Lfrith
@Lfrith@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 days ago:
I haven’t kept up, since the exclusives I wanted to play worked on the low firmware and new ones stopped coming out and later ones like Ghost of Tsushima endsd up coming to PC.
Last I remember is higher ones than mine requiring a usb stick.
I guess higher firmware requiring bluray now isn’t any more strange than the RCM jig method on older Nintendo Switches.
- Comment on Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades 2 days ago:
Is this locked down hardware that is priced like a PC or a PC with a console/PC OS that can be reinstalled with another OS?
Because if its locked down then for PC gaming I don’t see the appeal of paying PC prices for a neutered PC that won’t let me install another OS. And for console gaming I don’t see the appeal of paying PC hardware prices to play games.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 2 days ago:
Why disc? Been few years since I used my PS4, but I remember jailbreaking it as long as you are on the correct firmware was as simple as caching a website offline and bookmarking it to run the exploit whenever you turned on the PS4.
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 5 days ago:
Yeah, Sony is baffled why the people willing to wait over 2 years for the game to come to PC are choosing to wait some more to get it cheaper instead of buying it at full price.
Then scratch their heads when Helldivers 2 releases at the same time as the PS5 and PC outsells the PS5
Helldivers 2 has sold 12 million copies on Steam alone, while PlayStation 5 sales are estimated at 5 million units.
tech4gamers.com/helldivers-2-sold-more-on-pc-than…
And Sony’s response is to continue to delay for years before releasing to PC expecting PC gamers to have the same enthusiasm for a release years later as they would a day 1 launch.
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 5 days ago:
I also had the 10 exclusive too for consoles, which is why I got the PS3 and PS4 Pro. PS5 doesn’t meet it because they blew it on their live service attempts and it is crazy Naughty Dog has released nothing new that isn’t a remake this gen.
I don’t think I’ll get another Sony console again even if they never port to PC except for jailbroken ones going forward.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 1 week ago:
Another scary thing is Palantir who’d be all for the push for verification with them positioning themselves to make money off of it, and wanting to be responsible for collecting data on everyone. They already turned out to be a partner of Discord through Persona.
They’ve already pushed for government contracts even in Europe. And with how things look like with the US government how much confidence is there in the US government.
I’m not sure government involvement will lead to the type of outcome people think it will.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 1 week ago:
It isn’t always that simple. It could lead to age verification requirements which might be the goal as opposed to banning loot boxes. Then what has people upset about discord wanting face scans or IDs could end up becoming a legal requirement for online gaming accounts that want to play games rated T and higher.
And this age verification thing has been getting pushed throughout the world with attempts at chat control in the EU and what’s already happened in the UK.
- Comment on Talking to new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty — "This team has brought it back before, and I'm here to help us do it again." 1 week ago:
No not she. The copilot prompt told her to say that when she asked copilot make me a script that will make people think I’m not pro AI despite my background. Wouldn’t be surprised if she is a glorified newscaster reading copilot generated teleprompter.
- Comment on Talking to new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty — "This team has brought it back before, and I'm here to help us do it again." 1 week ago:
What does the future hold?
Well Microsoft started shoving in copilot into more and more of their software from browser to even their notepad. And gamebar on Windows has…you guessed it…copilot.
And then they go and hire an AI affiliated person who likely hasn’t written anything themselves relying on copilot to churn out scripts.
The future is copilot gaming.
- Comment on Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag — what it reveals 2 weeks ago:
Red flag is that it is an AI person hired for a game division who can’t even be trusted if any of their statements were generated through copilot, and they are nothing but a physical placeholder to mouth off copilot commands.
- Comment on Valve Acknowledges Steam Deck Shortages Due To Global Memory and Storage Issues 2 weeks ago:
It makes sense now why in old scifi movies everything looked all dusty despite being the future.
- Comment on Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment" 2 weeks ago:
It sucks the entire world turning into a privacy nightmare. Will any country remain the lone hold out against pushing stuff like this on their people?
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
I play those games for free with friends, but spend zero money on them preferring to spend that money on games that aren’t live service.
That’s the difference I’m noticing in money spent not on why people play them.
I see no added value in cosmetics and these games tend to give away cosmetics too and enough points to redeem battle pass for free, so you aren’t stuck on default outfit if you dont spend.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
Pokemon games come out often.
I think that’s the big difference. In a single console generation like the PS3 you had Naughty Dog put out Uncharted 1, Uncharted 2, Uncharted 3, and Last of Us 1.
For the PS4 they put out Last of Us 2, Uncharted 4, and Uncharted Lost Legacy.
And for PS5 nothing.
I think that’s the difference. Games aren’t released as by individual studios as often anymore. The ones that stay part of the public eye frequently release games like Call of Duty or have a live service model like GTA V that has people keep playing like it is Fortnite.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
It’s also interesting they spend their money on cosmetics over buying games. Meanwhile, I’ve bought no cosmetics for f2p games I play like The Finals, and instead spend that money on buying single player and coop games.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 3 weeks ago:
I buy complete editions. My trick is I just visit isthereanydeals and see what the sales price is and buy games when it is cheap. I don’t consider retail price the real price.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it is. That site and isthereanydeals is what people should visit before buying any game. Retail price is meaningless. Sales price is what people should be paying and the sites do an excellent job of showing price of games across different stores and sales trends.
You don’t have to pay retail price if you do a little research before clicking buy.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 3 weeks ago:
Retail price doesn’t even matter anyways. It’s more a placeholder to make sales seem more impressive with X% off to make people feel they are getting a bargain.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 3 weeks ago:
Too bad companies seek exponential profit due to line having to go up, so pricing games higher wouldn’t lead to killing off microtransactions even if priced at $200.
Companies don’t hit a point where they go this is enough money. They became companies because their mentality is this isn’t enough, and its only the a mount consumers are willing to pay that keeps price from inflating more like companies want.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 weeks ago:
Companies get away with nothing but a small fine that is far less than the money they make from breaking privacy laws, ans you are still naive enough to trust things handed over to them is actually private when there is zero transparency on what is going on with their app to perform an independent audit?
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 3 weeks ago:
Good luck convincing the masses to follow your line of thinking.
There is no we. People like us aren’t the majority of the population. The only control we have is either opt in or opt out of what other people are doing.
We are being dragged along by their decisions.
- Comment on GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams 4 weeks ago:
Ironic to argue that trying to stop AI is a waste of energy given how much energy is wasted to use AI. Could have used better phrasing in your quest to get people to stop being negative towards AI.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN 4 weeks ago:
We always got piracy to fall back on of they pull that.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 5 weeks ago:
I just keep hearing claims, but nothing actually definitive when it comes to sources. Do you have any actual evidence that price is not supposed to be lower, because I don’t see clear language stating that in the steam key documentation.
And then when it comes to real world price tracking it doesn’t fit with the claims that devs aren’t allowed to sell steam keys cheaper.
So please someone anyone provide acfual evidence, and not a comment with no source.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 5 weeks ago:
Their approach feels like how lot of companies are currently focusing on AI to market to investors and AI data centers directly, and ignoring what consumers want assuming their opinions are of little relevance. Like how Microsoft doesn’t care if people dont want copilot, and keeps talking up the corporate side with the assumption that they know people will use Microsoft no matter what.
Which is much like Epic with them focusing more on giving money to publishers to lock up titles in the past like Final Fantasy 7 Remake from Square Enix over concerning themselves with the demographic of people buying the product.
Its not a consumer focused business model, because the idea of consumers not buying it is impossible to comprehend. Their headlines never seem to be around how its better for the consumer and the benefits to using them over the competition.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 5 weeks ago:
That itself is false too with a quick look at isthereanydeals showing lot of steam games being sold cheaper outside of the steam store.
Even the Steam key guidelines don’t explicitly state that steam keys can’t be sold cheaper.
It’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.
partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys
Key word being comparable which is why if you are a user of isthereanydeals or /r/gamedeals you’ve likely gotten most of your steam games from outside the official Steam store.
I think some people just assume Steam sales must be the cheapest and don’t look beyond it.
I am puzzled why people believe Steam keys can’t be sold outside Steam unless they never looked outside the Steam store.
This is one example of a game that isnt too old.
isthereanydeal.com/game/silent-hill-f/info/
Historical low is $31.49 from Fanatical and Steam low is $41.99
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 5 weeks ago:
Best example is Ubisoft and EA when they took their games off Steam and Epic wasn’t around but didn’t sell their games any cheaper despite 0% cut. Or Final Fantasy 7 Remake released as an Epic exclusive, but was priced at $70.
It is weird. Every other product people know that companies want to charge as much as the market will take to maximize profits. Most noticeable examples being GPU prices over the years and now ram and storage.
But, gamers for some reason think companies want to price things lower as though game companies are so noble they escape the greed of capitalism to seek out exponential profits.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 5 weeks ago:
Epic approach is the typical venture capitalist run company approach of running at loss then once they get market share start jacking up the prices.
Can’t really trust a company until they are actually profitable with a functioning sustainable business model. We’ve seen it time and time again where even Facebook launched without ads and look at it now.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 5 weeks ago:
They do not allow steam keys (free to generate steam licenses of games) to be sold cheaper anywhere else for less than the game is sold for on steam.
That itself is false too with a quick lool at isthereanydeals showing lot of steam games being sold cheaper outside of the steam store.
Even the Steam key guidelines don’t explicitly state that steam keys can’t be sold cheaper.
It’s OK to run a discount for Steam Keys on different stores at different times as long as you plan to give a comparable offer to Steam customers within a reasonable amount of time.
partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys
Key word being comparable which si why if you are a user of isthereanydeals or /r/gamedeals you’ve likely gotten most of your steam games from outside the official Steam store.
I think some people just assume Steam sales must be the cheapest and don’t look beyond it.
- Comment on GOG now using AI generated images on their store 5 weeks ago:
Come on GOG. I’d rather have ms paint quality doodles done in less than a minute than AI gen art if you guys aren’t willing to pay graphic designers.
I think lot of people are over their initial awe of generated content, and associate it with cheap and low quality these days.