ampersandrew

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

their own official DnD game is the complete opposite of BG3 in terms of monetization, popularity and critical acclaim

I don't follow. You buy a book and you play. Critical Role brings in more viewers than most primetime network TV shows ever could. They had a controversy around changing their monetization that didn't come to pass, is my understanding, but the complete opposite of BG3?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I think I'd have a problem with it if bad internet super sleuths came up with some nonsense reasons to try to destroy my reputation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

BG3 is available DRM-free on PC. I'd say that's better than any sense of security offered by physical media.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Some of these things really do seem to be luck of the draw. Maybe they run A/B tests. Did you get bombarded with ads on Windows 10? I did. My friends had no idea what I was talking about. I for sure got nagged over and over again to use OneDrive back when I still used Windows, and stories like this one were in the news all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I think the industry is in a hurry to stop spending $100M+ per game, so I'd say that's unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

“welp we’re out of budget so we’ll do a recap episode” that StarGate pulled every season

I've never seen StarGate, but functionally, this type of episode makes a lot of sense for a serialized story in the era before streaming, which is why serialized stories used to be very rare.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The case Nintendo was making, as I understand it, was that their site provided pretty clear links to sources where you could circumvent encryption, even though they weren't doing it themselves.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Well, not Suicide Squad, but they've got plenty of bangers on their resume.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I beat the base game of The Outer Worlds and started the DLC. This game ought to have more eyes on it in the wake of Starfield. It's just a better version of that game. Each settlement you come across might have about 10 NPCs in it, and each one of them is connected to the other ones via quests that help you form a picture of just what happened here before you landed. It's excellent.

I also finished Penny's Big Breakaway. When you hit a flow state in this game, it's so, so good, but a bit of jank in the physics and controls for the game hold it back. Like last week, my recommendation is still to wait a few months to play it, in hopes that patches can square away some of these issues.

And then there's my usual fighting game shenanigans in Street Fighter 6 and Skullgirls, trying to be the FGC equivalent of "swol". The Capcom Cup finals for SF6 were a lot of fun to watch despite there being too many Lukes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Whatever their reasons, I'm glad they opted for this. It makes the game translate better to controllers, and that's just a more comfortable way for me to play games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It has a "do not recommend" next to each game on the list, and it's used for people to review bomb games and cry about this company on the Steam forums.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

Correct, this is not a call to action for anyone except Valve to moderate conspiracy theorists.

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