At least David wasn't using the tragedy to market the game himself, unlike Randy Pitfhford using BLM to get people to buy Duke Nukem games to "get back at pigs"
When I read the title of the post I thought the sales spike was because of the movie Markiplier was making and I was confused as to how that'd be a bad thing. Makes more sense after reading the article.
This fiasco showed me just how much of my life I, evidently, spend under a rock. Had not heard a thing about this until after it was all said and done, when I walked in on a conversation everyone in my family was having about it. Even my nine-year-old. Lol
Beginning July 6, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate will now cost $16.99 (a $2 increase), and regular Xbox Game Pass will now cost $10.99 monthly (a $1 increase). However, the price of PC Game Pass will remain at $9.99 a month.
That's a fairly small increase for what it includes. Also, no increase on PC, which seems odd.
The Verge has a great chart showing the price changes for non-US subscriptions. Interesting that the US is getting spared from the Series X console price increase.
EA can barely release a quality game as is, I can see how splitting their knowledge is going to help them much. Unfortunately they’ve been benefitting from previously good franchise games scoring them bulk preorder monies
The cynical side of me says they're doing this to sell one of the halves off to one of the other publishers. The optimist in me hopes this leads to one more publisher in this space; we sorely need less consolidation.
That's my thought as well -- the licensed sports game market is probably more reliable (and generates more revenue vs. development cost) than originals, and they can "streamline" their business by splitting the originals business off for a sale. Not including sports probably makes the originals side more attractive to platform holders, as most sports games probably include provisions that require multiplatform releases (see also: the MLB signing a publishing deal for Sony's "The Show" on non-Sony platforms).
Yeah and we can all knock their sports division all we want but it brought in money. With this change and in the possible outcome that they're not out to be bought, we'll have to see if the originals side will become a lot more risk-averse and pivot more into the GaaS market than they already were.
I really did not enjoy xv after the first few hours. The game felt pretty empty. Traversal in the world also was really frustrating. Plenty of places that were just blocked by bushes or endless open fields.
Dragon quest 11 was so much better even if it were on the easier side.
Not sure how to feel about this. On the one hand, it’s not like BioWare we’re devoting a lot of time on SWTOR. But on the other hand, this might spell the end of story rich content, which to be honest have been pretty sparse for a number of years. Nevertheless, I’ll keep playing it mainly as a single player game as long as I can.
I was also gonna mention that it's free for PS+ Extra and whatever the top tier is called. Lots of good games available through that! If people have PS+ already, I don't think it makes sense not to upgrade. I have very little desire to spend money on new games because of decent selection there for less per year than one new game costs. Most people say Xbox game pass is a better value, but I'm almost exclusively gaming on PS5 these days, so it's great for me but maybe not perfect for everybody?
As for this game in particular, I haven't tried it yet, but comments elsewhere on Lemmy have convinced me to give it a shot, probably this weekend. I'm certain that it's not for everybody, but for free, I'm sure I'll have a decent time at least?
I hope they fix the early game balance. You have to chop down a whole tree to get a log, to make one shitty wooden spear. You can throw the spear to kill a rabbit, but hit or not it loses 25% durability instantly. And one rabbit only keeps you going for a couple minutes. Just needlessly painful to get started.
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