Huh, did EA just got me excited for a Star Wars game!? Whoooot?

All of this is true. I neglected to mention that because I didn’t think you could survive with 150€ a day in Paris as a tourist

150€ will net you a stay in most countries in the EU except scandinavia and too big cities.

For 150€ a day, Budapest, Warsaw, Split, Prague, Vilnius, Salamanca, etc.

Be mindful of where you rent, make sure to have travellers insurance, don’t get scammed for BS reasons (like peeps trying to make you believe you need to pay high money to use the autobahn in Czechia). Be mindful of pickpockets anywhere southwest of Paris and enjoy the food and locals.

This is a pretty good take on all of this. MS, Sony and Nintendo have done nothing but enshitify their platforms in the past few years and yet, they increase the cost of admission at every enshitification step.

Cool, shit is bad for you if you eat it, 100%.

Go try that now.

No, Apple bent the knee for concessions on tarifs. If you live in the US the chance your comms are backdoored on iOs is 100%.

Ye, that shit is everywhere, also gaming indian sites that recycle and produce AI slop are popping everywhere like mushrooms. Perhaps the dead internet theory is closer than expected.

If the SD pans out well in the control scheme, this one is going in the library.

Uh, newsflash, the Euro appreciated vs RMB and USD to the tune of 10%. GTFO with this “trying times” nonsense. You’re increasing the price because there’s a massive hole in your accounts thanks to Jim Ryan’s regarded chase of live service games. How much did he get as severance and how many consoles do you need to sell for those 50€ to cover that golden parachute?

He’s creating a market that will boost the value of the assets he already owns…

Peak internet design. Looks great and loads fast.

The industry can go fuck itself. Actors, Football players, CEOs et al, don’t need to earn 25M€ per year. Spend less in wages for those cunts and you’ll see profitability rise without geoblocking.

Thank you for this, I nearly spit my coffee on the table.

Never once claimed to be smart, for someone claiming to be so smart, reading comprehension is not your forte. If minimum A -> B is a pretty easy concept to grasp.

Regarding the purported success of Avowed I just have to sit and wait for the other shoe to drop, so, I’m good. See ya at the next layoff party.

Let’s put the marketing cope for the absolute flop aside (marketing can get anyone to install a game on gamepass for “free”, we’ve seen with HiFi Rush and Veilguard that mimdgame is complete trash at predicting anything).

I like games, what I don’t like is being advertised a deep RPG from one of the old greats, paying 70€ and refunding because I was not served an RPG but a middle of the road first person fantasy shooter with a static world and a bunch of numbers on weapons, that are even more insignificant that the RPG elements of destiny. Logically that creates antibodies towards what was supposed to be a great game and, conversely, ended up as a mindless shooter that would not be out of place among steam greenlight projects.

Avowed is not a good game, it’s a C, painfully mediocre and unimaginative. Coming from Obsidian, with 6y of development and after the ad campaign they did, together with asking for 70€ upront!? Fuck that noise, that is unacceptable. Of course, Microsoft has a great marketing team, so they created a culture war around the game, if you like it, you’re woke, if you don’t, you’re a chud. This poisons the well and destroys the discussion about how one of the dearest RPG developers in the West is now writing characters that sound like they were written by chat GPT. There’s a reason the best RPGs of the past few years come from independent European devs and the best Action games come from Japan… So, keep your dearest mediocre game and your culture wars, Obsidian lost yet another fan and because of people burying their head in the sand, they won’t know about the very large amount they lost… Well, they kinda do, looking at Grounded (not a masterpiece but a mediocre game like Avowed that conversely did not promise the wprld), priced at max 39€, and already for a long time on gamepass, 30k peak, current 3,5k. Avowed, the deep RPG, 19k peak, 2,8k current. Avowed flopped hard. Keep your feelings about the game however you want, it’s quite obvious for anyone with two neurons avowed flopped and is yet another symptom of the “mobile game” trajectory a lot of US American devs are taking due to the subscription model becoming ubiquitous. Strap in for the slop avalanche à lá Netflix.

It’s a AAA studio and it’s part of the MS roster.

Clearly Avellone did something right, other than the great pentiment (which started as a rogue project), they have yet to release anything of note since he left.

Resounding success, barely anyone touched it outside game pass.

The publicly available data for those 6M comes from mimdgame, which is as reliable as divination.

There is a large contingent of people who don’t like romance mechanics in their RPGs, often for the reasons she states in the article

Give me an example of an Obsidian RPG romance option where the character becomes a yes person? My argument is that reason is bullshit, either that or we hear it from the director that they believe Obsidian doesn’t have the talent to write such characters. You know what, that actually makes sense, the talent is not there, clearly.

They should change their motto to: Obsidian, making mobile games for simpletons

doesn’t have a really firm metric

Translation: Numbers look like shait otherwise we’d brag about them.

It’s always a bit of a letdown when you see a character who has a clear personality, and goals and interests, and suddenly, in the service of this romance that the player has embarked on with them, they now become the player’s yes-person

Looks at Dragon age Origins and Morrigan… How do these people, with 0 knowledge of the actual medium they work in, get to leadership positions? Was it a tokenism thing? To see how the brilliant Avelone got pushed out years ago, and clearly incompetent people are now promoted is truly baffling .

*Andy Wilson

It would have been better if it were a live service

BaD oNlInE pErSoN iS uNhApPy WiTh GaMe I lIkE, wHaT a CoNdEsCeNdInG pRiCk.

Oink oink

edit: 10/10 chances this system evolved to render some VAs unemployed. Especially from a Microsoft studio.