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Are exclusives Anti-Consumer?

Yes 15 15.31%
 
No 73 74.49%
 
Other 10 10.20%
 
Total:98
Pemalite on 15 April 2019
DonFerrari said:
Pemalite said:

Yeah?
Halo 5 has microtransactions on Xbox One.
Team Fortress 2 has Microtransactions on Steam.
Battlefront 2 has Microtransactions on Origin.
Uncharted has Microtransactions on Playstation.

I could go on.

In Uncharted and Gran Turismo the microtransactions are pointless and needless. You can play perfectly fine and full without them. Can't comment on the rest though.

Even more when we compare to lootboxes and EA scandal.

Same could be said about Halo 5. They aren't needed, they are still there though.

Microtransactions are Microtransactions in my eyes, I would rather the world be without them in it's entirety.

SvennoJ said:

And doesn't Battlefield have ray tracing implemented for the new NVidea RTX cards? Ah, it's unlocked now for older cards as well
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-real-time-ray-tracing-tested-on-gtx-pascal-hardware.

Games made for PC have more options, run better in different resolutions and frame rates, let you navigate menus with the mouse. Exclusives are good for PC as well.

Metro is another franchise that pushes the PC.

SvennoJ said:

Meanwhile on PC I got locked out of playing Elite Dangerous any further until I upgraded my hardware. On the plus side, now I've got a new gaming laptop it looks phenomenal again.

Your PC must be extremely antiquated.
Here it is running on a Core 2 Quad Q6600. (Year 2006)



Rest of the system is your bog standard 8GB Ram.
And on the GPU front a Radeon 4830 (2008) is enough to run the game. (Aka. Direct X 10 GPU hardware.)



When is an appropriate cut-off point for old hardware to be able to run the latest games in your eyes on the PC? I don't see an Xbox or Playstation from 2006/2008 running Elite Dangerous?



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bowserthedog on 15 April 2019

It's only an issue when you pay a company to not release a game on other platforms. When its first party, paying a 3rd party to make an exclusive from the ground up, or saving a game like Bayonetta 2 after other publishers wouldn't fund it it's all good.



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GoOnKid on 15 April 2019
Chazore said:
GoOnKid said:

Give it a little bit more time. They will eventually try to go into a price war to reach more consumers.

That's the thing though, they've had time to do this. Epic have had access to proper R&D, they have the money to "trickle" down said prices to us, but they aren't, because they are treating devs like kings, and consumers to pay up.

I'm also really not up for giving them more time. I've given MS more time, I've given Origin and Uplay more time, neither of them have vastly improved, or given us really good cheap deals. Ubisoft even stopped key sale deals due to the EGS exclusivity deal with TD2. 

Well, that sounds quite bad, then. I don't know if you have subscribed to any of these stores but considering how bad their practices are I would advise to simply not support them.



DonFerrari on 16 April 2019
Pemalite said:
DonFerrari said:

In Uncharted and Gran Turismo the microtransactions are pointless and needless. You can play perfectly fine and full without them. Can't comment on the rest though.

Even more when we compare to lootboxes and EA scandal.

Same could be said about Halo 5. They aren't needed, they are still there though.

Microtransactions are Microtransactions in my eyes, I would rather the world be without them in it's entirety.

SvennoJ said:

And doesn't Battlefield have ray tracing implemented for the new NVidea RTX cards? Ah, it's unlocked now for older cards as well
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-real-time-ray-tracing-tested-on-gtx-pascal-hardware.

Games made for PC have more options, run better in different resolutions and frame rates, let you navigate menus with the mouse. Exclusives are good for PC as well.

Metro is another franchise that pushes the PC.

SvennoJ said:

Meanwhile on PC I got locked out of playing Elite Dangerous any further until I upgraded my hardware. On the plus side, now I've got a new gaming laptop it looks phenomenal again.

Your PC must be extremely antiquated.
Here it is running on a Core 2 Quad Q6600. (Year 2006)



Rest of the system is your bog standard 8GB Ram.
And on the GPU front a Radeon 4830 (2008) is enough to run the game. (Aka. Direct X 10 GPU hardware.)



When is an appropriate cut-off point for old hardware to be able to run the latest games in your eyes on the PC? I don't see an Xbox or Playstation from 2006/2008 running Elite Dangerous?

I certainly prefer games without MTx and DLCs only being made and release like 1 year after original launch with substantial content as was the case in the past with expansions, or couple of Sony efforts this gen on the Infamous Second Light and Uncharted Lost Legacy.

Still if the alternative is lower games or more expensive. I would accept it.



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