I love Bayonetta (both of them) but am one of the very few who can’t stand Nier: Automata. The story was really cool, the genre shifts are innovative, but most of what you spend time doing (combat and exploration) is dull and repetitive. I found the game so frustratingly dull and obtuse that I had to trade it just to…

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Why do you guys write posts about piracy?

-Burglars claim home security systems lower property values

PROTIP to the developers of ALL software. DRM has never affected the pirates, only the customer. DRM simply means time. Instead of 0 day warez release, they wait 2 weeks. They dont care. ALl you do is screw your customers, that you already screwed by releasing an unfinished game.

I pirate just about EVERY game released on the PC. I own most of the good ones. Not everyone is the same, and hell yes im stealing your shit. Bring back demo’s and maybe id pirate less, but use Street Fighter 5 as an example. It relased as a $60 dollar, literal 1/3 of a game. Then the servers didnt work and it was a…

When will publishers realize that the only people drm is hurting are legitimate customers?

Businesses Say Their Software Is Totally Cool And We Should Believe Them

Yeah, sharing actual useful information about a game is the same as those three examples. Hacking to pirate is bad but it also can become a useful tool which is why plenty of companies use this sort of info to improve their games.

Reminds me of the Ubisoft debacle with their crappy DRM on the PC version of Assassin’s Creed 2; if your connection dropped even for one second or didn’t send/receive packets fast enough, the game would boot you out of your session.

These guys for sure win the worst indie developer ever.

Yeah, just watching my Steam notifications where it’s telling me a friend has begun playing NMS 3-4 times in five minutes.

I’m getting significant stuttering with a 4790K, 32GB and GTX1080. I’m only at 1080P at the moment too.

I can’t even fucking start the game. It either crashes of just shows a black screen, playing a second second loop of music.