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lordfrikk posted:Not being on Steam made it sale fodder for me. It seems most publishers really don't get how true this is for a lot of people. I honestly didn't even know that they were making a new PoP game - I hadn't seen anything or heard mention of it. Admittedly I'm not browsing gaming sites daily like when I was in high school, so outside of super hyped games, if it's not mentioned in the Nextlanders Podcast or shows up on the steam store, I am oblivious to it, and I imagine most people are similarly disconnected from gaming.
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They didn’t market the new PoP at all until like a week before launch so it in particular was a complete surprise to many.
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Orv posted:They didn’t market the new PoP at all until like a week before launch so it in particular was a complete surprise to many. They advertised it a bunch, people just went 'lol ubisoft' and ignored it.
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Ubisoft have done a lot to make me dislike them recently so yeah I'm tending to ignore their releases unless someone grabs me by the scruff and asks if I've played it yet.
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Around release as well that interview with the ubi exec saying 'gamers need to get comfortable not owning games for subscriptions to take off' was being passed around and folks soured on Ubisoft a bit more. Course the 'for subscriptions to take off' part was cut from most article titles.
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PoPSoT is a dear game from my teenage years and this new PoP looks like is slaps, but lol I'm done buying any PC game from anywhere but Steam.
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The new PoP looks great but also gently caress Ubisoft and giving them any money at all. Besides "needing to get comfortable with not owning games" the lack of response to the sex pest reports and bad management just kinda made me not want to give them any money. Unfortunately becoming true for many AAA companies at this point.
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Mr E posted:Besides "needing to get comfortable with not owning games"
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Volte posted:The response to this kind of annoyed me because it was clear nobody actually read the article past the headline. The quote was about getting people to feel comfortable engaging with a game that they don't own, in the context of what needs to happen for subscription services to becomes successful. i.e. your progress and achievements are your own and transfer over if you buy the game outright, the actual engagement with the game is "owned" even if the game executable isn't. It wasn't about priming people to get used to not owning things. I want to own the executable, though. That's my entire sticking point.
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StrixNebulosa posted:I want to own the executable, though. That's my entire sticking point. The real question and answer was basically "Q: What needs to happen for users to use subscription services? A: Users need to get more comfortable engaging with games that they don't own" and that's simply a true statement.
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Volte posted:The response to this kind of annoyed me because it was clear nobody actually read the article past the headline. The quote was about getting people to feel comfortable engaging with a game that they don't own, in the context of what needs to happen for subscription services to becomes successful. i.e. your progress and achievements are your own and transfer over if you buy the game outright, the actual engagement with the game is "owned" even if the game executable isn't. It wasn't about priming people to get used to not owning things. Even with this being true Ubisoft are the architects of their own misreadings, very few people are willing to give them the benefit of the doubt and/or looking into stuff deeper if the first-pass reading or misquote just soundbite's to a variation of "you will own nothing and be happy". It feels plausible, on-brand. People snapping to the worst read possible, even when wrong, is a hole Ubisoft dug themselves into. If this means they need to be extra careful with how they phrase things in interviews, them's the breaks.
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Volte posted:The response to this kind of annoyed me because it was clear nobody actually read the article past the headline. The quote was about getting people to feel comfortable engaging with a game that they don't own, in the context of what needs to happen for subscription services to becomes successful. i.e. your progress and achievements are your own and transfer over if you buy the game outright, the actual engagement with the game is "owned" even if the game executable isn't. It wasn't about priming people to get used to not owning things. I read it more as a "people will eventually get comfortable not owning games" like a prediction in the same way we're more comfortable not owning music, movies or shows with most folks using streaming services.
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ImpAtom posted:They advertised it a bunch, people just went 'lol ubisoft' and ignored it. I genuinely saw almost nothing and I am 100% a PoP mark but maybe the great algorithm doesn’t know that.
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The only time I saw any prerelease stuff for PoP was during a Nintendo Direct.
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Volte posted:The response to this kind of annoyed me because it was clear nobody actually read the article past the headline. The quote was about getting people to feel comfortable engaging with a game that they don't own, in the context of what needs to happen for subscription services to becomes successful. i.e. your progress and achievements are your own and transfer over if you buy the game outright, the actual engagement with the game is "owned" even if the game executable isn't. It wasn't about priming people to get used to not owning things. I don't see any reason to give Ubisoft or any AAA dev the benefit of the doubt when they make statements like that is my issue. I realize that you don't really own digital games in general and am not completely against gamepass style things in general, I guess it's just a sore point for me with everyone dropping physical movies available in stores lately while streaming just gets worse and worse and more expensive. I have a decent physical film collection and really don't particularly want to have to start getting physical games again because the digital option for those has been better than for movies IME.
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StrixNebulosa posted:I want to own the executable, though. That's my entire sticking point. Executives getting owned is acceptable too.
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I'd like to believe that goons are very familiar with the concept of "self-owning" !!
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Cruelty Squad is 60% off today! Play an overwhelmingly positive indie FPS with light immsim elements and an incredible soundtrack which was also my GOTY 2021! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1388770/Cruelty_Squad/
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Been replaying Dying Light 2. There should be more games that let you push dudes into conveniently placed walls of spikes. https://i.imgur.com/s7sNwsL.mp4
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I recall that Callisto Protocol had illogically placed spiked walls everywhere for you to tele throw not-necromorphs into.
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A enormously powerful boot on every F key and a spike wall in every driveway, please vote for me for World President.
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Dying Light is the only game where it's been logical for two reasons: because it's loving rad, and because they're set up by people in the world for just that purpose because zombies. Most games that do it just have the former logical reason.
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The wall spikes are for anti-cavalry purposes
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RIP https://x.com/palworlds_jp/status/1752756323953831943?s=46&t=DvvqeOcggle6VW8Wu5D9WA
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MarcusSA posted:RIP E: fake news explosivo fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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Milkshake Pal
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Note that the second post is a scam account and not an official.
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If for some reason you do not have and still want to buy Spec Ops: The Line, the final Steam keys are available in a couple of places for at least one more day. One example is Humble, but also DLGamer, and Noctre.
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Kennel posted:Note that the second post is a scam account and not an official. Oh whew.
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lol that people are evidently still falling for crypto scams enough that it's worth buying a $1000 gold checkmark to promote one
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https://palworld.com/ is some timecube poo poo
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repiv posted:lol that people are evidently still falling for crypto scams enough that it's worth buying a $1000 gold checkmark to promote one The gates have been let open to checkmark powercreep. Wait for the release of the hologram foil checkmark.
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Diephoon posted:Been replaying Dying Light 2. There should be more games that let you push dudes into conveniently placed walls of spikes. Might I interest you in Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
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Phlegmish posted:Might I interest you in Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
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sony has an event today who's excited for bloodborne on pc, which is definitely 100% happening
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Diephoon posted:Been replaying Dying Light 2. There should be more games that let you push dudes into conveniently placed walls of spikes. That's like, 80% of Bulletstorm's gameplay. The other 20% is everyone yelling "FUCKIN' gently caress YOU, YOU FUCKFACE!1!"
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Waffle! posted:That's like, 80% of Bulletstorm's gameplay. The other 20% is everyone yelling "FUCKIN' gently caress YOU, YOU FUCKFACE!1!" That must be the international title. In America it's called "Captain Swearword's Big loving Adventure."
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