Steam already does stuff similar to this? Reviews flagged as “suspicious” aren’t deleted but aren’t included in the overall score instead, and a notice is put next to the overall score when this happens. The same is true for reviews made by people who got the game with a key.

Why not extend this? Like you said, most bots have low play time, valve could exclude (but not delete) reviews with low play time. I agree that doing something like this is a slippery slope towards mobile app store reviews but if it’s done right then it is a net positive.

The main problem is that those reviews are still included in the overall review score. I think you can filter out low play time but that’s an extra step most won’t take (because they shouldn’t need to)

It probably got turned into a black hole through the same method everything else happens in this series:

Magic. In the baseball video he specifies that magic is what causes stuff to happen, after the magic, it’s all normal physics

It currently applies most to the game and tech industries

I’ve seen a lot of content creator groups become a lot more diverse since covid/among us. It’s great to see!

They’re $110 in canada? That’s insanely overpriced? How much more is that compared to regular AAA games? I could understand people justifying the price in the uk, mario kart world costs £67 digitally (including tax) which is CHEAPER than call of duty and “only” £7 more than a regular AAA game and the new donkey kong is cheaper than AAA games digitally (but only £59 vs £60). I think the games are overpriced in the uk, since they will never go on sale, but $110 is ridiculous.

The eu petition has actually made a lot of progress from when I checked last week

I recently switched from windows (with a debloat scrpit ran on it) to linux mint and I was shocked at how much faster it booted. When I turn my pc on I usually get up and do something else for a bit (not because windows is THAT slow but because I could spend the minute it takes to turn on to make lunch or something) and linux booted before I was out of my chair.

People are buying it because they love Nintendo games like you said. It’s also because most people don’t know enough to emulate/are scared off by anti piracy laws.

Another reason is that people are impatient, if the price dropped I would be tempted to buy one, especially if they also announce a new 3d mario (odyssey is one of my favourite games of all time). I’d want to play it now and not wait for the switch 2 to be hacked.

A lot of people who know how to emulate also would rather buy original hardware because playing on it is just better (I’m the same, if the joycons didn’t drift, I probably wouldn’t emulate my switch 1 games on my deck)

Wasn’t it valve who set the restrictions because of psn linking? Now that it’s gone they are being sold again

It’s a shame larger families and kids can’t afford it

It has bad reviews for the same reasons most games got bad reviews: expectations. It looks beautiful and it seemed they put a lot of work into the mechanics (although the age system is controversial) and on release both these things were true but there were major problems they hid in the pre launch promotion, the biggest one is the UI. Everyone who got early access to review/be sponsored (some months in advanced) told them to fix the UI to make the game perfect. But they did not, and it is still very flawed. If it had maybe a few more months in development it would be a great game.

Oh also Denuvo, pushing DLC despite the work needed on the base game and the high prices probably aren’t helping reviews.

It’s worth mentioning I haven’t played it yet (waiting for a sale), I am just repeating what friends/content creators who weren’t bribed by T2 have told me.

They recently added a british civ and leader (Ada Lovelace) but you have to buy the DLC for it

We’re waiting to see if the joy cons will drift again

VR hasn’t failed, the investors’ dream to make it replace real life so they can fill it with ads has failed because, shockingly, people prefer to live in real life. It’s the same way (most) people don’t spend all their time playing normal games

In the comic, Cueball texts the cipher for “HELLO”, and Megan responds with the cipher for “HI”

The title text deciphers to “AAAAAA A SCARY MONSTER AAAAAA!”

No, I was thinking about civ7 but was unsure because, while firaxis is very talented, I do not trust 2k, once they added denuvo I decided to not even buy it at launch even if the reviews are positive (and £120 for the founders edition is stupid, especially since, if the game is updated like all previous civs, it will be necessary).

I will be waiting for denuvo to be removed (because it always is) and for a sale.

They probably don’t want to give anything to pc players that playstation players don’t have, so they just give a pre order style bonus.

Can’t wait for it to be on sale without denuvo

I think the desktop feature was added to the quest 3 so not much point for it now. Especially because they didn’t reach businesses like they hoped