Guntsu
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EA is hated in the gaming industry, just look at how hard Star Wars battlefront 2 flopped…
The future is “free to play” with micro transactions take a look at Fortnite
Ultimate Team makes eight hundred million to a billion dollars a year.
Guntsu
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The twitch chat must have been insane…they prob took the clip down
I stopped playing the old republic because of them, and I was one who pre-order the collectors edition back when you had to pay sub…
Guntsu
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The old republic was fun, I quit due to the input lag in the game and MMO’s just take a massive amount of time
Mostly just play, Overwatch hoping the Destiny 2 expansion is actually good and not crap…
Just another day in America that ends in a “y”
With the legalized sports gambling now around only a matter of time till there well be gambling on counterstrike or star craft competition
Very sad. I hope this never happens again. A Madden tournament seems like the perfect storm of conditions for people to get outrageously angry. I hope future events take that into consideration and beef up security.
EA is generally the worst (and combined with their historical incompetence at PR creates hilarity) but almost every AAA publisher is on the micro bandwagon.
Once games like Candy Crush on mobiles made AAA profits at a fraction of the development costs the world changed overnight. It took some time but by the end of the last generation micros were starting to appear in big budget AAA games. Look at GTA online. People eat shark cards up like they are going out of style and Rockstar has enough cash to last for 20 years off of it.
This generation has more people utilizing online play than ever before. It was perfect for publisher’s to capitalize on micro transactions. Whereas before they were fairly benign features (like maybe a different helmet) they have morphed into something else entirely. They are literally taking features out of games. They are changing the leveling curve to reward spending real money to advance faster.
Guntsu
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The biggest gaming tourney of the year just ended, its a 25 million dollar plus tourney The Dota 2 international and it is epic… also gambling for Counter Strike and pretty much any competitive game out there is already available and thriving…as expected though its shady as hell
Might as well joke about it anymore. It ain’t like jack ■■■■ is gonna be done about it.
I honestly don’t remember wanting to shoot someone when I lost at Donkey Kong.
I wish they’d stop doing it in my state though…
I’d never shoot anybody either because of a video game. But there’s been times I was playing a Dark Souls game, I’m miles away from a bonfire and some ■■■■■■■■■■■■ invades killing me and majorly screwing everything up. Like I said, I wouldn’t shoot anybody, but xX_MuffDiver420_Xx better be glad he wasn’t in the same room as me is all I’m saying.
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This is actually an interesting side discussion to the issue.
The advent of online gaming and anonymous social media has given a window to what human nature really is when there are no consequences.
Online gaming can be a window to the ugly side of humanity.
Yep, video game nuts started the whole Qanon cult over at 4chan.
anyone who have read the you tube comments can view the same window but i agree, the entire gamergate fiasco was an embarrassment to mankind
tnt
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But you can’t escape the reality that American has many many many more times the amount of guns that any other industrialized nation and many many many more times the greater n deaths.
It’s really just common sense. Yes, there are evil people in American and in all these other countries. But only America makes it so very very easy for these evil people to get guns and fort hat we lead the world in mass shootings and gun deaths.
It’s not really complicated or profound. More guns equals more deaths by guns.
