Oh I definitely understand there are pragmatic reasons for it, maybe sometimes that’s the more important thing. But it does seem to hamper them often longer term, I feel like often indie studios don’t have the marketing budget to launch their game’s a second time. Sifu for example is such a great game, but its launch…

It really isn’t that. No one who has purchased a game will lose access to it through account deletion. So the headline and opening premise is all quite misleading. 

They do have that clause (I assumed “case” was an autocorrect) which is why this whole article is a big nothing burger with a headline meant to outrage and clickbait.

Not paying much attention to sports, whenever I was playing Sonic All-Stars Racing Transformed I always thought it was strange that there were all these wild video game characters... and then Danica Patrick. Like Sonic, AiAi, Joe Musashi, Alex Kidd, and Danica Patrick. I was properly surprised when one day curiosity…

I like this. I think most of all indies should really avoid exclusivity, but on the opposite end of the scale this doubling up of being available on subscription everywhere, this is really good. And good on them for making bank.

Exactly.

There’s no data showing what percentage of Steam users actually use most of its features.

One day someone will make one of these triple A games as service with an economy that serves the plebs with a little coin as well as the whales. When that happens the company that launches that game will make a lot of money. Like tons of it.

The many is in reference specifically to feature usage. I think most people still ask for a fully featured launcher, its just they don’t use the majority of the features. The people who actually take umbrage with lack of features are more in the minority, they’re just terminally online. The majority of gamers just do…

There’s actually plenty of opportunities to see your character in large size.

Which I actually think is part of the problem when it comes to getting more value out of them. I’m no whale, but I would have happily bought the Apex season pass every few months when I was into it, if that is what guaranteed better cosmetics and prizes in the pass. Because even in the premium tier there was some hot…

You would think they could just add these things to the Design Lab. Like if you go there you can still make the custom Redfall controllers (some of which actually look quite nice), you can do some camo patterns that fall out of the usual colour mixing, and even the pride colour scheme is available year round. I really…

I think its just a waiting game.

I dont think point 1 maths that way. Not especially when cosmetics cost what they do. The sticker shock is paralyzing to anyone on a budget. I would rather bank the savings and buy a future game. 

If only they had even half the variety of combat on a single character as Hades does. At some point I was really struggling to have fun with this game. And then I remembered Hades exists and thats why. The combat was so much more dynamic and expressive.

There has been previous reporting that Valve has cut other deals with bigger publishers. If you’re the size of ActBliz the cut is never 30%

This is a pretty nonsense excuse. People miss their flights all the time because of falling asleep or being bad at time management. It usually is a pretty no fuss afair that then requires more money from the passenger to resolve. Also if they didn’t have this stupid name for it, a customer could willfully declare…

I see no worship, only a stating of the facts. Here is another fact: aint nothing wrong with being queer.

You don’t. No one does. But of all the things Tom Cruise may or may not be an “overrated hack” is not one of them. He’s well regarded as a hard working and passionate individual who has found success from that, so not a hack. And in terms of ratings, I think he is just about appropriately rated, he’s well known for…

As a fan of Ubisoft games who devoured Odyssey for hundreds of hours and is working slowly through a second playthrough, its not the cool or uncool factor. Its just literally something gamers in general don’t want. If you look at the metrics on AC games based on completion of achievements the majority of gamers bail…