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Givin
Jan 24, 2008
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punk rebel ecks posted:

I read that Nintendo's service was free?

The "007-373-5963" number was free, but that was just the Nintendo Hotline. For game counselors, you had to pay. I called about Crystalis because gently caress me that game killed my child brain.

As far as Live Services I'm going to go with it sucks poo poo and I don't want any part of it in video games. But there isn't a drat thing I can do about it except not buy into it and buy a lot less games overall. I don't play a lot of stuff plagued by it, mostly single player stuff which the people that are making money off this cancer want to get rid of anyway. As long as they keep making Witchers, Yakuzas, Souls and RPGs, I'll be happy. I avoid the ones like Shadow of War which tried to gently caress poo poo up.

I don't mind DLC as long as it's meaty, (Witcher 3) and I kinda miss expansion packs. Most DLC don't even come close to being what an expansion pack was back in the day and many times I put off buying a game for a year or more just to get whatever Gold edition it is when it's deep discounted.

Also pre-order exclusive content is the worst offender in my book. Why the gently caress is there a need to pre order a digital thing? I know the obvious reason which is just greed and stupidity. The Mortal Kombat 11 trailer was great except for that poo poo song and the "Pre Order to play as Shao Khan" worm they dangled on the end of a hook. God drat.

Even loving new release movies are getting in on this poo poo. Why would you need to pre order a loving digital download movie?

Givin fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Dec 14, 2018

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