You replace the product anyway, because we don't buy the disc, we buy the right to use the software... even if you scratch the disc, at most you could charge them for transport and the rather insignificant cost of a new disc...
A lot of this could have been fixed with another 3 months in development; getting rid of these bugs would have gone a long way towards making the entire experience better. But some of the fundamental design issues (hunger/thirst/sleep meters, all the fucking crafting) really should have been removed ages ago.
And now because it's such undercooked garbage, nobody will want to touch all that. GG.
Or at least made that an option to turn on/off, like in Fallout: New Vegas.
Gearbox'd!
Considering that the perk/ability in-game that is supposed to do just that doesn't work, I'm not sure they know how to turn it off.
That's embarrassing.
If Hollywood wanted to make a movie, I don't think it would worry about the game sales. By virtue of it's aesthetic, setting, and general mood, they could easily pop out a trailer that would sell the public on the movie. A Horror Comedy set in 60's England? Fuck, get Simon Pegg onboard and that's half the movie done.
No Man's Sky never had an early access though, where everyone that played the early access of We Happy Few (back when it was still $30 before they decided to just double the price for no reason) quickly realized that oh, oh no, this is all bad. Good story idea, but terrible game design, chasing trends that are far outdated by the time the game actually releases. Just wait for the battle royale update, I bet it's coming.
Really, the reason the price of the game doubled is because Gearbox acquired it and spent a metric fuckton on producing music, advertising, and a special edition that no one asked for.
GEARBOX'D!
Al Lowe isn't involved. Pass.
Jeff Bezos makes the median yearly Amazon salary every 9 seconds
It's sort of a stand-off; if Amazon doesn't feel that it's getting value out of Twitch Prime and needs to change the service to make it profitable, that is their choice. However, the internet has provided me with the tools to get the exact same level of service I desire for free, against Amazon's design, so there is no reason to give two shits about the profitability of a service I wouldn't use. I'm not affected and they won't be getting my money until they chose to fix the service they offered.
Offical announcement
If they could get directx working natively in linux (which I'm not sure is even possible or legal) then I would drop windows forever and never look at microsoft again.
The legality is definitely the bigger of the two challenges, though if they work to code around the legal part, then performance will suffer.
If most new games come out supporting Vulkan, then DirectX support won't be much of an issue. Sure, there will be a performance hit for DirectX games, but that doesn't matter as much when games get older.
Goddamit. Every time I say I'm not buying any more friggin Lego games, they do this. I just fell for it on Lego Marvel Superheroes 2.
The Lego games are always a blast. Most of the reason we have Gamefly are for these.
