Blackmist
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- Comment on What is the point of Xbox? 20 hours ago:
I think in this business you can survive a generation in the wilderness. Nintendo had it with the Wii U. Arguably Sony had one with the PS3.
Two in a row? Well you’re out. Saturn followed by Dreamcast. MS are in their second, and tbh, it looks like they’re pivoting towards being a cross platform publisher and subscription provider. They can certainly afford to keep throwing money at the issue, but if there’s no results, there’s only so long they’ll be allowed to continue doing that before the boss pulls the rug on it. He does not seem like a man who is excited by his gaming division.
- Comment on What is the point of Xbox? 1 day ago:
I don’t think anybody wants a monopoly, because it means the leader can stagnate, and honestly that’s already happened. Sony are getting complacent, the big releases are few and far between. We’re all getting less for our money, no matter what team you’re on.
I often buy multiple consoles in a generation, but I didn’t get the Xbox One or Xbox Series consoles, because there’s no reason to, and it’s not because I’ve got an expensive PC either, still being on a 1060. Being late to the game is fine, PS3 did that and ended up selling pretty much as many as the Xbox 360 in the end, but where is that spark from MS? They’ve gambled it all on Game Pass and I’m not sure you can run an entire gaming division on that, same as Netflix couldn’t compete with Hollywood without the box office money. The cloud growth just hasn’t happened for them. It doesn’t feel as good as local play, and I suspect it never will. A PS5 has hit pricing that isn’t really that expensive for fairly casual gamers, although the most casual went mobile ages ago and I doubt they’re coming back.
Xbox hardware is fine, there just isn’t any reason to own it. If it ran Windows and I could install my Steam library on it, I’d have got it on day one, but how does that make MS money? There’s even been noises about the next Xbox allowing Steam, although I don’t know how true that it is. I would guess the only way that can happen is if MS get a chunk of Valve’s money every time somebody buys a game through Steam for Xbox. It’s the only real feature that would get me to buy one right now.
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- Comment on They say your body is the only instrument that doesn't require any lessons 3 days ago:
Well, that’s enough internet for today.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 3 days ago:
If you ever wonder why gamers buy Playstation and not Xbox, here is your reason.
MS have no idea what they’re doing with gaming. There will be no The Last of Us or God of War coming from them. They don’t want to sell you games. They want to sell you GamePass. They don’t want you to have a great time. They want you to have a time that is just about acceptable enough to keep paying for it.
The only one of their games I’ve heard people get excited about is Hi-Fi Rush, and you can see here what they think of that. Clearly it didn’t maintain enough Monthly Active Users, or have a short enough Time To Purchase or whatever other bullshit mobile-era metric determines whether a studio lives or dies.
- Comment on rollin' coal 4 days ago:
I doubt it’s any worse than the other mountains of waste we produce. I’d wager it’d barely even register.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 4 days ago:
Especially since even the sender has no way to confirm they’re genuine.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 4 days ago:
I think that hinges on them actually being morally superior, and for the rest of us it’s simply not a moral issue.
It’s not like all meat eaters are wandering about wring our hands like we know it’s wrong but it’s just so delicious. It’s just food. There’s no more to it than that.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 4 days ago:
I think there’d have been a lot less pushback if the gamers had got something in return, like Steam/PSN cross-buy on Sony published titles.
It’s not even like they could claim it being needed for cross-play, because it demonstrably works without it.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 4 days ago:
It’s not veganism we hate, it’s the stereotypical preachy vegans, acting like farming is the equivalent of the holocaust.
You don’t tell me what to eat, I won’t tell you what to eat, everyone’s a winner.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 4 days ago:
Sony took some headlines for doing it, but there’s loads of stuff disappeared from the Google Play store and I never saw anybody complaining about them.
Rayman Jungle Run and Fiesta Run are two (single player) games I paid for and they’ve vanished. I mean, it’s only a couple of quid, but that doesn’t make it OK.
At least Steam continue to host stuff, even if they’re not allowed to sell it.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 5 days ago:
It’s OK. I do miss the Steam sales actually being worthwhile. They used to be really good, where now I mostly use Steam for games bought elsewhere.
I miss ownership. At least I own my Playstation discs. I can trade them with others when I’m done with them. I can still buy games that have been delisted from digital stores.
Can you say the same about your PC games?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 5 days ago:
It’s not on the physical box, so yes.
The only bit that said you needed it, appears to be the card included in the box.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 5 days ago:
I remember not wanting to make an account to play Half Life 2 back in the day, yet here we fucking well are…
- Comment on Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First 5 days ago:
A sad story involving a young food waste bin and Operation Yewtree.
- Comment on Anon lives with their parents 6 days ago:
I paid a little bit (like £100 a month), and pretty much saved the rest.
If I was spunking it all away on shit I didn’t need, I’m sure they’d have charged me a lot more.
- Comment on Comedy has peaked ladies and gentlemen 1 week ago:
Complete with a full chain of CC headers so you can harvest the emails of about 400 old men they used to work with and everyone at the golf club.
- Comment on Iraqi refugee's 7-year old daughter who died in the Channel was born in Belgium and lived in Sweden, but has never been in Iraq 1 week ago:
The guy is appealing to the sympathy of the British government
Well he’s not done his research there, has he?
- Comment on Interactive Loading Screens - High Hell 1 week ago:
The ZX Spectrum was a home computer popular in the UK back in the 1980s.
Games loaded from audio tapes, and would frequently take 5-10 minutes to get into a state where you could actually play them.
Now get off my lawn!
- Comment on Interactive Loading Screens - High Hell 1 week ago:
One of them had Space Invaders. I can’t remember for the life of me which one. It was apparently used on the C64 quite a lot, under the name Invade-a-Load.
- Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld 1 week ago:
Well it’s the only handheld that hasn’t given me cramp after 20 minutes, so at least there’s that. DS and 3DS were limited to stylus games for me.
- Comment on Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld 1 week ago:
I don’t think that’s the case at all. They run from the carts just fine.
- Comment on Anon gets upvotes on reddit 1 week ago:
Everyone knows you don’t post your military secrets on reddit.
You post them on the War Thunder forums like a true gentleman.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 1 week ago:
Suspect a lot of those NIMBYs were led by fossil fuel producers in a NIMBY hat…
- Comment on Anyone else? 1 week ago:
I stopped watching at the fake out because I realised I no longer cared.
- Comment on checkmate, big geology!! 1 week ago:
It’s the same people who post “what time does big Tesco shut?” on Facebook.
- Comment on trapped! 1 week ago:
Had to look up the movie where that happens.
It’s Passengers.
- Comment on Anon can’t have a factual argument 1 week ago:
Papua New Guinea is apparently the most diverse. Thousands of ethnicities, most of which are less that 1% of the population.
- Comment on Come on, science! 1 week ago:
Google: Did you say permanent advertising display?
- Comment on It's important to get a good interest rate 1 week ago:
These schemes are usually interest free.
They make their money similar to credit card fees, a small percentage from the merchant.
They shaft you if you don’t pay though, and I’m not sure if this is still the case but they never used to show up on your actual credit history. Which seems nice on paper, but is actually hugely irresponsible. All these credit trackers seem like an unfair scam to keep the poor in their place, but they are there to stop you getting into more debt than you can pay off. If left to their own devices, the lenders would cheerfully give you way more than you could ever hope to pay, and then come round and break your kneecaps when you inevitably fall behind.