Look at UI in general, flat design is pretty ubiquitous rn. Gradients/3D effects always looked a little tacky to me, but there’s definitely some kind of in-between that needs to be found.

I don’t blame it on both parties, the developers/publishers or the customers, I blame it on GOG.

Fine. Leave me behind. I have a whole IKEA bookcase full of PS3 and PS4 I’ve yet to play. Also the PS5 needs to get smaller. Maybe I just skip the 5 and wait for the 6.

let’s give credit where it is due: 2K Games were the first ones to pull the $10 generation upgrade tax, and everyone saw it and basically said “they fucking bought it?! all aboard the bandwagon!”

It’s a game tailored to the hardware capable of ray tracing, native 4K/HDR, 60-120FPS, etc.

Or maybe its an understanding that game prices have been static for a very long time now and that development costs keep on going up.

The sad irony was that during the current gen, PS4 was touted as the consumer friendly option after Xbox bungled its launch so badly with so many anti-consumer policies right out of the gate.

However, if Sony didn’t charge this fee, then what would be the point in anyone ever buying the PS5 version of a game?

I’ve never understood why Sony and Nintendo are just so anti-consumer friendly, and seem to just make everything more difficult than it needs to be.

I haven’t seen anything yet that’s convinced me I need a new gen console, which is convenient for me, since I couldn’t get one if I wanted one anyway.  

Just because we weren’t going to buy something, doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be able to.

Also, an example of mRNA vaccine operation, as illustrated by XKCD:

It’s the Google way. If something isn’t an immediate, smash hit, they don’t pursue it. It’s part of the culture there, and it’s why they have people pursue passion projects a certain number of hours on company time, hoping to find the next big thing. When it’s not, they move on to the next.

Yeah, I get this is done at least partially to allow growth, but like... what if companies were just content with the service they provided, without always worrying about being bigger and more expensive. 

It was only a matter of time once IGN bought them.

I just wish more successful businesses could recognize that they’ve got a good, sustainable, humane model and just stick with that. But this kind of shit is just inevitable now. Any successful business model is going to get bought out, flipped, repurposed for maximum profit, and pimped out as much as humanly possible.

When digital-only consoles started being sold to the market I shook my head. Things were being said like “digital is the way of the future”, and for some consumers that sounded like a good idea. Digital-only gamers could have their entire library at their fingertips and not have to take up any physical shelf space at…

was really hoping this pandemic would break us out of the current insane trajectory our country and global society was on. all that’s gone. i really see no hope for addressing climate change, no hope in addressing income inequality, no hope in addressing political corruption. it’s done. i feel jaded and hopeless about…

Hasn’t the golden rule in gaming for over over a decade now been: DON’T EVER PRE-ORDER