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But you could just do that anyway. Just because trophies are there doesn’t mean you have to care about them.

Last Rebellion Ni no Kuni 2 Dark Cloud (as soon as you get over the initial learning curve) Okage: Shadow King

No they don’t. Took less than a year for PS4 to hit profitability on a unit sold. Stop spreading lies. And even at launch all it took was a person to buy a controller or a game to break even. They talked about this. Consoles get cheaper to produce over time, not more expensive. Eventually they all become profitable, unless there is severe mismanagement. Steam gives games out for free from from time to time as well... for free. To keep. As do Humble Bundle... and other pc storefronts. There’s no justification for consoles charging the money for these things. It’s just a way to rip out features and milk us for money. No need to be naive. They do it because they can get away with it, not because the poor billion dollar corporations are selling their blood to keep the lights on.

I ultimately blame consumers for buying into Xbox Live so easily and defending it to the death. Now look at where we are... And people's defenses are things that should be free. Cloud Save Storage (doesn't even work as good as Steam Cloud), Online (PC is free and better), Discounts... (that aren't even as good as Steam, and you don't have to pay Valve to get good deals...)... what actual thing are we getting out of it? We just rationalize why it's "worth it", but is it really? I don't think so... but I still have my sub. Sunk cost will probably force me to keep it at this point. I've had it since it started. It's a mess. I kind of would love, and find it ironic, to see MS drop Xbox Live in favor of pushing the Game Pass and other services over charging for things that should be free... and get an edge over Sony getting greedy and PS+ becoming pretty lame in terms of value proposition. But Sony didn't have to take the chance to charge, we [consumers] just gave a good excuse to do so. People always acted like Xbox Live was vastly superior because all the money MS made off it, even though it really wasn't. And once again, PC proves that you don't need to charge to provide a good service... And Nintendo is on the ride too. Fun.

Maria is easy mode. Are you using her punch move thing? If you're replaying through entire levels you definitely aren't saving properly.

Not surprised.

I think people will have standards the same time that people like yourself mind their own business. So no. This is why we can't have nice things. Them not wanting ot play a video game for whatever reason affects you in no way.

Yeah the whole "call out" status updates are such a waste of time and effort. I'm not sure if there's a rule outright against them, but there should be if there isn't. It's just petty and serves no purpose other than to create a ton of drama for no reason. If you dislike somebody, you should just block them or ignore them through sheer will power. But like the topic says, if the block function doesn't actually offer the ability to block status updates it becomes ineffective. Particularly if the person you dislike and don't want to see things from makes a lot of them, or your entire issue is their status updates and you don't mind the rest of their contributions. It's been so long since the forum 'update' that I'm surprised some of these issues are still around. Particularly this one given that these issues are only becoming more and more frequent, and I'm sure it's annoying for the mods to have to deal with all the petty drama.

Probably have to wait for the game to come out to know for sure. I have never played it. This'll be my first time.

I'm sure this has been pointed out before, and I think I dumped it somewhere in a general thread of 'issues' at one point. But you really need to update how blocking works, because I don't want to see status updates from people I block. I doubt anyone else wants to either. We block people for a reason.

You don't believe lazy, greedy companies wouldn't bother to pay extra for something that means literally nothing? M'kay. It's not that they can't "afford" it, it's that they wouldn't care to waste extra money for something that means nothing. If that's even how it works. It's not Sony, otherwise there'd be no reliable way to build a business on easy platinums. In yet, you can. Clearly you can get a platinum if you ACTUALLY WANT ONE. Otherwise, companies like Rata couldn't build a business off it. They'd have to worry that their next game(s) don't get a plat. Yet they always do. Many plats for all the regions and platforms too. Gee, almost like they want them and get them or something...