July 2025 PCG Article Discussion

[neogunhero]

Call of Duty is firmly in its slop era, and now it's Battlefield 6's game to lose

Battlefield has a chance to eat Call of Duty's lunch, but we'd be fools to believe EA will stick the landing.

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Please EA, please for the love of all things that are good, don’t let Battlefield 6 turn to this. I know how enticing that IP collab money is… I know you know how much money you’d make by slapping some recognizable characters into your game… but BF deserves better. I’ve played BF for 2 decades now and and I’ve been burnt before. The news that BF 6 is really trying to go back to its roots has me cautiously excited, so I really hope they don’t do anything like this.

 

[neogunhero]

At long last and 'with gracious permission from Valve,' Garry's Mod now contains 'most of Counter-Strike: Source and Half-Life 2 Episodic content' even if you don't own those games

Players should no longer see pink checkerboards or giant ERROR models when they "play on community maps that expect you to have this content."

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RIP to pink checkboards and red ERROR models

 

[Zed Clampet]

Call of Duty is firmly in its slop era, and now it's Battlefield 6's game to lose

Battlefield has a chance to eat Call of Duty's lunch, but we'd be fools to believe EA will stick the landing.

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Please EA, please for the love of all things that are good, don’t let Battlefield 6 turn to this. I know how enticing that IP collab money is… I know you know how much money you’d make by slapping some recognizable characters into your game… but BF deserves better. I’ve played BF for 2 decades now and and I’ve been burnt before. The news that BF 6 is really trying to go back to its roots has me cautiously excited, so I really hope they don’t do anything like this.

The big question is what happens if EA CEO Andrew Wilson wiggles free of his restraints and breaks out of the broom closet they've been keeping him.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Guy with 35,000 hours in Ark: Survival Evolved gives it a negative Steam review: 'How do I get a refund!!'

"You had something great. Hope you don't choke on your GREED!!!"

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The thing is, why would he recommend a game that's been almost entirely broken by the last DLC? What's he going to say, "Yes, buy this. It doesn't work."

 

[Zed Clampet]

.....TL;DR. No moral or ethic defense can be given to steam regarding their decision to censor and cherry-pick our steam choices

Overall this was one of the worst takes I've ever read. Expressing righteous indignation towards the victim of bullying for their failure to commit suicide would deserve a WWW Forum Hall of Fame nomination if such a thing existed. Completely illogical from beginning to end, demanding irrational adherence to a questionable moral position, and objectively incorrect in at least one spot--well done. I thought I was the only one here capable of such brilliance.

 

[Colif]

Guy with 35,000 hours in Ark: Survival Evolved gives it a negative Steam review: 'How do I get a refund!!'

"You had something great. Hope you don't choke on your GREED!!!"

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The thing is, why would he recommend a game that's been almost entirely broken by the last DLC? What's he going to say, "Yes, buy this. It doesn't work."

article doesn't really seem to be taking sides, just reporting the fact.

It's worth noting that even after writing their scathing indictment of Ark and demanding their money back, the reviewer has played, um, an additional 32 hours in the past week. Does that mean one of the recent patches has improved the situation? I've reached out to them for further comment, and will update this story if I hear back.

Alternate explanation. After you have sunk 35000 hours into something its really hard to just stop. 32 hours is him slowing down. Might take him a while to find something else to do. You can't go cold turkey on something you wasted time on, which had meaning at the time you were doing it.

Oddly this seems familiar.

 

[Pifanjr]

Guy with 35,000 hours in Ark: Survival Evolved gives it a negative Steam review: 'How do I get a refund!!'

"You had something great. Hope you don't choke on your GREED!!!"

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The thing is, why would he recommend a game that's been almost entirely broken by the last DLC? What's he going to say, "Yes, buy this. It doesn't work."

Maybe I should try to get a refund on Ark: Survival Evolved. Most of my time on it was from trying to make it work, I think I only played for maybe 15 minutes of wandering about and looking at someone else's base.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Maybe I should try to get a refund on Ark: Survival Evolved. Most of my time on it was from trying to make it work, I think I only played for maybe 15 minutes of wandering about and looking at someone else's base.

I enjoyed the game. Have over 600 hours in it, but the devs are absolutely toxic and incompetent. By the way, it says I need 424 GB of space to install the game...

 

[Zed Clampet]

article doesn't really seem to be taking sides, just reporting the fact.

Not sure what this has to do with what I posted.

 

[Colif]

fair enough.

 

[Zloth]

After selling to Krafton, Last Epoch dev says fans shouldn't be worried about the Subnautica 2 dispute: 'Krafton isn't looking to change us'

Eleventh Hour Games already has plans to hire several more developers in the coming months.

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I'm worried. On the bright side, that's an improvement from 'gave up on.'

 

[Zed Clampet]

After selling to Krafton, Last Epoch dev says fans shouldn't be worried about the Subnautica 2 dispute: 'Krafton isn't looking to change us'

Eleventh Hour Games already has plans to hire several more developers in the coming months.

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I'm worried. On the bright side, that's an improvement from 'gave up on.'

It's baffling to me when people sell their studio to the likes of Krafton.

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

It's baffling to me when people sell their studio to the likes of Krafton.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWRlxSGf_ns

 

[DXCHASE]

Crytek says the most important difference between Far Cry and Crysis had nothing to do with technology: 'In Crysis, we mimicked nature as closely as possible'

"If you want to build a real place, the best you can do is go to this place."

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We could absolutely use another Crysis right now even though i know its on hold, or at least thats the last news about it. No PVP, no battlepass, just a gorgeous cryengine looking game Crysis game with that amazing suit.

One year were gonna have a Crysis 4 and a Titanfall 3. Just a matter of time.

 

[Pifanjr]

How well do you know your videogame spells? Put your arcane knowledge to the test with our latest quiz

Find out whether you're an archmage or just a lowly apprentice.

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I got 5/12, but this is a quiz where, if you haven't played the game (as a magic user), you can really only guess. And even if you have played the game as a magic class, the wrong options sometimes include real spells from different games in the same series, just to make it even harder.

 

[Zed Clampet]

How well do you know your videogame spells? Put your arcane knowledge to the test with our latest quiz

Find out whether you're an archmage or just a lowly apprentice.

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I got 5/12, but this is a quiz where, if you haven't played the game (as a magic user), you can really only guess. And even if you have played the game as a magic class, the wrong options sometimes include real spells from different games in the same series, just to make it even harder.

I felt it was hopeless, so I just ran through and answered randomly without reading either the question or the answer and got 3/12.

 

[neogunhero]

Bob Odenkirk on Mario: 'I'll kill him'

Fair enough.

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Bob, the question was "which character would you take on in a fight", not "which character would you mercilessly murder".

 

[Zloth]

How well do you know your videogame spells? Put your arcane knowledge to the test with our latest quiz

Find out whether you're an archmage or just a lowly apprentice.

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I got 5/12, but this is a quiz where, if you haven't played the game (as a magic user), you can really only guess. And even if you have played the game as a magic class, the wrong options sometimes include real spells from different games in the same series, just to make it even harder.

I also got 5 out of 12. That was a tough one!