By making a platform that's actually good? By creating a better platform than the competition? By offering superior online services (multiplayer, store, in app web browsers)? Pricing? You know, the same ways EA and Ubisoft and Steam and GOG compete on the PC and the same way the various PC hardware manufacturers compete.
No, they aren't. Fewer people get to play the games. That's bad. Consoles compete with games instead of with performance, resulting in performance that's sub par by the standards of 4 and 5 year old PCs when the consoles first launch. That's bad. Exclusives don't have to compete with as many games in the same genres for attention (IE Gran Turismo literally has 0 competition on the PS4 and so far less incentive to improve because they have a captive audience.) That's ba...
Unfortunately it's not. There are a lot of factors. Just 1 example:
Good games don't necessarily set the world on fire. Psychonaughts and Beyond Good and Evil both reviewed well, and sold like garbage. The World Ends With You also got good reviews and while it was profitable it was profitable because of smart budgeting and marketing (only selling like 500k copies.)
So while good games will definitely help there is, sadly, more to it than simply ma...
That's what happens when EA absorbs companies. All Criterions talent fled the EA machine and EA promptly merged what was left with one of it's other studios, and chances are they hamstung what good work Criterions ghost could have done with corperate meddling.
In the last 12 years there have been 2 good NFS games, and one of them was good because it was basically just Burnout 3 + Hot Pursuit 2. 2/9 is pretty poor odds. It's not worth getting your hopes up.
2 points (that haven't already been hit by other people in response to you)
1: the effects of hormones have a dramatic impact on physical ability. this means trans women will have a huge disadvantage in physical competitions against other biological men, and trans men will have a huge advantage over other biological women. Your "solution" doesn't actually make anything more fair.
2: there are no studies I'm aware of that indicate any signifi...
Which is precisely why people transition. Do you really think, in a country where we have a VP who advocates electroshock and conversion therapy, where trans people are not protected from descrimination by law in 20+ states, and where trans people are 0.4% of the population but 1.7% of hate crimes, that people chose to be trans?
What about places like Iraq where there are news reports of trans people being murded by psychos with machetes, honor killed, thrown off roofs, ect...
Except unless they change the version quickly then any other games released with that version should be cracked relatively quickly, meaining this version will fail to protect all future games it's on during the initial launch.
Just have to point out, not purchasing a product isn't doing damage. The only time there is damage is if it's costing the company money.
For an uncontrovercial example, lets look at some old games:
Lets say I wanted to play Skies of Arcadia Legends. I literally cannot buy that game new, and the only person it helps if I spend 120 USD to get a used copy on Ebay is the person selling it. Not doing any damage to the company.
Now ...
Gender and sex are not the same. Please forgive the horribly misused and overused turn of phrase, but gender is a spectrum. That doesn't mean there are 3+ genders or any of that nonsense, it means it's a scale. Why do you think we have terms like tomboy and girly girl? Effiminate man and manly man? And why do you think those concepts long pre-date the modern understanding of gender? Because those peoples behavior and interests lie outside what one would expect based purely on biologic...
That doesn't work.
Specifically, while the wider frame and larger heart/lungs will give average trans women an advantage over average biological women in physical sports, the lack of muscle mass caused by a lack of testosterone will put them at a staggering disadvantage against biological men. Similarly, trans men will have a big advantage over biological women (again, at physical sports) by virtue of much higher muscle mass, but a noticable disadvantage against biological ...
It's not legal/possible to switch that type of information on any form of government ID in quite a lot of places. Even in more tolerant places where one can manage (say, California, because it was the first result in my attempt to check) it's often only after years of treatment and can still involve a wait time of several months for court dates, and on top of all that a conservative judge could deny it just to be a prick and force an appeal, which takes even longer.
No, easier isn't always better. Done.
Want to know how to completely undermine dramatic tension in the story? Make the actual fights that take place during that tension a cakewalk. The "ideal" difficulty for a game like Persona (at least if the point of the gameplay is to enhance the story, which it is in this case) would be one where you feel like you're at risk of failing thus maintaining the tension, without ever actually failing and replacing said tens...
Craigs list doesn't provide fruad protections except as required by law, but they also don't let you transfer money using their site, don't handle shipping (so physically meeting up is usually necessary if you have any sense at all,) and don't deal in digital goods.
All you should need to know about G2A is that they charge you a subscription in order to get a refund if the key doesn't work. That means 2 things. They *know* keys are regularly stolen (and ...
The best deal is free. Multiple indie devs have outright stated that rather than buy their games from G2A, you should just pirate them, because while pirating the game doesn't benefit them G2A and the problems with fruad are an active detriment.
Those sites (ebay, craigslist) don't enable bulk purchase and sale of illegal goods. It takes a lot more time, a lot more effort, and involves a lot more risk to bulk buy/sell stolen physical goods (you have to actually hav...
People need to understand the keys are provided immediately upon purchase. Unless you want to wait several days for a game to be available after you bought it, there is nothing that can be done on the storefront/dev side to prevent fruad of this type. G2A however, *can* provide tools for developers tools to identify and remove illegally purchased keys, they *can* provide fraud protection without charging for it, they *can* ban people who regularly sell keys that don't work, they *can* rep...
Actually no. Ebay not only has fraud protections (if it turns out you buy something stolen or that doesn't work on Ebay, the refund your money) but EA will also sic the FBI on people guilty of fraud and ban accounts.
G2A doesn't do this.
Not to mention the fundamental difference in turning around stolen digital goods for profit compared to physical goods. Physical goods have days or weeks of travel time to the person buying them with stolen cred...
They're just not really making RPGs anymore. Oh sure every 3rd game is labeled an RPG of some description, but they have none of what actually defined the genre. There is no roleplaying in most of the "RPGs" released in the last 10 or so years, just level ups and floaty numbers in combat, literally the least important thing in an RPG.
What world are you living in? The very lowest score any game gets is a 7/10, which is good by literally all of the major reviewers standards. If anything people review games unfairly in the positive direction, not the negative direction, and everybody knows it (which is why games that get 7/10 rarily sell well.)
At least we got Hot Pursuit out of the deal. Small consolation considering the price, I know, but it is a really good game.
Uh, no? People just only remember the good ones. Hey, remember Drive Club? Infamous 2? The order 1886?
Squeezing the most possible performance out of overpriced underperforming hardware isn't some great laudible thing. Games like DOOM manage to squeeze the most possible performance out of hundreds of different hardware setups on PC. It's not that developers can't optimize for multiple systems properly, it's that they're lazy, they're incompetent, or...