I do not want to hear 'Bloodborne' and 'Blue Point' in the same sentence, ever
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I think its mostly because its the original TCG 15th anniversary sale.
Also they do have the sequel released already too so its basically nothing loss doing a big sale on the first game
You want to turn the man into a terrorist?how about "NieR" and "Blue Point"?
Hardware exclusives made sense when games were cheaper to make, and porting games between platforms was harder due to radically different hardware. Y'know, when consoles actually had hardware that was cutting-edge at the time of their release.
There miiiight be some tools to mass-add them, since they're in a JSON file? Or, something like that. What are you wanting to do this for? I'm guessing it's a Linuxy thing.
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New York sues video game developer Valve, says its 'loot boxes' are gambling
New York's attorney general sued Valve, a video game developer whose franchises include Counter-Strike, Team Fortress and Dota, accusing it of violating state gambling laws and threatening to addict children through its use of "loot boxes."
www.reuters.com
finally some good news
Selling you $1600 skins should be banned as well XD
Interesting side note there...
The US should shut the fuck up with anything regarding gun violence tbh
Lootboxes, TCG packs, blindboxes, etc should all be banned. They're all enabling a form of gambling on children, even if you do get something in return of some amount of value.
I love gambling
it should be less regulated
it should be less regulated
Here's the full lawsuit.
The main crux which separates CS from other games is that their skins can be resold via the Steam market and third party sites and the NYAG alleges that constitutes Valve operating an illicit casino. Ironically if lootbox items were account locked there probably wouldn't be a complaint.
As this is only a state suit, worst that'll happen is lootboxes are banned only in New York. But the walls are closing in on lootboxes and I think Valve knows that as they haven't released a new lootbox in nearly a year and tried new forms of monetization such as terminal cases. (I can guarantee Deadlock won't have a single lootbox). Brazil has a new law starting next month that bans lootboxes for under 18s and Valve has been mum about what they're going to do there. Also the EU has proposed a similar law wrt lootboxes for under 16s (but this hasn't passed yet and may take years to materialize).
The main crux which separates CS from other games is that their skins can be resold via the Steam market and third party sites and the NYAG alleges that constitutes Valve operating an illicit casino. Ironically if lootbox items were account locked there probably wouldn't be a complaint.
As this is only a state suit, worst that'll happen is lootboxes are banned only in New York. But the walls are closing in on lootboxes and I think Valve knows that as they haven't released a new lootbox in nearly a year and tried new forms of monetization such as terminal cases. (I can guarantee Deadlock won't have a single lootbox). Brazil has a new law starting next month that bans lootboxes for under 18s and Valve has been mum about what they're going to do there. Also the EU has proposed a similar law wrt lootboxes for under 16s (but this hasn't passed yet and may take years to materialize).
I played Deadlock and accidentally joined a cult.
Weird how other countries enjoy these violent video games but have a tiny fraction of gun violence. I wonder what their secret is.
The only RE I have played (and completed 100%) is RE5... I should correct that. 
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The presentation is 10/10. That with a CRT Filter with Shaderglass and I'm teleported back in time. I haven't had a chance to play a full level yet, so we'll have to see how good it actually is.
Lootboxes should be banned worldwide for anyone under 18 as far as I am concerned. In fact, so should several other predatory practices that the industry has so far avoided scrutiny for.
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Plus, what are the parents doing? Why are they complaining instead of property parenting kids NOT TO pay these games?
Game looks great I didn't even know this one existed...and it's ending theme was composed by Yuzo Koshiro!
Let's say that Schreier is right and this is all "not true"
The fact still stands that bluepoint did not get funding to continue because they failed to get a pitch greenlighted.
Anyone really believe Sony would have shuttered them if they had pitched a real GaaS game before Concord had been shuttered? If they were working on a GaaS game right now they would probably still be here (if that game showed promise and didn't get axed)
Schreier might be right that this is BS, but Schreier ISN't right about
"The developers are the ones who want to make GaaS"
Ignoring the ridiculous notion that the majority of developers have any say on what a studio will work on next.
Studio heads will pitch what the publisher wants to hear and not what they want to make themselves.
Otherwise, we have a situation like bluepoint where nothing what they pitch will be good enough for the publisher and they will be shut down.
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Anyone want a Resident Evil Village steam key? It's pretty heavily region locked; Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore and South Korea or the only options.
Sadly a lot of parents lack the knowledge of new technologies and/or gaming, or they are swamped by real-life responsibilities and don't have the time to deal with everything going on in their children's lives.
Can we get those parents to not give their children access to their credit cards or is even that too much to ask?
I generally dislike legislation/regulation that comes with a gift wrapping of "think of the children" for a variety of reasons. First, because it is deliberately framed this way so that opposition to it can be painted as disregard for the wellbeing of children and then dismissed. Second, because it is institutionalizing the abdication of parental responsibility. Parents will give a 9 year old access to a credit card and that 9 year will spend money without realizing what is going on and then, would you believe it, it's actually the company's fault this happened. As a society we are expected to sympathize with the parents while ignoring their bad parenting. And finally, because "think of the children" is potentially a cover for much more sinister goals... "Oh we have to ban social media for kids because it's affecting their mental health... so now, if you want to access social media, you'll just have to authenticate yourself with government ID or biometrics which of course will link your online persona with your real life identity but don't you worry about that because your government will never use it against you pinky swear".
Yeah, it’s hard to keep up with the shit we dealt with in late teens and early 20s. What’s happening now? Naaaah. I feel like there has to be an easy way to deal with this, but just leaving it to parents to decide on every little thing is too much.
I’d like to see thematic parent controls that allow parents to broadly block/ban their kids from things, and those decisions evolve as unsavoury companies try and find new ways to prey on children that the law hasn’t caught up with yet.
I don’t think it’s the responsibility of government to decide what and what not to ban, though. Just to provide the facility to parents to help them decide.
However, I do think a blanket ban on gambling and mechanisms that provide psychological assaults similar to gambling (lootboxes) for anyone under 18 is key.
Ban all advertising of gambling, everywhere.
And then gambling should have mandatory price and spending limits for adults. If you gamble, it should be for fun and low-stakes, so if you lose badly you’re not rinsed for the month.
The most anyone should be spending on gambling is the price of a Netflix subscription each month (and that should be seen as a red flag). Some people spend multiple of that in one play of the FOBT.
Somehow missed there is a fantasy-comedy Disco Elysium clone releasing soon?!?!
So, for parenting, this has been a common refrain since the SNES days. Yet people in power never want to blame the parents for their parenting. And, when deep dive vr (or any other suitably futuristic version of tech) comes around and emotions or pain or (god forbid /s) sex is being forced into their heads as part of the games we will have people trying to blame games for all the ills of the world. And people like us will be asking why aren’t parents doing their job.
On a side note, from a graphical point of view at least, bluepoint shouldn’t be let near Bloodbourne. Yet the graphics style they chose looked too pretty, too clean, too nice to be a Fromsoft game. I have no doubt it played well. But it looked more like a pretty Elder Scrolls game.
On a side note, from a graphical point of view at least, bluepoint shouldn’t be let near Bloodbourne. Yet the graphics style they chose looked too pretty, too clean, too nice to be a Fromsoft game. I have no doubt it played well. But it looked more like a pretty Elder Scrolls game.
The only RE I have played (and completed 100%) is RE5... I should correct that.
Play 6, its great.
