Red_October

It’s not a question of the world being too big or too small, it’s the density of interesting things. A giant world with very little worth doing doesn’t accomplish much, but similarly a small world where you’re absolutely tripping over things that feel like you shouldn’t skip them will also feel claustrophobic.

Additionally, the traversal system can help a LOT here. Even a world that has a lot of wide open dead space can feel good if the process of crossing that space is itself fun. Dune: Awakening comes to mind here, where there are large spans of open desert that you need to cross, but ripping across the dunes on my sandbike was so much fun I didn’t mind the dead ground.

Just switch over to a privacy focused mail service like… uh… like… well shit.

Counterstrike has had loot boxes for many years, they weren’t recently added. What was recently added was a mechanic that allows 5 lower value items (certain gun skins) to be exchanged for a random higher value item (glove or knife skins). It’s acting to level the market. If anything, this change serves to inhibit loot box gambling by cutting the possibility of hitting a real money jackpot.

Yeah Krafton isn’t saving shit, they’re just making the death slow and painful.

Which is why I fully stopped playing after the last pointless update.

I usually really like DoubleFine games but this was the first I’d even heard of this one. Gotta wonder how much marketing actually happened at all.

Yeah that’s the problem, not enough console warring and platform exclusivity.

Jesus christ, OP over here telling on himself.

So your position is that Greenheart Games, which as far as I can tell has fewer than 10 employees, is too corporate?

The GOP doesn’t think they are fascists. They think the term is only being used to try to deride them without actually being correct. From there, when they see “Anti-fascists” constantly opposing THEM, they think it’s just some violent group that has used an ad hominem attack for their name.

It would be comparable to someone making an anti-shithead group, and then that group is always out trying to stop you from doing whatever you do. Not only would they be a direct problem for you, but the fact that they’re targeting you would imply then that they’re also calling you a shithead.

You know you can just turn off showing adult games again right? I’m pretty sure that’s a setting that’s off by default, but it’s definitely a setting.

All we can hope for is that after EA gets absolutely gutted, a bunch of new indy splinter studios spring up to use their development experience minus the corpo cash grabbery.

“There’s no such thing as bad press” is such a dogshit saying that is demonstrably untrue. There is absolutely bad press, just because we’re talking about it doesn’t mean it’s good for the product. For every one schmuck who thinks they’ll buy Borderlands 4 just to prove how good their computer is, there’s a hundred people who have decided never to buy it at all and half if them have written off gearbox entirely.

I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that people don’t care. People do care, a lot of people care a lot. Part of the problem is that people who want to act ethically and politely, people who want to minimize harm, are going to be at a distinct disadvantage when opposing people for whom the ends always justify the means, and the ends they seek are their own betterment above all else.

If your idea of action is sternly worded letters and peaceful protest, and my idea of action is violence and unabashed corruption of authority, you’re going to have a real uphill battle to dislodge me from any power I manage to gain. It doesn’t mean the corrupt assholes are unstoppable, only that their methods are more aligned with the acquisition and retention of power.

This guy is why PR consultants and Social Media teams exist. Some people just should not have contact with the public. However good he might or might not be in his work on the project itself, someone should have told him to sit down and shut up and let someone who knows how not to damage the entire game with a single statement handle the communication.

But also sometimes the bonus thoughts are too important to leave out but not important enough for their own sentence.

Soon they will reveal their latest invention, the Torment Nexus, from the hit Sci Fi novel, Don’t Create the Torment Nexus.

Wait a minute! That fact isn’t very fun at all!

No. The first one was and still is a masterpiece, and it was made before Krafton ever got involved. If anything the contrast between Subnautica’s while success and 2’s abysmal failure would only emphasize how much Krafton sucks.

Same here. I was definitely going to buy as soon as it hit early access, I loved 1 and even liked Below Zero, I was as assured a sale as they get.

Not anymore. Blocked, blacklisted, and forgotten.

On a related note, did you guys know you can block a whole publisher on Steam from ever showing up in your feed? Click on the publisher’s name on any game they’re involved with to go to their page, and use the little cogwheel to the right of the Featured, Lists, Brows and so on buttons. You can ignore them, and poof, gone from your steam pages. If anyone deserves to be thrown into the pit like that, it’s definitely KRAFTON. Fuck’em.