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Re: New Metro Game in the Works |
Aug 15, 2019, 18:20 |
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Metro Exodus is a good game. Best of the series for me.
I love how anything EGS related has us talking about stores and business decisions rather than games.
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Re: etc. |
Aug 12, 2019, 18:51 |
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I was one of the few on board with stadia. I'm OK not owning a game - I tend to play them once, or spend 10 or so hours on a big 60 hour open world game, and put it on the shelf for the next couple years feeling guilty about not getting my money's worth out of it. I have 1000s of unplayed games. A good streaming service that caters to my adhd letting me sample all of the games I want as my attention wavers would be killer.
And latency isn't a huge issue for most of the games I play as well.
Then they announced pricing. You are buying the games but not owning them. One free game a month... just like Epic gives me now, or pay 10$ a month on steam to find something good on sale for a nearly equivalent value. Well, less in that you can't download the games and play them offline/mod them etc. So it solves none of my problems with the current gaming markets.
Origin access just gets you discounts.
Uplay+ is the closest to what I would want but the library isn't quite there. I buy one or two ubisoft games a year. Let's call that 120$ (I usually buy them on sale but just for comparison). That's 10$ a year which is cheaper than the uplay+ subscription.
Nope. I don't think the economics here are going to make sense anytime soon for a large amount of disruption. |
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| News Comments > Morning Metaverse |
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Re: Morning Metaverse |
Aug 12, 2019, 18:38 |
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Netflix deal killed the Confederate project? Nah, that project was dead in the water. After the fallout of confederate and the rushed GOT ending, they were going door to door trying to find anyone with enough pity or lacking in discretion to fund more projects.
Good thing for them Netflix is still handing out money! |
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Re: etc. |
Aug 5, 2019, 16:42 |
saluk |
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"Something like 3 percent of gamers will be [clinically] addicted and won’t be able to control it."
What a dangerous epidemic! |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Aug 5, 2019, 16:37 |
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jacobvandy wrote on Aug 4, 2019, 21:57:
Creston wrote on Aug 4, 2019, 21:15:
Every game on this list is like three + years old. Sparse summer for PC gaming.
Meanwhile, I've spent like $300 on new Switch games this past month.
Switch is killing it lately. |
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| News Comments > Wolfenstein: Youngblood Review Roundup |
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Re: Wolfenstein: Youngblood Review Roundup |
Jul 25, 2019, 12:56 |
saluk |
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This sounds exactly like the kind of fun buddy game that they have never quite made enough of. Unfortunately my coop friend and I don't hang out enough for it to be worth it.
(Cue modern society rant) |
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| News Comments > Amazon Making The Lord of the Rings MMOG |
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Re: Amazon Making The Lord of the Rings MMOG |
Jul 10, 2019, 18:41 |
saluk |
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I still play lotro. We don't need another f2p lord of the rings mmo that's based on the books. Having it be more like the films would have at least differentiated it.
And yeah, mmos are a bit old school these days. |
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| News Comments > The Walking Dead Definitive Series in September on Epic Games Store |
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Re: The Walking Dead Definitive Series in September on Epic Games Store |
Jul 1, 2019, 14:42 |
saluk |
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Creston wrote on Jul 1, 2019, 13:54:
I don't think you can buy the individual seasons anywhere anymore, so it's good to see a combined edition being available. Sucks that it has to be exclusive, but apparently that's going to be the future of PC gaming, so what the fuck ever.
It seems a bit... I dunno, strange, that they can backport those visual upgrades to the 3 previous seasons that quickly? It would seem that that's a lot of work.
Eh. Step 1: update engine version. Step 2: fix bugs. Step 3: update assets (mostly replacing character models, which probably can retarget to the old skeletal meshes if the skeletal meshes even changed in the newer version) Step 4: fix bugs.
Most of the hard work will have been exactly the same on the first game vs the other two games as well, so once they had a workflow to convert 1 game, the other 2 upgrades would go even smoother.
Doing all of this in about 6 months (though they may have started before episode 4 was launched even) seems reasonable. |
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| News Comments > Developers Prefer Piracy to G2A |
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Re: Developers Prefer Piracy to G2A |
Jul 1, 2019, 14:35 |
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The easiest key fraud is "hey dev, I want to review your game, please send me a key".
Dev generates a key for the "reviewer" (for no $), reviewer sells key to reseller (or the scam is being run by a reseller itself). Scammers generate these requests in high enough numbers and with enough variation to collect a profitable amount of keys.
If you can phish for a credit card number you can phish for a key.
Obviously that's not going to work for every dev. Most of the ones who are coming out against G2A I would expect to vet their key requests, or use one of the systems that have cropped up to make key transfer more secure. (Heck, iirc, Rami developed one of these tools)
But if this easy, but not super successful fraud exists, it's reasonable for me to believe that harder to detect fraud is also going on. It seems that even well rated sellers on g2a tend to have a few downvotes saying a key didn't work. Maybe a stolen credit card chargeback or someone trying to activate a code for the wrong country? Maybe the key's original owner got their account banned from other illegitimate behavior. Maybe they got the key from a list somewhere, and it was already activated. |
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Jun 26, 2019, 20:27 |
saluk |
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Studios treat QA like monkeys with typewriters.
Games get buggier every year.
I see no correlation. |
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| News Comments > Tim Sweeney on EGS' Impact |
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Re: Tim Sweeney on EGS' Impact |
Jun 26, 2019, 16:57 |
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Simon Says wrote on Jun 26, 2019, 15:49:
RedEye9 wrote on Jun 26, 2019, 15:11:
Competition is good for the industry including consumers like us.
Where is that competition from EGS? Where is it right now?
And it's not like there's not already tons of other stores already. Uplay, Origin, Battlenet, Itch.io, GOG, Windows store etc.
What's the only special thing about EGS compared to the others? They bribe for exclusives, that's it... Exclusives have nothing to do with competition, it's the opposite of competition.
This argument makes zero sense and it never will.
His argument about the cut of the sales isn't either, for the reasons outlined in my previous comment's linked video in this thread which I guess I'll link again in case anyone missed it:
The Epic Narrative - The Mortiel Fallacy: May 9, 2019
grudgebearer wrote on Jun 26, 2019, 15:45:
What demonstrable benefits are consumers receiving from EGS exclusivity?
None, zero, nada, zilch. Quite the opposite, it only had negative impacts.
Metro Exodus launched at 50$ instead of 60$. I got Oxenfree for free and had never heard of it - had a good time. Heavy Rain is on pc for a reasonable price for a rerelease for an old game (although who knows if, minus epic, this would have happened anyway)
Those are the tangible things I can think of for now. |
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Jun 17, 2019, 17:05 |
saluk |
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| I liked blade runner, but don't remember much. I think it was a bit short? But had kind of a branching narrative so you could replay it. Definitely notable for its time but not really worth replaying haha. |
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| News Comments > It Came from E3 2019, Part 4 |
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Re: It Came from E3 2019, Part 4 |
Jun 13, 2019, 17:09 |
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ForgedReality wrote on Jun 13, 2019, 10:48:
Can anyone tell me why The Onion is still a thing? Does anybody have the time to read dumb fake articles? What is the appeal? What's the fucking point?
I kind of agree. I thought it was funny when it started, but with so many fake articles going around it just adds more noise. |
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