Actually, there is one pretty giant difference between PC and consoles. Known hardware. It is spectacularly difficult verging on impossible to optimize a game to maximum effect on a PC, since every PC can have different combinations of CPU, RAM, HDD/SSD and GPU, even two GPUs of the same chipset can have different…

Speaking as someone who grew up watching the old anime, and went to see the first movie in theaters as a child… I hate this so much. It just looks terrible; I see better work from art students on a regular basis, so I can’t even fathom how something so devoid of life and character was ever greenlit.

Gamers have become the most wildly entitled and childish group on the internet at this point

Because these features have literally nothing to do with the actual game, there are better alternatives to virtually all of them, and when there isn’t, the imposed inconvenience is infinitesimal in comparison to the world ending cataclysm people are constantly making this out to be.

Epic hasn’t put out a truly noteworthy game in years

Being opposing to Epic because they lack features that Steam has is a perfectly legitimate point of contention

If someone can’t spare the 5 minutes it takes to install a launcher and enter basic billing information to buy a game, how does that person then justify the time it takes to play that game at all? If time is that precious, shouldn’t a 50+ hour game be an unthinkable waste?

I’m trying to find the original article, but it’s been years; should’ve saved it. Closest I found was a post on MMORPG.com, which I’d take with a grain of salt, but does coincide with what I remember. I did find an article on the self-payment bit though.

“I backed and pre-ordered Pantheon, come at me”
Ok, well, you may want to rethink holding them up as an example given that it might be one of the few objectively worse places to work according to multiple reports.

Not only has McQuaid been accused of embelzing tens of thousands worth of backer money in order to…

Why, yes, in fact I have worked on games, I’m a professional (i.e. paid) programmer and technical designer. Compared to what is expected out of modern games, even indie games, I can say from first-hand experience that making SNES or classic “Arcade” style games using either Unity or Unreal is not difficult. It’s still…

Counter Argument: We’re talking about retro games from the era in which development teams were frequently in the single digit range and took less then a year to make on a comparatively non-existent budget, including often having to roll your own engine and work within insanely restrictive technological limits.

I have a massively edited and retconned version of the RE plot to fix the numerous plot and logic issues that I keep in my head while playing. Anyway, my head canon says that there’s a couple of things going on.

I just filled out my refund form, they do offer you Fortnite credits :P

As far as I know, those “recommendations” have always been in place, partnered or no. It’s not a hard cap, in that you CAN stream with an ingest of 6-10 mbit/s, but Twitch might step in to stop you eventually. The one thing partners get by default that no one else does is automatic transcoding, which makes it much…

That is semi-correct. The recommended data-rate for Twitch is 3-6 mbit/s, and depending on the encoding you’re using that could make 1080p60 basically impossible for some games, but it’s really dependent on how much of the screen has to be updated per frame. Some games are more forgiving, and some types of encoding…

As was pointed out by the FFXIV example, there’s already other cross-platform games. Paragon, just to add another to the PS4/PC list.

Why they’re shunning Minecraft, don’t know, but as someone who was bored to absolute death with that game way back in the halcyon days of 2010 and cannot fathom why people still play it,…

Eh, regardless of how veteran modders reacted, I still think they need to abandon Creation/Gamebryo. It’s just a terrible, terrible engine. There’s a reason every game released on it has a billion bugs, and I cannot fathom why they stick with it when It’s so clearly more trouble than it’s worth. Creation does…

If it makes you feel better, building a new computer takes me a lot of careful budgeting and not buying anything else. Definitely can’t afford to do it regularly anyway.

I’ll be honest. I thought it was a joke. I was expecting it to suddenly cut to an actual game the entire time, and then it didn’t’.

Yeah, I’d say worse, but that’s from the perspective of a PC Gamer. 599 is less than I pay for a video card, let alone everything else in my rig.