apple does it, and i think Google too. everyone you add to your “family” must share the same payment method. so naturally you will limit that to only people you highly trust.

you should be able to use games within your family completely unlimited anyway.

I would understand the local connection requirement if that was for sharing with people outside your family. that would make it similar to sharing a game with a friend you know in person. without that the floodgates would be open to sharing games with literally anyone online.

eh, i don’t see any reason why they can’t churn out another TES or FO like they have been for years. my problems with starfield were mostly unique to the galaxy map and space.

FO76 and Starfield were much much more risky than TES6 or FO5 will be.

the scope for starfield was just too much, it was doomed to fail from the beginning. i think they’ll be fine going back to their TES roots.

oblivion is my favorite in the series, but goddammit bethesda stop making remakes. make a make.

what makes wow not a live service game? aren’t all MMOs by definition live service?

gray, whatever.

beige, no. never again.

Mass Effect the IP isn’t the issue, the issue is EA sucks. So you’re basically asking why do they even persist as a company anymore.

Also I think Andromeda was okay, just terribly buggy at launch. The gameplay was actually pretty fun imo. On the other hand, Veilguard was technically sound but the game itself was not great. So if they can somehow learn lessons from both, there is hope.

micromacro crime city is fun. It’s kinda like a giant Where’s Waldo map except you solve mysteries as a team.

the strategy is to buy everything you can ASAP but focus on monopolizing and developing the orange and red properties. they are statistically much higher to land on than other properties because people get sent to jail so often. When exiting jail rolling 6, 8, or 9 is very likely to hit orange first and then maybe red on the next roll.

tldr; punish the poor fuckers getting out of jail. yay capitalism!

valve is a publisher too, and they have the exact same policy for their games.

https://store.steampowered.com/subscriber_agreement

yeah I think I played about 10 hours. the initial stage around hogwarts proper was interesting and fun, but once the quests went out into the open world it got a lot more tedious.

the major difference with GOW is that you can pause combat at will to strategize and time abilities/combos with your squad.

I wouldn’t say it’s bad, but it’s not great either.

…and then hand the IP to another studio.

yet they still keep making them.

eh it’ll be back. they are doing another mass effect after Andromeda.

online multiplayer bullshit with monthly fees.

idunno, to me the heavy reliance on platforming and metroidvania-style traversal far outweighs any superficial RPG elements in those games. I just get annoyed rather than immersed in the game.

KOTOR. just existing in a Star Wars world and becoming a Jedi. really have no idea why we can’t have another Jedi RPG, do you not like money Disney?

once in a while there are rumors. absolutely not “always”.

there are specific rumors causing it that the article goes into. not saying it’s real, but it’s also not just gamers being bored.

outer wilds

can you link to your privacy policy and/or data collection practices?

I think that makes sense for items of finite/low quantity like eBay. Then you have to make sure your offer is at least reasonable so it beats other offers. But with an unlimited resource like software you don’t have to worry about that.

skyrim, 307 hours

the number of times i add a game to my isthereanydeal list and have no idea wtf it is when i get a sale notification.

does that include a VAT?

so why do we need this app again?

except we know Chinese people have been review bombing other games because BMW didn’t win. Sure doesn’t seem like a joke to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

there’s an easy fix for that, don’t come anymore.

and what is the benefit? why should I take a 5% CPU hit for an NVIDIA app?

Why does it even need to be using CPU cycles while in a game anyway?

Ridiculous that this is even a discussion.

I mean, the Chinese players aren’t totally wrong, support from sales IS an important metric. Swen definitely should have worded that better. But is that worth a negative review, IDK. This seems to line up with Chinese culture as a whole though, which is usually polar opposite to the West.

rampant capitalism over workers’ desires lines up with Chinese culture?

and shitty health insurance.

this is not huge news.

but also when you rework game mechanics, add content like expansions, etc there will be even more new bugs. it’s a moving target.

are all the bugs ever gone from any game?