far, these companies have not really tried to compete, just made it worse by anti-consumer competition methods. If Epic wanted to really compete, they would have launched with all of the features Steam had and more which Epic, with Tencent backing is all the more capable to. Instead they launched with about the capability I would expect a small upstart company to do, which isn't how you compete this late in the game. From the subsequent posts I've seen you've made since I started typing this response though, it seems a lot of your beef is around the store portion, which for me, I can't think I've really had a problem with. I'm like Xbob in that I like the openness they've done and I don't want people to tell me what I may want to play or not. I've not felt I haven't been able to find the games I've wanted to play and in a lot of cases, Steam helped me discover games I wasn't aware of based on the algorithms they built into that. I've not run into this deluge of crap unless I only look at the new releases list. I can see some developers frustrations as now they actually have to compete and try and stand out instead of just making a game and putting it on a service, but if anyone remembers the complaints about Greenlight, this is what they wanted in a lot of cases, but now they can't get lucky and just expect sales. Really when I hear the complaints about sales, it's always the devs that make some game that does something we've seen thousands of times and they don't try to reach out at all and promote the game. Not only that, but they are so absorbed in their passion, they never once think if they made a good game. I ran into a number of these people at a developer's expo here in Columbus call GDEX where a lot of the people were trying to show off their games, but a lot of them felt sort of meh. But they were unaware of it in a lot of cases. I would recommend you watch this video from Steam Dev Days at least for the first 8 minutes from a few years ago. It talks about some of the issues they had when they tried to curate and how they almost turned down some huge successes. Stardew Valley for one would have been not on Steam and probably never become the success it did if they had curated it.

Looks like the GW booth is as meh as it is when it's at Origins. Everything they bring tends to be Horus Heresy or Forge World garbage that they charge a hell of a lot for. That painted Tau looks great though.

Funny that your point 2 mentioned console games are cheaper to purchase from BB and Amazon than buying from the Steam store, but forget that Steam keys can be bought from a lot of different stores (actual price competition) that Steam doesn't benefit from as they get $0 revenue from keys sold outside of the Steam store. GMG, CDKeys, Humble Store, etc., we've benefited greatly from Steam's function of letting developers create as many keys as they want and sell them to whoever they want as long as they also sell through Steam. I rarely buy AAA games from Steam because there are so many cheaper options from third party stores that I can still use the Steam environment.

See I'd agree with this if it was competition of features that Epic was offering over Steam that made it worth using and benefited the consumer. Instead, this competition is keeping us from having games on a service (or even other services if we are talking outside of Steam) that has a lot more function to it and benefits us as the consumer in no way. Exclusivity is one type of competition where the consumer never wins and only benefits the platform holder.

I find it hilarious that people go to cons to play D&D AL that you can play almost anywhere. Origins usually books up pretty quick too and I usually think "Why?" I usually like the cons to see and try games I can't play any other night of the week. I won't be going since I started a new job a few weeks ago. I'm going to try and shoot for next year maybe especially since it's over in PA and I'm in Ohio so it isn't too far. Just timing wasn't right for this year.

If you're just wanting Void Elf, that's probably the easiest of the few to get as the two factions from Argus were the easiest to get rep for especially after they buffed it. They should also give out rep on the mission table so I would check that out in order to get it done. Now Nightborne, you have to get exalted with them and complete the whole Suramar quest chain for their story. That's the last one I need to finish to have them all out of the way.

http://dnd.wizards.com/playevents/organized-play Check for local stores in your area using Wizard's search function. That's the best way to find a place to start with their Adventurer's League.

Also after watching the video, I highly recommend some of boxes he talks about in there, that if you have any interest of going possibly farther, to check out the Start Collecting box for some of the ones he mentions. Two that comes off the top of my head is Drukhari and Tyranids. Both of the ones he recommends in the video are also a part of a SC box that you will pay more, but get a lot more value if you like that. Though, that's if you want to spend another $40-$50 to get that extra value. It may be better to just stick with what he recommends if you aren't sure as you can always get more later. Like for the two factions I named, you're going to always need some more Wyches and Genestealers for a bigger army. I think I have at least a few Drukhari SC boxes I bought like 2 of the new and 2 of the old to supplement the force I'm building.

I picked up my book on Saturday and flipped through it though I haven't had time to play. At most it looks like you'll playing with anything from 5-10 models based on the different factions I've seen and the weapons they can have. It seemed to be a hit with the people that play 40k at regular size, but I was with family and not able to play myself yet. Hopefully soon.

They also released a digital book on DM's Guild for Eberron adapted to 5e that is available now and will always be updating. Granted it's not really new stuff, but I know some of my group is wanting this.

I haven't watched the anime much as I've been following the manga since the first season so it hasn't been high on my must watch list. If I recall, this is where the series starts to focus more on the political environment of the space inside the walls. Which I enjoyed, but not in a rush to see animated.

I was at my local shop to pick up my Arcadia Quest expansion and they said they are having a lot of interest in Kill Team. Which is good. I'm hoping I can turn that interest around to doing full size games.

Also, here's what it looks like when you open the core box.

Yeah I seen that price sheet last week. I can't say I'd recommend getting the core set unless you have someone wanting to get into it with you. The main reason it has Skittari and Genestealer Cult as the two factions. Both aren't good to build into a full force around if you ever want to get into main 40k. But you can probably get it for $110 online at places like Miniature Market and it does have everything you need to play as terrain isn't something that comes cheap and they look to include a lot for the set. Though if you are crafty you can make it out of foam board too.

So based one what I'm seeing so far, they are mostly sticking around plastic kits. For Drukhari, the faction I'm looking at, it's mostly Kabalites and Wyches which a box of 10 for each is $29 so that will give you an idea of what you may expect depending on the faction.

I'd have said Age of Sigmar was worth getting into for over a year now. If anything it's a lot easier to get into than it ever was the original version of Fantasy.

To me it was mostly because the game is old and what I've seen of the competitive scene doesn't seem to have the diversity in characters played that I like to see in a strong competitive game. You can say it's really technical, but when most of the top players play Fox, I really don't care.

The media has really kind of clinged to that Reddit post of swinging around their power, where it was downvoted into oblivion by the rest of the community before the user deleted it and come find out, it was a troll post were the user that made it admitted he/she did it because of their hatred of the GW2 community. I still am of the sort in that I wouldn't fired her right away, but given her the opportunity to apologize, which from what I take, that's what most of the community wanted in this situation, but she also seems to not understand or will ever understand what she did wrong and probably would have gotten fired because she wouldn't have apologized. Game "journalists" aren't really helping her either. In trying to boost their own clicks, they've given her a platform to essentially muddy her own name that isn't going to help her in future employment searches. She already ran Paizo through the mud and now she's doing the same to Arena Net. With that and looking at her past Twitter history, she could have just blacklisted herself out of the industry thanks to the help of Polygon and other websites as she looks extremely like a toxic employee to have to contend with due to everything that has come out about her in the past week.

Looks to be Fuzion which is what Cyberpunk 2020 used. Which may not be as easy for people to use. Great if you don't mind different RPG systems, but bad if you don't want to deviate from D20 or even 3.5e/5e rules.

At Gen Con, probably not. GW stuff has more attraction at places like Adepticon or their own events. Gen Con's biggest attraction I know right now is Pathfinder 2nd edition. Anyway, here is a link to a focus for all of the factions that will be a part of the game and this will be updated everyday with today being for Orks.

Pineapple doesn't work on just anything, but it works great when toppings that complement it like Ham. That said about the only thing I won't eat on Pizza is Anchovies because it overpowers the pizza flavor and the oil seeps onto the sides that doesn't even have them on it. It may not be too bad if not for the oil.

Great that it will be there for people that want to play it, but I'd have to wonder if it would probably get many people to play especially if it doesn't run off the system most people are used to. Honestly I've just went on the time to try and make Witcher like characters in DnD so I'm also not just stuck in that setting. I may try and get a copy of this though if I can. It would be nice at least for reference purposes.