Lfrith

joined 2 years ago
[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I've just heard so many of the same excuses for even scummier people over the years of always shifting the blame to justify whatever is necessary to get the bag. The excuses seem ever less convincing.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

To his credit, at least he admits this. It’s not like he’s hiding his strategy. He just does whatever will push him to the top of the algorithms and keep viewers engaged.

I'm sick of that excuse. The whole I'm dumb or I don't know or it's for the algorithm excuses people make to try and deflect criticism. Guess I've just seen to many people of prominence use that excuse one to many times over the years.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 weeks ago

Showing the importance of sustainable business models over the throw your entire budget at everything then end up firing hundreds and thousands of employees while giving bonuses to executives because the quarterly earnings weren't as high approach that lot of publicly traded companies have moved towards.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Paid games hasn't kept them from not having aggressive microtransactions themselves and sometimes worse. And there's so many sources of games now beyond big publishers. The gaming landscape just isn't the same as in the past that it can get away with setting whatever price they want and expect to turn a profit. The old hour of value stance isn't as relevant, and is more likely to lead to bombs even amongst triple A publishers with their vast marketing budgets with that attitude. There's way more options now that people don't have to settle.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

But you can get hundreds of hours from a f2p game, so that's the competition $70 games have. Then there's older triple a titles that are cheaper, and there's so many that it's not possible to have played all of them. Then epic giveaways, game bundles, indies, etc.

And price increases push more consumers away from impulse purchases. And that can lead to them becoming patient gamers once they see not buying at release isn't a big deal.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago

That's when you play PvP games that piss you off so much sadness goes to anger, which can be a nice distraction.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago

I've always gone for performance mode. 60 fps at the minimum is what I want.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

I've heard how amazing the flying feels. Are there any games that has cool flying or better than Anthem I could try out?

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

The opening was absolutely amazing and at least that part should be watched.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I've wanted one for if I want to use my PC monitor instead of the TV, and throught a compact connector would be nicer than the standard dock to take up less space. Never did go for the third party dock though, since was afraid of the possibility of bricking.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seeing dead games come back to life for people who have fond memories of them makes me happy. I'm hoping for the same with The Crew which is being worked on by fans to resurrect it.

[–] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I wish portable devices went back to being made with toolless battery swapping in mind like the old game boys.

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