gk99 @ gk99 @beehaw.org

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Bastard is as bastard does.

Considering the whole point of a corporation is limited liability, I can't imagine the whole "individual execs will get in trouble" thing is going down well for them. I'm sure nobody wants their encrypted chats handed over to the government, either, especially as governments have been backtracking rights for pretty much everyone.

Fuck the Online Safety Act, it's gross overreach.

Unfortunately, no. I used to love Ubi games, played every single one following the formula because they're fun and get cheap fast.

But in recent memory, all of their games have tried to shove annoying gimmicks in and take away from what made the games enjoyable. Far Cry 6 was one of the least bad ones, but games like New Dawn, Breakpoint, and WD Legion are disasters that have driven me off.

I agree, unborn fetuses don't have rights.

So let abortions happen.

otherwise, what's the point?

Not having ads. It's optional so far, but it won't be forever. Cable proved that.

You're telling me...

all cops are bastards?

No, we should ban the usage of them. You do not need a private jet to conduct business, especially in the age of Zoom meetings.

I mean, yes? People have been waiting on this game for 13 years and PC has only gotten more popular since. Rather than do the three most popular platforms that the game isn't on, they did two. If they've managed to port it to the Nintendo Switch of all things, they can spit out a half-baked PC port.

I mean you can ignore the slew of other older games getting ported to PC over the years, be it the Xbox exclusives, PlayStation exclusives, Capcom console exclusives (Dragons Dogma, Dead Rising, Devil May Cry), absolutely countless numbers of JRPGs and similar, and more, but that doesn't make me the ignorant one.

Genuinely, I would.

If only they appealed to me as a consumer at all. If I want to play it, I have an Xbox and it's much cheaper on there. What I really wanted was a PC port, which they didn't launch. Instead, because of the Switch port, not only am I not paying them, I'm just slightly more likely to pirate it and emulate if I ever get the hankering to play.

I would've paid $50 for a PC port on Steam.

In this case, it's because it's a reboot. Calling MW (2019) "MW4" would've been arguably more confusing because the new and old games are completely unrelated to each other. Totally different stories, part of a single timeline built off of the Black Ops universe, and a reset of fan favorite characters that have been brought back. There are already a surprising amount of people who don't understand that, I've seen people shocked to find out it's not just a prequel and that new Ghost is likely to stay alive permanently for those big bucks.

Besides, it's not like the numbers used to properly correlate, either. Despite Doom 64, there aren't 63 other Doom games, and Doom 3 is a Doom (1993) prequel. That kind of craziness happened way before DOOM (2016).

They're good watches, but the VFX quality has been dropping no doubt due to crunch and budget constraints.

I would certainly love to see unionization for these people. The work they do is critical to Disney's cash cow and they deserve to be treated as critical staff.

I had no problem using it, but now that they're cutting the value before they even acquire Call of Duty and put it on the service, I cancelled and switched to PS+ Premium. If there's ever a game I really want to play, I've found that I can set up the auto-renew Microsoft Rewards claim for PC Gamepass and it's very easily sustainable. If I do nothing but the daily Edge/Bing searches, I reach the required point value for one month in something like 25 days. Fuck paying for Gamepass, the enshittification has started.

I sure wasn't asked.

Edit: And considering how close the results are, I feel like the title gives off the wrong idea and I recommend people look at the article itself. It's very close to 50-50.

I think Dreams would also have done much better with a major underlying game instead of advertising itself as effectively a game engine you can't profit from. LBP, Mario Maker, Halo, Far Cry, and others have an appeal to them because they're complete titles that people enjoy, but have level editors (or are the level editor in the case of Mario) that allow players to easily express their creativity given the rules and assets of these games. I haven't ever launched Dreams, but I'm over the moon waiting for Restitched. Brings me back to the days of waiting for my LBP pre-order to release.

Like Gabe Newell once said, piracy is a service problem.

The last two things I pirated were No One Lives Forever, a game that's completely delisted on all storefronts, and Ratchet & Clank, because Sony can't figure out how to add the PS2 versions of games to the PS5 and I refuse to stream it (data cap) or lug around my PS3.

Both I would've purchased legally had they not made it a pain in the ass.

Lemmy's creators, who run lemmy.ml, are pro-Russia, pro-China tankies. They're uyghur genocide deniers and have banned people who disagree with their views solely for that.

They're the same picture.

I'm still using my old Galaxy Watch (the first one) after my Pebble died (the first one). The upgrades just really aren't that game-changing overall, the basic smart watch functionality doesn't change much.

I've been playing Asphalt 9 recently, and I've started hitting the walls they throw in after tens of hours in which my options are to hope for lucky draws, wait for timers to reset, and watch ads, or pay.

It's a legitimate shame, because the game is actually super fun, but the horribly predatory monetization is effectively a guarantee that I'm never spending a dime out of spite and I'm gonna quit once I get all the Xbox achievements, which is what I originally gave the game a shot for.

Edit: did I mention that the only ways to get many cars are loot boxes? I can't finish certain sections of the career mode right now because I don't have required vehicles, so it's become a game of juggling the activities I can actually do at any given time.