Already have one.

I mostly agree with you but third party launchers and accounts have gotten pushback on PC for a long time.

Oh for sure, us either. We were guild mates for a while, then friends, then partners! The process took years.

Meeting my wife on Elder Scrolls Online has got to be number one, but we didn’t even play the game very long to be honest lol.

Great game for mobile, too. My partner was hooked for months straight, got into some of the daily top ten leaderboards.

What’s odd about it?

Stanley Parable is amazing.

I mean, that’s just the internet, really.

Honestly you’re the one that comes off as offended to me, I’m just having a conversation. Have a good new year mate.

People don’t need to write an article for every little opinion they want to share. Guy was just trying to rep a game he liked. It can be that simple.

Imho your comment was hugely disproportionate. Guy just shared a simple opinion and you practically wrote a think piece in it. I dunno, just doesn’t match to me. I get far more hostile and sass vibes from your comment than his, when in reality you’re both saying “no this”.

What a weirdly hostile take from someone just sharing their opinion about a game they, presumably, really liked.

Balatro is addicting and well conceived. I actually think it’s a great phone game, and I don’t think I’ll play it on PC really at all. I’m not sure I’d give it GOTY, but if you’ve been on the fence about this one, I recommend you give it a shot. The dev deserves every penny of the full price.

Might have something to do with getting underage kids hooked on gambling.

I mean if you’re going to be like that, you don’t own any software.

Do you think Steam or GOG isn’t collecting data on you?

Did that surprise you? It sold insanely well.

If you want to go waaaay back before there was even time tracking, it would no doubt be Maplestory and Warcraft 3.

For games I can provide concrete numbers for, it’s Anno 1800 at nearly 500 hours, Stardew Valley at over 400, and Rocket League at nearly 300.

FIFA, a lot of the time. Lately it’s been Rocket League.

Could buy it on EA Origin then instead. (I know that’s not your point btw, I’m being tongue-in-cheek. For real though, the games are amazing, don’t rob yourself of an awesome experience because of a dumb launcher)

Even cheaper if you have max discount at Humble.

If you want to go waaaay back before there was even time tracking, it would no doubt be Maplestory and Warcraft 3.

For games I can provide concrete numbers for, it’s Anno 1800 at nearly 500 hours, Stardew Valley at over 400, and Rocket League at nearly 300.

I don’t want any game, just wanna say thanks for the giveaway!

Hell yeah! Amazing package for the price.

Each to their own, doesn’t bother me. I like the games way too much to care.

Not everyone will have played it already. If I’m a new buyer and I see one version and another version that’s the same but looks better, then yeah I’m gonna buy the one that looks better.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition is such a steal at this price.

Not usually my cup of tea but I got it as part of buying my new monitor and might give it a try.

Well yeah, wasn’t the Nameless King in the trailer?

There are daily challenges and things like that which is what I would refer to as online play. Not that crazy imho of you’ve put thousands of hours into vanilla solitaire that you may welcome something to spice it up.

I can’t speak for other people, I don’t even play solitaire. Realistically, I imagine most people get new PCs with newer Windows versions and play whatever solitaire is on there.

If that satisfies you then all the power to you.

It’s not really micro transactions as much as it is a monthly subscription to remove ads.

This isn’t really new. Solitaire has had ads for over a decade now since Windows 8, and there is a monthly premium subscription to remove them. As I understand it they also don’t show during offline play, but might be wrong about that.

I’ve played many, many good games only once and don’t think I’ll ever play them again.

If it’s a game, someone will speedrun it. That time is down to 10h 42m 22s, by the way.

It was good, not great.

If you really downvoted because you thought it was off topic then I think you used the button correctly, but in that case I’d just disagree with what is off topic. A thread about pokemon and palworld and I’m commenting comparing the two doesn’t feel like a stretch to me but, eh.

Doesn’t change my opinion about people downvoting though. My experience overall has been very similar to reddit, which makes sense considering the huge migration from there to here.

Now we’re pretty far off topic though, so have a nice day.

No, I called people who saw downvotes and piled on to the downvotes a hive mind. Please do not put words in my mouth.

Have a nice day.

I did read the article and I do know why the lawsuit is happening, at least what’s been reported, as I’ve read a few articles about it. I’m not hiding behind anything, and people are free to disagree with me.

A reminder that all I said at first was that I was surprised to find out just how much they were ripping off Pokémon, and what I was referring to (but not clearly) were in many of the designs and the brazen pokeballs. I didn’t comment on the lawsuit at all, at first.