Lots of creators get bonuses or royalties based on sales.
My bigger point is that piracy is bullshit. Either pay the price asked because you want that game or movie so bad, or say the cost is too high and walk away entirely.
Pirating something you’re too much of a skinflint to buy is super immature “I want to have my cake and eat it too” mentality. People too spineless to make even a miniscule sacrifice for their beliefs.
Not by much less. I’d say you’d need at least $800 to be sure to run most games at at least 1080p60. I’ve been playing with pcpp lately, using Belmont’s Curse as an upcoming game with fairly tame recommended specs (10th gen Intel and a 3060), and I couldn’t really come in under $800 after case, reliable PSU, etc were all factored in. Maybe if you went for specifically used/secondhand parts but I limited my choices to just new or manufacturer refurbished since used inventory will vary widely in availability and price from area to area.
Of course, the minimum requirements are like an 8th gen Intel and a 1650. So you can probably hit 1080p60 with a lot less than the recommended.
I’m curious how low we could go, requiring all parts be new or manufacturer refurbished. I tried for $500 but couldn’t get anywhere close.
Even as grim as things are getting there’s still a lot of people with far more money than they deserve.
Labyrinth of the Demon King might scratch the itch.
Yes, I know that. I’m saying it shouldn’t be an upgrade, it should just be default. It’s such a staggeringly stupid decision.
Ugh. Lazy people are the worst.
And requires authentication via Steam to launch. No steam, no game.
At least not unless third parties come up with a workaround.
Fuck piracy. The artist is worthy of their hire.
I think that a lot of those early upgrades should just be inherent.
Like losing your subweapon on death sucks ass. There’s an upgrade to where you can hang onto it. Why isn’t that just default? Getting that upgrade doesn’t feel like improvement or progression, it feels frustrating.
KIRA’s a great dev. Lost in Vivo is like a weird first person Silent Hill kinda game, and they’d go on to make the excellent Lunacid a few years later.
You messed up and it is entirely your fault. It is literally a skill issue. The game doesn’t cheat.
I didn’t like Mina much either but please don’t start conflating “I didn’t enjoy this” with “this is badly designed.” It’s such a lazy, egocentric way of thinking.
Also, only the daggers push you back on contact. The whip and hammer do not. I do think requiring the player to be locked into a weapon choice and then have to buy access to the other ones is a flaw because you won’t know if you like a given weapon without testing it first. Blasphemous 2 just overall did that kind of thing far, far better.
Yeah Mina is essentially an action platformer. I’ll admit I bounced off of it after a few hours because top-down action platforming, as opposed to side-scrolling or 3D, just felt wrong. I could never reach a point where it didn’t feel like I was fighting the game.
They’re just zelda-likes. You don’t need to call everything a souls-like these days. I swear people would call Ocarina of Time a souls-like at this point…
Unlocking shortcuts leading back to hubs or area entrances is also not something Dark Souls came up with.
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Steam sells you a license. You don’t own the game. You own a license to access that game from Steam.
This is pretty much impossible. I don’t think y’all realize how much space those corporations control.
It’s like trying to boycott Nestle.
And you could have looked up information instead of vomiting nonsense everywhere but instead we’re here.
I just figured that since you’re such an obvious expert on the subject, you’d just know.
They’re all positioning for government bailouts anyway. Whether Trump or a neoliberal lickspittle, they know they’re pretty much covered. All of the important c-suite people will be perfectly fine.
Well, a consumer giving you $350 for a RAM set is cash in hand. The contracts with hyperscalers are all IOUs until the contracts are actually fulfilled aren’t they? At what point does actual money, not the promise of money, transfer from buyer to seller?
Aren’t the data center deals only finalized and paid upon actual completion of the project? Like that’s part of what makes the AI thing a bubble - companies are trading IOUs. I pinky swear to buy these chips once I have the data centers to house them in and the data centers have the power, water, etc from local infrastructure needed to operate and you pinky swear you’ll have the actual physical goods available at that time to fulfill that order.
What happens if a large amount of these pinky swears, which inflated stock prices are built on top of, fall through?
Ahhh, okay. Yeah 3 grand would get you a beast. Or, you know, like a car or something.
I think people willing to pay that much are idiots that don’t deserve the money they have, though. Somehow I don’t think that’s a mom or dad wanting to get a Nintendo for their kids or whatever.