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spronk · Sep 29, 2023

i don't believe new EA games jump on GamePass or EA Play, instead they are part of Origin Premiere which is a lot more $$ and on PC only. Still, all of them jump on to EA Play (and GP) within 6-9 months anyways

Gamepass also has a bunch of great games coming out next month beyond forza like Gotham Knights, Lamplighters (launch afaik) and a few others

cities skyline 2 also has been delayed for consoles, it'll still be up on PC but no date anymore for console version. Dunno about pulling saves out of gamepass games but its a lot easier nowadays since they dumped UWP and everything is stored in regular file win64 file folders without any weird permissions. Still, it is a different location for save files and it may not be possible to import it into steam. A lot of games do pretty good native cross save nowadays though, like baldurs gate 3 lets you play on steam and import the save straight into any console, ubisoft does it for all their new games.

meStevo · Sep 29, 2023

Yeah I should have added that those would be game trials. Those are all on EA Play, and neither of those games are on PC, which is where the Premiere sub is. That sub is only $99 a year btw, and since I'd buy Madden and maybe one or two other things it pays for itself and then some typically.

joz123 · Sep 29, 2023

Saw they are going to discontinue the Series X that plays discs because the new models will all be discless. Will have to grab a X if they get to 400ish, prolly around Black Friday.

Brikker · Sep 30, 2023

I thought CA put all their eggs in the Warhammer basket...

Regime · Sep 30, 2023

joz123 said:
Saw they are going to discontinue the Series X that plays discs because the new models will all be discless. Will have to grab a X if they get to 400ish, prolly around Black Friday.

That sucks glad I have both Ps5 and x1x disc.

Gavinmad · Sep 30, 2023

spronk said:
great games... ...Gotham Knights,

ooh lawdy

spronk · Oct 3, 2023

if only they would cancel TLOU3 and the show now

joz123 · Oct 3, 2023

Target having a good deal on Xbox Series X right now. I had a target circle coupon for 15% off plus another one for 10 dollars off, and they are doing a promo for a free 70 dollar game with the purchase. I cancelled the free game with it and getting the system for about 405 after taxes.

Regime · Oct 4, 2023

spronk said:
if only they would cancel TLOU3 and the show now

Wow

joz123 said:
Target having a good deal on Xbox Series X right now. I had a target circle coupon for 15% off plus another one for 10 dollars off, and they are doing a promo for a free 70 dollar game with the purchase. I cancelled the free game with it and getting the system for about 405 after taxes.

Utnayan · Oct 5, 2023

Ass creed mirage sucks. (Shocking) don’t fall for the trap. There is a reason its list price is 49.99.

Skeezer · Oct 5, 2023

Thank you for saving me 50 bucks.

Gavinmad · Oct 5, 2023

spronk said:
if only they would cancel TLOU3 and the show now

25 QA testers getting laid off isn't news, it's a day ending in Y.

joz123 · Oct 5, 2023

People do game testing as a regular job? I did that as a side thing as a teenager to get free games like Monster Rancher and shit.

Palum · Oct 5, 2023

joz123 said:
People do game testing as a regular job? I did that as a side thing as a teenager to get free games like Monster Rancher and shit.

Well they used to

Gavinmad · Oct 5, 2023

If you live near a software development hub (Austin for example) then you can usually bounce around from studio to studio while you build a resume in pursuit of a permanent position.

Caeden · Oct 6, 2023

And still get underpaid because it’s a “desirable fun job?”

Tuco · Oct 6, 2023

Caeden said:
And still get underpaid because it’s a “desirable fun job?”

I imagine most baseline QA testers who want to get paid big $$$ in the future have a plan to elevate into other game development careers. Automated testing of games (and other software with game-like interfaces) is a pretty good career and someone with a strong background as a QA tester has an advantage.

Gavinmad · Oct 6, 2023

Caeden said:
And still get underpaid because it’s a “desirable fun job?”

QA testers get paid an appropriate amount of money for the qualifications that their position requires.

Rajaah · Oct 6, 2023

Ambiturner said:
Twitter wasn't "profitable" when he took it over

Yeah that's what I'm saying. A supposedly "profitable" company, once Musk took over, was revealed to be running at a loss of about $4M a WEEK.

Some unknown entity was financing and keeping it afloat before.

Rajaah · Oct 6, 2023

I can't speak for the actual game because I haven't had a chance to do anything with it yet, but AC Mirage has an outstanding preorder bonus. I expected this "art print" to basically be a glorified postcard and instead I got something high-quality.

I hope the effort put into this bodes well for the effort put into the game.

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