I really hope the subscription model for games falls flat.

I knew Konami would fuck this up.

I can live with timed exclusives if it leads to good games.

Not just Gen Z lol. People don’t have money, games are a luxury, luxuries are the first to go when you need to stretch your cash. Not that complicated.

Microsoft stopped releasing console sales numbers over a decade ago. Tough to say how they’re performing in hardware. But it’s also safe to say that they wouldn’t hide the number if it was good. But they don’t care about hardware anymore. It’s all about the subscription now.

I’m curious how that subscription value is gonna look in a few years now that Microsoft has cancelled basically everything and fired a ton of talent. How do you sell a subscription when you have no exclusive content for said subscription?

How do you convince third party AAA studios to put their game on a subscription service where they know they’ll make less money? Aside from buying the studio, that is.

Why would someone want to pay monthly, indefinitely, for access to some games? You’re not gonna have time to play everything. And if you pick one game and play it endlessly, it’s a better value to just own the game outright. I only see the subscription model working for casual gamers, which are the exact kind of people who have no issues dropping a recurring expense if they aren’t getting their money’s worth. Sign up for a month here or there, play the new release, drop the subscription, rinse and repeat.

On the flip side, you’ve also effectively devalued your games to the people who would have paid full price. Why pay $70 for Doom or Indiana jones when I know I can pay like $15 for a month and beat them both, and unsubscribe till the next game comes out. I’ll either temporarily subscribe or wait for a steep discount.

Microsoft is bad for gaming as a whole.

Who the hell still gets a pension?

It can be done right. Like a dragon infinite wealth has a vtuber character as part of its story line, they use the account to spread lies about the main character and part of the story is trying to figure out who controls the channel.

But yeah, I don’t see most games doing it that way lol

My body is ready.

Is it just me or is it a bit disingenuous to call a 1/6 scale action figure a statue?

Well yeah. That’s what happens when you don’t bother to fix your poorly performing game.

I slept on the dead rising series until the remake came out. Then I picked up the original, 2, and off the record stupid cheap. Had a blast going through them all!

All of them are fantastic games and it’s such a shame they killed the whole series with the 3rd game.

Milk the smaller and smaller base for more and more.

Sounds like Cable TV.

Payment platforms have problems with incest and furry content from the looks of that list.

Steam is nowhere near big enough to push back against this.

That’s a pretty big jump in a very short amount of time.

I was under the impression they pulled this shortly after launch. Did it come back at some point?

Psychonauts. I’m upset I slept on this game for so long. It’s very charming.

Because a good lawyer looks for any sort of far reaching authority they can legally get away with, and will continues to push boundaries as legally far as they can until they get challenged. All in the name of protecting their clients from liability.

I don’t like it, but I get it. And these things can fall apart when challenged in court or public opinion.

Makes me think of the guy who died from an allergy at Disney land and Disney tried to say he couldn’t sue because of his Disney plus agreement.

Lawyers put in all kinds of legal clauses specifically to try and avoid any and all liability on anything imaginable or unimaginable. Most times it’s beyond what anyone would call reasonable. But we aren’t dealing with reasonable people.

Say I broke a game disk that they told me I had to destroy and I cut myself on it, deep enough to need medical attention. I wonder if I could sue them for the costs, since they specifically told me I had to break my game.

Yep I believe that’s what this is. I’ve seen clauses like this in other stuff too. Pretty boiler plate. Not like they can actually enforce it.

“Showld we have comecbed”

I specifically held back getting this at launch due to early performance reviews. I still haven’t picked it up because apparently all those same performance issues still exist or have gotten worse.

Beat saber is the only game besides Gran Turismo that I ever used with VR. Both are great experiences. I only bought it for GT7 on PS5, total waste of money honestly, but it’s nice that the PSVR also works on PC too so I can use it on other racing games.

Oh look. Sega taking old games down so they can sell them to you again. Never seen that before. /s

Yes, to read enemy attacks. That’s why I want a zoomed in camera too. No other reason.

Steam hasn’t forgotten about gaming on Mac, even if Apple has.

Yeah it’s a show, not a convention. Expect Geoff on stage introducing trailer after trailer.

It’s all good. If they actually finished the game, EA would have fired them anyways.

My 4k tv disagrees. Even upscaling from 1440p, my 10GB is barely enough on new games

Lol Randy actively taking the winds out of his own sails.

I hope he rots in piss.

He’s too busy collecting child porn to bother with running his business.

Avowed? Really?

I’m gonna have AI make fake datasets of stolen accounts and scam scammers.

Waffle House desperately wants to distance itself from the ‘fighter diner’ image.

If you really want me to pay $100 for a game, you gotta raise the bar to the fuckin stratosphere compared to what we’re getting now.

And get me a damn raise.

So to all those other publishers who have already pushed their games release date out to avoid GTA6, you got a new date to avoid.

Microsoft wants you to not buy retail games so they can lock you into a game subscription and milk you for eternity.

Don’t fall for it.

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If Square decides to do another FF remake, they’ll either skip over 8 and do 9 instead, or they’ll go back and do 6. That’s what I think. But if they did 8, they better overhaul that stupid Draw system.

But they barely released anything for the current generation of consoles.

Nvidia is on a roll with the shitty drivers lately.