I get the idea to a degree, that the game was better when it wasn’t datamined to death and you could more easily surprise players. But their Q&A was often shit, with some of the hardest classic encounters being fixed mid-encounter because their own in-house raid team wasn’t quite up to the task of testing it well…

To be fair, sometimes they drop the ball right while we’re all watching, too.

True - she probably planned the entire thing for years.

She’s always struck me as a snake oil salesman, personally. Her playing coy with her own vaccination record speaks to that. I don’t know that I’ve seen anything to suggest she’s sincere about anything she supposedly believes.

Who knew firing a tenth of your workforce regularly just on principle was an unsustainable mess of a policy and totally awful for morale?

who is playing all of those games at one time in a manner that re-downloading or moving them over to the PS5 console (in the case of PS5 games which indeed require using an SSD) isn’t viable?

You can’t really compare a partial disassembly of the PS5 to install your M.2 drive to the PS3 and PS4.

The video card has its own fans and cooling of course, and the CPU has a gigantic heatsink and fan combo applied to it. The SSD gets to sit underneath a hot component with just a heatsink. SSDs are designed to get hot, but the components don’t all equally do well under high heat.

It’s not going to make the proprietary drives Microsoft uses any cheaper either, though.

Am I the only one who feels like Expandable memory was an after thought on the PS5?

The only reason I can imagine for why they’d need a heatsink is two-fold. 1. If the games necessitate the near constant running of the drive at nearly full-speed while playing. 2. The PS5 has poor cooling and ventilation.

More than likely someone will streamline and produce PS5 oriented versions of their drives in the near future. XBox’s method will remain slightly easier, but we’ll see if they’re able to keep up with capacity the way being able to bring your own drive offers. 2TB of SSD space is pretty easy to fill up with modern…

i’m not mad, though i am preplexed, at the super limited on-board hard drive space on the 5

I’m not going to advocate for things to be harder than they need to be, but with the recent push for “right to repair,” it’s likely healthy for all of us to lose some of the stigma of opening our devices. It’s not a hard process and if in upgrading their system people learn more about it it’s to all of our benefit.

Some games make it fairly easy. I can see going out of your way for an achievement or few to finish a set. But a lot of achievements are pure busywork. I’ve got way too many games I’m not playing already to be farming achievements for the ones I currently am.

I suspect he’s mostly surprised how upset people get not being able to collect all of their virtual points. A great many people are in the topic arguing, “yes, but I want to get all of them...” ignoring the point of why you can’t. If getting the achievement is more important than being able to try interesting…

Why is the console version a better execution on the idea? The player never sees it.

I think I own like one game on Steam with 100% of the achievements? Doesn’t mean I don’t care about them at all or won’t notice them, especially if I’m close to finishing all of them.

Honestly you’re coming off a little bitter. Why can’t the author talk about his art without having gamers getting upset that he has? You don’t have to applaud him for what he’s done but why begrudge him even talking about what he’s made?

The only people in this situation that are probably even going to notice are the hunters. It’s a joke... sorry, ‘distillation of the central premise’ that falls flat on an audience that won’t appreciate it, regardless of it’s artistic intention.