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I'm learning this the hard way with Starfield 😢
I'm a patient gamer so I don't normally preorder, but I made an exception with CyberPunk as a tribute for paying $5 for Witcher 3 (which was my first game of the series, I went in blind and I couldn't believe how good it was).
I wasn't even mad with the shitshow but I decided wasn't going to play the game in that state.
Fast forward a few years, the game runs almost 3 times as fast (went from 25 to 70 fps on my computer) and they fixed a lot of problems people were complaining about for the DLC release. Now it's ripe.
Patient games keep being right
Pretty much the same story here. Finally playing it now, and I can barely put it down. It's story is nearly as good as W3, and my car doesn't even take random hard lefts off the road for no reason whatsoever in this one. Actually, gameplay is a massive step up in general.
I'm glad to hear the game's gotten much better! I purchased the game on sale but have left it sitting in my Steam library for a little while, knowing that it is playing much better means I'll move it higher on my playlist.
Well, I meant a step up from the overall quality of Witcher 3. But, it is really smooth and solid combat with a real variety of styles/builds. I'm digging katana/guns/mantis blades/sandi. And I know the 2.0 skill revamp made a huge and smart impact on the gameplay.
It’s because people weren’t patient that they were able to fix it
But it still isn’t the game they marketed it as
I pre-ordered Elden Ring for a slight discount off of the launch price. No regerts whatsoever about that one. Best game of the 21st Century.
But yeah usually I get games well after launch on sale. Starfield looks cool but they can eat a $70 bag of dicks before I pay that much.
Hell, I'm still on Civilization III.
I just play unciv instead now
Unciv is amazing, it's insane that I can play it on my potato phone while my laptop struggles with civ5
i’m still on fallout 2
Both of you are rocking awesome games, so no worries…
do you still have to force children into the game to have someone play with the Richard Nixon doll?
Wizard of Wor will never be dethroned.
Unironically the best entry in the series. I play 5 occasionally, but 3 all the time.
I’m still playing DooM. Nothing will ever top it.
Now that's pretty extreme. Quake II was the shit.
Still is, my dude. The “All pods launched” sound effect from the first level will be stuck in my head forever, I’ve heard it so many times. If you haven’t played Q2RTX, I highly recommend it. It’s like a fresh coat of paint on an old classic.
I play Factorio, it was more stable at 0.8 alpha than the average €/$ 60 AAA game at release.
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The only game I've ever preordered is Animal Crossing New Horizons. I knew it wasn't gonna be horseshit on release lmao. I wait until games are on sale and have been out for a while. My friends keep harassing me to buy Baldurs Gate and I'm not doing that until it has all dlc released and is on sale lol
I'm the same way but I bought bg3 because of how not asshole they are. It's a great game and honestly worth the money. This is the first game I've bought at full price since games came on cartridges.
My thing is that I wanna wait until Larian comes out with all content for it. I don't wanna get the game and immediately have to replay it because dlc came out. I've done that with games before and replaying just for dlc made the game feel like a chore. I've waited since the announce of cyberpunk's expansion to even consider finishing the game. I plan on playing that one once I get myself a steamdeck later this year. My gaming computer became a total turd since 2020 lol.
I get that, but that game is so big, you're going to want to play over regardless. You'll probably start over anyways after at least 40 hours of game play. The game is really insane on how much there is and how much every choice you make matters. You could play this game for the rest of your life and I don't think you'd have the same game twice.
Play Divinity 2 with your friend
Then go into DM mode to run a DND campaign or into the SDK to build your own levels/quests
Yeah, at least if they're not free-to-play. Publishers have shown time and time again that you can NOT trust them with your money. Only pay for something if you know exactly what you're getting.
Wait, but they already launched it without Denuvo. So pirates can easily crack the launch version without it, and only paying customers need to deal with the antipiracy bullshit? Nice, they took a pro-piracy hyperbole and made it actually real.
DRM ONLY ever affects paying customers, ergo DRM is always unethical malware.
Also, let’s never forget how Ghostwire Tokyo had Denuvo patched IN over a year after release.
Eh, I only meant hyperbole in terms of antipiracy affecting the pirates that had to figure out how to crack it. As a broad gesture at the fact piracy (consumption) depends on piracy (effort) to work
I'm thinking this too… like what's even the point of using denuvo if it's not applied day one? The whole point is to delay piracy so they sell more copies during launch week (in theory), so waiting until after day one completely ruins that since you can just pirate the easily cracked launch version.
It's not a day one patch, but day-1 patch. The game will be released a few hours from now.
If non DRM version is given to reviewers, it will leak to crackers, unless you control 100% of reviewers you give a copy. This does not make any sense.
That's the thing: paying consumers always pay the price for DRM by having to jump through any hoops.
There are no “hoops” here though?
Sounds like they added it after the review embargo ended but before the game releases to the public.
So time for those reviewers to send their version.
😂 yeah if they want to get blacklisted and sued.
Unless each review copy is internally flagged, I wouldnt expect anyone to own up to leaking the copy to even risk being sued.
You're right, according to Ubi the update on PC was 'included in the 41.6 GB game files ahead of Oct 5'. It was a prerelease patch, not day 1.
Nice of Epic to start directly exploiting the lack of PC physical media around the same time people are talking about getting rid of disc drives on consoles.
Epic? This is Ubisoft.
I think the primary method of PC sales for this game is on the Epic Game Store. Yeah I neglected to consider it's also available from Ubisoft+ or whatever but also does anyone actually use that
Epic Game Store also doesn't have any preloading, meaning they had all the opportunity to deploy Denuvo pre-launch but post-embargo without having preloads as a loose end.
What does Epic have to do with this?
Yeah, but pirates won't be able to get the newer updates/bugfixes
Reviewers get games prior to release day. So it may not be so likely that you can get a working game without the day 1 patch.
The sad part is that tomorrow they could release "Assasins Creed: Reflection". And people would make the exact same mistake all over.
You know Ubisoft has a shit reputation. You know Bethesda is famous for broken, buggy, glitchy games. You know Blizzard Activision isn't the same as old Blizzard. Don't you guys have phones?
I didn't buy this game. I didn't buy Starfield, and I didn't buy Diablo IV.
Anyone not blinded by hype could see this coming to all those games from a paid pre-alpha deluxe collectors gold season battle pass track booster mile away.
the error is buying a game from a series with 11 games in development
https://en.as.com/meristation/news/ubisoft-has-11-assassins-creed-games-in-the-works-n/
they are going to run out of words in the dictionary to name these fucking games, they will start using words in a different language for the codenames.
Origins was first AC game I played. 3 months after completing origins, which had bored me to death, I tried my hand at Odessey. The gameplay was exactly same. It felt like I was playing the same game again. Exact same mechanics and combat style. Uninstalled within half an hour.
Then I tried Unity and Syndicate, because people praise them so much. And I realised that Ubisoft has been remaking the same game over and over for more than a decade now. They just change the setting and rehash everything. The animations in Unity look exactly same as Odessey.
I had the same fear when I picked up Miles Morales, that it would feel the same as previous Spidey game. But they quickly introduced a few new mechanics which made the game feel ever so slightly different.
It was OK when the games were a bit smaller (and also makes more sense when played in the right order).
Going from 1 to 2 was a huge improvement, as 1 felt more like a tech demo. Then they added two more 2's, and frankly they were the exact same.
3 was a bit shit, and lost the city charm. It doesn't really work in the countryside.
Black Flag was massively popular at the time, because the pirate ship stuff was cool, and it also featured the least amount of Assassin's Creed gameplay. I think the more recent games still haven't matched that feel with any of the ship gameplay.
Unity shoehorned in multiplayer, and managed to annoy both single player fans (who don't want multiplayer) and multiplayer fans (because there's like 4 missions you can do in co-op).
I didn't play Syndicate because I was bored to fucking death of AC by this point.
Origins tried turning it into a massive RPG, with levels and choices that don't really do anything, and stopped assassinations from actually being a guaranteed kill if your stats weren't high enough.
Odyssey did more of the same, added the boat back in, and made the whole game ridiculously big. Like, there's good stuff in there (the Minotaur tourist trap is a favourite, along with some of the fantasy elements), but you've genuinely seen most of the gameplay the game has to offer before you've even got off Tutorial Island. It doesn't even really get harder. There's just more of it. It was in serious need of an editor to bring it down to about a third of the size.
I'm still so burnt out on finishing that like 3 years ago, that I've not played Valhalla either.
3 was great in the forest and old timely cities/towns
It also had better ship combat than 4
But like you said; it shouldn’t have been in the IP
I think Odyssey has comparable ship combat to 4
I tried Valhalla (on console so I pirated it) but I have no idea how long the game is. At the start of the game you’re told to wait “there” so I left the console on for an hour and it was still just waiting. Haven’t touched it since
I'm kind of the opposite side of the spectrum for at least some parts. If anything, I've been wishing the games would go back to the old formula. I felt like as the games progressed, they added just enough to keep me interested, and I liked the story. Black Flag was really great, despite the fact that it had less traditional AC game play in it. But I did like it when it was there, and the ship stuff was cool.
Then came Oddysee, which, I liked, but kind of wish it had more AC stuff. Played a decent bit of Odysee, but didn't ever get around to finishing it.
When they said they were going back to their roots, I thought that sounded awesome, but for obvious reasons was a bit hesitant to get excited.
Odyssey had a lot of QOL fixes over Origin
Miles Morales,
That’s funny because I hated everything they changed. If I’m playing a Spider-Man game why would I want to have a super punch (and metre to fill it)? And they showed that in the teaser for the next game so I feel they didn’t learn any lessons about spider man being spider man
Offering a specific version of the product for reviewers to write about that buying customers won't get? fry-im-shocked.gif
Why the hell would they add the DRM after release when the game is already cracked before the DRM was added? I can never understand this logic.
To fuck over their customers. As usual.
I don't know how the launch went but these days the release version of games is usually a buggy mess with half the content stripped out of it so they can sell it later as DLC or a season pass
Before and on release date, most sales are to a minority of highly engaged gamers that then create reviews and hype. Ubisoft needs that hype as they know the majority of the profit they will make is from sales after the release when the general public reads those reviews and then decide to spend their dollar on the game because the reviews were good. Also the majority of the general public won't pirate anyway…
But once it's out it's out. I at least understand the logic of DRM from launch because it delays cracks, but once you've released without DRM it's out there lol.
Maybe the drm is so fucked that the game performance suffers too much for the reviews
I have a hard time believing most people read reviews
But… it's not cracked?
Ubisoft making themselves an even more loveable company…
If Denuvo's claim that their DRM has no negative performance impact were true, then why Ubisoft pull this shenanigan (adding Denuvo DRM just hours before release)? Ubisoft must've know their game run better without Denuvo so they want the reviewers to play the drmless version.
Everyone knows Denuvo's statement isn't true. There are hundreds of games with Denuvo that have improved performance after being cracked, compared to the legitimately owned version. This conversation pops up all the time. It's quite funny when pirated games have a better experience. At least until Denuvo is removed to cut cost (it's a subscription).
Ubisoft does the Ubisoft thing - nothing new under the sun.
Refund, refund, refund. The only single thing they will ever care about is the $.
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Why, you going to fight them one by one, Jay and Silent Bob style?
No clue, cause my instance has downvotes disabled and idgaf lol
Probably a corporate bootlicker(s), why there are so many who feel like they need to defend the huge game companies I have no idea…
Reviewers should subtract points from the rating of every new Ubisoft game, for the real potential of something like this happening after the review.
Reviewers take bribes.
Review versions of games are kinda like bribes.
If you're the only reviewer that doesn't get one then you won't have a review up for when people read them most, right on release day. So game companies can threaten to exclude you if you write something they don't like.
Imo they should be an everyone or no one deal, probably even by law.
We need a Micheal Ficher for game reviews.
Buys his own shit and tells the truth without nitpicking like a douche or fanboying like a simp
Hope people demand refunds over it.
Half the people don't know what denuvo is.
That's a brand new way to fuck users' ass. Very impressed.
Well, they've accidentally made a really easy workaround, then. Just download the day one depot and you can play without Denuvo.
True, but will also prevent you from getting any other updates or bug fixes. This is such a scummy action for Ubi to do, I wouldn't it put it past em to pair this with some sort of game bricking… "glitch" that needs a patch.
They did exactly that In another assassins creed game
Well I know what game I'm not buying. This should just fuel the pirate ships I'd think.
Hardly anyone is streaming it. It's the same cringy dialogue with the same boring game as its predecessors. I haven't seen anything in any of the streams that would change my mind.
That ahould be a DLC.
Early adopters pay more for less anyway and they will remove Denuvo after a few months, because it's a subscription service. Never understood the hurry of the crack groups.
Never understood the hurry of the crack groups.
You serious?
Obviously the sooner they crack it the sooner they can sell to impatient pirates. The market is only going to decrease over time, and if you're beaten to the punch you lose out on loads of customers.
Paying for a pirated game? If I wanted to pay for it, I wouldn't be looking into pirating it in the first place.
I also would not pirate anything at all because it's illegal and I'm only speaking hypothetically.
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Lol, no, pirates dont pay for anything. The cracking community is almost entirely clout based, its just for the bragging rights of being the smartest programmer out there.
Empress is an anomaly, and I dont actually think shes ever been paid her obnoxious "fee." And even she is only claiming a fee for the clout, as a way to say "no one else can do what I do so its pay up or fuck off"
