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I got 10/10 but my browser glitched at the last question so my score didn't go up on the leaderboard. Could you add it in manually? In case it's a draw, the time I did it in was 2 seconds. Plus I was blindfolded.

@Flaming_Kaiser agreed. It's why Hoyoverse games are doing well. There's so much content to get your teeth into, the gameplay is engaging, and they've listened to the community and are more generous than they were with 5 star characters and the grind to get them without paying.

I played Genshin for a while, didn't pay a things, and easily got as much fun and content from it than a full priced game.

There is definelty a place for well crafted GaaS games, and in the case of games like Helldivers, it was easy to fair the credits required to purchase the DLC each time it came out.

If anything we should be turning our annoyance at games like FIFA that release EVERY year for full price with hardly any really substantial differences (sometimes the game is even worse than the year before) AND still they monetise it and concentrate on funneling people to UT and away from offline modes. Games like that are worse than even F2P mobile whale farming games.

@Logonogo it's also a mobile game. He missed that too.

Easy solution. Employ game testers to play the game and charge gamers microtransactions to 'buy' a team of game tester to play with.

Balls, I shouldn't have put this thought out there for them to see.

@LikelySatan very true. And then when something interesting happens, like a streaker running on the pitch, the studio director refuses to show it!! 😐😆

Shopping centres. Anyway. I've always thought Sony marketing is some of the best in the industry. That huge tower of supercars promoting GT7 was amazing.

@Matroska I'm referring to TV advertising, I should've been clearer. It's why Americans networks can't get thier head around football, they can't comprehend going more than 45 minutes without an ad. American sports have become built around TV.

@Danbottomburp agreed. American sports have morphed in platforms for advertising rather than sport. Long, dull, stat heavy bore-a-thons.

@get2sammyb then you believe wrong 😁 I live in London, and unless you're in the City, the financial district, nowhere sells coffee for 4 quid. £2.20 at my local cafe i stop at each morning, which is kind of lazy of me considering i have two DeLonghi coffee machines.
Bloody love coffee. A beer however, they're stupidily priced.

Where the hell do you buy your coffees from, and why would you pay that much?! Doesn't even cost that in London.

Great game. It's a 10. There's nothing to knock a point off for. What made it a 9?

@W0rl0ck if anyone thought of VS as trash, they wouldn't know a good game even if it kicked them in the [insert vulnerable body part]

Seems like choosing D every time isn't a foolproof method.

Vampire Survivors should've been one of the games.

@gbanas92 oh so you mean it in direct comparison with 2 rather than as a game overall. Right, that I understand, because as a general criticism I thought it unfounded. Ta.

Finally someone is saying it! ***** an all digital future where we own nothing, and nothing is playable when the servers are turned off!

@Malaise that's a bit better 😁

@jrt87 as usual I agree with you.

@Malaise no company builds mountains as a mountain is unable to sustain growth.

@Deoxyr1bose it probably has competition from Anthem.

@commentlife agreed. I think there's been a series of mistakes made with this game, but the main one was charging money for it when there are games in the same niche as it that are free, established, with more content, better character design and arguably better gameplay. It's not like Helldivers 2 that brought something new to GaaS with its visceral, bombastic, satirical co-op mayhem that understood how to give players a spectacle.

People didn't buy the game because they didn't want to. Nothing to do with campaigns.

There was a massive campaign against Hogwarts and people still parted with thier money in huge numbers. Every year there's plenty of negativity against FIFA and COD and they still sell well. GTA is usually accompanied by a campaign against it for various reasons. Diablo Immortal faced a campaign because it was on mobile, and made millions anyway.

The number of games that have failed because of a pre-launch campaign can be counted on the fingers of a mitten. Even Star Wars BF2 sold loads at launch and we all knew if was full of lootboxes because of a huge campaign!

If this game were appealing it would've sold. Unfortunately, it seems the characters in it are totally unappealing, from what I've read.

Whatsmore, IF by some quirk of fate a campaign against this game were the result of it not selling, well that would show us that gamers who play this type of game agree with the campaign and so why should anyone be upset? Especially those who never intended to buy it anyway.

We are not required to buy a game we don't want no matter how much work devs have put into it. Know your audience. Don't make something people don't want. This is why Disney is failing with Star Wars TV shows and recent Marvel films, until Deadpool.

@jrt87 yeah, I watched sone too and I was not impressed. It's not a bad game but it's definetly not anything special, and it really should be if it's Star Wars otherwise what's the point.

@LikelySatan they are, but the subjective details are usually demonstrated. In this case I'm not seeing how the review shows that this game is devoid of creativity to the degree attributed to it, which is why I asked my question?

At least I asked for clarification. I wasn't sarcastic or insisted the review was wrong. It would've been nice if you treated me the same way, but you'll get your likes on your reply to me I'm sure.

@Matroska thank you. That sounds so highly subjective that it doesn't bear mentioning as the main criticism of a game. Especially when it can't be demonstrated or backed-up.

I'm struggling to understand 'corporate' as a criticism. As I understand that word, many games since the era of microtransactions have a strong whiff of 'corporate' about them and in a way that's fundementally worse than this game will ever be.

So, what is corporate about his game? In what sense do you mean it? Is it just because it's not innovative? Every game Ubisoft make is reeking of corporate, for example. Most games are corporate in some sense. Am I understanding it right?

@jrt87 Dustborn looks like something I'm going to avoid. I don't like that by its own admission it's politicised.

I'm playing Vampire Survivors. It deserves my time more than this. When is your review up?

@get2sammyb yep. We don't seem to see any push-back though. There doesn't seem to be the community feedback to publishers and platform holders like there is when a GaaS is released or gender nonsense is attributed to a game.

Why is that? PC gamers gave up physical copies and game ownership because of convenience and lower prices. Us console gamers just give it a pass and pay stupid money for digital releases at launch and beyond like they're doing us a favour. I find it really odd that we have that mentality and that it's becoming ever more pervasive.

Doesn't matter. There's only a handful of developers I trust to buy games at launch. Everything else is bought later, and the games industry is such that the vast majority of games are sold at a significant price drop shortly after launch. Even at launch physical copies are reduced from RRP.

The real question should be why are digital game prices inflated instead of less than the physical edition? Why are we being conned into accepting this?

@colonelkilgore I hope Kier Starmer doesn't hear about this or it'll be all our faults.

Thank you @Pushsquare 👍

I think you got this review spot on. Watching videos about the invisible walls that give the impression of freedom whilst dishing out punitive fail state punishment is really dissapointing.

@Frmknst do you think PS will delete this article seeing as it's long ceased to be true?

This is not the case on the store in the UK. Just looked.

What time do you call this to publish a review?! 😆

p.s. I think a 6 is generous.

When is someone going to make a video game of Go Johnny Go Go Go Go?

Name your pairs...

@dskatter the needless capitalisation of every word also helps to confuse much of the time.

@DDDD I agree, not friendly but not anti either.

@DDDD your point is that Sony is anti-consumer. Clearly they are not. That's an insane business strategy. They've got it wrong with this game but that doesn't make them anti anything.

@bindiana let's effing go!!

@Fiendish-Beaver it's anonymous. How would anyone know who voted for industrial action or not? Until there's a walkout there's no way to ascertain which union members were against it. At that point if union members choose to got to work in enough numbers the action will collapse, so the votes when counted are detailed to the workforce. If it's a split decision it wouldn't go to industrial action.

Also, there's no evidence to say Union reps are coersing to workforce to strike, that is illegal in French law. If the Union really did behave like that in this day and age, well you may as well look for a different career because the system is broken.

@get2sammyb don't let critical thinking get in the way of moaning Sammy, or you'll cut out 3/4 of all internet forum comments 😊

@DDDD yeah, I remember thinking to myself when I bought PSVR2, 'BLOODY SONY! spending millions developing new technologies for a niche audience! Grrrr!!'

@Fiendish-Beaver if you're not in the union you can't sign the letter. If you are in the union you have an anonymous ballot to decide what action to take. They will all be aware that industrial action is an option of last resort, and a necessary bargaining position.

The signature on the letter is representative of union member wishes and not a list of names.

If there's industrial action, that's when you'll see which union members are prepared to put their money where their mouth is, and which members may have voted no to protest.

@Mostik not seen that, but you reminded me of the prologue of TLoU with Joel and Stephanie. Who didn't cry or at least get emotional when THAT happened? 😭

@StrickenBiged I still think it's nonsense as most games don't have lots of DLC. Comparing the base game is fair and makes sense.

Any idea when the game unlocks on the store. I'm poised to strike!

@nomither6 that's up to game developers not the console.

@naruball Joel and Ellie, that relationship was real to me because of the acting......and then TLoU2 went and ruined it all because of the writing.