120? For a game that will melt systems? For a game not yet done?
We have got to stop this horseshit. Early access is fine for a small team, solo dev, etc. Especially if it’s early access prices. But this?! Fuck no.
Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access
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flandish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
To clarify: it’s not ‘early access’ as in an unfinished mess.
It’s early access, because the premium edition lets you play four days earlier. The base version of the game releases monday, but if you bought the premium version with the future DLC, you got to play it on friday as an added bonus.
But yes, agreed, ‘early access’ as in selling unfinished games needs to stop. It’s an incentive for devs to take the money and run.
rapchee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
5 was pretty buggy for a few weeks when it launched
flandish@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
future dlc? that’s not yet done makes what you purchased an unfinished mess. ;)
BorgDrone@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Also, a racing game without VR support? What is even the point of that.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Assetto Corsa ftw
Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Can that version play online?
magnue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
🦗🦗🦗🦗
ElectroLisa@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Apparently yes
Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
The fitgirl repack includes an online fix. Haven’t tried it though.
Hond@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yes.
A… friend played online before release on linux with a PS5 controller. It felt sick, he said.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Actually the game launched at 120 Dollars. And 4 days later game is on discount.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m planning on getting the base game (after getting the top-tier version the last 3 releases) but not until the pgg minigames are added back, and hopefully yes it goes on sale when it drops for all users.
$70 is too much money for a game. $120 is absolutely insane.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
70 is sale if we assume 120 is the release price. That’s what I meant.
Stupendous@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Again, it’s not early access. It’s the general release date. Anyone can get access for $120. It is a general release date
corey931@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
Yeah but why? I am worried about people if they’re willing to spend $120 on a video game
corey931@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
120$ and beating all predecessors? Why the hell has gaming become this important to people’s lives?
LumiNocta@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Escape from reality. $120 is a lot less than buying and keeping any of the cars in the game.
That. And it’s safer.
It’s probably alot more than that but definitely escaping reality.
corey931@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
True that and I like the occasional car game as well. Definitely cheaper. Personally, I just find it crazy how much game prices have increased over the last couple years.
And the gaming market has grown quite a bit, so that’s why they can do it I guess? Idk. And are people escaping more in general these days or are people simply escaping differently, so watching less TV etc? Would be interesting to learn about actually but maybe that’s a different discussion
1984@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
120 dollars for a game!
LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
No VR support. I’ll stick to assetto
magnue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Always wanted to try Forza but I’ve never ever seen it on sale at a reasonable price.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I bought Forza Horizon 4 on sale for $20 last year. I think it came with all the DLC or whatever. That seemed like a good price. I played a bunch and I’d say it was worth it. The game really pushes you to pay more money to buy more things, but I just ignored it.
Overall $20 felt right.
I’d buy Forza Horizon 6 or whatever for $20 in a few years.
datavoid@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
In bought forza 4 last year too… but I had to buy it from a third party code seller, as it was removed from storefronts for no apparent reason. It’s such a good game, pulling it was a dumb move.
rapchee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
you can now try the earlier ones with xenia (horizon 1 is cringe inducing for me, but the driving is good, motorsport is a gran turismo ripoff, but more forgiving, especially with rewind)
scala@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
[deleted]jedibob5@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As someone who played a lot of FH5 on Game Pass, that never happened. The DLCs added new content, they never took away existing content and locked it behind the DLC. You must have misunderstood something.
Stiggyman@ani.social 2 weeks ago
Yeah at most you get 50%
Poopfeast420@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
FH4 was heavily discounted before it was removed from stores (because of license deals), so FH5 will most likely get the same treatment, although it might take a few more years.
Sineljora@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
[deleted]tb_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was going to +1 your comment for the link, but that statement is just reductive. You won’t convince others to join the cause with such generalisations.
Vermingot@jlai.lu 2 weeks ago
If you’re trying to get support for anything, that’s a pretty bad way to do it. You can’t expect people to respond well to “you’re using a Microsoft product so you’re complicit in genocide”
Maybe start by explaining a bit of the problem instead of posting a link. If you expect people to be aware of every issue you will never get anywhere. And assigning guilt to people when all they wanted was to play a game is pretty bad too
ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I appreciate the link!
People like death to Gazans. They’re so eager to support it.
This comment however, does not make sense at all. I’m immensely Pro-Palestine but I still have to use Microsoft software for things like work. Same thing with NVIDIA and other products.
lath@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is why boycotting fails for real issues, but succeedes for the dumbest imaginable.
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve 100% all 5 previous games. I’m not buying this.
NebulaNomad@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why not?
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
I just had an idiot defend this kind of model because people should be free to spend their money in whatever they want and realized that the videogame market we have is the videogame market we deserve.
This kind of stunts keep happening because people not only allow but incentivize them by rewarding the ones making them. I’m so lucky to be a patient gamer without an interest for the AAA market…
byte_0verflow@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Who is paying for early access?
Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Very few people. It’s included with the ultimate edition.
byte_0verflow@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
It was mostly meant to refer to the leaked build and the cracked versions of the game, thanks for the insight however
Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
And that’s why paying to access games a few days early will sadly stay, even though they are not paying to access early, they are paying to keep others out.
absquatulate@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I guarantee the ones who paid 2x the value of the base game just for those 4 early days is a minority. Most people paid to get “the whole package” with dlc, car pass and whatnot, the 4 early days being just a welcome perk. Sadly the early access bullshit is unlikely to go away - streamers will always want a head start and microsoft will happily charge them for it.
Menschlicher_Fehler@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
If people would have rejected that whole idea of accessing early when it first came up, FH6 would still have been released today… for everyone. And honestly, paying for unreleased DLC doesn’t make it better.
ISolox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I got it for the expansions and such. The early access is a bonus though.