GI - "The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 have been out for eight years now. For those of us that purchased them at launch, digital libraries have grown with the advent of Games on Demand, PlayStation Plus, and more compelling digital-only titles. If you’re like me, after eight years (especially with the more recent digital sales), you might not remember everything you’ve purchased."
Blindfolding myself and clicking a Steam page at random would serve me better recommendations than Steam’s algorithm
Hmm, not sure I agree with that. The recommendations I get are usually pretty good, but then again I have pretty large library of games on Steam and hundreds of them in my wish list, along with lots of curators I follow for it to build recommendations off of. On occasion it will throw me a random FIFA game or something I've never bought or shown interest in, but mostly its decent IMO.
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Players can pay to edit their character, resurrect the dead and other actions.
Yet Helldivers 2 gets a pass? Y’know a GotY contender by the name of RE4 had them and so does Devil May Cry V. The funny thing is I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly without having to buy a single microtransaction.
What I do consider a valid complaint is not being able to start a new game or being able to edit your character. That’s kind of a seriously baffling decision, but then I think how I played Dragon’s Dogma 1 and I never edited my character and I just did a 100% playthrough on a single file and didn’t start a NG since. So, I don’t think these are really going to impact me, but I can see how it will others.
I was going to pay full price to support this game because I've been waiting for it for forever but I think I'll wait until I get it for free from Epic or a Humblebundle monthly.
I am not defending Capcom, as I am not a fan of MTX in single player games. I do however belive they were open to reviewers about having MTX in their game. The reviewers just decided to leave that part out. Which is very disingenuous. There are some companies that get away with these things. Image if this was done by EA, Ubisoft, or even Activision? I am positive those defending Capcom, would have had their pitchforks ready if the companies listed above did this
it could be better but I really don't mind Sony's download list... the list is there a search function would be nice but its not something I care much for one way or the other.... I can't speak for 360 since I don't have one....
Now Nintendo on the other hand they are terrible with tying games to BOTH an ID and hardware you get the worst of both worlds..... it should be illegal for them to sell digital games without providing a mechanisms for you to recover your games in case your system is lost or stolen
I hope the SteamBox becomes a strong competitor, it may just force Sony and MS to lower digital prices and do bigger and better sales, offer free online and maybe, just maybe, allow mods on consoles.
There is ALOT consoles should mimic from steam.
I still don't get why consoles exist. They are inferior in every single way to an open platform like PC. The only thing they had left was the ease of use witch is slowly fading away with all the installation you need on console and the PC being more and more user friendly then what it was the last 5 years.
The only argument console gamer has are exclusive of their beloved franchise. Those franchise/devs would do as good if they where open to all platform and console would just die off without those "hostage" they take. I mean, the console are just locked down pcs with limited software. Just like BLU RAY/HD dvd, we don't need more then 1 platform for gaming. Dev would get more sales/money/bigger audience/more $ per game sold, gamers would be allow to pay less and play more games (also on form factor they desire) and we would not be stuck with old hardware in the past every damn cycle.
Until they start mimicking being free, steam will always be better than PS+ or XBL