I'm not sure why exactly, the usual suspects are all "don't spam racial slurs on forums", which even as absurd as that is when real products are on the table, that leaves an awful lot on the table for "fuck you, that's why" bans.
Makes me glad I've never given 'em a buck, even though I have a whole lot of games I've claimed as freebies over the years.
I can't give enough agree stickers.
Unfortunately there's a lot of collateral damage. Yes, it's shit AAA devs that are getting the worst of it, but there's things like Microsoft announcing Xbox Live for 360 is being shut down in July, and that they're getting rid of their physical media division. Meanwhile Ubisoft is asking if people would pay $100 for a AAA game.
They did jump on the bandwagon off added "You can't sue us ever and if you do it must be arbitration" bandwagon Sony, Patreon, and other tech companies were doing at the time. That was quietly reversed after some political pundit was kicked off Patreon and Patreon couldn't pay the arbitration fees as the guys fanbase did a bit of malicious compliance.
afaik valve never bans your whole account, just functions of it where you can't play multiplayer or use community features. anything else would open them up to an easy lawsuit, so why bother as long as those people can still spend money?
Xbox is trying their all digital bullshit again so maybe that crash is closer than we think. I know I'm not going to be giving the cunts anymore money. I can't overstate how much I despise digital only consoles as they've consistently shown they can't be trusted not to try and squeeze us for every shekel. You can bet this will be when they bump up their prices too as they know all the wee kids who have no concept of money and have access to mommy's credit card will happily pay £90 for they newest goyslop game.
Oh they’re a different studio and devs? The style and assets are essentially the exact same. They have to be working in collaboration with each other, there is just no way.
Going to repeat what I mentioned a page back, but with more clarity.
A lot of the community boards, especially in contentious games, have handed out bans just for stating that the game is bad. I'm sure tranny jannies would love to have permission to lock you out of your account.
I'm shocked it lasted this long.
It's way too early for that. I doubt most people are still comfortable with $70. Whatever, Ubisoft's already on my blacklist.
Or $20 if you didn't get at least the Deluxe Edition. It's currently sitting at "Very Negative" on Steam:
I actually completely agree with you there. People expecting landfills full of games to signal another crash are going to be waiting a long time.
All of the above are signals of the end for sure and they have been trying all this shady shit before (horse armour anyone?) but they have always been pushed back by the customers which makes them end up backtracking. The reason why I believe Microsoft's push for digital only is where we are truly fucked is simply because very soon we will have no options left to fight back. If you have a digital only service on the console you can say goodbye to cheap games, fairly priced DLC, actual ownership of your games in the long term, paying extortion fees for multiplayer and a host of other bullshit. PC gaming will probably never die, console gaming though is done. It's certainly done for me as I'll be fucked if I'm going to pay £100 for a digital game I don't even own. Fuck that for a game of soldiers.
Horse armour was where all the bullshit with DLC started. It's innocent enough sure until you remember that you used to be able to play a game in order to unlock extra costumes and what not. The new Yakuza game adding New Game+ behind a paywall was only doable because we've let them get away with this shit for so long. Those slope kikes take us for a bunch of mongoloids and the worse fucking part about it is that they are right, people will still spend the money to buy it.
