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  • I wonder if talent agencies have something to do with that.

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  • MS reputation when it comes to gaming ain’t that bad.

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    We should be applauding that they no longer lock their games to a single platform (despite fanboys crying over it). That’s true, but you were wondering why PS5 would be selling better, and it’s definitely one of the factors, because why would you buy Series X when for the same price you get PS5 that runs all of MS games and all of Sony games. GP pricing increased but it’s still great value for the money and the best deal around. That depends on how often you play and how many games, and how many of those games are on GP. I have time for maybe one game a month and buying that one game on sale is usually cheaper. Epic’s free games promotions are also a much better deal value wise. If you’ve been getting them since the beginning by now you would have the library of around the same size as game pass. And at least those games are not getting regularly deleted from your account, like what happens with GP when they phase out some games. Their main franchises get new entries consistently and there’s been new IP too in the meantime (Indiana Jones is a joy). Mostly Forzas got new releases consistently, not the other ones, and there is tons of stuff they bought and never did anything with: no Banjo games, no Conker, no Mechwarriors for many years (until they finally licensed the rights), no Black and White, 16 years since Fable III… Neither Sony nor Valve are doing that great with their own IPs either, but at least Nintendo shows that it could have been done much much better. I think they ran out of publishers that wanted to participate in backwards compatibility program but I’d be surprised if ActiBlizz cat join it sooner or later. There are still some really disappointing omissions, like older Forza titles, Front Software games like Armored Core, all Tony Hawk games (I wonder if we should wait for them to be added with Activision at MS), and it was also upsetting that the enhancement program ended with just a few titles getting it and a lot of the rest are still 720p and/or 30fps Honestly, what are the titles that Sony released in the past 5 years that aren’t sequels or remakes? I’m super confused how Sony is getting away with this. Astrobot is great, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon is pretty new as well, even if the first game is older than 5 years now. And they’ve tried with Days Gone and Returnal. And I guess Concord, but we don’t talk about that. As to Valve. Why is Microsoft stopping physical sales bad but it’s ok when Valve does it? Valve killed physical sales for the entire platform. Valve just had a better store, they didn’t really push anyone out. I’ve also resisted getting steam for longest time (I remember buying Humble Bundles and giving away steam keys because I was against steam and the end of ownership it represented), but in the distopian future we live in there is no choice left. I had an xbox because I could still buy disks for it, but now they want to kill even that. Once they got a monopoly sales with deep discounts ended. What are you talking about? We are in the middle of Summer Sale, I just bought like 10 games. Can you really trust Valve with backwards compatibility and long term support over Microsoft? You can mod games that you buy from Steam, even if they are broken for new systems there is usually a way to run them with community patches, you can’t do that with Microsoft stuff, even on PC you can’t apply modifications to a Game Pass game. I can still play games that I’ve got before they were delisted, like Dirt 2, on my new PC or on Steam Deck, but there is no way to play, for example, Forza 4 on the new Xbox. One has a history of abandoning stuff when they no longer find it profitable, the other is probably best in class still. Is valve the first one? What did they abandon in this way though, besides dead multiplayer games? When I moved from PS4 to XSX it was because I could sell my physical copies, something not possible on PC. End goal for Valve seems to be Android for games where they exert power over some Linux based platform with their app store - that’s no good for any of us. Valve still releases their updates as open source, and Steam is available in other Linux distributions besides SteamOS. And even SteamOS has the full desktop mode that is not locked to only running apps from their own store. So far their goal seems to be to free games from Windows monopoly rather than establish dominance in OS world. And that’s without addressing elephant in the room that Valve is no different if not worse than EA when it comes to gambling. That’s an overstatement to say worse than EA, at least it’s only cosmetic items and largely contained within CS and Team Fortress I don’t have favourites and use what I think is best for me at a given time. I’m deeply confused with what other gamers are choosing for themselves. The biggest problem with MS is how confusing and inconsistent they are, they don’t know what they are doing so we don’t know what we are supporting with our money. Just look what XBOne went through in one generation: from TV box with Picture in Picture support and mandatory Kinect voice control and Mixer streaming platform to a bare minimum game console with a subscription that is basically Netflix for games. Focus on buying studios one day and closing them the next day. Pretty consistent bad treatment of the studios and ips that they buy in general, and even if in some years developers say MS was running their studios well, MS shifts focus to often, so even if they are good today there will always be a big chance that tomorrow they’ll switch to cloud/AI/GamePass-only or whatever will be the next crazy thing.
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    It's kinda funny you mention all those points to me, when I've been gaming on Linux for about 3 years now. I play on steam, use heroic for gog games, play a lot of modded D2.... All in Linux. Saying that Microsoft treats backwards compatibility and support when they are forcing everyone to either pay for win10 support or join the win11 spyware mafia is a ludicrous statement btw. Games with kernel-level anticheat do work on Linux, if the anticheat provider has done the work. Right now, most don't and actively stopped supporting Linux so saying that won't work ever is kind of a stretch. "Isn't good enough to replace windows" - here I am playing Modded games, path of exile, ffxiv, other FF games, cyberpunk, all PC monster Hunter games.... Your statement is false. I see nothing wrong with using a compatibility layer, it does the work of retrocompatibility alongside separating game environments, which is good for security.
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    inlandempire@jlai.luI
    Thank you!!
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    Doesn't sonic 4 suck 10 tons of bloated baked ass
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    They also point out that more than 50 percent of Helldivers' revenue came from microtransactions now. Again, you're all ruining it for the rest of us, please stop. They also confirm they will conitnue to milk that and "maximize revenue". The thing is, Helldivers is priced, delivered and supported in such a way that it's worth spending that money on. In Helldivers 2 it is possible to earn premium currency simply by playing the game, and at a fairly reasonable rate. You can basically grind out every bit of content in the game if you want. And even without any of that "premium" content, you get a huge library of weapons, cosmetics and strategems to play with, many of which are better than the premium stuff. Plus the warbonds are very fair compared to how most games price extra content. In a world where you can easily spend twenty dollars or more on a skin, here's what a typical warbond - priced at $10 - includes; Two or three full cosmetic sets An emote or victory animation Three primary weapons A secondary weapon A grenade A booster (special power for the squad, not an XP booster; Helldivers does not have any form of XP booster, everyone grinds at the same rate) Enough premium currency to cover 30% of your next warbond (Newer warbonds have gotten a little slimmer in terms of weapons and skins, but now tend to include new strategems as well; it's a slight downgrade in terms of bang for your buck, but still very good compared to the industry averages) On top of that, the game itself is very reasonably priced, incredibly fun, and constantly getting exciting new story content. Which means you buy this thing, enjoy the hell out of it, and end up thinking "Man, I've still got this money left over that I would have spent on a full price game, why not spend it on some cool shit? Look at all the cool stuff I could get for just ten dollars and I'm still coming in at way less than the price of a new Battlefield game." That's how it should be. That kind of behaviour from a developer should be rewarded. Arrowhead are doing pretty much everything right when it comes to crafting a brilliant product and treating the fans of that product with respect. We can't stop Sony learning the wrong lessons from that, but if good games don't succeed they certainly won't ever learn the right ones.
  • Bungie delays Marathon after alpha test feedback

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    I really liked the art style, but for some reason a lot of recent games with that cell shaded style seem to think that they need to set the contrast to be negative and washout all the colors, which is almost the entire appeal of the art style. Zelda did it too, and I disliked it in that game too. Shame it was called Marathon though. Game had absolutely nothing to do with Marathon, and didn't even feature the Phor. Also shame it was a dead genre that the only people that like that genre play Tarkov and literally nothing else.
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    if it's like psp and has separate library from the home consoles I think we are past that era. I'd like to see more steam deck like handhelds but with some other innovative kb/m input if not track pads. If sony were to make one the vendor lock in would take away from the appeal greatly though and modern console devs can barely target one graphics level.
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    misk@sopuli.xyzM
    I’m both dumber and smarter than anyone realises. Saying things that lead to „told you so” is like going through motions now.
  • Nintendo's Crackdown On Switch 2 Piracy Has Already Begun

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    I've heard that they're absolutely being bricked
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    so everybody literally HAS to use thopters. Which is pretty realistic for the setting but doesn't sound very fun for PVP.
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    ? Did you play either of them because it sounds like you haven't and are claiming things you know nothing about. I was lucky enough to play Everywhere and I have been playing Mindseye (almost completed the story) Everywhere is in Mindseye, once you get to a certain point you can enter "build mode" which is what Everywhere was. You are able to build either in the open world of Mindseye or go into empty "Arks" (worlds) and build from scratch.
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    Especially when they just did another new update for NMS like last week or something? Hello Games is just trying to avoid a repeat of the NMS launch
  • An Update From Dark0ne (Nexus Mods has been sold)

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    haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.comH
    I'm used to imperfection. I just overlook it once I recognize it. I personally didnt like the whole book "nr 5". Generally the whole rape, child molestation and such theme was not for me. But all in all, I really like the theme otherwise. One of the most fleshed out stories I've encountered in years.
  • WANDERBURG Reveal Trailer

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  • Xbox's handhelds have Valve in their sights, not Nintendo | Opinion

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    Do you want copilot to clear this level for you? Only $4.99
  • When will the next "E.T." moment happen in the industry?

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    The GAAS crashouts are the modern equivalent. Shareholders were sold the idea of "our own Fortnite! Infinite money forever!". What they got was Concord. Anthem. Marathon. There'll still be cash-grab GAAS out there, but eventually investors are going to put it together that it's not a safe gamble. But unlike the ET "moment", video games as an industry, product, and art medium are here to stay. Making the things is too accessible now for the entire concept to ever be at risk again. The ET moment didn't just threaten Atari, it threatened the concept of home consoles. Trying to imagine a single steaming pile of shit or even industry trend "threatening video games" now is like imagining a movie so bad that it kills cinema. Even if every single shareholder-backed games studio got rugpulled tomorrow, there are plenty of other studios out there to pick up the slack.
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    That's the thing they can't force a psn account if they allow any country to buy that game, I believe psn itself isn't available in all countries