GothicWizard wrote on Jan 17, 2021, 16:17:
That expose was a equal mix of valid criticism and ignorant hate mongering. Especially the "fake" demo allegations.

This fake demo allegation is so ridiculous. It ruins all the trust you could have in these anonymous witnesses, and the objectivity of the journalist.

All the content of the E3 2018 demo is in the game, in a better form.

It's not the case of the Half-Life 2 E3 2003 demo where the AI was faked. By example, if you try to reproduce this in the game: https://youtu.be/yxYviVfwAHA?t=184 the enemy will open the door as usual, no matter how many objects are placed in front of it.

I am not criticizing Valve. That's the way it is for almost every game. It's the principle of most demos...To present this as outrageous is ignorance or bad faith.

He's a Laughing Man, but never of himself.

RedEye9 wrote on Jan 15, 2021, 10:13:
With freebies he gets absolutely zero, or 100% of free, whichever is nada.

"That's the joke."

eRe4s3r wrote on Jan 14, 2021, 23:26:
Does Blues gain anything when we use deh referal link to humble for a freebie?

Yes. 10%.

Ant wrote on Jan 14, 2021, 20:58:
I got annoyed when Steam had a free Sims 4 free weekend and it needed Origin too. Argh! I'm so glad I don't game like I used to. I miss the old days.

The good old days...
When you had to manually download 3-4 patches on GamesPlanet......
Then configure Gamespy or AllSeeingEye.........

Nope.

ColoradoHoudini wrote on Jan 9, 2021, 23:48:
how popular is this game these days?

It's not the CS killer that some people expected, but it's doing OK.

By example, it doesn't appear in this Top 10 Esports Games of 2020 by Total Winnings: https://esportsobserver.com/top10-games-2020-total-winnings/
You can also play with Google Trends to compare it with Apex: Legends, PUBG, etc.: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fg%2F11j8wvrz8z,%2Fg%2F11dxbkyrq3,%2Fg%2F11fs_hs9dd

Is it accurate? No Valorant?

jdreyer wrote on Dec 29, 2020, 18:08:
My son, brother, nephew, and I play L4D a lot. We'd love to play this, just not for $28 per person.

You will be very disappointed if you're looking for another L4D. It's very different - a lot more tactical. The rythme is at the opposite: a typical game last between 45min and 90min, and if you die you have to restart from the beginning.

Satoru wrote on Dec 26, 2020, 17:56:
> Over the course of approximately an hour, Epic Games sent more data than 514KB of data to some server(s) somewhere

Yes surely 514 KILOBYTES of data over the course of an hour is overheating your system. Are these people stupid or something? This is their 'verification'?

514KB. It's approximatively the size of the webpage you're currently reading.

Another interesting discovery is that the “EpicWebHelper” sent some data to the following URL:
tracking-website-prod07-epic-961842049.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com

It's just the URL of an AWS ELB. ELB stands for "elastic load balancer". It's a process hosted on Amazon cloud, which distributes the traffic across multiple targets, such as servers, IP addresses, etc. There are millions of internet services using ELB all around the world. So, why is it "interesting?"

These "experts" from hothardware.com are just random tech journalists. Their tests are ridiculous: they don't even know how to use the Windows PerfMeter to monitor the CPU usage of the EGS processes.

This kind of news is a perfect example of Fear Uncertainty and Doubt. It's a shame Bluesnews copy/paste it like this.

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt (often shortened to FUD) is a propaganda tactic used in sales, marketing, public relations, politics, polling and cults. FUD is generally a strategy to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information and a manifestation of the appeal to fear.

While the phrase dates to at least the early 20th century, the present common usage of disinformation related to software, hardware and technology industries generally appeared in the 1970s to describe disinformation in the computer hardware industry, and has since been used more broadly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty,_and_doubt

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MxxCon wrote on Dec 26, 2020, 22:50:
Wow..the elitist attitude of Epic defenders...The toxicity of the posts here....no wonder I tend not to post or read comments

Yes, me too. I never read the comment, and I will never post a single comment. Never!

It's not the number of players. It's the number of people connected to steam.

The record number of players is 8.1M (2020-Apr) : https://steamdb.info/app/753/graphs/

There's a mission where you fight inside a building. Does it answer your question?

Prez wrote on Oct 26, 2020, 02:50:
If you buy from Steam or Epic, you don't care what they do with your Oculus account. Right?

Of course. If you use your Oculus as a PC VR device, you dont care about the "risk" to see you FB account deleted. That's why it doesn't make sense to pretend it's a better idea to buy another PC VR device because of FB.

If you're scared about FB, just don't buy games on the Oculus shop. Stick with PC VR games on Steam and EGS. You will have a great device for only $300.

The number of people who pretends to be surprised...

Nobody wants to be associated with an Ubisoft product.

Click on the link if you want to know how this experience ended.

Spoiler: ppl start to upload videos of games full of cheaters. It makes the game looks bad. The developers shut down cheater island.

I bought it for $8 on EGS months ago.

It's a gamepad shooter with a lot of Fedex quests. Not a great game, but it's OK. I finished it in 25h.

@Kxmode: you may be interested into this site : https://quanticfoundry.com/

"We used established psychometric methods and data from over 450,000 gamers to develop an empirical model of gamer motivations."

Where are all the anti-sweeney trolls?