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        I know helldivers 2 had a ton of controversy around the PSN login but otherwise it’s a fantastic game. Been loving it.

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        Battle bit.

        256 player servers are just insane still. It’s got the gameplay without the fancy graphics.

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      this will be said every single time a new big game is about to come out and mostly everybody still won’t listen. why?

      …no like i’m genuinely asking, why

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        Because most people aren’t in places like this. Most people don’t care about what the companies do, if they even know. I work next to a guy who buys the new call of duty every time, hates it, and buys the next anyway. Because it’s call of duty. He doesn’t care about mergers, or shutdowns, or what an Activision is.

        He plays his games and that’s it. Folks like us, who are concerned with how the sausage gets made, we’re not big enough to make a difference.

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        It will be said to influence the decision of people who are new to the gaming scene and haven’t been repeatedly burned. Not everyone is a doom scroller like us.

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    6 months ago

    “Person who relies on stock price says positive thing about product!”

    Well golly gee I believe em! It’s gonna be the first Superperfect AAAAA™ game!

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    So, broken and buggy game with battle-pass and a perfectly functioning store from day one? Of course, a promise to fix the game with a roadmap within a week of launch. Yeah, a tremendous live service indeed.

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    I’m sure they liked that kind of language in the earnings call but it sounds pretty gross anywhere else.

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    I’m noticing the language used over and over now is “live service” instead of “game”. I’m coming around to the idea that what they’re trying to do is replace the fact that a game used to be a “good” with it being a “service”. That accursed farms video from 5 years ago titled “games as a service is fraud” was spot on. Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw

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    6 months ago

    Let’s go boys! Time to drop trou, get out your wallet, and pre-order the super platinum edition with a hilarious camo, useless rifle, and the day-1 DLC included.

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    There’s no way he’s dogfooding the micro-transactions. It’s impossible for him to do so.

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    “In his first year as CEO, Wilson initiated a “player-first” corporate strategy, and offered more free-to-play games and in-app purchase options.[7] In a move towards a transformation from physical software to digital, he also greatly increased EA’s digital offerings, and launched EA Access, a subscription-based digital service for Xbox One players that allows unlimited play across a selection of EA titles.[7][8] Electronic Arts had a large revenue increase and its stock price doubled in 2014.[7][9]” -wiki

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      So basically this guy is behind EAs thirst for micro transactions and getting rid of physical copies. Anything he says in cringe.