In the winter seasons from 2013/14 to 2016/17, an estimated average of 5,290,000 ILI cases occurred in Italy, corresponding to an incidence of 9%

More than 68,000 deaths attributable to flu epidemics were estimated in the study period.

MrBone wrote on Mar 28, 2020, 09:11:

RedEye9 wrote on Mar 28, 2020, 00:01:

jdreyer wrote on Mar 27, 2020, 23:48:
Google Bans Infowars Android App Over Coronavirus Claims.

Same as the flu, amirite?

People who believe Covid19 is the same as the flu also believe their head is the same as their ass.
NY ICU doctor clandestine footage of the crowded hospital.

Dr. RedEye9, I presume. This video must be all lies, then? If so, someone should sue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mQheJGGOvw

Luke wrote on Mar 27, 2020, 11:39:
Well Mr Gabe you sold a game with the promise of a 3 ep experience.....that did not go well , still missing ep3 ....then you go on making a vr only game after how many years ?..

Some sheep's fall for it , but the scam ya made with the ep of half life 2 stays .

The_Pink_Tiger wrote on Mar 26, 2020, 19:39:

Valve said "Fuck you Vivendi, we don't want to pay your outrageous cut of the profits, we deserve the right to self-publish", and they won, and everyone cheered. Now other companies have said: "Fuck you Valve, we don't want to pay your outrageous cut of the profits, we deserve the right to self-publish." And everybody booed.

Actually, the part most people boo'd at was when the Epic said, "You can sell on our store but you can't sell it on Steam. Even if you promised your customers that you would. Even if you already took money saying that you'd do that." That's the part that got most people angry.

It's not the selling on Epic that upsets people, it's the exclusivity. Take a game like Subnautica; available on Steam but also available on EGS. Nobody is upset about that. But if they'd made it exclusive to one platform, that deserves some disdain. Especially if the platform has a significantly smaller audience and offers less features. PC gamers don't like exclusives. This preference of PC gamers was made quite obvious when EA did with Origin, so it shouldn't have surprised Epic when they followed suit.

It is true that I don't like the Epic Game Store. But this is not because I'm a "Steam fanboy"; in fact, in the beginning I was supportive of Epic's move because I agree that to some degree Valve has become complacent and needs shaking up. But I - and many others - do not like the methods Epic has chosen, and to disregard this concerns as simply "fanboyism" seems a willful blindness at best.

Quinn wrote on Mar 26, 2020, 10:52:

Beamer wrote on Mar 26, 2020, 08:34:

Quinn wrote on Mar 26, 2020, 03:18:

Razumen wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 23:51:

Drayth wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 23:26:

Razumen wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 22:41:

jdreyer wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 21:36:

Razumen wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 21:33:

Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 19:24:
BULLSHIT! Physical copy's are down proving that DOOM is a failure. If there counting digital sales they are cheating and lying

Ok boomer.

Check the ol' satire detector there.

Eh, too hard to tell on this site, and there wasn't anything particularly satirical about his post anyways.

Till you realize all his posts are satirical.

Just saying something is satire doesn't make it satire.
I can write all my posts as negations and call them jokes, but they wouldn't be.

It's this "Poe's Law" people like RedEye get excited about everytime Riah-etc posts something. I made the case earlier that that just doesn't work in online communities, because stupidity knows no bounds in this area.

As for Doom Eternal: biggest waste of money for me this year so far. I've literally had more fun playing Niffelheim, which cost me 2 bucks. Doom Eternal makes me think of Jedi Fallen Order somehow -- with that game, too, I expected a cool action game that had me slice through unfortunate stormtroopers, mechanics and creatures but instead I got this every-battle-demands-your-best-effort labor. Oh, and the flamethrower reminds me of those YT videos where someone holds a lighter at their asshole when they fart.
Fuck me I hate Doom Eternal.
Sales figures mean fuck all these days.

When have sales figures ever not meant fuck all?

Anyway, the core combat loop of this game is the same as the original, so I'm still loving it. Literally every thing they added to it is bad, except for the ability to meaningfully replay levels (which really should have been there in the original), but everything else is detrimental.

Since the core is so much fun, I'm still loving the combat. Though I also find this much, much, much easier than the original. Just beat the first boss, and did it without sweating. I'm not on Nightmare, one down from it, but it shouldn't have been that easy. Nearly everything is that easy. You only die if you accidentally run into something very large.

I played Ultra-Violence or something, you too? I died quite a lot actually, but not before where you seem to be right now. I wonder what your thoughts will be later into the game.

As for your initial question: I guess sales mattered when the majority of the development budget (pardon the hyperbole I guess) wasn't spent on marketing.

Razumen wrote on Mar 26, 2020, 10:09:

bigspender wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 23:48:
I thought they were doing invasions (like dark souls) where other players can screw with your campaign by controlling the heavy demons. And for some reason I thought it would have coop thru the story mode. And no mods sucks.

I believe they're adding invasion mode after release, and mods are something they want to do in the future, that's specifically why they removed megatextures for DE. I think it'll happen eventually, the tools looked pretty cool from what we've seen in the developer reports.

Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 26, 2020, 08:40:

Beamer wrote on Mar 26, 2020, 08:31:
$1200 hush advance of your tax return, but you may have to pay it all back and then some.

Exactly, Beamer. No "may" about it, eventually we will pay for it. So, much for those worries about socialism, eh? Not a problem when the money is for the corporations.

Quinn wrote on Mar 26, 2020, 03:18:

Razumen wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 23:51:

Drayth wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 23:26:

Razumen wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 22:41:

jdreyer wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 21:36:

Razumen wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 21:33:

Riahderymnmaddog wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 19:24:
BULLSHIT! Physical copy's are down proving that DOOM is a failure. If there counting digital sales they are cheating and lying

Ok boomer.

Check the ol' satire detector there.

Eh, too hard to tell on this site, and there wasn't anything particularly satirical about his post anyways.

Till you realize all his posts are satirical.

Just saying something is satire doesn't make it satire.
I can write all my posts as negations and call them jokes, but they wouldn't be.

It's this "Poe's Law" people like RedEye get excited about everytime Riah-etc posts something. I made the case earlier that that just doesn't work in online communities, because stupidity knows no bounds in this area.

As for Doom Eternal: biggest waste of money for me this year so far. I've literally had more fun playing Niffelheim, which cost me 2 bucks. Doom Eternal makes me think of Jedi Fallen Order somehow -- with that game, too, I expected a cool action game that had me slice through unfortunate stormtroopers, mechanics and creatures but instead I got this every-battle-demands-your-best-effort labor. Oh, and the flamethrower reminds me of those YT videos where someone holds a lighter at their asshole when they fart.
Fuck me I hate Doom Eternal.
Sales figures mean fuck all these days.

RedEye9 wrote on Mar 26, 2020, 08:06:

Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 26, 2020, 07:56:
Yeah, 4.2 trillion for the Treasury to basically give to businesses as they please... It is a total scam job. And if passed will be exposed as such in the years to come, without consequence to anyone except the tax payers.

It passed the Senate and should fly through the House. Now take your $1200 hush money and keep quiet. If the truth gets out nothing will change.

Cram wrote on Mar 23, 2020, 15:43:
I would be very interested (or maybe not) to know if the console version was dumbed down difficulty wise. Not, because if it's the same game and people are destroying it with a controller...well then I really do suck.

I have absolutely no idea how you could play this game on a controller, not referring just to the platforming. How the hell do you fight a Marauder on a controller, never mind one that's surrounded by an army of demons. As others said, tons of systems and chaos.

bhcompy wrote on Mar 25, 2020, 01:42:

Sepharo wrote on Mar 24, 2020, 16:39:
He couched it as an experiment, but he believes he knows the outcome already.

They always think they do. People designing user experiences always believe that their way is the best because of some study or some experience or some focus group. That said, there's always novel approaches to handling things, which is why modding is great, because Valve is just one very small group of people and they can't have every idea.

Mr. Tact wrote on Mar 24, 2020, 21:24:
So, is this good news or bad news? The Dow had its fifth greatest percentage gain today. The four days which were higher ... were all during the depression...

Xero wrote on Mar 24, 2020, 17:44:
Looks like it was made in 2013... Nothing to see here. Move along folks.

Armengar wrote on Mar 24, 2020, 03:17:
Zoom had plenty of 502 errors too. Lots of remote working going on.

Caslon wrote on Mar 24, 2020, 02:11:
From a hater of modern FPS's with their hand holding console annoyances to the overly bright color pallets to the constant platform jumping, I wonder if any FPS game from now on will hold back all the modern advancements in video cards and programming and make an FPS game that doesn't look as if you took too much niacin before going to sleep and having a wild dream side effect, lol. Time marches on so, I guess not. These new technologically enhanced games are obligated to saturate each frame as well make you go buy the latest video card. It's almost as if they are obligated to overdo it only because the latest "immersion" advancements allow for it. Doing anything less would underutilize what you pay $59.00 a game for and $375 every two years for the latest card. So be it, I guess.