Oh it is tanking right now and people are already returning it. Between this and people canceling their PSN accounts over the Stellar Blade controversy it is hitting them right in the wallet.
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Oh it is tanking right now and people are already returning it. Between this and people canceling their PSN accounts over the Stellar Blade controversy it is hitting them right in the wallet.
I'm glad I gave up on FOTM games, I knew something bad was going to happen to it.
Agent23
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I bought HD1 because I enjoyed HD2, I also upgraded to super citizen, I am refunding all of those of this goes through.
TheRejectionist
TheRejectionist
14 days have passed already?
Agent23
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For HD2, yeah, for the other stuff - no, refunded 1 already, but given that they are arbitrarily changing the conditions they can go fuck themselves and I think I have standing to demand a refund, we will see.
TheRejectionist
TheRejectionist
Good luck then!
Agent23
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I plan to continue playing the game until this shit is clarified and the deadline is reached, but after this my desire to grind for hours and hours has been reduced.
It is a very fun game, but my righteous anger makes the experience less fun.
PsihoKekec
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When Microsoft and Sony compete against one another by not making better games than the other but relying on the other to screw up harder 
I just hope it frightens smaller studios into dropping publishers, they're seriously nothing more than liabilities.
See, this comes down to a core difference between Microsoft and Sony and how it drives their business decisions, much like how MS is slightly less evil than Google due to this same difference in focus.When Microsoft and Sony compete against one another by not making better games than the other but relying on the other to screw up harder
Microsoft is, at it's heart and soul, a SOFTWARE company. It sees its greatest business interest in selling as many units of software as it can / have as many people signed up for software services as it can. This means that, to them, there's no advantage of having true exclusives for Xbox when they know just how many people own and use PCs, to them, every Xbox AND every PC is a potential customer. Thus, they have shifted from having Xbox exclusives to ensuring that games they sell can be on as many platforms as possible, even those platforms owned by "competitors" like Sony and Nintendo. Publishing a game that's not on as many platforms as possible is, to them, leaving potential money on the table.*
Sony, on the other hand, is a CONSUMER GOODS company, which when it comes to video games means they're a HARDWARE company. They measure their success in how many units of something they produce are sold, in this case, Playstations. Thus they don't care about cross-platform releasing because they don't see users of other platforms as potential customers, they see them as people they need to convince to purchase their products. They are only being dragged kicking and screaming into cross platform releases when they have a game that they can be convinced will make up for the fact that it's not linked to the sale of a Playstation.
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* As an aside, this is why MS isn't as evil as Google when it comes to their software practices, because they still see the end user as a CUSTOMER they are seeking to please. Meanwhile Google is, at the end of the day, an ADVERTISEMENT COMPANY and it's actual customers are other big businesses whom they sell ad space to, the end users of their software aren't their customers, they're their PRODUCT. Which is why they treat end users like shit and seek to maintain control over them, they aren't good product if they're not listening to Google.
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TheRejectionist
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Homeworld 3 released and it might as well be described as "Angry Space Lesbians in Space!". Any accusations of DEI or SBI gets you banned on the steam discussions.
Soooooooooo I think we can all tell what went on in development.
Soooooooooo I think we can all tell what went on in development.
Carrot of Truth
War is Peace
In less depressing news I have hope that this will surpass the first game which was pretty awesome yet flawed.
PsihoKekec
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War is Peace
The last good Homeworld game. This intro is a GOAT imo.
Ehhhh, it introduced the stupid hyper mysticism plotline, non-projectile damage methods, worse spaceship balancing/lineups/designs and generally irreparably broke the series.
Cataclysm has some issues but it's designed in a way you can work around it, it's a side-story (a BIG one, granted) which you coulc conceivably ignore once a few dozen years pass in universe.
HW2? Yeah there's no way to ignore the literal god-ship, superhyperspacegates and other bullshit like progenitors.
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I am a bit biased because that was the first Homeworld game I played back in the day when it released. I was 13 when HW2 released but too young to play the OG game at the time.
Hey, join the club! It was my first rodeo with Homeworld too! But god damn does HW1/C blow it out of the water.
I think the new remastered version is a bit better, but at release HW2 was a nightmare of balance decisions. Ships do arbitrary nerfed/buffed damage based on what their target is, which is such nonsense.
In HW1/C, you could actually blow up capital ships with fighters if you had a decent number, because capital ship gun turrets physically couldn't move very fast.
In HW2, fighters do an arbitrary nerfed 0.1% damage against capital ships, and their only saving grace is capital ship turrets are programmed with a 0.1% chance to hit on fighters.
Its the important distinction between 'real' mechanics and 'illusionary' ones.
Carrot of Truth
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The balance in the remastered version was absolute dog shit, Whoever thought scaling difficulty was a good idea is literally insane.