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There’s no such thing. It’s just milking people who are crazy enough to fall into the trap of buying them.
$30 is not a microtransaction, thats a macrotransaction, thats an entire other video game.

Free to play doesnt give a game a pass on predatory business tactics, they are free to play for one reason only… to sell you worthless pixels for ridiculous prices. F2P games are designed for that purpose and that purpose only.

But I agree that any paid game should have zero MTX, cosmetic or not. Industry is killing its creative aspect with all this monetisation shit.

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To be fair, chromium aside, edge did start as a nice browser, but as with all MS products, they end up getting riddled with more and more bullshit over time.

Just use Firefox.

Yup, technology and especially phones have come a disgustingly long way in such a short amount of time. Running AI efficiently on them is the next step, one that we probably won’t struggle with too much.

They always pick fab artists for their sales honestly!

People like Xbox would show off more games, from smaller devs, you can do a lot more in 3 days than you can in 3 hours. It was sad when they pulled out, that was the writing on the wall for E3, but its not even comparable to the game awards lmao, which is literally just a 3 hour ad break.

No, the players choose the player’s choice winner and contribute only 10% towards the actual winners.

The games are nominated by a committee, the committee of ‘game news organisations’ is chosen by the ‘advisory board’ of the game awards, the board consists of Activision Blizzard, Ubisoft, EA, Sony, Microsoft, Valve, Nintendo, Tencent, AMD, Riot Games, Rockstar Games, Epic Games and for some reason Kojima Productions. So they have the choice to pick their favourable ‘news’ outlets, which in turn will pick the nominees and the winners of the awards. There’s a lot of room for bullshittery to happen and with some past winners/nominees, I wouldn’t doubt there has been.

Yeah if you just watch the big players’ streams from E3 then I can see the similarities.

Games don’t need awards, it’s just all subjective anyway and just gives the cringe oscars vibe of ‘patting ourselves on the back’. You know if a game is good by it’s player reviews and how many friends have told you to play it etc, we don’t need a random set of judges deciding for us behind the scenes what the best games are.

Yes… but E3 allowed smaller devs to get an audience and allow people to try their games for early feedback, it was a place for gamers to go and experience new games, meet people in the industry etc. The game awards is literally just a 3 hour long advert for the highest bidders. The game awards doesn’t give a shit about anything but the money they are rolling in, they get more and more shameless with it each year, a lot of developers complained this year as they were quickly ushered off stage to make way for the next big advert.

Of course its ads, but the main focus was the convention and not the streams. The crowds were fans and lots of developers got to show off their games. The game awards is just the worse part of e3 amplified, the awards themselves mean absolutely nothing, they are skipped over anyway, but imo gaming doesnt need an awards show, it’s silly. The rest is just publishers paying for segments and a bunch of devs and random celebrities sit and watch in the crowd. I don’t know how anyone sits and watches it. E3 was fun cause you could watch anyones perspective as they walked around and did interviews, met people etc, or even better if you could make it there yourself.

It was like computex of the gaming world, where any journalist could come and take part, which is not like geoff’s bs at all.

*especially

They are just massive advertising circle-jerks.

Sad. We will just end up with geoff keighley’s shitty events now.

Gamescom is still doing well though.

Like CDPR changing Cyberpunk from RPG to Action-adventure. At least the game didn’t release at that point though, but still. I mean Destiny even gets called an MMO when it isn’t. Genre is kind of misused a lot, people just need to stop buying or getting invested in games that haven’t even released.

Yeah, that’s what all trailers are, but Rockstar ones are never that great. Compare them to, for example, Bethesda trailers. It’s a night and day difference, even if the Rockstar games are usually better, the Bethesda trailers just instill more awe and hype imo. It’s the way trailers usually tell a mini story, the music having impact with what’s on screen and the Rockstar trailers usually miss the mark on this.

sips! now that’s a real guy.

Rockstar really suck at trailers don’t they. Normally the games speak for themselves though, so let’s hope this is another good one.

My top 5:

1. Assassin’s Creed 2
2. Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood

They are peak Ubisoft and the only games I’d say fall close to ‘must-play’.

Because people are fucked up in the head.

I mean, if they pull it off it will be great, but until it’s in our hands, there are no expectations.