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I don't get why @Empire and @skyfire are being so negative about this. What Valve and the other companies listed were doing was blocking game codes purchased in one part of the EU from being used in another parts of the EU. Remember, the all of Europe is part of the PAL region, so there should be region blocking for software nor hardware. These companies did this to ensure that people were paying the highest price for those games across the whole continent no what matter what that country's indigenous market, economic status and local law dictates as fair, which is incredibly shady and purpose built to rip people off. As gamers, we should be praising them for taking this action. Quick reminder, as a mod', this is not the politics sub-forum, so please avoid the political discussion. You wanna talk politics, do so on the correct part of the forum.

Name any of the seemingly endless series "simulator" games out there, odds are this company published it. This is nothing new, and with all due respect, nothing interesting. At least Police 1013's development has been such a spectacular train wreck that it made discussion of the game interesting. Besides, if you're gonna create a game whare you role play as a police officer, why make it a simulation of what is, in reality, quite a boring, bureaucratic job? Games like Farming Simulator and Construction Simulator (1,2 and 3, all published by the same company, btw) are at least boring because that's the limits of the reality they emulate, it's not the fault of the game. But in a police sim', there is no such excuse because there is exiting fantasy lurking around such a concept that this game clearly has no intention to embrace. The trailer makes the game look even more boring that I had even feared. I checked out the developer, and honestly, there's very little to say. Based in Germany with a handle of indie's that don't connect to this game in any way. They're not responsible for this game's identity and were clearly a developer for hire. This just another Astragon "Simulator". It could have been made by just about anyone and it would be exactly the same. Sorry to be so harsh @Kane99, but I don't really understand why you even posted this. Your post reads like a promotion of a dull rendition of an unoriginal concept that'll likely be forgotten even before it comes out. That's why I've gone to this length with this much detail in creating this reply, because I need you understand why I don't understand why you're excited for this. So, why are you excited for this, especially over other police games?

May as well give this a bump as we have a new trailer. Enjoy.

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I've said it before, and I still stand by it, despite it being a minority's opinion in the gaming community. Video games are not art. I say that because they serve a purpose beyond themselves. To entertain, to educate as well as provide challenge and competition. So, I compare them to borad games or card games. However, there's a lot of art to be found within their design, much like playing cards and chess pieces. I bring this up because this topic makes me think of a game called Child of Light. It's a 2D, open side-scrolling RPG game. Everything about it is work of art, and that's it's appeal. It's obviously gorgeous with a vibrant, watercolor art style with a heartfelt story. Even the dialogue itself is a work of art, it's all written as poetry. The only reason I don't consider it as a work of art is because it's actually a good game, with a dynamic turn based battle system and more exploration that one might expect. It's an easy game to recommend and I feel is one of Ubisoft's overlooked gems.

Nothing wrong with having both, just so long as you're not stretching yourself financially to do so.

Don't listen to her @michaelwilson, she's crazy. None of us are this nice.

@Kane99. This is a stupid topic. Syntax is right, you may as well ask why more games don't feature the Easter Bunny. You knew the answer before you even asked the question.

It's very difficult for game game developers to see the difference as their programming it. A match loss for disconnecting, but without being branded a cheat, I think is as fair as can be expected.

For game storage? No.

Most of those were knock-off, clone consoles filled with crappy (and often illegal) ROM's, kind of like that stupid thing Soulja Boy was trying to peddle a couple of years ago. I remember the Wii in particular had dozens of these things and they were all crap. They basically excited to fool ignorant parents into buying from kids. At least most of them had the common sense to be cheap, unlike Soulja Boy who tried to sell his for the price of a PS4. Fucking idiot.

You're exactly right. The limits I as refering to earlier set a high bar whare anything above it is generally unacceptable, but also set a low bar where complaints about anything below it are generally an attempt to take censorship too far and in those circumstances it is the case whare people need to lighten up and not take whatever it is so seriously. People who make a stand on either side of those limits need to be prepared to face the consequences and take responsibility for what the say and do. Listening to both sides is important because that tends to draw people back in between those lines to a compromise.

I would be fine paying a little bit more for new game that than typical in the past if it wasn't for the fact that new games are only getting worse with the special editions, microtransactions and DLC. Games being rushed out the door too early don't really factor into wether or not I'm willing to pay more money, but more onto my willingness to buy them at launch or them at all. I try to avoid that these days.

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This is just going to be Madden, except with EA paying less royalties than they normally do. Everything, all the way down to the lootboxes (oh, sorry, "suprise mechanics"), will be exactly the same with the only expectations being the team names, motifs and shirt designs will be that of colleges instead of the NFL. They'll probably embarrass themselves by including Madden and/or NFL artwork on banners and flags by mistake. This is going to be a terrible, lazy rip off. I'm calling it now.

@The Blackangel did start a topic about this situation in the politics sub-forum, so I think I'll merge the topics together as this isn't directly a gaming issue. It's still nice to see the these people are not only not the hypothesis that the top 1% of Wall Street clearly are, but are actually kinder as well.

I've this from Video game deals to general gaming. That's whare it really should have been to begin with. And I'll say the same thing I always say, key re-sellers shouldn't be trusted.

Deal expired, locking thread Well, I just got this game for free by checking the PlayStation store via my console, but the PlayStation Store website indicates a 35% discontent price until 3/2/2021. So, I'm a little confused. I didn't see any indication that the game's "free" price was for PS+ members only, nor did I see any sale end dates for that price on the console either. So my advice is log onto your consoles NOW and try and claim this just in case it's some sort of error and take advantage while the opportunity is there.

I can see why that would get confusing. I remember do a poll on what I think was my Kindoms of Amalur: Re-Reckoning review and getting thrown off by the same thing. Maybe there's a way to fix it so people can fill poll parameters without having to switch tabs?

First off, explain to me at what point I'm trying to decide for somebody else what should be censored and what shouldn't? In fact, when did I even mention censorship at all? That's not what the thread is about anyway. You're doing that a lot here, claiming that people who aren't agreeing with you to be censors clearly because you find that easier to debate against. You see censorship as stifle of free speech, and I suppose it kind of is, but free speech, like society, has limits of what's acceptable. You can't have a world people can say and do whatever they want. Ironically, though, you're the one who wants a world without people having a choice because you want a world whare nothing is censored and anyone who finds something in bad taste are the ones who get blamed for feeling that way. In your world, people can be sexist, racist, ageist, homophobic, trasnphobic, defile others religious beliefs and be as exploitative as they want in the name of creative freedom, and damb anyone who dares stifle that. The obvious problem with that, in fact there's several obvious problems with that, but more specifically minorities are ones who will be almost certainly be attacked and possibly even demonized by such a system with no way to fight back, causing what might be a massive human rights issue. And why, just so people create games like Rape Lay, Kill the Faggot and Ethnic Cleansing? Pardon me, but I don't think that's worth it. Creative fiction and the reality those who create it live in are reflections of each other, so imagine a reality whare those kinds of games are acceptable. I dread to think. Despite what you falsely claim and they way you put words in my mouth, doesn't change fact you're right, it's not up to me what's acceptable and what's not, but it damb sure isn't up to you either. That's a responsibility that can't rest on one person, or even group of people. That can only be set by society itself. That's what organisations like ratings boards and the community feedback systems that work with them are there for, to measure soicity as guide to set these limits and enforce them. It's not a perfect system, but it's the best we can realistically do.

I'm not sure I agree with you there. More modern games with the better tech used to craft them really blur the lines between video games and motion pictures and have allowed developers to tell stories in a more contemporary way. Even if you're right and developers could spend less time fussing about with graphics and focusing more on story, let's be honest, back in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras, most developers didn't exactly take advantage of that. Most games told pretty much the same, clichéd stories like save the princess from the evil lord whatever or some shit.

I do feel this is the beginning of the end for Sadia, and it's not like alot of people will miss it. It has been a complete joke from day one. Nor am I suprised to see Google giving up, it certainly isn't the first time they've something like this.

What you're implying here and in your other posts is that when people do, say or create something that's in bad taste, that the controversy is everyone else's fault for recognising it as bad taste, which is complete nonsense. There's a big difference between people turning something into a controversy when it just isn't and people calling out something for having no purpose other than being deliberately offensive and intended to hurt.

In the days of CD-ROMS, that was pretty common.

I don't want a game to hold my hand, all I want is quest markers (because I don't consider that hand holding, just convenience) and for a game to understand the difference between offering a problem to solve and being cryptic.