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inclementimmigrant, miesiąc temu

Currently trying to avoid as many products as I feasible can that are owned directly by China, plus with the controversy of their review tactics being kind of about, I’ll pass on this game and wait for the seas to calm

inclementimmigrant, 4 miesiące temu

Replace “games” with “executives” and the sentence makes complete sense.

inclementimmigrant, 5 miesięcy temu

It was my go to console and my DVD player for years. Played so many JRPGs on there and made me a lifelong fan of ratchet and clank and one of the few games that my now wife could play (she’s terrible with video games). Still lamenting that Dark Cloud series never got the success o thought it should have.

Still have my PS2, still boots and all of it, including the mad catz controller, still works.

inclementimmigrant, 5 miesięcy temu

Just corporate greed for more of you data to sell.

inclementimmigrant, 5 miesięcy temu

Someone clearly didn’t play SNES games on the original hardware.

inclementimmigrant, 5 miesięcy temu

I wish that was actually the case but we all know marketing works like gang busters on gamers looking for their next fix. It it wasn’t they wouldn’t be hiring psychologists and paying them mid to high six figure starting salaries.

inclementimmigrant, 5 miesięcy temu

The past year or so? I remember saying this shit during the horse amour days and shitty hat days and expansion packs getting slimmer and slimmer.

inclementimmigrant, 5 miesięcy temu

Up to a point. I mean they have to get a large player base still and if by and large gamers just didn’t pre-order and buy the latest fucking re-hashed, yearly version of COD, I doubt just the whales would be enough to sustain them since whales only get gratification of pay to win against other people.

I mean look at some of the latest rounds of shitty GaaS. Suicide squad, Marvel avengers. No playerbase, not enough whales to sustain.

inclementimmigrant, 6 miesięcy temu

This is Ubi so if skull and bones was AAAA, this Star wars game will be AAAAA.

inclementimmigrant, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

I mean welcome to social media?

You know you have options to block and filler what you see so you can live in your bubble of only positivity while the AAAA gaming industry continues to get worse.

Heck, I mean feel free to block me since I tend to post positive and negative stories of it bothers you so much, no skin off my back while I post positive stories about Arrowhead and Larian Studios until they start doing things that aren’t positive.

inclementimmigrant, 6 miesięcy temu

They’re talking about DRM on the installer there so no, most other games don’t have that “feature”.

inclementimmigrant, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

I mean duh?

That said, I think the bigger question is how are consoles going to respond to the vastly growing cost of GPUs and power consumption.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu

They did but it doesn’t matter and I think the EU should continue the investigation into this Apple’s bad, anti-consumer, retaliatory behavior here.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu

Oh good nixxes is still doing this so I’m very excited. Still, in wait until it actually releases and get some reviews before I buy.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu

18 million copies sold and they’re pulling this bullshit. Fuck Nintendo at this point.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu

It looks too be a lot of ‘meh’ to me. I honestly don’t think the game’s story will translate well into any other medium and certainly the humor that makes the original BL games isn’t what I would call mainstream so that will just get watered down to nothing. Plus the casting looks off.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

Well I made a flippant comment about how I thought this would be SEGA being shitty and how people were in denial that SEGA, the publisher that just recently locked new game+ behind a not so microtransaction, would be doing this game dirty.

If these leaks are true, makes me sad but vindicated…

ETA: thegamer.com/sega-new-crazy-taxi-live-service-ins…

Maybe a bit of hope since this report states they want to do a remake before moving toward enshitification.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu

No because gamers by and large keep defending and buying this shit.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu

If they charge 70 bucks for it and include the mtx store then it’ll be even better as a AAAA game.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

Whatever you need to tell yourself that ‘This is fine’ is fine by me.

ETA: insider-gaming.com/new-crazy-taxi-game-live-servi…

If the leaks are true, well that’s going to be a lot of copium being taken.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu

No you can be a delusional, corporate happy pill taking person that loves live service games and the enshitification of the gaming sphere drowning in microtransactions driven by psychologists designed specifically to prey on addiction to comment.

it’s the beauty of the 1st amendment.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu

With the leak/rumor that is going to be a GaaS with a 100 player survival mode well it’s a distinct possibility.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

I mean you’ve got people who are defending Bilzzard’s newest horse armor bullshit so yeah.

ETA: Yup, got quite a few Hardcore Gamers^TM in the thread defending this BS already with ‘it’s just cosmetics’, all fighting games do it, or won’t someone think of the devs, like like they think the developers are getting a cut off the money.

Just sad frogs sitting in the boiling water.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu

No, we’re taking about Tekken. DOA has shitty mtx problems of its own.

Badum tis.

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu

Every new console since I’ve had the original NES is the largest technological leap…

inclementimmigrant, 7 miesięcy temu (edited 7 miesięcy temu)

Yeah I remember saying that that Bethesda’s horse armor bs would lead to gamers being nickeled and dimed to death and was soundly called a overreacting whinger.

And like you said here we are now and gamers are being outright exploited and you still have people saying it’s all still blown out of proportion like these companies aren’t hiring psychologists to manipulate us to buy this bullshit.

inclementimmigrant, 8 miesięcy temu

Leave it to Ubisoft to add an extra A to the already shitty landscape that is AAA gaming.

inclementimmigrant, 8 miesięcy temu

Glad you’re enjoying the CRPG. There’s plenty of older stuff that’s great in that vein too, one of my favorite older CRPGs that has a great story is Planescape: Torment.

inclementimmigrant, 8 miesięcy temu

Good to see them calling these shitty AAA publishers and their terrible, anti-consumer ideas out.

inclementimmigrant, 8 miesięcy temu

I’ll just leave this here.

videogameschronicle.com/…/xbox-has-failed-to-reac…

inclementimmigrant, 8 miesięcy temu

Didn’t imply it was failing, hell they’ve announced they’re making profit off of the service, I’m pointing out that your hypothesis that people are trending toward game subscriptions is weak.

Let’s look at it this way, there are 132 million active steam users and game pass is at 30 million with new game pass subscribers are beginning are slowing down and seeming like it’s reaching a plateau.

Here have another article that goes a little more in depth at the current situation with game pass subscribers.

forbes.com/…/why-has-microsoft-put-xbox-game-pass…

I think that game pass is a fine product, heck I had it for three years, I just think your hypothesis is wrong.

inclementimmigrant, 9 miesięcy temu

To be fair, in November SAG-AFTRA did also make a deal for movies and TV for AI likenesses being used in projects. However, I do think that video games and voice acting in general are a bit of a different beast since they’re often already overlooked and underpaid.

I mean the union fought tooth and nail and had a vote on the AI deal for their silver and big screen members and while I can kind of understand that the union leadership probably went, “Well we have a blueprint from our last vote, we should be good to just use it again” type of thing, I can understand why the VA members would be a bit upset and feel disrespected in not having the same courtesy applied with allowing them to have the same review and vote.