Xquirtle
Smash Journeyman
So 3.0 has finally released, and I think that it has clearly made the game better overall. Joker is well designed and fun to play, the stage builder and movie maker are fun novelties, and the balance changes were "okay". All great things, however, virtually nothing was done to improve the online experience, so I still consider the game to be entirely unacceptable. GSP is still a massive joke, we still have to play asinine rule sets at somebody else's discretion, and we still have no way to avoid ridiculous lag. QP is the single most important peripheral component of this game, and it is sad to say that it appears that Nintendo is actually okay with it. They changed nothing about it... so this is probably what we get...
I generally try to avoid assuming that large successful companies are "stupid". In this case, it is quite mind boggling trying to understand if there is actually any intelligent rationale behind this awful online design. It would seem that you literally have to not care about the game to be okay with the current online play. It looks like it was designed to piss people off. If you care about your rating, have fun with omegaLul GSP. If you care about your ruleset being competitive, enjoy your forced and ranked item games. Do you want to screw around with items / fun stages? Enjoy your try hard 1v1 FD games in between.
Rather than allowing players to be exclusive in what they do, the system just sucks for everybody. This actually looks like gross incompetence on the part of nintendo, as their attempt to make a safe space for all has resulted in a cancer pit.
Anyway, i guess we can just enjoy what we did get and hope that Nintendo is secretly working on improving the online experience, but just missed 3.0.
I generally try to avoid assuming that large successful companies are "stupid". In this case, it is quite mind boggling trying to understand if there is actually any intelligent rationale behind this awful online design. It would seem that you literally have to not care about the game to be okay with the current online play. It looks like it was designed to piss people off. If you care about your rating, have fun with omegaLul GSP. If you care about your ruleset being competitive, enjoy your forced and ranked item games. Do you want to screw around with items / fun stages? Enjoy your try hard 1v1 FD games in between.
Rather than allowing players to be exclusive in what they do, the system just sucks for everybody. This actually looks like gross incompetence on the part of nintendo, as their attempt to make a safe space for all has resulted in a cancer pit.
Anyway, i guess we can just enjoy what we did get and hope that Nintendo is secretly working on improving the online experience, but just missed 3.0.
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