As a game dev in Japan, I can tell you nobody I’ve met has given any concern to pc ports, and it has been a royal pita to get anybody to care to the point of making me question staying in the industry.
This is why a lot of sites demand an account log in if the user disables cookies (or at least they did for a while). They need those cookies to link the activity to a user, and since they can’t do that secretly anymore, they just force the issue with a user account the user “chooses” to make.
Temp email+fake PII is my go to when this happens. I really appreciated Larian letting me skip straight to the game with BG3. Stuff like this should always be optional.
It SHOULD be optional but corporate greed wants your data. Just Cause 3 is still sitting unplayed on my Steam account for this exact reason and I fucking loved Just Cause 1 and 2
I’ve got to ask, what makes you still play Far Cry? I played 2, 3, and 4, but 4 was an exact copy of 3 (with slightly changed graphics). 5 was clearly also the exact same, and every one since 3 has been. It’s not a bad concept of a game, but following a formula doesn’t make an interesting experience. I’ve already played it.
My biggest issue though is this formula was successful enough that every game they make started following it. They made Watchdogs, which was a cool idea of a game, but it was literally just the same thing but in a city. Assassin’s Creed more recently slightly shifted away with Origins, but not enough and personally I still think they’re bland games.
For me, I’ll take an indie that is trying to do something new and interesting than anything Ubisoft, or generally AAA, is doing where there’s no passion and they’re just trying to use a formula to maximize profit.
Maybe because it’s a stable, predictable experience. People do appreciate it too. I’ve seen players with thousands of hours in Skyrim and I myself liked some games to sink 800-1000 hours even in non-competitive non-MMOs. FC is a FIFA of actions and it seems they are yet to kill it, so they have a returning playerbase who just like that genre of sandboxy shooters.
4 took place in a completely different sort of environment, with a whole different story, with an online co-op mode for the entire story that 3 didn't have. There are also smaller mechanical differences, but I mean Ubisoft does run formulaic franchises, so maybe it's not enough of a difference to please somebody who's just not as interested in the open world FPS setup from the ground up, but saying it was "an exact copy of 3 with slightly changed graphics" is such a biased and reductive take that it gives the impression that you've already made up your mind before you asked the question and that nuance isn't something you're looking for.
I suppose the answer is, that premise is interesting enough to some that they didn't require as much of a drastic change to still play more, it's more core to what they might enjoy, whereas Far Cry for you is more tertiarily enjoyable and you'd need more differences between them (such as from 2 to 3) to try a new installment, compared to a core fan that likes whats already there and wants minor improvements and tweaks to the formula to freshen up the experience they already fundementally enjoy and want more of. To that fan a drastic change in setting and scenery with some mechanical changes to increase immersion and mix it up would be enough.
It hurts my soul so much that EA have the Need for Speed series. They are dumb and idiotic, but they are my dumb and idiotic and I have to guve money to EA…
Pretty sure they mean that they have never been made to not want to play a game just because you had to register an account, not that they’ve never needed to register an account.
If logging in to something causes that much ire, I have to wonder if the people who think that way know how to make a throwaway email and use fake names. Because it’s one of the most ridiculous reasons to not use something.
Eh I don’t like accounts and I don’t want to waste my time jumping through hoops to play. It’s a matter of principle, and once you’re turned off you may as well just get dressed and go!
No, I mean I’ve never been forced to register an account before being able to play, except with Rockstar PC games. Ubisoft games have asked, but it hasn’t been required.
I dont think there’s an abundance but there are some out there
Rocket League was one for me where originally I didn’t need to make an account but after the epic games update it locked me out of playing at all (even local multiplayer only) if I didn’t make an account
One time my buddy was tripping super hard and he went to play a new game, stared at the TOS for like 5-10 mins then hit “do not accept” and backed out to the home screen.
I have purchased games, have it ask for me to create an account, and promptly never play the game. What’s annoying is a lot of sports games are like this now.
I bought NBA 2k since I hadn’t played a basketball game since NBA Live 2001. It took like 15 minutes to get a account set up. A few days later my account was gone. Haven’t played since.
I honestly don’t get it. It’s such an extremist view for something that’s insignificant.
You paid for a game you’re excited for, and then because you have to sign up for 30 seconds you’d rather get upset, and then spend a longer amount of time refunding the game?
Maybe people here are being hyperbolic but I honestly can’t see people refunding the game because of this.
If you keep rewarding the bad behavior of others, you have only yourself to blame if they continue to behave badly.
I shouted, literally shouted at my friends for buying the Oblivion Horse Armor and WARNED them the world they were creating, and I was fucking right on every fuckdamn point.
But they laughed at me then, and you laugh at me now, and the world gets shittier and shittier every day.
Fun idea, I love the Stanley Parable. I only checked out the trailer but the only thing that stuck out to me was that the narration is a bit hard to hear, not sure if it’s because of the audio quality or the speaker effects you have.
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