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Thoughts after releasing Divinity:Original Sin and what comes next. Turns out that the game sold over half a million.
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I have literally never met anyone who primarily cared about the campaign for any RTS; except for Total War. Every RTS player I know cares about multiplayer 10x more than the single player campaign. Some time ago Blizzard admitted that about half of Starcraft 2 players never tried to play the game online. You can imagine what the numbers would look for a less multiplayer-oriented title.
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Quite a few got adapted for consoles and still didn't do well. The genre is dying simply because the production values no longer make sense for a PC exclusive and singleplayer focused game. MOBAs sidestepped the problem by being made for multiplayer and microtransactions from the get-go. Halo Wars did well. Almost all RTS games are made with multiplayer in mind. With a strapped-on multiplayer? Sure. But majority of the player-base just wants the campaign. That's why trying to move classic RTS model into F2P territory simply didn't work.
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Quite a few got adapted for consoles and still didn't do well. The genre is dying simply because the production values no longer make sense for a PC exclusive and singleplayer focused game. MOBAs sidestepped the problem by being made for multiplayer and microtransactions from the get-go.
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There is essentially no reporting at all. Plenty of opinion pieces and conversations taken out of context. You can almost believe the charges on the state of journalism.
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Wait so now we get a 4chan conspiracy to combat the game-journalists one? Isn't there anyone actually checking-up on all those accusations?
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If sanctions were really intended to force deescalation then they have already failed. And the self-embargo shows clearly how effective it would be to strike at common Russians. Honestly I doubt anyone in the west thinks Ukraine can be saved anymore. Now discussion should be about containing Putin before he makes his next move.
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this doesn't feel right. Ukrainian troops, mostly consisting of volunteers, stall Russian forces, the same ones that crushed NATO trained Georgia just a few years ago? I know that Russian special forces and private contractors are working in Ukraine, supporting the rebel cause, but why would anyone send regular troops... this is not a very smart move, Putin can't be that desperate, can he? That's just a dozen poorly placed paratroopers. By most accounts since the Russian intervention it's the Ukrainian troops who are surrendering.
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Robot Apocalypse is a little different than I expected...
pmp10 replied to Oerwinde's topic in Way Off-Topic
That assumes that we don't start inventing jobs to keep those people employed. Technological unemployment will be a real problem in the future but for now we can just develop new needs that will spawn businesses and industries. -
By now it's safe to say that nobody knows. Maybe in a month we will get a decent investigation and write-up. Right now there is a new conspiracy theory every day.
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Zoe Quinn, developer of the indie game Depression Quest had sex with a games journalist, according to a butthurt ex-boyfriend. This led to accusations of nepotism and unprofessional behavior (also ****-shaming). That's about the whole story, really. If only. The whole thing started as some kind of holy war over women victimization and misogyny. By now it seems to be about defending the holy right of the internet of tearing down whoever we don't like. There was also the hacking thing with Phil Fish where his data went public supposedly for white-knighting.
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I hope I misunderstood you there. You are aware of the things gaming communities are capable of?
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Funnily enough this new patch broke quite a few things with a 80% resist hard-cap. Steam users can get easily screwed by auto-update.
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The game most likely doesn't regenerate random seed at reload. You could load a 1000 times and that shot would always be a miss.
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Pathfinder CRPG by Obsidian?
pmp10 replied to Jigawatts's topic in Pathfinder Adventures: General Discussion (No Spoilers!)
It less a problem with the game and more with the sad trend Obsidian projects are taking. You'd think that after South Park they would find some high profile work. Instead we can almost see the bottom of the barrel. -
That's a interesting theory but it begs one question. How can you reconcile majority getting poorer (relatively or not) with democracy? Surely if those people are in the majority they can change wealth distribution by voting.
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That's not strictly true as more developed countries often control future technological trends. If US/Europe can move some industry standards towards less greenhouse gas emission there is a chance that even poorer countries will adapt them.
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Honestly without spells or a bow your thief won't be of very much use in combat. The whole combat system weights far too heavily on magic and elemental damage.
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That's pretty much the whole appeal of the game. Unrestricted looting in Cyseal and figuring out crafting recipes with adventure game logic. Don't rush those things as there really isn't much to the game afterwards.
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The problem lies with efficiency of alternative technologies. Investment return on them is unlikely to reach the same level as fossil fuel burning. If you refuse to believe in global warming then logically renewables are simply a waste of money.
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TBH after 2 weeks of being the bestselling game on steam I expected a bit more than 250k.
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Well no. This is either a logical discussion on flaws/merits of DoS or a competition in conversational manners. If you are having both then winning the latter doesn't automatically make you the victor of the former. That said this game has some major flaws that fans like to ignore but you certainly didn't come close to pointing them out.
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So Ubisoft is reducing the French Revolution to chopping off heads but all that get's noticed is a social justice crusade.
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European Parliamentary Elections results, major concern?
pmp10 replied to BruceVC's topic in Way Off-Topic
They share 'American' identity today mostly thanks to civil war and subsequent rise of mass media. For EU to realize it's imperial ambition it would have to undergo a similar experience.
