I just feel that its an element that takes away from a well crafted experience. Instead of a solid, stand alone experience, they are required to build something that can be monitized over as long of a a period as possible, and thus possibly detracting from the experience.

Games as a service is fucking everything up. It seems to be forcing dev’s to straddle this line between making a complete and satisfying game and a monitizeable one that leaves out core elements that those of us who just want a good game consider essential. I’m over it. I suspect that DA4 will flop if they are forced…

I chimed in on a thread about this a while ago stating how cringy I thought Tiny Tina was and got an internet smack down lol. But I agree, its slighty immature theme made me neither love it nor hate it.

I tend to agree. Its a typical Youtube scheme: Create enough anger-hype on a subject, entice your followers to bite and reap the ad revenue. That said, if you can see through the artificially inflated drama, there is a serious issue at hand. In this day and age, I’m more concerned with being able to trust a company…

I agree about the mountains out f molehills, but the CEO ( i think it was him) of Epic basically admitted to it and said they would correct it. So, while Yong might thrive on the hype, the actual issue is real. They basically got caught and because of getting caught, committed to change..

Not surprised really regarding the poaching.  He’s one of like two gaming pundits I follow on Youtube so thats why I saw it.

there was a youtube video by YongYea about Epic mining your Steam acct for data, and some higher ups jumped in on a Reddit post. Made me extremely hesitant to even consider D/L’ing and using Epic’s client. Might be worth checking out the reddit threads and youtube video if you are so inclined.

And so it starts....

or you can get Bianco/DiNapoli crushed tomatoes and never look back.  

I dont think its a dick move to say that , but I do think its a bit more complicated than that. Bioware is in a difficult situation, and while I desperately want a return to the Bioware we all loved (KOTOR, ME and ME2, DA:O) those days are done. With EA at the helm making decisions based on monetization , and Bioware…

Add people who wear diamond pinky rings to this list.

“When your wrongthink gets you more followers than your GDQ would have got”..

Dude, considering how clunky the finished products have been, I predict a literal shit show in buggy fuckery

oh man, I cannot wait to get to Toussaint!

More Witcher 3 for me. But, being my 20th play through, its my first on....PC!!

True, although the internet hype makes/made it hard to put that into perspective.  

This, along with Half Life 3 are at the top of my “Things I used to get excited about, but now just cant give a shit anymore” list.

exactly. When the work-Life balance gets so skewed, the feeling and anxiety to always “Be On” is going to become overwhelming for a lot of people. I cannot imagine struggling to keep my numbers up etc.. They are basically creating content for consumers who wolf down what they create and want more and dont care that…

man those bases are amazing. Im sitting here with three circular rooms, each with a different alien and work station and a round foundation that I pretend is a landing pad that I miss most of the time

This is like wearing two condoms with a heavy layer of nonoxynol-9 between them