Bought a 5700xt on release for £400, ran that til last year when the 7900gre released in the UK. Can’t remember what I paid but it was a lot less than the flagship 7900 and I forsee lasting many years as I have no desire to go above 2K.

AMD GPUs have been pretty great value compared to nvidia recently as long as you’re not tying your self worth to your average FPS figures.

A savings account earns interest, you can pay into it monthly until product release…

How does paying up front before release spread the cost?

I think they’ve done them a favour in a way. If this was day one then it might hurt them but they’re past the point of like 90% of their sales I bet, and now pegi looking like incompetent dinosaurs is just a free second wave of social media exposure

You’re not even paying for cheats in a ubisoft game, you’re just buying back the time they added in with pointless grind so you can play through the short storyline without having to run fetch quests for an extra 50 hours to pass through the level gates.

I love them paying for a denuvo license on a game no one even cares enough about to pirate anyway.

Ubisoft may have given up making entertaining games a long time ago but they still provide me with entertainment.

With the exception of indy games if they’re priced in a way I’m happy to take a punt, I only buy games after putting a few hours into the pirate copy. With the near extinction of demos and amount of bs out there over the last decade plus this became my only way of buying. It’s why I bought the first KCD back in the day.

Without a copy to evaluate, I’m happy to wait for it to be cracked, and then happy to wait for the DRM to be removed before purchasing to avoid any related performance issues. It’s a shame, but I’m not gonna lose sleep over it…

Mashing x to doubt…

That timeline was trotted out to make it sound pre no man’s sky during marketing. Inside sources had it’s real development time as way shorter, hence it’s so terrible even for a Bethesda game

Yeah, how would suing something that can’t feel pain help you get it up…

Sure it’s nice to hear and all but I wrote them off a long time ago and this does nothing to make up for terrible ethics.

Some people thought the same about Amazon, providing them a huge marketplace to sell on… Then Amazon cloned the products which sold well and undercut to force those sellers out of business before hiking the prices back up again.

126 hours is probably the total time the writing team gets budget for per title in most ‘AAA’ studios now.

After that its down to chat gpt to fill in the gaps…

I wouldn’t say there’s much in the way of management, its short fights mostly. Something I like about it are the fairly strong modifiers for each character type and how it pushes you into using them all so you get forced into different types of play.

I’m also trying to mainly support small dev team games these days and I think this made by one person which I find super impressive. You die and restart a lot, which I also enjoy

Only buy a couple or so games a year these days, been really enjoying an arena fighting game I came across a little while ago. Only just started putting a few hours into it but always appreciate a game that makes you have to work on skill to progress.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/973230/We_Who_Are_About_To_Die/

Also most of his reported wealth is tied up in dubious stocks and unprofitable companies, the value of which would fall faster than the speed of gravity if he suddenly needed to access a significant amount value without a stock backed loan…