The solution is to collectively have higher standards.

Assassin’s creed died with 2 when they fired the creator and decided to milk it as much as possible.

So sad what this series has become, considering its counter-culture influences.

Unfortunately, data shows that people prefer to be advertised to over receiving a better product.

Rent. Greed. Entitlement. Food deliveries.

Have you played the campaigns for older Call of Duty games and the like? They still hold up.

I think matchmaking should be done on a per-game basis (or at least it’s a different issue.)

I’m more referring to how players connect, such as having friend lists, joining those friends, and the profiles we see in and out of games.

This protocol looks interesting, and I’ll have to learn more about it.

Yeah.

I’m sorry you like this game so much that you get offended when people criticize it.

Why are you so upset? I just did a quick google search and that’s what came up. Am I supposed to do actual research for a shitty game? No, I don’t care that much.

Also, they aren’t very clear about whether or not you can actually group up with 32 players, only summon them in a “social hub.”

Everyone was still technically in the same shared universe, you just couldn’t actually co-op with more than that…

So, it only goes up to 4 players because the devs aren’t competent enough to support more.

Thanks for proving my point.

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Did I criticize the thing you like? Pardon me for not keeping up with updates for shitty games before criticizing them.

You’re also wrong: “The game can currently be played by multiple people together online in parties of 2 to 4 players.”

https://nomanssky.fandom.com/wiki/Multiplayer

Don’t buy it just because.

I’ve always thought this game looked like shit.

Doesn’t it only go up to 4 players or something? What a weird limit for such a large game. I guess the devs just weren’t skilled enough to raise it any higher.

I’m not okay with this because it incentivizes companies and influencers to work together to lower people’s standards.

People are proud to accept garbage these days.

Valve is a multi-faceted company with its hands in many pies.

I heard half life alyx was pretty good. I also heard rumors that they’re making a TF2 successor. Also, didn’t a new counter-strike just come out?

Still, you have a point. Artifact was a disgusting trend-chasing cashgrab. They still haven’t commented on Half life 3, which is despicable behavior imo.

wtf did the competitor do this whole time?

It’s definitely a cultural problem. Companies like EA are completely clueless on the needs or desires of the average gamer. Their idea is to shape those needs and desires how they see fit. It’s why they spend so much on advertising and viral marketing rather than making good products.

You legitimately don’t need a lot of employees to make a good product or have a successful company.

I genuinely believe a lot of the bloat in modern companies comes from hiring people just to hire them, not because they add any significant value to either the company or customers.

Yeah. Unfortunately the only developers that are allowed to release good products in this economic landscape are 1st party Sony devs.

Everyone else gets to profit off of people’s low standards.

I think they’ll keep doing it until it essentially becomes a meme and we can all roll our eyes each time we see it.

Eh, they probably couldn’t find the sweet spot of putting forth minimal effort while making maximal profit off of people’s low standards.

I don’t really have sympathy for them because this game was most likely going to be more garbage on the pile.

Yes, the issue is the low standards.

I’m a firm-believer that if there was a product that could compete with Steam, then people would use it of their own volition.

GOG is the only platform people ever willfully recommend to others without twisting their arms because of exclusives or deals. Why? Well, they have something Steam doesn’t. Epic, Blizzard, Rockstar, all of them have platforms that exist to do one thing: make rich people richer off of the backs of useful idiots.

Getting mad at Steam for having market dominance is asinine. Get mad at the market for rewarding bloated companies who put out garbage just to make themselves more bloated and the useful idiots who go along with it.

What? We still have useful idiots saying “X show is available on Y(netflix, apple, disney, amazon, etc) paid streaming service” instead of just giving a link to free streaming services like https://hydrahd.com/

Manufactured outrage is just that: manufactured. People get mad about things other people get mad about to fit in.

A company that makes a billionaire out of its owner is overcharging you, no matter how much you like the company or the owner.

I agree, but I think people who subscribe to this mentality should be focusing their efforts on more than just Valve.

Do you think you would get the same buggy mess if every single publisher had 30% more budget to work with?

Yes, 1000%.

Games are buggy because developers/publishers/players don’t care. Money has nothing to do with it and if they had more money, they would just pocket it and release garbage for people like you.

Sometimes, monopoly implicitly means a business that is so much better than the competition that the competition is pretty much irrelevant.

I think that used to apply to Steam.

Rockstar and Santa Monica Studio still produce incredibly high-quality and groundbreaking games.

Most great studios of the past have lowered their standards to the point of irrelevancy, though.

That’s why I like old console games.

You just get a level of quality that isn’t typically seen in the modern PC market.

Replaying games like Jak 2 made me really question how I ever lowered my standards enough to accept things like Mount and Blade.

This is why games are so expensive.

So they can use that money against us.