The soda company Coca-Cola apparently wants to approach the target group “gamers”, but seems not to understand them. After an advertising campaign aimed at gamers in 2021, they are now trying with a special cola for League of Legends. However, even the limited cola for LoL seems clumsy.
This is Coca-Cola’s new idea:
Coca-Cola has teamed up with Riot Games and developed a limited cola based on League of Legends.
The cola is supposed to taste like “experience points”. The “Coca-Cola Ultimate Zero Sugar” will be launched in the USA, Canada, China, South Korea, Latin America and Africa. In the USA, Canada and Mexico there will also be a version with sugar.
Additionally, the drinks feature a QR code that leads to an Instagram filter, making you look like a LoL champion.
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What do they say about the drink? Coca-Cola says in a press release that the cola “offers fans and players the taste of experience points (+Xp) and celebrates the player’s journey”.
The statement from Riot is (somewhat helpless): “We are excited for the players to be able to taste the new flavor of +XP, a unique and tailored collaboration with Coca-Cola, a globally recognized brand loved by millions. They share many of the gaming-oriented values that we have at Riot, and we are proud to be the first gaming collaboration with Coca-Cola.”
Coca-Cola Ultimate is the 17th “Coca-Cola Creation”.
85 % cola – 15 % something unexpected
And what does it taste like now? When asked directly by CNN how the cola tastes, a spokeswoman responds:
We will never really answer this question. It’s a “mystery flavor”. The taste profile is always, as we say, 85–90 % cola. And then it’s 10 to 15 % of something unexpected.
The taste is said to be “more interesting” than, for example, a vanilla coke. They want to test the “boundaries”.
We will probably have to wait until June 12th. Only then will the cola go on sale in the USA and Canada. The brave ones will surely provide the first reports.
What is the problem? As Forbes notes, it is already bold to advertise with “tastes like experience points in LoL”. That is not only something that does not exist in the real world, even in the game, experience points have no form, but are an abstract concept.
In our editorial office, colleague Maik Schneider asked, in response to the hint that it tastes like LoL: “So it tastes salty?”
Perhaps the tears of the players are the secret ingredient.
The idea that gamers specifically long for “the taste of experience points in LoL” seems to completely miss the mark with gamers. This is a category that probably no one thinks of.
Even Riot Games’ reasoning that with “Coca-Cola” they share the same player-focused values seems to be completely meaningless marketing talk.
What experiences has Coca-Cola already had with gamers? Two years ago, Coca-Cola launched an advertising campaign aimed at gamers, which, however, seemed clumsy:
The new game by Blizzard, Diablo 4, has just been released and the first players are finding special items. A Barbarian has discovered the “Fists of Fate,” a unique item that challenges fate in Diablo 4? The player compares it to a slot machine.
While normal items provide various bonuses depending on “prefix” or “affix,” unique items are fixed in their values. Special builds are often created around them that enhance the uniqueness of the items.
Diablo 4 now also offers these “special items”: According to initial lists on the internet (via windowscentral), there are supposed to be 14 general items that can equip multiple classes, and an additional 8 to 9 items specifically made for one class. We have explained how you can get the unique items here on MeinMMO.
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Diablo 4: This is how you open silent chests
Gloves turn every hit into a gamble
A Barbarian has now found these gloves: A Barbarian found the “Fists of Fate” and proudly displays them on reddit.
He says:
Has anyone else found these bad boys? It’s like playing on my own slot machine when Frenzy is active with every hit. With each hit, I wonder: Am I hitting for 1 or for 30,000? Hit and find out.
Because the hits of the player wearing the gloves deal between 1 to 280% of their normal damage. So the Barbarian can either hit extremely hard or like a fly, it all depends on fate.
The inscription on the gloves, the flavor text, confirms this: “Will you let fear deceive you, or will you risk everything to find insight? Ultimately, fate is just a coin with which we pay for life – Zurke.”
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This is what the gloves can do: The gloves have another mechanic that activates on the “Lucky Hit” (lucky hit). The Barbarian has a 50% chance for such a lucky hit. When a lucky hit occurs, it triggers a specific effect from the gloves, which again occurs with a certain probability.
It’s kind of like a double coin toss:
The first toss decides if a lucky hit occurs at all
If the first toss is successful, the second toss decides what specific effect occurs – enemies can be stunned or paralyzed. The Barbarian can heal himself or restore his primary resource.
How is this being discussed? In the comments, Diablo fans mainly talk about luck and the law of series. Players say that despite a 50% chance to make enemies more vulnerable, they made 9 hits in a row without the effect occurring.
Experienced Diablo players are already seeing ways to combine the gloves with other items to increase hit speed or improve chances.
Diablo was invented over 20 years ago as “Ultima meets slot machine”
This is the background: In any case, the item seems to fit well with Diablo. The developers of Diablo 1 viewed Diablo as a kind of “gambling machine,” where you pull the lever and either get loot or not.
back then, RPGs like Ultima or Might and Magic focused heavily on story and characters
in Diablo, it was supposed to be about loot. Brevik said: “Let’s skip all the crap and get straight to killing and looting”
When you killed a monster in Diablo, it should feel like pulling the lever of a slot machine and either getting nothing or a win. Every time a powerful item dropped, it felt like hitting the jackpot.
In earlier Diablo games, players set themselves the task of finding “all uniques” in the game. This is called “the Holy Grail”:
Streamer Tyler “TrainwrecksTV” Niknam was known for gambling on Twitch. After his chosen casino was banned there, he made Kick his new streaming home. Now he has revealed how much he lost in one night of gambling – and he even seems proud of it.
On June 7, TrainwrecksTV addressed his biggest gambling night in a stream of his colleague Adin Ross. According to Trainwrecks, Adin Ross was wrongfully banned on Twitch.
Here you can see Twitch bans that caused a stir:
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The 5 biggest Twitch bans that caused a lot of commotion
When asked what the largest amount was that he lost in a gambling night, TrainwrecksTV said:
On one day it was, I believe, 24.9 million US dollars. I understand that many haters or many, you know, insecure, spiteful, jealous streamers will think this is fake, but if they knew my deal.
There is not a single streamer, no one, not even MrBeast himself, who would have made the deal as transparently and authentically as I did. No one would do that.
There were no safety measures, it was gambling, it was authentic. […] That was “crazy shit.”
By “the deal” he apparently refers to a highly lucrative agreement with Stake, which Trainwreck disclosed in October 2022: the online casino was said to have paid him $750,000 a day, apparently he received the money to gamble in the casino in front of thousands of viewers on Twitch.
What does he mean by the MrBeast comparison? MrBeast is known for his extravagant projects and his actions for charitable causes. However, TrainwrecksTV openly talking about his gambling has little to do with this topic.
Trainwreck just wants to emphasize how transparent he is with his winnings and losses.
The video in which TrainwrecksTV comments on the enormous amount of money he has lost triggered numerous reactions on the popular LivestreamFail subreddit.
How does the community react? EbolaMan123 writes: “That’s more money than I will see in my entire life.”
Locke10815 comments: “More money than probably over 98% of people will see in their entire lives,” and jokes: “I’m really sorry for him. Is there a GoFundMe page (a page for fundraising) for him?”
Schmarsten1306 writes: “He’s just promoting Stake by depositing money into his own gambling account to advertise for Stake. What a fool.”
Stake is an online casino where various casino games are offered. The casino itself, the streamers who aggressively promote it, and the platform Kick associated with Stake are all viewed very critically from the outside.
At the same time, Stake was one of the platforms that Twitch explicitly named in September 2022 as examples of banned sites.
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A few days ago, the Twitch streamer cArn_ reached Level 100 in Hardcore mode of Diablo 4. Now he has lost his character and numerous hours of gameplay due to a disconnect and has to start over.
Anyone who has ever played a hardcore mode in games knows how much time, sweat, and effort you invest in your characters. With one death, you lose everything, because there is no respawn in that mode.
This is something cArn_ has now also experienced. He was the first hardcore player, who secured a place in the coveted ranking. And due to a bug, he lost his Level 100 Barbarian.
Here you can see how you can get your characters to Level 100 as well:
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Diablo 4: How to quickly reach level 100
A disconnect and everything is gone
How did he die? Actually, he didn’t “really” die, as you would suspect in a hardcore game. He didn’t die due to a tough boss fight or from being overwhelmed by many individual enemies or by the feared Butcher.
In a clip from his livestream on June 6, you can see how cArn_ is carving through hordes of enemies with his Barbarian. Suddenly, his character behaves strangely, it jerks, lags, and does not respond to key commands. The screen freezes and then turns black. cArn_ reacts with: “Hello? Are you joking?”
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In the stream video, you can see that he couldn’t log in for minutes. In the following video, character creation appears. It quickly becomes clear: cArn_ has no available characters left and must create a new one to continue playing.
On realizing that he has to start over, he reacts with exclamations of “What the hell?” He then creates a new character, initially a Barbarian, but later a Hunter.
The official Diablo account congratulates him. But the death of his character is also mentioned:
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“Congratulations, Carndarak. The first to reach Level 100 in Hardcore mode. The first to be engraved in the history of Diablo,” writes the Diablo account.
Here you will find 15 fun and interesting facts about the consoles from PlayStation and Nintendo. And why someone owns 2,700 versions of a single game.
For over 50 years, video game consoles have existed and over time, the most bizarre stories have accumulated. Did you know that Nintendo owns the rights to two porn films and that someone renamed themselves to ‘PlayStation 2’?
We have summarized 15 fun and interesting facts about PlayStation, Nintendo, and Xbox in 3 short videos.
7 Fun Facts about PlayStation
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Netflix could already be watched on the PS2 – 7 quirky facts about the PlayStation
Sony quickly established itself as a major competitor to Nintendo with its first PlayStation – at that time, Nintendo was very strong with its consoles.
From a technological perspective, Sony was particularly ahead. Who would have thought, for example, that Netflix could already be used on the PlayStation 2? We have picked out this and 6 more stories for you and present them in a video.
7 Fun Facts about Nintendo
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There are noodles from Nintendo – 7 quirky facts you didn’t know about the company behind Super Mario
The Nintendo brand has existed long before most of us were born. During this time, the company not only tried to sell video games but also took completely different paths.
7 interesting and entertaining stories about Nintendo can be found in our overview video.
He bought the same Xbox game 2,700 times and wants more
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An old Xbox game could only be bought for 36 days – A pro wrestler has over 2,700 copies of it and wants more
The desire to collect is shared by many of us, but owning the same thing thousands of times is quite special.
But this is exactly what fascinates a professional wrestler from America. He has made it his mission to own as many copies of a limited Xbox game as possible. What game it is and why he does this, we have summarized in a video for you.
Spoiler Warning: If you want to read more about the boss, you will likely learn the end of the story campaign. We discuss the boss here in detail in the article. If you want to back out now, here is an exciting alternative:
What makes the boss so hard? You fight against the echo of Lilith in the challenge, who returns as the “Incarnation of Hatred” after her defeat in Act 6 – with significantly more life and new abilities.
Over several phases, you will have to fight her and some minions, using mechanics similar to a boss from an MMORPG. She keeps disappearing and covering the entire platform with abilities that you must evade.
The fight requires you to find an optimal balance between offense and defense in your build while also being mobile enough to evade. One of the best players in the world, Wudijo, has already tried against the boss at level 80, but was defeated multiple times after over an hour (via YouTube).
You can find the best classes and builds in our Tier List for Diablo 4 if you want to try it yourself. Here are tips for leveling faster:
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Diablo 4: How to quickly reach level 100
Blizzard locks “Pinnacle Boss” due to loot issues
In the official forum, community manager Adam Fletcher writes that the team is currently working on fixing a few items related to this boss fight. This was on June 6, the official release of Diablo 4.
How long it will take or which items are specifically involved, Fletcher does not say. However, a helmet should be obtainable from the Lilith echo, which will be the best item for almost all classes. Whether there are other loot sources for this is not confirmed so far.
The team will provide an update as soon as they know more. However, the majority of players probably won’t even be close to the challenge yet. Leveling to level 100 will take several days for the average player, even though some elite players are already complaining that there is too little to do:
A new secret in Season 21 of Destiny 2 offers the option for better loot in the seasonal activity “Dives”. However, this is only for players who know how to dive deep and activate the mini-event. MeinMMO has the necessary insider knowledge for you.
What secret has been discovered? Every season in Destiny 2 brings not only new loot but also small secrets that you might not discover immediately and are not explained directly. This is also the case in the seasonal activity of Season 21 called “Dives”.
In the “Dives” of the weekly mission, the Guardians dive deeper into the ocean of Titan to collect energy. This energy is needed by Sloane to communicate with the mysterious underwater being Ahsa.
Here, you dive to depths of 1000 m and 2750 m. But only Guardians who know how to dive properly to 5000 m gain access to better loot and a higher chance of Depths weapons.
To find this secret, you simply need to pay attention to your surroundings. MeinMMO will tell you exactly what to look out for, what difficulties there are, and how you can improve the loot from Tier-1 to Tier-7. So, look for loot with significantly improved stats.
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Destiny 2: New dungeon “Ghosts of the Deep” from Season 21 brings the Ghoul into play
Whoever calls the darkness gets better loot
Here’s how to get the extra loot box in Dives: The new secret requires all three players to interact with a sphere that looks like Toland and thereby “call the darkness”. This triggers a unique and challenging mini-event in the activity.
The sphere can always be found in fixed locations. So, if you know where to run, you can activate the event quickly. It is usually easy to recognize once you know what you’re looking for.
Toland is easy to recognize once you know what to look for
Every time you reach the next depth, you need to activate the sphere again. If successful, the strength of the challenge increases steadily.
What you need to do exactly is random.
Sometimes it’s about standing in glowing pools to cleanse them
Or several Degraded-Fester spheres or domes appear that you need to eliminate quickly.
After that, the new challenge just needs to be mastered. It usually consists of killing a bunch of enemies and surviving all waves before the timer runs out. The deeper you dive, the harder and tougher the enemies become.
Such secret events happen repeatedly in Destiny 2 – for example on Neomuna:
What loot do you get for this? Without the interaction with the darkness by every Guardian, there is only a normal Tier-1 chest at the end of the activity.
However, for completing the special mini-event, all Guardians are rewarded with more and better loot. Then a second chest drops at the end of the dive.
It is possible to maximize loot chests to Tier-7 – if you master everything.
You also get an increased chance for weapons with Depths vision.
Additionally, there is a large amount of reputation rank, over 500, for the sonar station, and fishing lures are also in abundant quantities.
Materials drop as well, such as enhancement prisms or ascendant shards
What does the term Tier-1 or Tier-7 loot mean in Destiny?
Loot that drops for you in the game is classified in Destiny 2 by its rarity level. Tier-1 loot is the most common and easiest loot you can receive. Tier-7 loot drops generally have higher stats that can improve your abilities in the game. They usually drop only in special endgame activities, such as raids or Trials of Osiris.
Players have also confirmed on the Destiny Reddit that the extra chest dropped exotic armor for them.
Additionally, speculation occurs on Reddit that if the maximum dive depth in Season 21 is reached, this additional chest could drop the last remaining exotic weapon in the “Season of Depths”.
The mini-event has 2 major problems
Whoever succeeds and calls the darkness can dive up to 5000 m deep
With player search, it rarely works: The biggest difficulty of the mini-event is getting every player to interact with the sphere – otherwise, the chest won’t be activated.
Especially for Guardians who complete their dives using player search, this is a huge problem. Their teammates are often clueless and know nothing about the extra loot. And since the sphere doesn’t shout: “Interact with me for free extra loot,” many Guardians miss the opportunity.
As astorj writes on the Destiny Reddit: “Honestly, I’ve given up trying to get my teammates to understand that there’s a damn sphere. […]”
How absurd it is for the “informed” has been humorously captured by Destiny 2 player SpaceMagicgo in a humorous video on Reddit:
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Players wish for a ping system: So it’s not that easy to get a random team to activate the option for more loot.
There is a chat system in Destiny 2 to communicate, but whether or not to activate it is up to each player. Additionally, it is usually disabled by default on consoles.
Basically, it’s a pure gamble if you don’t play the activity in a fixed fireteam without player search and try to activate the mini-event.
The solution would be a ping system for Destiny 2. Most competitive FPS games like Apex Legends, Overwatch 2, and Warzone 2 all have context-based ping options.
Here the integrated LFG system is missing: Of course, a ping system would be nice, but it seems much more likely that the diving activity is heavily linked to the presence of the announced but not yet integrated internal LFG system. This was supposed to be active already, but Bungie postponed it to the last seasons of the Lightfall DLC.
Additionally, the second problem is that it’s not always possible to master all challenges, as it is crucial to work with a coordinated team as the difficulty increases.
Just casually hopping through isn’t possible anymore and thus time runs out while players revive each other. As so often, communication is the key to success.
So don’t be discouraged by the challenge and dive deeper to reach the Tier-7 chest. Feel free to share this knowledge, as the more players know about the sphere, the higher the chances for everyone that the event is activated in each dive.
Have you already been among the initiated and knew about the sphere and the extra loot option? Or are you facing the same problem that you can’t get your random teammates to activate the mini-event? And what is the highest reward tier in the dive that you have reached so far? Feel free to let us know in the comments.
If you are still looking for a good story for your Destiny Discord, you will find it here, as an ugly exotic has made itself unforgettable with an Iron Banner bug:
That some series productions require an enormous budget has been shown by titles like Stranger Things and WandaVision. With nearly 500 million dollars, the Lord of the Rings prequel “The Rings of Power” overshadows everything else and is more expensive than all “The Witcher“–seasons combined.
The first season of “The Rings of Power”, the highly anticipated Lord of the Rings prequel on Amazon, has left viewers with mixed reactions.
However, regardless of opinions about the content of the series, it is clear that it sets new standards in terms of production costs. In fact, the budget for the first season of “The Rings of Power” exceeds the total costs of one of the most popular series in recent years on Netflix.
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Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power: The official trailer for the series
Why is the Lord of the Rings prequel so expensive? For the rights alone, around 250 million dollars, or approximately 235 million euros at the current exchange rate, had to be paid. According to Amazon Studios head Jennifer Sake, Amazon is building an infrastructure that will support the entire “The Rings of Power” series.
In total, the costs amount to around 465 million dollars, making it higher than the total costs for all three Lord of the Rings adaptations – which were around 281 million dollars.
Other series productions have also been quite expensive; this one cost about half as much as The Rings of Power, but was canceled after just one season. And many have never even heard of it.
Compared to “The Rings of Power”, “The Witcher” is almost a bargain
How expensive has The Witcher been in comparison? Compared to the Lord of the Rings prequel, it is clear that The Witcher does not come close to the enormous production costs. The first season of The Witcher cost around 92 million dollars, while the second season cost about 176 million dollars.
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Witcher: Trailer for the TV series on Netflix
The miniseries The Witcher: Blood Origin has a cost of around 50 million dollars (via 3DJuegos). This means that Netflix has so far invested about 318 million dollars into the The Witcher franchise.
Netflix had hoped for more. As our colleagues from 3DJuegos report, the subscription service’s plan was to make The Witcher its biggest franchise.
Initially, this worked well – within the first four weeks, 76 million households watched the first season of the series about the monster hunter Geralt.
However, Netflix then distanced itself from the community, as evidenced by the YouTube comments on the new trailer.
Fans blame Netflix for the recasting of the lead role
How are fans reacting to the trailer? That the role of the monster hunter is being recast and that we will see Henry Cavill as Geralt one last time in the third season has caused displeasure among many fans.
User Agniva Chakraborty writes under the YouTube video: “No one could have played Geralt better. Thank you for that, Henry Cavill. We will miss you.” and receives over 1000 likes.
“Respect your actors, respect the source, respect your audience. Thank you, Henry, you spoke for all of us.” writes Allstar Snave. This presumably refers to Henry Cavill wanting to stay true to the original story as a fan of The Witcher games.
And over 16,000 YouTube users agree with the comment by liking it.
In recent years, several great TV series based on video games have been released alongside The Witcher. In a survey, you decided which of them are the best.
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The superhero hit “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” is currently in theaters. For the sequel to the Spider-Man film, the community hopes for a familiar face from the HBO series “The Last of Us”.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is currently taking over theaters and even overtook the DC blockbuster “The Dark Knight” as the best superhero film of all time. It is the sequel to “Spider-Man: A New Universe”.
The next film in the Spider-Man saga will be titled “Beyond the Spider-Verse” and will hit theaters in 2024.
A Hollywood actor and the community wish for a certain new addition for the third part, known as Din Djarin from the Disney series “The Mandalorian” or in the role of Joel Miller in the “The Last of Us” series from HBO: Pedro Pascal.
Here you can see a trailer for Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse:
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse – Trailer 3 (English) HD
“He should be a Spider-Person, a quirky, old Spider-Person”
The fans’ wish for actor Pedro Pascal to get a Spider-Verse role was sparked by an interview.
In an interview with GQ Magazine, actor Oscar Isaac, who voices the character Miguel O’Hara in Across the Spider-Verse, was asked whom he would like to have in the next film:
“I don’t know. They [the filmmakers] are so brilliant at finding the right person for the right role, but maybe Pedro Pascal. Let’s find something for him. He should be a Spider-Person, a quirky, old Spider-Person” (via gq-magazine.com).
Following this, the character designer of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Kris Anka, spoke on Twitter and commented: “I’m sure I can create something”.
How does the community react to this? In the Twitter comments, many users express their enthusiasm about the idea of Pedro Pascal getting a Spider role. Some directly suggest characters that the actor could take on under Anka’s post:
ArturArouk: “Pedro Pascal as Superior Spider-Man would be a dream.”
Q_Review: “Listen to me. Uncle Ben as Spider-Man. In the comics, it happened – a universe where Peter died and Uncle Ben became Spider-Man.”
Some players finished with Diablo 4 before most could even play and are now complaining that there is not enough to do. This has led to mockery from the “normies”, who find the doomsday sermons amusing.
Why are people grinding so hard?
Diablo 4 is the first new Diablo in the main series in 11 years. Diablo 3 was released in 2012, Diablo Immortal is a mobile spin-off.
Accordingly, the new installment is very popular. It is even the fastest-selling game in Blizzard’s history (via Twitter).
This is the reaction: On Reddit, in forums, and other social media, players share their opinions and impressions of Diablo 4. However, especially on Reddit, there are always players complaining about the state of the game.
Their criticism: there is too little to do, one can only grind and nothing else, and the game has numerous issues overall. The biggest points of criticism include (via GameStar):
missing quality-of-life content such as a bag for gems, loot filters, and customization
flaws in the UI, such as the lack of ability to disable player names
Although the endgame offers plenty of content, these core gamers focus on content that provides them with the best rewards in the shortest amount of time. Instead of experiencing the entire game, they optimize everything in every spot.
Exactly this is causing resistance from people who just want to play “normally” and are annoyed by the “small minority” of complaining elite players.
In our expert review, Diablo 4 is received extremely well:
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How good will Diablo 4 be? The expert’s conclusion after the test
“Don’t you want the game you haven’t played to get better?”
This is how the “normies” react: In a huge thread on Reddit, a player created a satire post. There, he takes on the position of one of these core gamers who has played dozens of hours since early access and now thinks the game is dumb.
By wearing diapers and putting meth instead of milk in his coffee, he was able to play 24/7 and now has the opportunity to complain extensively. It can’t be that Diablo 4 isn’t exactly like Diablo 1 and at the same time something completely new and different.
Others agree, saying: “Why couldn’t this just be a reskin for Diablo 3?” The game in which they sank 12,500 hours, 12,000 of which they spent merely complaining. There’s even a completely separate thread about this.
The topic, framed this way, brings laughs and shows that a large majority of people just want to play first. What to complain about after 100 hours will be seen then. Until then, Blizzard will likely continue to deliver.
Is all of this nonsense? No, there is indeed legitimate criticism that is well-received in the community. The user WuluChief13, for instance, writes: “The no-lifers have a point. […] ARPGs are repetitive, but too many problems come together in Diablo 4’s endgame that make it boring-repetitive, not fun-repetitive.”
The discussions initiated by such elite players are good for considerations. Because the likelihood is high that casuals will eventually encounter these problems if they haven’t been resolved by then. And blind defenders who immediately block any criticism are just as annoying.
While the two extremes usually attract more attention, there is certainly constructive criticism in between on Reddit and co. And Blizzard has been working almost daily on hotfixes and patches since early access.
Whether the community will ever agree is still open. The discussion has been ongoing for weeks:
Because your chances of Shinys with legendary Pokémon were too poor, there will soon be compensation from Niantic. We will show you what the team from Pokémon GO has to say about it.
What was wrong with the Shiny chances? A few days ago, trainers in Pokémon GO noticed that there were unannounced changes in the game. A Japanese website collected data from some players and found that the Shiny chances in remote raids apparently deteriorated.
This realization quickly spread throughout the community, and trainers were really angry. First, remote raids became more expensive, and now they are also worse? In the meantime, developer Niantic responded with a message to the players.
Apology and compensation from Niantic
This is what Niantic says: On the morning of June 7, Niantic’s support account reached out to players on Twitter. They mentioned technical problems that were responsible for the poor Shiny chances.
Trainers, we have fixed a technical problem that affected the shiny appearance rate of Selfe, Vesprit, and Tobutz in remote raids. We apologize for this and will soon publish details of a special raid event on the Pokémon GO blog.
As an apology for the players who fought these bosses through remote raids, the team has also thought of something. In a follow-up tweet, it says:
“Affected trainers will also receive a remote raid pass for every raid they participated in during that period. Additionally, they will receive an extra [remote raid pass] that will be directly assigned to their Pokémon GO account.”
When exactly the replacement event will take place is still unclear at this time. However, we know from past apology events that they have always occurred quite promptly.
Were you also affected by these raid problems, and did you notice them while raiding, or were you not involved in the new raids at all? Please share your opinion here on MeinMMO in the comments and exchange thoughts with other trainers.
With “Barbie,” a new movie featuring Margot Robbie will hit theaters this summer. If you want to pass the time until then, you can watch the actress on Netflix in one of her most famous roles.
Margot Robbie is an Australian actress who is currently in high demand in Hollywood. Some of her well-known films include “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013) and “Tonya” (2017).
However, many fans celebrate her mainly as the supervillain Harley Quinn. The character comes from the DC Universe. In the comics, she started as a former psychiatrist who became the companion and love interest of the Joker.
Here you can see a trailer for Birds of Prey: The Emancipation of Harley Quinn:
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Birds Of Prey: The Emancipation Of Harley Quinn Trailer
Harley Quinn as a strong protagonist
Margot Robbie made her first appearance as Harley Quinn in the antihero film “Suicide Squad” (2016). However, there were discussions in the community about how the character was portrayed.
Critics argued that the filmmakers had merely overlooked Harley Quinn’s tragic background – instead, they had sexualized her in a crude manner. The colleagues from Moviepilot even stated, the film did not deserve the hype around Harley Quinn.
However, with Birds of Prey: The Emancipation of Harley Quinn, the character received a sort of remake under the direction of Cathy Yan. The antiheroine emerges from her breakup with the Joker as a self-determined main character who now experiences her own adventure and shows more nuanced facets of herself.
You can currently watch Birds of Prey: The Emancipation of Harley Quinn (2020) on Netflix.
What is Birds of Prey: The Emancipation of Harley Quinn about? After breaking up with the Joker, Harley Quinn finds a new group of superheroes to join. Together with Black Canary, Huntress, and The Question, they fight against the villain Black Mask.
When will Margot Robbie’s new movie be released? Barbie will premiere in German theaters on July 20, 2023. Alongside Margot Robbie in the lead role, Ryan Gosling will appear as Ken. In the film, the doll is banished from her homeland and subsequently enters the real world.
On June 6, Twitch unexpectedly announced new regulations for sponsored content on the platform. This did not sit well with many streamers who saw their sponsor deals at risk. After heavy criticism, Twitch quickly backtracked that same evening, stating that they may have expressed themselves incorrectly.
What are these new rules? On June 6, Twitch published new guidelines for sponsored content. With these guidelines, streamers would be prohibited from including “burned-in” ads in the form of videos, banners, or audio advertisements directly in their streams.
Moreover, logos displayed should only occupy a maximum of 3% of the screen space. The reactions from streamers were predominantly negative; they viewed the changes as an attack on their deals with advertising partners.
Some suspected that Twitch wanted to push its unpopular reward program for ads in order to cash in. The platform responded to the criticism and apologized for the “confusion and frustration.”
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How did the situation develop? The changes became known on the evening of June 6 our time and spread quickly via Twitter and Reddit. Numerous content creators expressed their displeasure, including larger streamers.
Asmongold, who has criticized Twitch regarding advertising in the past, even called for a boycott. Alternatively, he suggested that streamers consider switching to another platform, he wrote via Twitter.
One True King (OTK), Asmongold’s streaming organization, took exactly this path and threatened to leave the platform if the changes went through. In a tweet by co-founder Tips Out, he calls the new regulations a direct attack on their business and their work.
Mizkif, another co-founder of the organization, stated that they would likely move to YouTube or one of the newer platforms Rumble or Kick.
He also made a grim forecast for future events on Twitch: they would simply become too expensive without ad placements and could no longer take place. As a consequence, he advised all streamers to leave the platform.
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What does Twitch say? In a post that Twitch published via Twitter on June 6, it states that the changes were too broadly defined. This led to confusion and frustration, for which they want to apologize. The beginning of the thread has been embedded here:
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What does Twitch actually say is behind the changes? Twitch explains that they did not intend to restrict direct partnerships between streamers and sponsors with the changes. Rather, the goal of the new regulations was third parties selling directly integrated ads.
Apparently, Twitch expressed itself clumsily in formulating the new guidelines, so the explanation goes. They will rewrite the rules to make them clearer.
However, many users do not accept this explanation from the platform: it had all seemed quite clear, they even illustrated the changes specifically. Some fear that although Twitch is backtracking due to negative reactions, it will still implement the changes – just phrased more nicely (via Twitter).
Asmongold himself is streaming again on his second account Zackrawrr after a brief return to his main channel. Although in the past, he had flirted with how much money he would cost Twitch by going live on his non-monetized channel, this time it is not a protest against the platform:
On June 6, a new horror game was released and impresses on Steam with 89% positive reviews right away. Its predecessor is available for free for a short time.
Which game is it? Amnesia is a horror game series created by Frictional Games, with each installment featuring different storylines.
The newest part of the series, Amnesia: The Bunker, was released on June 6. Just one day after the release, the game has nearly 500 reviews and 89% positive ratings on Steam.
As the name suggests, in Amnesia: The Bunker, you find yourself in an old World War bunker trying to survive despite various dangers. Unlike in other Amnesia installments, however, this time you have the option to craft tools and use weapons to defend yourself against the impending horror.
Here you can see the launch trailer for Amnesia: The Bunker:
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Amnesia: The Bunker shows the eerie game world in the launch trailer
In addition to the main games of the series developed by Frictional Games, The Dark Descent and Rebirth, there is “Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs,” developed by “The Chinese Room” and published by Frictional Games.
Which predecessor is currently available for free? You can currently get Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs, the indirect predecessor of Amnesia: The Bunker, for free.
The game is being given away until June 9 on gog.com. Additionally, The Dark Descent is on sale for 2.99 euros and Rebirth for 5.79 euros.
gog is a distribution platform like Steam, offering games and movies. The platform is operated by the Polish game developer and publisher CD Projekt, also known for the games “The Witcher 3” and “Cyberpunk 2077.”
Here you can access Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs on gog.com
What makes Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs special? In gameplay, A Machine For Pigs puts you in the first-person perspective. You must navigate the game without weapons, just like in The Dark Descent, which means you have no means to defend against potential enemies.
This leaves you with only hiding and running away. This is intended to create a feeling of helplessness, preventing potential enemy confrontations. If danger lurks around the corner, caution is advised. Because if you get caught, it’s game over.
With The Outlast Trials, another horror title was released on Steam in May, which also received very good ratings and is even playable in co-op:
Nvidia celebrates the release of Diablo 4 with a unique graphics card. 2 of them are being given away, but your chances of winning one are slim.
The GeForce RTX 4080 is currently the fastest graphics card you can buy for your gaming PC, second only to the RTX 4090. To celebrate the release of Diablo 4, the manufacturer Nvidia has introduced a special giveaway: 2 “RTX 4080” models in unique Diablo designs will be raffled off among gamers.
But your chances of winning the graphics card are low.
What makes the graphics card so special? The graphics cards are equipped with a unique backplate. They are usually found on the graphics card and serve only a design purpose. The performance remains unaffected. For the RTX 4080, you currently pay starting from 1,300 euros and more (via geizhals.de).
The giveaway is aimed at half the world
Who can participate? In addition to the USA, Canada, South Korea, and Australia, several European countries are allowed to participate in the giveaway via (nvidia.com). In theory, this amounts to about 2 billion people who could all throw their lottery ticket into the pot. In practice, of course, it’s fewer since there are many non-gamers, and not all are of legal age or even know about the giveaway.
Nonetheless, thousands of people are expected to participate in the giveaway. And with every participant, your chance of winning decreases. This is also why the chances for the grand prize are expected to be very low. For comparison: The odds of winning the jackpot in the lottery are 1 in 139,838,160, which is also extremely low.
With a chance of 1 in 10,000, one wins on average 3,000 euros in the lottery, which could buy you an RTX 4080. The average probability is 0.0017 % (via studimup.de).
If more than 20,000 people participate in the Nvidia giveaway, the chances of winning a graphics card decrease. This corresponds to less than 1 % of all active players of Diablo 4.
At least: The giveaway costs you nothing, while you have to invest money for the lottery, which in most cases you will not see again.
What do you have to do?
Follow Nvidia’s social channels on Twitter/Facebook/Instagram/TikTok to receive important prompts and instructions.
Like, comment, tag, or share posts on social networks according to Nvidia’s prompts.
You have until June 20, 2023. Afterwards, Nvidia will randomly select 2 winners from the pot.
Do you need such a graphics card for Diablo 4? No, if you want to play Diablo 4 in Full HD or WQHD, you do not need a high-end graphics card. Only certain features can only be exclusively used with an RTX 4000 graphics card. What hardware you need for Diablo 4 and whether you need to upgrade can be found in the following article on MeinMMO:
For years, players in World of Warcraft have wished for a feature that allows them to sell junk items in their inventory with one click. This wish is now coming true.
What kind of change is this? A new feature has been activated on the PTR server for the upcoming patch 10.1.5 (Tears of Time) – the “Sell All Junk” button. With this, you can sell all gray items from your inventory to the vendor with one click. However, more valuable items remain unaffected.
With this button, you save yourself the annoying search for these items and the clicks on them, making inventory management much more enjoyable.
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When will patch 10.1.5 be released? There is still no official release date. The roadmap indicates a release in “Summer 2023”. If Blizzard maintains the current update pace, the date would likely be late June or early July.
What else is included in the patch? In addition to the small adjustment in the inventory, the update brings a new specialization for the Caller, a rework for the Mage, the Warlock as a playable class for additional races, and the new mega-dungeon “Twilight of the Eternal”, which launches with 8 bosses.
What do you think about the new feature for the inventory? Was it long overdue, or have you gotten so used to the addon that you didn’t even miss the button?
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If you are wondering when the next Steam Sale will take place, here is an overview for the year 2023. In this article, you can check when major sales like “Black Friday” or events occur, when the Steam offers end, and what types of Steam events there actually are.
Steam regularly hosts large special promotions where you can get games at a discount. We have compiled an overview of all Steam Sales and Events taking place this year. We will regularly update this list for you.
All Steam Sales, Promotions, and Events in 2023
Here you can see what Steam promotions and events to look forward to this year and when they start and end. The major seasonal discount campaigns are highlighted for you in bold:
Mystery Festival: 20. – 27. February
Spring Promotion: 16. – 23. March
Puzzle Festival: 24. April – 1. May
Sports Festival: 15. – 22. May
Game Preview: 19. – 26. June
Summer Promotion: 29. – 13. July
Puzzle Games Festival: 24. – 31. July
Visual Novels Festival: 7. – 14. August
Strategy Festival: 28. August – 4. September
SHMUP Festival: 25. September – 2. October
Game Preview: 9. – 16. October
Steam Scream Festival (Halloween): 26. October – 2. November
Autumn Promotion: 21. – 28. November (On November 24 is Black Friday)
There are three different types of Steam promotions. We distinguish between:
Seasonal Promotions
Themed Promotions and Events
Game Previews
What are Seasonal Promotions? Seasonal discount campaigns occur four times a year for the various seasons. All previously released games on the platform can participate in the event with discounts.
What are Themed Promotions and Events? Here, a specific category or genre of games is in focus. Accordingly, only games that fit into the scheme can participate. Often, there are also decent discounts here.
What are Game Previews? This event takes place three times a year. Here, players can test new demos, interact with developers, and watch livestreams. The game previews offer you the opportunity to learn more about upcoming games on Steam.
In Pokémon GO there will be a global GO Fest again in 2023. The first monsters and new Shinies have now been announced. What they are, we have summarized for you here on MeinMMO.
What event is it about? One of the biggest events in Pokémon GO is the annual GO Fest. In addition to three special live events taking place this year in London, Osaka, and New York, a two-day global event will be the grand finale. This way, trainers from all over the world can participate in this event and secure special encounters.
The new monsters and Shinies waiting for you at the global GO Fest 2023 have been announced by Niantic. We have summarized all the content for you below.
When does the event take place? The global GO Fest runs on August 26 and 27, 2023. Anyone can participate in this, regardless of where they are in the world.
All new Pokémon & Shinies for GO Fest 2023
The biggest Pokémon GO event of the year also has a number of new Pokémon and Shinies in store for you. If you have not previously participated in one of the live events, you will have the chance to encounter two new gem Pokémon for the first time. Below we show you which they are and which new Shinies there will be.
Rocara: During the global GO Fest, you will have the opportunity to encounter the Rock and Fairy Pokémon Rocara worldwide for the first time. It comes from the 6th generation of games and is also referred to as a gem Pokémon.
You can recognize Rocara by its gray rocky body, from which a small head with long ears peeks out. It wears a white scarf around its neck. Its eyes are blue, and it is adorned all over its body with white crystals. The monster does not have an evolution.
During the GO Fest, you can encounter it in special field research. If you cannot wait until then, you can secure a corresponding ticket for the GO Fest until July 5, which will reward you with a limited-time research that includes Rocara.
Diancie: The mysterious Rock and Fairy Pokémon from the 6th generation has been suspected for some time as a candidate for the GO Fest. Now it’s official: You can secure the gem Pokémon worldwide for the first time during the global GO Fest with the help of special research. However, this is only available to ticket holders.
According to legend, Diancie is a mutation of the Rocara monster, which will also celebrate its debut at the GO Fest. The body of the mysterious Pokémon is small and gray. The lower part of the Pokémon resembles a rock, from which a pink crystal protrudes. It also wears a white dress and a crown made of pink crystals.
In addition to its normal form, Diancie also has a Mega Evolution. Whether this will also be part of the GO Fest is not known yet. How strong it will be, you can read in the following article:
Icognito M: Icognito is a Psychic Pokémon from the 2nd generation that has a total of 28 different forms, all of which resemble letters as well as the two special characters, the exclamation mark and the question mark.
Although Icognito is not a completely new Pokémon, you will have the chance to encounter its shiny letter form M during the global GO Fest for the first time. The shiny form will be released at the event. However, it will only spawn for ticket holders.
GO Fest brings you 10 new Shinys
In addition to Rocara and Diancie, you can look forward to a few new shiny Pokémon at the global GO Fest. You can look forward to the following Pokémon and their evolutions:
Viscora with Viscargot and Viscogon
Schalellos eastern hemisphere (blue) with Gastrodon
Schalellos western hemisphere (pink) with Gastrodon
Wattzapf with Voltula
Kommandutan
Icognito M (only for ticket holders)
You can encounter the new shinies in the various habitats that will be available during the event.
These are all new Shinys for the global GO Fest 2023
All habitats and spawns for the global GO Fest 2023
As you may already know from past larger events in Pokémon GO, the wild spawns do not all appear simultaneously on the first event day, but have previously been divided into 4 different habitats, in which they spawn alternately. The habitats change every hour.
On Sunday, the second event day, all wild spawns will reappear, but then independently of their habitats. If you purchased a corresponding event ticket, you can also look forward to special encounters from the smoke. The following monsters are among those expected:
Habitat
Wild Spawns
Smoke Encounters (only for ticket holders)
Quartz Terrarium
Pikachu with Quartz Crown* Skaraborn* Schalellos (blue)* Haspiror*
During the global GO Fest 2023, you can also look forward to one or the other bonus. In addition to special content for ticket holders, there will also be general bonuses:
What do you think of the content for the global GO Fest? Will you be playing with or without a ticket? And which monster are you particularly aiming for? Let us know here on MeinMMO in the comments.
Steam has introduced a change in the shop. From now on, the lowest prices of the last 30 days will be displayed. This should make shopping on Steam easier for you, without the need to use additional addons.
Who doesn’t know this: Developers put their games on sale on Steam and claim that they will raise the price significantly very soon or advertise the lowest offer of all time. Valve had already restricted this by stating that developers can no longer reduce their games inflationarily and offer fake discounts (via techspot.com).
Now there is another change that is not entirely voluntary. To comply with European law, Steam now shows you the price developments of games over the last 30 days. You can see exactly whether developers have increased prices quietly and secretly, or whether the game has been cheaper at some point before. Valve announces this on Twitter:
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Retailers in Germany are already doing this by indicating “price of the last 30 days” behind offers. This is part of the so-called Omnibus Directive of the EU: In discount promotions, the lowest price that was used within the last 30 days before the offer must be indicated.
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What alternatives are there? Many gamers who use Steam likely also use various addons to monitor prices. The most well-known is probably SteamDB, which not only allows you to view the lowest prices, but also offers other interesting data about the games. By the way, SteamDB also uses this to take jabs at Valve: We have been able to do this for a long time and in much more detail:
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This price indication is probably not entirely voluntary, as so far only customers from the European Union benefit from this representation. Whether this feature will be available to players in the USA or other parts of the world is therefore questionable.
Nevertheless, this change should be helpful for many users, as they can see the price developments directly within the Steam client and no longer need to use external programs or addons. During the next Summer Sale, which will surely come, this will save some people time.
If you want to know when the next sale on Steam starts, then check out the following article on MeinMMO. Here we present all the important times related to the sales in 2023:
According to an insider report, EA and Bioware want to sell their MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic. A studio that previously worked under EA and now manages games like Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot is said to be interested.
What does the report say? Bioware wants to focus on single-player games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect 4 in the future. An MMORPG that constantly needs to be updated with new content apparently stands in the way.
According to IGN, a contract is reportedly being worked on behind the scenes between EA and Broadsword Online Games. This would transfer SWTOR into the hands of the new developer. Of the approximately 70 to 80 employees currently managing the MMORPG, about half are also expected to be transferred.
Is this bad news? Not necessarily. Broadsword Online Games is the company of Rob Denton, who previously developed MMORPGs for EA with Mythic Entertainment and worked as Chief Operating Officer at Bioware on SWTOR from 2006 to 2013.
The company currently manages the two MMORPGs Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot. So, there is experience for the further development of The Old Republic.
SWTOR is still popular 12 years after release, but currently, the momentum is gone
How is SWTOR generally doing? The MMORPG received its last new expansion in 2022. Legacy of the Sith was rather disappointing. While the revisions of classes, Shared Targeting, and the story were small highlights, overall the scope was much too limited.
The story, for instance, offered only about 3 hours of gameplay.
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Although further updates have followed in the last 15 months, including a raid and the introduction of the 64-bit client, there is a general feeling that Bioware and SWTOR have lost their momentum.
A new company could thus bring fresh air into the dusty MMORPG.
What does EA say about it? They stated that the MMORPG is still a great success even after 12 years, but they are looking for ways to allow the game to grow further. This also includes discussions with Broadsword.
Almost 12 years after its release, Star Wars: The Old Republic is still a success and allows its engaged and passionate community to continue to grow. We are very proud of the work that the team has done, and the future of the game and the community still looks very promising. We are considering how we can provide the best opportunities for the game and the team to grow and evolve. This also includes discussions with Broadsword, a studio that specializes in creating online experiences supported by the community. Our goal is to do the best for the game and its players.
Therefore, a sale to a new studio that is already managing two classic MMORPG gems today and regularly providing updates does not necessarily have to be bad news.
What do you think about a possible sale of SWTOR?
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