I know! I worked and slaved for 30 years only to find out they were right all along!

So here’s what you do. Retire. I play video games as long as I want. I sleep whenever I want for as long as want. It’s pretty great.

Ecstatic! I’m sure it will go bad somehow, though.

I don’t know anything about the NG+ system because I steered way clear of Starfield, but it sounds like somebody at Bethesda saw people playing Skyrim over and over and thought “How can we monetize that”, hence the grind you’re alluding to. They expected you to encounter it organically because of course the game was such hot shit everyone was gonna play it forever. Oops.

Call me a cynic if you want but these are the guys who invented paid cosmetics.

$20 million on microtransactions

Please don’t.

$73 million on games and DLC

$42 per person average? Those are rookie numbers!

Incompetence, poor planning, probably a healthy dash of managerial stupidity not listening to the engineers. And they never drill for this which is why it’s lasted so long. But having your expensive IT staff do regular disaster recovery drills is complex and expensive so almost nobody does it properly.

Recently retired from one of the major telcos. They would do DR exercises with tabletop discussions. No actual testing or hands on. Once I learned that I knew the first big disaster we had I was just gonna walk. It was that bad.

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As a lifelong gamer and and an almost lifelong enjoyer of the despair of watching humanity defile our one and only home… duh.

Video games are weapons grade copium for smart people.

I do appreciate how hard it can be to tell the difference sometimes.

That’s… a lot of batteries for one tablet. Where are the other 18,647?

The logic here is astounding.

You think Valve is what it is because of luck?

That’s the dumbest thing I’ve read on here for a while.

I think Destiny is the only game I ever put over 2,000 hours into, but Factorio might take the crown soon - 1800 and counting.

Well that didn’t tell me a damn thing about the game.

That’s ok, I took away my support for Apex Legends many seasons ago!

Their anti cheat has always been a joke anyway.

Looks at 11 year old receipt… “oops”

That’s a bad look. He may be smart but that’s really unprofessional. You call them whatever you want behind their backs. You don’t insult clients to their face no matter how stupid they are. He’s lucky he kept his job.

Guess it’s time to sell the PS5 that I don’t play anymore anyway.

Huh. And here I’ve been a satisfied Steam user for 20 years. Weird.

Hahahaha no.

I just lost The Game :(

Same. Pretty sure I own every Bethesda rpg right up through Fallout 4 and Skyrim. I just couldn’t be bothered with Fallout 76 bullshit, and the handful of my friends that played Starfield said it was just sad.

I don’t much care what they release next. It won’t hold a candle to BG3.

Best skills from video games:

Puzzle solving / abstract thinking

Hand / eye coordination

Not flying into a blind rage when playing Rocket League, Apex, Deadlock, etc.

Still working on that last one.

If somebody starts mouthing off I just his ESC and mute every other player. Makes for a much more enjoyable game.

You’re the guy that quits right after you lose your lane, huh?

Awesome. The lack of cosmetics for real money was the only thing holding this game back…

They have as much power over that as I do over my government selling bombs to Israel so they can blow up thousands of Palestinian children. Zero.

Cool, so, still not the Russian government.

The Russian government had nothing to do with this game.

Maybe you’re right, I did play a LOT of Apex so maybe my brain misfired on this one, but I was playing Deadlock the other day and one of McGinnus’ lines instantly made me think “Damn, that was Commander Shepard!” I’ll have to listen closer next time I play and see if it’s really Bangalore I’m hearing.

99% sure she voiced McGinnus in Deadlock.

Good, I wonder if they removed it for Xcom 2 yet. I haven’t played that since they sideloaded that crap into my steam install.

It’s dismissive of people’s valid opinions of the game. Review bombing is more when people brigade reviews for things that have nothing to do with the game itself, like people bombing Harry Potter because they were pissed about JK Rowling’s tweets.

It’s a review of the product as it exists. Sounds pretty organic.

Nah I’m good.

Are you me?

Same situation. No PSN renewals, when my Gamepass expires later this year that’s it. I’m good with Steam. These consoles got too greedy.

Well they lost me with their ridiculous price hike for PSN. I won’t be buying any more multiplayer games for my PS5.

TFU1 was a lot of fun for me - I 100%ed it on Xbox and had a blast. I remember spending time learning all the moves and becoming a flowing river of death with the combos. The story was pretty cool at the time, but you have to realize it was only competing with the films at that point, and people were hungry for more Star Wars back then.

TFU2 was fucking garbage and I think I played it for all of 45 minutes before going “Nah”.

I played through it at least 3 times back in the day to 100% the achievements. Don’t know if I have another run in me. But for anyone who hasn’t played, go for it. It’s a blast and has some unique game mechanics.

You are massively overestimating the technical knowledge of the average gamer.

This scenario is exactly why consumer protection laws exist. You shouldn’t have to be an expert on everything you buy just to stay safe.