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The Gaming Industry And The Wrong Direction

Dennis

Some of you know already that I really dislike the route that game developers go today. I mentioned it already a few times on my blog. And I am not really interested to keep my mouth shut, especially not if something did upset me. I try to hold a decent level on my blog but I also do not have problem to label crap things simply crap things. Today I will do that. One of the very modern crap things seen from old-school gamer point of view, are micro transactions and games that are solely developed to milk the cow … Continue reading The Gaming Industry And The Wrong Direction

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No longer interested in Sim City 5.

Dennis

So, I found out that the size of a Sim City 5 map is comparable with a medium sized map in Sim City 4. That must be a joke but it isn´t because that´s how it is. Games get poorer and poorer. Really. Let me rant now… Creative Director Ocean Quigley said “The game has to run smoothly on ordinary computers,”. Oh really? Damn? That sounds like “We want to make the game playable on every junk computer so that we could make maximum profit with the degraded game called Sim City 5”. Me as guy who plays games since … Continue reading No longer interested in Sim City 5.