DebatableRaccoon

One thing these companies seem to fail to realise is that such a genre doesn’t appeal to the 100% market share they want, no matter the coat of paint they spray on it. The one that stood the greatest chance of appealing to me was cancelled before it was even announced and it was a very specific coat of paint that made me interested so nothing else will ever manage to hook me.

On fucking Roblox of all places, one of the most predatory games against kids. Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

A hypothetical one, of course

Given the popularity of the Steam Deck, the Xbox handheld would have to come free with the purchase of any Xbox exclusive game to stand a chance in that sphere, I think. The fact that it’s Win11 immediately turns me off and I say this as someone who still uses Windows.

I can see where they’re coming from about the design but I’m still pro-choice. If a NG+ wrecks the balance, that’s on me… or I’ll be living the OP edgerunner fantasy of my dreams.

No Forza game on the Horizon… Heheh

They backed out of supporting the Stop Killing Games initiative led by Ross Scott so I rather doubt it’s to support preservation at this point.

Because there’s a lot of negativity towards Hasbro and everything they are associated with given recent years. It’s a miracle BG3 came out good at all, let alone as good as it is with them involved.

Built-in deniability.

If the new heads are crap, it doesn’t make a difference whether it’s sold or not.

True, NM has been getting stricter on mods and criticism for some time now. Makes me wonder how much worse it could get.

The big question is whether this is for the better or worse.

This feels like the sort of fix that should have been figured out prior to release given just how wide spread it is.

That’s fair. Thinking about it, I’m not sure if I’ve ever bought a game after the Denuvo got removed, I’d just stopped caring about the game by the time that happened so it’ll remain to be seen if I still care about Stellar Blade by the time the Denuvo is removed this time, but it certainly won’t be at full price like I’d planned to pay when the PC port got announced. It’ll likely be with the standard 60-70% reduction that happens once a game has been out 1-2 years, depending how long it takes for this crap to fuck off. At that point, I don’t think it’s rewarding the dev anyway, my purchase certainly isn’t making it onto a spreadsheet of consequence.

And it’ll be staying right there for as long as its carrying that infection.

*Relative to what we’re seeing out of the Triple Ehh space.

Sadly, the game will be infected with Denuvo at launch. I was looking forward to it until that stupidity got announced.

RocketWerkz is an indie dev with, from what I can find, 64 employees. I wouldn’t exactly call that corpo material.

What the heck are you smoking? Unity is the corpo here.

Never should have had it