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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PlayStation] [DRM] Licenses now requires an online check-in every 30 days.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Consoles are a closed off wasteland

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find this a bit entertaining especially hearing advertisers and executives occasionally vent on stuff like this. A huge portion of modern people especially the younger they are:

  • Don’t go outside
  • Don’t read billboards, bus wrap advertisements, bus stop advertisements, ignore advertisements in sporting arenas and uniforms, etc
  • Use adblockers online/ignore online advertisements
  • Mute the television when ads are on
  • Don’t have television subscriptions
  • Pay for streaming services at a level that removes ads
  • Watch like no advertising shows like award shows
  • only watches TV for the finals of a sporting league championship and when advertisements comes on mutes the TV or focuses on their friends
  • Don’t discuss advertisements with friends like people did in the past
  • Show up to the movies late to avoid advertisements
  • Generally have an anti-consumption/anti-advertisement attitude even if they are consumerist. Being advertised to is an annoyance enough to buy something else
  • Throw away mailers immediately without reading
  • Ignore people trying to advertise on the street/passing out flyers
  • Don’t answer the door
  • Don’t answer the phone
  • Generally has no idea when anything new is coming out and mostly exists in a social bubble
  • Practically no monoculture
  • Etc

  Besides the not going outside and problems that can arise from being in a social bubble, it’s all good stuff to me. For decades advertisers and businesses have optimized everything for selling products and now people are so desensitized to it to not care. Like no one actually cares about times square takeover advertisements anymore. It’s not a big deal.

  It’s actually incredibly hard to advertise media now. Advertisements have to manage to seem organic or come off as predatory. So in comes the influencers but no influencer is as influential and trusted as a prime time advertisement before social media/YouTube went mainstream with people children to elderly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s idea of improving Luna involves stripping back most of it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in 2009 I was a lot more naive and optimistic. I really believed Steam needed competition to improve and needed major competition. I was pretty excited to see Amazon doing a store and Microsoft doing Games for Windows Live (until I learned they were charging to play online multiplayer and had a 3 time install limit until you had to call support to get that reset). I was excited for EA Origin. I kept Impulse installed. The only store that got better was Steam. In the case of Origin and Uplay, they got worse. GFWL died and the Windows 8/10 Store was worse. EA never changed. GOG at least released GOG Galaxy. Amazon never improved. Desura died. Bethesda Game Launcher and Rockstar Club were trash since day one. Battle.net/Blizzard was stable but just Blizzard games and I think a CoD showed up one year. EGS came out without a shopping cart and no user reviews. Steam kept getting better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon’s idea of improving Luna involves stripping back most of it⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That just sounds dumb. Amazon has been selling digital PC games since 2009 and it’s just about the most bare bones digital PC games store out there. Luna from my testing has great quality but a puny library. For local download and install gaming, it’s barely any more convenient than like itch.io. It’s takes the top spot as the most comically poor run digital games platform across consoles, mobile, pc because they been at it for 17 years while being one of the worlds largest companies all that time that also happens to specialize in both physical goods and digital goods retail. It’s incredible how bad they are at this and how few people actually know that Amazon has been selling digital PC games for 17 years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People constantly dooming steam are punching themselves in the face instead of pushing for anything better. If they wanted a more competitive market do two things. Buy games on other storefronts. They exist. There have been digital storefronts since before Steam. Second is direct your complaining to competitors to improve their services. Like go complain on every EGS press release for Linux support and a gamepad friendly interface. Something equivalent to Steam input and remote play that isn’t using third party software like Sunshine/Moonlight. Something like steam curators and other social features. User reviews. The complainers of Steam are pretty much campaigning for Steam to be worse so others can compete without having to improve as much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Starlink even good for online gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If available in your area, you should try out the 5g services. I use one and I play counter strike well and I get 200-300mbps down normally. When I got it, the first month was a trial period where you set it up and if it sucked, it was no charge. Plus sign up offee was good so look out for anything offered

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield - Free Lanes Update⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll wait for a complete version for like 75% off. It’s been almost 3 years of bad word of mouth. After the PS5 release, it shouldn’t be too long until that game falls to obscurity and stays relevant with deep discounts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New RPG Maker Entry Announced With HD-2D Style Visual Shift⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That looks good. Will be fun to play what people make with it someday

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout Game in Development at Xbox-Owned Studio Might Have Been Canceled; Bethesda Would Rather Staff Up Than Give It (or Elder Scrolls) to Others⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  After Fallout 3’s success, they should have expanded into a multi team studio. By then they’d been a publisher and developer for like 20 years. Since then they became a major publisher owning studios like iD and Machine Games and then bought by MS in 2020. It took another like 15 years and a successful TV show to realize 15+ years between entries in a series is pretty inoptimal. It’s a pretty bad fostering of talent. Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim - there’s got to be at least a few people that worked on those games that could have succeeded leading development on a Bethesda style RPG

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Confirms Helix Dev Kits To Land End 2027, Xbox Mode Arrives in Windows 11 in April⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoa, end of 2027. I guess it’s not end of the world because really it’s just targeting the Windows store environment GDK so a specific dev kit isn’t a barrier to develop for it. It’s not like anyone’s going to optimize for the pillar Xbox Helix hardware. I’m betting it ends up being the lowest selling Xbox

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft could rely heavily on microtransactions and live-service Assassin's Creed games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ubislop 2.0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PS5 will keep being a dust collector for me. Unplugged it once the ROM keys leaked. It may someday be useful as a normal PC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Project Helix may cost $1,200 with massive performance upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m interested in what levels of locked down it may be. Fully open software platform where I can install any OS on it. Maybe locked soley to Microsoft/Windows signed OS image. Open to install any software or only open to a selection of software stores so like Windows/Xbox store, Steam, EGS, etc. Expectations low. Microsoft and hardware devices have no consistent long term vision or identify so they keep pivoting strategies

• Former Diablo devs release demo for their Diablo 2-style action-RPG Darkhaven, but warn of "rough edges"www.rockpapershotgun.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.hack//ZERO Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice. It’s been ao long since the last game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DEAD OR ALIVE New Project - Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet. Favorite fighting game back on the OG Xbox. The only fighting game that I felt good button mashing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Checking the Steam forums, people say online required. There’s a to of ARPG these days recent and upcoming. Skipping

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People, myself included disliked the star crossed lover turn 2 went with following Brood War. Sharp shift from Raynor pledging to kill Karrigan to then being a depressed drunk wanting to save her. That added to the tone being way lighter. Protoss became maybe too high elfy

  Terrans, I feel like they flanderized around a basic cowboy western aesthetic rather than anything the confederacy or UED were like in Brood War. A lot more competitive politics for the Terrans in the first game. A bit off that the UED didn’t return.

  Zerg became a lot less interesting in my opinion. Kerrigan was redeemed. No overmind or cerebrate intrigue. I think many had way higher expectations for a hybrid/xel’naga faction

  I remember a lot of complaints about the first 2 games story being long treks to make kerrigan not Zerg and then Zerg again. I don’t mind the end or what the Xel Naga ended up being, just the journey not having the weight of the first game. A lack of anger. Faction politics didn’t match up the anger of the first game. Felt more high fantasy to me than sci-fi

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Question will be if there’s going to be a single player component. Back then StarCraft had a beloved universe and characters. Post StarCraft 2 - the universe and those beloved characters aren’t so beloved anymore. SC2 and expansions may have been worse than Veilguard in terms of universal disappointments over the story

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m hoping they can revive Star Fox Adventure. Next Zelda, I think it needs something new to it. I got tired of it way faster than Breath of the Wild. Too much of the same

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if Nintendo will manage 2 main Zelda games for the gen considering how long it took for Tears of the Kingdom and how recent that was. Mostly want to see how the next Xenoblade looks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats the best free to play anime gacha game if at any at all?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d go with Wuthering Waves and Zenless Zone Zero. Those two probably have over 100 hours of main story and character stories to play through. Where Winds Meet is new and popular. Haven’t played much but it seems good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian publishing chief says "there aren't currently any plans for a new Divinity Original Sin 3 game" as trademarks matching The Game Awards tease point to Divinity revival⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  sequel to ego draconis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Black Ops 7's weaker launch, Call of Duty will no longer do back-to-back releases in the same series⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This year competition excuted well in the same launch window. Arc Raiders and Battlefield, I have played neither, people seem happy with. Looking at Steam charts, Delta Force looks popular too and CS is always popular. It’s taken like 15 years but the not Call of Duty and not sort of weird gunplay in modern times/military shooters compared to Counter Strike (I play counter strike and I know it’s gunplay and movement are weird and harsh for newcomers) are hitting their strides. Call of Duty is facing the best most suitable amount of competition since the first modern warfare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s internet explorer vs Netscape navigator. Even Safari. Gemini gets pushed by Android phones. MS lost the smartphone OS war. Also lost TVs. Also lost home assistant speaker/mics. Microsoft and every other company without a major mobile OS under their unbrella is fighting a battle with a major handicap against Google

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Paradox has lately been really good at admitting fault and then mismanaging the next big game outside of their bread and butter grand strategy games. They need to shake up their management because it’s becoming clear they’re giving unrealistic timelines/budgets/demands for these games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming PC with Chinese-made x86 CPU and Nvidia graphics goes on sale, but you probably wouldn't want to buy it even if you could⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the easiest path to gaming compatibility. Don’t know about loongarch. For RISC-V box86/64 supports it but it’s probably far from great and there’s a lack of RVA23 chips to test and develop for currently. These companies could employ people to work on it but most hardware companies really minimum needed effort software until it bites them in the wallet like Nvidia vs AMD/Intel. Qualcomm hyping up day one Linux support for X Elite ARM laptop chips and then over a year later it’s still medicore. Mobile graphics drivers for Mali, Adreno, and PowerVR all being different levels of mediocre. Every car company vs Android auto and Carplay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The State of Switch Emulation right now is objectively hilarious⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always just used the last Ryujinx build for desktop. Android, I won’t bother with any for another year. Something will show itself as the legitimate successor to Yuzu on Android someday and hopefully development resources consolidate rather than a bunch of forks of hard to understand how any of them differentiate much at all. PC gaming emulation is more interesting on Android than Switch currently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1080p to 4k was a big improvement in my opinion. I still have a mix of 1080p and 4k equipment. 4k to 8k is real minor to me because 4k TVs are varying degrees of HDR now. Brightness range per zone/pixel and wider color gamut. 8K someday because someday the only TVs you should be buying for the price will be 4k but content picture quality, 4k with quality HDR brightness, contrast, color gamut - minor difference. Just need high quality sources. When I encode something, I use fairly high bitrate AV1. Another 5-7 years and I expect to be encoding everything new at AV2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TheGamer website suffers widespread editorial layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve been around so long but I don’t associate it with any major investigative article or any writer that made their name writing for them. It’s the most faceless notable gaming website and it’s notability to me seems entirely based around SEO and spamming social media with their blogspam articles