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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The Best Games Ever: effortpost your favourites |
| GazChap |
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Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2021 19:20
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| ... name of Alive Mediasoft claimed that they were working on a port with the permission of the original team, but it never came to fruition (and the publisher was often said to be a serial bullshitter by some of the die-hard Amiga fans that were left by this point, so I didn't have high hopes for ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Finish 52 books 2021 |
| JBR |
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Posted: Mon May 31, 2021 15:19
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Replies: 233
Views: 13327
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| ... - The Guilty Feminist. 25) Conn Iggulden - The Gates of Athens. Anthony Horowitz - Moonflower Murders. A whodunnit, investigated by a publisher, with the conceit being that clues to the murder are in the pages of a book, which she published. That book appears in this book, halfway ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Steamy Piles |
| Dimrill |
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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2020 14:44
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Replies: 217
Views: 12464
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| ... a different perspective with attention performance. This project is an individual effort that is undergoing development with no obligations to a publisher or any external entity, with the user and community being our only priority. Why pick STRTK1NG as a game? As an open world car simulator, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Doppelganger adventures |
| TheVision |
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Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:15
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Replies: 448
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| ... when you submit your proposal for a book titled "The Banyamulenge Soldier: Genocide and Identity in the Congo" maybe provide the publisher with the correct email address so when they come back saying that they are interested then you will get the message. That's amazing! Best ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Doppelganger adventures |
| Bluecup |
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Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2019 10:08
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| Hey not-Bluecup, when you submit your proposal for a book titled "The Banyamulenge Soldier: Genocide and Identity in the Congo" maybe provide the publisher with the correct email address so when they come back saying that they are interested then you will get the message. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Awful videogame companies |
| TheVision |
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 16:15
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Replies: 169
Views: 13314
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| ... independent team so that they can afford to pay their staff and continue to make great content feels quite a bit different than a rich, global publisher seemingly intent on squeezing out every last dime they can from their customers purely to line their shareholders’ pockets, and have little ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Awful videogame companies |
| myp |
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2019 16:08
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Replies: 169
Views: 13314
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| ... stuff he's already paid for. If people weren’t willing to pay £100 to make sure they had the full content, this wouldn’t happen. Because they do, publishers feel like they can strip out content and charge £50 for a barebones experience. I blame publishers and these idiots equally. Does that also ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: WongaWatch - The Grand Game Expenditure Thread 2019 |
| myp |
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2019 10:06
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Replies: 707
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| Especially if you’re morally opposed to the publisher and platform-holder’s practices. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Borderlands 3 |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2019 0:18
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Replies: 116
Views: 11913
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| ... mind but most reviewers now are just corporate shills. The 'corporation' in this scenario would be Gearbox, the massive multinational game publisher. If the guy you're shitting on was a corporate shill then he'd be spending the entire review telling everyone how hilarious and awesome the ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Google Stadia |
| LewieP |
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Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 0:56
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Replies: 470
Views: 33402
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| "We'll refund you." That’s a daft suggestion. Google wouldn’t shoulder the entire burden of those losses and no right minded publisher would sign up to the possibility of refunding all/any revenue to the consumer at some indefinite point in the future creating huge cash flow problems ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Google Stadia |
| Satsuma |
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Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 8:55
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Replies: 470
Views: 33402
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| "We'll refund you." That’s a daft suggestion. Google wouldn’t shoulder the entire burden of those losses and no right minded publisher would sign up to the possibility of refunding all/any revenue to the consumer at some indefinite point in the future creating huge cash flow problems ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: PC gaming hardware thread. |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Tue May 28, 2019 10:19
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Replies: 5932
Views: 506329
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| ... with fucking all of them. Forgotton Anne : instantly crashed on launch with some bullshit Unity error. Ended up raising a support ticket with the publisher and moved on to... 11-11 Memories Retold : instantly crashed on launch with some bullshit Unity error. Fucking hell. This prompted me to do ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Call of Duty 17 : Black Ops Cold War |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 10:02
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Replies: 16
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| ... Treyarch Takes Over, Plans Black Ops 5 By Jason Schreier on 19 May 2019 at 9:18AM Next year’s Call of Duty has gone through a major upheaval, as publisher Activision informed developers this week that studios Raven and Sledgehammer, which had until now led the project, will no longer be in charge. ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Steamy Piles |
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Posted: Wed Apr 24, 2019 19:31
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Replies: 217
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| I bet more than one publisher tried to claim copyright on it. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Dangerous Driving |
| LewieP |
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Posted: Wed Apr 10, 2019 22:01
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Replies: 86
Views: 3321
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| ... is one that springs to mind and, whilst I don't know for sure, I can't imagine there's a big team behind that. Yeah it's a small team and a small publisher. For Hotline Miami (made on a shoestring budget) they just spent a load of time finding undiscovered artists who would do it for cheap. There's ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Metro : Exodus |
| LewieP |
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 14:07
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Replies: 49
Views: 4666
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| ... large indeed. Setting up a rival platform and obtaining exclusivity deals might not suit consumers but it’s hardly anti-competitive. Paying the publisher to remove the game from competing stores like Humble and GMG is clearly anti-competitive. I don't know how else that action can be interpreted. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Metro : Exodus |
| LewieP |
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 13:40
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Replies: 49
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| Games aren't being removed from Steam because of the different revenue split, they are being removed from Steam because Epic are paying the publisher to remove their games from Steam. Yes it's capitalism, it is anti-competitive capitalism. If you care about publishers getting the most money, ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Metro : Exodus |
| JohnCoffey |
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 10:41
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Replies: 49
Views: 4666
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| ... for free. Well they seemed to do OK when PC games cost £25 on disc whilst console games cost £50. And like you say, they had the cost of the disc, publisher and etc. Now all of a sudden they want £60 for game and air. A game that usually doesn't even work properly or will take hours of fiddling ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Metro : Exodus |
| LewieP |
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 4:19
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Replies: 49
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| ... industry standard. Xbox/PlayStation/Nintendo/Google/Apple all charge 30%. If 30% on Steam was not "fair", Epic would not need to bribe publishers to put their games exclusively on Epic store. This deal between Epic and Deep Silver is not going to help the developer at all (and fewer ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: DOOM |
| Pundabaya |
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 19:01
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Replies: 673
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| ... That may be why they've stuck with the same engine for FO76 as at least they know how to use it. Bethesda (well Zenimax Media) is just the publisher, id developed Doom, and Machine Games developed nu-Wolfenstein, both Wolf2 and Doom used idTech 6. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: DOOM |
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Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2018 10:15
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Replies: 673
Views: 94753
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| ... so starkly with that clip Satsuma posted of the fucking laughably awful combat in RDR2, that apparently is acceptable in a Triple AAA major publisher's release in 2018.) I spent about an hour last night on one single encounter in the Argent Facility, I got to a point where I could complete ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Fallout 76 |
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Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:20
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Replies: 207
Views: 21956
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| ... shonky and buggy productions because the scale and scope they work to is far beyond what anyone else is attempting. Whereas now they're a huge publisher still trying to wing it with that excuse, and other developers are doing far more compelling open worlds, in a far more competent manner. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Red Dead Redemption 2 |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 15:09
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Replies: 594
Views: 42018
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| ... against pre-ordering is the chopping up of all the fucking content just so different places can have different bonuses. Not least when the publisher will usually 'generously' offer to sell you the other bonuses as DLC later. It's anti-consumer bullshit and you're all turkeys voting for ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Red Dead Redemption 2 |
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 15:02
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Replies: 594
Views: 42018
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| ... against pre-ordering is the chopping up of all the fucking content just so different places can have different bonuses. Not least when the publisher will usually 'generously' offer to sell you the other bonuses as DLC later. It's anti-consumer bullshit and you're all turkeys voting for ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Red Dead Redemption 2 |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2018 13:56
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Replies: 594
Views: 42018
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| ... against pre-ordering is the chopping up of all the fucking content just so different places can have different bonuses. Not least when the publisher will usually 'generously' offer to sell you the other bonuses as DLC later. It's anti-consumer bullshit and you're all turkeys voting for ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Call of Duty 15 : Black Ops 4 (IIII) |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2018 14:49
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Replies: 88
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| ... a basketball tease, and lots of snickering about Roman numerals, today it’s finally official: Call of Duty Black Ops 4 (IIII) is coming this fall. Publisher Activision did not reveal much more information than that, adding that it and developer Treyarch will share more details on May 17, with the ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Hearthstone thread |
| RuySan |
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Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2018 17:46
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Replies: 3553
Views: 265149
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| ... stuff. Still missing a global emote block though sadly. I already gotten more people into it. I may be annoying but the game doesn't have a big publisher behind it and doesn't get much coverage. But it has a very healthy player count, so i suppose it's mostly through word of mouth. The game ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Notable notes |
| devilman |
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 21:11
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Replies: 52
Views: 4978
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| Anyway, my list has to be the spreadsheet of all my games. It lists the name, format, publisher, year of release, genre, date I bought it and how much I paid. There's other tabs that have fancy graphs breaking down how much I've spent each year and the most popular ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Notable notes |
| TheVision |
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Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 20:47
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Replies: 52
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| ... they were in a toy that's ended up at the charity shop. Anyway, my list has to be the spreadsheet of all my games. It lists the name, format, publisher, year of release, genre, date I bought it and how much I paid. There's other tabs that have fancy graphs breaking down how much I've spent ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Robot Cache: new PC game digital storefront |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2018 14:23
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Replies: 14
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| ... news, but the USP here is that they're going to allow you to sell back games you're done with. The catches however are multitude: ⋅ The publisher gets to set the resale price (which I suspect means some just won't specify a resale price at all and disallow it) ⋅ The consumer ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits and Bobs 49 |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 14:12
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Replies: 2971
Views: 164275
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| ... a completely firewalled setup. Also, 'freemium' mechanics are again massively different from difficulty settings because one directly earns the publisher money and the other doesn't in the slightest. If you think the very existence of such things doesn't necessarily exert a weight which warps ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Star Wars Battlefront |
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 16:59
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Replies: 528
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| ... really good that way, too. They're entitled to shit all. All they have to do is not fucking buy it! There's no better way to make a point to the publisher than to not spend money on the fucking thing. There are umpteen other games to play that don't want your money, and if they sell loads more ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Star Wars Battlefront |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 16:37
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Replies: 528
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| ... Grimlet who was playing it. They're entitled to shit all. All they have to do is not fucking buy it! There's no better way to make a point to the publisher than to not spend money on the fucking thing. There are umpteen other games to play that don't want your money, and if they sell loads more ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Star Wars Battlefront |
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 16:17
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Replies: 528
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| ... it's been normalised here. They're entitled to shit all. All they have to do is not fucking buy it! There's no better way to make a point to the publisher than to not spend money on the fucking thing. There are umpteen other games to play that don't want your money, and if they sell loads more ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Star Wars Battlefront |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 17:07
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Replies: 528
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| ... be tilted towards 'encouraging' you to use them; because otherwise why would they even be there? This is especially going to be true when the publisher has eschewed all other types of advanced fucking monetisation and pinned all their greedy little hopes on the loot boxes. I mean Christ, this ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Star Wars Battlefront |
| Bamba |
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Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 12:15
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Replies: 528
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| ... things to come out of all this was a post on Reddit (which I can't find now, naturally) from someone claiming to have worked on a previous big publisher game with lootboxes. Their chat was that they'd seen the numbers involved and a tiny amount of idiots/victims generated a massive fuckton ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Boardgame Thread: Let's organise a beexordgame night. |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2017 19:21
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Replies: 1599
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| ... at any time. Instructions and a list of recommended reading programs can be found here. Support charity. Choose where the money goes – between the publisher, Cubicle 7 and BBC Children in Need. If you like what we do, you can leave us a Humble Tip too! |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Audiobooks RMD |
| Findus Fop |
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2017 17:59
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Replies: 119
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| ... that bitch slide up and down on my dick" (or something to that effect), it's teeth grindingly awful/brilliant. Honestly, I don't know why his publisher didn't tell him to ditch the voices. But it's worth listening to. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Wonder Boy : The Dragons trap |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2017 11:06
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| ... follow up to the Arcade game Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap Sidescrolls Onto PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on April 18 DotEmu, developer and publisher specializing in modern releases of beloved retro games, and Lizardcube, are thrilled to announce that Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap will be ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Call of Duty 13 : Infinite Warfare |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 18:51
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Replies: 276
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| ... junkyard; Archive, a post-futuristic art gallery; and Excess, which is a small-scale re-imagining of the Modern Warfare 2 map Rust. In addition, publisher Activision has released a new trailer that shows off the add-on's Shaolin Shuffle Zombies map--check it out above. The Zombies chapter is ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The 'NAY!' Thread |
| Mr Dave |
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 15:53
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Replies: 7456
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| ... to propagate again. Alpha males was a theory created by Rudolph Schenkel and David Mech and Mech has now debunked it himself. He's even asked the publisher to stop selling his book, but they refuse. No, I've seen people (plural) going into relationships in the advance knowledge that they would ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The 'NAY!' Thread |
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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2017 15:36
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Replies: 7456
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| ... to propagate again. Alpha males was a theory created by Rudolph Schenkel and David Mech and Mech has now debunked it himself. He's even asked the publisher to stop selling his book, but they refuse. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Nintendo Switch (formerly "NX") |
| Hero of Excellence |
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Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 17:40
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Replies: 1781
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| ... am beginning to think that the best thing that could come out of the Switch is it speeds up Nintendo's transformation to a third-party all-formats publisher. Amazing to me that not only is it just NES/SNES games as part of their subscription, but they take them away from you after a month, even ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: General Purpose US TV thread |
| DBSnappa |
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Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2016 17:49
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| ... paperback of all time, folks. Let's not forget that the UK also thinks that Mrs Brown's Boys is the best sitcom of the 20th Century. I know the publisher, not well, but I have met her a few times. She is a good friend of one of my good friends. Boy, has she made a lot of money. Last I heard ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Star Citizen : open world space combat from Chris Roberts |
| GazChap |
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2016 8:47
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Replies: 97
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| ... kept running into delays and budgetary constraints, entirely because of Chris Roberts' "vision", which led in the end to his publishers, Microsoft, stepping in and essentially kicking him off the project (just keeping him in an "executive producer" role presumably ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The PC Gaming Topic |
| Hearthly |
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Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 15:33
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Replies: 707
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Indeed, you can't even buy the game any more, it's not on the Steam Store to purchase, but if it's already in your library you can still install it.
Bit worrying really, that a game can just 'disappear' because the original publisher lost the licence. |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: E3 2016 |
| LewieP |
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2016 18:30
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Replies: 35
Views: 4529
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| ... to being consistent with the movies or working to that schedule. Sony are obviously motivated to make it a good game more than any third party publisher would be, where it's just about making something that they can sell to kids quickly and cheaply, but Sony are going to want to use this to ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Bits & Bobs 46 |
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Posted: Thu May 12, 2016 14:01
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Replies: 2970
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| ... review? I can't say ... I don't have an opinion on the matter! Final Fantasy XIII (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 [reviewed]) Developer: Square Enix Publisher: Square Enix Released: March 9, 2010 MSRP: $59.99 Final Fantasy XIII is a videogame released on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It was developed ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: Windows 10 |
| LewieP |
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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2016 18:05
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| ... it's doubtful to me that they'd suddenly forget how to do a good port. Remedy certainly seem to imply that a combination of UWP, DX12 and MS as a publisher are the source of all the issues in this FAQ , one of the only things Remedy have said in response to the poor reception of the port. Of course ... |
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Forum: General Discussion Topic: The PS Plus thread |
| zaphod79 |
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Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2016 13:00
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Replies: 1500
Views: 227609
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| ... Henk! is the kind of game that you want to play with friends, where after each race you find yourself almost uncontrollably saying, “one more.” Publisher Curve Digital and developer RageSquid have put together a light-hearted racer where you run, jump, and, yes, butt-slide your way through a ... |
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