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This is nothing more than a totally transparent, very thinly veiled, very poor attempt to hide behind some false sense of virtuous nobility to force others into what you feel is the "right way" to play. Just be honest, you want to nerf AE because it offends your precious sense of how the game is meant to be played. Guess what? Being offended doesn't make you right. Stop bullshitting everyone and stop trying to hide behind some false nobility here. You don't know anything about what a new player may or may not want to do with their time. Your preferred methods of earning in game funds or what activities you enjoy are good for you. They aren't what everyone else will find enjoyable and new players aren't so stupid that they won't figure things out on their own and find the paths they want to take. This game just isn't that difficult to master. As for new players, this game launched 18 years ago. It's old. While the volunteer staff here is doing their best and are releasing new stuff, it isn't attracting new players. It doesn't have the development staff that newer games with more support, more funding, better graphics, more complex mechanics and far superior QoL options have. You aren't going to get droves of new players in here. It's wishful thinking to believe otherwise. Be happy with what you have. And what? People are stupid and can't learn how to work with them? This is a very bad idea and would drive away even more players.

I'm not outraged at all. I just find your insincere, totally transparent, hypocritical virtue signalling mildly entertaining at best, that's about it. I'm getting a decent laugh reading your posts, so thanks for that. I haven't suffered any trauma from Brie Larson. I don't care about her or anything about her at all. Her movies suck. She's a terrible actress, a terrible person with zero personality and another virtue singalling transparent hypocrite like yourself. Like I said earlier, it's totally fine for woke virtue signallers to say "it's not meant for you" only for stuff they like and care about. Anyone else who says it to try and preserve their favorite IP from vandalization by woke PC crap is some sort of evil misogamist racist. That's being a hypocrite and applying those double standards that you're whining about here. I don't need any therapy, thanks. Btw I'm not white, in a mixed race marriage and I'm definitely not a victim of white people. I absolutely don't need to see anyone who is the same gender as me or who looks like me in movies in order for me to enjoy the story and characters. I don't need or want characters recast to gender or race swap them just to appease the frail woke twitter mobs. I'm perfectly fine watching good movies with good stories and good characters that are 100% white as white can be. It doesn't bother me at all. Anyway, this topic has pretty much been played out. You go right on trying your best to virtue signal and I'll continue to be amused by your hypocrisy. I'll wait until the fall to read about how fans are to blame when this series fails spectacularly.

Nothing went over my head. You're still deflecting. Deflect deflect deflect. Again everything boils down to race and the questions never get addressed. Whataboutism at its finest in avoiding the discussion. That's the problem with virtue signallers ... their thinking only goes one way, anyone who disagrees is a racist misogynist and equality and equity only ever goes one way. And for the record, I'm not outraged at anything. Amazon can cast whomever they want in whatever role they want. I'm not going to watch this crap. The showrunners blaming the fans for not liking their garbage already tells me it's not something I'll be interested in. Ah I see. Anyone who genuinely might dislike something is an outrage peddler. Again, PC virtue signalling at it's finest. Don't worry, you did Brie Larson proud. Complete horseshit. There would be a global meltdown about whitewashing African culture and you know it. Disney would never risk it.

And he'd be over the moon about the changes Amazon is making? LOL! You're still deflecting. Oh come on. Where's Brie Larson to tell these people this stuff "isn't meant for them"? See, that's the problem with this PC garbage. It only ever goes one way and anyone who disagrees or questions it is some racist misogynist. If everything needs to be changed so people can feel they're seeing "people who look like them" on screen in the story or to give non-white actors out there a chance, where exactly does this end and who defines when it is or isn't appropriate to change the source material? What incentive does Hollywood have to make movies about predominantly non-white people in non-white settings if they can just arbitrarily inject diversity into existing properties when it's not supposed to be there? Can movies like The Last Emperor be redone to include more Arabic people? Can Black Panther be redone to include more Asians? Can Shang Chi be rewritten to include more Native American representation? My politics isn't the problem here. Your politics are. None of the people in the Tolkien books, movies or animated films look like me and I don't really care and I don't need any of it changed to cater to me. I like it because it's a great story and accept the setting its in. It doesn't at all detract from the story and from me liking it. I don't look like King T'Challa, but I enjoyed his movie. I don't look like Sarah Connor or Ellen Ripley or Wonder Woman yet I really enjoyed their movies (at least the first WW one lol). I've got zero problem with including all kinds of representation where it makes sense and fits the world and story. There's absolutely nothing wrong with elves and hobbits and dwarves being white in Tolkien's world because that's the setting it's in. It's no different than Wakanda being all African because that's the setting for it. I'd be saying the same things if Disney tried to push there being tons of non-African people in Wakanda. It doesn't fit the source material. Watch the video I posted above. I'm not the only one objecting to the blatant political agenda pandering. I can share a whole shitload more of them if you would like me to. There's certainly an abundance of them out there.

Peter Jackson's movies were successful without the need for any "non traditional casting" of characters in his films that also had a large ensemble cast. He respected the source material. The cast worked just fine and the films raked in billions worldwide. People of all ages, races and genders had no problem enjoying the story. If these characters in the Amazon version are so minor and no big deal, why is there a need to cast them "non tradtionally"? What's so difficult to understand people want the source material respected and kept as the author intended instead of "updatimg it for a modern audience" and caving to identity politics? All you need to do is read what the showrunners have said to address people questioning them to understand where they are coming from. Aside from you not understanding the source material, why is it necessary at all? What's the harm in keeping the world the way the original author intended it? "Dark" doesn't mean dark skin in the context of the dark elves. I'll ask again, would it be a bad thing to recast Wakandan characters in Black Panther to be Arab or Asian or white? Not everyone in Africa is black, so would it be ok to show people of all colors living in Wakanda? It's ok, I already know what your answer will be. For someone who says they aren't pushing equality and equity, you're sure trying your hardest to advocate for totally unnecessary changes to the source material that support "more diversity". Found this and thought there's a few good tidbits in here. I don't agree with all of it, but the fake "superfan" videos are a huge red flag.

This is absolutely true and absolutely proves you're totally wrong with what you're pushing about equality and equity here. The Peter Jackson LoTR movies were huge critical and box offices successes worldwide raking in billions. They did all of that without needing to inject racial diversity in the casting. The films were a smash success without it. If "God" or whatever his name is in Middle Earth wanted everyone to be white, he wouldn't have created the races of men which Tolkien wrote into the story as being diverse in color. You're still not getting the point about Wakanda. There can be regions/places in fiction that are predominantly one ethnic background and that isn't a bad thing at all. It's just what the creators imagined.

You going to continue to try and deflect or are you going to answer the question? I could give a hoot about you and your post history to be honest. I just find it mildly amusing someone who says they don't care about a topic comes to makes posts in a thread about the topic they say they don't care about.

LOL! Then why come here and post a long winded diatribe that no one cares about? Yeah no, fans of a property questioning changes that muck up their favorite show or book should defend themselves when they get called racists and misogynists for asking questions. Creating controversy to generate a buzz about it might be the motive, but if that's all it's got then it's a sign that the show is going to suck in my opinion. What's the problem here? It's the world the author created and the races are how he envisioned them. This isn't any different than Stan Lee and Jack Kirby creating Wakanda and setting it in Africa with all African people with thousands of years of history. It's the worlds as their creators intended. You really seem to be trying to push the race issue here. As others have pointed out, there are peoples like the Haradrim and Easterlings in LoTR. The story just doesn't focus on them as much, but they're in Middle Earth.

By looking at the difference in what was said with regard to the different writers intent on their story crafting and writing in adapting Tolkien's work. One is clearly intending to leave their personal politics and garbage out of it. The other isn't. One is being respectful of the author and his creation. The other isn't. Watch the video again and pay attention. Whether you like it or not or agree with him or not, the man has a point. No, it isn't my second language. You're no more a fan than the next person who likes Tolkien's work and you aren't entitled to anything. Your opinion holds no more weight than the next person on the topic.

You completely and totally missed the mark here. Like you didn't even pay attention to what was said at all. The discussion was about the writers intent behind their changes and he's 100% spot on. His point is about respecting the source material and not injecting any of your own political garbage into it. He's got a lot more credibility as a film reviewer than you ever will for sure. Neither do you. You're no more entitled to the fandom here than anyone else but you certainly sound like you should be entitled to it.

I don't think anyone is suggesting or expecting any of the Tolkien works to get adapted word for word identical to the books. Yeah differences are inevitable, but it's the clear intent here that's pissing people off. That guy in the video @ShardWarrior linked above spells that out very eloquently. I'm watching some of the other videos he's done and what he's saying there about alienating your fan base is spot on.

I think you're willfully ignoring what people are saying to be very honest because it disproves your narrative. What you're arguing against here isn't working the way I think you want it to. You're saying Jackson changed the story and made her using more magic instead of a weapon and it was a great success. Isn't that kind of the point for criticizing her now all of a sudden going from magic wielding ethereal elf queen to She-Ra? Yeah the elves liked to use bow and arrow and sword, but she's not an ordinary elf. If she didn't need to use weapons before and that was a raging success, what's the reason to change it up now other than woke agenda pushing? Which reading what the showrunners are posting, that's basically what it is. I don't think anyone is suggesting Jackson's films destroyed the property either so pointing that out is meaningless. Practicality as an argument doesn't work either. You're dealing with a fantasy novel with magic rings, spell casting, elves and dwarves and giant demons.

No need to get triggered. We all know badly designed game elements are the players fault and shouldn't be fixed. 😉

I'm surprised the usual forum white knight brigade hasn't been in here to crap all over this idea yet or to tell you this is your fault because you can't use your mouse right.

No. Please stop nerfherding with this very transparent posts.

Translation - "The way I play is the RIGHT way to play. Screw everyone else and what they find fun. They MUST play the way I say." Charging tons of inf for stuff is something the devs here have said they absolutely will not do as all it does is drive people to goldfarmer sites to buy inf. No thank you. I have a better solution for you - play the way you like and let others do what they like.

Same. Hiding him away in a base just doesn't seem right to me.

Correct.

The guy fully admitted that the majority of his issues were of his own doing. He burned himself out by playing for hours every day 7 days a week and needed a break. There's nothing wrong with that. Sorry that I don't care about someone I don't know or will ever meet leaving a game for reasons they brought upon themselves. As for other people being pricks, I can totally empathize with him there and no one should have to be subjected to it. Let the guy take his hiatus for a while. He even said it doesn't mean he'll never come back right in the video.

Ok but this doesn't work as an argument. The overall results are the same whether it's content in AE or outside of AE because they're the same mechanics. It's silly to believe that it's a good design outside of AE while being bad design inside of AE. Again, AE could disappear tomorrow and people will switch to farming content elsewhere against enemies who cannot hurt them. Players will build to the weaknesses of whatever NPC group they want to farm and tune their builds to it. I don't think anyone was claiming that lack of badging is what balances anything out. They were (correctly) pointing out that XP and inf aren't the only rewards in the game that have value. No, I don't believe you're understanding the builds you're looking at or why anyone would want to use them. Sure, you can make a cheap farming build, but if you can afford a better one that offers more dps output and skipping pools for more offense, why would you build on the cheap? That's a fair concern to have yet I'll temper it with I've yet to come across any new player who was instantly PL'ed to 50 right after logging in for the first time. I just don't see the flood of first time AE babies that some here are claiming are so pervasive. It's also important to remember that this game is continuing to be developed by the people here and for all anyone knows the next wave of content updates are going to give all our 50+ incarnates something to do.

Love the idea. All for it.

Sounds like most of his issues are his own doing. There are quite a few bad seeds here though and I can see how they'd be pricks harassing someone over stupid stuff. The rest is his own fault really.

LMAO!! Calm down and change your diaper man. DCUO is not City of Heroes Homecoming, so linking what another game does doesn't work. Following your example, I can link a couple of other MMOs that offer max level boosters and all kinds of other stuff that you've been crying about on here, and since those other games do it we should have them here. They're all MMOs after all. Give me a break.

Disagree entirely. I alone know quite a lot of people who are farmers and rabid badgeaholics. You're also assuming people are farming just for inf. Lots of people farm up alts for the same reason lots of people run DFB - to skip the lower levels. I know it's a shock to some, but there are people who don't care for the early game and want to skip it. I can build a melee character right now that is essentially immortal for all non-AE content by fine tuning a build. How's this any different than people creating farms in AE? I don't think you're understanding some of the builds you're looking at there. Winter sets provide much much more than just fire resists. You're also getting big bonuses to recovery and DEF to fire which does work a lot better for mitigation than straight resists. You can also avoiding certain pool picks by slotting them.

What's DCUO got to do with this game? LOL You can build characters now that can easily solo anything at +4x8 with ease outside of AE with zero risk of defeat outside of sheer stupidity. There are people posting in this thread who regularly solo TFs at +4x8 meant for teams. Are they cheating too? ^This.