Yup, getting this.

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I love this news.

For guessing why, my thoughts go toward a market larger than handheld gaming: cloud computing, which includes game streaming broadly speaking.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: d10sfanI personally won't since it'll have 100+ DLCs

So, just like The Sims then :P

Yeah lol it would be great if a high quality Sims competitor offered more for less. That would be some value. Otherwise, why should I play it over The Sims 4 or The Sims 3 for which I recently bought all the DLCs during a -50% sale?

I am going to hope and expect that Paradox's content strategy will be more appealing, with their free updates alongside paid DLC (SnowRunner does the same). Also, we might get real Linux support. Also, don't have to use EA Origin launcher. Also, don't have to use EA's DRM.

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SteamDB says the 24-hour player peak was ~45K, which is a far cry from the 2M a few months ago. 45K is still a very good amount of people, but methinks this game loses luster pretty quickly. A couple of my friends who got sucked into the hype played it for about two weeks I think.

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There is a problem with the CEO making more money after cutting all those people. But guess what, it's exactly how CEO pay incentivizes them to make decisions. Say your base salary is $1M with the potential to make $2M when the company meets certain annual profit goals. Guess what you're going to do when the profit numbers don't look good.

Yes, there is a problem with the model. And yes, there are other business models that share more of the wealth, so solutions already exist to CEO caps. But why don't those other companies hold much market share? I'm guessing one of the reasons is start-up money. Investors aren't going to give money to an entertainment company for charity -- they want something back for letting a company "borrow" their money and taking the risk that the company may never be capable of paying it back. And then you get CEO's driven with a profit purpose.

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Quoting: _wojtekWhat I don't understand is why even require psn account in the first place? what's the "benefit"?

To inform at the next shareholders' meeting, "look how our numbers have grown!"

A more practical guess is cross-platform play.

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Yes, well-done article with very important details.

I will say that I personally knew it required a PSN account and performed the linking right at the beginning, and also informed friends they'd have to do the same.

Keeping people happy is all about setting expectations, so I'll repeat the first sentiment from Ehvis: whose fault was it to allow purchase in countries where a PSN account is not legitimately possible? That's the "bad guy" or at best, the person who made the major judgment call failure.

Imagine if you were blocked from the game all of a sudden and given a refund, for a game that you've possibly put in 20-60 hours and are still playing. The refund would not be good enough. You would be outraged.

I don't participate in review bombing games, but if Sony does not look at Discord, do they look at the Steam forum? So, I can sympathize that it may be the only effective way to get attention unfortunately, even though the gameplay does not deserve bad reviews.

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Quoting: Mountain ManSo it's basically XCOM with superheroes.

I believe there is no base management, which is a big factor for me as I hate that part of XCOM.

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I'll try it.

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These kind of games are definitely not the kind I gravitate towards, however every now and then, one shows up with a pacing and mood and style that gets my attention. Life is Strange was another. Nice that it has a demo, so I'll try it.

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