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  1. I've watched so many that I wouldn't be able to name them all... But there aren't many that I'm following this season. Currently watching a past one on Netflix that I wasn't interested in at the time it was in broadcasted in Japan : High School of the Dead. Only finished the ep 4 as right now, so I don't have a clear opinion on that one for now. One I'd advice to see "on a whim like that" would be Psycho-Pass. But honestly it depends on what one likes. Psycho-Pass isn't an anime one watches for the lulz.
  2. I doubt it. My advice : use the outfit thing and a green/blue world drop if you find one
  3. Photobomb Qyzen. Unfortunately, the author deleted his picture.
  4. Playing the "others are greedy" card, huh ? Does it usually work ? Because this attempt at disguising your real intent did not work on me. What would you say to people who : - were the only ones to have the schematic for a certain variant of the Magenta crystal. - had the orange schematics before they were removed from the world boss who dropped them. - enjoyed the exclusivity of being the only one with an expertise blue crystal - ... You don't care about them, right ? You don't care they all had their little "special" taken by the "grand plan of crystals". You don't care that it wouldn't make sense for these crystal to be the only ones excluded from the plan, even despite being included at first (by removing schematics from dropping)... After all, they weren't the special snowflake that you are. Guess what : they were no special snowflakes. And so you aren't. And yes, I mean you. The most greedy here so far. Admit it. The only reason of that post is that you're only interested in is the profitable situation it puts you in. Reading you, it's as clear as spring water. Look at you, asking for no competition to arise. If you were genuinely uninterested, only advocating for rarity, you would be for a new way to get them. Because as it is, it's not maintaining rarity, it's discontinuing. As time goes, as crafters and players quit (even if replaced by new ones), the crystals will ultimately disappear. And once it happens, what will you say ? I'm eager to see your logical reasoning for the color to be banned from PvP. Let me take care of that. There's no reason. There has never been a reason for Magenta to not exist in War Hero, so there will be no reason for Cyan and Purple to follow that line (like Blue did, and Orange almost did before to be given "rebirth")
  5. If you want to advertise weapon tunings, you may make sure that everyone has at least a weapon with them available, and the sooner the better. So, you may start with story reward weapons, especially moddable ones, and even more the first lightsabers, guns, and weapons offered in bags for choosing an AC.
  6. It has been decided to neuter the learning of cyan, purple and magenta color crystals (and other war hero crystals) by either disabling retro engineering, or removing schematic drops early in 4.0... Fine. We believed you (devs) had plans, or that you were going to debug that. You had plans after all, and you revamped the crystal acquisition scheme. You made orange crystals available again (schematics stopped dropping long ago) and that is welcome. You also made War Hero crystals of basic colors available to the PvP vendors instead of schematics dropping once in a blue moon being the only source, which is a big improvement except for those who sold them for ginormous amounts of credits... Absolutely fine... Except that Cyan, Purple and Magenta crystals were still out of the radars. Neither classic ones for crafting, neither War Hero ones on the vendor. At that point people started to wonder. Why this treatment for these colors ? It happened the plan wasn't finished. We saw with the Eternal Championship what it was. These formerly PvE content crystals became rewards from one of the vendors... Except War Hero variants of these three colors. Now, it's pretty much clear that all plans have been laid. Crafting still get most of them, War Hero are at the PvP vendor, rare colors are on the Championship vendor... So it's pretty much clear that these three crystals fitting both "War Hero" and "rare color" have no plans laid for them as they have been excluded of both method of acquiring because "the other method was supposed to cover it" (not on PvP vendor because Championship vendor covers the colors, not on the Championship vendor because the the PvP vendor covers expertise) As a result, those crystals that used to exist, do not anymore (even though War Hero Magenta never existed, but there weren't any reason for so), and there is no plan for them. Now is the time -I believe- to decide where to put them available in the game again (or for the first time)
  7. If you want the slow and boring way, sure. Personally, I prefer going fast and I use the DPS mode for my companion (lvl.19) as often as possible, meaning in 7 out of the 10 fights. They're enough for the job in that mode.
  8. Aaaaaand someone had to kill the mood...
  9. I hope they will finally fix the text (or rather put it) of Ak'ghal Usar's alliance alert in FR... 4 weeks of Ch.12, 4 weeks without text on the alliance UI for him.
  10. It willl continue to sell as long as it sell at a high price and promotes some tech. Maybe they'll drop that someday, but that would be when one or two companies start to sell that cheap.... Because that's what happened with 3D. 3D was genuinely liked by people, and cinema continues to use it, and it's still doing well. The reason why it didn't sell as planned, was that people weren't ready to follow manufacturerers on the pricing for the tech. Between 100Hz displays and shutter glasses, it was quite the investment. But it promoted their tech, and could still sell it for good price. Then a couple of manufactuers decided to make it affordable using cheap tech : passive 3D. It was mostly LG. 3D suddenly lost most of its market value, as passive 3D induced almost inexistant charges (a pair of passive glasses cost 50¢ to make), and so little overprice. Active, premium tech 3D became unaffordable. Manufacturers could not justify their pricing anymore, and couldn't follow until they followed LG's tech (w/ royalties). They lost. Completely. So, before people could equip affordably using the cheap tech, and rather borrowing LG tech, they all left the boat. They simply stopped providing shutter glasses and 3D-readers, to force LG's tech to die along theirs. Alone on the market, LG couldn't maintain the 3D market alive. Scorched earth strategy. 3D didn't die because the consummer-base was not sold on it. It died because a handful of CEOs decided to not let it live long enough in order to not let an opponnent strengthen their position on the market. Otherwise, manufacturers could have just settled the pro/anti-3D argument by forcing passive 3D tech on their consummers since equipping TV cost so little, and go by the "don't like it, don't use it" policy. Just like these wildly outdated Video(Yellow)/L-Sound(White)/R-Sound(Red) that less people would (arguably) use than 3D. And by the way... If 3D was so "unliked", why are they putting it in VR helmets with twin screen/lens sets ?
  11. I looked that and searched a bit further... It seems the law texts are in a complete mess ATM for contests in France. First it started with a text forbidding completely games of skill with prizes, due to a court stating that poker wasn't a hazard game, hence allowing it. While the purpose was countering money games, the vague terminology could include commercial contests. Second, had been voted another text clarifying/allowing the purchase-conditionnal participation of commercial lotteries AND contests. The mention of contests in that text makes the legality of contests ambiguous in regards of both laws. Third, due to abuses in interpretation of the second law about "purchases" -is a payment an entry fee or a purchase- leading to paid lotteries multiplying, an other law imposes the gratuity of "commercial operations" (vague term which could possibly include both lotteries and contests - or not). That text also state that while it is meant to avoid "abuses", the purpose is to reinforce existing commercial events. So it's unclear whether genuinely "free" contests tied to genuine purchases -which weren't abuses according to the previous text- are affected by the imposed gratuity, given how vaguely the term "free entry" has been used and so could affect them, but could also say it shouldn't target them since it was not an abuse. Basically, it seems that anyone can equally say a contest is legal or not, and whether tying it to a purchase is legal or not given his own interpretation of the law texts. Rule of thumbs say that given the orignal purpose of each law, contests are legal, and gratuity only apply to "entry fees", not "purchase fees". Though the genuinity of the purchase probably has to be proved (a piece of cake in SWTOR's case given for how long the subsciption fees exist and has not been changed in price). But no case-law so far, or so it seems, which is likely why EA/Bioware don't try. IMO, it looks like a low risk given that the rule of thumbs is in their favor (one really has to nitpick on the vagueness of the terms used and ingore the intent of laws to deem the contest/lottery that SWTOR would provide as illegal), and also given that the current government tries to push for the recognition of e-sport as sport and events as legal activities (avoid mistaking it as illegal forms of money gambling as poker), with favorable opinion in public, national assembly, and senate pre-consultation altogether. But they're timid it seems.
  12. Not in France. In France, incomes (financial and material) coming from other sources than labour, have to be declared in the annual individual revenue decleration (déclaration de revenus personnels) as non-comercial revenue. It means that, just like the US, it's on the winner. Yet... Opted-out. The only thing that could avoid these event being valid in France would be if it's illegal. Only is illegal lottery which fulfill these four conditions : open to public offers a prize intervention of luck exiged financial participation The speedrun, given its determinic nature (devoid of luck), and qualititve method to designate the winner (time), it qualifies as a contest -not lottery- and so is completely legal. Only the "Story so far" could potentially be considered illegal, since it's a lottery. However, two of the required points for illegality are arguable, one more than the other. The first being "open to public" as it is only open to suscriber content. The second and most important being the "exiged financial participation" as it doesn't represent any extra tip from the regular consummer. Precedents shows this type of "consummer-only no-extra-tip" lottery to be legal as per the autorisation of supermarkets/hypermakets to hold "scan the code on the bill" type of lotteries or McDonald's "pick Monopoly tickets on our products". So, as you can see, both these events are legal in France and French taxes are not more invasive than in US. Even if we were stretch it by considering the "Story so far" lottery as illegal in France, the "speedrun" contest has no logical reason for opting-out the country as valid place for. Legal, and not more impractical. The opting-out of France as a place for participation is nothing else but arbitrary.
  13. You want to laugh ? It HAS BEEN translated in French.
  14. Honestly, the game could use some animation overhaul in general when it comes down to saber moves. Not everything's bad though, but so many could be improved. (Blade Dance being one of them). Juggernauts' Impale, ugh... I don't think it could have been silliest. And don't start me Shadows'/Assassins' moves in general...
  15. Honestly, it looks like it. See how they ruled out almost all French speaking areas, one of the three main language of this game ? France is out. Quebec is out. Luxembourg is out. Swiss is out. All French speaking African countries are out. Only Belgium is in. (Likely they forgot that French is spoken there). As a French resident, I'm almost certain this is NOT a legal issue in France. Private lottery/contests only open to customers are common occurence and even performed by national wide supermarkets brands. There's even a famous French video game website which gates access to lotteries behind a paid suscrption for a monthly delivery of goodies. If all these are allowed, this contest is definitely allowable. I doubt very much that neighbouring countries that are Luxembourg and Swiss, which happen to be more liberal than France, would disallow it.
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