US americans trying to cash in on discontent with buzzwords like AI and trying to steal the thunder of actual worthy alternatives like lemmy. The fact Ohanian is part of the founders immediately places it into the shit tier bucket for me.

This is exactly it. Once it became clear it was “rules for thee and not for me” the gears were set in motion.

BaD oNlInE pErSoN iS uNhApPy WiTh GaMe I lIkE, wHaT a CoNdEsCeNdInG pRiCk.

Oink oink

edit: 10/10 chances this system evolved to render some VAs unemployed. Especially from a Microsoft studio.

My fault for throwing pearls to pigs.

Where’s the helldivers II crowd that caused a major fuss? This one is flying under the radar. Is it because Forza is just meh?

I gave you plenty of evidence, you just decided to ignore it because for some ungodly reason you attached your personal value to it.

70€ for a PC it better be better than just meh and deliver what was promised by the adverts. I work to have those 70€, if a company lies and overcharges, sure as shit it’s a 1. They advertised a completely different game than what was delivered. And this is after 6y.

You’re basically the equivalent to a Taylor Swift fan arguing with people who don’t equate her music to Bach or Brahms…

Try stabbing an NPC, let me know how it reacts.

Literally the first dialogue with Garryck. It’s like it was Va’d by different people depending on your answers.

“That’s the imperial envoy you’re talking to, show some respect” - lol perfect deadpan delivery, emotional delivery is for losers.

And that’s before mentioning all the other missing perks of past obsidian games, like the interactivity of the world. It’s like a single player shooter stuck in an MMO world.

But good for you, you like it, all 4 of you.

Basically, they outscalped the scalpers…

Other than interacting with Kai everything else sounds like it was written by GPT3.o

It feels and plays like a game designed by an AI. Not bad, also not good.

Don’t know why they’re being downvoted, it fits the definition.

Brother, picking on your example, Avowed had the gall to charge 11€ more than KCD2 while offering a facsimile of what it promised while KCD2 improved upon their past game in every way. The polarisation stems from a game published by one of the richest companies in the world and in production for over 6y delivering a mediocre experience (at best) when compared to CHEAPER offerings that do much more. In truth, it’s not polarisation, it’s requiring a modicum of quality for your money. I returned it because I was advertised an Obsidian RPG and got a linear shooter with barely any choices and performance issues that would not be foreign in a mobile marketplace. That’s the future gamepass brings, slop. Luckily, there’s US indie, Asian and European developers making good games, KCD2 or BG3 being such examples. Shit, even Lords of the Fallen is a better experience than Avowed as people were delivered the experience that was promised in the promotional materials at less than 70€.

Edit: Dragon Age was technically well executed, but, again, as an RPG, it had little to offer. Would be another game perfect for a mobile app store. The total sales of that game and predicted sales of avowed confirm as much, it’s shovelware capitalising on a franchise name to drive sales while having no craft or passion behind it. If you read the reviews for avowed, the overwhelming majority of the thumbs up reviews complain the game is not worth the price of admission and it’s a mid game at best.

Especially when brands like BYD would have to actually put in effort to be worse than Tesla. ~1/4 of every Tesla sold 4y ago in Denmark is now an expensive paper weight requiring expensive repairs to be allowed on the road again.

In EU basically the retailers were using on the fly price adjustment to gauge their own customers. There were several models at MSRP but all models that were AIB OC versions started at 749-799€ and were dynamically adjusted upwards. I know personally of several cases where people bought and were charged for the early cheaper price and the etailer cancelled their order to fulfill 100€ more expensive prices they were practicing post hoc. We need to amend legislation to make any sale binding from the moment you’re charged any amount. In CZ the seller Alza was doing this.

The problem is the inclusion of the feature to begin with. It should be an opt in add install.