This is why being a wizard is illegal in Dragon Age.

Wall Street bets regards linked to an evil admin attack? 😕

Good to know. I won’t buy it. Yoho yoho I guess

This is old news but I do often think about the flaw in Tim Sweeney’s strategy to try and bully apple and Microsoft into making their platforms work his way.

Honestly Epic should have got in the Linux bandwagon years ago so they could provide their own hardware.

How unremarkable

It’s funny to me that we are not looking at the market beyond Sony Microsoft Nintendo.

Retro gaming handhelds for emulation are on the rise and large swaths of the market are gravitating to them. There is growth in gaming but it’s actually a growth in piracy. No one likes the new stuff.

I own a PS5 and I only own single player titles I bought on disc. I hope they won’t take that away from me (I’m sure they will somehow).

Simultaneously were in the age of retro revivals with emulation being at its peak thanks to the open source software community and the absolute pile of handheld form factor consoles available in the market.

Every bad launch has damaged the industry as a whole. The reputation for PC gaming has been diminished by a thousand cuts. No one expects a game to be good on launch. Everyone has been burned at least once by this.

This reminds me of when Rick Moranis was attacked on the street in NYC in 2020 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-arrested-new-york-city-attack-actor-rick-moranis-n1247852

You didn’t EMPTY THE GREASE TRAAAaaaAAYY!

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Large language models are going to replace search. Naturally concise recommendations are easier for humans to interact with than a swath of web pages. The problem that you get here is this is going to disincentive the creation of new web content outside of the walled gardens we already have. The walls are just going to get higher.

It’s funny especially because the attachment rate of the average gamer to a console is like less than 4 games. Microsoft killed their cash cow when they mismanaged Halo into oblivion. Players came to Xbox for Halo not the other way around. Once they had that audience they invested into them with more titles (like halo 3 and gears of war) and improved online experiences, by the time the 360 was done, Microsoft’s new direction for the console including the announcement (then retraction) of CD keys being their new killer feature, they lost the entire audience at the turn of the hardware generation. Players ended up mostly on PC at that point.

I’m noticing the language used over and over now is “live service” instead of “game”. I’m coming around to the idea that what they’re trying to do is replace the fact that a game used to be a “good” with it being a “service”. That accursed farms video from 5 years ago titled “games as a service is fraud” was spot on. Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

“Government doesn’t work, we need less government” said unironically by the person elected to run the government.

People who still like Blizzard, they’re very much the same kind of people who can’t let go of Disney.

I watched the linked video and thought about the “Whales” and immediately my stomach sank. Thinking about a fully grown adult standing at one of these machines just cranking away for hours on a journey to empty them out and horde what’s inside is only made worse by the fact that there are more people in line to do the same thing.

It’s just gross.

Good video!

The same reason a movie theater owner can’t show Pee Wee’s Big Adventure every weekend. Value is derived from exclusivity. Exercising your “rights” to a work means preventing anyone from having access to the work unless you are paid when and how you want.

Please reiterate your statement but instead using the “goose chase meme” format.

It’s not a single game. It’s a whole new piece of software. They decided to make three games on the same Engine to streamline production but it’s not an hd remaster of an old game. They are brand new games.

I can understand the perception that it should be one game because it’s the story from an old game that has been split up. However if you play it, you’ll find out pretty quickly it’s actually a whole new story.

There are plenty of cash grab titles out there but I don’t think this is the cash grab I think you make it out to be.

Depends on the usage. That’s the gamble you take. I would maybe buy three and put two in a mirror and keep the third one as a replacement?

That’s 240$ for three drives without warranty though… Nevermind I’d prefer to buy two new Toshiba X300 new for 210$ a piece and forget the headache and get the warranty.

Sometimes you get what you pay for … Sometimes