Why Splatoon Won't Follow in Titanfall's Footsteps.

ComedicHistory · 5時間前

It's a threshold thing, and it depends on the number of active players. For a matchmaking queue where the people waiting are served by each other when there's enough of them (rather than served by an empty server), the queue needs a certain number of active players to sustain itself. Unlike with a standard queue, in a matchmaking queue the average wait time goes inversely to the number of people entering the queue.

Titanfall has a smaller install base than Halo, meaning it has a smaller number of active players. Moreover, the number of separate queues in Titanfall is utterly ridiculous. There are 12 different regions, each with 13 different queues (one for each game mode, plus variety, plus variety DLC, plus single player), split across two platforms (xbox live and PC). That's 312 different queues! More importantly, the single player required you to go through the whole game with a single group, and if the group didn't stay together then you couldn't complete it. And you needed to complete it to get all of the Titans.

They've improved the queueing a little since the game launched. Now you can potentially queue into people from other regions. That helps a lot (26 queues instead of ~300). You can also see how many people are in each queue, so you can see which queues are empty before getting into them (as of this moment, 4 of the 13 queues are below 20 players on PC). But you can also see that there are only ~1000 players online at the moment, which is clearly too few to support the 300 queues that they had originally.

This is why Splatoon's matchmaking will always be much better. They've held the game to 2 queues (eventually 3), meaning that even with a modest number of players, they'll never drop below that magic threshold where you can't find a match.

ComedicHistory · 6時間前

I think they left out the most important reason why splatoon won't fail like Titanfall: fractured queueing.

It's an established fact in queueing theory that the queueing strategy with the shortest average wait time is when all of the servers are fed from a single super-queue. Titanfall didn't do this. They had separate servers for different regions (lots of them) fracturing the queue, they had separate queues for different modes, they had a separate queue for single player (that no one played after the first week), and every paid DLC they released further fractured the queue.

Ultimately, this led to incredibly long wait times. More importantly, it made what is actually a rather large community of players feel like a barren wasteland, because players can't find eachother while waiting in different queues.

Splatoon doesn't do this. All of the regions feed into a single queue. They only have two queues to work with in the first place: ranked and turf war. Eventually they'll add in team ranked (which will probably take longer). Moreover, because the DLC maps are free, those will never fracture the playerbase like Titanfall DLC did.

This is the reason splatoon won't fail. Even if Splatoon has a fraction of the players that Titanfall does now, it will still feel like a vibrant game with a good community because you'll always be able to find a game because of their solid queueing strategy.

Edit: Also, I challenge the assumption that a lack of content is to blame for Titanfall. How many maps and game modes are actually played in Team Fortress? Not many. The problem entirely had to do with difficulty finding a game, and the root of that problem lies in queueing theory, not content.

therationalpi · 1日前

Thanks! Every day it's getting easier.

maturra · 2日前

This is one of the few shooters that really appeals to Japanese sensibilities. I can't say that I'm surprised it's doing so well!

madsvh · 4日前

I doubt it.

Popular streams are the hallmark of a truly competitive game, these days, and the Wii U is really not cut out for streaming content. I don't doubt that splatoon has the sort of gameplay depth that could lead to really interesting competitive play, but to reach the level of e-sport, the game needs to facilitate spectators, and that really doesn't seem to be in the cards.

aqissiaq · 6日前

If you really think about it, we all live in the future until we retire. Then we promptly start living in the past.

Spencersage · 9日前

Not disagreeing with the angle grinder theory, that sound level just made me chuckle. Especially with "ear shattering" since it would be better described as reality tearing.

Spencersage · 9日前

Might want to check your assumptions on that 250000 dB. There's literally not enough energy in the universe to support a sound that loud.

chef_simpson · 15日前

It's the testfire, people hadn't had the chance to master those skills yet.

cackhandler · 15日前

A song of ice and burns.

therationalpi · 17日前

Ounce for ounce, the salmon has fewer calories (58 vs 77), and on the menu the helping of salmon was considerably smaller (8 vs 12 oz). All-in-all, the salmon was half the calories of the steak.

I agree that steak isn't terrible, but salmon is a healthier choice, and my biggest diet difficulty has been that when presented with two options, I don't normally take the healthier option. It's exactly these sorts of decisions that add up for me.

CelestialWolfZX · 18日前

Something else to keep in mind is the adage that any card that you play for 8+ mana ought to win you the game. That means that the minion you throw down has to have so much impact that it can entirely alter the game. I'm thinking of cards like Kel'Thuzad, who can allow you turn an even board state into a completely lopsided one.

The difficulty there is that it's hard to get that sort of game-warping impact with stats alone. If I put down a naked 12/12, it's not going to win me the game, because it's so susceptible to removal.

The closest thing to a pile of stats that could impact the game would be Ancient of War, coming in as 5/10 with taunt. It's not easy to remove, and it can take a lot of hits. And that card doesn't see too much play, because it still doesn't do a lot. You could have a big minion with charge, but then you're just adding in a neutral pyroblast, effectively (and you're stepping on King Krush's toes).

There's definitely room for low cost legendaries, since legendaries have the widest design space by their very nature. But common late game cards won't really show up until Blizzard feels comfortable making those cards considerably more complicated.

vbmota · 18日前

This is John Carmack we're talking about. I'm stunned it took this long for an announcement to this effect.

trebarb · 18日前

They're two different design mentalities. Android's design mentality is (and always has been) to give users all of the options so they can make their own choices, even if some of those are bad. Apple's design philosophy is to limit the choices to a small set of heavily designed and vetted options, but if you don't like what you see than you're SOL.

So, do you want choice or curation?

It sounds like you want choice. It's no surprise, then, that you prefer android products.

I personally, want curation. Because I have no interest in digging through piles and piles of bad designs just to get to the one I want. Apple is great for me.

Your opinion is that Apple should have more watch faces, and you use your personalized watch face as an example of why it's good. I look at your watch face and think it looks tacky (I don't want a Goldeneye reference on my wrist), and I see why Apple took the approach they did.

joealarson · 19日前

Nope. It's just as focused on Mike's thinking as it always was. I do sort of wish he'd leave his politics out of his videos a little more, though. It's not that I disagree with him, it's just...exhausting.

kidsareez1 · 19日前

It's sounds like you changed a major habit, so then there's nothing to question. That's a great way to lose weight, identify your bad habits and change them!

Keep us all up to date on your progress, and best of luck!

TheObservat · 19日前

I mean, her style is largely based on Harajuku fashion, and I've heard that she's something of a closet geek. So it really doesn't seem that far fetched.

Metcarfre · 20日前

I'm not saying that being fat is great and should be accepted. I'm saying that telling people they're fat is not doing them any favors, despite what you may think.

kidsareez1 · 20日前

You can definitely lose weight without doing exercise. In fact, most people would say that weight loss is 80% diet, and at most 20% exercise.

Also, dancing is great exercise, and it's exercise even if you enjoy it. I'd go so far as to say that exercise you enjoy is the best kind, because you're much more likely to keep doing it.

Back your specific question though, if you haven't changed your eating habits or exercise habits (did you just start dancing?), then losing 12 pounds in a month is kind of concerning. It could be a sign of a digestive problem.

If you have been dieting and dancing, though, then that weight loss seems perfectly reasonable.

Metcarfre · 20日前

Do you somehow think that people who are overweight don't know they are overweight? Do you think that you're the first person to tell them? Do you think that you are doing a person a service by insulting them? If so, you're an idiot.

If you're overweight, you are told to lose weight every time you go to the doctor, regardless of reason. You could go in there for a checkup on a broken arm, and the nurse is gonna put you on a scale, check your blood pressure, and then tell you your fat. You're also going to see that you're fat every time you look in the mirror. You're going to think about your weight every time you see one of those ultra fit male models. You're going to hear "You're too fat" in the subtext of every rejection by a girl. If you are heavy enough, you are going to feel how fat you are when you walk up the stairs and get winded. If you were overweight as a kid, then you probably got shunned, insulted, and bullied for years, without any form of recourse.

Moreover, if you are overweight, odds are that you've spent most of your life trying to fix that. It's not nearly as easy as just going out to get a haricut. It's easier for some people than others. Not everyone has time to get to the gym, not everyone has a job that gives them ample exercise, not everyone has a naturally good metabolism, not everyone was raised with good eating habits, not everyone has the willpower to stick to a super restrictive diet, and a lot of people have a destructive emotional relationship with food that's not easy to just turn off without some help. Losing weight is hard, and even the people who succeed at it only do so after several false-starts and failed attempts.

Stop pretending like insulting a person is doing them a favor. You're just rationalizing your own unacceptable behavior with the most self-serving sort of deception. Your insult is not going to help that person turn their life around and become healthier. At best, they'll just blow you off as another in a long parade of assholes telling them about their weight. At worst, you're feeding into the sort of emotional insecurity that makes finding the will to make a change so difficult.

And if the real reason that you insult people's weight is because you have fun making people miserable, then stop being such a goddamn sadist.

Metcarfre · 20日前

It's a shame that Levi doesn't make 508's anymore (though you can still find a few leftovers if you look hard enough).

sandyskw · 22日前

He may aspire to go walking with you, but when push comes to shove he may just not want it enough to actually do it. Everyone has some things that they want the results from, but don't want the work that comes with. It really sounds like your husband puts his energy into his work, and when he comes home he doesn't have the willpower for much else, even if he wishes he did.

sandyskw · 22日前

I'm going to go the complete other direction of most of the people here and say stop trying to make your husband an extension of your goals. It sounds like losing weight isn't a priority to him, and you're trying to push it on him because that's what you want. If he wants to start eating better and getting more exercise when he's off the clock, then he'll make that decision for himself.

Also, he has a point about his job. Working a job like his is the equivalent of doing 1-2 hours of serious exercise a day, and the toll it takes on your knees means that if he was going to start exercising, running would be a terrible choice. He spends a third of his waking life lifting things, and that's the portion of his life that you don't see because he's not around you.

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