BudgieMania @ BudgieMania @kbin.social

Gets carried away in overly rambly rants about unimportant bullshit, uses f

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Nice, this all but guarantees a PC release, which is great, I enjoyed my time with TLOU2 but it was so marred by the experience on console

but now it requires you to sign up or use a Google account, which is a bummer

Aaagh I saw, what a shame. Sounds like a cool concept, but I can't be arsed to sign up with my Google or Discord accounts for a daily thing even if it gave a free budgie

We also feel that they’re kind of “cheating” at this sort of game.

Hehehehehehe that is true, I'll play fair instead of trying to see what it lets me get away with. Well, most days at least.

Haven't tried using llm for this kind of stuff so it's very interesting to see where its limits lie

Oooh this is a cool concept, thanks for sharing! I'll add it to my rotation of stuff to play on my conmute.

I threw some weird questions here and there to see if it had issues, it didn't know how to answer either of these:

Does its name start with a vowel?
Does its name have less than ten letters?

Although that might have been due to my clumsy wording.

People watch the announcements, they put up with the awards

Hey, it's technically an auto-fix troubleshooter thingie included with the OS made by Microsoft!

Well, this is very specific, but the Windows 3D Builder repair tool is probably the best error fixer for 3D printing I have encountered, so at least they got that one right... I couldn't believe it when I saw it actually worked as intended lol

That's disappointing but health comes first and second, hope that he recovers from whatever he's caught

aaah ok, it's more from the perspective of evolution from the previous entry, ok, that makes sense thanks

I wish they would elaborate, it sounds like "I kited this troll into town and the guards killed him".

right? I'm confused too, it doesn't sound like anything that's not been a thing forever.

I'm like, bro, that's nothing, in Two Worlds you can get the starting village to complete the game for you

unfortunately many of the problems I have with Starfield are at a concept level or with the way many of the systems are implemented so there's not much that they can do with updates and patches to regain my interest.

goddammit even the silliest memes become real, I'm done with this reality

My go-to response whenever someone asks me what my favourite X are is "In no specific order..." followed by like 25 names

They won't let you, the fuckers. I bet they're pro GOTY

Reject the idea of an absolute GOTY, normalize a Mt. Rushmore style "Best of the Year" selection.

Games can be great in so many different ways, many of which are somewhat exclusive with each other, that I've never understood the concept of saying that one was absolutely better than the rest.

Well it wasn't exactly like that, but I think I know what you are referring to.

After the launch of the latest DLC for Warhammer 3, that had a significantly worse value-per-content-offered than the DLC that had been launched previously, Creative Assembly issued an statement to explain the new pricing model in response to the negative reception. In that statement, amongst other things, they said:

There’s no good time to increase prices, and we have not taken this step lightly. However, this is the business reality of supporting WARHAMMER III and ensuring we’re able to offer the years of extra content that are currently planned.

That said, we do need to challenge ourselves to ensure that this cost still offers good value. Ultimately, that’s up to each of you to decide and we’ll keep trying to balance that. Of course, we want more people to play, we want to continue to deliver content you’re excited to see, and we want to do that for as long as we can.

and

To wrap up, I can’t stress enough how much the team and I want the best for the game, and to provide you with fun and memorable experiences. Changing the content formula, and making other improvements behind the scenes, is designed to help us to do exactly that. We’ll keep assessing and iterating as we stay on this path.

Which the community interpreted as "keep buying the DLC despite the pricing changes or we will stop patching and supporting the game".

Which, well, I guess it is implying that, but I don't see it so much as a threat rather than them being (maybe excessively) open about the reality of the current situation, which is SEGA tightening the belt after the Hyenas fiasco and intending to pull the plug on any project that doesn't make financial sense (and, as it always is with public companies, financial sense doesn't mean profitable, it means a ratio of performance per cost of a fuckton).

There's been a lethal combo of the latest Total War title (Pharaoh) being perceived as very underwhelming, the title before that (Warhammer 3) having significant issues that haven't been fixed at the pace that the community demands, and a steep increase in pricing for the most recent additional downloadable content for the series, and all the factors that you already mentioned.

So because of those issues, negative sentiment in Steam forums of the series has reached stratospheric levels (and in case you don't know, Steam forum users are not the most diplomatic people to begin with) so this prompted moderators of the company to instate more restrictive moderation against negative posts and discussions. This has, of course, spun into its own controversy as it is perceived that they are trying to censor negative criticism to cover the most recent issues in the series.

Yeah, it looks like these days it's more of a way for a developer to state that they intend to make changes in more drastic and sudden ways than what you would expect from a normal release (and also a way to benefit from the exposure of two launch events I guess). It's just that some of these types of releases in the past were launched more as a way to test the waters for concepts that were abandoned when they didn't find early success so I'm still a bit weary from those days.

A more cynical person would argue that the quality of most high-production releases at this point qualify as "early-access" anyway. But I'm definitely not that jaded, no sir.

2019/2020 was a poor year from a price/longevity perspective, yeah. All of us who got a GPU around those days didn't necessarily get the best deal. I'm satisfied with what I got out of my 3060Ti but I feel that many wouldn't be.

I don't mention 2021 because, well, you know, it's not like you could even find one so

The rough equivalent of the PS5 GPU (40 CUs of RDNA2) is the RX6700 XT at 300 dollars. Pricing has not been great but let's not exaggerate lol