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... I like how they're apparently offering just back pay as a peace offering. Not, y'know, any sort of monetary recompense for the stress or treatment or whatev'. Just money they would have paid th'person anyway, had they not fired 'em. You can't pay for absurdity like that. That's quite possibly the least effort above absolute nil I've ever seen put towards soothing feathers.

Mm... yeah, you generally save the prides for after you've gone back west and cleared that stuff out, as well as whatever side dungeons you can manage in the east. Lead up to the end, basically. The opening rooms to pretty much all the prides can be pretty damn brutal. Also the necromancer/elementalist pair is probably best saved for after the (generally much less painful) wyrmic one, with the fighter one last. Tinker with the order, basically, to make things a bit more manageable. It'll still be pretty rough -- these are basically the next-to-last zones in the game -- but you can do a lot to make things easier.

You... might be able to teleport out, or at least movement-infusion through the door to give yourself some better room to play with? I've always just kinda' killed them all (barring an occasional splat to the fighter pride one, which is the worst of the lot  by a fair margin), so I've never actually tried to just dip out of that initial entryway.

And yeah, corruptor's primarily blight, with some acid/nature and darkness. Little bit of fire (mainly via fearscape, but there's a little bit of other, too). Blowing them up immediately really is your best option, with disabling coming a close second.

E: Oooh, merchant just gave my ogre sunpa warmaking/dispersal (plus some other junk) gauntlets. +20/17% phys/spellcrit and disperse magic, yes, thank you. Physcrit is now at... 73, spell at 89. Not 100%, but it's verra' nice anyway.

Sure there are. Good thing people can multitask.

... no, they do have the right to demand that, especially if that other content creator is using material from that said party. This is especially true for mods, which are explicitly derivative work, generally created under some sort of license and using huge swaths of someone (mostly the third party in question) else's code.

They don't have the right to enforce that people do business with them afterwards, but they can make whatever demands they please.

I think Steam deserves *some* money for hosting and facilitating.  Just not nearly so much.

Well, the thing is they are getting money for hosting and facilitating. Already. That's the whole thing that, y'know, they do. They get paid to publish and host games. Entire shtick, right there. Stuff like the workshop is part of the services they provide to incentivise folks to use them over other platforms. Standard value-added junk.

What they're asking isn't that, it's to get paid extra for a service they were already providing and getting paid to provide. Hrm. Or I guess asking to get paid extra for the service of facilitating commercial modding. Muscling in on paypal or patreon or whatev' in the field of donating to creators. Which is actually an angle I hadn't considered, this as a sort of power-grab by steam, attempting to lay claim to the cash available in the field of user-made content creation. Makes me wonder if that was part of the decision making process...

E: Though thinking of it that way, it makes me kinda' confused why they didn't just frame it that way, as facilitating donations. That would have had a hell of a lot less PR backlash, and it's obvious they're already working that angle with the 0+ price option.

... when did puppies start coming with a flame breath option?

Also how are you alive after getting your heart ashed?

Please don't. Neither the window nor whatever's below it would appreciate that.