Really digging this burgeoning trend of highly stylized shooters. Fallen Aces also looks really slick and uses the same setting.

Eh, we still have that. It’s just stretched over the span of a few months. Gamescom, Summer Games Fest, the Sony/MS/Nintendo/EA/Ubisoft shows, etc, all take place between late May and August.

You can’t support a game if you can’t afford to pay the people working on it. If a game’s commercial trajectory is in a steep decline and your alternate revenue streams are insufficient, you can’t afford to support that game.

I think Starfield differs from those examples because lack of specific features were the biggest issues people had with those games. People complained about the half-baked police system in Cyberpunk, along with the inability to shoot while driving, the lack of transmog, the lack of car chases, the lack of relationship…

I’m not sure what the actual “vetting” process would entail..? The Day Before was a playable game that wasn’t infected with any malware. That’s pretty much the only criteria required to sell something on Steam. Quality is largely subjective so if you’re expecting Valve to curate, that means a lot of good games would…

Epic may have won this case but we don’t know what the actual remedies will entail. Google lost because they performed some anti-competitive practices like making deals with companies to stop them from releasing competing app stores. That, along with deleting a mountain of communications evidence, made Google look…

Yeah, that’s the whole problem. It doesn’t need a remake. It just needs a patch that adds support for 60 FPS and 4k resolutions. Same with The Last Guardian, Gravity Rush 2, The Order and many other first-party games. Sony already has the source code for these games. They could hire a few programmers and update all of…

Yeah, Google screwed up real bad. I was surprised by this verdict given that Android is already an open platform but I guess looking shady really is enough to turn the judge and jury against you.

Fair points, though I’m not sure I agree with the suggested time frame for finding additional investment. They no doubt got the most investment when they first announced the game with the impressive trailer. As time went on and the sentiment around the game grew increasingly negative, getting additional investment…

I agree, there should have been much more communication about the state of the game at launch. However, poor communication doesn’t necessarily mean a game is a scam either. They released the game in early access so they effectively acknowledged that the game was unfinished. They also didn’t use crowdfunding or take…

The game was marketed as an open-world MMO and the early access release was just an extraction shooter. Of course, that doesn’t necessarily mean the game was a scam. A lot of games change their scope and/or structure over the course of development. We Happy Few, Fortnite, Warframe, No Man’s Sky, etc, come to mind.…

Sony needs to go back and patch their existing games to properly support PS5. Why is The Last Guardian still capped at 30 FPS? Why has Bloodborne not been updated in any way? Much of Sony’s first-party library looks and runs like crap because it’s capped at low resolutions and framerates from the PS3 and PS4 days.

FSR isn’t hardware dependent. DLSS is but I don’t expect the PS5 Pro to switch to Nvidia, sadly.

It’s impressive how quickly the game dropped off the top-sellers list. It was there for maybe 2 days and then just completely vanished from the top 100. Don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.

Sadly, that’s not entirely feasible from a business standpoint. When you make a game, you need to identify its target audience first and predict how much money said audience will be willing to spend on your game. That’s how you create a budget and ensure that your game might actually be profitable. There are like 50…

You’re not really thinking big enough. Remember how popular the DayZ mod was? Now think of it at a much larger scale and with much more polish. A big, open-world, sandbox PvPvE MMO where you can explore detailed cities, suburbs, woods, etc, and build your own home(s), eventually forming different communities that can…

I think it’s more about bringing more recognition to the people who actually make games, in addition to highlighting lesser known games. Basically the same reason the Oscars exist for films.

Again, not sure why you’re trying to argue with me. We agree that the game currently sucks and doesn’t live up to the hype. We agree that this doesn’t necessarily mean that the game is a scam.

Sigh. You really need to read the entire thread before responding. This entire thread has revolved around whether or not The Day Before qualifies as a scam. It began when Big Van Vader said “Why would you buy this game knowing it’s a mess, knowing it’s a scam?” I replied by saying that the game isn’t necessarily a…

Seems like you completely missed the point. Calling an unfinished early access game a scam because it’s missing content and/or features is dumb. It’s clearly labeled as unfinished. It’s entirely fair to say the game sucks in its current form and doesn’t live up to the hype. It’s entirely fair to say that the game…