J4MES OX4D

A Spanish website has posted the first review for Suicide Squad … and it’s a bad start for the game! 
 
Apparently Warner Bros are also refusing to give review codes to certain review outlets, including IGN! May be a while until we get the final OpenCritic score.

Ok so entries are now closed! 
 
Only 4 of us have entered so only a small competition but should be fun to keep track of who is winning. 
 
A few fun stats from our entries:
 
Top 3 games on average prediction:
Hellblade 2 - 89.00
Star Wars Outlaws - 88.00
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth - 86.75
 
Bottom 3 games on average prediction:
Skull and Bones - 69.00
Suicide Squad - 69.75
Alone in the Dark - 73.00
 
Our total average predictions:
WelchyTV - 80.95
@Andy_White_07 - 80.58
@Luseth - 78.89
@J4MES OX4D - 78.00
 
Seems I am the most optimistic this year! 
 
Let’s see how the Suicide Squad reviews come out this week! 
 
Good luck all! 
 

Leaked footage of Neversoft's cancelled Call of Duty title has emerged. This was due for release in 2013 but replaced by Infinity Ward's Ghosts who then went on to make their own space game in 2016 with Infinite Warfare. Looks like they produced a few campaign missions plus there was a lot of MP groundwork completed before the project was binned off. Hopefully more footage will be posted soon and I wonder if modders can get their hands on it and make a playable build..
 

Game is fun!
 
LINKS ARE STILL NOT LINKING. THIS IS STUPID WHY IS IT BROKEN???????????????????!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When even IGN say the game is shite you know it's gonna be bad. They'll still probably give it a 7 to avoid upsetting the publishers but rule of thumb with them is always deduct 3 for the real score🤣

Well, that didn't go to plan. Well played Maidstone. I hope they get Man City at home, give them a chance and another pay day 👏👏👏👏

What a finish!
 

Embarrassing performance from Spurs last night. 1 shot on goal all night compared to Man City's 18. Players spent most of the evening playing high-risk balls around their own area which almost resulted in 2 goals shortly before City scored from a set-piece. There was some nice attacking play at times especially from Johnson, Udogie and Werner but the final ball was absolutely shocking and Porro's inability to clear the first man from dead balls is a persistent problem. Spurs did defend really well for most of the game but the majority of attacks City had were easily preventable with more direct football and they cannot keep playing the same high-risk football against top sides throughout the 90. The sheer lack of anything up front made for a very frustrating night and clinging on to a replay would've served no benefit whatsoever either. 

Everton's legal team right now

He has had a good season to be fair and way better than the likes of Rashford, Antony and Fernandes. Those 3 should be first out the door in January or next season. Antony is nothing more than a fidget spinner, Fernandes is good on paper but terrible during big matches and Rashford has faded spectacularly. 

I don't think they have a leg to stand on but they will certainly use IP violating mods as an excuse to target the game and many have been taken down already. In terms of the core concept, I'm not sure if Pokemon can protect itself that much.
 
Most of it is probably down to the usual Nintendo salt on top of the fact Pokemon has been hot garbage for many years now. A game upstaging it overnight and being immensely popular was never going to go down well with them.  

I got that right but let's face it; it weren't exactly a difficult prediction!

I think more and more people are jumping on the bandwagon as the game gets more exposed. Hard to tell when it'll finally peak as there's still a lot of people interested in it who may not have the funds to buy it right now or may jump in on the weekend. I'm more surprised at how many players jumped in on the first couple of days with the game seemingly going under the radar. The likes of Among Us and Lethal Company really took a while to get going but this is flying right off the bat! 

Those free rewards are still financed by income generated from PS+ revenues whether the user has bought it or not. The rewards given away don't grow on trees - Sony have to subsidise the likes of EA in full on the contents given away exactly the same way how someone like Epic pays developers an install sum for the games they give away for free through their store. If I spend £50 on a Playstation Store game and then get a free £5 voucher and buy an indie game for £5, they don't get paid in a free voucher - that £5 has to be generated somewhere in real money so the indie developers can get paid for their game and the only ones that can do that is Sony because they provided the voucher. 
 
If Valve gave away a £5 voucher to every active account on the Steam platform then they would have to find £450,000,000 in real money so the recipient of the products bought actually get paid because they aren't going to give away their stuff for free or at a discount just because a provider decided to give away free vouchers out of thin air. This model only really works if the store owns its products and can dictate pricing and distribution. Sony probably owns about 1% of the digital stock sold in the Playstation Store and the majority that sell their stuff demand to be paid in full especially if they are already relinquishing 30% for the privilege  on the cut alone. 

Tesco sell their own wholesaled goods whereas Playtation sell other people's products and take a cut. Playstation Rewards are facilitated as a perk by PS+ revenues so what people think is a sweet offer is actually based off the back of their own money in the first place. It's a carefully measured offering where they do not lose any money. If they had to subsidise a digital resell or revoke market out of their own pockets for other people's products then that would cause a devastating knock-on effect for either developers or Sony like we've already seen with microtransactions when they were first introduced to combat the preowned resell market. 
 
Sure, companies like Sony could offer a digital revoke points system but it'll essentially be coming out of their own pockets and be going against their own terms of service. The likes of Tesco use Clubcard to drive and reward sales and consumer loyalty but a model like this cannot be transitioned so simply into a completely different business framework. Everything Tesco sell with a Clubcard price is their own product so if they want to take off 30p on beans they can do that but if they tried to apply that to non-wholesaled products that they sell on behalf and take a cut then they will have to pay the difference out of their own pocket and/or waive the cut and further pay some of the difference. 

Today that figured reached 1.8 mil! Overtaking CSGO. 
 
Really hope the devs work on this title, hire a more professional team or whatever, and make this something to really last the long run.
 
Im surprised the player count has stayed this high though, I thought it'd have already peaked after a few days. 

Huge figures, very impressive actually. 
Not my type of game, but I'm happy for it and wish it all the success. 

The player count currently stands at 1,333,559 - bear in mind that this is a normal Monday morning in most of Europe and America is still very much still in bed. Absolutely insane figures really. Nobody had heard of this game last week!