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ampersandrew, do games w The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It
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Hard disagree. I like Fallout 4 quite a bit, but I don’t think there’s any part of it I liked better than The Outer Worlds.

ampersandrew, do games w Inside the 'Dragon Age' Debacle That Gutted EA's BioWare Studio
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But even that is a mess of causality for blame. EA wants to save money and mandates a nightmare of an engine for development; managers get incentives from EA to build a type of game that their studio doesn’t usually make; etc.

ampersandrew, do games w Inside the 'Dragon Age' Debacle That Gutted EA's BioWare Studio
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A good portion of that comes from how the teams are treated by EA and how many resources they’re granted though. I’m not about to assign a percentage to the blame, but of course the DA folks will be resentful of the ME folks if EA listens to one of them and gives them the time and money they ask for at the expense of the other. “Knowing how to negotiate” can often just come down to how much one game sold versus another, which isn’t really something the developers are responsible for.

ampersandrew, do games w Inside the 'Dragon Age' Debacle That Gutted EA's BioWare Studio
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Looking through each series’ Wikipedia articles, it looks like Mass Effect sold about 50% more than Dragon Age 1 and 2. And that tracks with my experience. I know far more people who’ve played Mass Effect than Dragon Age, and I’ve never played Dragon Age myself.

ampersandrew, do games w Inside the 'Dragon Age' Debacle That Gutted EA's BioWare Studio
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How do you figure? That’s not what I got out of this article.

ampersandrew, do games w Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind?
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Often times you do, but plenty of other times there’s nothing left, and I think that’s where the frustration sets in.

ampersandrew, do games w Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days
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Matt Piscatella pointed out on Bluesky that a launch like this is only a function of how much inventory they made available. The Xbox One had the third most successful US launch of a console.

ampersandrew, do games w The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It
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Nah, I loved The Outer Worlds. It gave me exactly what I wanted from the setting, it made me laugh, and it wasn’t bogged down in bloat by trying to be any bigger than it ought to have been.

ampersandrew, do games w The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It
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The Outer Worlds 1 was a fantastic palate cleanser after Starfield.

ampersandrew, do games w The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It
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That’s a lot of money for any game, let alone one that will also be launching on Game Pass and, like its progenitor, is smaller scale than other open world RPGs of this ilk.

It’s this thinking that led to Starfield and Redfall being priced at $70 and Hi-Fi Rush priced at $30.

I could bitterly rationalise it if this were the release date trailer for the next Fable and I discovered Playground Games was charging me $80

Why? Playground hasn’t even made a game in this genre before. Why do you expect that to be more worth $80 than the company that’s been making acclaimed RPGs since its inception?

ampersandrew, do games w Xbox dumped a mountain of trailers on us
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That’s a bummer. There was a lot that looked great to me, though most of it was for 2026. Given how much good stuff there is in 2025 that I still have to get through, that’s a-okay by me.

ampersandrew, do games w GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins
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We very much do need GOG to be competitive with the market leader but with the primary selling point of DRM-free, yes. And is it a coincidence that the beginning of your username is the same as that awful YouTuber?

ampersandrew, do games w Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience
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I hate live service games and Windows, so no, this device is not for me, but those are also the most popular games on the market by a wide margin. Despite how awful the Windows experience is today, there’s still one Windows handheld sold for every two Steam Decks. That situation can only improve with a version of Windows designed for handhelds.

ampersandrew, do games w Invincible VS | Official Reveal Trailer
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For the fighting game nerds out there: an interview on IGN confirmed that there are KI breakers during active tags, and combos will be limited in similar ways to Killer Instinct, meaning a combo meter rather than hitstun decay. If you don’t know what that means, don’t worry about it; this comment wasn’t for you. These were the answers I was looking for, and now this is my most anticipated fighting game despite having no familiarity with the source material.

ampersandrew, do games w Microsoft and Asus announce two Xbox Ally handhelds with new Xbox full-screen experience
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i just wish Xbox came out swinging with a compatibility layer for the Xbox game library

Though not officially announced, signs of that are appearing already, including a hint or two in the speech of the conference.

And for plenty of people, being able to play live service games that don’t work on SteamOS, with a UI that’s almost as good finally, will be enough.

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