Hungarian magazines still add full games, altough not with boxes, just the disc. I got a lot of legendary games through these magazines (many of you mentioned above), and I was thankful for them. When I was younger there was no internet in our house, but I could still play quality games thanks to these magazines.do you know what i miss? full games with monthly magazines, with boxes and stuff. i guess this wasn't an italy only thing, was it? obviously not the latest games were attached but sometimes they got some cool stuff like tron 2.0, swat 4, bloodlines, arcanum, grand prix legends, fallout 2, toee (damn, i just noticed there were lots of rpgs, and all the good ones to boot), anno 1404, deus ex, thief 2, outcast...
aaaand now i loathe recent games even more than before.
This is also my take on the issue pretty much. I will buy CP2077 if I get a physical copy with some special edition, though, because of the pnp Mike Pondsmith created. I've played it with the same group for the past 25+ years, and still going a few times per year.I tend to do that when i want to support the developer.
My backlog is horrendous though so i pledged a vow to stop buying games for a while now.
Hungarian magazines still add full games, altough not with boxes, just the disc. I got a lot of legendary games through these magazines (many of you mentioned above), and I was thankful for them. When I was younger there was no internet in our house, but I could still play quality games thanks to these magazines.do you know what i miss? full games with monthly magazines, with boxes and stuff. i guess this wasn't an italy only thing, was it? obviously not the latest games were attached but sometimes they got some cool stuff like tron 2.0, swat 4, bloodlines, arcanum, grand prix legends, fallout 2, toee (damn, i just noticed there were lots of rpgs, and all the good ones to boot), anno 1404, deus ex, thief 2, outcast...
aaaand now i loathe recent games even more than before.
That said, I don't need these magazines anymore, because and I have internet and I can buy games dirt cheap, so I don't really care about these magazine game anymore.
All the time. If I wanna play something right now, I wanna play something right now. No need to wait for discounts.
This is a moronic attitude, buying games at launch nowadays is asking for trouble. By exercising a virtue known as patience and restraint one can save money AND get a higher quality, patched product that has already been tested by paid beta-testers such as you.All the time. If I wanna play something right now, I wanna play something right now. No need to wait for discounts.
This is a moronic attitude, buying games at launch nowadays is asking for trouble. By exercising a virtue known as patience and restraint one can save money AND get a higher quality, patched product that has already been tested by paid beta-testers such as you.All the time. If I wanna play something right now, I wanna play something right now. No need to wait for discounts.
Your picture is oddly accurate - you really have to be a fucking bird brain to come to that conclusion. A fool and his money are soon parted.This is a moronic attitude, buying games at launch nowadays is asking for trouble. By exercising a virtue known as patience and restraint one can save money AND get a higher quality, patched product that has already been tested by paid beta-testers such as you.All the time. If I wanna play something right now, I wanna play something right now. No need to wait for discounts.
Hey, whatever it takes to make you feel better about living in squalor.
I'm not entirely sure how this CD release happened for that magazine. Usually these CD coverdiscs had several other programs, articles, wallpapers, demos AND the bonus game on one disc (at that time, games were much smaller in size). And you can easily identify a coverdisc becaues it has to have the name, logo, release month of the magazine on it (at least I have never seen one which didn't have these).I have a confession to make... despite my words earlier in this thread, I have just bought a full-price game. And on the day of release, to boot!
What's more, it's not the first time this year. Back in July I did the same.
In my defense, I did it with the best of intentions: I did it to support a developer I know and trust to make a good game. Those are few and far between. And I will do it again, as Space Venture is coming... eventually.
But my words still stand... especially since they now have the exception that proves them to be true.
Hungarian magazines still add full games, altough not with boxes, just the disc. I got a lot of legendary games through these magazines (many of you mentioned above), and I was thankful for them. When I was younger there was no internet in our house, but I could still play quality games thanks to these magazines.do you know what i miss? full games with monthly magazines, with boxes and stuff. i guess this wasn't an italy only thing, was it? obviously not the latest games were attached but sometimes they got some cool stuff like tron 2.0, swat 4, bloodlines, arcanum, grand prix legends, fallout 2, toee (damn, i just noticed there were lots of rpgs, and all the good ones to boot), anno 1404, deus ex, thief 2, outcast...
aaaand now i loathe recent games even more than before.
That said, I don't need these magazines anymore, because and I have internet and I can buy games dirt cheap, so I don't really care about these magazine game anymore.
Question for you Hungarians: Earlier this year I came across a CD with a game on it that was bought in a street market in Budapest. It's 100% in English and could be an American release for all I know.
The problem is this: It's a 1996 release for a 1984 game. A game released for the PC when it could only do CGA and didn't have sound cards. A game that takes up less than 100 Kb in size, and probably would have needed a speed regulation program to run properly in 1996.
My question is: Is it possible that this CD-release came about due to a Hungarian magazine wanting to feature it on its cover? Did Hungarian coverdiscs feature any specific markings to identify them as such?
Your picture is oddly accurate - you really have to be a fucking bird brain to come to that conclusion. A fool and his money are soon parted.This is a moronic attitude, buying games at launch nowadays is asking for trouble. By exercising a virtue known as patience and restraint one can save money AND get a higher quality, patched product that has already been tested by paid beta-testers such as you.All the time. If I wanna play something right now, I wanna play something right now. No need to wait for discounts.
Hey, whatever it takes to make you feel better about living in squalor.
My colleague Gwenn, who is also the developer of Helium Rain, looked into key scams.
https://twitter.com/StrangerGwenn/status/1052596840149991426
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/9p0pkj/scamming_developers_for_review_steam_keys_to_sell/
tldr : G2A and Kinguin are Steam keys laundering business, and it's an industry, not some 3rd world kids making a bit of money, don't buy games there
"Oh no, my game has a bug. I wasted 60 dollars."
Fuck outta here, lmao. It's not rocket science to differentiate between unplayble messes and games that work perfectly fine on release and are fun.
"Oh no, my game has a bug. I wasted 60 dollars."
Fuck outta here, lmao. It's not rocket science to differentiate between unplayble messes and games that work perfectly fine on release and are fun.
Err... no. At least it's not possible to tell them apart that easily if you're buying (and playing) them on Release Day. How are you gonna know what a game is like before you (or anyone else) has had a chance to play it?
Bocian is absolutely spot-on in his statement that it's a terrible idea to buy a game on Release Day with the intent of playing it right then and there. It's a huge gamble because the game might just have that little bug that börks up your system. That makes that $60 investment mutate into possibly hundreds of dollars of costs due to lost data or even hardware damage. If you plonked down the money for the game at full price, at least have the sensibility to wait a day or two before playing it. That way you should escape the worst possible bugs... mostly.
There are plenty of other reasons for holding back on purchasing a new game, but crippling bugs should be an obvious one.
I don't think that's the point, more like it's not news that G2A and Kinguin are selling stolen keys.My colleague Gwenn, who is also the developer of Helium Rain, looked into key scams.
https://twitter.com/StrangerGwenn/status/1052596840149991426
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/9p0pkj/scamming_developers_for_review_steam_keys_to_sell/
tldr : G2A and Kinguin are Steam keys laundering business, and it's an industry, not some 3rd world kids making a bit of money, don't buy games there
Can those of you who rated this as old can direct me to a prior proof that some key resellers were purely bots without human intervention ?
I try to follow the subject but it was news to me.
Bocian is absolutely spot-on in being a dumbass and so are you.
I never said that I run to to a midnight release to get the next shiny AAA game ASAP. I just said I buy 'em when I want 'em. We're talking about full priced games here and last I checked they're still full price two days after release.
But I take offense to your statement about not being able to tell if a game is shit or not from previews or on/around release day. Most of the time, of course you can. What are talking about? Everybody knew Andromeda would be a huge pile of garbage weeks before release. Everybody knows that RDR2 is at least going to be perfectly playable on release. Everybody who is not Bocian knows that it's better to wait for first impressions when it comes to the new Cthulhu game since it looks janky from the getgo, but has potential.