Wild Rift is my poor man’s League (although the skins are way more expensive than on PC). Don’t have a PC to play League on and WR is a good, chill alternative. Plus, I can play with my SO

Shoutout to Slay the Spire, Balatro, and Slice & Dice. They all cost a bit (around 10€) but are excellent ports of the originals and among the best mobile games. Slice & Dice even started out as a mobile game and was ported to PC later.

In line with the recent 60$ Ragnaros skin for Hearthstone. The Faker Ahri skin set a precedent and now every company wants a slice of the cake

There’s a lot you can nitpick about the reboot but for its time, it was a phenomenal game. Had a lot of fun with it

Super spannender Exkurs - vielen Dank für den Aufwand :)

Schönen Samstag wünsche ich dir noch!

Ich hab gar kein Konzept von DM. Waren das ok-e Preise?

Sure, could be. I used to not be able to watch movies because I’d be used to TV ads forcing a break every now and then. Took me a while but I couldn’t go back to ad-less YouTube, for example

Emulation of Bloodborne on PC seems to be moving forward. Pretty cool

I guess in a sense it does lead to competitors trying their best to compete and create better games than their contemporaries. In an ideal world, all games would be playable on all platforms, of course, but that’s just not realistic - either because of contracts or hardware limitations.

Or greed lol

A PC is something different and not really comparable to a console if all you’re interested in is a hassle-free, straightforward gaming experience. Economies of scale make it so that a PS5 is just plain better than any PC you could cook up for that price.

Plus, exclusives are a factor for console choice, sure, but I’d argue that the performance boost relative to PS4 models is worth the price. I can only speak for myself, obviously, but I’ve been really happy with my PS4 for these last four years.

It kind of dampens and cheapens the experience of using the console. The PS+ tab and the PS Store tab are, essentially, full of ads already but at least they’re contained to the two left-most tabs on the home menu. Sure, you usually don’t stick around too long after selecting a game to play or a streaming service to watch something off, but I’d rather not see more ads than needed when the current system already works well as is.

Don’t give them ideas, holy shit. Ads are already present in some sports games, though, afaik

Dude remakes would be amazing. I’m just happy that Legacy of Kain isn’t completely forgotten and is playable on newer hardware.

Recently got a hold of a jailbreakable PS4 where I put the two Soul Reavers and Defiance onto and had fun with them but the age definitely shows. A proper remaster is definitely more than I could ask for

I pogged so hard when they announced that. Been asking for this for years

Not sure about Steam, but owners of the complete edition can get an upgrade for 10€ on PlayStation

Right, that was a thing too

Yea that’s a valid point. Not really sure where to draw the line

Well yea, it’s another motivator for people to actively go against the Russian government in one way or another. The more discontent people are with the situation that’s been ongoing for 2+ years, the more likely something’s to happen, I’d wager

This debate had been brought up back when Atomic Heart was bound to be released. Many people argued back then that it’s fine buying the game since the dev team had completely relocated to Cyprus (very popular country for Russians to move to next to Kazakhstan and numerous European countries), thus not funding the Russian government through taxes.

However, given that the dev team still lives in Russia this time, there’s not much to debate. The figures the author mentions check out and there’s no other way to put it, really, that gamers are, in part at least, funding Russia.

Sure, the company might have opposing views to Russia, but firstly, they haven’t moved to a different country, which is at least a little concerning, and secondly, are a legal entity in Russia, so they pay them regardless of motivation.

As I tried to outline in my comment, I am no longer of that opinion. Valid comment nonetheless