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Not sure what I was thinking with on of these guesses...

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I forgot to play Connections yesterday. Blah, got a tetromino in my Connections...

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2 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Lately I've decided I hate myself and read the steam discussion forums for Dragon's Dogma 2. A reoccurring thread there is along the lines of "this has less players than x" or highlighting the drop off of players, most of the sane replies are that it's a single player game that can be finished and add on that not everyone finishes games anyway so  that's also a drop off.

 

In any case the takeaways in this thread are interesting as they've gone in a different direction than what I've been hearing and that was the takeaway from what Phil Spencer was talking about in that kids are used to these free multiplayer games and doing it on mobile and aren't really engaging with single player console games. Which I think is the more alarming takeaway, not "people play a game and finish it"

I'd be more worried when those single player games stop selling. However, half of the best selling games last year were single player games with the top selling game being Hogwarts or Zelda.

6 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Again, that's the point these guys are making in the video. They are concerned that Video game companies are taking exactly the opposite lesson from this data and are looking to double down on Live service games in the hope that can stumble upon a Fortnite or Roblox type game. game devs don't want a Spiderman 2 or Jedi Survivor... great single player games that people play for a bit, then put down and never touch again. They want GTA V type games where they can monetize the fuck out it for a decade. 

I know, I'm just agreeing with that sentiment. That's why I previously mentioned WB because they had a great selling single player game followed by a flop of a live service game, but their conclusion is that they need more live service games. The videogame industry is run by execs with brain worms.

Monthly average users over the course of an entire year is such a terrible way to measure player engagement of a tight, single player RPG. A game that everyone is playing and gushing over a few months after release is going to overtaken by the popular live service and multiplayer games.

Nintendo seems to be the only anomaly here with three single player games making it into the top ten. Five, if you count Pokemon and Animal Crossing.

1 minute ago, skillzdadirecta said:

The video in the original post makes pretty much the same argument as this article... not that anyone bothered to watch it or anything.

Ha! Yeah, I didn't watch it, but mostly because I already read the report they're talking about...also, I could totally be playing a new game in the half hour they talk about the thing I already read.

4 hours ago, legend said:

Not spending their time predominantly on new games doesn't mean they're not playing them. Multiplayer games can skew much older and will stay in a rotation for long time even while people buy and play new games.

I remember when these numbers first popped up and this was my take away. New game comes out, a bunch of people buy/play them, and then go back to their long time favorites. I don't see this as a bad thing.

The industry has had this unhealthy obsession with holding onto players' attention for as long as possible, even if the game doesn't warrant it. There is nothing wrong with a great single player game that everyone pays for and then moves on from. However, that's treated like some sort of failure; like how WB wants to double down on live service games and move away from even ultra successful single player games. I get that everyone wants to be the next forever game, but the industry is going to kill itself if that's all everyone is aiming for.

I just read an article about this sort of thing earlier today...

I'm so sick of games that shoot themselves in the foot just to boost phoney player engagement numbers | PC Gamer

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Someone please take the shotgun away from in-game economy designers who are ruining the goodwill built up by the rest of the team.

Anyone else watching anything this season?

Kaiju No 8 is a pretty good adaptation. I am a fan of the source material, so I'm happy the anime is doing it justice. Same goes for Viral Hit. Viral Hit can be a tough watch, though. It is about a small kid trying to beat up bullies, so there's a lot of bullies beating down helpless kids. Still a good manhwa, especially when it starts picking up steam.

Also, I've got a fun sleeper hit. Train to the End of the World. The anime was not at all on my radar, but I'm loving it three episodes in. It's a weirdo, monster of the week sort of thing. I can barely describe the anime without sounding like a crazy person. Some tech company rolls out 7G and it tears apart the fabric of reality. Some people turn into animals, others become mushrooms. It's so delightfully weird.

Random, but what the hell is up with all the music anime this season? Whisper Me a Love Song was pretty cute. However, it's criminal that of all the musicals this season, the anime with the best music was not licensed to stream anywhere outside of Japan. Girls Band Cry, easily, has the best music of any of the musicals airing right now. I mean, that's not a very high bar to clear since the only musical anime in recent memory with legitimately good music is Bocchi the Rock. Still, that feels like an odd miss to just pass up a Toei anime starring a bunch of fresh faces from a talent hunt across Japan.

I'll take the pretty pattern

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Well, that was close

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1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said:

So basically, dynamic pricing to begin with is BS. But on top of that, I strongly suspect that Ticketmaster purposefully holds a bunch of tickets back, only releasing a few dozen at a time. This means hundreds or thousands are looking at those few tickets, so they can "dynamically" increase the price. Then they release a few dozen more, repeat, etc. TM execs should be jailed.

I've been following the story about Dimension 20 on Reddit and their Discord. It really seems like their checkout crashes a lot. Then, when folks come back after the site is working again, prices are through the roof. 

I don't know if they're purposefully crashing carts, but I'd strongly believe it if they just refuse to properly scale their site. It's such a "happy coincidence" that the time they hope to raise prices is also when the site is being hammered and people in the queue with tickets selected at one price can't check out.

Not too bad

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So off on that first guess 

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Dimension 20 just had to put out a statement about Ticket Master jacking their $35 tickets up over a thousand. 

Dimension 20 addresses Madison Square Garden “nonsense”, won’t use dynamic pricing at future live shows

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Dimension 20 addressed the dynamic pricing mess surrounding its live show at Madison Square Garden, including ticket lotteries for...

They didn't think they'd ever sell out Madison Square Garden and trigger dynamic pricing. Sucks for anyone that couldn't get tickets.

Not going to complain here

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Not as quickly

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Eh, easy enough

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I hate these kinds of purples

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Easy enough

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8 minutes ago, stepee said:

Nope! You need a saved game with the main campaign beaten. Also it wants you to be pretty high level so if you rush through the story you’ll have a hard time.

 

I downloaded a save so I didn’t have to do the story again and did side quests I didn’t do the first run to level up and that worked pretty well. Sony needs to let you transfer saves from ps5 versions to pc versions though. 

What is high level in this game? I'm at level 45 at the beginning of the Gemini main mission.

Police straight up smother a man to death. He wasn't suspected of any actual crime, but was in the hospital for a mental health crisis. This is an older story, but the department finally lost the flight to keep the video from going public. I could not watch the video because I don't really feel like watching a man die while screaming "I can't breath".

Man yelled he couldn’t breathe as police restrained him at Dallas hospital before he died

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Footage shared with The Dallas Morning News by the attorney representing Knotts’ family reveals the moments that Knotts was restrained by UT...

The family is suing. No charges.

3 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Screwed up on a guess but at least i didn't use a banned word like @Ghost_MH 

 

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Here you go. Canon talking about his experience on Hot Ones...

I'll take it

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I'm not sure anyone is going to top this performance.

6 minutes ago, cusideabelincoln said:

I do not remember paying for IGN access back in December 2000 when I first registered.

Wasn't it free and then access to some features or some boards or maybe the whole thing was put behind a paywall or something? I remember it being fully free when I first registered and then it went to paid and I got to sneak in under the radar because I wrote a few terrible articles for them back when I was in college.

I am so much more productive at home than I was in the office. That said, part of that might be the no stress from traveling 1.5 hours, one way. Another part is that I'm mostly on the server, services, and policy side of IT where as half the office anyways thinks IT is IT and I spend so much time trying to bat away laptop and phone questions. 

I do miss the free beer and ice cream, though.

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