I would suspect it is more of a surprise thing, because everyone just assumed it was ore or boku that would be used.

I am! It’s gonna be awesome!

I would say “make is faster” (Spidey is faster than Batman) with more things possible in that same amount of time.

That’s too unrealistic... wait a second.

Oh fuck off bethesda

It’s almost like Bethesda didn’t learn from their lesson when they tried to push for paid mods on Steam in 2015, got shit on by the community for it and backtracked.

Remember this? http://www.bethblog.com/2015/04/27/why-were-trying-paid-skyrim-mods-on-steam/

Gotta love how some of the mods they featured in those previews have cause crashing and have other issues. Pay for game crashing teehee. This is walking an insanely gray line, because it could be a cop out to get more content. It is also nickel and diming to death.

Looks like they took notice from what Horizon: Zero Dawn did so right. Really interested in this AC. (last one i liked was Black Flag)

To ask for the same amount of content as a game released in 2005 (12 years later!) to which this is a successor, being in the same franchise and bearing the same name? Yeah... that is totally ludicrous. Imagine all those people wanting more then just Britain and France and Germany in Fifa... just stop playing vidya…

I’m super stoked for the Clone Wars-era stuff, personally.

Don’t play the prequel stuff then? Request for prequel content was enormous after the release of the last one. More content = more things to do = healthier/happier/more active community which didn’t exist with the last Battlefront. It’s a win-win for everyone, even if you don’t like the prequels for whatever reason.

I’d agree with you if you said “pre-orders” instead of “buys”.

If this game turns out to be good, wouldn’t buying it be rewarding EA for making a good game?

That’s the dumbest thing I have read so far about BF2 today. They have literally taken the constructive feedback on almost every single aspect of the last game and acted on it. Feedback which was almost unanimous, even from people who enjoyed the first game. By today’s standard, that’s a freaking miracle for gamers.

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The first game did some things very well, and some things poorly. I can certainly understand not wanting to spend money on it.

From what we’ve seen so far, the second game is making an effort to fix the problems of the first. Not buying it out of spite is silly, and only communicates that adding additional features to…

That’s one scorching hot take right there.

I certainly don’t speak for pirates as a whole, but in my experience most pirates are poor gamers — mostly teenagers and young adults. A pirated game does not equate 1:1 to a lost sale. It can even have the opposite effect, with gamers purchasing titles in franchises they liked once they do have the money to buy them.

Please pay for the games that you play and enjoy. I know that institutionally Kotaku is dismissive of concerns about piracy - they make the kind of content that isn’t subject to being pirated - but the industry can’t survive if you don’t.

Valve? Positive public image? What?

I think even 500 would be enough to deter most people, and if you have a game that is unfinished but has enough to let people see it has promise you could very likely get 500 from friends and family to get it onto Steam.