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Buy every studio possible Close them down before any project is completed What was the strategy here, scorched Earth?

I wonder if they are willing to pull the plug on 10 with it still sitting on hundreds of millions of PCs just 90 days to deadline. I have to say I'm still hoping for a last minute decision to not go through with slowly turning half of the world's windows PCs into a botnet. I sure as hell...

Is that an official app? I've never heard about it, and searching the net just gave a bunch of suspect sites posing as official sites that I'm not comfortable downloading and running an app from.

Exactly, with respect to a few exceptions, indie and AA developers are just as greedy leeches as the big bad companies. Some of them literally re-releases the same game every 12-16 months with minor changes, and you don't even get a discount if you already had the version before that, which also...

And with nintendo you don't even own the HW, they will literally brick it remotely if you do something they don't approve of. You call that ownership? My exact point was that I want games that I wouldn't want to sell. I never sold a PC game in my entire life, even when that was still possible...

Except older titles don't need any of it. But even if they did, more aggressive upscaling and more fake frames? No, thanks, I'll pass.

No offense, but you seem to be the very model of the ideal consumer they want. The one, who doesn't ask questions, doesn't push back on anything, just buys the current thing and then gets excited for the next thing. Imagine saying that making you pay again for a game you already bought in the...

Well, that's exactly it. I refuse to believe anyone would support nintendo if they were acting reasonably, with all the anti-fan crap they pull. My point was that it's not worth comparing nintendo with sony or xbox, because their buyers are making an emotional choice rather than a reasoned one...

Yes, but not because they particularly fond of those specific games, but because there is nintendo branding on them. There are some sony fans like this too, but at nintendo I think they make up the majority.

Those platforms should be competing on accessibility, price, and features, not exclusives. They always say they are selling hardware at a loss or at no profit. If that is actually true then they make more money on people who play would be exclusives on PC. They might even be in the red on...

Same, but if I also knew some games will take 5 years to get to PC, I'd have bought it anyway. I don't regret buying it, as I could get out of it at a good price at the tail end of the lockdown induced demand. I almost got paid more for it in 2022 December, than I paid for it five years earlier...

I'm not worried about the overall profitability of the industry. It could be the biggest it's ever been with the most revenue ever recorded. But if most of the product are remasters of past glory and trend chasing live services targeting whales, then I consider that very much destroyed. High...

You don't have to play them to know these are some of the most popular multiplayer shooters ever. I didn't play any of the modern ones either. The only fair and objective way to define success is financial success or popularity for F2P games. Everything else would be subjective. I'm not cherry...

What is the backstory of Unreal Tournament, Quake3, Quakeworld, PUBG, Fortnite, Overwatch, Marvel's Rivals? Do they even have one beyond some codex entry hidden somewhere? I can't think of a single successful multiplayer game where the story has a significant role, not even in co-op titles.

These high concept pitches are better reserved for single player games. If you look at the most popular multiplayer games, most of them have very little to no story behind them. It is a waste of effort trying to make up some elaborate backstory which will inevitably just get in the way of...

I missed it too, but I'd just have pointed and laughed at it even if I knew about it. The only thing dumber than making an MP only game is making one from a single player IP.

Sunken cost fallacy then? I don't think they've put even minimal effort into changing the design.

I don't think it is explained by greed. Is it greed that makes you follow in the footsteps of something that made negative 300 million?

"Doubling down on the Marathon Universe" Why do they always do this and then blame the fans when it fails? They shouldn't be doubling down they should be scrapping it. Frankly if they had an ounce of self awareness they should've quietly scrapped it when they saw how concord did. I mean how...

I kind of get it, but I don't. Because by the same definition even the characters in live action movies are fake. So does that mean you can't empathize with any fictional characters? My conscious brain knows it's fake but still I can suspend my disbelief if the story is compelling regardless of...