MS absolutely did fumble the ball. They charged an extra $100 so they could include the Kinect which nobody wanted. They declared that both digital and physical games would have DRM that required online connections, limited resale and would prevent games from launching if you were offline for more than a day. They…

Again, he obviously doesn’t believe that spending $500 to play FF7 Rebirth is a good solution to his problem. How you feel about his problem is irrelevant.

I think you may be confused as to who the OP actually is in this thread. My original response was to Basitiante who has yet to reply to anyone. As such, I’m not sure how you’d conclude that he’s offended. As for context clues, again, I replied specifically to Basitiante so there really isn’t any other post you could…

Fieryrebirth: This is going to be quite the wait for non-PS5 owners for this game to be ported to PC.

I think most PS5 owners were also PS4 owners so the ability to carry over their PS4 libraries was a big factor in their decision to buy a PS5. That, coupled with the big AAA, cinematic, story-driven, third-person action/adventure exclusives that Sony is known for.

GTA is a perfect example of the distinction between quality and taste. The games are objectively high quality overall but they still bore me to tears. I just don’t find the settings or core gameplay to be very compelling. However, thanks to aggregate review scores, I recognize that my feelings are the exception, not…

Weird. I was just pointing out how physical does have some advantages over digital, namely more flexible ownership. You can sell, trade and gift physical games but can’t do the same with digital, so if that flexibility is important to you, I can see what you’d favor physical over digital.

Again, can you specifically cite whatever statement you found hostile?

Fieryrebirth specifically stated that he wasn’t willing to pay $500 to play FF7 Rebirth. You replied by saying that there would be other games he could play on PS5, even though this discussion is specifically about FF7 Rebirth. Now you say that paying $500 to play FF7 Rebirth isn’t a good value, which was what…

Can you specifically cite whatever I said that you considered hostile? Questioning someone’s opinion or making logical deductions isn’t inherently hostile.

I’m not sure how you construed my reply as being offended. I just pointed out that there’s a ton of MS’ first-party offerings across a wide variety of genres, so to only find one of those offerings even remotely interesting suggests that Basitiante has very specific tastes. That seems like a reasonable conclusion to…

It’s a limitation in that the physical version isn’t tied to any specific account and therefore has more flexibility when it comes to ownership. You can sell it, trade it, gift it etc, which you can’t do with digital.

Has Unknown Worlds ever actually called it Subnautica 2? On their site, they just refer to it as The Next Subnautica. But it does sound like this one will have more substantial changes than BZ did.

How many PC gamers do you actually know..? I primarily play on PC and have no issues about 98% of the time. Even a mediocre port typically looks and runs better than the console versions. For example, Starfield has significant performance drops in cities but my framerate is still higher than 30 which the Xbox version…

If you’re only interested in this one game then yeah, you’d be spending an extra $500 just to play it. You’re making the flawed assumption that people would automatically be interested in playing other PS5 games. The fact that you gain potential access to other games is irrelevant if you’re only interested in this one…

That’s not entirely accurate. The PC port was pushed back after Sony paid for a year of exclusivity for the original release, then another six months for Intergrade. Then Epic paid for 6 months of exclusivity with the PC version.

You left out a bunch of older titles (e.g. Flight Simulator, Tell Me Why, Ori, Sea of Thieves, Killer Instinct, etc) as well as upcoming titles (Avowed, Indiana Jones, Hellblade 2, Outer Worlds 2, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout 5, Blade, Fable, South of Midnight, Clockwork Revolution, etc).

Regulators would kill that deal real quick. Horizontal mergers receive much more scrutiny than vertical ones.

You do you, I guess. Most people find reviews (both critic and user) to be useful because they’re generally a good indication of a game’s overall quality.

That’s all fine, as long as you don’t claim that quality is the reason why you aren’t interested in said games. Quality is something can be measured by aggregate review scores. Personal taste is entirely different. If you aren’t interested in a particular genre, setting, theme, style, etc, just say that instead of…