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@Cornpop76 Trains, flights, city public transport, hotel rooms during business trips, and vacation homes, these are just a few places where people might want to enjoy a game to pass the time when a reliable Wi-Fi connection isn't available.

I have problems with living cost, food, etc.

Games ? If it's too expensive I can always wait a little more for a better sale.

I would immediately stop my subscription if I wouldn't need it to play online, and I think many other subscribers would do the same. This tells a lot about how much the "great value" is effectively perceived as great value.

I'm not happy with being forced to pay a subscription for the only online game I play. Planning to move to Steam Deck only for this reason.

I've been using Premium 2 years, but I'll go back to Essential as soon as it expires.

At home we use phone hotspots for internet and very often I play completely offline with my PS5. Digital doesn't necessarily mean that you need to be online to play.

Good old Europe is shining at RPGs. After Witcher/Cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate and Stalker, this series is becoming huge.

@Oram77 Try the motorbike, it's much easier to drive.

The problem of game pass is that it doesn't follow the same market rules as the other vendors, is an attempt to invest an enormous amount of money (not coming by the videogame industry) to corner the market and aquire control of it (I a similar way as Apple and Google control their mobile markets). Already today, small software vendors are forced to come to terms with Microsoft if they want to exist in the Xbox platform.

The one I would vote, The Long Dark 2 Blackfrost, is not in the list.

I understand the frustration. On the other side if they would regularly give out 30% discounted renewals at every black Friday, everyone would just wait this period to renew as it's a yearly membership.

If it's silent like the base one, if it doesn't consume too much energy and if increases significantly the experience with PSVR2 games, I'll buy it.

Digital copies of purchased games will eventually disappear one day or the other, that's without doubt. Already now, PS3 and Vita game are at risk, they are still downloadable, but for how long ? Kindle was the first to apply this rule if I remember correctly, books disappeared from e-book readers without notice.

Also, being a license it doesn't necessarily mean that automatically the license "can be revoked", it all depends by the terms in the contract.

9€ Digital on Instant Gaming

@Olmaz Sales Tax is not included in the 700$, it's included in the 800€.

I don't like too much the settings outside Japan, the beauty of Yakuza is the immersion in the japanese culture.

I think in the first 3-4 years of PS6, all the games will be out on PS5 too.

@NoHope You're using the evil € symbol, you'll probably get banned by push square.

@Zeke68 i understand your point of being worth or not. To me, is not worth it either and indeed I'll stick to my PS5 wich is more than enough for my needs. I also don't think they aim to sell tons of PS5 Pro, it will be niche-ish market targeted to tech aficionados.
Also you're right when you say that food costs, electric bills etc. all increased in the past years. What makes you think that in a economy where basically everything increase, piece of tech hardware should not ?

@Zeke68 Average salary in Sweden is (the equivalent of) around 2500~3000 euro. This makes the console an equivalent of 1,5 weeks of work. You won't go banckrupt. I understand if it's too high for you, in that case you can still go for a regular PS5 and not miss so much. This is a way bigger problem in countries like Italy or Brazil, just saying.

It was a challenge, a hard challenge requiring energy, skill and dedication.

Games have been challenges since forever, I don't see the reason to be judgmental just because you would never do that or because you would spend that time and energy in different ways.

I bet everyone of us spent time and money in frivolous activities instead of researching the cure of cancer. Let people have their fun how they like.

At least we have a fun sport in the selection: Quidditch.

Not a fan of an exclusive that forces you to have an Amazon account (which I don't have and will never have). Much better GameStop where you can just walk to the store.

I don't have any good reason to buy a PS5 pro.

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I remember having my player avatar built out of my pictures on a Madden on PS3 and it was perfect. Was like seeing myself on the field, I even took screenshots and show it to friends to demonstrate how good the acquisition was. Then, for some reasons, the feature was completely removed by following Maddens.

Would like Mount&Blade and Pathfinder, but I think I will hardly have time to play both before they get removed. That's why Ultimate is probably not for me.

The problem of the industry are not the gamers who doesn't finish the game, but the opposite: those who spend months to finish it before buying a new one. As a consumer, I'm perfectly OK with beautiful games lasting long time.

Agree, Discord is a mess. Dozens and dozens of "@everyone" or "@here" notifications, channels, sub channels, references, pins, groups, vocal chats, custom reactions, swipe menus, hidden menus, nitros, polls, links, pointers, custom emoji, emoji groups, stickers, faceyspaces and what not. An utter, incredibile mess.
I wanted to register to an online tournament and monitored the freakin dozens of channels with millions of messages every day and still managed to miss the important message with tourney requirements.
I felt so disoriented and old. And I work since 25 years in the IT.

...or disappoint both.

@Atreus97 I'm many years older than you and a I can relate, those GaaS shooters are the least thing that could interest me in gaming. However, my secret is: "few but good". I still have Baldur's Gate, Dragon's Dogma to play, Kingdom Come is arriving. Enough for a couple of years of gaming.

I guess still no way to downgrade to a lower tier, therefore no buy for me.

I started boycotting COD after the "Kill Fidel Castro" mission and the mass shooting of civilians in the airport mission.
No space for propaganda on my Playstation, sorry.

System Shock played 30 years ago was the most intense and immersive experience I had with a video game ever. I was just reading Neuromancer at the same time and was a blast.

I've reached an age where the absolute last thing I could be worried of is the future of mega corporations.

Never seen a company say "our future is doomed, we have no hope".

The games I like (Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate, Dragon's Dogma) are not on subscription services. Even if they were, I would buy them regardless, as I spend months on each of those games and like to go back for another run after months/years. The subscription model is totally against my gaming habits.

PC community should cool down, in the last years they seem interested to everything but gaming.

"For example, hitting a loading screen every single time that you enter or exit an interior location feels so unbelievably archaic, and that's with the PS5 version's vastly superior load times".

Imagine if they would release today a game with the very same problem. Wait..

Waiting for GOW on Ps Plus, it's a patience challenge now.

Solution: story mode and skin suite.

Odin Sphere is the best game ever published for the Vita, it's simply gorgeous and unforgettable.

I usually don't like to spend too much time in game reading books or notes, but being able to do it the day after while commuting it's a nice idea.

@SgtTruth Rigth!! On the other side X-Wing had a fantastic gameplay and spent dozens of hours on it. Good old times...

The first Rebel Assault was my first game ever on CD-ROM. Crappy gameplay, but was a dream.

Horizon is basically a Monster Hunter with some backstory, therefore an even more moster-huntery entry would fit well in the lore.

At home we use phone's Wi-Fi router as internet connection and once games are downloaded I play most of them offline (I deactivate the Wi-Fi on the phone). Cloud gaming is not for me.

Female Protagonist from P3P: next DLC.

It's interesting that an huge sale is making our "wallet scream in pain", should be exactly the opposite, shouldn't it ?

Or the underlying concept here is that sales makes us buy games that we wouldn't buy ?

I tried the F1 car on PSVR2 (GT7) and was exciting and terrifying at the same time Would be nice to have the F1 game on VR too...