You said that modern games were terrible cash grabs, which it’s different from how games “used to be”. So I’m interested in which period of time “used to be” actually encompasses.

Multiplayer games with some form of progression are much more popular. Games like you describe still exist, they are just less popular relative to others.

Yes, good games exist today, that doesn’t mean lots of games aren’t also terrible live service cash grabs.

So, just like older games?

I’m interested in this period of time where all video games were good and no greed was involved.

Netflix was cheap because no one valued streaming rights initially, and thus there was little competition for those rights. Once companies realized how valuable the service was, prices shot up.

One of those strange situations where increased competition increased prices.

That’s the question isn’t it? I believe they’ve already stated not to expect anything before the end of the year. But we’ll see how long it takes for turned to show up after that.

A link to a Youtube Short that is an image of a date for when they announce another date.

Sorry, I’m downvoting this.

I would argue it is silly, regardless of the explanation. Every culture has silly things, but that doesn’t make them somehow not silly.

This feels like a pretty big overreaction from my perspective. As far as I know, they never promised to never release expansion content, nor does the existence of an expansion make the original game “less complete” retroactively.

Either way, I also don’t see what about this is “Modern gaming sucks”.

I mean, it was in an article where they were assuring people there wouldn’t be DLC.

Which article is that? From what I remember the sentiment was basically “FFXVI is meant to be a complete experience, no DLC required. But if it’s successful and there is demand for it, it’s possible we’ll work on something in the future”.

This would be different from many games which have DLC planned and worked out during the development of the main game, before it’s released.

I want to say I would replay the game, but I struggle with that even with games I enjoy. I’ve made a few attempts to replay Witcher 3 and haven’t been successful. I still haven’t finished Act 3 in my main playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3 either after getting distracted by Starfield.

So, I’m working under the assumption that I’ve only going to be making one solid attempt at playing through the game.

I bought the base game on sale but only spent a few minutes with it. Still haven’t decided if I want to play with or without the expansion at this point. But all these update are making me want to keep waiting for the “final” final patch, haha.

Can’t believe this actually happened.

I haven’t used Godot before so I can’t provide too much in the way of context from a user.

Overall though, the notes are pretty massive and encompass a large number of changes, most which are going to be meaningless to you if you not are a game developer or a Godot developer.

Some specific things that standout for a more general audience would be adding support for FSR 2.2, support (‘experimental’ aka not necessarily production ready) for project exports targeting Android and iOS (which were broken when they switched from Mono to the standard .NET library for C# support).

The problem is when those “older builds” rely on a connection to a back-end. If this was just a standalone piece of software that is one thing, but you can’t just let out-of-date clients that connect over the internet to run indefinitely.

I fucking hate people who write articles to stoke fear for clicks.

What about people who are confidently wrong in their ignorance and post old articles that don’t prove what they think it does?

I don’t think I’ve had a Pixel phone that survived much past the two year mark. They’ve all had various issues, either problems with the battery/charging or just dying altogether.

I still use them because you can get them for cheaper than most phones, but “longer lasting” is the last adjective I would use for them.

If the carriers it supports have poor or no reception where you live, it’s not really any specific person’s problem unless you somehow think that an individual is going to come with a solution on their own. Which seems excessive.

To be fair, didn’t it eventually come out that pretty much everyone was cheating? VW just got caught first.

Which other manufacturers were cheating?

I don’t know, how will I know if my opinions on a game are valid and objectively correct if I don’t have player numbers to back them up?

That is all that has ever existed in the genre and is all anyone wants from it.

I don’t remember you appointing you as the sole representative for all gamers.

Personally, I think games can be written about beyond “game good” and “game bad”. Or maybe it comes down to whether you find gaming something important, or just a silly way to waste time.