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https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/6xqtgz/an_insightful_thread_where_game_developers/dmhz7fa/?st=j74vov4h&sh=94577080 There was some Twitter discussion about hidden game mechanics and someone compiled them all into a reddit thread. Some of these are really cool

I officially declare Subspuf as Team Flight turf! Any invisible scum who have a problem with that can just sulk quietly in the corner. (Not that it matters since Splatfest is over in 3 hours)

Splatoon 2 Splatfest Flight King reporting in. Also bubble blower special out today, it's weird. It's not that dangerous, but it really gets in the way and can block off paths with the bubbles.

It's an annoying thing to say when getting people into something but FFXIV does just get better the more you play and get further into the Main story quests. It's became my most played game on steam now

Medic goes to Cyprus Comic Con 2017 AND goes back to basics in Warframe! Double article day! I love these rare articles that are updated throughout a day :D It's fun popping back to see what's happened since... Also, reading the article on Volt made me feel bad for my own I played from a year or two ago. In the same way you feel bad when you return to your town in Animal Crossing after WAY too long.

A month ago I posted in this thread complaining about the tedium of leveling in FFXIV and now I'm back to say that this game has absolutely consumed every moment of spare time I've had in the past ~5 weeks. I am positively addicted and I'm still not max level on any job yet and it doesn't even bother me anymore. When I originally started playing I was planning on rushing to endgame so I could get to play current content with my friends, but as it would turn out, the game is extremely good for playing with friends at all levels. It doesn't matter if you're level 34 and your friends are all level 70, there is still stuff you can do together. The best way I can describe FFXIV is that, for me, it feels like the early years of World of Warcraft (Vanilla/TBC) only with many modern quality of life features as well. My rush to hit max level quickly came to a halt when I realized that rather than push through the main story quest and power-leveling, I was having more fun going off and exploring the world, poking my nose into dungeons that I didn't technically need to do in order to progress and finding random quests in the far corners of the world with really cool rewards such as pets, emotes and cosmetics. That isn't to say that the main story of the game is bad. While it starts off as generic adventuring, by the time I hit Heavensward content (50+) I was (and still am) pretty emotionally invested in the characters presented in the story and what happened to them. Finally there is the music of FFXIV. When I was younger I don't think I truly appreciated how much a good soundtrack can improve the experience of... Well pretty much anything, but in retrospect, one of the things I'm the most nostalgic about in life is the music from all my favourite games. Luckily FFXIV totally delivers on the soundtrack department, it is fucking stellar and most of it has already found its way into my music library as permanent additions. While there might have been some growing pains in the first week of me playing FFXIV, it has proven to be absolutely worth the initial hours of frustration and confusion. I'm sure any denizen of the internet who regularly browses any sort of video game discussion board will have seen the melancholic posts of former MMORPG fanatics, solemnly lamenting the fact that they can't seem to recapture the magic of when they first started playing their favourite MMORPG. Well I've managed it. I don't think I've been this invested in a video game since I first booted up World of Warcraft in 2006. I want to do it all.