ABOUT Anti Pre-Order and Day-1 DLC !

It is up to you to make a difference!

Hello all and welcome!
This group was created first and foremost in order to raise awareness among our fellow gamers regarding the huge illness we have on the gaming industry today:

- Toxic Pre-order system.
- Imposed DRM (specially Allways Online DRM).
- Day One DLCs.
- Microtransactions on Pay to Play games.
- Loot Boxes.

Many of you will instantly relate to what i'm talking about here, others will need some enlightenment in order to comprehend what's going on, how we are the responsables of it, and how is it on our hands or better said in our wallets, the power to stop this.

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Some great explanations as to why Pre-Orders and DLCs overall are bad for us(the consumer) and for the gaming industry in general:

Videos:

TotalBiscuit (may he rest i peace)
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf5Uj4XIT1Y
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri0vrJ-y2zM
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-MQMx-nH4Q

AngryJoe
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYSCjGbv3YY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIogQDIq4po

Jim Sterling
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7EI9YCsuBQ

Articles:

RockPaperShotgun
- http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/03/18/editorial-lets-not-pre-order-games-any-more-eh/

Kotaku
- http://kotaku.com/5909105/stop-preordering-video-games-please

VentureBeat
- http://venturebeat.com/2013/02/15/why-pre-ordering-games-is-never-a-good-idea/

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Anti Pre-Order and Day-1 DLC ! reviews

"FTP Done Well: Games with a fair Free to Play business model, that rewards the users for supporting the game economically while not being "Pay to Win" nor "Grind Forever" if you dont pay."

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!Supreme Grand Wizard Yoodiv

Oct 15, 2023 @ 10:14pm

Description has lots of spelling errors etc, discredits this group a lot even though it has the right idea. Also seems to be dead here, lol...

lx

Jul 20, 2023 @ 4:09am

im out of here guys, its been a lonely ride

lx

Apr 4, 2022 @ 9:50am

"We just have to wait until AAA publishing collapses under their own pile of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥."
thats so funny and so wrong :D
waiting does nothing good. the clock is ticking and ♥♥♥♥ happens all the time.

Michael

Nov 21, 2021 @ 7:28pm

Hi folks! I know this is short notice, but I wanted to let you know that I sadly won't be able to do any moderating for this group anymore. I'm afraid I'm spread too thin these days, and really need to cut down on my Steam groups, guilds, Discords, etc. etc. etc. Too much to moderate!

Anyway, I wish you all the best! It was great being with you for as long as I was!

Campy, Yellow, thank you both especially for making me feel so welcome! Take care out there, and don't be a stranger!

CampyMcLurkstein

Oct 6, 2020 @ 8:36pm

I agree and can't afford to eat much less pay for digital video games in this greedy world. All so some exec who doesn't give a F about gaming can live on the hog.
Biggest problem is the game publishers and bloated marketing teams. I block all ads anyways. Worthless profession gaming could do without.
Also don't feel guilty about dl'ing free games when companies are handing out free copies to influencers.
They make a killing on digital sales due to the lack of production costs.
Also games should not be more expensive than film. Never should have been.
This is coming from a minimalist who makes a measly $10K a year in the communist USSA after the Gov steals more than half my income to reward themselves. And to bailout game studios.

CampyMcLurkstein

Dec 22, 2019 @ 4:50am

Not just ENBs, but the NVIDIA control panel (or AMD) can do some work with aliasing effects. Certain console port types like Dark Souls Remastered are better handled with a GPU than the
in-game aliasing and Vsync options.

Been doing Tiberian Sun recently with a repack made by someone on CNCnet. I actually really like the rough visuals, like Starcraft 1. These graphics don't age. And it looks brutal compared to the more cartoony look of Starcraft 2.

Darkest D and Mistover are randomized dungeon looters with multiple characters to level. Mistover has animes without mods. A new genre of games thanks to the amazing Darkest Dungeon which is very spicy on Nexus and even here on Steam mods. Can't have that in Fallout 76, boring without some cultured mods.

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