You‘re a fucking clown.

So the next time this dude claims sincerity, we’re just supposed to buy it wholesale, right?

Real courage of your convictions there, Pewds.

idk, the series was always cheesy as fuck, and had already gone action-oriented with Resi 4.

Outbreak would not work like it did when it came out. Everyone has mics and discord. Limited Communication made out break work.. There will never be another RE Outbreak

The thing about this article, is that it itself is confusing the issue. The MTX in Gears 5 aren’t confusing at all - the overall rewards system is, to an extent.

Same issue as with selling the maps piecemeal. You split the player base between those with the season pass, and those without. It’s a huge acceleration towards a game reaching “not enough people are playing it for me to bother queueing” territory.

Well you can play if you forked out for the Ultimate pass, but unless you own a Xbox as well its not worth the extra money. The rest of us will have to wait until next week to play.

agreed with you.  This is very tame and doesn’t effect game play at all.  I’m generally against microtransactions, but this kind of stuff is like the least of the Hells.

Look at it this way: The microtransactions are there to pay for stuff that doesn’t exist yet, namely new maps or game modes or such that they’re going to release in the future. Releasing new maps helps keep the multiplayer game interesting and fresh, but selling the maps themselves splits communities and tends to…

I get what you’re saying but the fact that this game is launching on their Game Pass service, it gets a pass from me. A full single and multiplayer game, plus, can’t you sign up for game pass for like $1 for the first month? I really can’t complain if it requires me to spend 15 minutes getting used to their cosmetic…

Eeeeeeeeh.

Oh there was one other reference I am remembering poorly. At some point in the game there was some reference to a person who called themselves Mr. Door? I’m remembering this badly.

Jeez, I was just rereading some stuff from the Alan Wake wiki and I remember so little of that game. I really need to replay it.

It’s a been a while since I played Alan Wake, but isn’t “Alex Casey” even voiced by the guy who did Max Payne’s voice?

They literally talk about Alan Wake in in-game lore documents. These are the little pieces of canon lore meant to establish the setting and give a history of it.

Having played the game its hard to say they’re NOT connected. There are direct, non easter egg connections, it literally spells out that they take place in the same universe. The documents detailing all this are often in plain sight, not hidden in secret rooms etc like you’d expect something that was purely an easter…

I know, right? The game directly references Alan and has items recovered from that area *in the game*. You can’t get any more concrete than flat out facts.

It would be hard for someone to say they’re NOT connected. 

“Once great named (studio)“, kek.

A company thinks there is value in their assets / IP, so they spent money to buy them.