I was with these guys back when they were making Might & Magic Dark Messiah (heck I'm even in the credits). It's truly great seeing them becoming the master of first person combat.

Watched this yesterday. Although I already had super low expectations, I didn't expect even those expectations to fail. The characters are beyond basic, the plot is flat, and the few little bits of action scenes are nothing to write home about even compared to movies from a couple decades ago.

I didn't mind the whitewashing TOO much, but that's really not the core of the problem. For me anyway. It's simply that the whole thing was entirely uninteresting, and felt like a B-rated indie movie with expensive special effects. The ticket cost aside, the movie was not even worth my time. If I wasn't with friends I probably would have walked out about half way through.

With Nier Automata also out on the market and Persona 5 around the corner. This is an obvious skip.

I think a Donate button, and if the PUBLISHER gets to compensate some modders on number of subscriptions (similar to how YouTube awards ad revenue to content creators for view time).

I definitely think modders will create better mods if they are compensated. However, paid modding is not the only way, and from the sound of things Valve is considering alternative ways of compensating modders after the failure that was Skyrim paid mods.

Coop tends to ruin games like this for people who truly enjoy the genre. However, at the same time I think more choices are great. It'd allow players intimidated by the series to team up and get the game. It doesn't matter to me if some other players are cheesing through the game via coop, but more sales does mean a more successful series and more Nioh down the trek for me.

@BLiTZ_156: Supply of indie and early access titles, you mean.

Both the AAA and larger indies seem to be doing fine in terms of supply.

@BLiTZ_156: However, the only relevant consideration is whether a user is a potential buyer of games or not. It doesn't matter if they game 2 hours in a week or 10 hours in a day, if they game, then they're potential buyers. There are only two samples contrary to this in this thread, and honestly they didn't provide any logical reason at all as to why they have Steam installed on a non-gaming platform or if they don't play games on Steam. That hardly means anything.

Let's say hypothetically 3 mil out of 14 mil online users are in games, that does not in any way prove that the remaining 11 mil online users would not play games at some point or buy products. Indeed, it's far more likely that the gaming portion of the online users constantly rotate across a spectrum, due to timezone and personal schedules.

Now you are going off an entire tangent about how physical sales differ from digital sales. I don't see how it's relevant to the original point in any way.

Are you a dev? If so, are you familiar with the concept of price discrimination? If not, your understanding of the merits of Steam sales is very flawed.

@BLiTZ_156: How does concurrent players matter over concurrent online?

Users who are logged into Steam at any given time would almost always at some point play games during the week and whatnot. The only purpose a Steam account serves is gaming, and it's not something that comes pre-installed with systems. As such, each active Steam user, who at least play games sometimes, is a potential customer for a publisher.

On the other hand, concurrent users online for consoles may technically contain a small percentage of users who use their consoles exclusively for multimedia purposes instead of gaming.

Also the game has both full English and Japanese voice over. It was a joy going full weeb, since the Japanese voice acting is pretty good.

@tinoush: Doesn't matter when I buy my games usually around $10-$20. Recently sold my copy of Bloodborne with my PS4, and the game itself netted a massive decline in value (as expected).

Resaleability of games hardly matter when you can buy them super cheap, and refund them digitally if they fail your expectations.