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I can’t help but picture some stereotypical British street urchin child (think Oliver Twist) buying a knife from Amazon.

The only thing that doesn’t make it perfect for me is the fact that so many games running on PC, even if they have a console version, don’t have UI scaling options to make anything readable at TV distance.

BUT there is a big difference this time around, specifically: they’re no longer using their own engine. That does change the equation.

I feel like it would be a negative change though, as they haven’t worked with any other engine since… Forever.

I’m gonna just assume it won’t be any different than the crowd system of Assassin’s Creed; which wasn’t even all that impressive back when that first came out.

They said CP2077 would do things no other game did. That was a lie. They are also claiming a new IP they are working on will do the same. I don’t really trust them when they say they will be doing something that’s never been done before because they can barely make things that have been done to death work properly. And honestly, even the best designers have made that promise and failed to deliver, so whenever I hear the phrase “never seen in a game before” I usually just check out because it’s never been true.

They are amazing at the artistic side of things (the visuals, the audio, the story-telling); but when it comes to the technical side? They are pretty bad.

I for one love the conservative communities on lemmy and don’t block them.

That way, I can block the users that post the content and not have to see them anywhere else.

Wokeness and DEI? At GameStop? I’ve never even seen anyone other than high school aged white dudes working there.

Now I want a little, teeny-tiny Z-100 computer.

Maybe if they had done that with brand new games and not just a few good but old games and tons of games nobody has even heard of before. It’s not really even in the same league as just genuinely being cheaper than the competition. It’s a gimmick. Steam also sometimes gives games away for free, while still having tons of deep discounts all year long.

I’m the same. I’ll look on Steam first just because I would prefer to keep all my shit in one place, but if it’s not the cheapest price I’ll get it somewhere else. Although 90% of the time, the cheapest price is just a steam key being sold by a 3rd party (I like Eneba, personally).

The one time Epic was cheaper, was when they gave out Civ6 for free. I bought the two major DLC expansions through Epic instead of buying everything on Steam just because I didn’t have to buy the base game and the DLCs were $10 cheaper anyway.

Being consistently cheaper would actually be attractive to many people. The thing is, none of these competitors can even muster that. Steam consistently has better sales, more often. And it’s pretty funny seeing Amazon of all things not able to match or beat that. They are known for undercutting the competition, even at their own expense, just to get customers; It’s literally how they got to be as big as they are.

The times I have learned that a safety standard I have seen or had to follow was just a STATE law and not a FEDERAL LAW has been way too fucking high. But it makes me glad I’m in California and not anywhere else in the US. Just gotta make sure I don’t get food from Fresno.

That title makes it seem like they have made 600 million separate games free and not that they have had 600 million users claiming games they have given away free.

I stayed with XP until 7. I stayed with 7 until 10. I’ll probably stay with 10 until the next Windows. Assuming it actually is decent again, and not just even shittier than 11.

I got sent to the principal’s office in kindergarten for saying my teacher had big hands after another kid called them “bigfoot” while they were standing on a step-ladder. She apparently was insecure about her massive, gigantic, galactic-sized hands.

Blackmail and threats always works for me.

“Better knock it off brain. I control the arms.”

I don’t know yet. It’s not until the 23rd.

The fuck do they wanna push this shit so bad anyway? Nobody wants it.

The guy who wanted to not poop for 3 days.

Lego Land from San Diego all the way to Jupiter. 😃

Does it count if they are ads for things in the game I am playing? Cuz that seems to be pretty standard in a lot of MP shooters these days where every time you log in, you’re bombarded with what are basically ads for new skins, events, features, etc.

Only when it comes to hearing about new games. For all the people I see in random non-game threads that mention games or get game references, there’s next to no activity in the game-related communities.