You mean besides actually playing it?

This one’s just stuck in the past, it seems, and that’s a bummer.

I don’t disagree, but that’s endemic of corporate culture in general and not primarily the video game industry. Video game and tech companies are standing out because they swelled their ranks during the pandemic, when everybody and their mother were shoving all their luxury money on stuff that could be used during…

Last year, only two of the games I bought or picked up after they were dropped off the back of a truck had ultrawide support at launch. Only ten have had ultrawide support added. This is out of nearly forty games. According to Steam, only 1.8% of registered users have an ultrawide monitor. Unless you’re only playing…

...casual mobile gamers were a new group? In 2014? Really?

Most anything Zelda. Don’t get me wrong, I had my time where I was huge on the series, particularly Link to the Past, but I bounced off Ocarina of Time hard, and didn’t complete another 3D Zelda until Wind Waker, and after that, only Minish Cap managed to catch my attention before I dropped the series. Even with…

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,…

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…

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.

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.