nobody ever talks about the de-stressing properties of taking a good dumb
It's also not at all looking at the reasons either, the economic factors and trends that can be leading to lower sales in some regions. Its an asinine and capitalist brained train of thought.
Cool, and your friends are a tiny ass minority that do not represent everyone and every group. Nothing you posted actually shows that DRM prevents piracy, just that Italians buy niche games less frequently. It's all based on the assumption that a pirated copy is a lost sale, an incorrect assumption.
Wrong, they can and do. But good try man!
You fall into the same trap as all publishers and assume a pirated game is a lost sale. It's a basic, black and white view of the world that ingores a variety of factors of why people pirate games.
AI Psychosis is literally the plot of .hack unfolding in front of our eyes.
Except the only people who buy a game get affected, Denuvo gets bypassed all the time, and frequently shortly after launch. Who's going to care more? A person who wasn't going to buy the game? Or the person who bought it and can't play it because their token expired and they don't have internet?
The overall impact of piracy, if any, is miniscule.
Publishers assume that thousands of downloads of a game is thousands of lost sales but that's simply not how that works. There's no way of really knowing how many of those would have actually bought the game. You can't know how many are downloading to try it before buying.
DRM impacts preservation, interrupts ownership, can affect performance. It is a fundementally anti-consumer practice to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist.
Expedition 33 did insanely well and has no DRM. Cairn did great with no DRM. Falcom games have no DRM and do well enough to consistently release at least 1 good game every year. Games with DRM are a minority, not the majority.
this is the first time I saw someone describe Terraria's soundtrack in such a perfect and succinct way.
BG3 has no DRM and was a massive success. Slay the Spire 2 has no DRM and is one of the top played games on Steam. Skyrim has no DRM and sells plenty to this day. DRM is a scam.
DRM free is the solution. Preventing piracy is dumb and doesn't work. Denuvo workarounds exist and all it does is punish people who buy the game. Loads of games have no DRM and have no issues with sales.
one of the biggest thing I miss about Paladins is how good it was about team comp. You could run a lot of combinations of roles and do fine. Even run specific characters as different roles than their defaults. Healer Skye, Damage Pip etc. It's something Marvel Rivals and Overwatch simply do not do.
Honestly if 8.0 doesn't bring in major improvements to how FFXIV does content it might be my final expansion. I just can't handle that formula anymore. Every expansion has been the same since Stormblood, and combat has been getting progressively worse since Shadowbringers.
Why are they funding a demo? Aren't you usually meant to have one ready to actually get funding???
It isn't, every other problem with Denuvo is still relevant and its inclusion is still anti-consumer and bad.
If beastmaster sucks as much as Blue Mage I'll be on suicide watch. I need something fun to do in this fucking game
Denuvo will have a performance impact purely because of how it works. However on modern systems the performance impact is minuscule and doesn't really matter. It's probably the least important of the issues with Denuvo.
the power not to just get borgir all over your self while holding it that way exudes powerful aura
And its a fucking travesty because Watch Dogs 2 is one of my favorite games of all time.
The whole thing also just lacks polish. Permadeath doesn't work when you lose a character because the takedown prompt is very inconsistent. There's a distinct lack of tools given to you. Combat feels awful. Guns feel useless. This game is an excercise in misery.
I'm meant to be this cool fucking hacker guy but the best I can do is maybe blow something up? On the off chance there even is something to blow up? It's painful.
And then you try and actually play the game, do stealth, enjoy the hacking. And its all been so heavily gimped and made utterly joyless. Where as in previous games you had a shit load of stuff to hack and use in missions, here you barely get anything.
They also do an incredible job at realising London as an open world. It does feel fantastic.
I like what its going for, having different characters that have unique things they bring to your game, with permadeath is actually hella cool and works really well for the game. They do a surprisingly good job with trying to integrate them into dialogue its cool.
Decided to try Watch Dogs Legion cos it's on a pretty big sale and holy shit. I loved both Watch Dogs 1 and 2 and this game is miserable in comparison.
i... would i be a bad person if I said I would?
The one thing Valve gets about lootboxes is that the reason why they're accepted in like, card games and blind bags is that you can swap out items you don't like with other people.
