Yeah.

Like also.... the games so far most likely to be loaded with NFT that people would even have a chance of playing are also...

... the very same kind of games that require the very same kind of hardware which keep getting poached by crypto miners for their mining farms, literally worsening the availability issue of…

That’s the thing I can’t get.
Crypto is so hardware intensive with the photos of like.... server grade warehouses/etc but instead of being servers it’s stuff spent entirely on mining.

And it’s often built using the very kind of hardware that... would be required to even play the kind of games they want to strap those…

Pretty accurate article but I feel the focus on New World for “WoW is finally facing competition” when New World is already floundering and, like,

Final Fantasy XIV is RIGHT THERE and only going ever stronger as we speak with a whopping 24 million active players I heard??

it sounds like they’re being indeed relocated to the headquarters in Washington state and BC(Vancouver)

It depends. It sounds like they are at least “moving” (i.e.) relocating employees and operations into the “headquarters proper” in Redmond and Vancouver(for Canada).

So it sounds like it’s not neccessarily a case of “and now y’all laid off, good luck” and more “I hope y’all prepare to pack up and relocate”(which can be…

I’m really not happy about this but.... California and like... even Toronto here in Canada have a reputation for being costly as fuck places.

This said it’s what makes all this shittier because now that’s that many employees in those costly places without a job to pay rent/etc for all we know

Yeah it definitely kind of is.
The only plan where it make sense a bit tbh at the moment is(even with the higher cost) if you’re using a family plan and like... are part of a group who all play Animal Crossing together.

Because *then* the “free” DLC gets a lot more for your money’s worth because you could be talking…

Tbh I think the advantage of the DLC is less if you’re an individual user and more if you’re in a family plan with a group of friends you do play multiplayer games with.
Since Animal Crossing do have online gameplay, and in a family plan that DLC(temporary as it is) is made available to ALL members of the group which…

Yeah, for individual suscribers it’s kinda underwhelming. For a multiplayer-focused family play group that DO play together though... giving that DLC for free to up to 8 players at once all part of a same group could definitely be useful.

I’m not getting the expansion yet myself, but I’m definitely keeping an eye out…

I’ve wondered if the Animal Crossing DLC might not also be a soft promotion of family plan too for the expansion.

Like... it’s one thing if it’s a plan that provide “free” DLC to existing game. Because that’s kind of cheap/underwhelming compared to the “one new free game, every months” services of other…

Honestly it depends. Like... it’s almost a cliche that there’s plenty of subscription services people will pay for only the one thing that caught their attention.... then make almost never any use of.

And that’s the thing there’ll be some of those people, who’re not online on these websites, that will indeed pay that…

The thing is re: inflated price might be onto something about the Genesis. A source had apparently mentionned that Sega had to be paid “quite handsomely” to make Genesis titles available at all because Sega had a bad experience with the sales of these titles on past virtual consoles it sounded like.

Also, coming from someone who kept expecting Family Plan to be removed at some point because it felt “too good” that you could have up to eight users on there with so many benefits...

The fact they included a DLC for *Animal Crossing* on there, the one game people kept playing online to connect with friends/etc during…

I dunno, I hear the biggest costs to Nintendo might have specifically been from licensing issues with the Sega/Genesis games due to how Sega was apparently soured from experiences with past Virtual console sales and the like(most everything N64 is first party titles, so I have difficulties imagining license costs…

plus if you pay more for the family plan, EVERYusers(up to eight) on your plan will get access to these N64 games AND the DLC. FreeDLC for one person is a thing, but for up to eight? We’re talking possible gamechanger.

With more multiplayer games DLCs added in the future, I could see multiplayer groups of friends…

Myself I wonder(though no more than wonder. I don’t want to be disapointed) if the deal is that crossplay could already have been planned.... but for the expansion.
The PC release of the game is coming months and months after the initial release on Switch.
However the actual expansion will be a *simultaneous* release on…

Honestly?

Because it’s easier for me to browse through a physical collection of games to keep track of what I’ve finished and what I haven’t yet than it is to do the same with an immaterial collection of games.

Weirdly enough I have a easier time making decisions on “what the heck do I even feel like playing?” when…

This, honestly.

The amount of people going “you ‘only’ need to do it X amount of time”.... make me really uneasy, no matter whatever is the in-game context.

Honestly this. Sometimes avoiding spoiler can be good but more often than not being “spoiled” on content is what allowed me to decide if I’d actually want to sit through it to see the ending of a thing.

Okay sure they reskinned.
But they used the very exact mechanic twist, and couldn’t even bother to even create an original map layout as they even copied that.

Like a ripoff of a Mario level is still a ripoff even when it’s given a different coat of paint and that’s what they did there at the very least.