CaptainEffort @ CaptainEffort @sh.itjust.works

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Windows is made by Microsoft. Would you feel better if people called Starfield a “Microsoft exclusive”?

Yup, I’m right there with you. For me it started with their paid modding nonsense with Valve. They apologized, I forgave them, and then they literally did it again with the Creation Club. Totally betrayed our trust and clearly only did it because they were so desperate to monetize their modding scene in any capacity that they were fine with going back on their word.

Fallout 76, along with the preorder BS, the atomic shop, and their overpriced subscription service, all added to my growing distrust in Bethesda. And tbh even Fallout 4 really let me down and made me nervous about future games.

All that being said, I still really wanted to like Starfield. Unfortunately I just didn’t.

Same happened to me, I pirated it to try it out and after an hour or two I got bored and called it quits. I returned to it once more but after maybe 5 hours I just uninstalled it.

Space cowboys and Freestar were conceptualized by a child

Whoa whoa hold up, I agreed until here. Space cowboys are great, have you never seen Firefly?

You can see how those two things are a little different though, right?

PlayStation buys smaller studios, usually that they have history with, and helps them to build games from the ground up - even new IP’s.

Microsoft bought a major studio that had a game near completion, a game that the studio fully intended on releasing on all platforms, and Microsoft exclusified it.

To be clear, I actually don’t like exclusives at all. But there’s still clearly a difference here, and I can understand where people are coming from when they criticize Microsoft and not Sony.

It’s crazy that every game they release somehow has worse UI than the previous one

People not liking a game you like isn’t them being “entitled”

Dude I wanna be Keanu tho

Wtf are you talking about? So if someone enjoys killing npcs in a video game they’ll start to need to kill people irl?

What year is this?

Acting on it is NEVER out of their control.

As someone who doesn’t have to permanently stifle my desires for the entirety of my life, I’m not about to assume that. I have no idea the toll that could take on someone mentally.

If it is in fact helping them, yes

Okay so… we agree?

And yes, some would argue the opposite. But I don’t think we should be creating laws without any actual proof one way or the other.

Well maybe we shouldn’t base our decisions on knee jerk responses.

Imo if nobody’s being hurt then it’s none of our business. If it helps these people to deal with their urges without actually hurting anyone then I think that’s unquestionably a good thing.

Unfortunately I think it’s probably in the same vein as any fetish or preference, so completely out of their control.

Obviously people who act on it are the scum of the earth, but those who simply battle with the urge I have nothing but sympathy for. I can’t even imagine how horrible it is to have to deal with that daily and never be able to do anything about it, or even really talk to anyone about it.

I know someone else linked it already, but you should really check out Flashpoint

That’s so ominous

Is it most? It’d at the very least be close

Nearly all of Sony’s biggest AAA games started in the PS4 generation less than a decade ago

…you okay?

What’s a “progressively restrictive law”?

Damn, surprisingly easy to run. That’s refreshing.