I wouldn’t put it past Blizzard to suddenly decide to axe Hearthstone. As sad as that would be, it already has a pretty dwindling playerbase from my understanding.
Although, to be fair, WOTC has been the best advertising recently for any card game that isn’t MTG, so maybe they’re seeing a surge now.
At this point, with all the charts and videos dedicated trying to explain what Game Pass is and deals exist, I really think a DLC approach would have been better. Like with pizza, you would have your Game Pass + any number of DLCs to enable additional features. So everyone could have their own Game Pass setup and pay only what they are interested into. In example:
<span style="color:#323232;">$10 Game Pass Base
</span><span style="color:#323232;">+ $8 Day One First Party
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (exclusives for a month, and added to Base after a year)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">+ $8 Premium Streaming
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (shortest wait times, highest quality)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">+ $5 Additional Library
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (EA Play & Ubisoft+ Classics)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">+ $4 Loyalty Benefits
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (Rewards program, game specific benefits, icons, walllpapers, soundtracks, stickers etc)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Note: Online Console Play is always included.
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I just made up price numbers, so don’t quote me on that as being bad or so. At least from marketing standpoint it would be easier to market, and nobody pays extra for stuff they won’t use such as some vbucks for free to play games.
For a second I thought you meant bundling pizza with the deal. Which I think would work well. Imagine getting one free dominoes pizza a week with game pass ultimate++. Haha
I think the biggest problem with thos approach is custo.ers could potentially pay less to get what they want, and thats taking profits away from the company. Why would they want that?
While I understand the stance for a communuty, honestly it's such a cowardly move. Im getting tired of games that make great political commentaries and/or cutting satire and then state "no political discussion".
I'll report to the nearest Democracy Officer for mentioning democracy, I guess...
They don’t want there to be a flame war between real actual humans who realize that it’s a parody of fascist imperial colonialism a la Starship Troopers, and brain broken groypers who idolized the sheer raw power of just taking everything as though you are entitled to whatever you can get your hands on.
I’ll post my comment from another thread on the same subject: I have very little respect for Valens’ writing after seeing articles spreading lies and essentially striking out at a vtuber company for being rejected by them. Vice is crap, but Valens is no better.
I’m not going to dispute point-for-point; I exclusively post from my phone and it would be too much work. An example would be taking a clip out of context, i.e. a vtuber talking about someone else’s talking points, and portraying it as though they are the vtuber’s opinions.
You could still name names and link the article(s), then offer a verifiable summary as to why you believe the coverage is inaccurate. You’re not disputing that Kirsche is transphobic and that there is a genuine-looking clip of them being racist though, are you?
Notice how it’s specifically about activists, not all trans people. As far as I’m aware she has not expressed hate for trans people.
I think she was discussing Kier Starmer’s statement on the matter. There are two sides to “The Great Replacement Theory.” One is factual, and supported by people such as Starmer, and one is an antisemitic theory. She was talking about the former. That’s not racism.
Hmm, some of those titles are suspicious because yes perverted nerds do cause some of society’s problems as we learned from the whole incel movement, and there are studies showing some types of porn lowers empathy etc for others.
Yes, there are good reasons for moderating a platform that distribute games.
The deleted article’s author question some of the feminist group’s claim, and highlight some involved parties are motivated by faith. But don’t dispute the need for moderating Steam where necessary, for instance if there is CSAM.
I don’t see a good reason to censor those articles. They could be better, maybe better highlight the danger of some porn, and the need for moderating. But the articles are not that bad.
If this sticks, expect every conservative group in the US to start trying this. Pressure Visa/ MC/ PayPal not to accept charges from Planned Parenthood, or from LGBT-friendly businesses, or from book publishers they don’t like, etc. This is just censorship by other means.
I have very little respect for Valens’ writing after seeing articles spreading lies and essentially striking out at a vtuber company for being rejected by them. Vice is crap, but Valens is no better.
Good on nu-Waypoint but I do want to make it clear:
This is not the Waypoint that made a name for social justice oriented reporting and leftist gaming content. They all got fired/driven out over the years. Austin Walker has nine million side hustles but is mostly over at Friends at the Table, Natalie Watson has a fucking BAFTA as part of Half Mermaid, and Rob/Chia/Patrick are now Remap. And the rest of the crew have also moved on.
This is the Waypoint that Vice created because they decided they wanted to have a gaming outlet again after firing old Waypoint. And mad props to Valens et al for standing up for THEIR writing but… big ol’ asterisk.
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