DebatableRaccoon

And if devs are smart, they won’t return anyway. They’ve tried it once and I’m fairly certain they’d be more than happy to try it again. The gaming market is all about death by a thousand cuts these days.

They didn’t exactly get a warm welcome when they first launched the poorly performing pile of excrement, which they never fixed so it’s honestly a surprise they’ve clung on even this long.

It doesn’t invalidate what they’re doing in a karmic way, no. As for any legal precedent way, I’m genuinely concerned that it’ll very much be a “too little, too late” scenario. Many of us who have come from the school of Jim Fucking Sterling Son, or even those with their eyes open, saw how bad this could get a decade ago. It got bad enough to go to court where companies like EA produced pathetic stand-in excuses about “lootboxes” that manipulate the young, ill and weak-willed into spending insane amounts of money are actually “surprise mechanics” and thus totally different. Some countries were smart enough to put some amount of age limit on such things, others were even smarter and outright banned them but many just let it happen. It has kept happening and the biggest gaming corpos are now more than big enough to hire all of the lawyers in the world collectively and fight any claims off through the sheer force of printing money.

Yes, I’m possibly embellishing a little in that lot but after witnessing the gaming market slip further and further down the sinkhole the way it has with excuses of “it’s only cosmetic”, “it’s optional” and “it’s not required to experience the game”, I have every reason to think we’re not coming back from this.

Oh god, not them. Pick another producer, please. There are plenty out there… Most of them suck but at least most of them aren’t publicly known to be sex abusers.

Lots of gamers and parents have been going on about this for around a decade. EA was even in court over it. Where the heck have these ‘groups’ been? On an extended vacation with their distant relatives the mole people?

I’m hearing the word “emulation” floating on the air. That’s already PC + most consoles and even Android. It wouldn’t surprise me if someone out there has done something about emulating iOS but I’ve never taken enough interest to know.

Thinking is but a step on the path to knowing.

That would certainly explain suddenly forcing Guilded users to have Roblox accounts to use a chat app. Get fucked, Roblox.

Same here. I’d love a chance to play as Spider-Gwen

Sony’s still holding the IP for that Spider-Verse game Insomniac was working on… Just sayin’…

A lot of people won’t like the answer but no private individual should ever trust a corporate entity. They aren’t held to the same standards a regular person is so we can only hope that in a bad situation, the company will do the right thing. When there’s a difference between right morally, right for the customer and right for the bottom line is the time to start sweating and hoping.

Bugs at launch? Whoda seen that coming?

A good point, and I think they’ve been doing a fantastic job of proving that pretty much no corp respects their customers.

That’s certainly a reason to not have a TV. My bordering requirement of one is because I live pretty much all of my life through a computer but don’t have to sit at a desk all of the time of I use a TV as a computer monitor.

I wouldn’t touch Samsung with a 10’ barge pole. That said, I’m not interested in OLED. MicroLED looks like a much more interesting technology to me.

As for the expectation of not having your data sold when spending more, I’d say it stems from the free and cheap business model of prices being low because they subsidise the cost by selling your data. If what you’re getting is free/cheap, you are the product, thus if you’re paying serious money, the expectation is that you’ve bought it and there’s no subsidising going on.

Personally, when the time comes for me to upgrade, I’ll be looking at either a commercial TV or a large monitor (not ultra wide) since I don’t use smart TV features and already have a setup to not need internal speakers.

Oh, I’m not questioning the quality of their displays, they’re certainly up there as being some of the best available. I’m referring to something Louis Rossman has covered before about how even their expensive units have information gathering turned on as standard. When paying over 2 grand for a TV, I’d expect my information wouldn’t be subsidising the cost anymore.

This is Nvidia we’re talking about. Lowered prices isn’t a tactic in those scumbags’ wheelhouse

Now it’d be nice to see them innovate their way out of selling customer data as standard, even when the customer paid over 2K for their device.

It means players get another good quality singleplayer game while big publishers get one more game to ignore when claiming singleplayer games don’t sell.

Because games like that are attention-grabbing which leads to more potential of winning paying customers. Shame they aren’t very good at keeping projects going for more than 5 minutes.

It’s amazing what having the potential of ownership ripped away can do.