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

  1. 16X the bank account! You see that profit? You can climb it.
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  2. True, but at the same time, the ire of gamers is growing. People continue to get more and more angry at EGS every week and month. Eventually, that anger will turn into backlash and once backlash happens, Epic cannot contain that no matter how many exclusives they get. I have a list of EGS exclusives that I've decided not to buy if they ever appear on Steam as a wallet protest against the publisher. Borderlands 3 is on the list.
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  3. Yes it is. I want to say it is the first of its kind but that dubious honor goes to No Man's Sky.
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  4. Mob rule lead to Classic WOW after Blizzard shut down Nostalrius
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  5.  @dex6147  Were they? Could you provide a link to back that up?
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  6. 2:43 Bethesda's statement is a real thing. Unlike Fallout 3 and 4, Fallout 76 stores your items in a database. Every time you open your inventory, the game has to make a call to the database to ensure it has the current catalog. Sometimes this happens between views to pre-cache the data so that you don't experience lag. If you double the limit, then that doubles the amount of time it takes to read the data. Now granted, we're talking milliseconds, but in a shared online environment, a millisecond becomes exponential across all players. For this reason, ALL online games -- from WOW to Diablo 3, and Fortnite to Guild Wars 2 -- have to limit to inventory space. Fallout 76 is no exception. If they gave EVERYONE uncapped inventory space that would very quickly crash the databases. In fact, under such a scenario, a single person continually opening and closing their inventory could, in theory, crash the database and the game. The only way to make inventory unlimited is to go with an offline model like Fallout 3 and 4 or give the player a dedicated world where what they do has no impact on the main game. In case you think I'm full of BS, I work in the IT department of a multi-million dollar eCommerce company. I know a thing or two about databases and how they work for live services. All that said, that they didn't take into account hoarding as a signature behavioral feature of Fallout games, and that such a thing wouldn't work in a shared online environment with character's items stored a database, is bad game design and horrible information architecture.
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  7. Games-as-a--Service (GAAS) permits unfinished but working products to exist. The problem is gamers don't know what Games-as-a-Service are. Basically video gamers aren't ready for GAAS products.
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  8. 4:24 The official release date said by Bioware at E3 2018 is 2/22 and it has ALWAYS been 2/22. Any bugs you've experienced hasn't been addressed because EA isn't concerned with the 2/15 date. 2/22 is the date EA is shooting for to ensure Anthem is in the best state possible. In other words, people paid EA via their subscription to effectively beta test for the actual release date. So nobody got their money's worth from early access. EA is outsourcing their game's QA to people willing to oblige with their credit card. That's the deal here.
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  9. 2:13 All of that isn't Anthem. All of that is No Man's Sky. A game that was unfinished at launch. Here's how unfinished it was. There were screenshots on the game's Steam store page that showed content that was not in the game like fleet battles and Sentinel Walkers. It took Hello Games about three years to get the game to the promised state. I never got to experience NMS for the first time as it is today. My time with it is ruined by bugs and incomplete content.
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  10. Epic made over 3 billion last year, and yet their store is held together by popsicle sticks and glue. Steam had preloading for Half-Life 2 as far back as 2004, during a time when ALL consoles only had physical media. In other words, for PC gamers, preloading has been a standard thing for the past 15 years until Epic launched this year. Their store is a complete joke, and nobody should support it. I'm not saying I don't want competition against Steam. I am simply against how Epic is trying to grow their business. They're doing everything wrong, and consumers are the ones getting burned the worst.
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  11. Horribly unpolished and unbalanced just like the Epic Games Store
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  12. TL;DR - No. Anthem is an unfinished early-access Games-as-a-Service prototype that's riddled with grind walls on the main story campaign.
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