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@Wastelander2277 @PapaPorkus @Creetosis22 They'll make it canon, I guarantee it.

They'll just look at how well the show performed and choose pandering to that audience instead of making games for the original fans because it will make them more money.

At this point the franchise is dead without radical change.

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@TKsMantis Good on you man. Quit smoking and weed too. It's terrible for you.

iirc the last stream I watched a year or so ago you were playing Starfield and smoking more than Bob Marley so give your lungs a rest.

It will make working out easier that's for sure.

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@billy4389 @TW0HEADEDBEAST It's a terrible business practice. What's the point in having users that don't spend any money? They're just using up resources and costing Epic money.

It's like people who try to buy friends, it never works. As soon as the flow of free things stop these people disappear.

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@DestinedHex Let's face it, 4 games every 15 years isn't much of an improvment. Especially considering 2 of those 4 didn't do so well.

Brings the time for Microsoft to recoup their investment down to 25 years. Such poor performance isn't what you'd expect from a studio with such great IPs.

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@PapaPorkus @Creetosis22 At this point what would NV2 even look like after they completely wrecked any semblance of lore on the east coast? Where could they go with the story?

Basically just need to retcon the show and be done with it because it's too problematic. Does more harm than good

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@becker_ebg @TKsMantis No, 10 years is obviously too long.

But, I know for a fact when these CEOs ask for fast tracked progress it usually ends badly.

No matter how good you are you're not gonna turn a studio that releases a game every 10 years into one that releases one every 3 just by saying so.

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@Its_Jabo With the release cadence of Bethesda games being 1 every ~15 years and the revenue from their best performing titles is like 1.4 billion.

So it would take over 50 years for Microsoft to recoup their 7.5 billion acquisition of ZeniMax with Bethesda's current performance.

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@Its_Jabo Could be bad. You don't rush developing games like the Elder Scrolls. If they fuck up their next release Bethesda will be in deep shit.

Will be fine as long as they mean their going to shelve Starfield and just move on to ES6 and Fallout 5 and don't rush it and take short cuts

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@yobson8 @TW0HEADEDBEAST I didn't refute your initial claim that Valve forces devs to have price parity across platforms because the other guy who responded to your comment already did.

Valve don't force parity for pricing on other stores. Only steam key sales.

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@yobson8 @TW0HEADEDBEAST They're selling games and operating the EGS at what is essentially below average variable cost but it's difficult to prove/quantify legaly since as far as the law is concerned the cost of digital game publishing is basically zero.

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@yobson8 @TW0HEADEDBEAST Purposely operating at a loss and selling at unrecoupable prices and suing competitors who don't to drive down their market share is also an anti competitive strategy.

It's called predatory pricing and it's exactly what Epic is doing.

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@TW0HEADEDBEAST Epic is just seething that they've completely squandered the opportunity at a successful game store.

Their userbase has grown ~180% since they opened up shop and their sale of 3rd party games has only increased by 1.6%. Killed their own sales with all the free games they give.

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@TW0HEADEDBEAST It's such an insane expectation for Valve to ditch the industry standard 30% sales commission to match the Epic Games Store's 12%.

Especially considering the Epic Games Store hasn't even turned a profit yet in the 7.5 years they've been operating.

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@madis259 Having little details like this isn't necessarily a bad thing. They can be complementary to a great game and increase immersion.

Though, when the details become the focal point of the game to the detriment of the story and gameplay then it becomes a problem.

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@JuiceHead33 It's immaterial. Console is slowly dying as a platform. 600mil users, 2% annual growth.

PC on the other hand has 900mil users (well over a billion if you count Chinese players) 10% annual growth.
Even with sky high hardware prices PC is still somehow outperforming console gaming

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@Fallout If/When the Elder Scrolls 6 comes out it's gonna suck if the content in fallout 76 is any measure of modern Bethesda's ability to make games.

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@NVIDIAGeForce #RTXPowersPlay Team green.

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@ItzYaboiiJoe @gabefollower wouldn't be surprised if he's the one bankrolling all the lawfare we've seen against valve recently

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@stonminer @Pirat_Nation Windows 11 version built for this chip has an x86 compatibility layer.

Going forwards though, what are developers going to prioritize? Making native arm software or just sticking with bigger x86 platform using the compatibility layer and nullifying any of the benefits of arm.