Assuming you read my entire parent comment… what would a sensible default do in that case? Put me in a less crowded region compromising quality as I mentioned?

Correct, so long your device supports streaming video like Youtube, you may use it.

How could it be? Im sure everyone here is no stranger to automated systems being fucky, if anything giving the user the choice is considerably in favour of them. Besides, im subject to the same system as in my region, I got access to unnocupied servers due to time zone differences.

Well, that makes sense for the most part, but there’s the important detail that there are streaming services that grant you a fully uncontrolled rig, I just cant think of any that are free. In fact, Geforce Now used to do this, until legal issues arised from a clause being extremely specific making users unable to legally play on a device they werent physically in contact with, real shitty but allegedly not Nvidia’s fault or the cloud streaming service as a whole.

Im seriously intersted on how is Cloud Gaming (in the way Geforce does it) part of the “you will own nothing and be happy” issue, im not saying the trope isnt real, im saying that I cant think how does it fit into this concept. On my view this is akin as going into a Cyber Cafe you could walk down the street anyday, you dont own anything either but your money’s worth isnt sailing without you receiving what you paid for

So I got the email today and I just want to share my experience.

Im with NVIDIA on this one, let me explain. I’ve been using the service for the past 2 years (half of it’s lifetime since release 4 years ago) and I thought to myself from the get go “this is unsubtainable” and that I would have nowhere to game on high performance after they inevitably shut down the free plan. I was wrong, and this does translate to a good experience

To elaborate, queues in free tier have 3 states, the first one being “go grab a snack and you’ll be back to the game launcher” which is when the queue has a little over 100 people that took up to 10 minutes to clear, this has been the most common in my experience due to my region’s timezone being the most far apart from the people in my continent (America) and thus I get to play when most people arent and such the queue is very accessible

The second state is “everyone is asleep you get in immediately” which I just happen to incur into every other weekend I devote to gaming till 4 AM (which would be like till 9 AM for the rest of the continent)

And the third and most uncommon scenario I have face is “A game is very popular right now, everyone is playing regardless of timezone” which has happened a number of times I can count with my both hands, the most recent one being past september the servers were so saturated it took hours to get in even at night time of my region. THIS HOWEVER DID NOT STOP ME FROM USING THE SERVICE, why you may ask, well the answer is more “how”, because the service allows you to pick manually a region to play in, I instead of defaulting to my local server, manually chose one in Europe, and sure enough Europe had many available servers, I could play in again like if it was the first state, this obviously came with a slight increase in input delay but given the PvE nature of my games, I went unbothered with it. Until things calmed down on my region and I could go back to my server

Conclusion is, GFN Free Tier is absolutely worth the cost, and having abused the shit out of it this is good news, it means they really dont intend to shut it down for the foreseeable future which is the most important part, but also it might improve thanks to the generated revenue where there previously was none. Unlike Youtube and Spotify this seems to be non-interruptive which is welcomed as well, obviously you cant just pause a game midway for an ad, they understand this is not how things work.

I mean, the more revenue free players can generate, the more reason they have to keep them in

If you otherwise think queues will be shorter because people will quit over disgust of ads boy do I have news for you

You can get it, and you have to watch no ads, as of right now, it’s been 4 years running like that im sincerely apalled this is breaking in now, I would have thought the current form to be unsubtainable long ago but i’ve been playing on the free tier 2 years by now

that wouldnt be very innovative, try to be more capitalist

You’ve been seen

Bro nintendo is gonna sue you if you dont draw it any different.

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No wait they still would, go ahead

That green Snoo is uncanny, wish there was a full resolution PNG version

It’s funny how you try to discredit the very feelings that I experience.

Discredit what? I said everything you mentioned is an evergreen system, that wont ever go away, it’s objectively and literally the contrary to a FOMO

You have to wait months, sometimes years for stuff to come back. Then you have just a short time window that is purely based on insane grind due to stupid RNG mechanics to actually get the relics you want. And with every additional frame they add the pool of relics increases, making the things you need even rarer.

A whole month would be short if you werent able to get the Aya for that particular rotation beforehand, which you can, stack as much of it as you may want, you can always use the relics after it ends, the reason for the timegate it’s literally to make it easier to grind, if all Prime Warframes were avaiable at the same time, Recruitment would be hell and you overall chances of acquiring anything die away, just like it would be if the Vaulting system didnt exist and we had the 2 Thousand Types of Relics inundate all Drop Tables

It requires me to log in frequently to grind to not miss out on the content locked behind it. Whether I want to do it right now or not doesn’t matter, and when I want to do it I have to constantly wait. If you can’t see how stupid this is then I don’t know how to help you.

My brother in Christ, you are literally talking about Progression, that is not FOMO, You can do it whenever and the content behind it wont ever go away, you’re not “missing out” you’re “yet to achieve” by any means, it’s like any other Reward in the Game, do a Mission, Get Rewards but there are more Missions to complete before the reward, but it’s never going away

If you lock very mandatory stuff for various builds behind something that only happens once for a short time per year, then yes, that’s causing FOMO. And no, the original events only happened once, including their participation rewards.

You are straight up wrong and you know it, or lying now. Not a single Relevant Event Reward is unobtainable or otherwise inaccessible. All “original events” rewards (60 60 Mods) are available elsewhere in the star chart, or trading, Acolyte Mods are available in Deimos, Hunter Munitions on Ghouls Purge which happens every 4 Fucking days. Not to mention reruns of those events are pointless since they were testings for new gamemodes, that are all implemented as regular gameplay by now. If you were to have mentioned Scarlet Spear you would be barely close to right and even then it’s rewards arent exclusive or locked to it. There’s no FOMO other than Lore or Experience which you didnt even mention.

Funny because even the devs like Steve called it a battlepass. If you require me to play daily then that makes the game a job, a chore. That’s not casual. It dictates when and how I have to play and “incentivizes” me through rewards I’ll miss out on. That’s absolutely not how things should be done. An incentive is something that makes me WANT to play, not something that makes me feel that I HAVE to play.

Battle Pass, by definition, is a Monetization system, in Warframe it is not, thus it falls in the category of “Event” as any other with it’s own Progression. As funny as what Steve said is. I never said you need to play Daily to Complete it, I just mentioned that I do complete it by playing casually (i.e not specifically aiming to complete it) by my margin of 1 Hour Max a Day (not even every day) therefore, if you were to either play for longer than me, or specifically play to complete it, you sure as shit would have no problems on doing that in one sit of the whole 8 Months a specific instance lasts, because all the Weeklies you “miss”, you can unlimitedly recover, you literally can do 8 Months of Objectives in 12 Hours if you have the guts to it, there’s nothing of FOMO and even if you did achieve no rewards in one Instance, you can and will get them in another like i’ve been enabled to

I will. But I was fully expecting some kneejerk fanboy getting defensive about it anyway. lol

Am I a fanboy? Sure enough, as long as it continues to be the most Pro-Consumer Game with the best Monetization Practices out of anything available in the Market Today I will continue to cheer it, I like to discuss it and I think we are here for that? But that aside i’ll continue to be critical about it on it’s goods and bads, which for the latter, FOMO is not one of them

Its funny how everything you mentioned is an evergreen system and not the actual FOMO comtents in the game

Lets start of by relics, the vaulting system is literally there to make them easier to grind and the vaulted relics are always rotating back trough an even easier way to farm, not a FOMO

Reputations? The one system that is meant to be played in the long term and wont ever leave? Do you even know what FOMO means?

The Unique events that are Rotating back in every year? Because they are seasonal content? And even then what theh offer is interwinned so other contents can offer their rewards as well? Sure I mean if you only play for 3 days a Year, surely its a FOMO but… really?

The Battlepass I assume you mean Nightwave because its the only thing even close to it and even then, it’s not… Yeah another long term grind that you can literally complete to the max by just casually Playing (which is how I do it) 1 hour a day and it’s rewards are constantly re-used in other reward Pools? Like Literally I have obtained 3 “Final Reward” Items as normal rewards in next seasons already, not a FOMO

Uhh ok what the actual fuck on the following discourse, the Game literally requires nothing off you to progress and enter the latest content, it’s always followed that Philosophy, whatever you feel like it’s a chore or dont want to spend your time on… Dont? You wont be locked out of anything lol

But sure at this point its clear we have different definitions of FOMO so, go ahead play whatever you feel like

FOMO Crap? Mind naming examples?

5 Thousand Hours in Warframe, by it’s official metric (for that the game counts actual Second to Second Gameplay, not AFK-ing in Menus or just logged in) which should roughly translate to at least the Triple with the game just opened (as Steam would track it) The fun part is, im liekly a shrimp compared to Bigger fish on my pond

The Discussion can still be there? Linking to a content is almost no different than Uploading said content straight to the instance, said content could even be OP’s OC but uploaded to their own server for possibly many reasons, including true content ownership or saving the instance the data transfer costs

But this choice in no way stops conversation from happening, if nobody engages with a Linked News Article, the same Article copy pasted straight into the Instance wont get attention either

Polandball didnt participate? Holy shit what a waste