theragu40 @ theragu40 @lemmy.world

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This is the killer for all this shit right now as far as I'm concerned. All of it lives squarely in "huh...neat" territory. I have yet to see anything I felt was truly necessary. Until that happens, paying is a non starter for me.

It's the same shit across every industry. Successful company goes public, investors demand yearly double digit growth, and after a few years they are imploding.

Investors do not care about the future, sustainability, or anything except immediate profitability. What you described is exactly what happens, in gaming and everywhere else. It sucks.

Solely responsible? Lol

When did we start blaming one private company for inflation? Games should cost $100 or more right now if they were increasing linearly over time.

That's an interesting comparison to Deus Ex. I hadn't thought of that but I agree. It's definitely got that feel, it's just much more shallow. Good call.

Nonetheless, it didn't really feel finished, y'know? That part wore on me, and I think is what undermined my enjoyment the most. It really was released too early.

The performance issues seem to be what every article and blog post focuses on because it's the easy thing to talk about, but I think this right here is what the actual biggest issue was and the real reason people shat on the game.

I didn't hate it by any means. And I, like you, ran it without issue. I just sort of lost interest because it was janky and super unpolished. Like I was playing an early access game. It wasn't big bugs as in the game breaking and not running. It was just lots of little annoyance that felt unfinished or half conceived, or like they didn't undergo full play testing.

The massive performance issues experienced by some just compounded those issues that existed even when it did run perfectly well.

The issue was that there were multiple huge problems with the game spread across various platforms that created a big shit storm of negativity.

• It was straight up broken for many console players.
• Some PC players had performance issues.
• For those who had no issues actually running it (like me), the game still had floaty controls and weightless guns. NPCs and vehicles that popped in and out at odd times. Dialog that clipped or played over each other. Completely broken police/wanted system. Confusing and largely ineffectual skill tree.
• Once you got beyond those issues with game polish, then you were dealing with it not really being the deep scifi RPG they promised, but more of a shooter with RPG elements.

So you've got potential issues from multiple angles, and it just all compounded on itself. For me, I just got bored of dealing with it after like 10 hours. It was janky and that combined with it being nothing like what they hyped it up as just sorta killed it for me even though it ran with no issues.

With that said, I played for an hour or two after the update and my first impressions are a ton better and it seems like they have really fixed a lot of things. I'm excited to come back to it.

Pretty simple root cause analysis to conclude that the game's brokenness was the ultimate reason though. Like, why was the game being massively refunded?

I agree

Why is asking for equal treatment prudish?

Read what she said again. She doesn't spend time talking about how disgusting Boebert is, she doesn't call her names, she doesn't call for her resignation, she doesn't spend time whinging about the children, she doesn't do any of the things that would be done to her if she did something like this.

She simply noted that the reaction to this is less than what she has endured over lesser actions.

I'm having a hard time grasping how that amounts to being a prude, so please help me understand.

Lol. I respect that. You keep on keepin' on.

We can only hope that there are people waiting in the wings at Valve who are ready to take over the reins whenever Gaben is done and carry the torch forward in the same direction.

Good. I hope it is longer than that. Fragmenting the platform will do no one any good at this stage in its life, and its performance is completely adequate for what it is.

Do this, but also cover the whole operation with a towel. Not quite stealth maybe but it's about the best you can do.

Valve is a private company. Microsoft can't just buy Valve, Valve would have to agree to that. Considering Valve has (for a company their size) effectively unlimited resources already, and considering that Valve's founder and leader is a known detractor of Microsoft, this is a nothing story. Microsoft will not buy Valve. This is baseless musing, like how I sometimes daydream with my wife about what we'd do if we won the lottery (which we don't play).

Of course Microsoft would love to buy Valve. Just like they would love to buy Nintendo. I'd like to buy a Lamborghini. All these things are about equivalently likely, zero likely.

What are you on about

If a headline can be interpreted in multiple ways because the word choice makes it vague it is the headline that is the problem, not the reader.

This is solved by choosing more precise language. "Cop who fatally shot unarmed black man" is just as concise but is also unambiguous.

Let's not let our desire to make fun of Americans get in the way of doing things properly.

I went from buying and never playing PC games to playing them pretty often.

My gaming PC is in the basement. I rarely find the time to hole up down there with kids and family life. But I can hang in the living room on my couch and play now. Game changer.

• I'm not sure why I should care whether the engine is outdated or not
• I keep hearing this but it runs fine on my mid tier rig
• Writing quality is subjective. It's good enough for me so far
• These feel like a Bethesda calling card at this point, they have a quirky charm to me
• This is EASILY the least buggy Bethesda game I can recall
• Why should this bother me? It's running fine for me without it.

None of those add up to "shit game", in my mind.

That sucks. It was like that here in the US about 5 years ago with IPAs. Every micro brewery made like 10 IPAs and nothing else. They are still the most prevalent style but there is a noticeable shift toward making lagers or less hoppy ales the past few years and it's been a really nice change.

I used Jerboa until Sync came out.

I liked it fine, no specific complaints I guess except that there was a lot of "jank" for lack of a better word. It just behaved weirdly sometimes, would be unstable, and had odd interfaces for certain tasks.

I would not actively recommend against it, but Sync came along and felt like someone refined Jerboa. It was an easy and natural switch.