You guys are getting to the point where it seems like deliberate ignorance of what’s happening.

I dont know why this is, but its definitely not what Nilus said. XSX/Series S doesnt work that way. PS5 and XSX are always right around the same when it comes to textures and resolutions

If you’re looking for more modernized version of HL, Black Mesa is great. It’ll probably go on sale for $5 or less during the holidays.

Couple of things about that:

ok champ

Looks like someone used the European map of the US. 

“Now Bloomberg reports that the game was rushed out in half the time of a normal Call of Duty sequel, with devs working nights and weekends to meet Activision’s annualized sales goals.”

While that is certainly unfortunate, at least three of the games mentioned are meant for an age group above that of the child. So you can cross those off the list of “marketed to children”.  And ultimately this goes back to personal responsibility, which is at the heart of any addiction.  Nobody put a gun to your head…

You’re conflating the Steam platform with the Steam store. Steam keys activate on the Steam platform. The Steam platform does no trade and makes no revenue. The platform is funded exclusively by the store.

I agree, it is really easy to see that exclusivity doesn’t benefit the customer.

What point do you think it’s making that people are getting wrong?

So... how exactly does exclusivity benefit consumers? Nobody’s complaining about having more choices. They’re complaining about having fewer choices as a result of arbitrary exclusivity deals. For example, being able to buy and play Dead Island 2 on Steam, GOG, the MS Store and EGS would have been great. Customers…

That already started happening a while ago. Fewer exclusives, lower profile giveaways, inferior discounts (i.e. no more repeatable $10 coupons). Their new Epic First program (100% of revenue for six months in return for exclusivity) is laughably bad and no developer or publisher with any sense would actually agree to…

All these companies that spend hundreds of millions for “growth” are expecting to make that money back tenfold after the bait-and-switch.

Maybe I’m missing something here, but this feels like it shouldn’t be allowed. If those people were actual BioWare employees, sure, but they’re not. They were employed by an outside company that contracted with BioWare.

You know what would be the real power move Nintendo could do to really stick it to those pirates?

Make their entire back catalog available at a reasonable price.

That’s not a good thing, man.
If emulation is bad, please tell me the “good” way for me to play something like Kid Icarus Uprising.

This sort of design would be pretty bad for the couch console crowd. I guess they could go the Wii U direction and add a tablet to the controller, but hopefully Nintendo remembers how that went.

The DS came out almost 20 years ago.