Probably depends on location. Games are stupid expensive compared to typical income here. I make pretty good money but I wouldn’t be able to justify games at current prices if it wasn’t for second hand market and Game Pass.
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They did a healthy mix in 1+2. This is just too little, seems like they opted to cheap out on it.
I know plenty of console gamers who buy physical copies of newest releases, complete them and sell them on local Craigslist equivalent. They hold a handful of games at most. Not really possible on PC anymore.
Could be, I’m in Eastern Europe so there weren’t that many servers and I hung out in maybe a dozen or so. You’d also expect this area to be the hive of scum and villainy but it was mostly nice people playing in general.
I have something like 500h in TF2 from back before Valve killed it with lootboxes and I haven’t really experienced porn sprays. I think people didn’t want to risk VAC ban from a paid game.
I guess the point was that if you have a very low performance ceiling it acts as an equalizer of sorts. An indie developer doesn’t need to be as much concerned with competing with big AAA publisher if the end product will not differ that much in graphics and graphics, for better or worse, sell games.
Summer + autism + SNRI for fibro. I’m at risk of drowning in sweat, please send help.
Going by how Germany has been doing in Eurovision historically it’s not really that big of a loss.
Not everything empire does is evil of course but the main takeaway to what Trump is doing is liberals crying about losing that empire and I have the smallest violin to play because US was not behaving responsibly in that role. In my country that US influence can be seen via US media selecting their chosen neoliberal party and going hard with supporting them, with ruinous results as expected. Too bad it’s done mostly via WB Discovery (USAID too but to a lesser extent) so that’s going to continue for the foreseeable future.
Digital hoarding is a mental disorder same as any other form of hoarding.