Eternity Avowed - Obsidian's first person action-RPG in the Pillars of Eternity setting - coming February 18th

[Zboj Lamignat]

Everything else is 150% perfect one quarter before deadline, under the budget and they have money and time to burn.

 

[Infinitron]

Why are they hiring new soundtrack guy 3 months before launch?

I've been a bit quiet this year is that I've been working on the soundtrack for @obsidian's new game @AvowedtheGame

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Oh okay, makes sense.

 

[luj1]

February 18? KCD2 is coming out a week earlier lmao

 

[PrK]

February 18? KCD2 is coming out a week earlier lmao

KCD2 will launch with Denuvo, so for all intents and purposes it doesn't come out then. Paying money for Avowed would unironically be slightly less of a cuck move than buying KCD2 on launch.

 

[Lord_Potato]

February 18? KCD2 is coming out a week earlier lmao

KCD2 will launch with Denuvo, so for all intents and purposes it doesn't come out then. Paying money for Avowed would unironically be slightly less of a cuck move than buying KCD2 on launch.

 

[Mortmal]

February 18? KCD2 is coming out a week earlier lmao

KCD2 will launch with Denuvo, so for all intents and purposes it doesn't come out then. Paying money for Avowed would unironically be slightly less of a cuck move than buying KCD2 on launch.

It's day one on Game Pass, so why pay full price for it when you can just get a one-month subscription and probably finish it in a weekend?

 

[Old Hans]

oh man I forgot this game was coming out

 

[PrK]

February 18? KCD2 is coming out a week earlier lmao

KCD2 will launch with Denuvo, so for all intents and purposes it doesn't come out then. Paying money for Avowed would unironically be slightly less of a cuck move than buying KCD2 on launch.

It's day one on Game Pass, so why pay full price for it when you can just get a one-month subscription and probably finish it in a weekend?

Game Pass is a subscription service.
Subscription shit where you own nothing and are happy, dumbed-down, hand-holding, console peasantry crap, DEI trannyslop covered excrement, DRM malware infested, publisher client required garbage, degenerate, censored remaster/remake insolent trash, microtransaction loaded, broken, unfinished nickel-and-diming filth, are all just different forms of cancer, maybe with varying degrees of severity, but cancer nonetheless.
The only correct way if you care even a bit about games, is to accept none of it. Zero. Never.

 

[AwesomeButton]

I fully understand this argument, but humor me for a moment, how is game pass different in terms of ownership, to the widespread practice of renting games in the early console days. You rent it for a week for a small sum and then return it. I think it used to be a big business.

 

[PrK]

I fully understand this argument, but humor me for a moment, how is game pass different in terms of ownership, to the widespread practice of renting games in the early console days. You rent it for a week for a small sum and then return it. I think it used to be a big business.

It’s just an evolution of that practice where now the publisher makes the money with zero cost, as opposed to a 3rd party with a considerable one. Ideally in the digital era with the zero cost copies the price of a game would be a lot lower, the price being no more second hand market. As you can see the companies however kept their cake and ate it too.
I personally didn’t partake in that practice back then, but instead bought pirated copies, copied them and gave to friends (buying/taking money for pirated games is actually a cuck move as well, filesharing should be free).
Ownership matters a lot, most importantly as a way for game preservation and protection against censorship, while DRM and subscription models are just devices for the opposite.

 

[Peachcurl]

A bundled subscription also means they can sell DEI crap without real demand.

 

[frajaq]

Game is still in my gaming plan
November: Path of Exile 2
December: Girls Frontline 2
January: ???
February: Avowed

Let's all hope they make a worthy game

 

[Gargaune]

I fully understand this argument, but humor me for a moment, how is game pass different in terms of ownership, to the widespread practice of renting games in the early console days. You rent it for a week for a small sum and then return it. I think it used to be a big business.

Aside from the customer's ownership of the product, you should also consider the publisher's/developer's ownership of the product's commercial performance and its knock-on effects, which I've babbled about before:

The thing about cable models is that they incentivise the old "there's nothing better on" model of consumption. You're not gonna go out and buy a videogame or a DVD just because it's inoffensively mediocre, it needs to appeal to you somehow, but if you're already paying ten bucks a month for a subscription package and you've got some time to kill, you "might as well" settle for the least shit thing on even though you know it'll leave you with a feeling of ennui by the end.

Meanwhile, the people running the crap factory have a stable income that's unlikely to vary short of collossal fuckups in adverse market conditions, and their only remit is to occasionally make their crap slightly less crap than the competition's crap. One or two tentpoles will keep the entire thing running 'cause you won't cancel whatever service has Game of Thrones on, and under that umbrella they'll keep hiring their friends and associates to make the rest of the crap you've never heard about and wouldn't watch if you were the one getting paid instead. And the scope of the business makes it unrealistic for the shareholder to be able exercise any genuine control over its course even in the unlikely event that they do know anything beyond "number go up."

And that's how, ten years from now, you're gonna be playing Assassin's Creed 23. "Because I pay for it anyway and there's nothing better on."

 

[AwesomeButton]

And you tell me this just when I'm bargaining with myself about buying Valhalla at 75% off...

 

[Fedora Master]

And you tell me this just when I'm bargaining with myself about buying Valhalla at 75% off...

Don't be part of the problem.

 

[Wasteland]

And you tell me this just when I'm bargaining with myself about buying Valhalla at 75% off...

Never pay the Danegeld. And by that I mean the geldlings who code Viking games for Ubisoft.

 

[Inec0rn]

I'd possibly give this game a chance but fuck me is that game world ugly and unappealing..

 

[H. P. Lovecraft's Cat]

Compared to Dragon Age 4 this game looks like a fuckin masterpiece.

 

[notpl]

Compared to Dragon Age 4 this game looks like a fuckin masterpiece.

Sure, but there's no pressing need to play either of them. DA4 looks disastrous, this just looks dull.

 

[Hammer Of The Heretics]

Compared to Dragon Age 4 this game looks like a fuckin masterpiece.

Sure, but there's no pressing need to play either of them. DA4 looks disastrous, this just looks dull.

The thought of playing this makes me feel tired. The thought of playing DA4 makes my internal organs cringe out of my body.

 

[Fedora Master]

The thought of playing this makes me feel tired

The PoE experience.

 

[scytheavatar]

Compared to Dragon Age 4 this game looks like a fuckin masterpiece.

Veilguard looks like cringe shit but at least the combat looks ok. I have a feeling Veilguard's combat will give more lasting fun than Avowed's.

 

[luj1]

The thought of playing this makes me feel tired

The PoE experience.

Lool

 

[DemonKing]

Subscription shit where you own nothing and are happy

You don't own your stuff on Steam either though...

It’s just an evolution of that practice where now the publisher makes the money with zero cost, as opposed to a 3rd party with a considerable one. Ideally in the digital era with the zero cost copies the price of a game would be a lot lower, the price being no more second hand market. As you can see the companies however kept their cake and ate it too.

Yeah - it's ridiculous that it's often cheaper for the consumer to have an empty DVD case containing a piece of paper with a cdkey on it mailed to them than to just download the product directly from the publisher's site. There's no reason digital products shouldn't be cheaper than physical ones, especially as you can't sell/trade/give them away like you can with discs.