Dyskolos
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- Comment on EA says 98% of Battlefield 6 matches have been cheater free thanks to tough security 3 days ago:
Exactly. What a weird statement to make. Something like “managed to ban 93% more cheater than before” would’ve made more sense.
- Comment on Crazed gamer plays Minecraft using a receipt printer as a display — crippling 0.5 fps frame rate not even the biggest drawback 3 days ago:
And I complain if I don’t get at least 90fps 😁
- Comment on Epic Games Store users can now gift games to friends 1 week ago:
“Store implemented basic store-feature. Exclusive news coverage at 11!”
- Comment on Epic Games Store users can now gift games to friends 1 week ago:
It’s planned for 2030 and it will be awesome! Can’t await!
- Comment on Epic Games Store users can now gift games to friends 1 week ago:
Well I bought one exclusive (at that time) coz I’m a sucker for zombie coop (I even got a fake CC just for that, they don’t need my data). But before and after that I bought thousands at steam and gog. I thought i was the one legit customer there 😁
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 1 month ago:
I wouldn’t trust them with <anything>. But also I won’t trust most of the reviews too. Guess they will use denuvo anyway, so no piracy to check-before-buy. Unless then, they can sadly go fork themselves. But screw single-player, the money was in the shark-cards…sigh
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 1 month ago:
The single player part might be decent though. I hope.
Will totally not get it at release though. For neither of the overcooked asking prices…
- Comment on We Finally Know How Much the Xbox Handheld Will Cost 2 months ago:
I never ever owned a mobile game console, but why should I pay such premium and THEN having to pay games extra too? On the steam deck I would have my thousands of games already “for free”.
Steam already sucks, but even more closed systems? No thank you, I’d rather take a gaming laptop with me, if I wanted to game mobile.
- Comment on Getting The Witcher 4 to run at 60FPS on Xbox Series S will be ‘extremely challenging’ says CDPR 5 months ago:
Had to upgrade my PC to the absolute best when w2 came out, then when w3 came out, and recently with cp2077…seems like w4 will be the next time. Damn this hobby blows…
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Has Quests Exclusively Locked Behind Deluxe Edition 7 months ago:
Despite it seemingly being an actual remaster, not the usual 3-6 upscaled textures and 5 fresh new bugs, but a full price-tag plus paywalled quests? And no mods for a foreseeable future?
Pass. Maybe as warez, but…nah.
- Comment on Former SIEA President Says Players Will Pay $80 For Switch 2 Games 7 months ago:
Isn’t it obvious that people will pay that (or anything else)? If not, why should anyone get the console to begin with?
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 7 months ago:
Aye. But even if “most people” (I kinda doubt it) would just buy indie then, it’s fine.
Same with the current *-flations. If 10 people buy my shit for 5 bucks. Or 5 people for 10 bucks. Or just one rich idiot pays 50…nothing much changed for the seller. Except he may save time, material, shipping, operating costs and…
Even Desasters like “forspoken” haven’t seen a notable discount despite its abysmal ratings. And it’s still sold. The garbage happening with gta5 now? It’s just ridiculous what happens in the gaming-industry and they still get away with everything all the time.
If maybe 70% of people stopped buying AAA it might trigger change. But 1 idiot that buys tons of ingame-shit replaces 20 critical customers.
Actually sad. I’m a gamer since pacman and pong. And I paid 70 bucks for the cartridges back then. No regrets. Then I went pirate for fun, then went legit and now pirate again (except for indie). That’s sad. Same with streaming like Netflix.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 7 months ago:
Lol, didn’t know the series. But I was thinking of no substance. Just a flipped bird,maybe along with some subtitles like “we hate you, you filthy stinking customer” and it would sell.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 7 months ago:
You’re right, but it’s also annoying that many people just totally don’t care for anything, And those are what bring markets down. AAA has become such a lackluster shitfactory in the last decade it’s baffling. But they still sell their shit, prices don’t even matter. Amount of stupid DLCs don’t matter…nothing really does. They could release a game that just literally flips you the bird and IGN (and the likes) would still say 7/10. Shit gets hyped and sold. The handful of critical customers converge to zero I assume. Neglectable.
I’m lucky to have a stupidly large budget for gaming, and most often just pirate stuff or buy indie games (And donate or just buy a 10 bucks indie 8 times or gift them or whatever)
- Comment on How the Nintendo Switch 2 stacks up to the Steam Deck 7 months ago:
I’m totally no consolero, but why would anyone choose a switch with the limited amount of disgustingly expensive games over a steam-deck? The controllers? The color? Why?
- Comment on Take-Two DMCAs Video Of GTA5 Mod To For GTA6 Map Content 7 months ago:
It’s easy: Stop buying their shit. You (not OP, generally asking) still do? Then why complain?
Guess we all know that gta6 will be nice at best but riddled with microtransactions, even for single-player. It will also be the highest AAA-price amongst some special-edition with 3 days early access and one ugly cosmetic (if they’re generous). And the focus will be online. As there is the most money.
- Comment on Roblox players are going to start getting paid to watch ads 7 months ago:
And we will not really wonder when we’ll see how tremendously far that will be…
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb. 8 months ago:
Epic is no “challenger”, it’s just another launcher, nobody would ever speak about if they weren’t gifting away games and sitting on top of their engine.
Steam, as dangerous as it might be, is not just a launcher. It became a hub and social media of gaming.
- Comment on If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it? 8 months ago:
Oh yes, and this too. “Modern” coders mostly forgot the art (necessity) of optimizing. Just because we have it plenty.
- Comment on If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it? 8 months ago:
Not only that. Finding coders will be harder and harder too. As said, it’s not trivial to “now i learn this language”. And the youth surely doesn’t see any reason to picking this ancient fossil of yesteryear :)
- Comment on If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it? 8 months ago:
Most likely reason they (and many others, including banks) still use it: Security. There are probably billions of vulnerabilities for everything and billions of people able to hack to some degree. I wonder if there even is some as400 hacker 😁 Also you can’t just decide to become one now, because you can’t simply download a compiler and emulator. You need access. And even if you managed that, those things are never online, so you’d need to be physically near. Name a more secure thing.
Besides that shit just works. The more complex you make it, the more errors could occur. Really critical operations can’t have that.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Mentioned twice now, sounds fitting, thanks :)
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Oh yes, i remember the original :) Thanks, I’ll check it out!
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Ah those sound nice, I’ll check them out, thanks!
- Comment on Avowed Launches As Steam's # 1Top Seller In The US And Worldwide 9 months ago:
Without mods it took a good while, true. Back when it first came out. But mods really turn this old bugger around some times and then some. And that took most of the time i’ve put into the old bugfest. Though the community fixed most of those bugs, really runs like a charm nowadays.
- Comment on Avowed Launches As Steam's # 1Top Seller In The US And Worldwide 9 months ago:
Ignore steam forums. They were always a horrible kid’s playground. Since the term woke emerged, it’s totally bonkers. They really go nuts these days when you can’t choose man/woman but body type 1/body type 2. How could anyone give a damn about such things if the game does not suck? Like in kingdom come 2 where you could do a lot of things that finally lead to one gay scene. And then they complain about that. It’s an RPG. Stop doing gay things if you don’t like gay 😁
- Comment on Avowed Launches As Steam's # 1Top Seller In The US And Worldwide 9 months ago:
Be fair. Skyrim without mods is a horribly boring bug-fest of yesteryear. But with mods (and a lot of work putting into modding it correctly and WORKING) you’re right.
- Comment on WB Games Montreal Is Reportedly Pitching A Game based On Game of Thrones 9 months ago:
Ah great, a nice porn-game that isn’t hentai 😁
- Comment on WB Games Montreal Is Reportedly Pitching A Game based On Game of Thrones 9 months ago:
Milk the cow l as long as it exists? Never risk inventing a new franchise if you already own another one that sold well. But nvm, game will\would suck anyway. Like most AAA do these days. So who cares.
- Comment on Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It 9 months ago:
Sure they are. But considering that my car costs 7000 more since I bought it 2yrs ago, I’d say fuck you manufacturer. Take the extra profits you make, for no other reason than greed, for that. They will survive.