>>718982953
There's a much bigger issue and it's basically about how gear is made. Hoping for someone to get a big drop isn't how this game is fundamentally meant to be played, it's just kinda how things end up with all the players in the game when there's a marketplace. The way you're meant to play POE is by gambling your items. The game doesn't actually teach you the process of how you're really meant to do it it's just something you're supposed to do when you have a decent amount of currency. But that also creates a problem where if you have a decent amount of currency, how exactly did you obtain it? If the game showers you in currency then the market gets inflated, but if it's just from lucky drops and selling those drops, then realistically how lucky can you be to afford crafting your own gear? POE's gearing system needs a much more intuitive system for the player, because as it stands now everyone is just playing an even more insufferable version of slots. It's not easy getting god pieces, which is fair, but with how often you miss even getting something wearable it makes you question the point of it all.

And in consideration of all this, most players will be priced out of being able to afford good gear on the market if they don't play within the first week of any season. Even when you barely got currency last time the market still got overinflated very quickly. Normal players can't keep up with that so then they really have to rely on either getting super lucky shit to sell or super lucky gambling their pieces. Either that or you suffer through immense time investment just to buy your way back into the market.

There were a few golden ages for western voice acting making English dubs tolerable, but now the inner cabal of English VAs has shifted and the """"talent"""" that took over is essentially the concentrated form of people acting based on what they find appealing in their limited scope rather than through an actual wide variety of experience and training. What I mean specifically is that Japanese voice acting is essentially the language turned to 11. It's wacky, it's bombastic, it's shit that a Japanese person would never hear in that intonation in their daily life unless the people talking like that were retarded or uncannily eccentric. And yet it works because it's incredibly expressive and moving. A good VA can transform an entire scene and that's something that transcends language, you can hear it without understanding it, you can feel it.

English VAs hear the source material and take one of three routes. You have general incompetence like monotone readings or a general lack of expression and ability to read and act out certain types of emotions. The generic go-to voice types that try to emulate some of the greatest of western dubbing but fail to encapsulate any of it, as if they were amateurs trying to break out into the scene... except these are the people that keep getting roles now. And finally, you have your super try hard VAs that are amateurish and attempt to match the range of expression the original Japanese dub has, except they fail miserably and wrap back around into pure cringe territory with how little they truly understand how to work with the English language, which again wraps back into general incompetence. I have yet to hear good VAs in anime and video games dubbing original Japanese works for at least a decade now. They don't do the heavy lifting. They don't make you feel shit, they don't move you.

>>714661887
I've been so obsessed with latinas lately