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Seriously. He’s the guy who gave EA it’s “EA is plain evil” reputation before Activision and Ubisoft would finally go and challenge the right to that claim in recent years.

I mean we’re talking about the guy who was CEO of EA back in the days EA was the definitive shitty ass of assedmost of worst gaming companies before Activision and Ubisoft would finally later go “hold my beer”

They’re already blaming the recent mass shooting on gaming again so I don’t think they care.
Ideologism doesn’t care if they’re shooting themselves in the foot with that.

In fact, their whole schtick being based on resentment and finding others to blame for any perceived ills mean that any negative outcome they get from…

I actually made sure to try it out to make sure I wouldn’t regret it and tbh I enjoyed it. It is sitting to the side right now because I already had a copy of Bravely Default 2 and Elden Ring I’m playing in alternance(for one: because I can’t play Elden Ring during my work commute but BD2 is something I can).

Enjoying…

Plus at the end of the day doesn’t cloud-based stuff still depend on major server centers ultimately or am I enabling wrong?

I’ve heard it discussed that in some of their games, the starting character choice can be akin to a form of difficulty slider.

For example, every new levels costs more runes than the last.... but not every characters starts at the same level despite sometimes almost similar stats spread(or at leasts, ones that can seem…

I don’t know if they’re “meta” good, but the Nightmaiden and Swordstress of Nox have been a good mainstay for me. Upgraded to +10, they’ve allowed me to slay that Draconic Tree Sentinel at the entrance of Leyndell pretty quickly, with just some basic Icegrag Glintstone(? I forget the proper name of that spell) casts…

I’d argue it depends on the game on the reaching the boss part.

The thing is unless you misplace your physical collectible it continue to exists.

The “scam” aspect of NFT that is oft forgotten about is the blockchain has a lot of limits on how hard it is to process content.

So actual NFTs aren’t really an image/trading card/etc but.... a link to one. And the site hosting them is…

People ran the numbers about who was buying a lot of a specific model of a recent graphic card.

20% were going to ETH mining alone. Not “crypto in general”. Just ETH miners.

Like, this IS putting pressure on the availability of hardware.

ironically the biggest issue for a Switch port would not be anything to performance imo but simply the one area where it’s not easy to get a proper model without additional purchases..... storage.

MMOs’ main issues with their constant updates is that they often also requires a LOT of storage which the Switch just…

Honestly this is why I can’t get game publishers pushing for NFT bs or crypto overall.

The whole thing, the mining rigs and farm, literally cannabalize not just the sillicon chips used to create the hardware to play these new generation games but sometimes (at least for PC players) the *literal* hardware used to play…

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…