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^ Ace Combat 8. Pre-order to get your free Retr0gamer inspired DLC 😄

To be fair, Ace Combat 7 was my surprise sleeper hit of 2020 when it popped up on gamepass. I'll def get the next one

Which of today's announcements is more surprising?

New Call of Duty or Skyrim 10th Anniversary Edition

Now with new hat fishing.

Holy ****, i never played the first but loved the 2nd, would definitely be interested in this.

Lego Skywalker Saga has finally reappeared.

It's been confirmed that there will be a new world premiere look at Gamescom Opening Night Live.

Hopefully gets a release date.

I still stand by my belief Star Citizen is vapourware

Star Citizen: A $400+ Million Gaming Project With No Release Date In Sight. (2021) – Tech In Gaming

For a little bit extra on this, and of course this is anecdotal, I previously worked for the payment processer that handled Star Citizen. Back in I think 2018 we had a period where pretty much every day for 6 months we had people contacting us for refunds for things they had purchased for the game to help development costs, some having spent more than $10,000 on ships and various other bits.

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Because the persistent universe keeps making money for them, every time they add something to the persistent universe they get a boost in ship purchases etc coming off that feature. Squadron 42 is not tied to any of that, they release that and its a one time boost of people buying squadron 42 (if it's good). The persistent universe has a built in excuse of it being alpha and rakes in repeat sales everytime they add to it.

I am not as critical of Star Citizens as others, I think there is benefit to it but honestly that benefit wont be in star citizen itself but in the 10 or so other titles that will be born from the sheer amount of work they put into working out some aspects.

Someone will do the sci fi equivalent of Sea of thieves and will use all the time star citizen spent years working out how to make a complicated space sim work with players walking around inside and the ship and use it as the basis for a simpler premise. And a game that is just that and not all the crap dumped on top from the kickstarter that will make bank, it will be a streaming darling on twitch for a while and will make a fortune with dlc.

Same with their whole planetary entry mechanics and transition from space to earth mechanics, I can equally see some Battle Royale or Battlefield like title taking everything star citizen has done there and punching out a snappy fun multiplayer shooter with that.

Star citizen is a test bed for 10 or so better sci fi games, it just doesn't realize it.

Unless of course CIG become massive grade a c&nts and do a warner bros and patent all that work

then we're just left with broken vaporware

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Nice, been waiting for cloud gaming to come to the console 😁👍

Just on the patent thing, the WB patents are unlikely to hold up if tested and unlike their vague "hey what if enemies remembered you through the use of a system or apparatus", the actual implementation would inherently be protected by copyright but it's a pretty simple concept so they'd be a number of ways to do it without copyright infringement.

Unless CIG do a deal with Amazon who's engine they're now using or license their stuff out it's not really something others can profit off of, it's not like everyone suddenly having recharging health or something.