Oh boy! Let me guess its 2x the ad plan and like YouTube red will also have limited ads soon.

Yeah and where is it now? Oh yeah in obscurity.

What is the point of a paid service with ads? Its just really odd, like who has money for Netflix and whatever shit they are advertising? And everyone will resent these added ads on this platform, so why pay Netflix to make people hate your product.

They sold a similar amount, your agument only works if saros sold a proportional amount more (10x in this case). As it stands the marketing clearly did not work.

Game review and news outlets cover the games most likely to be of value to their audiences, partially because they foster that with their own interest, and partly because the data tells them what their audience is reading or watching.

Have to vehemently disagree with this, it is clear that their coverage is not dictated by the value their audiences receive but from other more corporate values. And as time goes on the media coverage on games has been less and less valued. It has nothing to do with my option on the media but my observations on the industry. The reason I brought up zenonaughts 2 was that it has 1/10 the reviews but similar sales, and that is indicative of the clear decline of the main stream gaming review system not having the pull it once did.

What other gaming areas are you thinking of? Are they user driven for content and discourse like this?

And there are 130 outlets reviewing the game because they are in the business of reviewing games and this one was a rare exclusive for the ps5. It would be odd if they did not review it (and give it questionably high marks). If you look at a game like xenonauts 2 that also came out recently that sold about the same number of copies (very odd since one is very niche) they only have 14 critic reviews vs 130. The issue is the critic reviews clearly don’t hold the same value to consumers as they once did.

Edit response time: That people interested in games did not know about it would be very indicative of a major failing and current lack of relavance of mainstream gaming media. That would seem to be very much on point, as there is no need to help us for not knowing, but it would seem Sony might need help.

The fact that I never seen or heard of this is no surprise though, the only time gaming news coverage shows up for most is when there is some sort of scandal. Its why I know more about “Mix Tape”, “High Guard” and “Marathon” then this game.

I like my small indie / oddball games but I find I get more info from people steaming a game and talking about it then a “review” that had clearly been bought and paid for. And it seems I am not the only one, as clearly no one is reading the “major” gaming news sites anymore. Well at least in this case no one from their target audience is.

As is tradition.

And blockaded the blockade… with ships that have been at sea too long without resupply… that can’t get it from one of many us bases in the area due to them all being evacuated… that are evacuated due to Iranian strikes that took out things like an AWACs plane due to a lack of interceptors… those interceptors are about $3 million a pop being used to shoot down shahed drones that cost under $50k… those very costly patriot interceptors have to be used due to the us administrations snubbing of the only nation that has “the cards” when it comes to full on modern drone warfare’s offer of support…

There is a hole in your military, dear Lisa, dear Lisa.

And a trillion dollar ineffective military

Put a big ass sterling engine on the roof. But really, the level of waste heat involved does seems to beg for a system if these are going to be putting out that much.

Or they will just not comply with discovery, and also demand the case be sealed. As is tradition lately.

america is not a real nation is it?

“neothermal”

They should really try boiling some water with that waste heat, maybe make it spin a turbine or two.

That (in their view) would be even worse, then peaches would become associated with the homeless and lose even more value!

The issue is that the idea of destroying product to protect its value is counter to anything good or reasonable.

Oh boy, if its not the consequences of their own actions.

NICE! Linux has made it everyone!

Seems like a stupid vector for bad actors.

Who is still scanning QR codes? I thought after the nambla stuff people loss interest in scanning a weblink.