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sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Baldur's Gate 3's success is not about setting a new "standard"

Agreed. But I’d much rather sacrifice AAA features like mocap, voice acting, and RTX if it means a higher chance of playing a game with a lot of passion put in. Those are nice to have, but not the reason I pick a game.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 Revive Age-Old RPG Debate About Encumbrance - IGN

Not really. Some have space-based inventory instead of encumbrance, some have no limit, and some don’t have many items to pick up.

Weight-based inventory is relatively rare in my experience, though it’s very common for Bethesda games.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 Revive Age-Old RPG Debate About Encumbrance - IGN

I think it would be interesting to be able to hire a merchant NPC to loot for you. You’d lose a bit of the value (say, half), but the merchant would reinvest those profits to carry better items, and they’d give you a discount.

You’d have an incentive to look through the loot to take what you want, as well as an incentive to ignore the stuff you don’t. That way you get the immersiveness of an encumbrance system, without most of the tedium.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Baldur's Gate 3's success is not about setting a new "standard"

And that’s why I generally prefer indie games. Many indie games are made with passion, with money being down the list of priorities. AAA games are made with money first, though there is certainly passion as well, it’s just not the top on the list. As studios and budgets get bigger, so will their expectation of profits.

So if you want better games, buy from smaller studios. Show them that you value passion over high budget.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu (edited 2 lata temu) do games w Baldur's Gate 3's success is not about setting a new "standard"

What about a working game instead? They could just delay the launch until they’ve finished what would’ve gone into a day 1 patch before going gold.

If they did that, they could:

• start working on an expansion
• give the dev team vacation time as a celebration for going gold
• start work on the next game
• do a bunch of play testing to reduce the need for patches a year after launch (i.e. catch more bugs)

In other words, a studio shouldn’t go gold until their TODO list for launch day is done. That should be the standard, and it seems to be what BG3 did.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Cypher 007 Is A New James Bond Game That Hits Apple Arcade Later This Month

Yup, I don’t use Amazon Prime and still get free shipping, it just takes a couple days longer.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Denuvo and DRM punish the consumer, legendary PC developer says

I use Linux, and Steam just works better for me than GOG. I also switch between my Steam Deck and Linux desktop, and Steam just makes that seamless.

I like the idea of GOG, but Steam just works better in the service department.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Doom Eternal has Denuvo DRM removed

Cool, maybe I’ll play it now.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Denuvo and DRM punish the consumer, legendary PC developer says

Yeah, how about… no DRM and instead focus on making games people want to buy. It seems to work well for CD Projekt Red, and surely it would work for others as well.

Piracy is a service problem, not a price problem.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu (edited 2 lata temu) do games w Rockstar is selling Cracked Game Copies on Steam

I’m pretty sure they just don’t care. This was easy and made money.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w League of Legends spin-off director let go amid Riot Games layoffs

From the article:

Berbach remarks on his time with Riot, where he worked on the launch of its CSGO and Overwatch 2 rival, Valorant, as well as time with the League of Legends team before and during his position as game director for LoL Wild Rift.

So Wild Rift, a 5v5 MOBA on mobile.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Game Pass subscribers are snapping up Starfield’s $35 early access offer (extra on top of game pass)

What happens if you buy that and then cancel GamePass? Do you keep the game? Just the upgrade? Or do you lose everything? Do you get it back if you resubscribe?

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Smurfing is Not Welcome in Dota, Valve bans 90k smurf accounts

Hopefully that sends the right message to the rest.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay

The only one I really value is Digital Foundry. I like how they break down games technically and give insight on how to get the most out of them through settings and whatnot.

But outside of that, I generally trust user reviews more.

sugar_in_your_tea, 2 lata temu do games w Starfield Is Broken On Intel Arc GPUs, But Intel Is Working On A Fix

Yeah, a mix of both would be ideal. The fact that we’re surprised that Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 were solid on release is a problem, all AAA releases should have that level of quality at a minimum on release.

If games are consistently solid at release, I’d probably preorder like I used to. Now I wait and see because, more often than not, it’s a buggy mess the first few weeks.