Yeah, but by that time Blizzard had the good will from its fanbase.
They have been burining it steadly since then.
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Even then Blizzard began to start to sour some people, how they handled item sales, how they ban your account with little provocation.
They got something back with SC II, but not by much.
But you are right, Blizzard think it could do no wrong and slowly started to burn bridges with the fans. I refused to buy the rebalance and non-borked D3 as I didnât care how they ban a friends account. He got hacked, they know itâs not his fault, but they straight out banned his account and told him if he wanted to play he needed to buy a new serial key. And at the time I only played because I was playing on line with some friends.
In a perfect world they would have made offline saves different to online ones ALA DII. This allowed offline play for those who prefer it and since saves were stored online for multi-player, you didnât have to deal with cheaters, hackers and bots(until much later on when the game started to die down, and even then Blizzard eventually got rid of all the hacks and bots.)
I donât see this changing unless thereâs a huge outcry and even then, I wonât think itâll happen because of cheaters and ESPECIALLY MTX.
Youâre right about people buying it regardless though, and even people saying they wonât because of Chinatown or online only will probably buy it anyway. I mean look at all the people in this thread who âBoycottedâ EA that are looking to buy the new Star Wars game man. 
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No, I am not getting the new Star Wars game from EA. As of right now regardless how good the game is, you cant pay me to play it.
Yeah; at this point, Iâm not buying anything from EA or Activision until some months later when I can see what fuckery theyâre going to pull. Even then, Iâm buying used. Black Ops 4 burned me good last year, and I didnât even keep the game long enough for when it got REALLY shitty with MTX.
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ohhhhâŠAND it will be missing some features!
they intend to have achievements but those arenât ready for launchâŠachievement notifications arenât ready, folksâŠthink about that shit for a minuteâŠ
this is on top of the absurdity of the very conceptâ youâre paying a monthly fee I guess for a serviceâŠyet youâre still paying money on top of that to get games on said service (imagine paying your 15 bucks for NetflixâŠbut ALSO paying more money when you want to watch shows on Netflix; so youâre paying the monthly fee then paying individual fees for Stranger Things, etc.)âŠgames where you own absolutely nothing, and require the internet since duh itâs streaming⊠annnnnd theyâre some slightly older games (all but 1 of them being available on other platforms) being sold at full $60 price tag too⊠BRUHâŠ
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my only problem with Death Stranding is its pacing. thats all.
Google will just take the L after much attempts to make it catch on and kill the project once they realize what a horrible mistake theyâve made. No biggie.
But how the hell can they think this is a good idea to start with, honestly? That questionâs still punching my brain when it gets too close. The value proposition of the Stadia is so bad at this point, Iâm constantly wondering if they know something literally everyone else doesnât.
Executive meddling is why Google pushed for this dumpster fire.
Plus Playstation Now, Xbox Game Pass and Switchâs Nes and SNES games does this much better job at actual value.
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25th anniversary of DKC, Gamexplain does an interview with one of the orginal devs to talk about its development
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In CvS2 I always heard it as
PSYCHO WHORE
PSYCHO VORE
PSYCHO FOUR. I didnât know Athena had such a big history behind the character, pretty cool sheâs been around since 1986. Sheâs the OG Athena before God of Warâs one. She was 2D God of War in 1986.
In Tekken 7 Geeseâs JAE-AKIN or however itâs spelled sounds like CLAY-AIKEN. I hear Jae-Akin in CvS2 though. In every single game with Ryu and Ken I hear the hurricane kick as IT-TUTT-TUTT-U-KICK every time.
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Another Stadia bashing video, but one of the first points Jim makes is something I forgot about and am laughing about now that I remember the guy saying that. Basically, one of the head Stadia guys thinks ISPs are just going to up their data caps when they see how much data the service uses. Thatâs how theyâre addressing concerns about data.
Is there an actual term for when you have hype over how bad somethingâs going to turn out? You know somethingâs going to be awful and youâre just here to see the show. There has to be a word for that Iâm blanking out on now.
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That was my very first question when Stadia was announced.
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I think the term youâre looking for is âschadenfreudeâ.
It means pleasure derived from seeing someoneâs misfortune.
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Yep, that works. Normally I want to see everyone do well, but Google is setting itself up for so much failure itâd be wrong if this console wasnât a garbage fire.
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Jim would bring up the data cap issue since he lives in bumfuck Mississippi. It would be a bigger concern where he lives than most other journalist.
Even in spots with good internet in the USA though, doesnât every viable ISP have some kind of limit to how much data you can freely download in a month before they charge you more or throttle you? Google has nothing to address that, and thatâs a core issue with Stadia.
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Itâs that German word, schadenfreude
Oops, too slow
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