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J4MES OX4D

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  1. I was just gonna post this🤣 Looks great - another review here
  2. Yep, once the bundle gets nerfed right on cue, it pushes people towards the next premium one. The old one becomes obsolete, people originally complaining about it being OP are finally happy for a few days and then the new bundle releases and it's rinse and repeat. It's a slippery slope once people fall into this trap and whilst many get out without spending too much, others are paying up to £100 a month.
  3. The Last of Us Part One
  4. And they have this week RIP
  5. Got released in early access a few days ago and it's really popping off in popularity. It's basically Outlast with co-op but can also be played solo. The Outlast Trials on Steam STORE.STEAMPOWERED.COM Red Barrels invites you to experience mind-numbing terror, this time with friends. Whether you go through the trials alone or in teams, if you survive long enough and complete the therapy, Murkoff will happily let...
  6. More from Portal RTX
  7. Yep, it's absolutely disgusting the amount of predatory patents EA and Activision have in play to extract as much money as possible from the gamer. Beyond aggressive free to play business models in full priced games and instances where gameplay and/or matchmaking is engineered to dictate in-game success and increase spend. I am absolutely astonished at how scripted FIFA UT has become and the amount of money people are willing to spend to be screwed over by EA. You just can't trust AAA competitive multiplayer gaming anymore. There was so much extended potential but companies have just exploited everything to extract as much money as possible at the expense of enjoyment and fairness. Counter Strike 2 is a prime example of things being done right - comprehensive matchmaking, sub-ticket system providing the highest quality servers, match protection anti-cheat and weapons that are just skins with a market dictated by the gamer. There's a reason why this brand gets up to 1.5m players online at a time and has an audience of 30m when it comes to majors. I'm not a huge CS player now but it's by far the most consistent series in existence that will never cease to grow.
  8. Some more on this Overwatch 2 Director Apologizes for Canceling PvE Hero Mode, Makes Big Promises for Story Missions - IGN WWW.IGN.COM Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller opened up about Blizzard's decision to cancel its PvE Hero mode, apologizing to fans and promising big things for its upcoming story missions. The fact they released the game knowing that this mode was cancelled is absolutely disgraceful especially marketing the story right until the 11th hour. Community are absolutely furious and even some of the most loyal content creator partners are in total disbelief. With most of the OG creators gone along with the longstanding director, I actually think this brand is dead in the water. Such a shame because between 2016 and 2018 it was an unstoppable phenomenon across many media. Going the same way as Halo methinks.
  9. Pretty much every major skin releases overpowered to bait purchases and the come week 3, once sales have peaked and complaints are rife from non-owners, they then nerf the gun as some positive PR. Whilst the owners are then busy crying that their gun is weaker now, Activision releases a new bundle a week later so people move on to that knowing their latest bundle is worthless. I think dataminers found about 11 straight instances of this occurring between MW2019 and Warzone prior to them getting DMCA'd and after a slight downturn in this concept with Vanguard due to a lack of interest, it's now happening because MW2 offers huge potential for this. Content creators were even able to predict the exact week a bundle would launch and then the exact day it would be nerfed it got so predictable. It follows this basic formula - expensive P2W bundle released > player buys bundle > players dominate with said bundle > bundle gets nerfed > new P2W bundle gets announced > players (forced to) buy new P2W bundle > rinse and repeat. If it was just cosmetics, then Activision would barely scrape 20% of the business they are doing right now. There's the odd-quirky bundle here and there with some new animations, effects and finishers but the premium £24.99 bundles are a completely different story.
  10. If it was cosmetic only then it wouldn't matter. The problem is these skins have underlying performance enhancements and that is the information that should be disclosed for fair transparency. Sadly Activision have literally DMCA'd every bit of datamined data regarding this previous and have literally shut off huge swathes of their API to cover up anything attributed to true stats, server performance and player metrics. Loyal players with high spend have to pay higher prices and players with low ATV are baited into jumping on the microtransaction circuit with personalised deals and carefully curated dynamic prices. Many players don't buy skins for their appearance - it's all about the performance benefits that those bring. The only time they are transparent about microtransactions is anything related to their Endowment charity. These are basic cosmetics only and sales are tracked and published. Activision typically make $3-5bn a year clear profit on Microtransactions across their small portfolio and that is after development costs have been paid along with projected upkeep. So no matter how much they spend on their games, they always have at least $3bn at hand for a rainy day.
  11. Shocking bottle job from Arsenal and finishing with a right wimper. Could've gone 11pts clear a month ago and now City win the title with 3 to spare and have just beat Chelsea to go 7pts clear and could win the league by a margin of 13. They did the hard part and got into a great position being 8pts clear, out of both Cup competitions and Europe also, whilst City were playing in the FA Cup and their priority being the Champions League. They wont get a better chance than this year considering all the circumstances. The blew two 2-0 leads on the road to draw both and then had a 3-3 against the worst team in the league at home. That was the killer to bring City into the title race and then the 4-1 at the Etihad was a complete shift in mentality and quality. Had Arsenal not dropped those 6 points prior, they would've gone there 11 clear and could afford even to lose and it still been in their hands. Newcastle away was a great result and performance but it was too little too late and yesterday was the icing on the cake. Been saying it for a very long time but Spurs need a total overhaul and this is the worst they have been in many years going back to the mid-2000's. I actually can't believe they are so high in the table. There's been too many shambolic results and performances and the amount of deadwood that needs gone probably represents 90% of the team. Seeing Chelsea in such a mess has cheered me up greatly but it's only a small consolation. Spurs should not be going toe to toe with Brentford and Fulham.
  12. Portal With RTX (2022)
  13. This was unreal Not sure how Peterborough will ever recover from this and manager Darren Ferguson may very well quit them for a 4th time and probably never to return ever.
  14. Death Stranding FREE on Epic until the 25th https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/death-stranding
  15. Awesome collections there! Never seen the long box comby of Metal Gear Solid + Special Missions before. What country was that from?
  16. I can live with this GTA 6 Might Be Coming Out as Soon as Next Year - IGN WWW.IGN.COM Publisher Take-Two Interactive may have just teased the release window for the next entry in the biggest gaming franchise of all time: Grand Theft Auto 6. It may be on the way as soon as next year. Was dreading it would be 2025 or something!
  17. I think it's brilliant business from Activision. I said back in December that come the halfway point in the games cycle, they will start implementing light pay2win elements in DMZ even with the mode being in beta and that by Spring, there will be aggressive and predatory pay2win bait bundles in play to milk the remaining audience with carefully curated pricing to maximise their income. A couple of people told me I was full of absolute shit and that Activision wouldn't ever dream of doing things like this but here you go. In March they even charged £25 for a bundle which could not be purchased with COD points that was recycled free content from MW2019. Their aim is to convert as much real world money into store credit aka COD points and to do this, they offer 'perks' aka discounts to people with a low ATV spend or a lesser established purchase history. Loyal customers don't receive such perks because Activision does not reward such things - discounts mean less money from willing paying customers which could also psychologically reduce their impulse purchase potential with future day one bundles if they believe they may get pampered reductions. None of this is new and that's why I was a bit taken aback in that other thread of users denying Activision's antics when there was literally 5+ years of this industry behaviour with irrefutable evidence of methods and implementation. Activision are in business to make as much money as possible and if they have to shit on the few remaining customers they have to extrapolate as much money as possible, they will at any non-monetary cost. It will be all gone and forgotten come the next game and that's why they don't care.
  18. Not sure how extensive this will become on the platform but Valve have made available a feature where developers can offer timed free trials. Definitely a good option to have especially on games that have questionable optimisation or if a user wants to take a punt but isn't willing to pay up the whole amount with the refund being a fall-back. Will certainly reduce refund requests and the red tape that comes with that. Steam just quietly added a new free trial system | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM Starting with the Dead Space remake.
  19. Absolute catastrophe really. The one mode that was exclusively championed to justify a standalone sequel and was allegedly in solid development spanning years has been cancelled. Well that was the last chance of rejuvenating the brand to what it once was in terms of narrative potential and now all they have is a shell of an MP experience and the depleted community living of past glories of the lore that mean nothing now. Overwatch 2's PvE Hero Mode Is Being Scrapped, Blizzard Explains What Happened and Why - GameSpot WWW.GAMESPOT.COM Game director Aaron Keller and executive producer Jared Neuss discuss why the eagerly-anticipated mode will...
  20. It's almost certainly to be a follow-on to MW2 based on the official sources gathered over the past 6 months. The only debate is whether it's gonna be a DLC like originally intended, a standalone spin-off, or Modern Warfare 3. It honestly wouldn't surprise me if they still haven't decided this yet. I can't see it being presented as DLC or an expansion though because of the state MW2 is currently in. A spin-off could be a nice alternative especially under new developers but it may be seen as a weak move for driving sales. MW3 it may turn out to be if Activision just want to wind up and conclude the trilogy early rather have yet another IW effort released within the next two years. I'm really not holding out much hope but still interested to see what SHG do as they always try their best despite being heavily under-resourced compared to the other studios and having huge personnel turnover. I'm not hyped in the slightest though and if someone said to me you can never play another COD game ever, I would not give a toss.
  21. I believe it is along with even more in-depth survival aspects. Many games these days get berated for using stale, bloated and dated concepts like this but Zelda seems to get a free pass and people see it new and revolutionary when it just isn't. I watched a video on YouTube last night where some dude was passionately explaining how Nintendo were ingenious with BOTW's guided exploration yet all he was explaining was basically Ubisoft radio towers of the 2010 era🤣
  22. Yeah, Nintendo have a very positive relationship with the media and community in which their games seem to be held to a different standard - I've seen countless family-friendly colourful games be awarded some huge plaudits, when in fact they would be considered basic and just decent under any other developer and on any other system. I have watched a few video reviews now and it does seem a highly-polished, complete and incredibly stable game (hard to believe this was the normal expectation once in this industry) and also a very good Zelda game. May grab it down the line even though I'm still not entirely sold on some aspects talked-up heavily and the visual style that we had in BOTW. People that review these games especially for the mass media seem to be Nintendo-focused specialists who don't play other multi-platform titles whereas I play a variety of games across the systems so I'm not sure I'm gonna be half as wowed as some of those who just focus exclusively on all things Nintendo.
  23. Asus ROG Ally handheld gaming PC review | PC Gamer WWW.PCGAMER.COM The first in line for the Steam Deck's throne.
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