Im just too old to be pirating books, Been burned too many times with incomplete messy epub files
how often do people find themselves unable to get a major book release on kobo vs kindle. Are there other legit ways of aquiring ebooks if they aren't on the kobo store?
Not just some stuttering but lag spikes so bad they aree preventing me from killing anomalies and putting me at the bottom of cliffs I grappled up. Game was functionally unplayable.
Not the neatest solution but I found deleting my main games save files has helped dramatically and made the game playable. Not an ideal solution and since I don't know how to differentiate between save files I had to delete my dlc save and start again, but it worked and my game is playable now.
Thought I'd put it out there since I couldn't find any solutions online
https://insider-gaming.com/disc-editions-make-up-82-of-all-ps5-console-sales/
And we can probably infer from that most ps5 owners have at least some physcial games in their collection. If they're stopping printing physical discs there is no way in hell the ps6 has its own disc drive. This is a problem not just for the niche collectors, but anyone who even has a handful of physical games probably wont be able to play them on ps6, the odd ps5 game you got on sale physically, the many ps4 games you might still have, none of that will see the backwards compatibility that has kind of defined this generation.
Phil spencer talked many times about how the xbox one generation being the worst generation to lose because it locked people into ecoystems, but i guess if you bought a lot of your games physically that is no longer true, there is no longer anything to tie you into the playstation ecosystem.
The rumours seem credible enough seeing as they are coming from all over the industry and not just one guy who claims to know an insider.
What do we think this implications of this are? Short term it could be seen as pause whilst they choose their directions but long term there are several parts of the third party gamepass strategy that I don't see surviving the new age of Xbox trying to hit profitability.
For one is Japanese games, whilst I do think it was actually very forward thinking for Xbox to try to court the Japanese games industry they way that they have, especially when it comes to increasingly important studios like atlus and rgg, I'm not sure it's showing the financial results that can justify it. The east Asian games industry, be it China, Korea or Japan has become an increasingly important part of the AAA industry in the 2020s, especially as western AAA produces fewer and fewer games. Longterm I think these relationships could be very important to Xbox but short term, it is a lot of marketing expense going to games that aren't necessarily popular with the core Xbox gamer, I could see that being pulled back.
Indie games are also an area I can see them pulling back on, indie games just don't cost a lot of money to buy, from personal experience I have in the past at least a couple times, started an indie game on gamepass, realized it cost about a months worth of gamepass and then unsubscribed from gamepass to buy the game. I just think for the number crunchers it's going to be hard for indie games to convince Xbox that they drive subscribers, even though most of the best games on gamepass are indie.
I bought a PlayStation recently, it being my first PlayStation since the ps3 and looking at the kinds of games I see on the PlayStation plus game collection, it's very much a collection of games I could imagine the normie PlayStation fan playing. And going forward I could see the future of gamepass being not a collection of games that covers all bases like it currently does, but something that is more focused on the imagined core Xbox gamer. I'm not sure how that will work out, I personally wouldn't prefer it to go that way but I could see the logic behind such a strategy at least on paper
I think it all ties back to how Xboxes exclusive strategy has worked for a while and why Xboxes exclusive strategy has kind of consistently drawn bad press.
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The kind of platonic ideal for an exclusive is for fans to feel like they have gained a new exciting game to play, that on top of all the multiplats you were going to get, your console provider has made some exciting additional games happen.
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However when we look at xboxes exclusive strategy it feels like it's focused largely on depriving PlayStation of games. Like with the infamous shadow of the tomb raider exclusivity, Xbox spent presumably a lot of money, to get a game that Xbox players were already going to get day one. And then we look at their acquisitions and it's Bethesda, Activision-blizzard spending all this money and what additional games do Xbox fans get? They don't even get ports of blizzard games.
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And so whilst it's understandable they've gotten to this point, it's kind of sad that an exclusive on Xbox has been reduced to online fans being excited PlayStation fans don't get to play gears of war. And to be clear Its not that I don't think other games companies do these kinds of subtractive exclusives. And in a sense all exclusives are fundamentally about denying the fans of other consoles. But it feels like missing from xboxes exclusive strategy is new games that feel like they expand the library
I feel like all 4 major showcases had good announcements, it's genuinely a tossup over which showcase you liked best because they were all really solid and fun even geoffs summer games fest which is usually a bit rougher and sparser with announcements had enough there to be a solid show.
So many dream games were announced I had so much fun watching all the shows. Although I will say if I had any criticism I do feel like the thing that was consistently lacking was the unknown variable game that you'd never heard of but looked great. It felt like this year was very much dominated by known quantities.
The way the boys were talking about screamer last night made me assume it was like an especially expensive game but it seems to be a $60 which isn't even considered full price in a AAA context anymore.
And yet I do understand the feeling, I buy maybe a couple full priced games a year because there just isn't often the need to, most of the important games to keep up with conversations are indie. But like how are you ever supposed to launch a new AAA Ip when the price of a brand new AAA games is something people reserve for only their favorite series.
Ps pat and woolie have bad racing game opinions. Racing game devs have spent years making racing games feel really good and they do. If they were like 10-20 years younger maybe forza horizon would be their shit. But like idk I do understand missing some of the more arcadey racing games from back in the day, but idk i don't really think they would have kept around two people who don't really give a fuck about cars or driving. And like whilst I understand as a non racing game fan balking at one being a full priced game, but like the racing game genre also just hasn't shown much room for budget titles.