Are you okay, Surgical? This is completely unrelated to the topic and neglects that every major corporation in gaming has a subscription service (or takes part in some means of a recurring stream of income).
Apple Arcade for $4.99 or $5.99. PS Plus up to $19.99. Xbox Game Pass from $9.99-$14.99. GeForce Now. Ubisoft+. EA Play. What of people that only play WoW and pay its monthly sub? Or people that only play F2P titles like Fortnite or Apex and only buy the monthly battle ...
"How can an individual expect to be taken seriously when they allow someone else to pay their way?"
What does this have anything to do with... gaming publisher-and-platform-holder agreements?
"Who would want to buy anything if you can just get it for pennies on the dollar?"
Honestly - the rare people that actually put their money where their mouth is on supporting developers who make quality content. A lot of the incentive to own is naturally gone, and it does provide discounts as a perk but there is no denying that unless a title is in that two-weeks-remaining list or you care about a single game more than renewing your sub, the only incentive is to v...
I hope you only subscribe to the base PS Plus plan, then, and have never downloaded the PS Plus monthly freebies. Or at least bought Stray to support them directly. Otherwise your words are empty.
Microsoft pays developers/publishers for being on Game Pass so it's not like they're hung out to dry, and MS offers sales on the games in the service so you can buy them and own them if you so desire. Exactly like what Sony does with games on PS Plus services. But what do ...
What a clickbait headline. Why mention 2021, when the tides turned in 2022 for the obvious reason of one company making the Cloud service one of their biggest marketing pushes throughout the entire year while the other company was able to promote the games they had coming out?
And it's imprudent to suggest crazy growth when we only know proportions - did Xbox grow its proportion by attracting from the competitors' bases, did their marketing pay off and attract new u...
New IP time.
They had new IP on PS2 with Jak and Daxter, new IP on PS3 with Uncharted and TLOU, those same two IP again on PS4, and by the looks of it we'll be 3 years into the PS5 with a 2013 Remake and maybe only as little as a trailer of the TLOU P2 MP mode originally planned for 2020.
Games are taking too long to make, Ragnarok took the right step in making the story fit into two games. Let TLOU end with the resolution we got in P2 and whatever n...
This game's title, font style, and character designs all look like what we'd normally see in CG ads for Chinese mobile knockoff games. This one clearly knocking off The Last of Us.
And they blame that trademark dispute for why they didn't put out a demo video too. Sure, Jan.
I don't know why Microsoft hasn't taken any initiative in making a more gaming-friendly Surface Laptop. They had those 1-2 cycles with one or two AMD variants but those aren't part of the lineup anymore. AMD announced new mobile chips with massive battery life and Surface hardware financials are nosediving - in the face of Steam Deck, Windows on ARM continuing to be ASS, and Nvidia gaming laptops ever growing, MS could really use a shakeup.
It's apparently like 10-12 hours, so that's not only a good portion of the game, but also beyond Steam's 2-hour gametime refund restriction.
A fun game is a fun game and if it clicks to someone it clicks to someone. 24 hours ago most people had no idea this game was coming unless they read gaming rumor blogs, and this game will be remembered fondly by them as this gem that popped unexpectedly out of no where.
What about dynamic swearing? Or the swearing version of the Nemesis system. The more times an enemy or enemy type kills you, the more she and Cuff swear around them.
... My posting history on this site and you try going for inaccurate personal insults?
Try harder. Like EA Motive did compared to Striking Distance.
Ahh 14. Halo 2 had just come out, I was so cool throwing all the F bombs in Head to Head.
At least this game doesn't have yo momma jokes. I imagine it would've gone something like this in the writers' room...
"We can fit one here - look, there's a 200m gap between waypoints"
"Yo momma wouldnt fit if it were 300m but we can't, she's an orphan."
"Ah what fuckin shit whose stupid ass idea was that?&quo...
The last sentence of the opening paragraph, and the closing paragraph. With praise in between. Such propaganda.
If seven sentences of complaining is working overtime then IGN might want to cut some costs and look at some of the commentators in today's Xbox articles; there's a dude ranting for free in each of them.
Bingo - the platform. Not even playing as a cat in a generic apocalyptic environment could save it from that type of feedback.
You're certainly on an Xbox-fueled whine fest today - Forza games consistently being good is somehow a bad thing now? Ridiculous
In this instance, texts have been shared showing him grooming high school girls
Tales through Rare's history reminds me of this curiosity - Kameo Elements of Power is featured on the launch GameCube box, yet ended up being a launch title for the Xbox 360 four years later.
It wasn't anticipated by the community but the marketing machine was going regardless.
Pre-release demo. Media previews. Patching the demo. Cinematic trailers. Several story/character trailers. Many posts on the PS Blog throughout 2022. Square & Sony both have been pushing this hard.
Bought the Deluxe Edition on PS5, have a couple hours in already and I'm really liking it. But I agree with the above - forget at least the PS4 and Xbox One versions. Based on PC player count already, they'll have plenty of sales from that and current gen to be more than profitable if they aren't already.
My complaints are purely technical and seem addressable as they optimize the engine for weaker machines - spinning the camera too fast and you can see blank sp...