Everyone that doesn’t have a switch?

Over time they realised that, while holiday windows or whatever have high sales, if there’s a better or more popular game coming out then, yours will just be forgotten.

That said, most “industry specialists” are just glorified influencers, so take it with a grain of salt

The only people saying this were Ultima players from 2005 before they tried and WoW and switched.

So, is it the world first or not? They were technically the first…

Damn, lemmy is so good that it has a time machine to read comments from 2005!

With the amount of 9s and 10s coming out, why would you waste time with a 7? The polarisation is just an effect of the language of clickbait spreading in society, but doesn’t change the fact that average games are probably not worth your time.

Every game that didn’t get made is the greatest game of all time in someone’s head.

I hope this is still early in development. You can’t have a game set exclusively in a city where buildings look like that.

Yes, it squashes the steam deck, that’s what I said.

I believe the biggest issue is more to do with matchmaking trying to provide engagement rather than good assessment of players’ skills. This is obvious when you see systems where winning gives you a good amount of points/tank regardless of the opponents skill level, which just foments even more the want for easy stomps rather than good games.

Is this complaining about skill-based matchmaking?

The ease of use of the Steam Deck cannot be overstated. Yes you can tinker with it a bunch but if you just want to play your games, you download and play. The windows handhelds will never be as easy since windows is just crap for this (and MS is not interested in improving).

If you mean the switch, then it has been thoroughly squashed. If you mean phones, well I think we can agree they are not really competing for the same customers, and if you think they do, most people are buying phones for reasons other than gaming. So you’d need a way to section the market for “gaming phones” (yes, that’s a thing).

We’ll get 60 and above on pc a while later anyway. Also the sold separately thing is probably just like they did with RDR2 where you could get everything or just the multiplayer part of the game, which I personally think is fine.

And you could fine tune basically any setting.

Guild Wars 2

Almost 5k hours of FFXIV, nothing else I can check even comes close (LoL from my teenage years might win, but who knows).

Have a look at steam reviews then ponder how people would use it

Guess I’m OOL. What non-competitive games have kernel anti-cheat?

Pretty cool iteration, hopefully.

Cultist Simulator is most fun when you really know nothing about the game and you stumble into things.

Poorly received games with tons of other venues of monetization outside the box price.

Summoner class going to eat good. Guess I’ll do another playthrough of terraria.

Considering the woman being harassed explicitly stated that the harassment she received was mainly misogynistic in nature, no. It very much is relevant to the situation.

Waiting for the free-speech absolutists to boycott twitch for this (they won’t)

For a new player sword and shield is the easy mode. Magic tends to make you squishy, and if you aren’t great at not dying getting your souls to the spell merchants is rough (if even know how to do their quests)

So what are these easy anti-cheat solutions that can detect aim-hacking?

No one is forced to do achievements to enjoy a game. I understand achievement hunting, but since they can easily be cheated (on steam at least) it really is only a personal goal. If you are not enjoying one just forget about it.

I just want Demon’s Souls on PC

Yes, not only many people still play the same games for 10 years, but also spend most of their gaming time in them. There’s a reason why a new live service game is both a gold mine and also incredibly difficult to stick.

For every streamer that makes minimum wage there are dozens that make so little they don’t even get paid.

Seems about right. CSGO skin gambling was all the rage 10 years ago.

As unlikely as it is, it would be interesting if FFXIV was a Switch 2 launch title

Although certainly similar, the fact that these games have every scene fully animated does add to it in a way that simply reading descriptions about what’s going on doesn’t.

Valve doesn’t want to make a buy to play game unless it’s something that pushes the medium forward somehow, which is the only reason Alyx was made. A PvP moba can be a source of continued revenue like all the other games they still support (and one they don’t).

Do we even know anything about the game other than the fact it’s getting made?

Your examples are of bird’s eye view games, not third person.

Dark Souls 1, Dark Souls 2 but not Dark Souls 3. The silver knight farm is brutal and I’d never do it again.

Higher refresh rate has great applications, but the competitive crowd swears up and down that it makes a big difference. I’ve had a 240hz monitor and I couldn’t tell any meaningful difference from my 165hz.

Guess getting the non k version had its perks afterall. Either way I’m going AMD next time I build a machine.