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Feels Villeneuve posted:that was a "we lost the assets and couldn't justify completely remaking it for the remaster" thing, not really a GAAS/DLC servers thing No, I mean for the original game
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RatHat posted:Some of the Mass Effect 1 DLC is still unavailable officially I think. Not a huge loss though since they weren't very good There were only two pieces of DLC for ME1, the first one was just free on PC as a patch, the second one is loving awful and not worth playing. It's a series of combat challenges with no story to speak of in a game with terrible combat. It wasn't made by Bioware but Demiurge, the company that made the PC port. As such Bioware doesn't have the source code for it so when they eventually ported ME1 to the PS3 they didn't bother doing the second DLC. It's also missing from the recent Legendary Collection too. No big loss, IMO. And yeah, wouldn't be surprised if EA never bothered making it available for PC again after the old Bioware site where you brought the DLC from was shutdown.
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The notable thing about Pinnacle Station is that it came out five months before Mass Effect 2. I can't fathom who was baying for more of the originals combat. The only downside to the Legendary edition is, of course, the missing multiplayer.
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Wait, if it’s gone, did they recalibrate the war asset things in single player to account for that?
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Regalingualius posted:Wait, if it’s gone, did they recalibrate the war asset things in single player to account for that? You never needed multiplayer for that
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Andrast posted:You never needed multiplayer for that Not strictly true. The launch version of the game was such that it was impossible to get one of the ending scenes without getting your GR above 50% through MP. Once the various DLCs were added, you'd get enough extra war assets to do it but before then, there was content you could not access unless you went multiplayer.
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You also basically had to have 100%’ed the entire baseline, non-DLC portions of the trilogy if you wanted to unlock everything including the secret five-second cutscene after one of the endings without touching multiplayer, IIRC?
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You could also get additional war assets by playing ME: Infiltrator.
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Sentinel Red posted:Not strictly true. The launch version of the game was such that it was impossible to get one of the ending scenes without getting your GR above 50% through MP. Once the various DLCs were added, you'd get enough extra war assets to do it but before then, there was content you could not access unless you went multiplayer. And that's when I broke out the hex editor.
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Having to play MP to get the best ending was not the worst thing ever, seeing as the MP is actually good and fun and contains probably the least-offensive lootbox system ever where just playing normally earned you everything. As one of the people who were annoyed at the announcement of MP, I ended up playing like 1000 hours of it. I'm honestly really surprised it wasn't brought back for the LE.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:The notable thing about Pinnacle Station is that it came out five months before Mass Effect 2. I can't fathom who was baying for more of the originals combat. I guess if you were really jonesing for just a little more ME before 2 came out, maybe.
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SubponticatePoster posted:Having to play MP to get the best ending was not the worst thing ever, seeing as the MP is actually good and fun and contains probably the least-offensive lootbox system ever where just playing normally earned you everything. As one of the people who were annoyed at the announcement of MP, I ended up playing like 1000 hours of it. A friend of mine also dumped hundreds of hours into the MP, started waxing nostalgic for it recently, and actually bought me a copy out of nowhere because he wanted friends to play it with again. Having never played ME3 at all prior to 2022, I can confirm that the ME3 multiplayer is actually a really good and shockingly well thought out game mode that outdoes a lot of much newer coop shooters.
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Regalingualius posted:Wait, if it’s gone, did they recalibrate the war asset things in single player to account for that? They did adjust the war asset counts in legendary to take into account both the lack of multiplayer and everyone having all the DLC.
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Bethesda is taking an interesting stance compared to the other companies coming out saying their benefits will support abortion trips: https://kotaku.com/bethesda-zenimax-roe-v-wade-abortion-politics-microsoft-1849134727 That stance being, of course, pretty much refusing to take a public stance, which is mostly telling because Microsoft has announced support for employee abortion trips but Bethesda has been weaselly about how their benefits program is still separate from Microsoft's. There's also a side of questionable language about "lifestyle" choices!
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Kanos posted:Bethesda is taking an interesting stance compared to the other companies coming out saying their benefits will support abortion trips: Jesus loving christ.
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Ubisoft Mainz is trying to transfer all of Anno 2070's online functionality onto local servers before Big Ubisoft pulls the plug on it
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Rarity posted:Ubisoft Mainz is trying to transfer all of Anno 2070's online functionality onto local servers before Big Ubisoft pulls the plug on it Do you think they knew it in advance or learned it at the same time as us? I’m betting on the latter.
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MikeJF posted:If it picks up more traction in the media I don't know that Microsoft is going to be able to keep their hands clean of it. might heat up https://www.pcgamesn.com/activision-walkout
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ColdPie posted:I wonder how much Activision et al donate to Republicans. they actively hired people from the Trump administration, probably a shitload
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ColdPie posted:I wonder how much Activision et al donate to Republicans. Big corps donate to both parties
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Some of Kotick’s donations can be seen here: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/15/activision-ceo-bobby-kotick-quietly-donated-to-gop-super-pac.html And yes, plenty of Republicans in top positions at Activision: Townsend, Bulatao and Dixton.
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gamestop doing more 'right-sizing'
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SubponticatePoster posted:
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Polaron posted:Aside from ME1, the Legendary edition was shockingly kind of lazy. ME2 and especially 3 were barely touched, so I'm not surprised they didn't go into figuring out the multiplayer at all.
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I have to assume firing up and maintaining servers for a multiplayer game that they have absolutely no intent on balancing or curating just seems like a huge waste of money for them
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Bust Rodd posted:I have to assume firing up and maintaining servers for a multiplayer game that they have absolutely no intent on balancing or curating just seems like a huge waste of money for them
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I'm not sure if there is a more appropriate thread for it, but Mark Venturelli gave a talk about Kotaku Article Here Slideshow here in English He made a lot of the same points that have been discussed here in the past regarding NFTs in general, and NFTs in gaming specifically but in a very straightforward way that's worth sharing. The best part, however, is this quote from the article: Kotaku posted:As PC Gamer report, an important thing to note here is that he pulled the stunt with the blessing of the event’s organisers, because the Brazil International Games Festival had among its main sponsors a number of crypto, NFT and blockchain companies, some of whom were furious at the content of Venturelli’s talk.
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lmao, eat poo poo NFT grifters
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Rarity posted:NFT devs were shocked that someone would take their money and run
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https://twitter.com/KenneyNL/status/1547599963399458818 go away john
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The context is that Unity’s tools are allowing devs to tweak potential business/microtransaction models very early in development, giving them forecasting and player analytics based on how other games perform and suggesting tried and true methods. How often do ads appear, for how long, what’s the “breathing room” between them, how aggressive is your conversion marketing, etc. Mobile games are highly formulaic and the tools reflect that. Some of his later comments: John Riccitiello posted:So, if the games industry can survive every recession, while gaining on every other form of media, for 30 years, it can take COVID like a relatively modest speed bump.
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Mobile's growth is largely because so much of it is predatory garbage. I don't like saying "gently caress mobile gaming and kill it with fire," but I do think that we need to burn it down and start over.
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It had so much promise to begin with. In the early days of android I bought so many games. Now I don't even have a single one installed. I'm sure good ones exist but I cannot be bothered to search through all that utter crap. It's allowed me to buy much more budget phones though so 
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