HarkMahlberg

“Sorry I didn’t hear you, did you say make it slop? Say no more chief!”

• Microsoft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNULYlcJEg0

I learned we have a word(s) for those people now: Ball and Gun Gamers

Found IGN’s list of things and that sounds about right.

Speaking of game installation, dare I ask, do we know how many terabytes this thing will take up?

Blocking stuff off means, what though? Any game with 2 editions and a difference in content can be seen as glass half full or half empty: the higher edition “adds content to the lower edition”, or the lower edition “blocks content from the higher edition.” Usually the missing content is vehicles, guns, skins, costumes, etc.

But if they’re blocking parts of the map, or he story, then that’s a whole different beast.

I hope you find the help you need.

Oh yeah sorry, I don’t mean to say they’re wrong for doing it. I just mean that scalpers are now so prolific that this is the only way to ensure fair purchases, that’s the fucked part.

I don’t think it’s “launched” yet since they’re doing a raffle system:

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Launched in the sense that the review embargo is lifted, I suppose.

Gonna get skewered for this take but… that’s slightly better than I thought it would be. I thought it would be 1500 USD at the minimum.

EDIT:

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OH NO brother they’re RAFFLING IT!? hahahaha that’s fucked

As an Ace Combat fan, don’t buy anything other than the base game.

• They’re playing Edition Roulette with a bunch of different bundles hoping to confuse consumers.
• They’re including a mouse pad in some of the bundles. A mouse pad… for a flight simulator.
• The soundtrack on vinyl is great if you’re a vinyl collector, but there will almost certainly be other ways to buy the OST after launch, and without all the other preorder gimmicks.
• Multiplayer bonuses for pre-ordering are literally paying for power. Don’t support Namco’s endeavor to turn this game into another toxic competitive online game.

The only pre-order benefit that I think is remotely worth it is Ace Combat Zero on PC. But there’s huge caveats for that too.

• If you have a PC capable of running AC8, it is more than capable of playing AC0 on emulator.
• it’s a straight port of the game from the PS2, so no new high definition assets, but…
• The Pixy cutscene looks like a bad AI upscale job. Look at his chin stubble in the trailer and you’ll see what I mean, it looks like broken glass.

I’m excited for the game too, but I have reasons to be cautious.

You get AC0 even if you pre-order AC8’s base edition at 70 USD. Per Namco’s marketing.

“preemptively mad” got a chuckle out of me, yeah it’s premature to say that we should get big angy at Steam.

The word we should be looking for is “Critical.” Valve is a huge company, they are not saints, and we should treat them with skepticism as a matter of course. But that doesn’t mean they don’t do positive, thankless work for consumers too (in the form of Proton, Linux support, etc).

Ross is my hero. I’d be nervous as hell having to explain my cause to a parliamentary hearing like that. But it’s also the culmination of all his efforts, so this is a huge milestone for him and consumers everywhere.