Comments by "Gakusangi" (@Gakusangi) on "Upper Echelon" channel.

  1. I somehow doubt the extra time will make a bad movie more than slightly better. I mean, the reason the LotR extended editions work is because they were good movies first, and even better with the extra content added back in... which as a marketing thing, meant to generate even more money. Just like this re-cut is a marketing thing, meant to make WB more money.
    2
  2.  @duckmeat4674  False. If I knew that I had one of five hard copies of something and burned it, I'm willingly denying that to anyone else that might want it and denying it's ability to archived thanks to my contribution by instead destroying. I'm not sure what you're on about.
    2
  3.  @thorin1045  It's not a matter of the anti-virus, it's not a matter of the predatory monetization, it's not a matter of general drops in quality, it's not a matter of gutting the content to stagger a steady release of it instead of all together, it's not a matter of increasing prices, it's not a matter of exclusivity, it's not a matter of poor refund policies, it's not a matter of shoddy upkeep that results in hackers and bad connectivity, it's not a matter of no long owning the thing you buy and having the risk of it disappearing forever... it's all of those things. When you put all of those small things together you get a really really big problem with industry, how it's being managed and how it will inevitably crash all over again. It's about who you want to be when that all happens, the person that took precautions and warned everyone, or the person that has to suffer the consequences of ignoring it. If you're the latter, you fall into two sub-categories. The people that pretend everything is fine when it's not and the people that complain while having done nothing to prevent what happened to them.
    2
  4.  @krookedvulture  Pirating is not defined by whether you own the game or not or have ever paid for it. It's when it is obtained illegitimately. Even if I own the games legitimately doesn't suddenly change the fact that I'm obtaining them illegally. That's why the discussion of whether it is "moral" to pirate is an entirely different discussion as to whether it is "legal" to pirate software. Understand what you're talking about first before making bold claims that somehow this makes the same thing a different thing because of context.
    2
  5.  @krookedvulture  I didn't say it would magically fix it. Logically, it would. If they make no money they'd stop producing games. And as the indie gaming community shows, there's people willing to deliver something based on the demands and desires of the customer-base, the gamers. They'd essentially move in to become the new AAA industry in the wake of everyone else f-ing off because they can't maintain their companies with this idea of perpetual growth. Publishers have only been around so long because they moved in and convinced everyone a long time ago that they were necessary and then they've managed to keep themselves around because they keep pushing the envelop on what they can get away with and people have let them do that. Now they're finally hitting a wall. There's some push back and it's definitely made some ripples. They'll either have to change to sustain or they'll have to abandon ship and cut their losses. Either way, I call that a big win for us, and a piracy would most certainly play a role in that if more people did it. It doesn't instantly FIX anything, but also doesn't hinder what we actually want to happen, change. More specifically, change for the better. We already see other industries also starting to take these hits. Movies and comics are a great example. Western comics are getting trounced by alternatives that display better quality and greater creative vision, with manga and BD's. Massive movie franchises that have steadily been turned into money machines are now failing to make significant gains to their costs. See the failure of Star Wars and Marvel in the past few years. Yes, they'll kick and scream and fight it out as long as they can, but eventually it will change and we, as the people that have the agency to choose where our money and support goes, plays a major role in that. THAT is my point. Piracy is just a part of that in gaming.
    2
  6. I certainly won't be buying one of their titles on their storefront to fully support them, again. I also won't be pre-ordering anything they make again, not without seeing it working first. And not in some promo trailer either, I mean a couple of weeks of actual gameplay from customers. I also won't be singing their praises to anyone ever again.
    2
  7. I will be impressed if any legal action is even threatened, let alone taken.
    2
  8.  @MazdaTiger  Well, DA also can't help but make the worst decisions, it wouldn't be DA otherwise. Look at the new Eclipse launch and how months leading up to it, people sampling the update all hated it, but DA went ahead anyway.
    2
  9.  @arnoschaefer28  We've been watching those bubbles inflate for how long now?
    2
  10.  @valebonfi4482  For less than $60 we got a fully finished game with five classes, a fully voice campaign w/cutscenes, endgame activities and regular updates and no additional fees... that was called Diablo II. Doesn't sound like much more got added for that $70 price tag and games are even cheaper and make and distribute today than they've ever been.
    2
  11.  @doubtful_seer  We are ALSO thinking of the children, they're just as likely to develop gambling addictions if they're being conditioned into them. The cam girls part just makes twtich profitable, but trashy AND considering the normal demographic of viewership is between 12 and 30, that means a large portion of people under the age of 18 are being exposed to casino mechanics and borderline explicit content. Both of these are BAD, should technically violate the ToS on Twitch, and in some cases be outright illegal.
    2
  12. I wonder how other people can try to get involved.
    1
  13. Failing the dlc by letting time lapse is very reminicent of Daggerfall's main story, which you can just choose to miss out on by ignoring it.
    1
  14.  @nerobiblios4086  I think the "amazing" portion is debatable based on the type of game it was and who would find that enjoyable, same with Greedfall and the genre it falls into. That being said, it does say a lot that Hellblade was worth $20 less, so we'll have to see what if this game has enough to push it that far. Upper Echelon is the only person I've heard speak negatively about this game at length, we'll see if that inspires others to voice more negative opinions on the game. Until then, I'll remain hopefully optimistic before I commit to buying it.
    1
  15. Zuck is even a hot topic right now, so I can't wait.
    1
  16. Well my critical revolver build will like this area XD
    1
  17. It has a lot of mechanics and content to provide depth but none are fully refined or realized to have depth.
    1
  18. You know carrying the biggest nuke with little defense against a nuclear strike is bad enough. That is something that requires a lot of resources and funding in most cases as well. This doesn't even require anything but knowledge of a vulnerability that people meant to protect us are very aware of and would rather keep as an exploit to use against their enemies. At the end of the day, they've left us not at the mercy of a rival nation, but any individual that wants to get a paycheck.
    1
  19. The change of Twitter from an echo chamber for censorship and cancel culture into a free speech platform would not only be monumental, it might even set off a great change in social media platforms all over.
    1
  20. We're cultivating a culture of squirrel-brained people with no attention span. How will any of them function without constant and constantly CHANGING stimulus?
    1
  21. Take the victory, but make it happen everywhere, on all fronts. They'll backpedal when they realizes there's just more of us than can be ignored.
    1
  22. Wonder if this means we'll stop seeing so much pandering to a Chinese gamer market.
    1
  23. I wanna support his, because it's impressive work for a tiny team, and I think there should be more indie developers that bother to put quality into their work active in the industry. Sadly, the inclusion of survival mechanics and weapon degradation just makes this not a game for me ^^;
    1
  24. So is this kinda like Warframe with a jet pack?
    1
  25.  @xyr3s  They are adding some open world elements, but yes, it's mostly just instance-based, but gomeplay-wise are they...similar?
    1
  26. I think it's fckt whether he buys it or not. So much dirty laundry has been aired out already with concerns to how it's managed behind the scenes, lies given to government institutions and deceptive numbers to its advertisers is all a lot of damage that'll be pretty hard to bounce back from.
    1
  27. Even our sanctions mean little to nothing. Look around your house and ask yourself how much of anything in it you got from Russia. Then on top of it, we get all their people locked out of their banks and continue to push them towards other rivals we have who are more than willing to lend them a hand when NATO is trying to shut them down. Wow, it's a mystery why things are going so badly, isn't it =P
    1
  28. Mike definitely hit the nail on the head here, a bunch of people getting offended FOR people that they perceive as being victimized without the self-awareness to understand that by dictating what those people should and should not be offended by, and assuming they need to be defended, is in itself a form of disrespect for those people, and clearly not regarding them as equals. Happens with me all the time around Thanks Giving, since I'm Native American, and everyone suddenly decides that they're offended for me.
    1
  29. A blind playthrough...blind...they're concerned that people WATCHING a stream, will be offended by the world "blind"...I'm...I'm so confused XD How many blind people WATCH a game stream?
    1
  30. How, is the question.
    1
  31. I don't think anything can be overly harsh in this regard, it's just open honesty about how someone feels about something.
    1
  32. I dunno, what was promised wasn't just a functioning game, it was supposed to be feature rich and revolutionary. This game lacks in any immersive content for an open-world RPG, and I argue the "open" part of that considering the initial lockdown at the start of the game, and the level-locked loot system that doesn't encourage me to visit areas outside the ones I'm currently in without going through their linear path of progression, since I can be denied access to rewards I would get from exploration and combat due to being too low of a level... in a single player game... where I'm encourage to play my way.
    1
  33. Anything that's advertising itself as a "mental wellness" application should be subject to some kind of medical oversight in order to avoid being potentially harmful to the general public.
    1
  34. Or he'll get backed up by people with money that have been elevating him and want to save face before having it publicly outed that they've been supporting and following along with a con man, either knowingly or unknowingly.
    1
  35. The people that really need to hear about this are the ones that champion all this crap getting thrown in our video games and movies over the past like ten years. Not that they'd really care, but it's nice to see how much pretending is feeding into itself here. Publishers and studios are paying lip service to get investors while doing anything but genuine representation, their shills and other phony influencers are all just doing it for the attention and to assert power over something they want to take from others and anyone else just gets stuck with the crap product and over-inflated costs associated with it. These people aren't for anyone's cause or visibility, they're in it for the money, while some people think that's fine as long as they also get what the want, that'll only last until it STOPS making them money and then where will you be?
    1
  36. "catch a body"?
    1
  37. OBJECTION! Well... I guess that's not untrue.
    1
  38. Get in touch with your reps, tell them that Google is trying to force ad views while not holding quality standards and putting your data and money at risk. I'm sure they would love nothing more than to regulate a major portion of the internet even harder.
    1
  39. They're trying to use their critics to boost their presence. Sounds pretty standard. There's a woefully confused idea in the entertainment industry that there's no such thing as bad coverage. Well, when it doesn't actually translate into profit, that's when they'll start re-thinking that.
    1
  40. When you're born into money and then make a corporate empire that makes you one of the most wealthy people on earth, you are not of the normal populace. You have a different perspective on reality, it is unavoidable. You're like an alien person to society at large because you just haven't the same kind of life experience. It's the same reason why American politicians represent the common citizen 0.00%, because they've never BEEN a common citizen.
    1
  41.  @ohnosmoarlulcatz  not sure it counts as choice considering Epic exclusivity deals being a big reason why anyone goes there.
    1
  42.  @chrisll3438  and I'm discussing potential for intent to have one, or building on a foundation that can grow into one.
    1
  43. Go for 50% off if you think it's even worth half of a game.
    1
  44.  @johndoe8442  Unfortunately, it's a nation of serial spenders.
    1
  45.  @VainSick  and as I said, if they want Chinese dollars they can pay higher fees here for it XD
    1
  46. What was that things about spells? Did he expect higher level spells slots to be able to cast lower level spells? Is that actually a THING in D&D? Without like a feat or class feature to allow you to?
    1
  47.  @DayWalker_83  Fair and that might be part of the issue to. You see that a lot with legacy studios, the old talent has cycled out, but you're not really getting that same kind of experience every time.
    1
  48. 11 Body got me all the reload, and shotgun damage stuff I could ever need with this setup. This allowed me a 20 Reflexes, 20 Cool, and 18 Tech (for crafting legendary). Now how do you manage the pump-action on those other shotguns? Because Carnage and Headsman are both really slow in their fire rates compared to Sovereign, which is ready to go after each reload. Comrade's Hammer is even faster than them.
    1
  49. @Zark That's interesting. Does that actually work?
    1
  50. It's not like he has to be there or do anything, he has a whole team of people he hired for all of that XD
    1