These companies aren't in the business of making and selling games they're in the business of increasing company valuation on the stock market. You can't convince them not to do mass firing, it's one of the fastest and easiest ways to cut costs and rapidly increase valuation. You'd need the law to protect the employees.
We haven't won until the region sales restrictions implementation to avoid legal issues of imposing PSN is rolled back. Fellow divers got refunds, we haven't won until everyone can return to diving.
As far as I'm concerned people are far too eager to call this a win and take Sony at their word without actually caring about the result.
To head off obvious responses Steam doesn't impose restrictions on their own, the publisher is in control on sales and it takes no time at all for Steam to update. So why hasn't Sony done this trivial act already? Because they'll try this again later when they legally can.
Steam very much makes that 30% worthwhile with the support and features they provide for free. They can't be forced to host games, prices are set by publishers/devs, steam takes 0% of steam key sales.
The price parity is the part that might be argued, but I doubt it will go far. I'm not seeing very good arguments for this being anti-consumer, which is the key point.
If you don't live in one of the 180 territories that still can't play the game
It's work safety attire. When men wear it it's "why are you wearing those work clothes" women can wear them because no one will assume they're work clothes because women don't (normally/traditionally) do those jobs.
In the same way that men don't wear suits in a casual setting they don't wear other work attire in a casual setting.
It didn't, there's no children in the first game even.
This is the same guy that thought his anti-revenge story was the second coming of christ and people just didn't understand.
You'd be surprised how many people don't know about that or think everything is fine now.
Just PR, it's still not available in all the countries they said they'd restrict it from. (those that own it can play it though). So in some ways it's like they went through with it and no one cares because Sony said the magic words 'you guys win'.
So many did, and yet so many are also salty because they didn't see any hints and it felt like a bullshit rug pull out of nowhere.
Judging from how many think the helldivers are the good guys, not really.
I mean prior you this we also heard that tech companies tend to continuously get in the way of the development process and slow everything down then setting unreasonable deadlines.
That these two companies introduced or at least made common knowledge the idea of unreleasing a game says volumes for their ability to manage a game development process.
If we needed E3 we'd still have E3.
That's a damn good question
That's a fair argument and a decent case, but not one that strongly backs an anti-competition legal action.
To be honest it's not. It's extreme and the content of the bill itself breaks the very law it describes.
Basically if you say any comment about a singled out group and anyone over heard you and takes offence you can br prosecuted.
So you're in your own home, on the phone, talking about how all black guys have massive dicks. A neighbour overhears, gets offended and reports you. Even if you don't get arrested, prosecuted or go to jail that incident goes on your permanent record.
It was almost 40 years ago at this point, so I don't expect everyone to know it, but its also something that doesn't come up without context. Whoever put that reference piece together knew what it was from.
Worth mentioning the extension that hides fandom wikis to make sure you find the fan made ones because fandom ones still often appear higher up in search ranking.
Something to note. This doesn't explicitly mention sales, just concurrent players. That isn't to say there weren't sales, but this just indicates people going back to play the games more than it does explicitly mean there was a bunch of new sales.
Indie games and non-AAA games are still better than games 20 years ago that generally don't pull all that shit. There might be some grim darkness out there, but I'm just gonna chill in the sun, because it's definitely still there.
Let's not pretend that MGS lore is more than a barely comprehensible fever dream. It's good, for sure, and insanely pretty for a 2004 ps2 release, but try explaining it to someone and see how far you get.
They know exactly what they're doing. They're playing the software game. Right now they've turned their development studios into marketing divisions for game pass. They don't need to do anything special right now other than let their teams make games, put them on their subscription library and watch the money roll in.
Versus Sony, which not too long ago was rabidly against anyone having crossplay with their console and is individually publishing titles.
The thing is, for the most part it doesn't matter who's holding the strings so long as good games get made available for as many people as possible at a decent and not rising price point.
The whole $70-80 free rise is being done by companies that are struggling to keep their foothold with their current MTX-based models.
It is really good, but it's also over hyped. It is exemplary for its genre and for its price-value proposition. It's definitely GOTY, but really that says more about the competition than it does about BG3. It's filled with lots of intricate little details and is clearly a product filled with passion of its creators.
Its let down a bit by the lop-sided focus of development on the early acts, and poor combat design. It's a faithful implementation of D&D 5e and even does a good job of addressing the flaws with the system. But it's still a shallow system that ends up with far less interesting things to engage with than their previous titles in my opinion.
Some of its best content can only be experienced solo, but requires managing the combat of 4 mechanically complex, but tactically shallow units.
If you like RPGs and in particular D&D 5e it'd recommend it. If you're new to the genre or just curious I'd recommend other titles for your first entry.
Really it did a few major things for fps
Until halo right-stick to turn, ads to aim on screen was a common control mechanism.
As soon as it released regenerating health, the control scheme and online multiplayer became a must-have for AAA fps. For PC it's basically just regenerating health, which was has proved to be a mixed blessing.
Not sure why you're being down voted, it's a reasonable opinion to have if you don't like their games. I feel the same about the originals. I tried them and respect them a lot, but they're just not for me.
Didn't they recently have a free weekend too?
It was a step down in some instances and didn't provide modding tools out of the gate. Modders are actively shunning it last I heard. More people are playing the original than 2
Nah, you just have an AI generate a looped clip of a person and feed that in. I'm ready for the infinity AI feedback loop
The major order noted the automatons were sending signals into space. There were shadows of unseen destroyers noted in orbit. There were enough hints, just some people didn't notice them and didn't take it well
It still has all the hallmarks, different setting, tactical defence mini game instead of the trial. I think the trip up might be change in genre conflicting with the "one person dies per mini game" but maybe they can weave a strong story or make that compelling in itself.
What meta narrative? That we all eventually remove the swimming pool ladder or trap them in a room on fire? Or having to buy the >£300 ($700) dlc multiple times?
Dontnod gave up the IP when they left. You're not wrong, but that's not the whole picture.
it's an aggressively mediocre system that's had years of a huge community polishing it to a mirror shine.
You can praise it for the community content, or go off-book like you can with any other system, but that's applicable to any system with the same community size.
Whatever you look for in it it's lacking in comparison to another system. Tactical combat? PF2e. Rules light? Worlds without number.
It's a decent middle ground of a system only because of community hard work. But that's only for the GM side. Players still need to deal with the poor character creation, unless they get a lot of support from their GM.
I've never really understood the need to hold digital sales back to physical goods sales. It's like complaining that Costco is cheaper because it skips the traditional store front.
There is patreon-supported or similar. There are also ad blockers that click the ads too to destroy your tracking profile. I'm not sure if they trigger click-through statistics for payment purposes.
Well it was more that they sold the game in countries psn isn't supported in, waited exactly 3 months (a common limit on sales laws) and then tried to screw all those people over.
To be fair to them they're deliberately holding back content to organically drip feed it in. I'm pretty confident we'll see a new faction in the next week or two. And probably more vehicles in the next 4 weeks.
It's a bit rough around the edges and the patches introducing new issues like the arc weapon crash had been deeply upsetting. Hopefully we're past the worst of it.
Steam's business model is convenience first. If someone wants to do something don't get in their way. That's how they can be a monopoly and no one complains, because there's very few walls or barriers. Every time there have been barriers, steam not accepting games, NSFW games, crypto, AI, they either get out of their way, or take a reasonable philosophical/ethical stance. Even if you disagree with their stance its hard to be angry about it and often their stance changes or gains nuance to it as time goes on.
Oh, he will. He will. Just give it time.
Everyone familiar with the lore knew going in that it was going to be a tragedy. Reach had to fall after all. The tricky and surprising thing was getting people to root for the team and have hope for them, knowing the planet was going to be glassed.
They turned the story of the planet into a small personal story about a very desperate situation. It isn't the best game, by any means, but it's impressive in it's own way and one of the better prequels.