sounds like the dude needs a holiday

When I saw the headline I was confused because I have only just heard of it this week coming to steam in May. i.e., it hasnt been released yet, why complain about sales. Then I learnt it was a playstation exclusive and lost a lot of sympathy. Then I watched a few reviews which were all medium to bad... That means lower initial sales, but you can catch up with good dev support, discounts and good PR, Product Sales 101. Im sure he worked his butt off, and I wish always that hard work meant good rewards. I understand the stress but he is now sabotaging future chances for the product to succeed, and himself. Who would hire/work with a guy who does this.
With the game launching on PC soon, a proven huge marketplace, why would any sane person create some more bad P.R. If he actually believed in the product, stand by it. Promote it like launch day. hell, pay a youtuber or 2 to do a lets play, add some more content for a directors cut etc. do interviews complementing your team and your customers who did buy it on playstation etc, promote what has been fixed since launch day that means it is now better than initial reviews. If it is a good product, on PC he could sell millions of copies, more than the sales on playstation potentially.

going to wait for full release.. but for me same as with bg1 and 2, go dedicated wizard first playthough.

There is a "trick" to extend your pc game pass at the current low price.
Just turn off recurring subscription payment, then rejoin the game pass again, it will be charged at the lower price and extend your time by another month.
Rinse repeat.
I believe you can do this for up to 3 years.

If you have a family of gamers and multiple pcs, set up the ms family system, which will allow you to simultaneously play games from the game pass on other devices at the same time.
I have been playing heaps of multiplayer games with the family (aoe2, grounded, fallout76) all on my first month $1 trial.

Awesome! last one was awesome, Cried during the trump scene.

so game makers making millions from cheaters?
could that be a real strategy?

I feel like I need a refund on my time wasted.

thought "fine, Ill give it a go" just to be curious..

Stadia isn't available in your country yet

well then, it aint ready

while im optimistic this wont be the end of everything, I was watching people say on tv that it will likely go away in the summer. "whose summer"? we dont live on a flat earth. It's summer in Australia and we are getting more and more cases now. Does that mean its going to get worse for us over the next few months by that logic. It blows my mind that anyone would say that when it comes to global issues.

That's lower than i expected. With EA making a billion dollars just on micro transactions this year, I feel a bit unhappy about the situation.

Exciting. Good luck to Larian as there is no way to keep everyone happy.
My first playthrough of bg2 was coop so that's my hope for the game.

There is also a lot of motion capture so it seems more than dos2 standard engine stuff, unless its just for cut scenes. Hoping for something more than a dos2 clone.

I am actually amazed it took this long to come. When kotor came out, I was fully expecting bg3 with a similar look and everyone was buzzing that this was the way to go for rpgs now. Mass effect proved the concept, dragon age etc. I personally dont need the top down, turn based look and feel of the previous games, or the newer dos games. Story and immersion are my needs.
Id be happy with a first person skyrim open world go at it.

good luck everyone!

afraid to say Epic store for CIG makes sense in terms of wringing out every dollar. Cig already have their very successful store. Epic would give more exposure and they seem happy to allow other stores as long as its not steam. Then on steam as another launch. I dont like it, but it makes sense.

I can kinda see a damages argument for Crytek as CIG has been quite open about the amount of rewriting they had to do to try to fit the ever evolving game into it. There are a lot of youtube cig videos with the programmers mentioning they had to rewrite most of the coding to do what they needed. Eventually changing engine to lumberyard to fulfill the job, and I sense they wished they started with something else. That is CIGs fault as the engine was likely fine for its very initial idea of a wing commander space sim. If you are a developer you would at least start second guessing using the crytek engine after that, especially with the pressure epic is making. True or not that is a bit of PR damage.
Crytek cant compete at the moment on its engines, and have lost most of its talented peoples to other companies. They dumped a lot of their studios and are in freefall until they can get their name back. Star citizen was supposed to do it for them.

I think the fact that the lumberyard engine exists does show how bad a state the cryengine is in. Amazons Lumberyard website mentions nothing of crytek. Lumberyard is a heavy rewrite of the cryengine with crytek licence but gives away for free*(but have to use amazons web services) . and any mention of lumberyard in the crytek forums is removed immediately.

Panic stations at crytek.



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Im assuming this is the cap per instance. 60 ships in one space battle sounds pretty awesome if the netcode stands up. Elite dangerous I believe is half that and gets chaotic and laggy when close to that number.

RE: Disco, loving it but its not for everyone. I feel its more of a point and click heavy story adventure with dice roll rpg elements to spice up things.

played about 10 hours of disco and im really enjoying it. It is definitely not an action game, more like an old style point and click adventure game that has added rpg dice roll/number elements to spice things up. Just what I needed anyway.

HorrorScope wrote on Sep 19, 2019, 21:41:
Be careful what you wish for here, laws like this have a way of turning out bad. For example this could rush in Game Streaming, since the alternative is this law that probably breaks business plans. Laws with good intentions have this happen to them. I don't feel the deal we have currently has been a bad one.

bingo!
consequence
a rise of streaming, or pure subscription services, or a large rise in the price of games, and alot less game sales.

this would be interesting, if resell applyed to all of these digital platforms.

music, movies, apps, mobile games, nintendo store, windows os?, and every other gaming store of course.

They cant have one law for just the company valve/steam alone.

Most mmos allow multiple characters in one account without loosing my previous character. (especially paid mmo's) This is one thing i wish for elite. There is no way im deleting my current save to check out the new starting experience.

ive only played ss2 co-op, and it was awesome awesome awesome. One of my big favs.

wow, someone was having a moody day on the job. Likely met 'people' online, and it wasn't pleasant.