Again. Damn these guys keep adding stuff. The moment you get bored with some content they add more.

If you find that worth it, then sure. Although that won’t be the case soon it seems as Todd has a hardon for live services.

Is repetitive buying of Bethesda games a new kind of litmus test for stupidity? I mean they do this shit constantly and people are still surprised when it happens. Did people really forget horse armor they tried to sell? Or forget about items that were free in Fallout 4, but had to be purchased in 76? It’s Bethesda and only one thing Todd dreams about is scamming another dollar from their fans.

Translated: Dear suckers who keep giving us money for half-finished products. We are sincerely sorry, sorry for getting caught. We thought we could squeeze through with this one, but apparently our PC fans are not as gullible as our console fans.

Well, better no new Fallout than Bugthesda Fallout. They care about nothing else than making more money with a minimum amount of effort and three times the copy-paste.

Not by Bethesda. Otherwise they’d sell us bottle caps.

They will basically buy one clone off of AliExpress, stamp a new name and be done with it.

Well yea:

• No online play meant game had to be played with people sitting next to you. You had to socialize;
• No updates meant games had to be finished when sold, none of the early access or battle pass bullshit;
• Games were made hard to artificially give longer play time but this resulted in sense of achievement when you beat the game;
• Booklets were actually awesome because you had lore in your hands which was written in a way not to spoil the game but hyped you to play further so you could get to that content.

Sure for the most part it’s nostalgia, but technology brought as many, if not more, bad things as it did with good things. We’ve seen games get much better than old games and we’ve seen them much worse.

Am not the average consumer so I wouldn’t know. I do miss good strategy games, turn based and story rich RPGs, etc.

And yet they won’t do it right because everyone wants to make a game as a service these days and sell loot boxes and collectibles with season passes, special editions, early adopter bonuses, login bonuses and in-game currency. If it lacks even two the things I mentioned, I’d be surprised.

Good luck to them. It would be great it they could offer a better service to consumers, instead of rewarding developers who will go to most popular provider anyway or be on all of them for obvious reasons.

It’s the most underwhelming finale in any game I’ve played. Completely pointless. You work your ass off to establish economy which can sustain building of a ship and then once you are done defending it, you get a black screen saying good job grunt. If they connected it with new game, say what you left the planet with is your new starting gear, then I could see it being more relevant. Kind of set it up for mods with extreme planets and stuff. So you have to prepare on more acceptable planet before going somewhere extreme. The way it currently is makes ending pointless.

I can see every single example taking that much time, but Skyrim? Is there really 3000h+ worth of content in that game that doesn’t get boring after first time you do it?

I got this game recently since I got hooked hard on Dead Cells, and needless to say combat was the disappointing part. Coming from DC it feels so rigid and limited, needlessly punishing. But I got the game for art, so that part is great. It’s also weirdly poorly optimized. They made the whole game in one resolution and are scaling everything, like whole screen. So your choice of resolution might end up weirdly stretched. An odd decision.

Ah, I misunderstood you. Yeah, it would be refreshing to see that as well.

True true. We need more anti-heroes.

I actually loved Tyranny more, but act 3 is seriously rushed. Also new game+ is meh at best.

Wow, didn’t know that one. At this point I am convinced Todd will count this game as success. Earned money and they didn’t have to try.

NMS at least is working on its redemption and now game is at least decent and has entertainment value. Sure it’s a bit grindy but to those who love exploration it’s a gift.

I just came here to ask the same question. It’s not innovative one bit, it’s a clone of No Man’s Sky, and a shitty one at that.

Steam did have refund policy and I have returned games in the past, but it was a review process.

This is pretty much what I said would happen in some other threads. EGS came and portrayed itself as a savior or developers, but the cost of solution comes from consumers. They didn’t try to compete in quality of service or features, but spent hundreds of millions on exclusive deals. Who in their right mind would switch from something like Steam where sole focus is the consumer.

Yes, Steam takes a huge percentage but it’s not like anyone is forcing developers to go there. Developers go there because that’s where the people are. And people are there because they get many more benefits for the same or lower price. Steam offers so many conveniences and features it’s hard to list them all. From cloud saves to Proton, chat, family sharing and so on.

In short, Epic is anti-consumer. They claim better support for developers, but in reality consumers are the one paying for that. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but you the consumer have no choice in it. You are forced through exclusives and other limitations to use inferior service for the same price. Even free games they give are there to drag you into their ecosystem and abuse.

This is why Valve doesn’t feel threatened, I assume, and is not likely to feel the pressure from Epic anytime soon. For that to happen, Epic would have to get on par with features and customer benefits equal or better than Steam and that’s not happening anytime soon. Epic would rather throw hundreds of millions on exclusive deal with some developer and force you the consumer to buy the game on EGS than actually improve the service.

Epic is not a competition to Valve. They are long ways from that position. If Steam ever was afraid of competitor it was from Windows Marker Place or whatever the name of built-in windows crap is.

Steam DRM is optional, it depends on developers to implement it.

Don’t need anything from Epic Game Store. But thanks for the heads up.

All am saying it’s the only game where I accumulated more than 1000h but without remembering how. It’s played differently from other games.

I think hours in RimWorld should be divided by 10 for realistic number of hours played since so much of the game is waiting. :)

Yeah I know. They said it’s coming but have no idea when.

If I remember correctly it’s already in US, but there’s a retailer or some partner that sells them there which is not stated anywhere for some reason. Murena seems to have it. Not sure if that’s the one I saw first time.

As long as fans keep paying full price for unfinished and buggy mess they will keep doing that.

They don’t care. If that means continually milking money without any additional effort, then that’s all that matters. Only issue Todd has with Skyrim is that he had not “touch point” with all the users, as he said so himself in an interview. Translated, he sooo wishes they had a Skyrim as a service and some sort of micro-transactions built.

Long lasting content means fuck all if it’s boring content. Not to mention you need gazillion loading screens which prolongs “play time”.

You don’t know much of history do you?

And controversy. Don’t forget their person of the year listings.

Don’t forget the mandatory apology JPEG on Xitter.

We have done our utmost to make the enjoyable experience more accessible to average user. This has in turn resulted in sub-par experience for some. As we constantly try to improve quality of our products and this was a valuable lesson from which we plan to grow into more responsible company that caters to people’s needs.

Yup. And shitty plastic shell for the rum. Then people who requested refund got their info and CC numbers leaked by their system which they took offline immediately.

Thanks for the correction. Same company though.

Well, there is a class action lawsuit against them in regards to that and other things FO76 related.

It was a heart warming situation when I saw Blizzard’s game get mixed reviews. They didn’t release games anywhere else until now and getting a reality check was a much needed thing for them.