The word consumer is so demeaning...
I doubt they were trying to be complimentary.
MolochAlter
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Wasn't one of the Witcher 3 expansions already either nominated or even a winner a few years back?
How the hell do you accidentally remove fog of war from a strategy game?
That is moronic to a level I didn't expect from this, I can see why he left the negative review.
they're just screwing us out of possible remakes
Bro don't make me like them T~T
Ayyy I know that reference. Good story that one.
Because it's pressvertising.
Veilguard has had a year (at least) of relentless, shameless astroturfing, ever since BG3 got GOTY, because EA knows it's not gonna be even close to competing with it and they (rightly) fear Veilguard will get shat on, especially since Bioware is on a 2 games abject failure streak with Andromeda and Anthem both failing horribly and Inquisition having at best a mixed reception with how buggy and repetitive it was at launch.
As a rule of thumb: if an article comes out before a game's actual release, it's positive about an aspect the game or franchise is known to be lacking in, and it sounds like John Oliver's parody of a corporate shill? It's pressvertising.
It's access-for-coverage, a trading of favours that stays undisclosed because technically no money changed hands; however, in the past we've seen what happens to outlets that don't kiss the ring and use the access to actually speak negatively of the product, or even neutrally, so we know there is an implicit (and explicit if you know the history of these dealings) pressure to be positive at any cost.
So in short: it's a bad article pretending to analyse the content they have early access to when really they're just advertising the game uncritically. It's literally just source-washed marketing material.
Here's to a multi-year long process to port the campaigns from BG1 and 2 into 3.
I mean, would you? It looks like the most generic checklist driven product I've seen yet.
It's so spineless it may be more lobster than game.
If anyone's got a code they're not using I'd happily take it off their hands 😇
Henry and Hans are going on a lads holiday. Awesome.
In reality you should be able to get an anonymized reference number to show your vote was tabulated correctly though.
The reason there is no such thing in elections, is to prevent vote buying/extortion.
In Italy it's such an extreme problem that any ballot where the party is not marked with a cross on the party logo and (if present) a block capital name next to it on the provided line, is automatically discounted, because stuff like writing a name a specific way or using crosses, checks, dots, or other symbols was used to track vote buying/voter intimidation in mafia controlled territories.
Some vote counters and polling station overseers would be on the take and keep track of if the votes they expected to see showed up when counting ballots and report back.
If you were able in any way to prove something beyond the equivalent of an "I voted" sticker it would immediately be used to ensure people voted a certain way or to exact some sort of backlash on those who didn't.
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Worth mentioning that the main US senator supporting this, Mark Warner, received substantial donations from Disney, which also poured 1.5 billion (with a B) dollars into Epic Games.
Wouldn't be surprised if some bigwig at Disney pushed for this investigation, too, especially given how fucking flimsy the results were (55% of all hate symbols were fucking pepe the frog).