You're welcome to have that opinion. My opinion is that this is a niche issue that doesn't actually affect anyone's ability to play the game because dual-booting an unregistered copy of Windows and using tools to remove the watermark isn't difficult. It's realistically not a problem unless you're hyper privacy-sensitive, in which case there are cut-down versions of Windows out there that strip all of the gunk out.
Tbh the only reason I've got an ounce of care about FaZe is because their CSGO team is pretty cool. The "clan" itself is just this weird baggage that comes with the name.
I'm sure the 2% of Steam users that they were almost definitely losing money supporting will enjoy this announcement for decades to come.
If you were okay with "man, after getting away from a life of crime, is immediately pulled back in by people who don't have his best interests at heart and will use him to betray others before eventually getting betrayed themselves" for over two decades, I don't think you need to worry. Took until RDR2 to break that mold.
I quit playing when they started sunsetting planets,
I vowed never to spend another dime on Bungie products until they give me back the $60 campaign I paid for.
I don't know how this game is still going after they consistently make unpopular decisions that turn people away. Maybe being dumbstruck by that is why Sony bought them.
Edit: Like I straight-up paid them full game price only to be treated like an F2P player because they're apparently incapable of doing what 343 did with all of their older games in the MCC and allowing players to install specific parts of content. I'm still annoyed that I'm being punished for their incompetence.
Last time I trusted Bethesda, we got Fallout 4, a game I still believe is just straight-up unfinished and lacking in story content. I think I'm just gonna hold off and wait for a few patches anyway, it's not like I'm a speed runner or anything that needs the bugs.
Considering this is a temporary measure, I imagine not. Lemmy.world has been under constant attacks as the #1 Lemmy instance and it's not going to stop just because bots can't get in automatically anymore.
No, I can almost guarantee you, without doing any research into these, that I would strongly prefer my Steelseries Arctis Pro Nova wireless headphones. A few years back, my dream headset was the Arctis Pro Wireless but with better adjustability for my apparently large head, and after years of dIcking around with the HyperX Cloud II Wireless and getting tired of it constantly cutting out, I went looking and found that Steelseries had made just that (and this time with ANC).
If Noctua made a booster pack for my headphones, I'd buy that, though.
Yes, but also no.
I didn't play the Halo franchise until late 2015-early 2016, but I thought 3 and ODST were disappointing, and I stopped one mission into Reach. These days, Reach and 3 are my two favorite Halo games and ODST gets an honorable mention for its campaign. So what changed? In retrospect, it's because they were running on a 360 with an ass framerate, ass resolution, and ass FOV with a weird crosshair that made me subconsciously raise my head and controller-based controls that I was bad at. They were uncomfortable for me to play on the hardware I had to run them on, and as soon as I had them with all that QOL improved, the experience was completely different.
This experience, along with plenty others, has shown me that it's often not the game itself and could be several other factors, from the port and the platform to my expectations and my attitude. So while I've had a bunch of "disappointing" patient experiences, a good amount of them stopped being disappointing when I gave them another shot
It's not worth playing non-VR. To be blunt, all of the game elements other than graphics really kinda suck from a traditional gameplay perspective and are forgiven or ignored because of what VR adds. The levels are claustrophobic, the weapon and enemy variety is horrid, the AI was handicapped to make it easier to shoot in VR, there isn't even a jump button or melee attack in a franchise known as a boomer shooter with a crowbar-wielding protagonist. It's not a traditional Half-Life game and trying to play it as one will likely lead to disappointment.
The reverse isn't true, playing the VR mods for the rest of the franchise is a blast and there are plenty of amazing VR conversions for other games, so I find it saddening this is the direction Valve took for Alyx.
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