Except it’s a ledger, not a db. Devs can’t alter the ledger, only provide transactions. You get scammed by a player, someone hacks your account and steals your stuff. The devs might be able to give you replacement stuff, but they can’t take it from the hackers or who you traded to.

This gets worse with crypto where each item is unique. The devs can’t then just make more money/items to replace your loss.

There’s a good reason why databases are used

Don’t know how I’ve never encountered those before XD

FE had permanent character loss as a main feature until recently and even then it’s a difficulty option and there’s no way to get them back.

That’s usually not the case. Most assets are entirely cosmetic. It’s why when things get messed up you tend to see purple floor, wireframes or checked test planes. As far as coffee is concerned art assets are usually just “what do I make this look like”. As far as physics and interactions goes it’ll do exactly what it was supposed to before. That’s not too say it’s not valuable, but whoever gets the code can by the pack, put in the right asset references in the right places in the code and be exactly where they were before.

It still has all the hallmarks, different setting, tactical defence mini game instead of the trial. I think the trip up might be change in genre conflicting with the “one person dies per mini game” but maybe they can weave a strong story or make that compelling in itself.

Usually those are easy to strip out.

Cool, maybe rpgs aren’t for you. Exploration, change and discovery is half the point. If you want to automatically get all the best loot because you went to a required place and did the required thing maybe you don’t want an rpg maybe you just want a story game. That’s fine, but DA was supposed to a BG spiritual successor once upon a time.

A lot of the TV show is the world’s slowest “unboxing” of the Fallout world. It’s a fun ride, but the ultimate reveal is everyone’s too busy being out for themselves to make the world better. (Not a surprise to anyone versed in Fallout lore), but without any of the story surprises, lore reveals the acting and story alone aren’t really strong enough on their own to call for second viewings.

If you don’t live in one of the 180 territories that still can’t play the game

That’s a fair argument and a decent case, but not one that strongly backs an anti-competition legal action.

If we needed E3 we’d still have E3.

Steam very much makes that 30% worthwhile with the support and features they provide for free. They can’t be forced to host games, prices are set by publishers/devs, steam takes 0% of steam key sales.

The price parity is the part that might be argued, but I doubt it will go far. I’m not seeing very good arguments for this being anti-consumer, which is the key point.

PC games often use or recommend controllers and there’s nothing stopping them doing the same thing. I hesitate to label it as a console innovation because it’s not limited to console in effect. Hell, PC games can use kinect and wii-motes, though not without some work, so those I’m more likely to give.

I’ll take your word on the PS5 games, it wasn’t really fair for me to make that judgement without having access to many myself. I think it’s one of those things that’s easily overlooked. I don’t think it’s as big as gyro, though that xbox still lacks that is shocking. We’ll see going forward I guess.

Except that’s not even a console innovation, that’s a control/controller innovation.

That said it’s barely used and will probably quickly be forgotten as a feature.

I couldn’t tell XD

The truth of the matter is that AAA games have become so risk adverse and so determined to get all the money that they’ve become a risky purchase for players. Though recent publisher action has proved that’s true of some indies too. Getting players to pay full price in this market is going to be increasingly hard.

Judging from how many think the helldivers are the good guys, not really.

That’s routine stock price manipulation. They’re not doing that because they need to, they’re doing it because it makes shareholders think their costs are cut and makes their stock price jump.

That said its less and less effective.

Not a complaint, but it does raise the entry level for people getting excited about the story.

In true kojima fashion it gets weirder the deeper you go