🖕Live Service🖕
It’s not the dev’s fault, they make what they’re told to make. But the President of media enshittifier MAXHBODISCOVERYDUOPOLY has stated that is what they will continue to force feed us in lieu of content we purchase to then enjoy full stop.
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I think Harry Potter has been thoroughly milked. See the last attempt at a movie franchise.
I played Hogwarts Legacy, it was meh imho. I clearly won’t be playing Hogwarts Legacy II, as it will be a live service game for no good reason.
Sharing is caring antithetical to the rules of acquisition.
Competitive play used to be fun, but like so many things it was pushed to extremes and taken out of the world of being fun as the end in itself into league plays and people that take it too seriously, to the point people that play 18 hours a day get a fan base instead of therapy.
As someone formerly on the Halo side, the gaming world seemed to turn to shit after Reach.
There are bots that can challenge and destroy any human player, there are as you say single player experiences, so I also don’t see the point in engaging with the toxicity of modern multiplayer, except with irl friends.
“But sir! We still all need to breathe the Earth’s air!”
Then build me a climate change bunker in New Zealand with its own ventilation system! You can’t come. Line must go up!
Embracer joins TimeWarnerHBODiscoveryParamountSoonblahblahblah in confirming capitalism is in its terminal stage.
No unexploited markets in which to further to grow/metastasize, and entire economic sectors eating their own tails to be gutted of their ability to actually make the products/services their sector existed to provide in the first place for a short term stock bump celebrating cruelty.
This is a fire sale, and the capitalists know it. The worst bit is, it’s happening in every economic sector, even the life and death ones.
I can’t imagine still wanting to utilize the product/service of a company that laid me off, especially a company that was laying off out of sociopathic shareholder appeasement and not actual struggles.
It isn’t an essential utility. There are better MMOs.
It’s like everyone exists to tear everyone else down now.
50 states of the same supposed society trying to beat eachother, an economy of 300 million people trying to get mooooaaaaar than their neighbors, and the cherry on top, social media stoked resentment between the haves and have nots.
This what happens when you configure a society to compete against itself, almost everyone ends up kicked in the teeth.
Except the owners of course. They like it like this. They helped mold it into this. As long as we keep tearing each other down, their game of divide and profit can proceed.
It would be nice if we could have just said “ooh, a fun game.” Instead there are legions of people daring Nintendo corporate to sue them, not for a good reason, just to start some shit for entertainment and tear people that made a fun thing down to feel important.
And the enshittification continues.
I mean, just going by the feature being discussed here, that refurb non-oled doesn’t have HDR.
The steam deck is a better device by far. By leaps and bounds. It is nice that there is a cheaper option for those that already have a Playstation though. You can get a 15 year old BMW for the price of a base kia. It doesn’t make KIAs and BMWs comparable vehicles.
Both things can exist and have their niche. This need not be a competition. The steamdeck has actual competition, the PS portal ain’t it. It’s a different animal that happens to have similar form factor.
Fully aware.
Kind of the point I was making. It’s a cheaper device for a reason. This is like complaining that a chromebook has no local graphics horsepower. No shit? Why did you buy it expecting that? Oh because you picked the cheapest thing that vaguely resembled the form factor of what you wanted and expected it to do all the things the far more expensive options can?
Neither of these devices are brand gouging, you’re getting the hardware capacity you’re paying for.
I agree it is. That said. This isn’t an even match, and they are sold as two different use cases. One is a full on computer, the other is literally just a single purpose thin client “portal.”
You should consider any bells and whistles that come with a 500+ device, like hdr, showing up on a 200 device a friggin miracle bonus.
Quite a price difference between them to be fair.
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Thank America’s complete failure to condemn greed, and its subsequent adoption as our sole cultural value.
It’s happening to your healthcare, food, and every other sector too. Greed is every bit as destructive as hate, it just does its damage with cold, sociopathic calculation instead.
At least the Beanie Baby people still had little stuffed animals to console themselves with.
When capitalism runs out of places to grow/metastasize, it will consume itself.
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A space sim without FTL is just dying in the blackness of space.
I’ll admit it, I’m not that hardcore.
The base game is prettier and more stable in my few playthrough hours with the update.
I miss mods, but this was a significant improvement to the base game imho, especially base visuals, and mods will come.
Honestly the last time I launched the game in an unmodded, un-community patched state, a couple years ago to be fair, it crashed every half hour or so for me from runtime errors, so this feels like a more stable bedrock on which to build.
Just one Bethesda fan’s perspective.