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Icon Of Sin posted:B-Wings and TIE Defenders are coming to Star Wars: Squadrons, along with a pile of other changes up to the end of this year. Gimme that B wing
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orange juche posted:Gimme that B wing b wing bros
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I'm just sad that they're not going to do any more support for the game because "we couldn't figure out how to scam you with lootboxes, so we're just not going to do anything and let the game shrivel up and die" E: why would I even think EA would publish server software for people to host their own games a la BF1942, Counter Strike, TF2, etc. They'd never do that because it doesn't make them money. orange juche fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Nov 20, 2020 |
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I feel quite justified in making GBS threads on EA's Star Wars entries when this is the poo poo they do
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If you haven't noticed already, epic games is giving away elite dangerous until November 26th, if you want some space trucker action.
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if you want to actually install that cancer of a distribution service
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ded posted:if you want to actually install that cancer of a distribution service Easy there, Bull Connor. What do you have against civil rights https://www.businessinsider.com/epic-games-tim-sweeney-fight-with-apple-civil-rights-struggle-2020-11
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GD_American posted:Easy there, Bull Connor. What do you have against civil rights 
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I just want a remastered version of Need for Speed Underground 2
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I see those memes are making it to Germany as well.
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Duzzy Funlop posted:I just want a remastered version of Need for Speed Underground 2 NFS Heat is pretty good. Racing during the day is fairly safe, earns lots of cash, and you won't get chased by cops, but your rep gain is small, night racing can be extremely risky since the cops absolutely do not gently caress around and will happily take your entire wallet, but it's the quickest way to get rep in order to unlock upgrades so that you can spend your cash on them. Still kinda bummed they teased an NFS underground remaster and then just went lol no orange juche fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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orange juche posted:NFS Heat is pretty good. Racing during the day is fairly safe, earns lots of cash, and you won't get chased by cops, but your rep gain is small, night racing can be extremely risky since the cops absolutely do not gently caress around and will happily take your entire wallet, but it's the quickest way to get rep in order to unlock upgrades so that you can spend your cash on them. That does look pretty cool, I'm surprised I didn't come across it while googling. Then again, there are almost 30 titles in the franchise now, and the only ones google put remotely close to NFSUG 2 were the 2015 version and I think Payback. I don't really care too much about a story, to be honest. All I want is a shitton of modding and tuning my poo poo, doing open world cruising and racing, and running from cops. /edit: Jeeeesus christ, it's 70 bucks
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Duzzy Funlop posted:That does look pretty cool, I'm surprised I didn't come across it while googling. Then again, there are almost 30 titles in the franchise now, and the only ones google put remotely close to NFSUG 2 were the 2015 version and I think Payback. I got it via EA Play or whatever their yearly thing that gives you access to like 85% of EA's back catalog, I wasn't going to pay $70 USD for it, so I paid $29 USD and got more games to gently caress with. Odds are I'll wring all the fun out of NFS Heat I want inside of a year, and other games are a bonus. Games as a service (outside of MMOs) is a terrible idea, but the alternative is paying eye-bleeding prices for games like NFS Heat. TimeToBeat has the main story listed as 12.5 hours of gameplay, with most players taking around 20 hours to beat it and whatever the site considers "extra content", with a 45 hour "Completionist" rating, which is probably the fastest possible 100%. I'm taking my time goofing around in the game, tuning cars, doing drift trials and poo poo, and had a good time so far. Cops are very scary and will gently caress you up until you get to a minimum of Rank 15 so you can equip modules that allow you to actually crash cop cars when they're chasing you. orange juche fucked around with this message at 12:47 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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orange juche posted:I got it via EA Play or whatever their yearly thing that gives you access to like 85% of EA's back catalog, I wasn't going to pay $70 USD for it, so I paid $29 USD and got more games to gently caress with. Odds are I'll wring all the fun out of NFS Heat I want inside of a year, and other games are a bonus. Yeah, there appears to be a 3,99/month or 24/99/12 months EA play deal, I might go for the latter and then just put the game on my wishlist for when it dips in price, I guess? Still feels kinda lovely to only own a game temporarily
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It sucks, but the increase in game price hasnt even come close to keeping up with inflation. Games were whatever the equivalent of 59 USD was in 1995(not sure if the Eurozone and the Euro were established at the time), and that amount of money doesn't go nearly as far anymore (which is why you're seeing increasing amounts of "deluxe" editions and ultimate editions of games for 79 and 99 Euros). The only games that are close to those old prices anymore are indie titles, and "value" titles like Star Wars Squadrons where they had to be beaten over the head to provide a complete game, AAA poo poo has well and truly abandoned the 59,99 price point.
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yup, I remember snes games costing $60 back in the day. It's kinda crazy.
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chrono trigger was like $70 or $80
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Games make far more money than they ever did in the 90s and reach a much larger market. It’s not a simple comparison, imo. There’s a lot of waste, excess, and greed in the AAA industry so it’s hard to buy any arguments they make to increase prices.
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Fallom posted:Games make far more money than they ever did in the 90s and reach a much larger market. It’s not a simple comparison. plus digital games don't have shipping or packaging costs for the sale
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EA posted over $4bn in revenue and over $2.5bn of net income in 2019. Their CEO gets over $35 mil in compensation. When people say video game prices need to go up, they’re robbing the wrong people. It’s more capitalism gaslighting. Pay devs more and release full games. Keep DLC and scrap microtransactions. You’ll probably cut EA’s revenue by a quarter, but they can loving afford it. (EA is the video game evil empire that’s why they are where my focus is, but it’s similar with other large AAA studios.) Woofer fucked around with this message at 15:49 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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"Games just cost too much to make these days!" *pays a fortune for a celebrity voice actor and scraps all their lines*
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I would rather pay an indie dev $60 for a bad game that required a lot of effort to make than give EA a dime. Madden 21 still had assets from Madden 19 ffs. I don’t mean assets like the grass, I mean poo poo that still said Madden 19 on it!
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EAs' game service is on xbox gamepass now. I kinda want to run through a bunch of their games for achievements, but honestly, EA hasn't made anything I want to play in literal years. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Nov 21, 2020 |
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Fallom posted:"Games just cost too much to make these days!" The Destiny/Peter Dinklage thing is the funniest example of this.
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I've been supporting Raymond Doerr of "Rise to Ruins"-fame for almost two years now, because his story in game development has impressed me even more than that of Stardew Valley. A single guy designing / coding the probably best god-game contender of recent history since the decline of the Bullfrog/Lionshead era, and improving it continuously for several years is just a wunderbar story. I think my surprise at the price tag of NFS Heat probably stems from my personal "consumption" behavior regarding games over the last 10 years. I think the only triple-A titles I bought since 2008 or so were Doom and GTA V, so seeing a game in what I thought to be an abandoned niche genre like NFS costing 70 bucks really threw me off. Then again, I also didn't know there are now almost THIRTY loving titles in the NFS franchise, so it seems the whole thing has been a massive cash cow despite me losing interest after NFSUG 2
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If EA had stuck with the Burnout franchise, it'd be another cash cow. I will literally buy Burnout Paradise again for the PS5.
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The Rise to Ruins guy seems....pleasant https://twitter.com/RaymondDoerr/status/1330001587381657600
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GD_American posted:The Rise to Ruins guy seems....pleasant Oh no, not my packages!
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Game developer hasn’t seen package in a year? Seems par for course.
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GD_American posted:The Rise to Ruins guy seems....pleasant I've based my opinion on him entirely on what I've seen from his game development communication, and the guy's been someone that has always kept the community in the back of his mind (there's actually a change in the game based on what I bugged him about on Twitter in 2018). Guess he can get all irrationally emotional about package delivery as I've been in the past. (except I'd get angry about it and then calm down over time and not call for people being fired in the heat of the moment on a platform where I can broadcast to a whole lot of people, welp)
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GD_American posted:If EA had stuck with the Burnout franchise, it'd be another cash cow. im waiting on a switch sale but this for sure, they were great games
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the year is 2020 and people still play EA games lol
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EA is re-releasing the Mass Effect trilogy and stripped out the only playable part of ME3 (the multiplayer) despite supporting the original with constant free updates for a good couple of years after release.
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Internet Wizard posted:EA is re-releasing the Mass Effect trilogy and stripped out the only playable part of ME3 (the multiplayer) despite supporting the original with constant free updates for a good couple of years after release. It will sell one-gazillion copies, too.
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Has there ever been any kind of successor to Destruction Derby? Burnout I guess?
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Internet Wizard posted:EA is re-releasing the Mass Effect trilogy and stripped out the only playable part of ME3 (the multiplayer) despite supporting the original with constant free updates for a good couple of years after release. Wait what? No multiplayer? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck that. I was going to buy it but nevermind.
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