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- Comment on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer 1 day ago:
That’s cute that you think any new original top tier titles are coming out this year.
It’s remakes and sequel slop all the way down for the major publishers
- Comment on Is Old or New Call of Duty better? 1 week ago:
Call of Duty: United Offensive is my favorite game of all time.
MW to Black Ops 1 were good games but I still play UO to this day.
We play competitive S&D every Tuesday and Sunday and casual CTF and BAS servers are populated every other day.
- Comment on We all know that Mr Beast, Logan Paul, and KSI are all horrible people. Why do they still have subscribers? 1 week ago:
Because most children don’t know this and have unsupervised internet access
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 2 weeks ago:
I would consider Steam a special case compared to Sony or Microsoft trying to discontinue the production of physical games.
For one, the PC physical market was a mess of DRM solutions. Ones that either required middleware to be running on your PC like SecuROM or Denuvo, only allowed a limited number of installations before voiding the CD key, or required the disc inserted at all times, or a combination of all 3.
So Steam was a welcome disruption, it also didn’t outright replace big box software as a means of distributing PC games, it just phased out naturally. And there is nothing preventing a company from releasing a physical big box edition of any of their games on PC.
But with Sony ending production of discs, even people who want to release their games on disc, won’t be able to in the future
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 2 weeks ago:
It is a visceral reaction from people who feel like your choices have actively harmed their gaming experience.
Really the gaming industry has been shit as a whole since Xbox tried to pull this crap in 2013. They just kicked the can down the road a decade and we are now feeling it
- Comment on Physical Video Game Software Dollar Sales Plunged to an All-Time July Low of Just $85 Million in the US — the Worst Total Since Tracking Began in 1995 2 weeks ago:
Yeah it’s a moronic turn of the industry that you can’t actually play the game off the disc and have to manually manage your console’s storage. I have hardly bought any game the last two generations because of it. I’m not going to uninstall a good game for any piece of crap game.
- Comment on Rule 6 4 weeks ago:
It’s viewable to instance admins
- Comment on Abdul El-Sayed refuses to distance himself from anti-Israel extremist Hasan Piker – even as Jewish Michiganders are scared 4 weeks ago:
Nobody but far left and far right politically connected people even know who Hasan is. Seems like a no brainer to distance from him considering his problematic views
- Comment on Utopia 🌈 1 month ago:
If they censor your opponents, then they censor you next.
Or if you are AdmiralPatrick you censor the word censor
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 1 month ago:
If someone wants to gate their game to people who can handle the level of difficulty, that’s their choice. There are plenty of developers who are willing to be accommodating, to get hung up on games that don’t
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 1 month ago:
Making enemies soak up more damage and deal more damage is lazy difficulty. Giving enemies more tools to use against the player is the better way to handle game difficulty IMO
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 1 month ago:
As long as the setting accommodates everyone, including people who want a difficult game
- Comment on Me too! Or not? Whichever! 1 month ago:
Have some Lemmy gold kind stranger 🥇
- Comment on Me too! Or not? Whichever! 1 month ago:
It doesn’t exist but that doesn’t mean that people still don’t associate their self worth based on receiving validation via the number of internet points to the left of their posts/comments
- Comment on Xbox Backward Compatibility on PC 1 month ago:
To be fair the original Xbox uses x86 and a nvidia gpu, so not that different from the one and series either
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 1 month ago:
If it’s being made for art, then who cares if it’s being returned or not. It’s being enjoyed. If you want to capitalize on your art then you need to take the trade off of it getting returned if your artistic vision is shorter than the return window
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 1 month ago:
I have to imagine this was this risk the developer should have considered when making a game shorter than the return window.
The platform shouldn’t have to intervene because the developer didn’t properly evaluate risk when releasing the game
- Comment on foil 2 months ago:
He’s just on crack.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 2 months ago:
Slower path? They are waiting to reboot their original fascism.
- Comment on Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature to digitize game collections 2 months ago:
Well this is about the exact opposite of what I wanted to hear after Sony’s announcement
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 2 months ago:
When a game sucked ass then you had a physical product you could sell or trade to offload it. Instead of the whole game getting the servers shut off and delisted within a year if it’s bad today. Even the bad games were better back then because of this
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 2 months ago:
$0 because if steam deletes my library I’m going to pirate it back with 0 remorse
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 2 months ago:
Is it inconceivable that I may want to play a game a second time?
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 2 months ago:
Sadly you are likely right.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 2 months ago:
You can buy a used PS2 right now that has that for way less? Even if you demand an hdmi mod, it’s way less than that
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 2 months ago:
A prerequisite to playing games is having media to play them from, there are plenty of digital downloads that have been lost for good because of delisting. If a game can be taken away, it’s not my game
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 2 months ago:
Ok, I guess I’ll be switching to Xbox for Next Gen then. As long as they keep optical media, that is.
I’ll just opt out of gaming altogether if it has to come with it. Say what you will about Nintendo but at least they are smart enough to keep their games on removable media (for the games worth playing at least)
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 2 months ago:
I may be misinterpreting you a bit still, but if I reframe diseducation as propaganda, then I completely agree with your point. And it also presents a challenge we will face in perpetuity in the future. The technological progress of the internet has had an enormous positive impact on humanity but also comes with an enormous human cost as the worst of us weaponize it to gain money and power.
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 2 months ago:
I thought that GTA V wasn’t as good as San Andreas but I still quite enjoyed it. I liked Franklin and his story quite a bit. Michael and Trevor would have been fine as side characters, as playable characters I don’t really care too much about them beyond the Brad, Trevor, Michael, FBI agent triangle
- Comment on Poll: Will you buy GTA 6 when it launches on your platform? 2 months ago:
I would if the game came on the disc. I’m not buying a license to play the game at Sony and Take-Twos leisure