I've got a bad feeling about this.

Just more AAA bullshit…

And I’m sure a ton of gamers who will reward this behavior too.

  • snooggums@midwest.socialEnglish
    54·
    7 months ago

    The gold edition of Star Wars Outlaws gets you three days of early access, ship and speeder cosmetics, and access to the “Season Pass.” That’s “two DLCs that will release after launch”, plus a single mission that’s exclusive to it for some baffling reason.

    The reason isn’t baffling. The reason is they are using FOMO to encourage people to spend extra money on preorders so they don’t feel like they missed out on something they couldn’t get otherwise.

    Abusing people’s fear of missing out is not baffling, but it is malicious.

  • nezbyte@lemmy.world
    18·
    7 months ago

    Speaking of AAA Star Wars games, did Jedi Survivor ever get fixed on PC? Last time I played, it turned into a stuttering mess 2 hours in.

    • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
      22·
      7 months ago

      Nope. I was able to get most of the way through it, but when other games came out I decided to wait for patches that fix survivors while I played the others. The patches never came, and now I’ve moved on. Horizon Forbidden West is fantastic, though.

    • bitwaba@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 months ago

      I played through it mostly fine about 2 months ago. My PC is pretty beefy, and I had random lock ups (from what I know of Helldivers on AMD cards now, I’m going to guess it was the Global Illumination setting being enabled), but I was able to put in good 3 and 4 hr sessions.

      • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        Amd processor and Nvidia video card, I don’t have problems with either game (played through both Jedi Survivor games recently).

      • Crowfiend@lemmy.world
        1·
        7 months ago

        Likely less of a hardware thing and more of a, “made with a ten year old engine that was discontinued seven years ago.”

        Originally I was gonna say Unreal Engine 5 only has a smallish performance hit when Lumen Global Illumination is enabled, but when I looked up the helldivers engine, they outright cite its discontinuing for, “not being able to compete against UE and Unity.”

        Edit: the engine is Autodesk Stingray, since I failed to name it.

        Edit 2: apparently Helldivers 2 was in production since before Stingray was discontinued, but still, why’d they try to put GI in such an old engine? Did nobody consider the stress a new lighting model would apply to an engine that barely existed before the idea of GI?

  • misterwu@lemmy.world
    14·
    7 months ago

    I wish more gamers would realise how much power a boycott can have. We’re like junkies just waiting to buy the next shot no matter how shitty it will be. My dipping point was Diablo 4. Never again! Vote with your wallet friends! Also 🏴‍☠️

    • PrettyLights@lemmy.world
      41·
      7 months ago

      My dipping point was Diablo 4.

      Were you a blizzard or diablo fan before then? Curious why d4 was the tipping point when D3 was potentially worse at launch, with the added insult of drops being weighted to encourage/require the use of the Real Money Auction House to make any real endgame progression. You would get more drops for other characters and have to trade for stuff you could actually use, with blizzard taking a commission on each transaction.

      Then there were things like Warcraft 3 Reforged, hearthstone monetization, Overwatch 2, etc.

      • misterwu@lemmy.world
        21·
        7 months ago

        Diablo 4 was the first Diablo I actually paid for lol. But it wasn’t only D4 that was the tipping point for me. Cities Skylines 2 was also a big, big disappointment. And I pre ordered the key, so no refund for me :/

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    10·
    7 months ago

    Star Wars Outlaws’ $110 and $130 editions

    Tbh I hadn’t read about these at all yet, and I think I know all I need to know.

  • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    K-shaped recovery.

    If everyone is a little poorer, prices stay still. If everyone is a little richer, prices go up.

    If some people get much poorer and some people get much richer… Prices go way up, cuz now there’s only one market segment that matters and it’s gotta pull double duty.

    • dustyData@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      Sit back and watch this crap make record profits. It’s not Star Wars fans. It’s The Gamers™ who will pay anything for anything as long as it’s a videogame, like crackheads. The people who think this is outrageous weren’t going to buy it anyway, and those who are going to buy it will do so no matter the backlash. The overlap of people who wanted this game bad enough to care but also have the principles and values to consider the financial strategies abusive and complain about it is a very slim band of people. They will make headlines, sure, but they won’t move the balance enough to even tickle Ubisoft’s wallet.

      This has happened before, this will happen again.