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Re: Big PS5 Update Lets Sony Use Your Gameplay Clips to Help Other Players

ATaco

If I had to guess Sony will probably just take the few minutes that are automatically recorded whenever you collect a trophy and just toss those in there. I always did find the help cards kind of lacking, Sony hyped them up a lot during PS5 launch but I've never seen the help cards actually be helpful apart from like 1 or 2 games.

Re: Capcom Responds to Dragon's Dogma 2 Microtransaction, Performance Backlash

ATaco

They did pretty much the same thing with DMC5 so I can't say I'm surprised. I've given up on the microtransaction battle because I've noticed that the next generation has pretty much grown up with them. That's already the norm to them. We might have won against online passes and adding NFTs to games but you unfortunately can't win every battle.

Re: Japan Sales Charts: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth PS5 Sales Slip 91% at Retail

ATaco

@TrickyDicky99 that's definitely me, I wait for everyone to beta test games and wait for patches to come out. By the time those do the games usually come out on a subscription service. I wait a bit and I get access to a game that works as it should and might even have more content by then. Last time I bought a games was Tears of the Kingdom lol

Re: Everyone's Talking About Eve's Outfits in PS5 Exclusive Stellar Blade

ATaco

@DennisReynolds
I just find it hilarious you are judging a game before it has even come out. Are we just assuming that because the character is attractive, she won't have an interesting personality? How can people have opinions like this when the game isn't even out yet and we know next to nothing about the story? You're literally judging a book by it's cover my dude.

Re: Everyone's Talking About Eve's Outfits in PS5 Exclusive Stellar Blade

ATaco

@Mortal
Larian might not have pushed it but I remember plenty of articles going "omg you get to bed a bear! Wow!!!" Meanwhile all these devs have done is give the girl some revealing outfits. These screenshots are not theirs and whenever they show off gameplay trailers the focus is decidedly on the action and combat. It's always the people looking in that wind up being the ones that oversexualize everything.

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 518

ATaco

Finished Outer Wilds, now trying to get into NEO: The world ends with you but...I'm not 100% into it so far despite being a massive fan of the original on the DS. I might have grown out of it or something but the dialogue...it's pretty darn terrible. Music is still amazing and I'll be adding it to my playlist though for sure.

Re: EA Cuts Roughly 700 Jobs in Another Round of Industry Layoffs

ATaco

@Ajbr8687
The problem with businesses nowadays is that they can only succeed if they're constantly turning a profit, constantly growing. If they didn't make as much as last year then that's a loss in their books. Unchecked capitalism is dangerous because it becomes more and more unrealistic to reach those higher highs, which is why many developers resort to riddling games with microtransactions in a desperate attempt to match stellar years they may have had. Investors are just screaming at them "Make more than the last one!" And setting impossible goals. While there's not one true "bad guy" here, I pin most of the blame on the investors that don't understand how the industry works and making impossible demands.

Re: Poor Suicide Squad Sales Disappoint Publisher Warner Bros

ATaco

@KillerBoy
It's more than that, people just see the buzzword "Live Service" and immediately think that means that the game is going to be unfinished and incredibly predatory. Helldivers 2 proves that that doesn't have to be the case and that Sony shouldn't be scared of pursuing more live service games, they should be scared of pursuing more games like Suicide Squad.