Lets_Eat_Grandma
Are you ready for subscription level replacement parts?
It would be a shame if your scrollwheel would die every 3 months and be a $30 replacement before $10 shipping.
Replacement buttons every year or so…
They want your business forever. They can’t do that for free, they need you to keep paying them regularly.
I’ve yet to see a subscription that doesn’t abuse it’s customers. Time and time again predatory practices are employed by massive multibillion dollar companies like adobe, amazon, planetfitness (and all of the f’ing gym memberships…)
This is not to mention all of the predatory landlords who simply live off of the hard work of others akin to slave ownership. Primary housing shouldn’t be an investment. If you want to rent a home the renters should become mandatory purchasers and get proportional equity to how much money you put in it, a system can be divised to sell shares in housing that you can sell out.
Fuck rent. Same goes for the telcos ‘renting’ services to us. We pay for the subsidies to put up the fiber lines anyway, why are we paying again for them? The real costs are a small fraction of what we pay.
Tell me about it.
It signifies that chinese made games about chinese/buddhist mythology will be incredibly popular in China.
People go nuts for soulsclones regardless but given that this is probably the very first chinese mythology soulslike with professional production values no one should be at all surprised that it sells in China and abroad. Also the fact that it’s cheaper than china than any other region on earth is certainly a factor in it’s sales.
As of right now, of it’s overall 354,187 steam reviews, only 14,757 are in english.
Keep in mind that the US and Western Europe combined have about a third of China’s population.
This will trigger massive outrage when people’s dead kids, parents, pets, etc suddenly appear in photos because the algorithm can’t tell if someone is living or dead.
Well let’s see…
They took a 40-60 hour PS1 game and tried to make three $70-$90 titles out of it. They weren’t content to just remake the game in a modern engine, it had to be a trilogy full of a bunch of extra padded stuff. Because just like the Hobbit, they wanted MONEY, not to create something of great value to players.
Not to mention they waited 23 years to remake FF7 despite everybody begging for it at least as far back as the xbox 360 days, if not the ps2 days. I saw the remake as a cry for more traditional JRPGs like they had been known for and wildly successful for in the 90s.
Now they’ve released another main line final fantasy game in a format that is nothing like what originally made them popular. I’ve played it, I don’t particularly enjoy it. I dropped it about half way through the story and have instead put 80 hours into Unicorn Overlord which I picked up for $40 just two months after release. A game that almost certainly has a way lower budget - and i’m not even done with it yet. I keep picking up that ps5 controller every now and then and doing a level or two before life takes over again, and each time I love it and want to keep playing. It feels more like a final fantasy game, albiet final fantasy tactics, than FFXVI feels like a final fantasy game.
I just can’t help but feel like maybe a big budget and big pricetag doesn’t mean quality. That stellar graphics don’t always mean fun. Maybe Square needs it’s own paradigm shift where they figure out how to make really cool games that are cheap with a lot of staying power without giant budgets and huge art production teams. You know, avoid the things that necessitate $210-$270 in release prices to be financially viable.
Or maybe the people who made final fantasy great in the 90s were cut from a different kind of cloth than the people who work at square today. Total shot in the dark, but i’m left questioning why they do what they do like I have now for about 18 years.
Comes down to money, like every reason every company does anything at all.
Companies need a legally binding duty to serve their employees and the greater public interest before the fiduciary duty to shareholders if you want this to change, which will never happen. If this became law the stock market and all of the wealthiest people would lose vast wealth overnight, and we know they get their share first since they run the show.