Gaming BS of the week
 

I really, honestly, have to. And it probably won't be a week because it seems almost every day another one appears. And I'm tired of posting them in different threads instead on one place.

Like it or not, agree or not, feel free to ignore all this or laugh over such stuff with me.

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Today's entry, what a surprise, comes from Ubisoft.
Ubi sent out a survey to random number of fans. First survey question was gender.

The thing is, if you put "female", the survey kicks you out with words “your profile did not suit”. O_O
This just added to the recent crap some of us remember - lack of female assassins in AC:Unity and idiotic excuses Ubi made that it's too hard, complicated and whatnot to make. Does Ubi hate women? Dunno.

http://www.vg247.com/2016/07/06/wome…d-survey-goof/

Eh, probably it IS a mistake, though pretty damn funny one, considering THEY initiated the survey that probably no one asked for.
Vivaldi must be getting to them. :P
Besides, didn't they brag about Syndicate having a transcrosssemiquasiwhatever in their game?

I have taken surveys which does exactly that when I select "male" as an option. Some surveys target certain section of the population however I am not saying this is one of those…

Whats even more strange is that some of these surveys are for products targeted at men, for example Lynx shower gel for Men!

I'm not sure how strange this is. Its not important to companies who uses the product, but who buys it. If wives or girlfriends buy this more than the men who use it, then they are the only target the companies care about.

I can confirm this is true. The lady at the barber asked me what type of shampoo I was using, and the answer was, "whichever one I find in the shower." :biggrin:

I'm working in an hospital now, although now in the treatment area.
It's been 2 times now that I was referred to as "Mrs" when I answered the phone … A fellow employee just said that "there are too many women working here [in the hospital]. When you are answering the phone, you are at first [assumed to be] a woman."

You use shampoo? I frequently just grab the hand soap.

You mean you don't care about what brand of sodium lauryl sulfate you use????

But it could be sulfatier! :biggrin:

Yeah, this was the stupidest thing I saw last week. Sadly, cynical as I am, it didn't surprise me at all, coming from Ubisoft. >.>

Pokemon Go.

If you still haven't heard about it, you will. Apparently, this phone application is spreading like a plague.

On paper the idea doesn't look bad. In a sort of augmented reality your phone serves as a "detector" of life not visible with bare eyes. Also, the phone shows you points of interest where you can walk/drive and do one of several activities. And seems that anyone can create a point of interest (can't be sure, I don't want to install this thing on my phone). Isn't this great? You create a point of interest and someone comes and you're socializing in real world instead of damned facebooks?

In reality, this is one of the worst ideas ever.
While making the reality "augmented", application creators were living in their own utopian world where nothing bad ever happens. The thing is, application is used everywhere, not just in their small "safe" space.

So now there is a report on (possible) robbers luring Pokemon Go players to the place of their choice:
https://www.theguardian.com/technolo…bers-dead-body

Thanks to recent media coverage of classic USA violence I can think of even worse effect - now the USA triggerhappy police definelty has an excuse that they thought someone has a weapon (it'll be a phone pointed in a way it "shouldn't").

Socialization benefits? Sorry, but people used to socialize for thousands of years without this crap.
Oh yeah, seeing what company that application comes from, I'm not surprised.

When I lived in the jungle, I used to stand under a bucket of water with a hole in the bottom, and rub a bar of soap on my head. When I got fed up with that, I shaved my hair. It's fair to say I'm not an expert on men's beauty products, and I never use the exfoliating apricot buttock-softener, or the other curious potions in the shower.

Last, I read a 19 year old girl was stumbling over a dead body while looking for a cute water pokemon, a church was being invaded by pokemongers, the police station was too crowded for them to work effectively because it was a pokemon training site. Madness is upon us!

Well maybe not.

After making the post, I started to think about it some more. Everyone already knows about my love for the company involved, but this time I actually think they did the world a favor.

Thanks to the plague abuse, quite a few "hunters" will end up removed from the chessboard.
Who'd have thought that a company I can't hate more would provide a solution to overpopulation - with almost the same honeypot system they've been tricking people into for decades!

Today's winner is EA. What a surprise, right?

http://www.pcgamer.com/battlefield-1…-requirements/
Doesn't stop there:
https://www.origin.com/irl/en-us/sto…timate-edition

130 euro?
I'm laughing like crazy yet noone's tickling me.
Perhaps I should see a shrink soon.

Hey, I mean its like the ULTIMATE edition. You're an ULTIMATE fan, aren't you, Joxer? ;)

No, it means a complete game without anything cut away.

Yep. They already had a $/€130 UE for Star Wars Battlefront and from the looks of it found enough morons to buy that edition or they would not repeat it :) .
It will be interesting to see whether the price comes crashing down as fast as with SWBF (currently €39.99 for the UE with the 50% off promo code from a regular price of €79.99). Probably not since Battlefield is arguably the more popular franchise that will sell better over a longer period of time.

Today's one comes from PCGamer:
http://www.pcgamer.com/titanfall-2-4…ty-impressive/

The same site that has an article on taking PC screenshots with this pic as an example where the snow in hair looks much better while in motion during your gameplay, the pic is from Rise of the Tomb Raider and yes, this is not CGI thing but actual game visuals:

https://s16.postimg.org/86wuqrchh/pic.jpg

You may get bigger pic by changing res number (put 640 or 1080 or higher instead of 2160 in the link):
http://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/A7G…GK-2160-80.jpg

Another one:
http://www.pcgamer.com/twitch-prime-…loot-and-more/

Next time you see "w2w" - it means "watch to win".

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Facebook rides again, luckily not on PC:
http://gizmodo.com/oculus-app-update…ung-1787283114

Anyone ever heard of Ubisoft? Yea, me neither.

Anyway, it's some company that apparently publishes games and is highly innovative.
Their newest innovation comes in form of DLC. The business model people used to got changed, most probably by "popular demand" aka the customer is always right.

Frontiers, DLC for Anno 2205 game, is not covered by season pass. Season pass (or gold version) owners learned it today - they need to shell out more $ if they want this "ultimate" DLC although they have both base game and sp.
There are already 5 new thumb down reactions today, wouldn't surprise me to see hundreds of them soon:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/375910/

would this fill in here? :))
http://www.pcgamer.com/mafia-3-appea…o-30fps-on-pc/

Months after new generation of GPUs, with everyone and their mother now using SSD, in a year where noone uses less than 4 cores CPU for gaming…
30 FPS lock?

Not only it fits this thread, if there will be some top bullshit of the year list, that code deserves one of top 3 spots. It caused (quote Justified):
A shitstorm of biblical proportions:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mafia3/comm…ap_megathread/

EDIT:
https://mafiagame.com/en/news/view/e…ur-pc-players/
At least they didn't pull out "cinematic experience" card.

Seems that the release did not come just with FPS lock. People are reporting crashes, UI problems and grainy textures:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/360430/.

I bet buyers are already yelling "worse than Arkham Knight!".

Imagine a phonegame that needs 2Gb of RAM to work.
Can you? You don't game on phones?
Neither do I, so imagine a game on PC with 2Gb of RAM required. Skyrim, right? Okay, now Skyrim on phones is not really possible because of other requirements, but let's keep concentrated on RAM part.

Now imagine it's not a game we're discussing here, but just an utility. What kind of utility it might possibly be to ask for so much? Galaxy map of all Milkway stars where we can explore it in 3D? Sadly, no.
https://mspoweruser.com/facebook-mes…ands-2-gb-ram/

Not saying I'll stop spiting on bad consoleports on PC, but when it comes to coding and optimization in general, this is a new low. Knowing who it came from isn't that suprising, but still they could do better.

http://steamed.kotaku.com/gal-gun-dl…-90-1788088253
Who thought horse armor scam will improve in this way.

…….. nothing seize to surprise you about those crazy Japanese.

At least the horse armour looked good.

pibbur who dislikes the japanese anime/animewannabe style.

It's not about styles but paying 90 dollars just to see virtual bra and boobs.

I understood that. Just some free associations from me.

Pibbur who has a tendency to talk about something completely different.

Streaming videogames so people forget those are supposed to be played and not watched on TV like professional sports was a bullshit since it started.
As if twitch and youtube streams weren't enough, now Microsoft decided everyone needs another streaming garbage as a part of the bloatware in windows 10:
http://www.pcgamer.com/built-in-game…to-windows-10/

The sad thing is that there are people out there who will still accept this GFWL 2.0 "feature". Meanwhile, I'm off to play civ6 some more.

Another thing I'll happily ignore.

I know that many people like watching let's play videos. But personally, I don't get it. I can't imagine I'd ever sit down watching one. Or standing. Come to think of it, I can't imagine I'd watch one from any body position.

But obviously many like them, good for them. I have of course no problems with that.

pibbur who is getting oldish and grumpish.

Watching people play is not for me either but it's hardly BS. Some people really enjoy watching them.

I don't really see the difference between watching e-sports and other "professional sports". Let's not forget that physical sports are also supposed to be played, not watched. And look at how many people watch the Super Bowl, NFL, FIFA World Cup or the Olympic Games.

That said, while Let's Play videos are related, they also have a slightly different purpose, at least from my point of view: I like watching them before trying out a new game I know nothing about.

Otherwise.. yeah, I don't make it a habit of watching other people play, one way or another.

Just to add to the thread as it seems Microsoft thinks offline gaming is not mandatory, and are instead offering gamers a limited opportunity with its new window store.
Reminds me of the old PC DRM that developers used where you could only activate a game three times before you had to call customer service just to play the game.:disappointed:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20…one-in-myanmar

Not (just) the store. Those who bought games on Origin there receive a message "all your game are belong to us" when they try to log in on Origin. Something like that. No refund possible of course.

The effect of this idiotic move? Piracy rate gets higher.

Activision+Microsoft pull out BS on CoD PC version:



I can't believe they still think that GFWL 2 rubbish is good for games.

Watch Dogs 2 spreadsheet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4OG…youtu.be&t=747

Let's see if FF15 DLC can beat this Ubi's cretinism.

I always get a laugh out of this BS https://robertsspaceindustries.com/p…ionist-Digital

You know its a scam when you can buy a $15,000 version of a game that's not out. :P

I thought it's just a rumor or prank:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1314516

Unbloodybelievable.
Got even worse, after this retarded Sony move, Ubi is now "patching" the issue.
https://www.vg247.com/2016/11/15/ubi…-watch-dogs-2/

Of the week? Not even of the year, feels more like of the decade.

I c^nt believe they'd do this.

I'm reading it and cannot believe my eyes:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/snooper…s-becomes-law/
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-st…-a7423866.html

It's not about games, but sure as hell it'll spread on games too. Hopefully not outside of UK, but I'm not sure we're that lucky.

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