Someone’s gonna get grounded, big time.
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All this hype that seems to be building for the GTA 6 teaser trailer seems to be getting to a point that its a bit ridiculous tbh.
The trailer could simply be a black background with the logo and the year they’re aiming for release and nothing else and the internet would still cum in its pants multiple times at this point.
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Aren’t most recent game trailers overhyped I’m honestly curious why they didn’t reveal it in the game awards I mean the most I have seen people hoping for game awards reveal trailer wise is some sort of crash bandicoot / spyro game because every year since 2019 they announced something related to them and crash team rumble wasn’t exactly the most interesting crash game
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Hey, I both love and hate fortnite as much as the next guy, but don’t lie to me and say Fortnite isn’t “Big”
…and it getting Family Guy is also another weird but significant left-field addition to its roster.
44.7 Million active players in one day this month. That’s pretty wild.
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Well they officially announced the Lego stuff and I guarantee like 90% of the games skins will not make it into actual Lego sets also they seem to be treating it like a separate game more then a game mode at least with the way they have worded it can’t wait for Lego Peter griffin I guess https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/fortnite/about
Speaking of Lego games, I was in a nostalgic mood these days and found out there is a fan effort to remaster Lego Rock Raiders as the 1999 game runs awfully on modern computers. It even reached the 1.0 milestone 3 months ago which means it is pretty much complete with most bugs being eliminated.
It seems to be endorsed by the Lego company and is still free to play. I think I will give it a go sometime soon.
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Looks interesting hope that goes well also asking because I have never played it for fortnight would I have to make a epic games account to play it or not I’m only considering playing it for the Lego stuff and if I have to make a account does it take long or would it be easy and quick
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It’s things like this that make me glad every movie or tv show I have purchased I got physically I do feel bad for them though
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so that means games i bought digital are going away? if so i’m glad i started going back to physical
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No? Sony are deaccessioning movie and TV properties belonging to Discovery most likely because Warner is doing it intentionally to artificially restrict where to view their content. This won’t impact games but there is a remote chance it may happen to games in the future but that is a very remote chance as of right now.
Most people don’t understand that buying digital media doesn’t mean you own it, you are buying a license that allows you to use it at your discretion. It is unfair but nobody does anything about it so it just stays like that.
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aaah okay i getcha. 
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I really don’t care about the whole “digital vs physical” thing in regards to game preservation because in my opinion modern games are screwed either way. Even if you have a physical disc. Its not uncommon for games nowadays to be missing entire sections of the game that get added in with the Day 1 patch, have entire new game modes (like New Game Plus or Freelancer) added in with a patch post-release or are just straight up broken until the Day 1 patch gets applied.
At some point those patches will end up disappearing - in 2021 there were reports that some PS3 games had their patches completely removed - and then even if you have a disc, you’re left with either an incomplete or just outright broken game to try play.
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Games are screwed either way when it comes to preservation. According to a study conducted this year we have lost nearly 90 percent of all games made before the advent of the digital storefront. The real problem is with the licensing laws, it shouldn’t be “digital v. physical” it should be “We hate digital licensing laws, we hate the system.”
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I think the worst offender in all this is Nintendo, I haven’t seen any other company as egregious as them when it comes to Digital Purchases.
Microsoft isn’t as bad, while yes the 360 storefront is twilighting your purchases persist through BC if applicable. Even the long since retired Xbox Indie games you purchased are still available.
I think this development is more indicative of Film and TV purchases where licensing agreements can just not persist and because of that your digital purchases of something like the FNAF movie can be taken away cause Universal doesn’t feel like continuing their business with PlayStation/Sony.
Nintendo have always been awful at both physical and digital preservation of their various libraries. There are a lot of reasons having to do with the entire way Nintendo of Japan runs things at a production level all the way to their own way of handing digital licensing and anti-piracy laws.
Microsoft will most likely never be bad in this regard since it should be painfully obvious they are sidelining physical gaming and consoles and moving towards a digital/cloud based system of operation. If anything they are a problem for other companies since Microsoft’s attempts at consolidation have left them with a bevy of rights to various franchises that are multiplatform. It is really only Spencer’s fear of negative optics and anti-trust litigation that stops him and Microsoft Xbox from pulling those licensed titles off of other storefronts.
It absolutely is also don’t forget music, Metallica has been disastrous for digital licensing and distribution laws.
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Are you referring to Napster or something else? I gotta say, as a lifelong traveler of the high seas, and as an even life-longier Metallicat… they were right.
But if you’re referring to something else, I’d be curious. Metallica is pretty famous for making available tons of soundboard-quality live shows… for a price of course.
I am referring to Metallica v. Napster
Lars was right that something needed to be done about Napster platforming his demos, sessions and masters and that it wasn’t right to leak and distribute that content but that had an unfortunate side effect of giving the major recording studios and media companies casus belli to attack P2P and digital distribution models back them.
So Rockstar apparently decided to release the GTA 6 trailer early.
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It isn’t early for me, it is exactly when they said it was here in Australia.
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