An unannounced free upgrade to a game you already bought now includes a new daily challenge that requires online account verification to play.

LIGHT THE TORCHES. BRING THE PITCHFORKS.

(I personally think it's a neat way of forcing you to play "for keeps" on the fly with no save scumming allowed. Live in the moment!)

Trying to build a win streak when you can't just be like, "lol oops that doesn't count" can be neat. Also, having choices limited in one way but with the potential to roll something otherwise impossible adds a little novelty. I don't have delusions of trying to win #1 Best Player Evar, though.

Hard-difficulty dungeons aren't really a good test of "best player ever" anyways. The real game starts in vicious, hard-difficulty is the coffee break stuff. I like the shared experience, that we all are thrown into the same run and compare our approaches.

I guess it's a consistency test. Almost everyone seems to be derping their DERPs from time to time. I came close to breaking my streak because I underestimated the Wraith form of the boss and because I waited too long to enchant my beads (no piety to heal and/or be forgiven for potions)

It would be nice to have unlimited "offline DERPs" that do not have a leaderboard. What someone save scums at home shouldn't be of any concern.

I don't save scum even if I have the option... in any game. So when I play any game, I do so in an Iron Man fashion. The ability to show other people how good or bad I played just doesn't reach my interest; it has nothing to do with 'hey, look at where I am on the Leaderboard'.... or 'check out the size of my e-penis' bragging. :3

Each to their own I suppose.

The more I think about it, the more I wouldn't mind having an unlimited "practice DERP" mode. They just need to tweak the rewards until it's not exploitable. Of course, more work would need to go into it than just that to actually implement such a mode. But the random-generated challenge with the weirdly different item preps (at no cost to you!) is a little different from hitting the "random" button, because of the item prep changes and because I think DERP uses Hard level only. They could reduce scumming by using a seed to generate your kingdom's artificial DERPs, and the reward could be something like 50g for a win and another 50 or 100 or whatever for completing 3, 5, 10, etc. To keep it interesting, you have to win before you can move on to the next random-seeded choice.

Eh, daily challenges? I've played since the update, never seen anything like that. Where do I access them?

On your GOG account page, click on the game card -> More -> Serial Keys, and copy the key into the game. This should let you access the daily challenges.

[shakes hand]

Now that's a true gamer right there!

:)

I follow a similar method.