Shagger

All you really did was promote your twitch channel in the end. It's innocent, but there is a right way and a wrong way to do these kinds of things. Find the right section of the forum, say your own version of "Here's my twitch channel, check it out if you want" and most importantly, only post it once.

You're close to becoming an affiliate? Well this conduct would be more applicable to an individual desperate for attention and unwilling to contribute, unlike a Twitch affiliate. I'm not gonna lie, I'm pissed. We owe you nothing. Wanna promote your twitch channel, fine, but spamming a forum like a depressed loon desperate for attention with the same topic at least twice weakens your case not only for twitch, but you cause for even being here. We don't sub, you don't care, clearly. It's spam, It's annoying and that is why everyone is ignoring it. If all want out of this forum is twitch subs, then don't be here.

This why I don't play FPT games. They make the excuse that's free to justify not only that they nothing but multiplayer (Although I admit some of these multiplayer are very good), but that somehow also make it fine to charge more that the cost full boar, full roar, brand-new AAA title for a cosmetic a colour change for a fucking gun. They pray on social pressure, especially amongst younger players, to promote what is basically bulling people into buying these god-damn skins and that is self-centred, cruel and manipulative, and they know damn well what they're doing. When I was a teen people were bullied for wearing cheap shoes, this is the same. Creating a social hierarchy to give immature assholes the excuse to be immature assholes. These games are made by people who would stand, watch and probably laugh as a kid was getting beat up for lunch money. Fuck these games.

I'm enjoying the Epic Sore. I'm enjoying it's game deals and I'm enjoying the cycle of free games, but none of that changes the fact @Crazycrabis correct, the money they're throwing at the exclusive games deals, that only serve to piss people off, isn't enough. They need the social features, the community features, user review features. Even the game download display is faulty and the progress percentages doesn't actually line up with how much has been downloaded. It's been 18 months and progress has been mad on feature updates, but it's not enough. PC gaming needs a service to end the monopoly that is Steam because has its own set of problems. I want EGS to be it and I think it can be, but they have to get their act together.

I'd re happy to see Magic Carpet 2 remastered just to the point where it, well, worked.

Trust me, it happens more often than you think. Indie dev's in particular can really suffer because once it's discovered games keys were bought fraudulently becasue they then have to pay the refunds for those keys whilst the thieves walk away with the money. G2A in particular have found themselves in hot water a lot over this the last few years. It's got so bad developers were asking players to pirate their games instead of buy them from key-resellers like G2A.

I appreciate that. As you said, you normally stay out of these sorts of things, but it's an honour to have that nomination.

Hit the nail on the head, and it's precisely why I don't buy gems from key-resellers, only official stores or from the developer direct. Instant-gaming, G2A, CDKeys, they're all risky and potentially very shady with used keys and even stolen keys being sold on them. HumbleBundle is different, they're legit as some other 3rp party stores like GMG, they deal with publishers and developers directly to obtain the keys they sell, but key-resellers should be avoided.

You can't. Because she won MOTM last time, she's exempt from this vote. This was explained in opening post from @DC. As worthy a member as @The Blackangelis, that's not how it works. If you want to make a nomination, it has to be someone else.

This is a tough one. A lot of members, new and old, have contributed well these last few weeks. But I have decided to nominate @skyfire.

Demon Souls. The "difficulty" is built around trial and error, and that's bullshit.

The big problem for me is deciding what my favourite game actually is. I'll go for a more recent one because the answer to older games is obvious, but also not their fault. I wish... Horizon Zero dawn... had... flying mounts?

Thanks for sharing. This really does look interesting and I'm exited to for it. Something very "Witcher" about it, I like it.

I've obviously struck a nerve somehow, so I'm just gonna drop it.

I also do like the "infinite" concept. You pretty much said it, it sounds cool. I'm looking forward to the long life f this game should I get the chance to try it out.

I'm well aware or the "past build" excuse for Halo's... let's say, issues with graphical fidelity, but those excuses only prompt another problematic question for 343 and Xbox, a question that fanboys would rather block than answer. Why wasn't there a more "up to date" demo ready? (please insert the answer here, but we both know there is no positive response). People can spin it how they want, but this was a cock up and worse, they just put that out there expecting the fans wouldn't notice, so that makes it an insult as well. All that along with the fact the there was no other actual gameplay demo's paints a very dire picture indeed. Don't get me wrong, Halo Infinite looks like a riot to play, but people are well within their right to expect more out of a next gen, AAA title, especially a $500million juggernaut like Halo, when it comes to graphics. As for the rest. Cool announcements, very promising games, but very little actual gameplay, other than the one that appeared to be last gen.

That's fair, I was just curious. You don't owe me that info.

If you don't mind me asking, where are you from?

Probably my favourite console. So may great games like FF10, FF12, MGS2, Primal, Devil May Cry, Onimusha Genii, The GTA games, so much good stuff.

This first one I remember playing was Combat on the Atari 2600, but it was on a multicart, so I might have played Basketball of something else first.

With all due respect that's a really self-centred, "bury your head in the sand" way to look at it. It hurts developers (especially indie developers), give thieves an easy avenue to get away with fraud, buyers have to risk buying a stolen game keys that could be revoked at any time without refund, but I get what I want, so it's cool, right? I obviously can't make you, I can only ask. Please, don't support G2A.

Based on what was said by Matt Booty just after the trailer for Avowed aired on the Xbox Showcase, sadly no.

I have touched on this before; It's so bad indie devs' were preferring fans to pirate their games rather than use G2A. I'd avoid key resellers altogether, but at the very least don't use G2A, they're basically an front for fraud.

First, I never said they wanted to release the game fully on console for the XBSX release. They said in the statement they were aiming for full release in 2021. What I said was they wanted to have the game out in some way, and they chose Early access on Steam XBox's equivalent, Game Preview. Xbox having the right to remove games from game pass is weak argument for a game that isn't even out yet, not to mention I'm quite sure Xbox's own games don't get removed from the service, why would they? The fact this game's publisher makes revenue of XBGP means that, indirectly, XBGP does fund the development of this game, albeit only in part. If I had an XBGP subscription, or even XBLG for that matter, I wouldn't want to believe even one penny of that was going toward the development of a game for beta codes to just be given away to just anyone. Because of that, giving current XBGP subscribers the chance to take part in closed beta makes sense, apart from that XBGP has something like 10 million members, so it would have to be lotteries or something like that and that's more bullshit to deal with. I fully agree with you that early access was not made for major publishers and larger game studios, but this more complicated than you're making it out to be. Xbox Game Studios may not be WHO early was made for, but that doesn't mean this game isn't WHAT early access was made for. If this game was near completion or ready to launch "live service" style to be updated as a full game, I would agree with you 100%, but this doesn't seem to be the case. People buying early access know the score, at least in this case they can feel more confident that will game will come out and their investment will pay off because a major publisher is involved. You buy the game cheap on early access or XB Game Preview, play it, offer feedback and do it all with far more assurance that most early access or crowdfunded games that the game will come out and you've save money over the final release price. Obsidian gets that valuable player feedback without having to deal with the policy minefield of once would associate with closed beta's amongst paying Xbox Members. Xbox getslower the investment slightly into the development, saving them money, whilst letting their publisher be free and just get on with having deal within extra bulk of their stress. I'm not saying perfect, but I can't think of a better way all round and everyone gets a win here.

This has been discussed before. The short version is no, and that's not about to change.