‘every game on every platform’

Please don’t give Sony a pass for their shitty business practices. Their standard practice is to get devs to develop IP which then Sony get to keep ownership of. Till eventually the devs entire history is tied up with IP they don’t own and being acquired just makes a ton of sense. It’s not great as it disempowers…

“Anyone I am no longer attracted to, I am repulsed by” is a helluva statement to make while calling someone else judgy. Wow, what a one dimensional view to have of other human beings. Unhinged.

I sometimes feel so alien having such a good relationship with my ex. This thread has breathed life into me. Thank you.

Right? Like is everyone ending every relationship in the most toxic bridge burning manner possible. If you love a person and you both didn’t do anything wrong, sometimes it just doesn’t work out. But you made a great friend along the way.

That can really depend on the size and scope of the game, the number of NPCs, and quality of the NPC banter they want, or percentages of quality. And of course assuming no errors. Like I said I am sure it will get more efficient in future, but then you also encounter other problems. What happens when there are too…

Absolutely perfectly articulated.

I was talking to friends recently about why we all enjoyed AC Odyssey so much more than Valhalla even though on a technical level they are just as competent as each other. And aside from a much more visually appealing setting, the thing I realised was how enthralled all the NPCs were with the world they occupied. Even…

Writers will love this, as it means they no longer have to waste time on filler content

“People shouldn’t attempt rehabilitation. Reperations are actually bad.” - Mescalito99

Not that anything he does is beyond criticism. But this take seems flawed.

Well since that fee isn’t unique to gaming and actually causes many problems outside of the gaming industry its kind of an important piece of the conversation to harp on about. 

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4. People that just don’t really care where the game is and buy it wherever its cheaper at the time of interest.

That would be the funniest part, if that animation and assett were in the store longer than Elden Ring had been out.

I’ve never seen used as a “fair critique”, and it’s almost impossible that it could be, because “bloggers” range the gamut

In general its a short hand for “this writing is of a very poor quality”. And that comes out a lot in articles on this group of sites. Often they’re trying to inject too much personality into articles that should be more journalistic/factual. Which lends itself to the blogging critique. Like all insults it can be…

Your call. I’m just saying if it is a game you actually want to play, like you see it as entertainment that you would enjoy, then there is no harm in it. Having multiple accounts literally does not hurt you in any way despite it being a minor inconvenience. But to tell the makers of a game that you enjoy, hey you…

Relatable. As much as I am kind of pro each company being able to do its own thing, even to their own detriment, I have also had my moods. I’m not usually to phased at the enter email part, but the moment there is any push back I am just like WTH man. Haha.

Like a great example is trying to collect my four month trial…

Sure. And I agree it kind of sucks that no one has managed to create a centralised gaming identity platform of some kind that everyone else could tap into. But until something like that happens, I just don’t like the other slippery slope of awarding the first player in the space (or at least most popular early lead)…

At some point I really start to wonder if a lot of these things don’t boil down to weird nationalism vibes. I’m really hoping the Xbox acquisition thing brings a lot of these deals to light. My suspicion is that while some are just the regular kind of exclusive deals we expect, there will be others where it will feel l…

It’s always weird when people draw these lines.

“I will accept making this one account, and letting one corporate entity control and profit from it. But then if this other corporation produces a product I like and they would also like me to have an account, that is a bridge too far! I have already sworn allegiance to…