Ubisoft does not have enough new games releasing that's in good enough state to justify 7.99 per month let along 17.99 per month. I bet there are terms and trickery if people tried to do 17.99 and play games like new Prince of Persia and Avatar and then unsub. (that's my cynical side coming out, but it's ubisoft. )
Or, for ubisoft, you wait a couple month and then boom, big sale for the game released 1~2 months ago.
Link to a better explanation by FluffyQuack, Capcom has added this drm to games for a long time. Not really affecting mods in general, don't know about the linux/steam deck compatibility.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/96385577
(Source from a reddit post comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/195r0aa/capcom_reverses_resident_evil_revelations_update/khoukzv/)
well, I was looking forward to buy DD2 and now this.
Yeah, I post somewhere but how they do the monetization is gonna change how I am gonna buy the game. I had the original helldiver free from ps plus, like it so when steam on sale I bought it later with all the DLC included. I would support them if they did a good job on PC, but only so when it's reasonable.
I do not mind the skins or cosmetics too much, but more like contents affects how you play the game, helldiver 1 has this issue that's why I bought when all the dlc are included.
Crossplay is in, good thing Sony wasn't so dumb for once. (still not gonna buy this on ps5, but I like Arrowhead so I am buying on PC if the reviews are good.)
Oh, yeah, yes I did, if someone offer the coins. Like my classmates. But you know what, once I get over that phase, I simply refuse to go together since I realize it's a waste of time and money. Many early arcade have that "unfair" part to eat your tokens by design, you don't get through those by simply dumping more money and get more practice in. Like I said, you need limited useful resource, like money in your total control to really drill that experience in. If I was given allowance to blow in arcade AND still get toys, ice cream, whatever snack, soda drink etc, then for sure I am not learning that opportunity cost lesson. It is very early on I was told, you get this X amount per week, but parents are not going to buy my any of those. Best they could do is if I get good grades and they 50% match to get some toy I really wanted. So I'd have to save my allowance to do it. Pretty nice trick to do to children but very effective. They are also busy working so I can understand pretty early that the allowance is a means to train me to become more independent, so I can cover that responsibility to buy food etc for my younger siblings. It also helped greatly to manage my money after I am on my own in university dorm.
Brain circuitry evolves with practice and doing the value assessment with proper rewards, that's why some 5yo can run a shop or do grocery shopping for parents. (And not blowing the money on candies). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA_AUMxSZUM examples that I found, it's a show but it dates back way longer before internet even is a thing. They do those out of necessity since that's how most post war kids grow up so that's how they teach their kids. There are much older shows if you can find source, and I bet India or say pretty much any country without proper child labor law you will see children running stuff for parents. It is part of their reality and they simply learn early on that wasting money on [insert gambling or wasteful spending] is simply not an option. They might starve if they make mistakes like those.
So what we do in modern resource abundance world? We create and craft the situation and train our kids to adapt, early and with proper rewards. Independence is a hard thing to train for sure, and western law(say much accompany with 12yo or older if you are younger) basically make it a bit harder if your neighbor would call cops if your kid just leave your side by 50 meters.(I am joking but I guess some might actually do it.)
The basic "error" for these data mine company is not how they estimate, it's that their source data is already not accurate. Ie, when they determine revenue, they are using how many new games claimed during that period of time from source like steamdb/steamspy, probably have per region information. But steam are not the only platform that are selling steam keys, and use Steam figures "only" is significant but not accurate as there are still other platforms on PC that still takes significant chunk of the market. (ie. EGS, GOG, HumbleBundle, itch.io, key reseller: GMG, CDKEY, etc.) If your game published and selling on many platform, chance are about 5~15% could come from those secondary platforms depending on how they run seasonal sales. Thus, the key redeemed on steam does not mean it's always the steam price at the time.
That and revenue not including mtx or IAP is ridiculous in claiming recent gaming trend or consumer behavior. If you have access to some internal financial reports from company that publish wide variety of games, say EA or Sony's game division then you get a bigger picture and it's easier to extrapolate from those data. For example, The Final is smashing the F2P shooter currently and not even showing up in this report for the hit game in 2024, it's revenue is pretty much guaranteed to be top ranker for 2024.
I am deeply disappointed since Ryozo didn't show any new footage. :/
take a very big fistful of salt when reading those data mining firms. They might have paid access to dbs from steamspy or steamdb but as we all know they are not accurate reflection of actual sales etc, only steam and the developers has those data from their analytics.
They are trying to sell you charts and predictions, they are not there to provide accurate information if you read the charts or * carefully.
LOL, most followed in a prediction chart, they don't even know you can buy follow/wishlist as marketing strategy.
I actually put in an order for hall effect stick/trigger controller from amazon, hopefully it's as good as it gets reviewed by internet people. (should arrived later today, a GameSir T4 Cyclone Pro.(I don't really intent to use it wirelessly but still got the pro version for the mechanical switch face button.)
If this one is good I will phase out using official branded drifting prone controllers from my setups.
It's crazy during my research, how much worse the C/P is to use official controllers shown in the video reviews. And they aren't going to cost you that much anyway. (the top wireless many function stacked controller is probably slightly over 100, if you can wait and buy from aliexpress then it's usually < 100.) Compare to Xbox Elite/or DualSense Edge, it's no brainer. No wonder they want to wreck the 3rd party controllers, they are no where near in terms of quality/features competition, likely 2-3x more expensive, and will be broken quickly if you are heavy user.
nah, I don't buy this. Maybe I am more cynical and critical but putting too much trust in government or good will of corporation is just asking for trouble. People are responsible for the government decision they elected, and guess who the reps think their "boss" are? There are plenty of sell out examples around the world where good intention legislation ended up just have a couple terms that really cushion up their corp buddies.
This might sound like a "universally" good propose, but does the "ban violence game" sound familiar? Does "yep, this life style does not sound healthy, just ban everything that's not healthy or not productive, like just make all the decision for me." actually better? Are we as society just lose the ability to tell your own children that "this is stupid, why would anyone wants to spend money on that other than consider it a donation to support the devs"?
I already post a bit before and got down vote a lot and I laugh in their face and tell them to stick their fingers somewhere private if they check the news a month later. And no, it's not even a month, the stock crash happened in less than a week and soften stance "open for communication" quote arrived shortly after.
They are trying to do this to prop some social distractions as always but this time, also like past couple times involving youth and video games, back fires hard and eventually achieves very little. (for general population) But hey, it generate enough buzz and make them distracted from other economical issues.(like crash of their builder mega company, compare to the short market crash of video game sector, lol. )
Yes, rage baiting works.