GoodEye8

I'm going to say the same thing I said last year when all the Norris fans (or Max haters) were salty that Norris got a 5 second penalty for overtaking Max off track when Max was the one who pushed him off. Back then I said Norris should've given the position back and made a case that Max didn't leave him space which is why he had to go off track. And I think the same applies here, Max should've given the position back and made a case that Piastri didn't leave him room to do anything else. Because let's face it, Piastri didn't leave him space. Piastri barely stayed within the lines and had he also gone off Max wouldn't have received a penalty. But Max did end up overtaking Piastri off track and he stubbornly refused to give the position back so he deserved the penalty.

On a sidenote, I do find it funny how Piastri pulls a Verstappen-esque move on Verstappen and everyone still puts all the blame on Verstappen. I guess it's okay to make moves like that if you're not named Max Verstappen.

This is all I'll address because it sums up everything I think about what you've said so far.

My opinion is that the store page should say “This title is not eligible for a refund due to a reasonable person knowing better than to buy this new”

If that’s a controversial opinion, please feel free to join the dumpster fire below and defend the billion dollar company.

You think it's okay to take away consumer rights to, I suppose, stick it to a billion dollar company. And anyone disagreeing with you (as in anyone thinking consumer rights shouldn't be taken away) are defending a billion dollar company. There's only one (technically two) thing to say about your statement and that's: "It's stupid and it's wrong". There's no reason to give and no arguments to make because it's just that fucking stupid. It's just wrong.

And that's my opinion on pretty much everything you've said.

And just a final addendum. I haven't downvoted you once (nor have I upvoted anyone else) because I don't really give a fuck about upvotes and downvotes. But I'm not at all surprised you feel the need to bring up something that fucking petty.

Just out of curiosity, do you also shit on New Vegas? Because it's technically a Bethesda game that was made after Oblivion, which according to you makes it dog shit.

While you're entitled to your opinion, don't forget that it just your opinion and it's subject to your own biases. And that's your comment, an opinionated take based on the belief that anything Bethesda touches is shit. I know better to try to change your mind. You being blinded by your vitriol towards Bethesda is not my concern.

My message is very simple and I'll preface it with the obvious. Don't buy anything until you've read the reviews. The actual people working on the remaster/remake are not Bethesda. That means that just because Bethesda is shit doesn't mean the game will be shit. It might be good. But we don't know what it will be until it releases and reviews are out, so don't instantly dismiss it simply because there's a Bethesda logo somewhere.

I think it's also worth remembering that this remaster isn't being made by Bethesda. Virtuos are the ones remastering/remaking the game and their portfolio is pretty much exclusively ports, remasters and remakes. I don't know the details of how much they're using Unreal Engine (the leaks state that the game will be running on UE), but I think that pretty much rules out Bethesda's involvement beyond IP consultancy because they don't have UE experience.

I'm all for being critical of the shit Bethesda puts out, but I'm not going to dismiss someone' work simply because the name Bethesda is attached to it.

And if we were all smart people we would have far less laws. Sometimes laws protect us from ourselves. Anyone who has experience with addiction knows how hard it is to just stop. Instead of blaming people for their inability to stop we should emphatize and understand that this needs an intervention. If these predatory practices were illegal those people wouldn't need to stop themselves because they wouldn't be put in that situation in the first place.

You forgot the most important point. Saying "thank you".

From what I've read it's not actually made by Bethesda, it isn't using the creation engine and there are gameplay changes.

That information turned me from not caring to checking out what people will say when it releases.

It looks the same because you are more or less doing the same thing (looting and shooting) but the core motivation to do those things are very different. Battle royales are all about combat, everyone goes in with the sole purpose of winning (with some exceptions) and you win by beating the other teams. Extraction shooters "in theory" are about survival. You take your crap with you into a raid so you could find better crap to increase your chances of surviving a raid. But if you die you lose the crap you took in. Because the goal is survival extraction shooters don't have a sole focus on combat, but rather combat is a means to an end.

Off topic but I genuinely can't understand why people like to throw battle royales and extraction shooters into the same pot. The fact that battle royales have been immensely successful (PUBG, Fortnite, Apex) while the only extraction shooter with relative success is Escape From Tarkov (I won't get into the details but pretty much everyone hates to play) should be indication that any similarities between the two genres are entirely superficial.

They cater to very different audiences.

It's not a battle-royale. It's an extraction shooter which IMO makes the outlook even worse because extraction shooters are probably the most hardcore subgenre of shooters you could have. The game is either going to pivot hard within months after launch or it's going to flop.