A California university is offering scholarships to students who have completed some of gaming’s toughest challenges.
The University of Silicon Valley offers up to $15,000 a year through its Max Achievement Scholarship.
To qualify, students must earn specific achievements in games like Elden Ring, Final Fantasy XIV, Dark Souls, Sekiro, Minecraft, World of Warcraft, Stardew Valley, and more.
For example, earning the Platinum Trophy in Elden Ring or reaching level 100 with every combat, crafting, and gathering job in Final Fantasy XIV can help qualify.
Gaming skills alone aren’t enough. Students must be accepted into the university, maintain at least a 3.0 GPA, and write an essay about what they learned from those in-game challenges.
Its always about getting the correct element and rushing dps checks so defensive builds are not a thing. Because of this, build and skill expression dies; everyone has the same playstyle, build, hits the same zones, and the hunts are always over at 20-30 min with the same pacing
This is a result of making the end game challenges be about knowledge checks before the hunt even started and on-rail setpieces, meanwhile older monhuns would let you aleviate a bad build with skill and experience at the cost of taking longer to kill the monster
One of my newfound fears is becoming mainstream with a work and getting the fanbase of tadc where people hallucinate controversy just so they have an excuse to insult people
@kamekozzie I dont think this is an excuse, I've consistenly kept seeing people make awesome fandesigns for years now. Its not like good design ideas are running out
Preferring one over the other is fine, but people really are criticising the new one for not being as iconic… well yeah? We have known it for barely a day
@roycebracketfgc The mana stopped being a resource to manage and became a "stop playing the game now" meter. No matter how well or bad you play, the more stuff you do, the sooner you go back to sitting there doing nothing
Wow, who would have thought constantly shooting down your talents, hiding them away and refusing to advertise them would make them perform worse. Some even get part time jobs just so they can stay afloat, that level of passion SHOULD be supported by the company…