Or maybe the UK is, for some strange reason, experiencing a slight economic downturn, leading people to spend less money on luxury goods.
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PC Gaming Era | March 2019 - The Ides of Smarch
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I don't disagree that clapping is too ubiquitous to be a dogwhistle, and the circle thing is clearly arguable enough to cause considerable disagreement in this thread (as we've seen). I just wanted to clear up that the clapping in the trailer was almost certainly down to the choice of music.
As for the whole clapping thing, it was the second time in this thread someone implied it being an alt-right thing, and I wanted to know where that idea came from because I've literally never heard it before. I think Wok suggested it was a US thing?
Cannot agree enough. To me it's better to spend your budget on a comfortable chair, desk and keyboard/mouse rather than a CPU or RAM. The extra resolution won't make you enjoy a game better when your body suffers!
Yeah, I still dont get the whole Destiny soft reboots with 2 (and now 3). The key of long lived GAAS games (and MMOs), have always been that you never feel as if all your entire story with the game meant anything (even when new WoW expansions launch, you still keep items for bragging rights). Finishing the game and starting a new one every 3 years gives a "do I really want to continue in the sequel" moment.
I understand that the tradeoff is that not resetting the game would mean that you will normally end with a dwindling population as it is harder to attract new users to a game that has been running for 4+ years, but many F2P games have been able to avoid this.
That is why something like Anthem is a F2P game. People got quite upset at the suggestion, especially since you have to pay for it up front. But really if it had been $0 it would have been a whole different story.
I mean it still would have sucked, but maybe more people would be drawn to it. I would have at least seen the download size before deciding it wasn't worth the time.
Issue is that the costs of making the game are too high for it to be F2P from the point of view of the publisher. The game is supposed to break even (or in most cases be profitable) with just the sales of the game, with the MTX being an added value over time.
Betting so much in a F2P where you do not know how successful the game will be in the long term is just not-viable.
I don't think that is true when you consider how huge the opportunity costs are for a company like EA. They are not betting that a gaas title will "make money up front", they need to bet far longer term than that as they can only really push one at a time.
Which I completely agree is not viable, since the market is extremely volatile with f2p disruptors popping up everywhere. Which is of course completely ironic that gaas titles are now the riskiest investment of all.
Well that and PC store fronts.
I expressed myself badly so hope this is better:
I do not think they are betting on the game "making money up-front" but rather that the initial sales of the product reduces the risk a pure F2P game has of utterly bombing. Even if the objective of GAAS games being a long term project, initial sales are able to cover from those bomb issues (in some sort of way).
We can take a look at their F2P GAAS game in Apex, which was clearly a much more cheap game reutilizing content from a previous game.
Well, we kinda dropped the subject but I'll just say that it's not only the chans (which I don't actually go to, but their mentality is being exported to other places in the web). There's quite a number of sites I've dropped because of how radicalized they've become in the last 2-3 years.
9gag would be an example. The site used to be fine but at some point it was taken over by alt-right ideology.
Heck, the previous forum would be another.
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/halo-insider/profile
You have to login with your Xbox / MS credentials first.
Gaf is probably one of, if not the worst examples of radicalization and ideology shifts since when the last time I looked at it months ago after someone linked the fuck era thread it had become a place for "thoughtful" discussions such as how transgendered people don't you know, really exist with mods alike chiming in.
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As far as I understand, clapping is not an alt-right thing, but there was an attempt by trolls to claim it, as well as other widespread things. Maybe they did not manage to make it one of their memes in the end. Before the trailer for Satisfactory was posted here, I did not even know about the misuse of the OK-sign, so who knows?
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I asked this several weeks ago but didn't get a reply: why I'm unable to sell all my cards without the authenticator confirmation on Steam? I can sell just one card without confirming it, but than Steam asks me to confirm every other card I put on sale that day.
I signed up for the Halo Flight thingy. I hope it starts soon and I get invited for the Steam version.
Signed up as well but with Sekiro and the Apex Battle Pass right around the corner I can wait a few weeks.
I SOOO want to buy a ultrawide Monitor, or even a monitor, period. But then every time I select a good monitor screen, all I see are QA complaints and or some sort of game breaking flaws. SO I see this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077M81YJ2/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
Some of the recent complains are dead pixels/color washed out...etc.
So Then I look at this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C83BE6U/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_2?smid=A1B22XXMSBBRK1&psc=1
QA issues as well.
I saw this China off brand which has the best QA reviews on Amazon, but since it is a VA monitor, the color is washed out:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HZ499J4/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_4?smid=A1BVYXEL822RF0&psc=1
(I made a thread about this earlier, but have looking at recent reviews, the Monoprice Monitor has some terrible QA reviews.)
Guys, help me out. I just want a 35 inch, 21:9, 1440p monitor with at least 100hz and under 5 ms refresh rate.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B077M81YJ2/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
Some of the recent complains are dead pixels/color washed out...etc.
So Then I look at this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01C83BE6U/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_2?smid=A1B22XXMSBBRK1&psc=1
QA issues as well.
I saw this China off brand which has the best QA reviews on Amazon, but since it is a VA monitor, the color is washed out:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HZ499J4/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_4?smid=A1BVYXEL822RF0&psc=1
(I made a thread about this earlier, but have looking at recent reviews, the Monoprice Monitor has some terrible QA reviews.)
Guys, help me out. I just want a 35 inch, 21:9, 1440p monitor with at least 100hz and under 5 ms refresh rate.
I don't think theres anyone that convince you of a product thats not going to have at least a fringe set of people with issues with it. The Asus monitors have good rep, i know a bunch of people who are using them and are happy.
I can't beat the boss of Dark Souls 3's Ariandel dlc. I never see summon signs, probably because I was penalized for supposedly cheating (still have no idea how that happened), I managed to solo the base game (as I did with Demon's, DS1 and Bloodborne) but this one is above my paygrade.
Dark Souls 3 does love its 3 stage bosses, have or which have multiple bosses at once
I'm stuck on the Ringed city optional boss, one day tho
I'm stuck on the Ringed city optional boss, one day tho
Why are you telling me about Brexit like I wouldn't know? I live in the UK.
What are your thoughts on the the ACOG one's I posted? Does any one of those two I could go with and be happy (2080 TI)?
Not about you, just something I keep thinking about when people mention that recent games keep selling worse on UK retail and use that as a measurement for a game's world wide success.
Ah, fair enough. Yeah, Brexit, lower wages and rising prices is the reason. Digital too I guess but those prices are a joke too.
You're paying for the luxury of not having to go to Game or CEX. Not that the former stocks PC games anyway.
Jeez. I didn't even know that Division 2 was out yet. I thought it was next week for some reason. I don't open Uplay that much. I buy my Ubi games through Steam, so that is how I notice they came out. Usually, through top sellers or someone posting screenshots.
Tbf game and CEX charge the same prices. They're awful.
Looked up the gdc schedule and man i feel kike i gotta wait til next saturday or sunday and ask for a list of prominent stuff from it.
That is some weirdo ass crazy talk if you ask me >_>;
And whenever Epic stops deciding to throw around their "fuck you" money at devs just to get them to publish exclusively to their store, we'll see where that gets him.
Devs go where the money is, and the money's either in their own platform, or as many platforms as possible.
I like making fun of Tim and Seryoga's masterful PR skills as much as anyone but we do not need to repost five quotes ad nauseam, do we.
Katana ZERO Bandwidth
I wonder how Devolver is going to spin signing with a megacorp as metal
Also just got to the famous archer part in Dark Souls Remastered and the frustration is as fresh as it was almost a decade ago lol
Also just got to the famous archer part in Dark Souls Remastered and the frustration is as fresh as it was almost a decade ago lol
Played this for 6 hours yesterday - it has some problems (large building footprints+weird placement, spotty UI, no tutorial) but as an initial Early Access release, it's pretty great. The soundtrack is fantastic, the performance is good and holy shit this game is d e e p!
Look at my lovely little coal mining fort:
Why did Jim not do that video when they kept doing that shit in the marketing, lol
I did laugh heartily at one of the early side missions though having me on some National Treasure shit
wait
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I did laugh heartily at one of the early side missions though having me on some National Treasure shit
wait
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It happens if you disconnect one to many times when you are being invaded, for instance if you force-quit the game. If I remember correctly you regain access to the online options by picking up the white circlet where you spawn at the very beginning of the game. See:
https://darksouls3.wiki.fextralife.com/Way+of+White+Circlet
I was very interested in the game but both the launch price and the fact that they plan to stay in Early Access for up to two years put me off.
It's currently being developed by a solo-dev who outsources music and 3d asset work. Gladly the game seems to be doing well, so he might be able to hire some additional devs.
I can understand being wary of Early Access titles but I think this one has genuine potential and is already fun to play.
It's mostly just cosmetic stuff (IIRC, the alternate handguns can't be upgraded, so very limited utility there). If you think you'll be replaying the game a bunch (and the game is very replayable), then I think it's worthwhile. It's nice to have different outfits/music to play with when you're going back through. But if you're expecting the game to just be a one-and-done thing, then you can skip the DLC with no worries.
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