Yeah, by waiting for it to be on Game Pass.

They are wanting to raise new game prices to $90-100 because prices haven’t kept up with inflation and dev costs, which will push more people to game streaming or subscription services.

Avowed could have been $30 and still sold the same because a $30 game is priced like a mediocre or shit game when you are talking open world ARPGs not made in Asia or offered as early access. I don’t even think the nothingburger controversy did anything to the sales of meaning, it just doesn’t seem like an interesting game from the announcement trailer to the launch trailer. The coolest thing in the trailers was the magic and that is a pretty disappointing aspect of the game.

Gamepass numbers are unknown, but steam had a peak of like 19k players. Estimates on ownership is around 200k units.

Monster Hunter Wilds had 1.3m peak, unknown sales estimate because it is too new. Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, 256k peak, over 2m sales estimate.

Understand that is all PC Steam stats.

Avowed may only be a financial success thanks to gamepass because nobody is buying it.

How to increase playtimes and artificially lengthen the story by getting players lost AF in one easy step.

Which is why I have never played Fortnite, Destiny, GTAO, and have hundreds of hours in Brotato, Binding of Isaac, Stardew Valley, and thousands of hours in Fallout and TES.

I guess it would depend on the live service.

If God of War live service was you being a custom demi-god in that Universe with 1000hrs of reasonable grind MPARPG gameplay, good story, and a skill tree you couldn’t re-spec easily, I might be onboard.

If we are talking a GoW MOBA with loot box reskins, die in a fire the hard way.

You know it will have the latest in AI assistant and AI generated ads on hookup unless you have a premium account.

They want so hard to remove false competition, that is a glorious frustration.

Pokemon is Pokemon, Palworld is Palworld. One trying to claim the other steps on their toes is hilarious. If they have merit, Doom could sue every FPS with monsters.

Stay mad Nintendo/GameFreak, you are a joke and should make better games.

The lawyers had time to figure out an angle.

You’ll get land vehicles you don’t need and you will be greatful to pay $9.99 to armor them.

Deadpool started out on an insufficient budget and only made it because of fans. The 2nd one did better but fell short. The 3rd one knocked it out of the park and set the franchise up for greatness.

Bioshock can become a fantastic movie franchise, if it doesn’t die in infancy.

Absolutely. The ROI on most DLC is more than enough incentive to keep doing it. The problem is when they have lost the plot and horse armor had no script, so the goalpost is over the horizon.

Tod looked at the backlash and the revenue gained, he gave lip service because horse armor disillusioned his understanding of a delusional market demand.

They have added content every few months, this is the first open world map expansion. The others have added expeditions and events.

Nice guess, but the revolutionary direction that they have taken Crash Bandicoot will redefine gaming, and media in general, as they elevate art and entertainment to unimaginable levels of creativity and interaction. It will be an award-winning transcendental cultural phenomena.

On the plus side is HL3 will be released.

On the negative side is everything else about that situation and HL3 will be a rushed shit-show of a cash grab.

Also that Homelander was someone to idolize.

Absolutely. I stopped playing it because it just wasn’t fun, 2.0 is much better. Bikes are way more usable, but I’d love to be able to hoon the cars like a GTA game.

Edit: Ok, I figured it out. You can’t hammer the gas all the time. The driving works more like an actual car than a GTA game. So if you drive more like Forza, you can actually hoon the cars. Bikes are more tolerant to full throttle. Controllers having a variable input for the throttle allow you to control throttle like a gas pedal. So higher acceleration cars become drivable with less throttle and hammering gas produces a “realistic” ice rink feel, as desired. I still prefer Jackie’s bike despite this understanding.

I just wish CP2077’s driving was better, I find it impossible to drive the good cars.

… within eyesight of a mysterious temple that only Constellation is aware of for some reason.

You would expect Stroud to have luxury living quarters.