Are people still playing DayZ standalone? How is it these days?
I never could get into it (despite buying it the moment it was available and going back to it a few times years apart). I had played thousands of hours of the mod before and it felt like it never lived up to that.
This site is an awful source. Seems to be a mouthpiece for the Gamergate 2.0 shit.
They don’t even get absorbed these days. They get bought and then laid off.
They’ve really pulled a Cities: Skylines with the timing of their release. I wonder if it would have been so popular if Tarkov hadn’t decided to machine-gun its own foot right before.
I’m still following the game with much interest, but the amount of mixed reviews and talk of poor performance has given me pause so far.
I agree, it’s all stemming from the “need” for everything to be a games as a service model now. What was previously expected only in free-to-play games has bled into the “one time purchase” market and is unfortunately becoming the norm for both things that require online and those that probably don’t.
I kind of get that for ongoing development there needs to be some ongoing income, but there are many ways to do that without shady backend stuff. Pinball FX is a particularly weird one, as they are constantly releasing new tables as a way to make income. I guess the always online thing is license checking? Not cool in any case.
Tarkov is kind of a different beast. It’s basically an early access title that has been in EA for 7 years and there’s no clear road roadmap on where it is going to end. The current discussion is all about how certain versions should contain all DLC and what constitutes a DLC. Personally, I find the whole DLC argument odd. I would argue any of these features and game modes added before leaving “Closed Beta” are just base game features. They should be available to even the lowest tier of purchase as they are being added to the game before “release”.
But then Battlestate have been shady from the start.
I had to look up Bettridge’s law, which was more effort than I took with the original post. Excellent work! I have to agree now and change my answer.
FPS. Next question.
I might be putting on my grumpy old man hat… but more remakes? The original 2 are still playable, what’s wrong with just playing them?
Anyone who values PvP combat will always go back.
There are a lot of advantages to the SP version though. Zero cheaters, customizablity and loading times cut down to about 1/10th of the time of live are the big ones.
It is, but just because two games follow the same formula for their gameplay loop doesn’t mean they will be equally good. There are a LOT of other factors.
It’s absolutely just wordplay so they can scam more money out of consumers. Arguably Arena could be considered DLC also, but that’s even more of a seperate mode than this. It sounds like there’s now just progression tied to the existing offline raid mode, which is obviously just trying to capitalise on the increasing popularity of SP Tarkov.
I don’t think it’s really possible for them to shut down SP Tarkov (due to BattleState’s immeasurable copyright breaches themselves), so it’s wild if anyone actually pays $250 for this.
It is still a pretty great game. I only ever played with the cheapest standard edition and had no problems.
I still do have some regrets about who I have given my money to, but there is no other game quite like it and a lot of industry giants and indies have tried (and are still trying) to emulate it without success.
They just updated it to the latest patch about a month ago, which is much better in a lot of ways (big recoil/weapon handling improvements namely). It’s in a really great state to be honest, I tried it out when I got bored of the current wipe a couple of months ago befpre the update and was really impressed.
I havent checked on it for a couple of weeks, but the mod makers were updating their mods to he compatible pretty fast. You can basically customise the entire experience with what’s out already.
The KFC image in particular is cursed.
Only the US is allowed to ruin elections.
From their own website:
The Entertainment Software Association serves as the voice and advocate for the video game industry. Our mission is to expand and protect the dynamic worldwide marketplace for video games.
Their membership is almost entirely large games publishers and they only look out for their best interests and the market.
Take a look at their open positions, half of them are legal jobs protecting IP. https://www.theesa.com/about-esa/
This feels borderline criminal. Yeah it’s 11 years old, but if someone told you that an early access game stays in early access a decade, that means you need to buy it again on release, would you?
This is a very weirdly written article. Like the author doesn’t know that it’s one studio that made the games he’s comparing, but that comparison is 50% of the content.
To be fair, all of that is in COD and that’s a full priced game (at least the multiplayer aside from Warzone).