• Rashav3rak [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    30·
    6 months ago

    It’s especially weird that companies are still like this after seeing the success of a game like Baldurs Gate 3. The runaway hit of the year, and biggest earner on Steam, doesn’t even implement the basic Steam DRM. I tried it. The game launches and runs just fine when Steam isn’t running at all. It’s so messed up how capitalism leads to that (providing good products at fair prices and respecting your audience) being seen as an “unsustainable business model.”

            • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
              4·
              6 months ago

              1. Fuck Ubisoft, does nobody have principles as far as not supporting dogshit companies?

              2. Reviving a dead IP that was pretty much the exclusive representative of tightly-designed linear 3D platformers, as well as generally cinematic platformers, and just going “We want the Hollow Knight audience. We want the Dust An Elysian Tail audience. We want the Dead Cells audience.” is a really pro move, fuck them for that.

              This is sort of tied to my insane rant about Symphony of the Night rant and you can see that here so I have bias I guess, and also I take viddy james way too seriously. I’ve been waiting like a decade for these jackasses to make a new game I like, and the best they can do is shitcan an underbaked remake (which seems to have destroyed the studio they originally assigned to it) and pony up this goofy metroidvania thing.

                • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  3·
                  6 months ago

                  Good dont 😤

                  Also yes but no, like PoP Fallen King is also a 2D game and that does nooot make it a return to form. While the 1989 game has some roundabout pathways and a little backtracking, it’s a very methodical game with heavy movement and a somewhat complicated control setup for a basically one button game. It’s much more of a navigational puzzler, and combat is basically an afterthought in it.

                  Every PoP aside from Two Thrones has fallen on its face by including dogshit combat so at least they’re continuing this tradition…

  • GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    6 months ago

    It took 5-10 years but eventually I got to a point where I never touched a torrent. It took less than a year for me to go 100% back, and with bigger and better resources than ever. If the internet shuts off I still have all my music, movies, shows, games, even info like Wikipedia I have stored as real 1s and 0s and spinny metal plates.

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    18·
    6 months ago

    I made the mistake of getting Child of Light on Steam because it was on sale for like $5 and then got stuck in a recurring loop of needing to log in through Uplay only to run into some error code.

    • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      6 months ago

      What if it takes you more than a month to get through the game? What if you take a break? Better make sure that subscription is paid for when you get back to it

      Fuck this pay per minute shit

      • Deadend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        4·
        6 months ago

        I’m generally “done” with their games pretty quickly. So a 1 month Ubisoft + subscription when I have an urge for one or more of their games works for me.

        I also find the rental model to be more honest than “you’re buying a limited license that lasts forever or until we say it doesn’t”.

        As even a lot of games on disc aren’t fully on the disc.

        It sucks for preservation. I also don’t understand how it’s remotely profitable based on the subscription price and how much it costs to make games.

        • doublepepperoni [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
          10·
          6 months ago

          Presumably Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA et al are currently all eating the cost until they have enough of the userbase used to the subscription model so they can start jacking up prices, introducing ad-supported tiers or whatever else awful shit they’ve got cooking

          This current honeymoon period with its quote unquote incredible value will not last

          • Deadend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            9·
            6 months ago

            Yeah. Everyone is doing the Netflix.

            1. Undercharge
            2. Run competition out of business
            3. Become monopoly
            4. Jack up prices to where it’s profitable

            It’s going bad for everyone trying it as it’s taking too long to work.

              • Deadend [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                2·
                6 months ago

                Other companies figured out how to do streaming faster than Netflix expected. Hell, Hulu started same year as Netflix.

                Still was the premise Netflix was operating under.

                1. Disrupt a industry/business model by doing something different (or illegal like Uber)
                2. Spend a lot of money on growth (subsidized ride costs, ads, features)
                3. Run competition to death (taxis)
                4. Jack up prices when there are no choices left! (Cabs are coming back, other Uber-likes can still exist and undercut Uber and make a profit.)

                Streaming tv is so split because there is no reason to not make your own app. The only stupid things were the ridiculous number of “exclusives”.

                But movies and TV shows have much better preservation of history than games. Despite globally a lot of movie industries having poor preservation due to costs. Every game that released on PC should be preserved and playable in some form, but many aren’t due to DRM and client/server setups (you can’t play ff14 -original).

                Rental-only /subscription works for games as a Service - as in the concept that games are a Service/product, not for games as art.

                As services aren’t art, and can go away. Art should be shared.