Yeah anyone on PC should try and cross reference prices on the various 3rd party storefronts vs Steam. I use gg.deals to do this.

Yeah I’m basically waiting it out until the version with the NG+ DLC is half or more off. Incredibly obscene to lock an entire feature that way.

I’m so tired of the AAA hype machine. Who cares, since this game is years away from a release and probably 3-4 years of post-release patches from being decent.

I thought CD Projekt would have learned from Cyberpunk’s incredibly prolonged marketing campaign and it’s remarkably shoddy release but I guess not.

This is a bummer, especially with how much better
Rise can perform on the Steam Deck compared to the Switch version. Bad move on Capcom’s part.

Unfortunately, we still have work to do to rightsize our company and I regret having to share that we are taking the painful step to reduce our headcount by just over 500 people across Twitch.

Absolutely hate that “rightsizing” is a term. It’s called downsizing and it will have negative impacts on Twitch users, Twitch as a platform, and the 500 Twitch employees that will be out of a job now.

Maybe Twitch should be “rightsizing” CEO and Executive Suite salaries?

Ah on a second read I see that now haha.

I very rarely have to troubleshoot games. Maybe toggle a few quality settings to get it to run to my liking but that’s about it.

Not sure what you mean. I get deals all the time using sites like gg.deals to cross reference multiple store fronts for PC deals for my Steam Deck, paying a fraction of what they would have cost on Switch.

This would also be helpful

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Downvoting due to the clickbait title. It really should be a rule that posts titles have more straightforward titles.

The live service space is so crowded now that it would be difficult for even Naughty Dog to break into it successfully. Not to mention the fatigue around live service games lately. They made the right call by not trend chasing.

I’m calling bullshit. Most responsible sites let users know in advance if downtime is expected.

Most of what you said is spot on except for FF16. FF16 is an action RPG that is somewhat of a fusion between Devil May Cry 5 and Final Fantasy with Game of Thrones style storytelling. It’s currently PS5 exclusive but will probably get a PC port down the line.

The game that’s possibly a prequel to 1 is the spinoff game Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin. I haven’t finished SoP yet but it definitely seems that way.

What a disaster. I feel sorry for the fans who were lied to by ABK on what they were receiving with OW2. It definitely feels like the point of moving to OW2 was just to pivot to a more exploitive monetization model.

I’m glad that it seems like they’ve turned around on this game but they cannot be revisionist about the performance of the game at launch. It was quite bad and we have receipts to prove it.

E3 growing up was like having another Christmas to look forward to. Somewhat bittersweet that it’s effectively gone but E3 has an identity crisis it needs to resolve first.

E3 was started as an industry networking event but overtime morphed to be a consumer facing show as well. With pre-recorded presentations being the norm, the Big 3 don’t have any incentive to pay the ESA to have a space like that.

I think E3 needs to either revert back to an industry networking event or become a PAX-like consumer show.