spankmonkey

spankmonkey, 9 miesięcy temu

John Carter didn’t get that much attention either, and what it did was mostly about the leadership changes in Disney tanking the advertising and not about the movie itself.

spankmonkey, 9 miesięcy temu

That has more to do with New York having a thriving theater scene and a NY newpaper promoting a local thing that is popular with its readership and the companies that pay for advertising. It is something that sets NY apart from a lot of other locations, even if theater is pretty common in most areas.

Kind of a chicken and egg when it comes to games, since readers won’t be expecting games news in mainstream sources they don’t dedicate resources to writing the articles. That makes business sense because most people who are looking for game news already have a number of web sites to choose from.

spankmonkey, 9 miesięcy temu

My point is mostky about people’s expectations and that people who want news on games probably aren’t interested in gaming articles from papers/major news sites and companies in general aren’t looking to advertise on gaming articles in the same way that makers of fashion would want to advertise in the theater section.

I really like this post btw, I never really thought about how sparse reporting on games is outside of dedicated sites.

spankmonkey, 9 miesięcy temu

At one point I decided to get all the cars that I didn’t already have and used the auction house to get what was left. While i got most in under a week, there were still two cars that took a couple more weeks to find available even at 20 mil when checking twice a day.

Holy hell the interface is so terrible, and probably contributes to even more bots than if it was fairly straightforward to use. Car names aren’t consistent with the list of cars, there was no ‘cars not owned’ filter, and the nine buttons to place a bid plus the delay every time anything happened including being outbid made trying to get a deal nearly impossible.

spankmonkey, 9 miesięcy temu

Yup, streaks exist to encourage the feeling similar to a sunk cost, just like rewards programs.

spankmonkey, 10 miesięcy temu

It will benefit those that care and won’t negatively impact the experience for those that don’t.

Win, win.

spankmonkey, 10 miesięcy temu

Can’t even blame Blizzard, it’s the people who keep buying this shit that are actually the problem.

Blizzard is the problem because they are implementing the macrotransaction. The people who buy it are enablers but not the real problem.

spankmonkey, 10 miesięcy temu

“People who keep buying from McDonald’s despite an e coli outbreak are the real problem!”

spankmonkey, 10 miesięcy temu

Focusing too much on image detail improvements over game play is definitely a problem that most AAA games have.

spankmonkey, 10 miesięcy temu

It will be the same in 2050

spankmonkey, 10 miesięcy temu

Like most things, there are good and bad implementations and seeing it too frequently can make it become annoying. I love it for things like Alien/Predator style games that are using something from the movies, or maybe a Batman game if used in moderation.

It does get to be tedious when you can only interact with certain objects by using it first and that kind of game play can be annoying. No, I can’t think of an example off the top of my head but I’m certain I’ve run into that kind of thing before.

spankmonkey, 10 miesięcy temu

W H O O O O O O S S SS H H H H

spankmonkey, 11 miesięcy temu

It’s a win-win situation!

spankmonkey, 11 miesięcy temu

So funny story, people can waste a ton of money making something for way more than it should have cost.

spankmonkey, 11 miesięcy temu

Awesome!

spankmonkey, 11 miesięcy temu

I think console players are catching up on the massive difference between 30 FPS and 60+ FPS in first person games where the camera can move quickly. As TVs have improved along with the consoles, and some titles are able to be played at 60+ FPS, people are noticing the difference compared to newer titles that aim for 30 FPS as a trade off for detailed graphics and motion blur.

Plus performance mode reduces the number of times a game might stutter or have short periods of time where the frames have a massive drop compared to their normal rate.