The catch is a free to play online gaming service isn’t a “game you own” in most cases.

Tetris is great and Nightwatch/Daywatch were fun movies to watch. The subtitles were dome in such a unique way that made the experience more compelling.

“Operation Iraqi Freedom” America’s Army in its initial release would have maps uploaded weeks after fighting.

Is this any different from the US DOD making a FPS featuring actual battles from Iraq?

Does anyone recall where parrying/counters first appear? I ran into them initially with Virtua Fighter.

I really enjoyed it when I played it in 1998?

“waste my money on games I’ll never finish.”

That’s most of their sales though

And I hope you grow up and learn how engage maturely one day.

No I claim that agreeing to those conditions and then complaining when they do not alter those terms in ways you want them to is childish entitlement. Do you see the difference? If you have a problem with the license you do not agree to it and you do not play the game.

The rest of your post is just more of the same whining about why you can’t have things the way you want them when they are not being offered on your terms to begin with.

Finally, you are complaining about video games. You should keep that in mind so you have better perspective on this.

“ Amazing that you think its okay for children to sign contracts where they agree that any money they give to Epic is gone forever, and that any worthless digital assets they are manipulated into purchasing can be voided and deleted at any time without any recompense!”

At no point have I said anything that would lead to this conclusion.

For the record Fortnite is rated “T” for teens because of the microtransactions.

Your “inB4” is moronic. It IS parent’s job to do this. If they don’t have the energy then dont get them a system.

You as an adult are responsible for the agreements you make. It is childish to pretend otherwise.

It is entitlement. When I signed up to play Fortnite BR I agreed to a limited license to play the game as they intended to run it. If Epic kills Fortnite do I have the right to force them to make a version of BR be playable offline? No, because that isn’t what we agreed to.

Nothing about this is predatory. You simply aren’t getting what you want and are throwing a tantrum over it

Yes, you did agree to these terms. It’s usually in the first few paragraphs. Try looking them up sometimes and look for words like “limited” and “conditional”

I wouldn’t call this a shitty business practice. You agreed to a game they own and control. You went into the game knowing this. If they are losing money on the game why should they lose more just to “preserve” the game after shutting down?

I dont think you do know how licenses work when your complaint amounts to ” I want this the way I want it not the way I agreed to it”.

You either accept the game the way it us offered or you dont play the game. You are not entitled to get things the way you want them.

You can choose to accept their terms or not play the game.

You are not entitled to have everything on your terms.

For sone of these games piracy would solve nothing. How wouldI run an 8vs8 PvP mission in DCUO that players are required to do if there aren’t 16 players on the server? If Im hosting it offline that content is still dead.

The thing is when you created your account you agreed to the fact that it isn’t your game. What you agreed to was a game that they own and control and you can participate in. You might not like the results when they close the game but you chose to start playing that game to begin with.

You paid this money knowing you do not have the ability to run the game. Why does the developer have the obligation to change the user agreement you signed off on when you created your account? You chose to play a game that you cannot run yourself.

I loved this thank you so mich for doing it!

Im perennially playing Wazhack, a nethack clone created by one of the devs of Nethack. It has awful graphics and surprisingly deep game play.

As someone who was 20 when Pocket Monsters came out in Japan and only played Red/Blue, which generation is 6?

It was ok but the ocean/sea/bass fishing games were amazing. I really just want a compatible rod controller. I dont even like fishing IRL.

Then I’ll have to look into that thanks!

The original sold by Steam doesn’t work on the deck so Im not sure GoG’s version will

Ok nothing will beat the gold standard that was Sega Dreamcast Fishing games with the rod controller that had a rumble pack for vibration. I had a buddy make a wooden box we could attach a bungie cord to give it more feel when you “pulled” the fish out of water (the box had cutouts to hold beer cans too). Simply the best way to virtually fish

oof, thanks

Has anyone played this on the Steam deck yet?

No, the .hack series did. I believe the first game came out 23 years ago

The games like ZZZ or Genshin are fun as long as you don’t take them seriously or engage with the gacha elements too much. ZZZ has a really nice vibe to it despite being a gacha game.

Dredge was one of the most compelling games I have ever played and I have been gaming since 1980.

Your perspective seems to be you should get whatever you want regardless of the actual product you were sold and the terms of that sale. That’s not rational. You bought an online only game. If you wanted a single player offline mode to exist then you should have bought a game that had one.

It was deliberate choice by them to make even the single player campaign online homie.

As one would expect from an online racing game. Anyone buying it would know in advance that single player offline modes do not exist when they bought the game.

It ain’t an mmo, and it never should have been built like this.

It kind of was and it was intended to work as it did by the company that made it.

If your actual argument is “i think companies should get to do what they want”

My argument us that this is a game designed to be played online only. When you bought the game the packaging/materials do not talk about offline play so you shouldn’t expect it to work in a way it expressly isn’t designed to do. Adults should be aware of what things do when they buy them.

The thing is with MMOs or online only games do you have a valid expectation of the game surviving forever?

You earn vbucks from the battle royale pass and it gives 500 more vbucks back than it costs.

The other passes have a free tier but if you don’t race cars, play the rhythm games, or do the Lego survival mode then you don’t need the others.

This season/chapter the battle pass gives 1500 vbucks so you can get the next pass plus an emote every season

Which itself is a derivative of Opperhoofd

Oh go fuck yourselves Drug Dealer was never protected by copyright. Anyone claiming those rights has had them violated tens if millions of time by kids with Texas Instruments calculators since the 1990s.

They released that months ago I thought.

If that was true then why did you completely misstate what the movie was about? Cruise does not become a samurai at any point.

The only thing I can think of is The Last Samurai is a 20 year old movie and that somehow means not bringing up this historic fictional movie = you’re okay about a white dude becoming a samurai but not okay about a black dude becoming a samurai.

You should watch the movie. Cruise’s character does not become a samurai. He spends time with the last samurai.

Off the Grid wasn’t great when I tried it