imecth

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[–] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 4 weeks ago

Hey, you brought it up.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 7 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

So, why are you friendly to Epic?

[–] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

He's telling consumers that they should expect to pay a premium price

What exactly do you expect him to say? Get the same GPU, but with more vram, at no extra cost?

If you want more performance, you pay more, that's the way it's always worked, and he's correct in that 8gb is good enough for most people.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You can confidently say that this is fine for most consumers today. There really isn't a great argument that this will serve most consumers well for the next 3 to 5 years.

People have been saying that for years, my 8gb card is chugging along just fine. The race to vram that people were expecting just hasn't happened. There's little reason to move on from 1080p and the 75+ million ps5s aren't going anywhere anytime soon.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 17 points 1 month ago

Kids have plenty of ways to get access to lootboxes that aren't gated by a credit card, not to mention these games tend to blur the line for paid lootboxes by giving "free" in game premium currencies. Most of these games are fully aware it's a kid playing, they just turn a blind eye because it profits them.

This whole personal responsibility is the same shit that the plastic industry has managed to pull, they are the ones doing it and they are the ones profiting from it, the responsibility is on them to make sure kids aren't playing their games.

[–] imecth@fedia.io -3 points 1 month ago

There's plenty of different endings, but yeah that's probably the one they'll make canon.

The thing is Geralt is The Witcher, making Ciri the protagonist is a bastardization of the saga. Imagine that J.K rowling came up with a new book, titled it Harry Potter 8, and made the protagonist Hermione. To me this shows a real lack of understanding of their audience, people play The Witcher for the fantasy of being Geralt, of being a monster killer, of hooking up with every sorceress. But obviously IP sells, and they aren't gonna change the title of the saga to something like "child of the elder blood".

I wish them the best of luck, maybe they'll pull off a fallout 3 and reinvent themselves. But I personally will be passing on this spinoff.

[–] imecth@fedia.io -5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If anything, Ciri's the character whose story is wrapped up by the end of Witcher 3, she saved the world and fulfilled her destiny. Unlike Geralt or the sorceresses, she does get old too.

It's definitely understandable that a lot of players would feel betrayed at having Ciri becoming the MC after 3 games of Geralt. People would riot if you made someone else than Lara Croft the MC of tomb raider. A better solution would probably be a character creator for a new generation of witchers. Ciri is too powerful to be the MC.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 12 points 1 month ago

It's not only the people, it's the people at specific timepoints, nobody wants a remake of skyrim and another iteration of assassin's creed is only gonna get a lukewarm reception. Games are lightning in a bottle, their successes are basically impossible to replicate because there's so many variables at play.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

There's place for both, a lot of authors simply can't afford to have their entire book narrated by a voice actor.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It was obviously a cash grab from the company before fucking off, you can't reasonably expect a lifetime vpn for 30 bucks. Either it eventually gets repriced, or they start mining all your information like every other "free" vpns.

[–] imecth@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] imecth@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's not quite the same though, the first was a TOS update deep inside a document most people will never read, this is an in your face warning to every nintendo player.

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