It’s been since 2009 or so for me (STALKER Clear Skies release), but back then, there was no way to go through Steam. No phone number, nothing. My purchase of STALKER simply wouldn’t let me activate the game due to a DRM error on the publisher/developer’s part, but no one would answer me. DeepSilver, waited a week+…

I don’t think so. It NEEDS to be updated the way they did 2 and 3 so that you can play 1,2,3 along with Code: Veronica in the same style/engine.

For all the hate it gets, I loved playing 5 even as a single player on 360. That said, I want RE1 and Code Veronica before a remake of 5.

Some people like the campaigns. They need to stop remaking the same 5 campaigns over and over again. BlackOps started out FANTASTIC. I loved the real world conspiracy and alternate history stuff. Interesting and fun to play. Then they just kind of shit the bed after that.

Activision really needs to get their shit under control. 100+GB is ludicrous for a console game install out of the box. They need to learn about compression. I know it’s apples to oranges, but if Nintendo can get ToTK under 16GB, then Activision can get CoD under 50GB.

I’m 42. I worked @ EB/GameStop from 1998-2002. N64 was a HUGE seller, games wise.

“Every time”? N64 was a pretty big success, The GameCube was a bit of a failure, the Wii was a MASSIVE success, the WiiU was a failure, the Switch was a MASSIVE success. Every handheld they’ve released has become a huge success, even if not right away.

But if you sell your stuff through the developer/Epic/whoever, you still get paid. Honestly, IDGAF who gets the whatever percent as long as I get what I was going to get no matter what. If the number is, say, 3%, then why do I care where my $0.30 on a $10 skin sale goes to? If I’m getting $9.70 from eBay, Epic, Venmo,…

Except no one’s paying them any more than they were yesterday, low end jobs are being automated, creative jobs are attempted to be done with AI, and the price of things keeps going up and up.

I mean, SOMEONE is always profiting off of these. Whether it’s eBay, Paypall, Zelle, Venmo, whoever. If you’re going to be selling them, why shouldn’t the dev be the one making the profit vs some 3rd party company that has nothing to do with it?

Plus, the game was an unknown gamble back then, too. The video game voice acing ‘industry’ was in its infancy. CD based games with the ability to have full voiced characters was less than 4 years old since the PS1 came out in 1994 and MGS was in development starting in 1995 with release in 1998. Previously, any…

Nah, QA isn’t that hard. What’s hard is making people give a shit about the issues that QA finds and forcing devs to fix them.

I dunno. I have a 5800X3D and an RX6750XT. It’s certainly not low end, but it’s not brand new high end, either, since the components are almost 18 months from release. Letting it choose ‘High’ preset, @ 3440x1440P UWQHD, I’m sitting between 60 and 90FPS in most places. I’ve got no complaints.

The thing is, Bethesda posts a Bethesda.net modding guidelines page. And NOWHERE does it prohibit charging money for your mod, and on top of that, Steam Workshop allows you to charge for your mods. The first game that that was enabled on? Skyrim.

That’s fundamentally different from buying a car. When you buy a car, you own every piece of that car.

Never you mind that revenue and profits kept going up and up and up. They didn’t just ‘survive’, they THRIVED.

TSMC is just playing the game that lots of big companies do. Post job ads that ask for too much and pay too little. When no one applies, they can then get H1B visas to bring in SE Asians on much lower salaries with the promise of giving them room and board, and, best of all, not having to pay for lots of benefits.…

That’s... not really that far from the truth.

Now he’s going to buy valorant and ban anyone who boos him.

Or possibly that the power company is ‘required’ to keep the trees trimmed around those wires and decided not to do it because that costs money. That’s the negligence part maybe. I can’t see them being held liable for negligence if they simply didn’t say ‘Well, it’s windy. Better turn off the lights I guess!’ unless…