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WittyUserName 4 points ago +4 / -0

In the last 24 hours, the prices of some Counter-Strike weapon skins have jumped to insane levels.

The friend who tipped me off told me he flipped $3 CSGO skins for $50.

These things can apparently be traded for knives; whatever that means.

I don't play the Counter-Strike games, so I don't know what any of that means.

Edit: There's a post over in Gaming that gives more details.

https://communities.win/c/Gaming/p/1ARJmNCySh/out-of-nowhere-completely-unanno/c

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WittyUserName 16 points ago +16 / -0

Valorant, Fortnite, PUBG, Genshin Impact, Clash of Clans............basically anything that relies on Amazon's servers to run are all down.

For extra hilarity, the individual servers for these games are just fine, so people are losing their minds thinking something's wrong with their PCs/phones.

Edit: Including the link because the number of affected services keeps growing.

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

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WittyUserName 3 points ago +3 / -0

The Ultra Edition only had Season Pass 1 because there were no plans to have anything beyond it.

The Ultra Edition was, for all intents and purposes, the complete game at the time they sold it. Now, that version is scrubbed from storefronts and replaced.

People who spend now what people spent before get more. The Ultra Edition owners don't get Season Pass 2 free or even get any special discounts.

I've seen people compare it to how Saber monetized World War Z, but I'm not too clear on how that went.

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WittyUserName 3 points ago +3 / -0

No idea.

Edit: Here's the remaining text from the top one.

Another huge disappointment are the skins. They are ridiculously overpriced and offer nothing beyond minor cosmetic changes. There’s no real value, just lazy cosmetics dressed up with premium price tags — it reeks of a cash grab.

It’s especially frustrating because the core game itself is great: the Warhammer atmosphere, brutal combat, and a solid campaign that truly captures the spirit of the original. But all of this is dragged down by greedy publishing decisions and awful monetization practices.

Bottom line: Ultimate Edition was a scam, the new edition is being sold at the same premium price with more content, and the skins are absolutely not worth the money. As a fan of the Warhammer universe, this whole situation is nothing but a huge disappointment.

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WittyUserName 6 points ago +6 / -0

For the record - There is no discount on the second season pass itself for owners of the Ultra Edition.

Edit: I just noticed the two reviews on the left are identical. Lazy.

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WittyUserName 5 points ago +5 / -0

The 2016 election broke them. They bet everything on Hillary and they've been salty about it since.

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WittyUserName 20 points ago +20 / -0

For context - This is some kind of Australian indie film that escaped containment. I had to check around to make sure it wasn't a joke.

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WittyUserName 1 point ago +1 / -0

I reposted this because I got the game's name wrong. Can you post this in the new thread?

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WittyUserName 4 points ago +4 / -0

Links:

Project - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/takeusnorth/take-us-north/description

Project Archive - https://archive.is/E7py1

I cannot link the company's webpage or Instagram as they have both been set to "Private".

EDIT:

Arch smells money laundering (Thanks Cato!) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKDbRDoFow0&t=345s

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WittyUserName 14 points ago +14 / -0

He claimed his grandfather was black. Then he started backpedaling when people saw a picture of his father and noticed he wasn't very dark-skinned.

Who knows what the truth actually is there?

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WittyUserName 9 points ago +9 / -0

...remember you didn't air your dirty laundry in the Steam reviews and then leave it up for everyone to see.

Source - https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198038533977/recommended/691790/

Archive - https://archive.is/74EtW

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WittyUserName 3 points ago +3 / -0

Arrowhead's had their thumb on the scale since day 1.

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WittyUserName 37 points ago +37 / -0

Some context.

Since the start of Helldivers 2, the devs unwisely let slip they had a narrative manager called Joel. Joel is in charge of determining where the story goes and tweaks things such as enemy strength to make things more cinematic. In other words, he's a Game Master and the meta is more on-rails than Amtrack. Planets that the community should have taken become strangely impossible to take and vice-versa. We have virtually no real impact on the story.

Keeping that in mind, it was obvious where the recent attack on Super-Earth was going to go. We were going to lose every Mega City except one and then win the fight at the last second for that cinematic moment all Game Masters really like (but players rebel against).

Enter - The Chinese.

One of the Mega Cities (and one of the last ones standing) was located in China. So, they went to work trying to keep hold of the city for the glory of their culture. Then they noticed that no matter how much they rallied, the numbers weren't adding up.

China discovered the meta. And they are not happy.

End result: The devs must have noticed because two Mega Cities survived the invasion instead of one and the game currently sits at Mixed.

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WittyUserName 9 points ago +9 / -0

It wasn't removed for all titles. Street Fighter IV and Resident Evil 5 got taken care of, but titles like Operation: Racoon City and Lost Planet 2 were in limbo so long that Capcom yanked them from the storefront.

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