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It's sad honestly. Just a symptom of shitty giant publishers eating a company and then milking franchises while knickle and diming their demographic until the original developers leave. That said, these days Activision are giving EA a run for their money on being a villainous corporation lol

Some absolute savage has finished it in 25 minutes already XD

Hard to compete with Netflix and HBO. I actually play a fair bit of Fallout 76 as my co-hosts and I were doing a Let's Play series. It is just.. so vapid, empty and boring.. The vast vast majority of content is just recycled randomized RNG rather than anything of substance. I still haven't played Nuclear Winter because every time i've tried to play it, I gave up on waiting after an hour. Literally every update that drops breaks a whole bunch of stuff that never even gets mentioned. Like the third last update put my base halfway into the ground and I couldn't get into it. Certain areas never ended up rendering and you'd be killed by invisible enemies or just fall through the ground.. but I think the worst thing is Bethesda's general attitude. I thought it would be hard to top Blizzard's recent bullshit but honestly, how many times in succession can a developer directly fuck over their demographic and have a demographic left to fuck over. The failed launch, the canvas bags, the shitty 500 atoms to make up for the bags, the bags being eventually delivered but late, customers being mass doxxed trying to get their bags, the failed nuka rum, the mouldy nuka world power armor helmet controversy, them going back on their grandstanding about the "line" or morality when it comes to microtransactions, the paid subscription debacle, the private servers not actually being private servers but instances where players have left the world empty, the unlimited scrap box actually deleting all your scrap.. and that's just off the top of my head. Just a constant stream of negative PR and yeah, I kinda don't give a shit about TES6 now. I'll still do another 3 or so eps of Fallout 76 but I have only played it as it was fun to play with friends. FYI half the episodes are just bitching about Bethesda and pointing out broken retarded shit. I did also grab that $1 game pass. I'll be starting Outer Worlds tonight. Just had work, did some Halloween episodes and some Festival of the Lost shit in Derpstiny

The second was having anything to do with Epic beyond making their game available there. Game devs need to start signing pre-nups

I consider this the absolute least they can do.

This was a glorious quote and made me laugh XD It makes me feel a bit bad because I have friends who love the series. I just never played it or even know what it's about. I only know it's a cult hit so if this happened with a game series I loved, I'd be fucking pissed. Still, you are so right with what you said. I'm over this bullshit. All Epic did was ring console wars to PC and this shit is just as annoying as when Skyrim had timed exclusivity on Xbox 360. Super lame. Moreso because fucking over project backers is unforgivable IMO

That sounds more like you're implying that epic store exclusivity was a good thing for an already backed 3 years prior project that listed steam keys as pledge rewards. If there was any altruism whatsoever they wouldn't have made it exclusive. Apparently though, Epic and Deep Silver love fucking gamers out of choice and woukd rather strong arm them out of the platform of their choice so they can make extra money. Fucking piss weak. Now Ghostbusters HD is Epic exclusive and even worse, Telltale Remastered collections are going epic exclusive too which sets a shitty precedent. Now remasters going store exclusive potentially means those who already bought and supported games in the past won't get free or discounted upgrades. Tim Sweeney isn't improving the games industry. He is improving his wallet and fucking people out of choice, plain and simple.

Nintendo Direct is apparently going to be 40mins or so. Fucking HYPE!!

Dat pre-e3/Nintendo Direct anxiety.. Can't wait for them sales, news on Animal Crossing/Metroid Prime Trilogy HD/New Smash Character Reveals/etc

I only have 4 games so far. It's a pretty short list. Plus I use mobile so it's usually set to most recent

Finally caved and got a switch. Only got Let's Go Eevee, Smash, Diablo 3 and Happy Birthdays so far but Zelda, Dragon Cafe, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Mario Odyssey, Yoshi"s Crafted World are on the horizon. And Animal Cross/Pokemon Shield/Link's Awakening remake on launch day

The industry will be better when EA lays itself off and all its shadily acquired IPs go to dev teams that give a shit about more than bleeding their demographic dry. Same with Activision. I truly hope that loot boxes and similar microtransactions get categorized as gambling by the FTC (which is currently investigating it in the US, Canada, Australia, etc) This nickel and diming of players has become a widely used business model and it needs to stop. The industry and even mobile gaming would be better off without it. I'd much rather play mobile games that I pay $3-10 for then something I have to constantly watch ads in or get screwed while pay to win whales destroy any and all balance.