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2023: Collectors edition comes with a steelcase and a download code
Diablo collector’s didn’t even include the game
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All those hit pieces that were coming out as BG3 was launching were so transparent. “Shit one company is actually putting in effort, make it seem bad somehow”
There’s a reason they changed the name from expansion to DLC.
Man we don’t even get dlc anymore in the past you would get an expansion pack and it would only be like 75 hours of additional content then it became dlc and that was still like the ballad of gay tony undead nightmare now its micro transactions and its a car that was part of the base game that they removed so you can pay for it again
GTA IV DLC was soo good. I was hyped for what theyd do with some smaller stories within GTA V but they never came :(
Afaik they cancelled the expansions for GTA V because they fucked up the launch of GTA Online and needed to fix that instead.
Pretty sure they saw the truckloads of cast piling in and realized they could just scrap the expacs and sprinkle its pieces into Online as paid content.
Im worried about gta 6 the main story is supposed to be much shorter than gta 5 and there apparently going to be combining the main story dlc with gta online
It’s not the same Rockstar that was making GTA 1-4 anyways. That ship sailed a long time ago.
Let’s be realistic though, modern Rockstar still made RDR2, which was full of heart. Not saying for sure that GTA6 won’t be a cash grab, but modern Rockstar still very much has it in them to make a great game
As someone who started playing gta 3 and up rdr bully the warriors its hard to let go of old Rockstar that actually cared about there games
That’s more like middle aged rockstar if we’re being honest. I miss the old top-down GTA games. Killllll frenzy!
Yeah either way there long dead killed by take two and the stock market
GOURANGA
Thanks Bethesda
Well there is Hope with games like Baldurs Gate 3 and most indie titles
Baldur’s gate 3 is a work of art.
Indie is the way to go. The number of times I’ve been disappointed with “AAA” games is ludicrous.
Yes, been loving BG3 but my best experiences with games in recent years have all been indie, from Outer Wilds that made me completely rethink what a game experience is meant to be, to Vampire Survivors that tickled all the right parts of my brain into making me spend hours watching pixels flash on screen in the most mind-numbingly addictive way. Indie devs really seem to be carrying forward the soul of gaming that larger gaming companies have lost, the exceptions being so rare that Baldur’s Gate 3 is getting lauded for basically meeting what would have been normal expectations for a AA title in the early 2000’s
You just have to be VERY careful with buying them day 1. I mostly just wait for a “complete edition” or “goty edition” or smth and THEN wait til that is cheap.
This is exactly the way to do it. Well, it’s exactly the way I do it. Yeah I have to wait a little bit but I’d rather have the full experience available, and a discount is a nice bonus, when I start a game than buy it piecemeal.
Don’t you know? This kind of quality is impossible for poor little AAA studios to keep up! We really should just settle for tech demos. :(
stop!.. this hurts too much.
This kinda ignores how early access is a great tool for indie developers catering to a small audience. They don’t need to bend down for some publisher that then sets them rules, but freely decide what they do. And if whatever they do turns out to attract not enough customers, they can simply stop, get a job at a company. And don’t need to worry about what the publisher wants.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t about early access games. It looks like it’s about AAA games like Cyberpunk that release in a completely broken state and take multiple rounds of post release patches to make them even close to what was promised.
This is why I am hesitant to get excited for any new games. I’ve been waiting for Payday 3 for a long time and I was excited but I’m concerned that the base game will be lacking and DLC will be almost necessary. I mean they’re already selling three DLX packs and the games not even out. Yeah DLX kept Overkill alive while everyone was sueing everyone else over the IP rights of Payday 2, but now that it’s settled and we’re getting a third game, I don’t expect anything else.
That’s why i don’t game anymore, well that and because I keep getting fucked by young people in multiplayer games
Single player and coop in where it’s at.
PvP games ain’t fun if the majority of the base doesn’t have work to go to.
Only single player game i enjoyed in the last 10 years was the Witcher 3, i couldn’t even finish GTA V lol.
I have always been a multiplayer gamer myself, but the state of most games right now (since few years ago) is absolutely disgusting, they’re just made for you to spend points on mtx thanks to skill based matchmaking and other crap, it’s really undercover pay2win unless you are bottom/top 1%.
I’m just glad i enjoyed every game i could as a child and enjoyed the competitive scene of many FPS when it wasn’t undercover pay2win.
Now it’s time for 16yo guys on adderall to win and earn millions on twitch
You know, some people pay top dollar to be fucked by young people…
I know, but I don’t think those “young people” are on adderall 24/7 haha
Some of them might! If they actually have ADHD, for example 🤷
Oh, I still game, but mostly older games and GotY editions. And Indies.
AAA titles are dead for me, I want to buy a full game, with no in-game store, no 10ish DLCs available, no always on fuckery etc.
And if there are 1 or 2 huge expansions (like in Witcher 3) I have no problem with that. I bought expansions in the past, that’s fine.
From Soft is the light in the darkness.
Turns out that a creative director that unapologetically makes exactly the game that they wanted to make is a winning formula.
I used to be fine with all the shit practices you mentioned since I just wanted to play the games, but then I played Baldurs Gate 3 and remembered how gaming used to be.
I don’t think I’ll continue to buy DLC-ridden, half-finished and sometimes even outright broken games. Looking at you Diablo 4…
In that sense the publishers were rightfully afraid of the game. I guess it reminded a lot of us what we lost over the years.
ayo what games you playin
None
You get the body free, but pay to spin a wheel to get the other parts. Also, there is a chance of getting copies of parts you already have.
Nowadays you have to subscribe to the car battlepass. Then you have drive the car for 100miles each to unlock all the rewards for 100 levels.
It’s the same reward everyone else who subscribed is getting, so I hope you don’t mind your car looking like everyone else’s.
Oh, and all the rewards will be just bodies and paint. The wheels still cost extra.
Maaannnn… I got another steering wheel. Anyone willing to trade for an ignition system? I’ll settle for two NPCs who will get out and push!
Guess that a lot of game studios don’t know what the V in MVP stands for.
Not true, if people buy it the V is in there. And plenty of people throw their money at it, otherwise they’d stop doing that.
But hey, pre-order our broken game for $70 today! Do it now, because surely the digital copies will run out otherwise.
Pre order our game that is broken because the director was fired halfway through development, but we insisted on the original release date. Also the coders will get to see their family unharmed again once they’ve released the first patch.
This is too true :c
Missing a slot machine or roulette.
Fuck unfinished titles that are priced at almost a hundred at launch; I’d rather wait a year or two and buy the same thing for 15 EUR.
Edit: and yes, if you buy those at launch, you are part of the problem.
True story. Video games have gotten so expensive that I gave up FPS’s because the virtual bullets are starting to cost more than the real ones.
Gamepass ultimate and you have no problems
I was just looking at that. The only thing I don’t like is that you can’t purchase a yearly sub.
You can though
Is CoD making you pay for ammo packs now?
Lol, not yet. Hopefully, Activision isn’t watching this thread because that’s definitely something they’d try.🙃
Ahh, well that’s a bit of a relief. Just to give you a chuckle, due to If The Emperor had a Text to Speech, that game’s name will forever be “Cawl o Doodie” to me
Blockchain bullets. Every bullet is on a blockchain so you’ll know who you put your hard earned money into.
Lol, I could actually own my bullets!!! Or just a jpg and a receipt. 😉
Why buy?
I honestly expected a user from db0 To with this reply.
What is db0?
lemmy.dbzer0.com, instance that has a lot of communities related to piracy and emulation
Ooh) thank you, didn’t know
same. I have over a thousand games on my steam account and a humble bundle subscription.
I can wait years to pick up the all DLC included gold game of the year edition for 5 bucks on sale.
only time i ever get games on release anymore is if a friend gifts it to me, or if it comes as part of a bundle with new hardware (Like how I got Starfield with my new GPU)
