Yup, it really wasn't that long ago that conspiracy theorists were relegated to being the butt of jokes. These people would have been laughed out of the room back in the 90s.

It was hard to get out... but once I was able to stop playing this game, I haven’t looked back. Never touching it again due to the FOMO.

Purchase the next update with the quest for it packaged.  Oh another grind to a new cap to give me a weapon I already had but of course removed from current.  Until they decide easier to make us pay for it again than create something new.  I saw that on pre-orders, shut down the game and deleted it.  That was it for…

It’s why I quit playing is when I saw that pre-order listing.  I mean making us grind again to next cap by offering old weapons they removed, but now are asking you to pay to get some revamped version of them? 

Or they could’ve not cheaped-out during development and gotten perpetual licenses to use that footage,

It’s like Kotaku’s TRYING to get this game shut down.

I’ll never understand why fans who work so hard on mods like this, who clearly know that as soon as Nintendo’s lawyers get the faintest whiff of their project will come down on them like a ton of bricks, post these demo or preview releases.

If you want to make and release amazing fan content, FINISH IT FIRST.
Then when…

I mean, yes...?

The thing that sucks most is that what’s going to happen is that Wargaming changes things to something that is slightly less shitty for a little bit and people will get quiet about it while the overall model of the game is still the same skinner box that is still really shitty.

There’s also the odd layout of enemies on the map, just on the way to low level story missions I had to literally just run through areas with enemies two to three times my level. It’s really odd, I can kind of see what they’re doing, it’s like the newer RPG Assassins Creed games, there’s areas that have certain level…

Seems par for the course for a game published by Gearbox I'd say. 

Personally I hope they throw the book at him. My brother died of modified zelda save files. 

“For some reason it was supposed to be funny” could be the tagline of ‘Friends’.

Yeah, great artistic vision. Shit time management skills. People keep blowing smoke up his ass but look at his last two games. MgsV is well known to not be complete and missing an entire level and now Death Stranding is getting a "Directors Cut" 

Yep. Anytime someone says “last gen could not handle a game like this”, what they need to say is “last gen could not handle a game like this, because the software wasn’t remotely optimized for those consoles.”

And I say this as someone who genuinely enjoyed CP.

Yep. Red Dead Redemption in particular is a great comparison. It has it’s own problems (story/gameplay pacing, wonky controls, development crunch) but absolutely one thing that it got extremely right was looking amazing and running well on older tech. I played it on my original launch PS4 just fine. I couldn’t tell…

Yep. It's a ridiculous excuse but I guess if your identity is tied up in liking a game/publisher then you'll use any excuse you can to stick up for that game/publisher.

Hard agree.

Yeah, the crux of the issue is REDEngine 4. It just isn’t optimized, like, at all. CDPR focused too much on PC (both as getting the “best experience” and as a result of WFH during COVID), and when they tried to port it over to consoles it shit the bed. They designed for the best case, not the lowest common denominator.