How does this even make sense? You can’t pay more in taxes than the earnings you’re paying taxes on. If you deliberately cause a 10 million loss reducing your earnings by those 10 million and thereby saving a percentage of those 10 million in taxes, you’re not very good at math, are you?

It looks like an Octopath spin-off. Which is a good thing.

Article without tracking paywall bullshit.

So, the player frustration this quest is inspiring isn’t a straight-up next entry in the long-running paid mods debate that’s been going on within the Bethesda community with regards to the Creation Club for a while now, but rather folks simply being unhappy with the monetisation practices Bethesda’s employing with regards to its own stuff.

I suppose that will be part of it, but it takes a load of willful ignorance to not see that the reason they distribute it this way is to ease people into the idea of using the infrastructure they ultimately set up to monetize other people’s work (i.e. mods).

With how frequently they get hacked, Sony is the last company you want to trust with any of your data. Might as well post all of it on a public facebook page.

Well, yeah, XIV as an MMO is a different thing. But that one also doesn’t have revenue issues afaik.

Maybe it’s because Final Fantasy peaked at VII-X and went downhill from there, fucking up their combat further and further with every installment?

The average movie isnt worth ticket price either

The worth of a thing is determined by what people will pay for it.

length certainly doesn’t equal quality.

For any single product that’s true, statistically it makes the two classes (games and movies) comparable.

I don’t think you’ll earnestly want to argue that 1 hour of movie entertainment is in general worth multiple hours of gaming entertainment. There are good and bad movies and games, but if you compare those of similar quality, the fact stands that the game will give you more for your money. Whether you want more of course depends on you - I gather that gaming doesn’t seem to really entertain you for the most part.

If the game cost $20, they’d have to sell about 120k copies to break even on that Investment,

Far more actually. You have to deduct taxes, steam’s cut etc. from those 20$.

That’s a movie ticket and a snack. Most games offer far more (or at least longer) entertainment than that. Even games I won’t finish.

And people still have to lift heavy shit, crawl around in dangerous spaces and generally harm their health to make a living.

Wait for the kernel level anti cheat to be revealed before you get hyped.

FF16 to me is paper thin in every regard. I would rank it last among all the FF games I’ve played. The combat is especially bad. You can basically button mash your way through all of it. Dodge a lot, that’s it.

Guess I finally have a reason to upgrade …

There are different kind of DLC, and the kind that’s similar to actual expansion packs is usually not criticized (or not by most).

The thing is, you actually get 30$ story and 5$ per outfit instead of a 30$ Expansion.

And cosmetics do add to the game for a big part of the market.

No, because they weren’t even offering it for sale. But they also weren’t offering it to be taken to be sold by somebody else for a profit. Which is what the studio did anyway. So now, after the fact, they can either pay a compensation and credit the modder, or they can remove their stuff from the game.

No it’s not. The modder didn’t sell anything. Wanting to be compensated if somebody else makes a profit from your work that you put out for free is not the same thing as selling it.

This is the wrong comparison. If you painted a modified version of an existing painting, the original painter can’t take your work and sell it against your will.

Sea of Stars. Beautiful hommage to the classics.

I wish I could forget it and experience it for the first time again.

Every Tad says “ah shit, here we go again…”

It’s canonically always the same Tav repeatedly getting dragged into these weird “save the world” situations.