I just made a similar comment on the thread above and then saw yours. You put it even better. Nice to see other people see how this goes.
Classic company defense. If 1000 people make legitimate criticisms of a company, but one of them allegedly also sends a death threat, the 999 who only made legitimate criticisms get lumped in with the one who made the alleged threat. The company then talks about how they are scared, and the media runs cover for them by saying "it's just games, it isn't that important, gamers are stupid and immature."
The inflation rate isn't 25%. That's the interest rate Turkey's central bank is using to fight inflation. Turkey's annual inflation rate has been 80% percent in certain months in the last year or so. Even in better months it has been around 50%. Year on year this destroys the value of the currency.
I love how this article leaves out the fact that Turkey has debased the value of its currency so much in recent years that the government has now had to raise the interest rate to 25% to try to address the issue:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/0...
To put that in perspective against the inflation problem in the US, the Federal reserve has on...
If they made a game in the vein of 1942 right now, it would instantly become my favorite game. I also know it would struggle to maintain a player base without a progression system, gun unlocks, skins, seasons, constant updates, and all the other modern garbage that I hate but that other people seem to view as necessary for a multiplayer game these days.
This is the problem with Battlefield fans. We all agree the series used to be good and that they got away from what made it great, but we can't agree on which old games were the good ones. I mean, for a lot of people on here "classic Battlefield" means 24-player maps on 360/PS3.
The comparison I'm using is steam concurrents. Everyone on Steam bought the game, so you don't have to worry about the "do the numbers matter when people only played the game because of GP?" issue. The way I look at it is that a game that if two games (one on GP and one not) have similar steam concurrents, you can assume that the game available on GP would have sold as well or better overall had it not been available on GP as the game that wasn't available on GP.
You and so many others seem to have forgotten that when game devs put fast travel in a game, that doesn't have to be the only method of travel. In fact, it's arguable whether a system counts as a fast travel system of it is the exclusive means of travel in certain situations. The whole point of fast travel in games is to allow you to quickly travel a distance in the game that would otherwise take a much longer time.
I'm confused by this argument you and so many people seem to making that a game like Starfield has to have either fast travel or real space flight. Why not both? Elder Scrolls games have fast travel, but I can also chose to ride a horse around the world map if I want to travel that way.
The ideal game in this category would be one that feels like NMS when you are in your ship but like Starfield when you are on foot. Also remove the boundaries on planets lol.
Yep, this site is useless without one.
Even at launch NMS has much more advanced flying mechanics than Starfield, and obviously that game has improved leaps and bounds since then. I already prefer Starfield's on foot segments though.
Yeah I don't love the map or inventory. It will be interesting to see what solutions the mod community can come up with.
I'm enjoying it so far, though the fact that the ship sections are so limited compared to something like NMS is a little disappointing. But I guess they were up front about that.
Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems to be about publishers becoming dependent on the subscription model rather than a la carte sales; I'm not sure how digital vs. physical is relevant to this. Even prior to subscriptions taking off, indie publishers like the ones discussed probably sold the vast majority of their a la carte copies digitally anyway, except for some limited editions.
Who could have foreseen this?
This comment really shows your ignorance, though I expect it's willful in this instance.
Whenever a new show, movie, or game comes out with painfully sterile humor or over the top hamfisted progressive messaging, and it gets criticized, someone will jump in and try to say "well this earlier movie/show/game from the same director/company/etc came out 10-20 years earlier and it had a diverse cast and a social message in it, they have always focused on that." T...
That's a stretch. The 10s are definitely outliers, but so are these. Seems like it's going to settle in the mid to high 80s.
@wesnytsfs
I mean, in a broad sense I don't care how people access the game. I was responding to the assertion that this game isn't going to sell significant numbers. The Xbox user numbers are irrelevant on that point, so I noted that the relevant metric will be the Steam Charts. If it has high Steam Concurrents, we will know it sold well.
@-Foxtrot
"I think people asked for one of them, a nice little online experience like the good old days...not the live service shit which consumes the entire game with drip feed content in the style of a roadmap."
I agree with you that there is a difference between a traditional multiplayer game (or mode) and a live service/GaaS. My question to you is what are the recent examples of successful traditional multiplayer titles? Because these days p...