When I say “inspired them to release”, I should caveat that they’ve probably been planning this for a million years, and are merely framing it as a piece of direct fan service. Netease aren’t some jovial uncle, magnanimously handing you another cookie in the face of steady mithering. They are a massive corporation with growth forecasts and other financial flimstackery that defies my comprehension.
I appreciate the article mentioning this, even if its obvious enough once you think about it for a moment.
Anyway, this is really cool news. I haven’t actually played Rivals since the first season ended, so I don’t know how much better they’ve gotten at this since, but I was always disappointed by the lack of social interactions available between players. Something like overwatch has a multitude of emotes, sprays, and voice lines that you can fuck around with before or during a match and make temporary friends. Rivals on the other hand had just about nothing of the sort when I played it.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 days ago
Man… Imagine being that person who late one Friday night, while their peers were out getting shitfaced and smashing bits together, was shitposting (on /b/ most likely), decided to open Photoshop (other image editing software is available), and spent 5 minutes putting a third Spider-Man in that one screencap from the animated series. Little did they know their brain fart would reach canon status and be used as header picture for news articles, even decades later. What must that be like? Where are they now? Do they know of their immeasurable impact on modern culture?