mrttao
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Honestly. any game that sells DLC should be free. and rely entirely on the DLC sales.
the fact they try to charge for the base game too is just silly
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the fact they try to charge for the base game too is just silly
mrttao
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Nah, expansions are full blown sequels which use the same engine.
Nowadays expansions are sold seperately as a different game. As devs no longer feel compelled to make a brand new full blown engine for each game
the requirement for the original game was artificial, and some did not bother and simply didn't require the original game, and called it a "standalone expansion"
DLCs are small, teeny tiny. usually intentionally removed from the game so they can sell you the removed parts back one at a time in pieces.
althogh very rarely someone makes a full blown expansion and labels that as a DLC
I miss when we used to get some seriously fucking badass expansion packs...
Homeworld Cataclysm was supposed to be an expansion, and frankly I think it's better than the OG.
Vyor
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That is not how inflation works. But we can compare the Switch 2 with comparable hardware that should cost more to produce.
The Asus ROG Ally, a brand known for being overpriced, comes with the AMD Ryzen Z1 which is a TSMC 4nm 6 core, 12 thread APU that clocks up to 4.9ghz and a 2.8tflop RDNA3 4WGP/8CU integrated graphics chip. It also has a 1080p120hz freesync display, 16GB of LPDDR5X ram, and 512gb of PCIe NVME storage.
This is for 400 dollars as I speak, though the standard price is 500. A little more expensive than the switch 2 but not by much and the cost difference for 2 games alone covers it, let alone not needing to pay for online services.
The Switch 2 comes with the Nvidia Tegra T239 8 core 8 thread ARM Cortex A78C which is a Samsung 5nm part, equivalent to TSMC's 6nm node in price and performance, that runs at 2.1ghz. For graphics, it has a 12sm Nvidia Ampere integrated graphics chip which gives you 1.71 teraflops in handheld mode and, while Tflops aren't everything, we know that tflop for tflop Ampere and RDNA3 are comparable. It also comes with 12gb of LPDDR5X ram and a 1080p120hz g-sync screen and... 256gb of flash storage, the same tech that's on the switch 1 and is massively slower than NVME (on par with SD cards, as a matter of fact).
So it's worse in every single way than the Asus handheld while being the same console cost, with fewer features, more expensive games, and more expensive online (you have to pay for it at all).
Games also came on these:
Which are about 5000 times more expensive to ship as a baseline and 2000 times more expensive to produce than a game cart even without accounting for inflation.
But ok, let's look at MK Double Dash and-oh look, it was also more expensive to ship and produce because nintendo used proprietary disks and couldn't distribute them digitally. On top of that, the tech to make games was also more expensive and harder to use, meaning that the actual game design part was also more expensive per person.
One might as well argue that cars should be more expensive than they are because of "inflation." They aren't, the price of a new car is just about the same as it was in 2003. Even just looking at the same model and brand, the 2023 honda accord was 27k and the 2003 one was 18.6k. According to the same inflation calculator you used, it should have cost 31k. And that's in an industry where the government very specifically fucked around and destroyed the pricing for used vehicles, pushing new purchase pricing up.
So no, fuck that argument.
They advertised HDMI variable refresh rate when they announced the console. They have now said it doesn't have that when confronted on it. Both HDMI and Display Port have VRR built into the most recent specs, so either they are deliberately removing it through software or they got an older version because it was a few cents cheaper. On a nearly 500 dollar console.
This is plain wrong.
Elden ring DLC, Cyberpunk DLC, Witcher DLC, Metro DLC.
Most games use DLzc to mean expansion. As that us what it is these days.
Carrot of Truth
War is Peace
Microtransactions are what most people think of when they see "DLC"
Vyor
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No, no it isn't. Most people think of shit like Shadow of the Erd Tree or Blood and Wine.
Carrot of Truth
War is Peace
Blood and Wine is a Expansion, Getting charged 5$ for horse armor is DLC.
NGL I kinda hate how horse armor is, literally, a 'good use of money' compared to modern-slop.
Oh lets see, 20+ fucking dollars for cosmetics in a multiplayer game (that'll be shut down in a year lol), that have NO TANGIBLE BENEFIT.
Vs.
5 dollars to double your horse's HP value in a singleplayer game that'll last forever.
I actually hate the dumbass misinformation about 'horse armor', a lot of people saying all it did was make horses look different. No, it actually does increase their HP, not that it particularly matters. I get so sick and fucking tired of tourists talking shit about games they haven't bothered to read the code of.
Vyor
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Did you download it? Is it content? How, then, is it not DLC?
mrttao
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>> me: Verry rarely X.
> you: This is wrong! Here are 4 examples of X!
Very rarely means a small % not that there are zero examples of a thing.
mrttao
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if you watch the video. it is a guide on how to manually tweak the bios and command line settings in windows handheld to improve its battery performance to near linux levels. (and only the battery performance)
and asserting that the so called "windows bloat" on a handheld gaming device (which is different from windows bloat on a desktop/laptop) is not actually technically "bloat" but rather caused by microsoft being idiots and not knowing how to correctly configure design a system that just works correctly out of the box.
Top comments:
Article: so the problem wasn't windows but windows
Article: I think the big point here is that SteamOS just takes care of it for you. The point of his whole video was how much of a console-like experience SteamOS is and having to use the Bat to get better battery life isn’t something most people will know to do.
Article: funny thing is, this time Linux's better out of the box while on Windows you gotta put your hackerman hat to get the best out of it
Article: Okay, so I can either do some wack power settings command line nonsense to fix the issue on Windows, or I can install SteamOS on my PC gaming handheld and never have to deal with something like that, among other performance increases and ease of use.
Article: But you can do this within gamescope on steamos, with per game profiles, without ever opening the terminal
Article: This only improved battery life. Doesn't improve performance nor make you stray away from Windows' shenanigans like worse sleep-wake behavior, bloatware, etc.
Vyor
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That's not bios, just windows settings.
mrttao
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EA Cancels Black Panther Game, Closes Cliffhanger Studios. laid off everyone.
Incidentally, the lead narrative design had previously put out a video where she said she does not hire white people and her entire team of 21 working on an indie game are black. Because white people are all racis and do microaggressions.
I am unclear if she meant for her team in EA, or if she is referring to her previous job in an indie studio before EA hired her.
Although if she was referring to previous studio you can bet she brought that opinion with her to EA too.
Either way she is out of a job now. And black panther game is cancelled.
Also, EA is also targetting and trying to shut down a mod that removes DEI from sims 4. they are offended at people modding the game to not have gays.
Focused short 2 min clip
Full video
Incidentally, the lead narrative design had previously put out a video where she said she does not hire white people and her entire team of 21 working on an indie game are black. Because white people are all racis and do microaggressions.
I am unclear if she meant for her team in EA, or if she is referring to her previous job in an indie studio before EA hired her.
Although if she was referring to previous studio you can bet she brought that opinion with her to EA too.
Either way she is out of a job now. And black panther game is cancelled.
Also, EA is also targetting and trying to shut down a mod that removes DEI from sims 4. they are offended at people modding the game to not have gays.
Focused short 2 min clip
Full video
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Good, hope she doesn't find a job anywhere else. I have no more patience for people that are this intolerant.
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TLDR?
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Player is the bad guy, I presume.