• Scrof
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    9 months ago

    Old meme, EA hasn’t been half-bad for years. Ubisoft, ActiBlizz and Nintendo are the current worst.

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      9 months ago

      Bro, it’s a Corporation. Just when you trust them they WILL stab you in the back.

      They WILL fuck up Mass Effect 4 somehow.

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      9 months ago

      Did EA actually do anything to get better? From my point of view all they’ve done is stop getting worse—they’re still in the shitty hole they spent 2 decades digging

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      9 months ago

      IDK, I usually don’t bother ranking companies if they’re below some level. EA requires their launcher on a lot of their games, and that alone puts them on the “terrible” list.

      Nintendo at least makes good games with minimal BS, so I’m more likely to give them a pass than the others since they make mediocre games with a lot of BS to deal with.

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          9 months ago

          Maybe I’m weird, but I’ve never needed cloud saves. I play on one device, and when I’m done with the game, I don’t care about my saves.

          I think I’ve used cloud saves on Steam once, and that was to play with syncing between Steam Deck and PC. It’s just not a thing I value.

          Maybe it uniquely impacts you, but I’m guessing the quiet majority are more like me. Then again, I grew up in the OG console days where saves were stored on the cartridge itself.

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      9 months ago

      EA just canned a Mandalorian game for seemingly no reason. They still can’t Star Wars.

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      9 months ago

      I heard the remastered collection was half decent too, but it’s still too little too late. That company has done so much damage to the whole industry for so long that I just want to see it burn to the ground to release all those rights and licenses to those franchises to studios that actually mean well.

    • LadyLikesSpiders@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      I get that corporations are all ultimately after your money and nothing else, but I’m curious why Nintendo is on here. As far as game companies, the only thing I really see from them that’s kind of ass is their hyperprotectiveness of their own IPs. It sucks, but I don’t need a battlepass to get the full experience of the next Mario game. Zelda doesn’t require an always online connection. Metroid Prime 4 is actually gonna be finished on release instead of just shipping it in a terrible state

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          9 months ago

          I mean, that’s fair, and super fucked up. I have a lot of issues with that, including the cultural ramifications

          Still, it seems a different caliber to being actively hostile to players in the game design department. Nintendo games aren’t the ones using psychological manipulation to give me a gambling addiction

          That’s fair, though. It’s hella fucked up, and I’ve been wary of Nintendo’s approach to this stuff since way back when AM2R was coming out

    • CaptainEffort@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      True, they were just so bad for so long that trashing them sort of became the default. I have to like, rewire my brain so I can treat them fairly.

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      9 months ago

      True enough I guess, I cant remember the last specific thing they did that pissed me off.