I checked out of Wow a few expansions back, haven’t regretted it yet. I too was a day 1-player but the current game is so far removed from its roots it might as well be another game altogether.

Gonna have a tough time competing with Steam Deck if they are up to their old proprietary tricks. Only way they could undercut that is by slashing the price, but considering what a PS5pro goes for, I doubt it.

No, we wanted a true base game first and foremost.

The only interaction I’ve ever had with authors of mods and such was sending them thanks for their hard work. Sad.

Ugh, that site has phone cancer.

No thanks.

Tencent will grow to become the anti-Steam, mark my words. They already have their grubby mitts all over devs worldwide, and every single one will live to regret it (or their players, at the very least).

I suppose Morhaime and Metzen have to wipe away a tear once in a while when they see their brainchild being violated in every possible way, but they can do so using fat wads of cash Harrelson-style, so I can’t say I feel the least bit sad for them. This is what happens when you prostitute your (and others’!) dreams to the highest bidder. I hope it was worth it.

Fun fact: King’s Quest I, one of the very first games in the world to use graphics, had puzzles that could be solved in multiple ways. Taking a non-violent approach was the only way to max out your score however. For example, there’s a giant you can kill with a slingshot, or you can tire him out and make him fall asleep for more points.

The last console I owned was a megadrive and I still don’t feel I ever missed out on anything at all.

Those scorpions in the big empty are the worst enemies in the entire game. Always dumping entire mags into them just to whittle their hp down…

Can’t or won’t?

Probably on sale for half off by the holidays. I can wait.

I haven’t forked over any $$ to Activision in over a decade, I see no reason to ever change my stance. I don’t feel like I’m missing out either, I simply cannot understand why this franchise ever got as popular as it is, let alone why it remains so popular today. A fool and his money…

There’s mods to fix that. I went from 3-4 minutes loading to ~30 sec.

https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/73469

Buy physical gold & hide it (and well, not just in the house).

What are they going to do? Sue your descendants for something they can’t prove?

Oh absolutely. I’m not conceited enough to imagine Valve is developing games for me or that I’m entitled to anything. Just venting my personal disappointment with their choice. I still consider them the cream of the crop in game and hardware development.

Whatever it ends up being, I’m not interested. Never cared for competitive gaming. Sad that Valve has decided to use part of their enormous talent pool for, well, this while almost any genre would’ve been better.

Also, this is already a highly saturated niche. I don’t doubt Valve’s technical prowess and knowhow to develop a game that can surpass all the other ones in quality, but a gilded turd is still a turd under that gold leaf, even if it’s technically the best turd in the world.

“We’re gonna keep doing it, but feeling really bad about it all the way to the bank”

Too bad I lost interest over a year ago.

That’s not usually a sign of a healthy development cycle.

Devs (and players) getting majorly shafted by Sony. Make no mistake, Arrowhead doesn’t want this either, but their hands are tied. Fucking Sony…

It started after Satoru Iwata’s death in 2015. He was a notorious true gamer/engineer before CEO and his vision was always long-term. The two who have replaced him since have decidedly chosen the short-term route for fast profit vs long term consumer binding.

Honestly, unless you’re a young teen or schoolkid, they don’t put out much content worth it anyway. Unless you consider endless variations on Mario innovative.

Besides finacial reasons, brand names have worth. Infogrames had a decent reputation so ostensibly, it still does. That instills trust in consumers, or at least that’s the theory.

That’s… not a good thing, right? I mean it usually is, but Blizzard being the toxic cesspool we now know it already was before the merger, wouldn’t it make more sense to just replace the entire c suite with Microsoft people?

Good ol’ Fisto

Lol, their catalog is ridiculous and by no means worth a subscription.

Blizzard can go fuck themselves with a saguero cactus, all the way from shaft to tip.

Anyone who still gives Blizzard money in 2024 deserves to get milked dry. You are informed, vote with your goddamn wallet.

I’m not sure the world is ready for a reality where you can essentially fart in someone else’s face over the internet.

Start Wandows Ngrmadly?

Do we now pay for cheat-codes in a 70-moneyz single-player-game? Also Yes.

Speak for yourself. I don’t buy any games with pay-to-win elements at all, And there are developers out there who are giving the correct example. Larian, for one. And Arrowhead is killing it with Helldivers II as well, which is another game that puts the player firstl and doesn’t try to nickle & dime you to death.

Helldivers 2 is online coop and all missions take anywhere between 5-40 minutes. But the objectives are clearly laid out beforehand and players get to choose what optionals they do, if any. So it’s not too hard to plan your day or evening around this.

With video gaming being a bigger market than movies and music this was inevitable. So far it’s actually been good. As long as they can maintain that level of quality I’m all for it (unless it makes games significantly more expensive)

This is exactly what I’ve been waiting for. My son is 13 and we share a Steam library. It’s not usually an issue but sometimes he does want to play something that requires online connection at the same time as me. Now that problem should be permanently in the past.

Even if he moves out in who knows how many years he can still take all his games with him. This is why I never feel guilty about spending money on Steam/Valve; I know that as long as GabeN lives, I won’t get stabbed in the back.

Probably cost an arm and a leg too…

Yeah same. One of my coworkers was trying to get me into it but every single time I keep coming across shit like this. No thank you.

I have plenty of since delisted games. Nothing changes, unless they require some sort of always-online component that has also since gone offline.

60hz4k until I die. Or can afford 144hz4k. Which’ll probably be around the same date, give or take.