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- Comment on Why are most mobile games trash? 1 week ago:
Most of the games in AA that I played have been reworked to remove monetisation while their regular App Store versions offer freemium model only.
- Comment on Why are most mobile games trash? 1 week ago:
If you own an iPhone just get Apple Arcade through Apple One, it’s really worth it if you game on your phone. No predatory monetisation, regular self-contained games, plenty of high quality titles.
- Comment on Metaphor: ReFantazio's success is further proof that politics are good in videogames, actually—no matter what reactionaries tell you 2 weeks ago:
I understand that half of the world is currently healing psychological trauma from the US election results but Atlus has been commenting on politics in their games for much longer.
- Comment on Issues with the current free to play model (The Bazaar) 2 weeks ago:
Apple Arcade is still going and getting plenty of releases. I don’t know anyone buying it specifically but including it in Apple One (competitively priced subscription for most Apple services) means lots of people have access to it. Me and my partner use it a lot. It’s very nice knowing that those games won’t try to shove microtransactions down my throat.
- Comment on Last-minute PS5 Pro leaks indicate system will pack 16.7 TFLOPS GPU with 16GB dedicated GDDR6 VRAM — plus 2GB DDR5 system RAM 2 weeks ago:
No longer a leak, embargo lifted couple of hours ago.
- Comment on [Weekly thread] It's Thursday, which movies have you been watching? 3 weeks ago:
Yesterday was Twilight, today New Moon. Something tells me I might see Eclipse tomorrow.
It’s hoa hoa hoa season, baby.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 3 weeks ago:
I wait for a Digital Foundry tech review before making a purchase on AAA game these days. They tackle what’s quantifiable and add their thoughts on the game in general which is about as much as I need from a professional outlet.
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 3 weeks ago:
When preserving culture is criminal, or punishable, ya might want to reevaluate your laws
Or, don’t treat it like culture but slop to be consumed and discarded. If law is not there, put pressure on publishers to release games under licensing that allows preservation after predetermined amount of time. Maybe make slop ineligible for game awards and remove it from review aggregators. There are ways I’m sure.
Who am I kidding, nobody is going to do this because it makes too much sense.
- Comment on Annoyed Redditors tanking Google Search results illustrates perils of AI scrapers 3 weeks ago:
By adding "site:reddit.com” to search results, users can hone their search to more easily find answers from real people.
I’m convinced that media that keep saying this are in cahoots with advertisers who have noticed this ages ago and have astroturfed Reddit beyond being reliable source of information long time ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I think publishers were involved but those services are the lowest priority so I wouldn’t look into it that much.
- Comment on 12 Years and $700 Million Later, What's Going on With Star Citizen's Development? 4 weeks ago:
I imagine that the news headlines of the future will be:
12 Dyson Spheres and 700 Million Years Later, What’s Going on With Star Citizen’s Development?
- Comment on Are there any recent-ish single player, complete games that are similar to Rise of Nations and would work on Mac or at least on WINE? 5 weeks ago:
Not the same but StarCraft 2 is available on Macs and runs acceptably on my M1 Air. It probably runs quite well on M2 Max. Even though it’s seen as predominantly multiplayer game it has a very nice single player campaign.
I know there are many Total War and Paradox games on Macs but they don’t run well for me through Rosetta. Might be worth a try in your case.
- Comment on How to Beat Elden Ring in Under 5 Minutes | Speed Break 5 weeks ago:
Here I am at 2 months of attempting Shadow of the Erdtree final boss. I do it couple once or twice per week now, got incredibly close dozens of times (past meteor). Refusing to switch my weird ass incantations based build. Bayle was a complete pushover compared to this guy.
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 5 weeks ago:
This is a very valid point, yet companies do shady stuff all the time and some even get caught via subpoenas and such. Nintendo can do it in a way that will never be noticeable on their books for sure.
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 5 weeks ago:
What’s that source? You mean anonymous group claiming responsibility being reported in media?
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 5 weeks ago:
There’s motive and circumstances. Nintendo opened every possible front in the last year or so. Now this happens. Even if not related to IA specifically this definitely looks like retribution.
Also, please read my first comment again. I think I made it clear it’s speculation.
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 5 weeks ago:
What was wild about this assumption?
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 5 weeks ago:
It’s like Lenin said, you look for the person who will benefit… And, uh… You know, you’ll, uh… You know what I mean.
The Dude
- Comment on Game Freak has been allegedly hacked, with source codes for Pokemon games reportedly leaked 5 weeks ago:
In my head this is a retribution for financing hackers that attacked Internet Archive and nobody can convince me otherwise
- Comment on Until Dawn Remake Is Being Criticized For Looking "Way Worse" Than The Original 1 month ago:
They say it runs better but isn’t hat because it hovers around 35 fps on PS4 and is locked to 30 on PS5 (as it should have been on PS4)? Some of comparisons are in the yikes territory though.
- Comment on The Passion of The Christ sequel to reportedly start filming in 2025 2 months ago:
I’ve read a book like that although there were no granades and it took place in middle ages. It sucked badly. I don’t think it’s likely for writer to tackle this without being a far right nutjob.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Nintendo DS 2 months ago:
How do you stand image scaling on 3DS? It’s either poststamp sized or horribly mangled by non-integer scaling on a very low res display. It’s the reason I keep DSi along NN3DS.
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers 3 months ago:
How are the decisions taken by the highier-ups related to workers unionizing?
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 3 months ago:
I give up. Are you an American or something?
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 3 months ago:
There you go: www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwyj6v24xo
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 3 months ago:
At some point you’re so entrenched in the market you don’t have to do anything anymore. I was quite surprised that Valve somehow evaded EU Digital Markets Act gatekeeper criteria. That would mean they’d have to ensure interoperability with its competitors which would restart competition, similar to how we got rid of telecom monopolies.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 4 months ago:
I’m accelerating late stage capitalism by being critical of monopolies? What???
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 4 months ago:
Yes, it’s a nice cage.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 4 months ago:
Boutique shop successful, therefore Amazon is not a monopoly.
- Comment on Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal 4 months ago:
If EGS mandated those things it would be as successful as GOG. Which is irrelevant compared to Steam.