absquatulate
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- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 3 days ago:
With the switch. Or the asus rog handheld, which as of now is only what, 50€ more? ( wonder how much that one will last tho )
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 3 days ago:
Holy fuck. How is it even competitive at this price?
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access 2 weeks ago:
FH4 and FH5 premium did drop by half after about 3y ( bought FH4 premium for 35€ and FH5 premium was 45€, but bought it bundled win FM for 60 so I suppose 30€ each ). So there is a chance - problem is they started selling new cars as extra car packs and FH5 had like twelve. So if you wanted the “complete” premium it would’ve been at least 70€.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access 2 weeks ago:
“If all gamers stood together against this the n we could’ve had the game(s) 4 days early” is fairly wild speculation, but I agree that between VIP packs, wheelspins and season passes FH does have its share of dark patterns.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 immediately beats its predecessor's all-time Steam record with 130,000 concurrent players – and that's only counting people willing to pay $120 for early access 2 weeks ago:
I guarantee the ones who paid 2x the value of the base game just for those 4 early days is a minority. Most people paid to get “the whole package” with dlc, car pass and whatnot, the 4 early days being just a welcome perk. Sadly the early access bullshit is unlikely to go away - streamers will always want a head start and microsoft will happily charge them for it.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Leaks And Is Being Pirated On PC More Than A Week Before Release 2 weeks ago:
Does this impact the game much? It (sadly) requires xbox login, so I don’t imagine it will be playable for long. In fact they’ve already started banning accounts for this.
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 5 weeks ago:
It’s not about who wants it. People are already in posesssion of this device. And a lot more are buying them - the number of windows pc users has been plummeting lately, and it’s not in favour of linux but mobile os’es. So if you already posses the device ( walled garden or not ) why not use it as a handheld.
Problem is this whole article reads like an ad:
In a surprisingly short amount of time, this project has gone from a curiosity commented on in social media to the bleeding edge of the entire conversation. They move fast. They don’t workshop; they ship. The attitude is less “what if” and more “here.”
Gimme a break with all this glazing.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire 5 weeks ago:
I was hoping they leave it at 30$ so that more people see the model for unsustainable bullshit that it is and it finally dies. They bought it a lifeline, but in the end it’s still bad for the end user, bad for devs, and seeing as how they also pulled CoD it was even bad for microsoft.
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 5 weeks ago:
And miss grabbing that juicy data of yours? Thats like leaving money on the table! Think of the shareholders, man.
- Comment on Pragmata surpasses 1m copies sold in just two days 5 weeks ago:
Not sure why you’re being downvoted for asking a legit question, but I believe the hate comes exactly from the fact that its annoying, unnecessary and a drain on resources. And even if others are worse we shouldn’t be normalizing it. Personally I avoid it also because until recently it was borderline uncrackable and thus prevented me from keeping my games through posterity.
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Director Says It Did Gay Romance "Right" By Not Going "Woke" 1 month ago:
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 1 month ago:
Word of mouth my ass. Heard absolutely nothing about this game for years and then suddenly a few weeks before launch ( and even now) reddit and youtube absolutely exploded in “can’t wait for this!” and “this is the greatest game ever!” posts. To me that smells of astroturfing. I don’t doubt it’s a good game and might pick it up when/if they drop denuvo, but it was definitely not “organic”
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 1 month ago:
Lol, I know what you mean but take a look at that top 20 list and notice there’s only like 2-3 games that aren’t generic sludge pushed by shit companies ran by sociopaths.
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 1 month ago:
Yes, I believe it was xenia. Iirc I did have to.create an accout, but in the emulator, and then it.acted as a.wrapper and logged me in automatically when running the game. Sadly I was not offline to test if it also works like that, but I imagine it does, since it was a “fake” and not actually connected to xbox.
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 1 month ago:
True but for FH3+ they were further integrated with the Xbox login and I don’t think you can try them without an actjal account and login. I did emulate FH1+2 and they were perfectly playable as SP games
- Comment on Racing fans, is Forza Horizon 6 for me? 1 month ago:
I don’t recall if burnout had cop chases, but if it did, note that FH games are very milquetoast, in that they try to not feature anything resembling illegal driving. If you fancy those, The Crew 1 (or 2) might be more your thing. Otherwise, FH is imo the single best non-sim open world racing game. It gives you a huge playground to dick around in, a crapton of cars, allows tuning, looks great (even on lower end hardware), sounds great and features arcadey but still somewhat complex handling. Its biggest sins are the fact that it requires servers, so it’s not exacly future-proof, it features some FOMO stuff and wheelspin gambling mechanics which are bound to get worse in FH6 (nothing ptw though), and it’s tied in to a microsoft account.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable" 1 month ago:
Yeah, no amount of mods will fix some of Starfield’s faults, but it foes have some of that old bethesda coziness, so it’s not all bad.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable" 1 month ago:
Omg me too. Wasn’t there a marketing term for person that buys only failed products and based on them liking a product they could predict whether it would fail or not? Always thought I’m one of those. Mafia 3 - loved it, but hated mafia 2. Love AC 1,3 and syndicate but didn’t vibe with 2 or black flag. Loved Borderlands 1, hated all the sequels etc. Still, I feel the hate against starfield is way overblown.
- Comment on What to Play (and Watch) While Waiting for Forza Horizon 6 (my article!) 1 month ago:
I’ll add in Tokyo Xtreme Racer to your list. While it’s limited to Tokyo’s expressways, it does those very very well. And it features some delightful japanese jank too. Top notch game.
Also worth mentioning are the touge battles in the original GRID. Though, dissapointingly, I couldn’t find this one for sale anywhere - you might have to source it on the seven seas.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 1 month ago:
This would make sense if they hadn’t increased the price of their hardware twice in one year. To me it just looks like they started behaving like a monopoly (because they can, as xbox is in the shitter)
- Comment on Starfield - Free Lanes Update 1 month ago:
It’s alright. Spent a few hundred hours it when it launched but haven’t picked it up since. It has it’s moments and it has the bethesda rpg dna ( for better or worse ) so if you like bethesda games there’s a chance you’ll like it. In short: Gunplay and shipbuilding are pretty great imo. Questlines - some good some bad, but most are very milquetoast. Base building is meh. Exploration kinda blows and all the planetside POIs are extremely repetitive.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 audio language question [minor spoiler??] 1 month ago:
Hey Peko! No option to change that prepper’s language Peko!
- Comment on Disney may be interested in acquiring Epic Games at some point, it’s claimed 1 month ago:
That would explain the 1000 people laid off. They could be preparimg the twrrain. Gotta keep the mouse growing amirite?
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 2 months ago:
300 million would kinda make sense, as it would mean an avg of 60k/year for a five year production on a 1000 people team. But how many AAA games are actually that large?
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 looks amazing in the 21:9 ultra-wide 2 months ago:
It helps a lot, since there’s A LOT of context to it. They also have a “story so far” option in the DS2 menu but I haven’t tried it
- Comment on Why do people are so fine with Warframe monetization methods? 2 months ago:
I was in your shoes just today lol. I’ve got about 50h of gametime and bought a platinum pack because I heard 75% off is fairly rare. I don’t really feel guilty about it - even if I stop playing today, it was well worth it.
The monetization doesn’t feel too aggressive, it seems fairly balanced, but it does have some annoyances. Not sure how similar mmos behave, but the amount of weeklies, dailies, battle passes and other mild fomo does get old. Servers need to be kept up, and they’ve been successful at the pay-for-convenience model for the past 13 years, so they must be doing something right.
Luckily the gameplay and the overall loop is fun, the pve is pretty good and the community seems to be one of the nicer ones.
You might feel better if you’d take off the completionist glasses. The amount of grinding and farming to get everything without paying is indeed annoying but again, it’s a 13yo game, the backlog adds up.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I friggin loved Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture! It was like listening to those dramas on british radio, but set at your own pace. And it had the most excellent 80s UK vibe.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 2 months ago:
The amount of glazing they do, holy fuck. They had me too for a minute before I started wondering if this is just an april fools joke
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 months ago:
Getting real tired of this bullshit activism, man. I get it, we all hate LLMs but it’s literally one or two burnt out guys writing this in their spare time. If people really want to do something useful at least go and review the code and then you can shit on his work for legitimate reasons if you really do find it’s bad. Stop demonizing open source devs ffs.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 2 months ago:
One can only hope
