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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

Badum tis.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

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I’ll just leave this here.

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

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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.

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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.

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And while it’s a good thing that this asshat is gone, I’m sure he’ll be running another company soon enough and spreading his cancer and bad practices elsewhere very soon as a CEO at some other company.

Plus you know that he’s not the only cause of this at the company and his underlings that are just as cancerous with their bullshit are still there.

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While sending your password in plaintext over email is very much a bad idea and a very bad practice, it doesn’t mean they store your password in their database as plaintext.

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That’s some bullshit there in adding DRM after the fact and should be ground for a refund.

Stuff like this makes me glad I’m more of a patient gamer.

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I’ve got a steam deck and a host of other steam deck competitors that do that and more now.

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I mean it should and they didn’t set a new standard, they just brought back a old standard of having a developer and publisher actually giving a fuck about making a good, complete game.

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I mean nice but honestly I’m not all that excited about it right now without seeing some actual specs besides it’ll have a LCD screen an ‘larger’ internal storage.

Notwithstanding but the switch 2 will have significant competition the steam deck and its competitors along with the fact that Microsoft and Sony are releasing their first party games on PC, Nintendo’s first party exclusives just aren’t as big of a draw for me anymore.

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Same but still not going to pre-order.