Blackmist

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World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive angielski

The monetization of World of Warcraft has evolved significantly since I played during Burning Crusade over 10 years ago. Back then, the model was straightforward - you bought the expansion and paid a subscription fee. That was all you needed to access 100% of the game’s content....

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Meanwhile Final Fantasy XIV is doing a collaboration with hair dye.

Nintendo Confirms Backwards Compatibility for Switch Successor! angielski

This is Furukawa. At today’s Corporate Management Policy Briefing, we announced that Nintendo Switch software will also be playable on the successor to Nintendo Switch. Nintendo Switch Online will be available on the successor to Nintendo Switch as well. Further information about the successor to Nintendo Switch, including its...

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I mean, Nintendo have often been fairly good with back compatibility.

If the architecture and form factor of physical media isn’t really changing, there’s not a lot of need to block older games from running.

They’re already on ARM, and there’s not much better for mobile gaming and GPUs have been fairly similar for a long time now.

The more interesting question is: will the Switch games get a performance boost on Switch 2? And it’s probably going to depend on the game. I’d imagine they’ll test a lot of the more popular titles, and anything with issues just gets it disabled until the developer patches it. It’d be nice to play TotK at a decent frame rate. Impressive as it is, it certainly chugs.

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“None of my stuff works but I least I don’t have to use WinBloWz$$$”

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Do you honestly think that people who use Windows do it for no reason?

We’re not just using a browser over here. We have thousands of games we’d like to continue running, as well as thousands of dollars of business software. PC gaming is buggy enough as it is, without throwing one of a million distros of Linux into the mix.

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I would think it would still do most of it’s business on console regardless of which PC store it launched on.

Lack of a physical release probably hurt more than not being on Steam. When you go pure digital, you miss out on those impulse purchases.

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Children Ruin Everything: The Videogame.

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I’m thinking I made the right choice to quit a few years ago.

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When has any really rich person ever gone “you know what? I actually have enough now…”?

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I guess Notch as well. Sold Minecraft for an obscene amount of money and got into indefensible right wing views instead.

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12 years of early access. Thousand dollar DLC spaceships. Remaining players “happy”.

This is as close to a cult as you will find in gaming.

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I would not be at all surprised if the Switch NES and SNES emulators are running an open source emulator that they’ve tried to shut down.

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At this point you might as well stream the game video, it would be less bandwidth.

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Doesn’t it already run on Gamepass xCloud whatever they call it?

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It’s hardly Counterstrike.

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It would mean that you were allowed to sell your license to somebody else, just as you would be able to with a physical copy.

It would mean that you could continue to have it, and be able to reinstall it on future hardware if Valve closed shop tomorrow.

Currently you can do neither of those things.

Currently downloading The Witcher 3 for the first time. Got any advice for me? (lemmy.world) angielski

So I just read this book on history of games called “Blood, Sweat and Pixels” and was fascinated by the chapter on The Witcher 3 and mostly how the team put in so much thought and care in every single side quest. And seems that there are a lot of moral decision to be made on each adventure. So I finally decided to give it a...

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Keep Quen up, roll about, hit stuff.

There’s a couple of enemies where this doesn’t work, but it should get you through the trickier combat sections.

Don’t forget the DLC, and for all the praise Blood and Wine got because of it’s size, don’t sleep on Hearts of Stone - it’s the most memorable part of the game for me.

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Player count don’t mean dick on single player games.

You could be the only person on earth playing it and still get the same experience.

That said, I didn’t like it anyway. I killed everyone in my play through and didn’t feel the need to do another. Half those deaths were “hold the controller still” QTEs that did not work. For the last one I even held it on a table.

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The annoying thing is they don’t really need to. PS5 SSD loading is near instant. They’re still using techniques that I first noticed in Soul Reaver.

Still we’re a long way from San Andreas and it’s miles of open country between cities to hide the loading.

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“PS2”

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That’s already out isn’t it? Remastered and everything.

PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off (www.ign.com) angielski

Wow, this is awful. Some people reported that these ads are also very petty and not necessarily related to the game, like apparently Elden Ring shows an ad for a licensed mousepad when you hover over the game now…...

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I’ll accept it’s a bug tbh. There’s no money in this.

Seems like it’s auto selecting the first “news” thing for the game rather than leaving it on the default game splash screen.

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It gets clicks from angry people, that’s the only reason IGN do anything these days.

Sad that they bought Eurogamer, because they were one of the last sites that hadn’t gone to complete shit.

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Not sure how much you can monetise the news feed for a game you already own… The publisher may already control all the things linked to it. If unmonetised things are “ads” now, then the whole Steam UI is a giant ad.

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A quick look on eBay suggests the only people buying them seen are scalpers.

Hope they all get fucked on this one.

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The last thing we need is Pro consoles getting exclusives. That would be PS6 in all but name.

The PS4 Pro made some sense. The PS4 was underpowered on launch, and 4K became pretty commonplace shortly after they launched. It still had an underpower CPU, but at least you got an upscaled HDR 1440p image for most of the time which is good enough. Even PC gamers accepted upscaling to 4K once they gave it a fancy name and told them it was exclusive.

But here, you’ve already got a choice of pretty RT mode and 60 fps mode, and if you really wanted both of those at the same time, then you could lash out a big pile of money for a PC.

It’s 700 notes for half a generation of slightly prettier gaming. It’s aimed at the “turn everything to ultra and have a fit when it drops below 60fps” PC gaming demographic, who have no need for this.

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They were already lazy because the hardware was powerful enough to hide a lot of sins.

FF7 Rebirth for example. It looks much better on the Pro, but frankly, it should have looked much better on the base console. And it came out well before the Pro was announced.

But at the same time, the majority of PC gamers are happily still playing at 1080p. Resolution was always overrated and an expensive thing to chase.

The only semi-exclusive from last gen was Cyberpunk, and I can’t really see things being much different. If a game engine was capable of running at 60 if you reduce the graphics, they’ll still offer that. If it wasn’t, then the Pro won’t be able to run it faster either. It’s pretty much the exact same CPU under both.

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They’re not. Steam survey has 4K monitors at under 4%. Well over half are at 1080p and below. There’s exactly 1 GPU in the top 10 above the nVidia x060 series.

The way things get reviewed, you’d think 4K was a minimum. I suspect the majority of high end cards out there aren’t even used for gaming.

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Be nice if it actually came down in price eventually though.

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BO1 is at least coming to PSPlus in PS1 form. I’m expecting it to feel very rough.

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I have lots of bills that are less than that every month, and yet somehow I can’t just say they’re not worth paying…

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If I did I’d probably have lots of little satellite offices in various regions to make that easier.

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And it’s going to be competing with the Ghost of Tsushima sequel.

For me they’re different enough to not really be in competition, but they felt the need to issue a statement about it, so they’re obviously a bit worried.

Not that I’m that interested in either. Give me that Soul Reaver remaster baby. Inject that shit into my veins.

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8K on everything is pure marketing BS.

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That’s not necessarily a bad thing.

RDR2 was long as fuck.

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That horrendous AI Muskthing will haunt my dreams…

The Plucky Squire Should Have More Faith In Its Players (kotaku.com)

You see, The Plucky Squire falls prey to one of modern gaming’s most well-intentioned, but still utterly annoying, sins and overtly tutorializes everything. When it deigns to allow the player to pop out of their storybook for a 3D platforming level, the camera pans across the entirety of the stage outlining the intended path...

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It is optional isn’t it?

Minibeard is there for if you get stuck. The puzzles just aren’t really hard unless you’re really not used to games at all.

Honestly the hardest part was the rhythm and bubble shooter sections at the end.

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World of Warcraft’s pet capture system was actually very similar to Pokemon, including better traps with better chances of success.

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Those fucking dummies…

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Probably one of the VR ones.

Phasmophobia is tense and mostly because you can die and get no points, but there’s plenty of VRChat horror worlds as well. The quality varies wildly though, and you often face the worst VR horror of all: awful frame rates.

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At that price there would have to be some pretty compelling arguments to upgrade.

Half a generation for up to 40% more raytracing power isn’t worth it.

A full generation for 2-3 times what a PS5 can do? Maybe.

Even then, there would have to be some damn good exclusives on PS6 to be worth your while. PS4 to PS5 was an easy argument, games ran at 30 pretty much all generation, mostly due to a comically underpowered CPU, and now they run at 60.

I’m struggling to even conceive of a worthwhile game that would bring a PS5 to its knees. I haven’t really seen a good argument for raytracing yet. Sure, nicer reflections, more accurate lighting, but we were pretty good at faking those anyway. Cyberpunk and Metro look really nice with the RT only editions, but they were perfectly playable without it.

We should really draw a big line under RT once it reaches a certain level of power, and go back to affordability. Game devs can’t put food on the table just catering to insanely high end hardware. My PC is still rocking a 1060. On the Steam hardware survey, there’s only one GPU higher than the X060 series inside the top ten. Budget hardware has got to be the focus.

Gacha games are out of control. Gambling shouldn't be so widespread angielski

As someone who grew up playing games like World of Warcraft and other AAA titles, I’ve seen how the gaming industry has evolved over the years—and not always for the better. One of the most disturbing trends is the rise of gacha games, which are, at their core, thinly veiled gambling systems targeting younger players. And I...

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I stopped playing WoW because it didn’t value my time. There is a limit to how much you can spend on WoW. Sure, you can buy gold, but it honestly won’t help you that much. The upgrades come from the weekly content, mostly.

And then there’s the mobile stuff where whales rule the day.

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The problem is that everybody sitting around that table thinks they’re skilled enough.

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Quite a few years ago now I went to my nan’s house for Christmas.

My cousin, I think he was about 13, had got a £50 Steam voucher for some games. Him and my other cousin who was a couple of year older went to Steam, swapped the voucher for something, and then took that to a gambling site. I don’t know if they’re still a thing. It was something to do with Counter Strike drops I think. Heavily advertised by YouTubers who ran them, with a bunch of videos showing them winning. The sort of thing they’d be sent to prison for in any right thinking society.

They took that £50, put it in, and clicked. The younger one went “what now?” and the older one just went “oh, nothing. It’s gone.” A couple of games worth of money, gone. For nothing.

He looked like he was about to cry, and only didn’t because he was going through that acting tough phase.

He’s an accountant now, and plays crown green bowling. I like to think that was a relatively cheap lesson in why not to fuck around with gambling.

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I’m not sure the disc drive can be saved at this point. There’s big games that didn’t even come out on disc, like BG3.

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TVs have been available in 120Hz and VRR for a while now. Even my 2017 OLED supports 120Hz, albeit only at 1080p.

That said, I don’t see the need to chase that with more expensive hardware. Any game with a choice of performance vs resolution, I find myself swapping to performance mode. I can see extra frames, I struggle to see extra pixels.

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The PS5 controller is pretty sweet.

But the PS1 Dualshock is the original version of that, and has influenced basically everything since. It’s the Ocarina of Time of controllers.

That second analogue stick fixed everything to do with cameras in early 3D games.

For VR it’s the Oculus Touch. Takes everything about the classic Dualshock design and adds hand tracking.

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It only really became NES once the SNES came out.

Before that it was just Nintendo.

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“Snezz” is fine.

Source: Called it “Snezz”.

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