Flash sales were stopped due to the refund policy, people would buy 50% off then it goes on a flash sale 85% off, so people refund the 50% and buy at 85% off.

That is the only reason.

I have to think we all know this here by now, but you see the usual suspects just repeat the same thing about the Steams Sales exactly twice a year.

I liked the Flash Sales to, the downside was missing on something you wanted because you were working or busy, so in that case it did you no good and gave you a bit of a slap in the face and yes we complained that was unfair. So go figure.

HorrorScope wrote on May 24, 2017, 21:06:

Saboth wrote on May 24, 2017, 20:29:
"Much larger than its highly-awarded predecessor, Divinity: Original Sin"

The first one was pretty darn huge, and this one is bigger? Awesome game. Very few complaints except by the end, I felt like the same combos over and over were most effective (unless an enemy had resistances).

To me that is what I've found to be the problem with long games, you figure it out and it is rinse and repeat for too long. I won't bash this game because of it, just sort of a state of gaming issue to me in general. Yes first was good, but still plenty of places to improve on, hopefully they take a nice step forward here.

I like the new theme. The jungle themes just didn't do it for me in the previous games.

Nice PR text, but it has nothing to do with what they write. They are simply trying to shut down the reseller market.

I'm such a pussy, I need to go back and finish it but there is not enough alcohol courage in the world to do this at the moment. I've been doing it bit by bit for the last 3 years. I need to close my eyes whenever the thing finds me, it's just too fucking real. And it's been a while since my wife did her last CPR refresh course, I'll time my next go for that. Or keep thinking of excuses. Fuck it, day off tomorrow, I'll try again tonight.

Zoom wrote on Apr 28, 2017, 04:04:
I am quite indifferent to be honest, if it wasnt for Bluesnews i would have never heard of her.
What's annoying though is the usual kneejerk reaction with ad hominem attacks, while no one ever addresses her arguments, which would be easy if they were so outlandish. Which makes me think that
- either gamer geeks are so sociopathic that they cant argue with a woman (quite possible honestly)
- or she does make a valid point and poeple resort to ad hominem as they're out of intelligent arguments
- or maybe a bit of both, who knows
PS: i only skimmed through a few of her videos, i dont care about the arguments themselves or what she says, i only am interested in the general gamer community reactions. Pretty unsurprising given what one can hear in an online game when someone gets identified as a woman..

Task wrote on Apr 11, 2017, 10:40:
The phrases "semi-MMO" and "Destiny-style" just turned this radar blip into an unimportant anomaly. If they can't do KoToR 3 properly without introducing a bunch of grinding casual filler, then my fucks to give are quickly running out when it comes to "BioWare" products. It being 'bigger' than Andromeda also is a poor selling point when all that amounts to is wastes of space and the trashy MMO quests that go with them.

Now - whatever Edmonton doing is doing in secret, that's the only Bioware thing I have left to be curious about.

another tidbit from the same podcast, discussing a new IP codenamed "Dylan"

Primalchrome wrote on Apr 5, 2017, 15:45:

Beamer wrote on Apr 5, 2017, 14:57:
I have nearly 400 hours in FTL

No sarcasm, genuinely curious... I probably put 50 hours into the original Rogue on the Tandy 1000. I've played a handful of roguelikes (FTL being one) over the years since and enjoy them for 5-10 hours each but can't imagine putting in over a hundred hours. What about FTL (or roguelikes) makes it fun doing the same things over and over? Is it the challenge to see just how many levels deep you can make it before you reset?

NetHead wrote on Apr 5, 2017, 12:54:

Primalchrome wrote on Apr 5, 2017, 11:36:
Re-Logic created one of the best games and dev models in modern gaming. Terraria has had regular content updates over the last 6 years that add content and levels of challenge. One of the biggest bangs for the buck out of all the titles in my library.

I couldn't think of anything that has as much "bang for buck" compared to Terraria and how for years they kept adding more and more for free.

I remember thinking the only thing that could compete there would be some free game that would probably only compete purely because the price was 0, like Path of Exile lots of content and they keep adding. For a paid software products I can't think of anything that matches Terraria.



Then on the opposite side you have so much crap, like Obsidian Entertainment with Tyranny having just released a "Portrait Pack" costing $4 (could have picked up Terraria for that price) and all you get are 20 disappointing portraits totaling 3MB of data. Seriously, here's a sample of the crap you get as DLC, worse than Horse Armour. Nonsense even before considering how they love over charging for their games to begin with.

Beamer wrote on Mar 31, 2017, 13:51:

The Half Elf wrote on Mar 31, 2017, 10:24:
Haven't finished Witcher 3 yet (too many damn ?'s on the Skele Isles made me take a long break).

But Witcher goodness with some Shadowrun.... CD Projekt... please choose which kidney or other organ you'd like to have this game out in 2017.

Fortunately, by that point I was kind of very compulsive ? hunting, but the few I went for in the Skeles were not worthwhile, fully killing it.

I actually think that, for several reasons, exploring was significantly less rewarding in The Witcher than in the Bethesda games. But the writing was so massively better. Geralt was absolutely one of the most well defined and deep characters I've seen in a game, and everything was handled so well around him.