Community MetaSteam | January 2021 - It's Rare to See a Medium So Well-Done

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fantomena

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Yeah I'm really hovering over the purchase button on this one. I feel overwhelmed by these games lately, like there's not enough time in life to play them. It's a good problem to have.

There's so much right now with cool city builders and zippy drone logistics spaghetti mess games.
Yeah, too many good looking games are releasing these days. It's part of why waiting for PS5 to be restocked isn't as hard as I thought it would be. Currently my gaming time is right now 85% PC, 10% Switch, 4% XboneX and 1% PS4, or something like that.

My PS4 isn't really in use. I have Dreams, Crash 4 and FFVIIR installed, but Dreams isn't something that interest me much and Im waiting on a PC version of Crash 4 and FFVIIR.

XboneX is used for Xbox game pass games, but I don't play much there in general, have some EA games installed though like FIFA 20 and UFC from game pass.

Switch is basically the only console I use these days, but I don't play that much on it either, mostly just Grindstone, AC New Horizons, Splatoon 2, Mario Maker 2 and MK8D. I have yet to touch my copy of Pokemon Sword and Paper Mario. So basically an Nintendo exclusive device.
 
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Here are a few percentages about the GOTY form. In blue: the form entry has been [UWSL][UWSL][UWSL][UWSL][UWSL][UWSL][UWSL]filled[/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL]. In pink: the entry has been left [UWSL][UWSL][UWSL][UWSL][UWSL][UWSL][UWSL]empty[/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL].

 
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Jav

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Here are a few percentages about the GOTY form.

In blue: the entry for this optional category has been [UWSL][UWSL][UWSL]filled[/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL]. In pink: the entry has been left [UWSL][UWSL][UWSL]empty[/UWSL][/UWSL][/UWSL].


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Hey, if you need some filling I have a long list for turd of the year :face-with-tears-of-joy::face-with-tears-of-joy:
 

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So online gaming on Xbox now costs €120 a year, including F2P games like Fortnite:


Lol at everyone who thought MS would make Gold free for the new generation. It's free money for them. No doubt Game Pass will become more expensive in the future as well.
look what's finally coming to PC ;)
Hey look, it's those guys who assured us that they would never go EGS exclusive! 😉
 

fantomena

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The Xbox gold increase 40$ to 60$ for 6 months is crap and makes me happy Im on PC. Unless something changes my current plan is also to let my game pass ultimate end in summer 2022 (it lasts till then). Still using it as a glorified demo service.

I can easily see Sony increasing the price for PS Plus too. I ended my Plus in january 202o and have no intention to resub.

Gaming gonna be more expensive in general, but it will be most expensive on consoles.
 
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ExistentialThought

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Has anyone tried Ender Lilies yet? It looks interesting, though it is early access. I should probably hold off.

So many releases this month into next month. Persona 5 Strikers, Yakuza collection, Everspace 2, Dyson Sphere, Ryza, Utawaremono, Nioh 2 and I could go on... holy toledo. :dizzy-face:
 

AHA-Lambda

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Better stack up, I expect both game pass subs to increase multiple times the next few years.

It happens with every subs service.
Yep, every sub does it, but I doubt it'll be drastic stuff.
My Netflix, Amazon, Spotify haven't increased significantly over the years, and I expect the same from GPU
 

fantomena

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In general, console gaming is getting more and more expensive every year. 70$/80€/95$ (Scandinvaia) for Sony first party games, Xbox Gold increase, definetly PS Plus and game pass increase in the future etc.

PS gaming is costly (especially if you wanna go high-end) upfront, but much cheaper in the long-end. Even more if you decide to have 2 or more consoles.

Yep, every sub does it, but I doubt it'll be drastic stuff.
My Netflix, Amazon, Spotify haven't increased much over the years, and I don't expect the same from GPU
I hope you're right.
 
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finished Donut County last night on Game Pass. man, what a delightful game

also, I only just became aware that there's a gaming version of Letterboxd. this will be handy, as someone who has trouble remembering exactly what games I've played over the past month or so

 

ExistentialThought

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Also, there is currently a rumor that Tencent might be gearing up for a hostile takeover of Take Two and its subsidiaries.
I can only imagine how expensive that would cost. It could easily be north of 25B or more right? Sheesh, the market consolidation would be unreal given some of the recent acquisitions.
 
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Mor

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So does this mean that it won't be like the Stadia version which includes both the base game and the expansion?

Also, there is currently a rumor that Tencent might be gearing up for a hostile takeover of Take Two and its subsidiaries.
In the same way MS is buying SEGA :coffee-blob:
 

yuraya

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Console gaming is getting so expensive I think its getting impractical for console gamers to own both Xbox/PS. Too many services, subs, games and commitments. Doesn't make sense to own both as you are flushing money down the toilet basically.

I think best combinations are

Switch/PC
PS5/PC
PS5/Switch
Xbox/Switch

Or just a nice PC heheh.

Nintendo really has an opportunity to gain a lot of ground on both PS5/XsX if the new Switch has better battery life and a decent power leap to really take advantage of 3rd party.
 

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well, they had a good run
 

AHA-Lambda

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until they aren't
has this happened at all yet though?

There's been so much boogey man scaremongering about tencent for years now and nothing has happened.
With Tencent it's just been the same as any other M&A far as I can see. I'd be more worried if it was EA or something as they actually have a track record.
 
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