Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

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Anyone who watches that scene can see it was written by deeply retarded talentless hacks that have the emotional depth of dinner plate. Who the fuck played a game that included this scene (and all the other mediocre bland shit) and said "It's ready! Ship it!" This is some Dylan Mulvaney "OK, Day 1 of being a Game Writer!" BS.
 
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Anyone who watches that scene can see it was written by deeply retarded talentless hacks that have the emotional depth of dinner plate. Who the fuck played a game that included this scene (and all the other mediocre bland shit) and said "It's ready! Ship it!" This is some Dylan Mulvaney "OK, Day 1 of being a Game Writer!" BS.
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That scene was the gaming narrative equivalent of trying to drunk pick up girls by texting them pics of your dick.
 
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Why is it that every time I find myself on a gaming website (looking up info on Bloodborne in this case), I ALWAYS see a bunch of breathless Dragon Age: The Veilguard articles in the trending tabs and in all the bottom of article thumbnails?

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Like they're trying so hard to make their readers think this game is relevant.
 
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October 2024 Top 20 Best-Selling Premium Games - U.S. (Dollar Sales, Physical and Digital from digital data sharing publishers, excludes add-on content)
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launch month landed #6 on game sales, not great

multi-platform DATV got beaten by some random ass game i've never heard of (Undisputed) and niche games like Silent Hill and Metaphor

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This bluesky thing seems pretty fake and gay. AKA a bunch of posturing. Wonder how long it'll be "a thing" before people start going back to X so they can get actual engagement/views/attention from a platform that actually has a ton of people on it.
 
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Rajaah said:
This bluesky thing seems pretty fake and gay. AKA a bunch of posturing. Wonder how long it'll be "a thing" before people start going back to X so they can get actual engagement/views/attention from a platform that actually has a ton of people on it.
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It's the eternal dilemma for dumb narcissists -- do you want attention or do you want an echo chamber where no one calls you out for being a fucking retard?
 
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spronk said:
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October 2024 Top 20 Best-Selling Premium Games - U.S. (Dollar Sales, Physical and Digital from digital data sharing publishers, excludes add-on content)
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launch month landed #6 on game sales, not great

multi-platform DATV got beaten by some random ass game i've never heard of (Undisputed) and niche games like Silent Hill and Metaphor

OUCH
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What a shit year. Besides Metaphor and Elden Ring that list is garbage.

Its sad that COD still runs the FPS market and apparently the rest of the game market. A total fucking waste of time for anyone playing. The game is literally built as a cash shop to get you to keep spending money. Every menu in that game is to drive you to purchase something. FPS market is so ripe to get disrupted, really needs to happen.
 
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i mean apex and fortnite and valorant already did that, didn't they? you don't even need to play for COD, warzone (and all the others) are f2p

i play BO6 multiplayer every day and enjoy it and have never spent a penny on skins (well, I bought the rambo skin years ago cuz fuck yeah but nothing else), if you have any amount of self control you can enjoy Call of Duty and not pay anything extra. Fortnite and COD have insane amounts of built in content and modes. The real big problem is young gamers ONLY play 1-2 GAAS games and don't buy ANY single player games at all, creating the vortex of suck nowadays where most games are sent out to die.

Theres no p2w or anything, pretty much any weapon works in nuketown or the small maps, I know because I only play to do the daily quests to force myself to try different weapons/loadouts and its fun. I don't play more than 30 mins a day but thats my FPS gaming fix
 
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I'm loving war thunder? Great F2P FPS. Sort of like old school bf1942 just without the infantry. Just planes and tonks. Which you pretty much always wanted in bf1942 anyway. Everyone would spawn camp the planes and tanks.
 
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Rajaah said:
Why is it that every time I find myself on a gaming website (looking up info on Bloodborne in this case), I ALWAYS see a bunch of breathless Dragon Age: The Veilguard articles in the trending tabs and in all the bottom of article thumbnails?

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Like they're trying so hard to make their readers think this game is relevant.
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Gaming websites staffed by trannies trying to push their message, also probably got paid a few $ to do it.
 
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Rajaah said:
This bluesky thing seems pretty fake and gay. AKA a bunch of posturing. Wonder how long it'll be "a thing" before people start going back to X so they can get actual engagement/views/attention from a platform that actually has a ton of people on it.
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I think you're wrong. Who the early adopters are, and why they're leaving X, doesn't matter in the long run.

The fact that you can choose your content algorithm(s), choose your moderation service(s), and that it's a protocol and not a platform means eventually everyone will end up there. A team of 20 people are currently building and supporting a platform 20mil+ users, which is efficiency even Elon would be impressed with. X did a lot of things right, but directly monetizing engagement will eventually be the death of it as a functional platform as bots continue to fill replies with slop for fake impressions.
 
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I think you're wrong. Who the early adopters are, and why they're leaving X, doesn't matter in the long run.

The fact that you can choose your content algorithm(s), choose your moderation service(s), and that it's a protocol and not a platform means eventually everyone will end up there. A team of 20 people are currently building and supporting a platform 20mil+ users, which is efficiency even Elon would be impressed with. X did a lot of things right, but directly monetizing engagement will eventually be the death of it as a functional platform as bots continue to fill replies with slop for fake impressions.
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Go on and post some maga shit on there and see how long you last or before you realize youre just talking to yourself. Its just another leftist virtue bubble as if the internet is not inundated with that shit already. People wanna say what they wanna say, not be moderated away for wrong think or self censoring to stay or better yet, be deemed as "misinformation" by some leftist blue haired cunt. Fuck that shit. I dont care how efficient they are. Who the fuck cares?
 
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Go on and post some maga shit on there and see how long you last or before you realize youre just talking to yourself. Its just another leftist virtue bubble as if the internet is not inundated with that shit already. People wanna say what they wanna say, not be moderated away for wrong think or self censoring to stay or better yet, be deemed as "misinformation" by some leftist blue haired cunt. Fuck that shit. I dont care how efficient they are. Who the fuck cares?
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Again, it's a protocol not a platform. Moderation on bsky.social only affects bsky.social, for people subscribing to the official moderation service. People can setup other ATProtocol apps and other moderation services. And yet it doesn't suffer from the same problems that Mastodon does because it's an actual protocol vs just a bunch of federated instances.

Ignore the early adopters, ignore even bsky.social itself. It's been a while since a relevant new protocol hit the web, but I think ATProtocol will ultimately lead to significant shift in how social media works and make it way more like the web/HTML before the internet became dominated by 5 websites filled with screenshots of the other 4.

(Remember that you're currently posting on a technology that pre-dates social media.)
 
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The official moderation is all that matters though. Bluecry is an echo chamber for degenerates, nothing more.
 
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The official moderation is all that matters though. Bluecry is an echo chamber for degenerates, nothing more.
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Exactly. And if you cant take freedom of speech and people calling you out on your dumb takes, get off the fucking internet and do some self introspection.
 
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