PunchingWood @ PunchingWood @lemmy.world

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It's all about the money. When they give honest bad reviews they'll end up not being invited to play early review copies, thus missing out and falling behind on the wave.

I think true journalism hardly exists anymore. Feels like most genuine reviews come from people that aren't paid to do the reviews by either the site/magazine publisher they're working for or the developer/publisher offering the game for review.

So many articles on big websites feel like they read entirely like AI-generated content. Some don't even bother to hide it, they might just as well be old school RSS-feeds at this point.

They'll likely spam loads of teasers for hype before that show though. I don't think it'll be much different, except the final reveal will be at the same time.

I thought I was going crazy, because I definitely felt like the impressions I got a couple of years ago definitely seemed more like a Destiny type of game.

Could still be fun but it seemed like a weird shift. But these kind of changes during development barely ever mean anything good for the final product.

I saw this title a couple of times during conferences in the past years and I liked the general atmosphere and style, but I had absolutely no clue what kind of gameplay to expect.

Now that I seen it, it reminds me of The Division in a different theme. Was expecting a whole different kind of game for some reason. Can't say the gameplay looks very interesting though, seems quite basic and bland, especially comparing to the Division games. Might still check it out since I like the style and theme.

Feels like the author just wanted to take a jab at game and marketing studios.

Even though I've seen artists being credited on social media by big studios quite often in recent years.

Well W7 is practically 15 years old, and already stopped receiving updates itself. It's not really up to Steam to keep it up and running even especially if Microsoft no longer bothers to update the OS, it would just get more and more problematic, and they also had to let it go at some point.

I don't think anyone cares about W8 though, even Microsoft itself barely seemed to put effort in making it work.

No issues yet lol

GG ez

I feel like the best time for mobile games was back around 2009/2010 when touchscreen just became good and most stuff was either free or paid and without intrusive ads and monetization or other predatory bullcrap.

I recently tried Angry Birds 2, and I was baffled it would only take a few levels before I had to buy my way to more "ammunition" to keep playing. The original used to be good, I even wouldn't have minded if there was like an ad between games, or if it was just buy-to-play, but even that isn't an alternative option anymore. And they also pulled the original from the stores, I thought they had re-released it before, but couldn't find it either. And also when I first opened the game there was so much shit on screen that it was even difficult to navigate to just even find the actual game, it's absolutely fucking ridiculous.

I've said it before, and I believe that Bethesda is going to completely mess up TES6.

There are several issues with Bethesda, the major problem being they seem to have lost all creativity and they're trying to apply the same old formula to every single game with minimal changes. Then hope that modders will keep it on life support. And sadly that's how I found myself having to play their games, because without many mods it was often awful to play on PC, and I still didn't have fun thanks to repetitive content and forgettable story and characters.

Another is that they're clinging on to that damn dilapidated game engine of theirs like it's their precious baby. It's an awful engine, insanely outdated, limited and performs terribly. Starfield is a great example of how awful it is, but every game before that has had major performance issues and limitations as well.

The only redeeming feature might be that TES6 probably won't be a procedurally generated world. They really showed how repetitive and boring it can get with procedural generation. And a handcrafted world would have so much more character. They could perhaps use the procedural engine for dungeons, and enemies and their bases, or items found through the world, but not the world itself.

But I'm afraid it's just going to be a near Skyrim carbon-copy. It'll likely be an okay looking game with an okay looking game world, but I bet gameplay will be mostly unaltered from what they've been doing for over 20 years. Same old basic combat, same talking heads with lifeless animations, same sneaking and magic gameplay, etc.

Yeah, but not thanks to Bethesda though.

Well he says he "thinks" it hasn't had a negative impact. It's not even been a week though lol

I also think it will never negatively impact the console sales. It's just another product on top of already ongoing console sales.

Whether it's actually profitable, considering the production cost and all, is something different though. I think for the foreseeable future people will probably buy the older models over the more expensive new ones anyway. Unless you got money to burn there's little reason to upgrade to the Pro.

The amount you complain about WoW you should probably just quit the game, if you're even playing it. Also why do you keep making topics and then deleting them? You complained about subscriptions, and now you're complaining about optional additional cosmetic content.

Like 99% of the community likely doesn't care about promotional stuff. You can just pay the game and subscription and get access to all gameplay features just fine. If someone spends hundreds of bucks to get some useless promotional item, then let them. It doesn't affect my gameplay.

Yeah, you can buy a mount from the store that saves you like a 2 minute walk or flight to your closest auction house, ironically I've never ever seen anyone even use these mounts outside of the cities that have actual auction houses, they're usually just next to a mailbox or bank across the street of the auction house.

The fact that these things sell is probably one reason why subscriptions in the past 20 years haven't rising in the first place.

Yeah and he keeps deleting his posts if they don't perform well and he gets called out for them.

Honestly should just be banned for botting at this point.

First you made a post complaining about how expensive game subscriptions are, which you now deleted.

And now you make a post about owning hundreds of games on gaming platforms.

What is it? Are you broke? Or do you just make pointless topics to complain about the way things are? It's not going to change, your utopian scenario is based on hopes and dreams. But that's not how the industry, or how the world, works.

Steam developed like this naturally, from being game launcher and library, to a store for their own games, to a store and library for other studios to publish on too. It works, and does its job well. Other companies thought they could do the same, can't blame them for trying. This is how businesses work, they develop and compete, some make it, some don't.

Your doomsday nightmare scenarios are based purely on wild assumptions and non-arguments.

And again, like I said, if you can't afford it then you should rethink your priorities. It's a luxury product, not a basic needs product.

And like I also said, these game subscriptions have barely changed in price compared to many other things in the past 20 years. They're not that expensive.

Considering you're talking about multiple game subscriptions and streaming subscriptions in your post, I don't think you have it that bad anyway. You'd also require a console or gaming PC or both, a lot of people don't have all that. Subscriptions are easily the cheapest part of the hobby.

You're just bad with organising your subscriptions and should change how to get the most out of it.

I feel like subscriptions are just fine though.

If you can't afford subscriptions like those, then you should probably have other priorities to really worry about.

That said, I play WoW on and off, I never play 24 months in a row or so until the next expansion. I often total at barely half a year or maybe even less depending on the expansion. Like currently I've only paid for one month and have bought game time with lots of gold I had, but I barely played during these times.

If someone would play every month every expansion they probably easily got their money's worth out of it if they're that invested in the game, and probably spend far less on other games or hobbies. I think subscriptions for MMO games have changed the least of all too, comparing it to like Netflix that changed prices regularly and easily doubled since it became popular. And they're most definitely not going to reduce subscription fees because other unrelated things got more expensive.

Same principle for streaming services, you probably don't watch all of them, so why not just limit yourself to one and swap between each? Nobody is forcing anyone to buy every streaming service, they're luxury and entertainment products, if you can't afford it then simply don't buy it. I do think streaming services get out of hand, but they keep doing it because people keep buying it.

Throws ball at dog

Nintendo:

Politics in games isn't the issue.

It's the concept of pushing real world politics in games that is the problem.

Sometimes they can overlap, but they needn't to. Some things are just obviously pushing the agendas of developers, instead of making it feel like a legit part of the game universe.