Do you believe a developer founded in 2018 was working on a game in 2016?
If not, do you believe the people that reported that may have lied about other things or that a studio with no games behind it was able to amass half a billion dollars to make this game on their own? And who would pay them to do this? Probably Monsters Inc. who owned Firewalk and owns other studios was founded in 2016 with 250 million.
Sony bought Firewalk in April 2023.
You either believe games cost hundreds of millions of dollars or you know they don't.
Same goes for movies. You either believe they cost hundreds of millions of dollars or you know they cost less than 15 million like Godzilla Minus One did.
They have been for decades.
Or do you mean, explicit ads that interrupt the game?
NFL 2K5 had the "Burger King Halftime Report."
BK paid them to put that in there. It's technically an ad.
I remember when people were worried about their system being able to run this game in 2014.
Reqs: Windows 8, DirectX 11.1, Quad core CPU, 16 gb RAM.
Of course it's garbage to require linking an account.
"Literally no games require that anymore"
"other than a couple multiplayer Epic games"
"and BattleNet games"
"And EA games often ask you to log into UPlay"
"why the N4G userbase is Facebook levels of cringe"
People here upvote anyone who criticizes whatever they deem is woke.
So it turns out that PSN login isn't required to play this game.
I won't link anything but check Steam for comments about it.
Reminds me of when users on here claimed that 193 - 73 = 180.
Monetary company bonuses (often referred to as Christmas bonuses) were astoundingly common.
The entire premise of Christmas Vacation was set around Clark's bonus.
I agree that no one should be forced.
Thank you for reading and understanding what I said though, it's appreciated.
I was just stating that so many AAA games require an account.
I think some people are unaware that they're signing in because it's automated when they set up their accounts in the first place.
Hyperbole.
And Steam does not track that data.
And I said AAA games, not all games.
And I said it has been around since the 90s.
"Laughably wrong"
Indeed.
Hyperbole. But nearly enough. AAA games, not every game.
There is little to no info on what percent of Steam games require third party accounts to play. it's simply not tracked. But I highly doubt only 1% of AAA games on Steam require an account.
"One potential reason for the lower numbers is the mandatory PlayStation Network (PSN) account requirement, which has frustrated many players."
Every AAA game requires logins from their publishers. Even on PS and Xbox you must still login to a 3rd party publisher.
Why is this journalist pretending this is the first time this has ever happened? Or that it hasn't existed since the 1990s?
Can't wait to hear how the corporate bootlickers defend this.
I wonder how many people are actively playing star citizen.
It failed and was refunded but I can't help but think that $400 million is a really nice tax write off... especially when no one has the receipts*.
*No games do.
I'm making fun of crappy journalism. I do it all the time, no matter the platform.
Clickbait highlights the futility of games journalism.
So why were there layoffs?
I'm Lenny all day.
He was loyal to Arthur, has a great backstory. He's tragic.
The journey from his revenge on his father's killers to joining the gang could be an amazing story.