Paid loot boxes were never all the monetization in HotS. You’ve always been able to spend gems on heroes and skins, although only from a small selection each week. That should still be available. Also, you could buy experience/gold boosts (you get twice as much exp/gold from each match) for like $10 a month, or its…

Yeah I must agree... while many games have been unfairly review bombed over silly things (“game doesn’t support 9999hz at 8k resolution, let’s bomb!” or “framerate is locked to 30fps, let’s bomb!”) sometimes those bombs are important - PARTICULARLY those pertaining EULA changes and overzealous DRM on top of Steam.

Valve…

And please . . . the lawsuits settled out of court . . . why would Jackson pay if he was innocent? I don’t believe the b.s. answer that he settled out of court to avoid a lengthy court cases, etc.

I don’t think even Disney could afford something like that. That ten-second Leia stunt in Rogue One probably cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not into the millions... for ten seconds. The cost of CGIing a whole regular in a series would probably be cost more than the GPD of your average country. And all that,…

That’s hardly an issue, since Netflix actually rents those theaters - ie, they pay a flat fee to the theater owners for either the whole theater or the screen. And theater owners agree to the deal, meaning they’re likely getting at least as much as an average film would net them over that timeframe, even if nobody…

No, because Metro hasn’t stopped being sold on Steam.

It’s more like Kraft’s Mac and Cheese With Jalapeño Special Edition being sold exclusively at WalMart for a year. Which does happen...

Where were you and the other lot of people “boycotting” Epic and DeepSilver just six months ago when Monster Hunter: World released exclusively for Steam? I’m sorry, I didn’t see the outrage about it being unavailable for Origin, Uplay, or GoG. Same for Civilization VI, HITMAN 2, Planet Coaster, Dark Souls/2/3,…

But Valve already does this with their games. And EA. And Blizzard. And now even Bethesda. At least DS isn’t coding their own damn launcher, but sticking to another store for a limited time because said store gives them a better cut of the pie.

You’re really attacking the small guy here for daring do something the big…

Maybe you should ask ValvE to put their games in the Epic store then. And EA to stop using only Origin and allowing Steam to sell their games again. And Epic to put Fortnite on Steam/Origin. And Blizzard to put their games on other storefronts.

I mean, you seem to be complaining against the smallest player here,…

If you read the Steam page of the game, it very clearly states that:

It doesn’t matter that they already took pre-orders. All people who already bought it on Steam will get it on Steam on release date this year. It’s people who were waiting to buy it who’ll have to get it on Epic or wait a year.

Not precisely transparent, but hardly immoral or anti-consumer.

You’re thinking of FortniteBR, this is about ForniteSTW. Not the same game mode. FortniteSTW is a co-op game that you buy, with added, extremely optional microtransactions. FortniteBR, on the other hand, is a free game where only cosmetics are sold but you have to pay through the nose for those, with many skins going…

This may have been true about a decade ago, but in a post-Bioshock, post-Metro 2033, post-Prey (remake) world it’s Valve who seems out of place. They used to lead the market, but their self-imposed exile meant the market kept advancing without them, and whether they can catch up is yet to be seen.

MTGO is a relic, tho. The outdated game, interface, and complex way to play isn’t going to win them any new users in 2019. Particularly when on top of all that you add that MTGO is pricey to play - as pricey as paper MTG - while MTGA can be played for free.

What version of Arena are you playing? I never wait more than 30 seconds for a match, not even when playing ladder (though then again I’m gold. In ladders wait times tend to get longer as you go higher, not just in Arena but in basically any game with ranked matchmaking.) I’ve played at any hour from 10am to 5am EST,…

Quite the opposite, judging by subreddit subscribers the game is thought to have anywhere between 100k and 500k regular players, if not more. That’s way more than Artifact with but a portion of the advertising, considering Valve pushed their game on the Steam frontpage which is basically the gaming equivalent of a…

Yet I can assure you Portal 2 drove waaay more sales back in 2011 than Artifact got since release. You don’t even need to adjust for inflation. So still a good hint, although what Newell should notice by now is that he and his company have completely lost touch with their base.

I mean, Valve’s last big release was…

Yeah this is what I thought. When I saw the tweet announcing it, there was somebody pointing that out and a bunch of people went all angry calling them ungrateful and whatnot. But thing is, I’m sure most people who have FO76 on PC already own the old Fallout games. And the ones who own it on console, well, they don’t…

Part of the problem, and part of the reason why I don’t think esports in their current incarnation will ever become truly big, is that nobody owns traditional sports. Nobody owns football or basketball or baseball. Sure, somebody makes money of people playing them - namely those who craft the equipment that’s used -…

New heroes never seem to get skins on their first event or two (or three or four,) particularly legendary ones :(