that could be too.
How does that make a difference to you, the consumer, though? Obviously, the game would have to be quality to hold your interest either way, but does there being a physical space hosting the machine the game runs on, a distributor who brings the new games in and takes the old games out, and maybe a repairman to work on the machines make that much of a difference to your gaming experience?
okay, there's the local business argument. Granted, but what's wrong with the same model direct from the publisher directly to your own hardware you have anyway? I just don't understand why it's okay in one setting but not the other.
Charge reasonable prices and don't fill the game with bullshit. If not I won't buy it. It's not a necessity, they do not and have never needed to do this predatory nonsense.
probably gonna have to abandon AAA for a few years then... until these companies crash and hard, they're gonna keep doubling down on this nonsense until casual games are less egregious...
Personally I'd rather the industry just bring back private server capacity for users like in the heyday of online games.
no arguments here. I miss LANplay and private servers, too.
ah, so a weekly subscription on top of a monthly subscription... yeesh.
I'm not trying to make a rebuttal. I'm genuinely trying to figure out which would be preferable. I know what I prefer, but I'm clearly the odd man out.
lol. I would love to see arcades make a revival.
that being said, I think an arcade style pricing scheme could work with modern online games.
No one actually asked them to do so.
fair
I've heard worse, lol.
actually had a supervisor with an accent so thick that, between that and the machines, i could barely understand her half the time.
took me a couple tries to figure out what you meant, but I think you mean the ability to host your own games locally. No...I think the industry has all but killed that concept as it is, sadly, a few notable exceptions aside (minecraft, etc).
okay, so you'd rather pay the up front cost of the game, plus deal with the pay-to-win schemes, the lootcrates, etc?
sorry, i'm not trying to antagonize, i'm just trying to drill down on this one which is preferable. Obviously, we'd rather go back to pay for the game and that's the last money you spend on the game.
Fuck no. An arcade charges money because it is a physical retail space that costs money to own and maintain, and they have a limited amount of customers that can come in and play per day due to physical constraints.
Fair, but EA/Activision does pay to maintain the servers, update the game to fix glitches, security flaws, etc, add new content, etc.
that's what I was thinking as well, yes. ( I ran out of characters.)
I dunno about that...it's a model that worked well for quite a long time in the arcade market.
so you'd rather have seventy dollars for the title, plus lootcrates, plus pay-to-win, plus DLC? Personally, i think paying only for how much you use the service since they want to moved to a games-as-a service model anyway, but to each their own, I guess.
would you pay a dollar per match if it meant no up-front fee, no pay-to-win, no lootcrates, etc?
knew a costa rican immigrant who didn't speak a word of english when he started at master woodcraft... (I don't work there anymore, and Cabinet Worksgroup 'retired' the brand and laid me off, no special consideration at this point).
six months later, he was training me on the CNC router, and spoke english with a mildly heavy accent, but was completely understandable.
Point is if this kid fresh off the boat can do it in six months, there's no reason you can't do it in two years, unless you have extra chomosomes or something...
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Germany being authoritarian
Oh? Is it all of history o'clock again?
Lol
it's a hitpiece, ala gab, minds, bitchute, rumble, etc.
honestly, I'm a little dissapointed scored hasn't gotten one yet (that I know of)
they also switched the order for some reason.
either to make people wonder why he left bank of canada, or because his base is a bunch of eurocentrist cucks....
sorry to say to my canadian friends, but canada is fucked, cucked, and sucks. ...hopefully we'll be able to do something about it from this end, but I'm not holding my breath.
good luck our there, you'll need it.
it's not just the color or weight,t he pose changes as well... which is insane...
right after the election
whaddaya mean? it's been non-stop since he got elected the first time...with a brief pause between 2020 and when he started his campaign back up.
the original series was pretty good overall, honestly, and it had its own sense of humor.
I will say i've got questions about one of the throwaway jokes between kirk and spock where spock is talking about <insert monster of the week here> and how it toyed with them cruelly or something to that effect, and kirk makes an offhand comment about how "what little boy hasn't" <something implying kirk tortured small animals as a child> and then he walks away, and a moment later, spock makes the connection and his eyes get huge and he looks towards where kirk went out of the shot, and the episode ends, lol.
yeah... I've always been more or less behind on the latest games anyway. I mostly play indy stuff or older games these days (trying to work my way through soul reaver atm. never finished that one).