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I have a social anxiety disorder, and I'm on a forum for people who have that sort of thing. One of the users was showing off a VR program/game they were in the process of making, designed to help people with social disorders or autism learn to socialize with other people. It was very cool! There were different settings (like a store, or a party, or whatever), and lots of different difficulty settings to tinker with, including the "friendliness level" of the NPCs. It was very realistic looking, too. I signed up for their email list to hear about future updates, but haven't heard anything yet.

Tom Clancy's Endwar was released exactly two years before the Xbox Kinect came out, but yes it was on the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. ^^

Gaming isn't necessarily an non chemical addiction. The pleasure centers of the brain release dopamine when a person does something enjoyable. People have been known to become addicted to that sudden rush of the chemical. Some people can't get away from what it is that is releasing the dopamine, and have literally died from it. There have been gamers who dropped dead because they wouldn't leave their game for days on end. It's a psychological disease when it reaches that point, and a chemical addiction. Sure through therapy, they can learn to give up the games, but the brain will find other avenues to release dopamine. After a person beats an addiction, regardless of what that addiction was, it's 1000 times easier for them to fallback into it than people who haven't been an addict in some form. I'm a former addict. Combining the years I was using and the years it took to get clean, I lost 4 years of my life to heavy drug abuse. I'm 39 now, and with all the chemicals I put in my body, it's entirely possible that I may not make it to 40. I've been clean for 17 years, and every day is a war against myself. I keep thinking "just a taste". But it's never "just a taste". Not for drug abusers. Not for alcoholics. Not for gambling addicts. Not for gaming addicts. The disease of addiction takes many forms. Some beat it. Some simply can't. Some don't even want to. There's nothing we can do but watch from the sidelines.

Haha I agree. PC Gaming is a core part of the gaming industry: Will always stick by that! I think some games are better on console and I do agree they are a cheaper platform, but PCs still offer greater power and experience in my opinion

Honestly, after doing my research, I realized that Xiaomi is banned in a good number of countries, the US are the ones late to the party.

Legacy of the Dragonborn is a certified hit. Trust me, his description doesn't even come close to what it truly entails and it's compatible with lots of other popular mods. In addition, I'd like to add the Alternate Life Mod from Skyrim which basically let's you start the game from a different location than the original opening so you can start as a college of Winterhold student etc. and this also costs nothing.

We need that kind of backlash across a lot of platforms because they trying to hike the prices on everything. Retailers are particularly guilty of this and we need to put a stop to it.

I was aware it was a reference to Morrowind and that's why I always remembered it. The first time kind of took me back though, I'm not going to lie. While it was happening I was like am I supposed to do something here and then I see him just launch himself like a surface to air missile.

Addiction is actually a disease and not a lack of self discipline. Many addicts aren't given proper help due to society's failure to see it as a disease and treat it. In the sense of gaming, porn, or anything people do that doesn't require putting substances in their bodies still needs to be diagnosed as a disease. A gaming addict may be sleep deprived, eat little, nutrition deficient, poor social life; can interfere with their work and they lose their jobs or career. It's the same for any addiction. Of course, every case is different. Last thing an addict wants to hear is lacking self discipline as if you really have a choice. In a state of full blown addiction, you no longer have a choice. They usually need medical or psychiatric help. But it's not like a gamer will have life threatening withdrawals, so they won't need medical help. A good psyche evaluation may help find the deeper problem that led to gaming addiction in the first place. It could very well be this pandemic as an example, and anxieties that has worked its way into a person's life. Maybe they lost someone and just wants to do nothing but play games so they won't face it. It just could be anything. Addictions are not normal unless it is a chemical itself inducing it from drugs or alcohol. Otherwise, it's a definite psychological problem that may be at the root of it. But know, it isn't necessarily the psychological problem that is the disease, it is the psychological problem that led to the addiction, where the addiction itself is a disease. Many of us may feel addicted to gaming at times. But if your gaming interferes with your wellness (just like anything else, not excluded to gaming) it becomes a diseased state. Sure, we had the choice in the first place to put something in our bodies or stay up late gaming, but not being able to break the habit is no longer a self discipline issue. If you are into prolonged gaming and consume your required nutrition and get required exercise, and keep your work ethics, social life, etc. then you don't really have an addiction problem. Addiction literally = disease.

I'd say it's better to have some kind of vetting process games have to go through before they can be uploaded. That way, we won't have this issue of broken games being uploaded and we'd get higher quality games right out of the box.

PC is the lifeforce of the universe...wait wrong script...I mean PC gaming is the life blood of the gaming industry. Without it, no games could be developed.

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It should absolutely be legal, it's not more harmful than alcohol. Although I'm not qualified to address its addictive properties as I simply cannot get addicted to anything. I like to drink heavy and smoke during parties, but then after the party is over I Can go for months without touching either. There was also a period of my life when I smoked marijuana almost daily for 3 months, and still when I Rotated back to the world I didn't even think about having one.

I think we definitely need new section named - "Promoted Games". So that new game dev studios and the indie devs can go there and open the threads and we can check if we want to. All the sections randomly getting the threads like this kind of makes it harder to see which are ads and which are genuine threads.

You intentionally left out vital information, because you didn't want to seem like spam? That is called "bait and switch". You're trying to lure people in, and then change things up when they get there. You might as well show images of this game, but instead sell people Doom. Leaving out information that is needed comes across as a pyramid scheme to me. And the rate at which you jump your prices is flat out fucked up. That alone tells me that this game is nothing I could ever want a part of, no matter how "pretty" it seems. You're a scam artist, nothing more.

So let me get this straight. You didn't want to include a link to people best source of info for the game, your official website, with a roadmap, full details on features and full buying instructions for the game because that would be to "spammy". You did, however, include a link to a steam page that has limited info and you can't even buy from it. Who knows, maybe I am an alien from Jupiter's volcanic moon of Io, but that doesn't sense to me.

I apologize, I guess what I meant was the game isn't playable through steam; I can see now Beta access is granted though pledging on the game's official website, but how was I (or anyone) supposed to know that when you failed to mention any of this? The Steam link was the one only actually gave. With all due respect, you have not presented this well at all, and here I am doing all the legwork for to give the forum the information you should have. Prices are about what I'd expect for a pledge-supported game of this type, but still £42.99 is big commitment to play the game right now. As I said, the game looks decent and I wish you yourself and it nothing but the best, but try to present this better in the future. Keep us up to date.

OK, I'm starting to lose my patience a bit here. You wanna to promote your game, fine, I don't have an issue SSP when it's upfront, honest and a real endeavour, but why do so many of you just show up, not contribute anything then expect us to just lap it up? This is also copied and pasted, isn't it? You didn't even type out a more personal message and promo for the VGR forum. You want to know how I can tell? Because the links to your Discord and Steam page aren't links any more. When you copy and paste, only the text gets copied, not the link coding, that's why it didn't work. I know you're just trying to promote your game, and to be honest, it looks decent, but you need to show a wiliness to engage with people on forums like this to get a more positive reaction. EDIT: One more thing, how are we supposed to "play this game during quarantine" when the game isn't playable yet?

The DLC's for The Witcher 3, Skyrim and Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds are examples of great DLC's that add substantially to their base games at a very reasonable price. But by far best value DLC I have ever seen isn't technically a DLC but a mod. It's called "Legacy of the Dragonborn" for Skyrim. It's basically a treasure hunting mod that adds: A Museum to Solitude that has a unique display point for every unique item in the base game, DLC and even some other mods. Lore friendly new skins for most unique items and books. Hundreds of brand new lore-friendly items to find, collect and display. Multiple new fully voiced NPCs. Multiple New dungeons and questlines. A new Player home in the Museum. A new guild with a questline new skill tree's. Long story short it's about the size of and adds as many if not more hours to the game as the other 3 DLC's combined. The cost, absolutely nothing!

i once bought a ETS2 Key from G2A because it was way cheaper there than in steam, found out later that those keys might be illegal so i left it