I don’t think it needs a remaster considering how good the game still looks, but it’s 7 years old now. That’s not exactly “new” anymore.

It comes with a free saltwater croc

A paid plug in just seems pretty shitty to begin with.

I know Heroic can add your GOG and Epic games to Steam which would make it moot, but unfortunately most people probably don’t use the desktop mode anyway.

I thought it was the opposite, that they can’t sell lower on other marketplaces, but they can do what they want with their keys.

Sony still releasing games on PS4. Still remasters PS4 game.

and then required prices be 5% lower than MSRP on other stores

That’s something that Steam doesn’t allow, which means the only way to have lower prices is for Epic to pay for an exclusivity deal. Because who’s going to move to Epic if the only way is to lose out on Steam?

I think part of the Steam contract for publishers is that they can’t sell their games cheaper elsewhere. So anyone wanting to compete with Steam on price needs to sell games that are in demand but not already on Steam. And Epic is really the only company with the pull to get that to happen, but the only way for them to do it is to get exclusivity, which gamers hate.

Gotcha, that makes sense. The article makes it seem like 10 is all you get.

So the most expensive version of the game only includes 10 airports?

Boycotts only work when the group boycotting is large enough to impact the bottom line.

Most gamers just don’t care enough about accounts and launchers to boycott a game or company. They just want to come home from work and play games.

This is about patents, not about copyrights, for anyone confused. It’s not because some of the characters look like existing pokemon, it’s likely about game mechanics that Nintendo holds patents on.

Totally optional features that come set up by default are not really optional unless they’re opt-in from the start. Most users are not savvy enough to figure out how to disable that kind of stuff.

Empress is the cracker.

I think most people aren’t even aware of the different forms of DRM and whether or not their games use them. For the majority of players, there’s no discernible impact to their experience so they have no reason to question any of it.

Nobody’s teaching these companies any lessons. They keep using Denuvo because it works, and the games keep selling because the number of people actually bothered by it is pretty small.

It was fun but a bit shallow. It had some fun bits and pieces of media like the fake ads, but the game was very easy and pretty short. I finished it in about 12 hours taking my time. There are a few things that I missed, but the game didn’t really inspire me to spend the time and effort to find everything or to replay it. Maybevone day when I’ve forgotten all about it.

I’d say if they expand on the concept and build a little more depth into the game, the sequel could be intetesting.

They haven’t finished yet, and third place is still TBD

That’s not the point. You specifically may not own a Blu-Ray player, but there have been 280 million non-dedicated devices from a single company sold that play them. That’s not counting other consoles like Xbox One and Series X, computers with BD drives, and dedicated BD players.

Seems like a far cry from your statement that nobody owns one. Even as hyperbole, it’s just false.

It’s worth noting disk video is usually uncompressed

Just being a bit pedantic here, but they’re much less compressed since their source is generally the original recordings. Anything you get from streaming services is much more heavily compressed, and anything you’re likely to pirate is compressed from DVD or Blu-ray sources (or worse, they can be compressed from already compressed streaming sources.)

Playstation 3, 4, and 5 sold a combined 280 million units, that’s a decent number of Blu-Ray players.