It never pays to engage the alts.
Yep. You better believe in two years when people are making an argument about big AAA games not selling enough, or PS5 exclusives not selling, or Japanese games not selling, or whatever the dumb argument happens to be, this "number" will get cited as evidence. The retraction never has the same reach as the false story.
Once again people employing common sense are proven right.
For whatever reason and despite all evidence to the contrary, their are some companies bent on convincing themselves and others that people want to play premium games on Apple devices.
Lol if they had announced a remastered collection you would have made "remaster station" comments from like five different accounts.
A lot of the Big FF titles came out in earlier generations where selling a few million copies was a big success. Obviously the numbers from back then aren't perfect, but if you believe the estimates that get cited, FF VII is one of only about three PS1 games that cracked 10 million units, and that's one of the biggest games in the series in terms of reputation.
Yeah, these numbers are a little hard to believe. If it sold 3 million in the first week and had even a semi-decent launch on PC, for these numbers to be right you'd have to assume it sold basically zero copies on PS5 after its launch week. Given it was in the NPD Top Ten in its second month, and the top twenty its third month, that's hard to believe, even if I'm sure they anticipated it charting higher for longer. That's to say nothing of sales boosts it probably got from PSN...
They actually have a DLC for this one where you can basically play the first game within the Definitive Edition of II. I haven't tried it yet, but I actually just got it since it was part of Steam's Spring Sale. It'll be a change of pace, if nothing else.
I hope so. A group of my friends and I have been wanting to all play this together, and three of us have it on PC, but the fourth guy only has an old Mac and PS5 so he can't play it yet. I was disappointed they did Age of Mythology first for PS5 instead of this one, but if they are timing the release with this big update, that makes sense.
It's always funny when people attempt to vehemently disagree with me and then make a bunch of arguments and cite facts that support my position.
You pointed out that tariffs are hurting the stock market and large corporations. This, of course, is perfectly consistent with my point that tariffs are inefficient domestically and internationally, and that they hurt the end consumer. It seems like you may not understand the different interests between corporations (particul...
"Tariffs are a lose lose for everyone involved."
I mean, they hurt consumers and make the market less efficient, both domestically and internationally. But they benefit specific domestic industries. Why do you think unions in American industries that struggle to compete with their international counterparts support tariffs? Why do you think the UAW supports tariffs now? Why do you think Bernie Sanders campaigned on using tariffs to protect American workers in 2016...
Everyone rails against unbridled capitalism and globalization, then when any government imposes a tax or regulation that affects their consumer habits in the slightest way, they become free trade, free market absolutists.
I mean, they should. It's a digital good that is the same wherever you are buying it. It's not like food or a consumer good where it costs less in relative terms in poorer countries, but it also costs less to bring to market due to the cheaper cost of labor, etc.
So yeah, I don't blame people for taking advantage of it. To me if they MS is selling a digital good for less absolute value, then they are establishing that is what it is worth to them. I'm simply...
I didn't say it wasn't. But if you are selling a digital good for different absolute costs, people are going to take advantage of that, unless the discrepancies are small enough to make it not worth the hassle.
Just make the price pretty close to equal regardless of currency and this problem will go away. If you are charging £65 in the UK (just making that up and using £ because it's one of the most stable currencies), the game should be cost a price that would be roughly equivalent to £65 in the local currency.
Once gamers let the gameplay become secondary to the metagame (the progression system and "earning" the next gun/skin/loot box/perk/attachment/etc), we were always going to end up here. If people won't just play for the gameplay and need a "reason" to play, it naturally follows that devs have to keep coming up with things for them to "earn" when they fill up the next progress bar.
A lot of this seems to come from kids growing up with mobile...
Yep. No skins, no operators, no perks, no progression system, no microtransactions, no seasons. Sad that we'll probably never get anything like that again, except niche PC games. There is a PC game coming called Wraith Ops that is supposedly ditching many of the annoying features of modern gaming, but I think it's still going to have skins and perks, unfortunately.
It all depends on if it's actually a massive step forward or if it just feels like an iterative sequel. There's a lot of revisionist history now about how "mid" Horizon has always been, but people weren't saying that when Zero Dawn came out-people were pretty much universally into it. The major hit against it at the time was that it came out too close to Breath of the Wild.
The problem with Forbidden West is that it took five years and it was just an i...
Yes I'm all for criticizing devs where games launch in a truly broken state, but I don't want to take it to the point of actively discouraging them from seeking to improve games.
Do you make new alts every day? Lol. At least try to adopt different tones across your different alts so you sound like different people.