I guess it's natural to think of digital and online as the same thing, but there's more to it. People that prefer physical copies of games can buy them online too, get them delivered. That's what's killing the likes of Gamestop, especially now that you can get next-day delivery easily, and sometimes even same-day.
It gets even worse for customers if they learn why the upsells are so aggressive. GS employees (and employees at some other stores, to be fair) are required to have a certain number of them, including things like extended warranties. They have a quota, and if they fail to meet it too many times, out the door they go. If customers didn't already feel enough pressure at the checkout, now they have to deal with guilt about someone's job security too.
My brother got ...
Same here. I stopped shopping there many years ago, before Amazon took over the world. Used games sold for no more than half the price of new until Gamestop came along. Then not only did they price used games at just a little under new, but then they tried hard to push them on me, making the shopping experience a chore. I even told them at the time I'd buy the used stuff at half the retail price of new. That never flew. If anything, it was easier to get a promo discount on a new gam...
He didn't say digital. He said purchase online, as in a box with physical goods shows up at your door a day or two later.
What a surprise. Steam opens the gates to heaps of utter garbage, completely abandons its responsibility to the storefront's quality, and sales come crashing down on average.
I think I'll have a heart attack and die from that surprise.
Some of the technical laziness hurts gameplay, though. That goes beyond aesthetic opinion.
I don't blame them. Cracking games and releasing them sometimes before launch has become an internet sport.
Yes. They don't learn. Don't announce. Release when done. Nothing can be stopped once it's released.
To add to rainslacker's post, one huge advantage of SSDs is negligible seek time. That's the time it takes to find the data requested and start reading it. In a mechanical drive, than involves physically sweeping the pickup arm from where it is to where it needs to be. If that happens a lot during loading or streaming, throughput suffers markedly. In an SSD, that seek process is all silicon, electronic--no moving parts, practically instant. If you're reading lots of different...
For real. Starts out well enough on PC, but areas get a lot more complex later in the game, and performance suffers. To make matters worse, the game just doesn't look good enough to justify the heavy load: weird colors even outside of paranormal events; a soft look, almost as if rendered below display res; thick gritty fog obscuring everything; and an extreme brightness gradient that often crushes both blacks and whites. It's like the gamma curve is way out of whack. (I get better...
I liked Pope a lot better. I want to play as her.
Yeah, I know. These things are wrong. We do what we can to set them right. The push against abuse in the gaming industry is one example.
There's a difference between busting your butt for *your own company* and doing the same *as a lowly employee*. I have no problem with putting in as much time as I need to in order for my own business to succeed. That doesn't mean it would be OK for me to demand it others, who have no real ownership stake in the company, and who don't even get overtime pay.
The game is tough on hardware. It's like the new Crysis. Console versions have serious performance issues. After seeing some benchmarks, I wouldn't want to buy it even for the PS Pro or X1 X.
On a middle-of-the-road PC, it can chug too, particularly in certain places. On top of that, it has some issues with high difficulty spikes; and personally, I think it looks like ass. They went way overboard with the fog to show off volumetric-lighting effects, and there a...
Cyberpunk 2077 is from CDPR. That shoots your whole diatribe through the heart. They are exactly who should be developing a big game in this genre. They've proven they can handle the load with The Witcher 3, and they're far from being some soulless giant like EA.
To look at the cloud's silver lining, no one can argue that pirating these games in Australia hurts sales.
What's the drama? Just sell it on Steam. They don't want to lock them into an exclusive, right?
I don't play it either, but "nerf" is always a 4-letter word. Pulling the rug out from under players who have a lot invested in the game is never a good thing. If I buy a game with a certain set of expectations, and then those are eliminated down the road, on a whim, I'd feel reamed.
Organized crime has lots of money too. Doesn't make it something good for the rest of us.
Right! I think you generalized the decision process quite nicely (X, A, B . . .). Why put up with the slightest negative when you can accomplish what you want elsewhere just as well?