I too had both console and PC access growing up, so I never had a particular loyalty to either. Same with consoles, I was both a Nintendo and Sega kid growing up, so console rivalries just perplexed me. Whether I prefer controllers or mouse and keyboard largely depended on the genre, with any 1st/3rd person game that…

They made the claim that someone else was wrong, so the onus is on them to prove it. My proof is on the site itself, which conveniently has a search bar. Meanwhile, Necgray has offered no links or sources supporting their specific statistics and is claiming their word alone is evidence. I don’t find that comparable,…

Whatever you say, bud.

Ah, so we’re arguing a nebulous “more reasonable” which can be argued with semantics. Got it. Thus, it’s even worse since you can be even more reasonable and just go back a year to cut down both of those devices to around 1k for BOTH.

I love how necgray thinks that them making a claim is somehow delivering a verifiable stat. Instead of, you know, offering a link to a reputable source that counters the numerous articles posted on this very site regarding the mental state of many killers in the past ten years? Lol to the max.

“Sure someone drowned, but at least they didn’t drown in only three inches of water!”

Yep, about what I expected from necgray; all talk and nothing to show for it despite being the one to initiate accusations of being wrong and offering no stats himself. Oh, excuse me, you offered that you “actually looked into it” and couldn’t be bothered to actually show evidence of this. Predictable and stupid…

I know you’ve got a chip on your shoulder, but if you really, REALLY think our mental health system doesn’t just turn out people largely untreated and that many of these untreated people don’t turn to crime... including a HUGE number of FAMOUS people who killed minorities and CHILDREN, then you’re the one who needs…

I love that your idea of “reasonable” is “costing $1,500".

The profit is theoretical, in case they ever decide to bring it back. That’s why patent squatters do what they do; sharing it makes the profit a guaranteed zero chance instead of a slim possibility. But right now, it’s a loser and supporting the old tech with a server is still a cost, so ending that service saves them…

Yes, but making it open source would mean they couldn’t exclusively profit on it.

And, VERY SIGNIFICANTLY, it isn’t only a cloud gaming service. Can you stream between XBox and PC? Yes! But that’s not how Stadia works, nor does it have the same requirements. Stadia relied on server farms to run games for you, and required internet speeds and infrastructure that a massive majority of people didn’t…

Because they didn’t design it that way.

It was a terrible idea because it was pushed despite literally the entire network infrastructure of the US was largely incapable of utilizing it. When any coherent report says that your groundwork, from the ground up project costing billions will only POSSIBLY reach 18% of the country and, in reality, will reach even…

Because they designed it that way. Yes, it’s stupid, but the question wasn’t about how it was designed, but why the service was temporary.

Because they don’t want to continue running the server that provides the service. Not because of the cost, but because it’s a constant reminder of just how terrible an idea Stadia was.

...2008 was 20 years ago? I feel like the article was wrong on this, too.

Feels suspiciously to me like sabotage, being honest. All Bungie even HAS is games as a service; if NG ended up producing a successful GaaS using TLoU, it'd only further accelerate Bungie's decline. I dunno, that seems like an obvious conflict of interest to me.

Unfortunately, the real case (because this "free speech" defense is going to get thrown right out) is probably going to boil down to how much lying they can get away with.

I personally think you need more than an expansion and bugfixes to qualify as ongoing. At least in the case of NMS, new content was constantly being added with updates rather than only fixing a broken mess, and for longer to boot.