Oh God I hope award speech edits don’t make it over here

Pay to win isn’t the right label, you’re just paying for access to the content and all games with expansions do that. The main issue for newcomers is how the content is broken up and sold. If you want access to all the content in the game then you need to buy

• Lightfall ($25 on sale, $50 normally)
• The Legacy Collection ($24 on sale, $60 normally)
• The Forsaken Pack ($7 on sale, $20 normally)

And if you want access to all the dungeons you’ll have to buy

• The 30th Anniversary Pack ($10 now, $25 normally)
• $20 for last year’s dungeons
• $20 for this year’s dungeons

And then there’s the season pass for $12

That’s over $100 even on sale, $200 at normal prices.

It’s just an enormous barrier to entry for newcomers and it’s really not clear what you’re even supposed to buy.

Source: I play Destiny 2 a ton and have tried throughout the years to get friends into the game with varying degrees of success

It’s not that I’m surprised. Personally, it’s that I felt the procedurally generated content in Skyrim and Fallout 4 was their weakest aspect. The quality, hand crafted content is why I enjoy their games.

I’ve been skeptical of this one since they announced the whole 1000 planets thing. I’m checking up on reviews and waiting for the general public to get their hands on it cause I just don’t really trust that they can make quality procedurally generated content.

Someone has to fight the good fight

Also, since the main character is an audience insert it gives the author an excuse to expo-dump.

I beat Dark Souls 3 this week and I hoarded embers the whole way. I had a stack of 60 by the time I got to Midir and Gael. I did finally crack into them when I realized that they were the only 2 bosses I had left. So, baby steps I guess

Right, but the point of the OP is that you don’t have to learn everything about something if you like it. You still can if you want to

It’s the same with Nord. I have to pause my VPN any time I want to access Fextralife wikis

It’s pretty awful but it’s always the first search result for anything souls related. It’s bearable with an adblocker though

I can’t speak to the ripping of content, but you have to scroll pretty far depending on the subject to get a better result.

Searching “Soul of Cinder” on Google is all Fextralife, fandom, YouTube, reddit, ign/Gamespot/etc. Wikidot doesn’t show up until halfway down the first page and it doesn’t show up at all on duckduckgo.

The answer is probably to add specific sites names to my searches but I’m lazy