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BF2042 player count is now below 1000

And the "early" April update has been delayed:

JFC, I actually feel bad for the franchise now. I actually want EA to put it out of its misery.
Calling it now: It gets perfunctory updates to fulfill all prior obligations, then EA and DICE snuff it and quietly dump the corpse while getting everyone hyped for the next installation. And the fanbase, with its chronic unwillingness to learn, will preorder. "They won't disappoint us this time!"
 

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So Minecraft was mtx-less until Microsoft bought the IP for 2.5 billion dollars? Hmmm. Well, I guess that kind of investment wasn’t going to pay for itself or anything!

I"ll give them some credit that they put out major updates and additions on a roughly 2/year rate. Compared to the glacial progress of pre-Microsoft Mojang where you'd get a new block or something maybe once a year.


But yeah, one of the first things they actually did was redo skins so your character is comprised of like 8 separate slots to sell cosmetics for.
 

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The game did not perform well before being put on PS Plus. Stop shifting blame, Soulstorm lived and died on its own merits.
You realize they put the game on PS+ day 1 right? Like it was free the entire first month it was available.
 

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You dumb sons of bitches; have fun losing all that money.



Given Sony siding with Epic over gamers TM I am not surprised. In fact I look forward to the success EGS and Sony has in the future in their partnership

Though on the Chinese game license situation is probably a sigh of relief for the mobile gaming scene since Japan and Korean can't sustain their games on a limited global fanbase alone and many Japanese mobile games are going EoS because of how small the actual paying base is without Chinese mobile gaming revenue
 

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You dumb sons of bitches; have fun losing all that money.
I'm slightly terrified that at some point one of these stupid bastards will work out a way to force us to use whatever nightmarish corporate playpen version of VRChat or Second Life they come up with. Moreso, I'm baffled at why so many big companies have been sucked into the idea that VRChat is the way a profitable fraction of people will want to interact with content day to day. I like VRChat, but it's not an efficient way of doing anything except its intended purpose of goofing off with weird people. For everything else I use GUIs and text interfaces like everyone else, because those just work and require minimal effort. Capitalism tries to make stupid things happen all the time. A lot of them fail, because they are stupid and consumers recognise them as stupid and refuse to give them their money. However, sometimes bad ideas do get through and get embedded in our day to day lives and I really, really hope this shit isn't one of them.
 
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I'm slightly terrified that at some point one of these stupid bastards will work out a way to force us to use whatever nightmarish corporate playpen version of VRChat or Second Life they come up with. Moreso, I'm baffled at why so many big companies have been sucked into the idea that VRChat is the way a profitable fraction of people will want to interact with content day to day. I like VRChat, but it's not an efficient way of doing anything except its intended purpose of goofing off with weird people. For everything else I use GUIs and text interfaces like everyone else, because those just work and require minimal effort. Capitalism tries to make stupid things happen all the time. A lot of them fail, because they are stupid and consumers recognise them as stupid and refuse to give them their money. However, sometimes bad ideas do get through and get embedded in our day to day lives and I really, really hope this shit isn't one of them.
Somewhat the same. I'll be sticking to single player games and smaller games anyway, so hopefully they don't intend to put a VRchat in those. Unless they want people to talk to themselves, but that can be done for free and without the VR. Though I am not that worried, cuz this will cost a lot of backlash and most games telling them to fuck off. If it gets that intrusive and annoying, then my Switch will get even more play time.
 
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Given Sony siding with Epic over gamers TM I am not surprised. In fact I look forward to the success EGS and Sony has in the future in their partnership

Though on the Chinese game license situation is probably a sigh of relief for the mobile gaming scene since Japan and Korean can't sustain their games on a limited global fanbase alone and many Japanese mobile games are going EoS because of how small the actual paying base is without Chinese mobile gaming revenue
Hooking into the machine just puts one on life support.


I've enjoyed the Vanillaware games I've played so I'll be checking this out eventually.
Nice! While the balance could have been better, this is a pretty good game. I'll be sure to get this when it comes out.
 

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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!

The next Mass Effect game has officially moved from "We're thinking about probably making this game" to "We've basically just started making the game"!!!


Guess we'll see this in 2030, sounds good.
 
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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!

The next Mass Effect game has officially moved from "We're thinking about probably making this game" to "We've basically just started making the game"!!!


Guess we'll see this in 2030, sounds good.
Given how the last one went, let's hope so.
 

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GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!

The next Mass Effect game has officially moved from "We're thinking about probably making this game" to "We've basically just started making the game"!!!


Guess we'll see this in 2030, sounds good.
Good for Bioware, I don't care. Never cared for Mass Effect when it was good and part of the hype train, and I still don't care afterward.
 
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Good for Bioware, I don't care. Never cared for Mass Effect when it was good and part of the hype train, and I still don't care afterward.
I think what upsets me is that they weren't even technically MAKING the game when they did that teaser trailer in....when the fuck was that 2019? Like...that annoys me so much when games are revealed that are half a decade away from releasing, which is why I'm rolling my eyes are Kingdom Hearts fans who think that KH4 wont take 7+ years to develop.
 

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I think what upsets me is that they weren't even technically MAKING the game when they did that teaser trailer in....when the fuck was that 2019? Like...that annoys me so much when games are revealed that are half a decade away from releasing, which is why I'm rolling my eyes are Kingdom Hearts fans who think that KH4 wont take 7+ years to develop.
At least with KH, the fans are used to that kind of timetable between numbered releases.
 
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I think what upsets me is that they weren't even technically MAKING the game when they did that teaser trailer in....when the fuck was that 2019? Like...that annoys me so much when games are revealed that are half a decade away from releasing, which is why I'm rolling my eyes are Kingdom Hearts fans who think that KH4 wont take 7+ years to develop.
At least with KH, the fans are used to that kind of timetable between numbered releases.
Exactly why I stopped giving a rat's ass about the Kingdom Hearts series since the second game.
 

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Exactly why I stopped giving a rat's ass about the Kingdom Hearts series since the second game.
That that the story lost all sense of....sense. Kingdom Hearts became a cluster fuck on nonsense that not even the gameplay could make up for. They don't even use Final Fantasy shit anymore iirc, so the whole novelty has been wasted.
 

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That that the story lost all sense of....sense. Kingdom Hearts became a cluster fuck on nonsense that not even the gameplay could make up for. They don't even use Final Fantasy shit anymore iirc, so the whole novelty has been wasted.
Nomura got high off his own farts. And with Disney being Disney, all their characters are nothing more than glorified 5 to 10 minute cameos.