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- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 1 day ago:
The sooner people stop hanging on to “physical” ( and move on to more productive conservation initiatives ) the better. Sony’s not likely to budge and frankly the medium has been dying for a while. Now DRM-free digital like gog or pirate copies still has a future I think, but relegated to a niche. I’ve been trying to picture the future landscape of gaming and I fear it’s mostly “forever games”. Both sony and ms have been pushing for live service/mobile crap ( and they still have the power to do it ) because a single mediocre skin or season pass can be as lucrative as a whole game. No need to innovate when you can make billions on slop. Take Candy Crush - it’s what, 20 years old and still brings in billions. Same for roblox, despite being known as a pedo-heaven. Games as an artform looks like an increasingly niche hobby for hipster/aging gamers, because the vast majority of people just love their slop.
It’s now time move on - hoard, archive and maybe still try and push for decent consumer protections.
- Comment on "Piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue": Sony just proved why digital storefronts are broken 1 week ago:
It is already. Notice how all buttons on storefronts say “get” or “grab” or others
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 2 weeks ago:
We were barely 1.3 million that bothered to sign a petition, and you want to convince people to give up games from 95% of publishers? Good luck.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Funny you should create this. I made an identical spec for my potential upgrade from a 2019 intel pc to a 2021 amd pc in order to keep the ram. Looks like i’ll have to ride these memory sticks until the wheels fall off.
- Comment on Open-World Games with Drivable Motorbikes? 2 weeks ago:
For a while last year you could still get it for a symbolic 1€ iirc. And there is always the seven seas option.
- Comment on Open-World Games with Drivable Motorbikes? 2 weeks ago:
The original Crew. You can get it for cheap/free, slap on the TCU patch and drive motorbikes accross a spectacularly large continental US.
- Comment on European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames 3 weeks ago:
Goddamn It
- Comment on September 2026 just became the busiest month in years for millions of gamers 5 weeks ago:
Most seem to be PS5 games. Don’t have one so meh for me. But I will say this: between all these autumn releases and GTA6 in november, PS people will be eating well this winter.
- Comment on Why Games Now Take 6+ Years To Make 5 weeks ago:
I do not. This rethoric makes it sound like gamers share the fault for the industry being shit, and the fault lies solely with the publishers and sometimes devs. I do agree with “no crunch and decent wages” bit - if it takes a decade to make it and costs a lot fine, so be it, take your time, but I want and I like options: shorter games, longer games, pretty ones, 8-bit one, realistic graphics, story or not is of no concern, I want them all. What I don’t want is this late stage capitalism infinite growth bullshit which stifles studios from innovating, keeps franchises going forever on mediocre entries and closes studios for short term gains.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 $120 for early access 1 month ago:
I guarantee the ones who paid 2x the value of the base game just for those 4 early days is a minority. Most people paid to get “the whole package” with dlc, car pass and whatnot, the 4 early days being just a welcome perk. Sadly the early access bullshit is unlikely to go away - streamers will always want a head start and microsoft will happily charge them for it.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6 Leaks And Is Being Pirated On PC More Than A Week Before Release 1 month ago:
Does this impact the game much? It (sadly) requires xbox login, so I don’t imagine it will be playable for long. In fact they’ve already started banning accounts for this.
- Comment on “I genuinely feel GameNative could replace handheld PCs like the Steam Deck” — Inside Android’s Fastest-Moving Gaming Project, GameNative (my article!) 2 months ago:
It’s not about who wants it. People are already in posesssion of this device. And a lot more are buying them - the number of windows pc users has been plummeting lately, and it’s not in favour of linux but mobile os’es. So if you already posses the device ( walled garden or not ) why not use it as a handheld.
Problem is this whole article reads like an ad:
In a surprisingly short amount of time, this project has gone from a curiosity commented on in social media to the bleeding edge of the entire conversation. They move fast. They don’t workshop; they ship. The attitude is less “what if” and more “here.”
Gimme a break with all this glazing.
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update - Xbox Wire 2 months ago:
I was hoping they leave it at 30$ 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 2 months 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 2 months 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" 2 months ago:
- Comment on Crimson Desert sales top five million 2 months 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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" 2 months 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" 2 months 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!) 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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.
