Seems like they’re headed back into a more grounded, serious tone which is great. I hope this is good because I loved BF4 and BF1.

The name is a little stupid, but I find it makes a lot of sense too. Metroidvanias are games where you explore and slowly unlock the means to reach new areas and explore more. Metroidbranias are the same idea but you need knowledge to progress rather than collecting items

That’s up to government regulations and something that people can vote on - not something the payment processor can suddenly control and block

And it won’t happen because companies won’t allow them to ban a trillion dollar industry, you knob. Banning adult games isn’t remotely comparable. Most video games rely on violence and it’s too big of an industry to fail, adult games have a tiny following and were an easy target.

They banned adult games?! That means they’ll ban all violent media! They’ll eventually come for all media, they’ll come for our computers, they’ll trap us in cages! It’s a slippery slope!

They could move to new payment processors

This is way harder than you can imagine… You can’t just swap out a payment provider overnight, and even then moving to less popular providers on such a big website is risky.

They’re not going to ban 90% of video games, not everything is a slippery slope

Direct link to their statement rather than reading an article talking about it: https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

They lowered the price from $80 to $70, but I’m sure they’ll fire more developers regardless

OSRS has a free version that lets you access most of the game, but the paid premium version nets you more content

I found Final Fantasy XIV easy to get into. The full game requires a monthly payment but there is a “free trial”, which contains the entire base game and the first expansion for free and can last you at least a few hundred hours.

I tried old school runescape a while ago again but did not enjoy it. It’s a very grindy game, and unless you like clicking on a tree for 30 minutes then you aren’t going to like it either.

I did not receive any explanation

I don’t know, have you tried looking at the screenshot you keep posting?

…No. It’s because Lemmy content and users are duplicated into hundreds of instances. Websites are ranked independently and because they’re so split, none of them are popular enough to be on search engines. There are plenty of ad-free sites that show up on page one.

some speculate that because the content is the same across all these instances, Lemmy might be getting caught in the spam filter too.

Keep fighting the good fight comrade, just 20 more garbage “meme” posts per day and you will definitely convince the evil american liberals how wrong they are. Never stop posting.

Are you surprised your aggressive comment got removed after I reported it?

Removed by mod

If you can read you can probably find a written review yourself instead of commenting on a video essay that you don’t like videos

Good luck, you’ll need it

Opposite experience here. I liked part 1 because it was mostly linear and had decent pacing, even if I wasn’t a big fan of the story. Part 2 is 90% fluff and a useless ubisoft-style open world. It’s also way too goofy while trying to act like a serious story I should care about.

I believe while Sonic games do sell well, they aren’t huge enough for Sega to focus on them. Their other franchises like Persona, SMT, Yakuza/Like A Dragon etc perform way better.

Since they abandoned their consoles Sonic has been a mascot they use for franchising. Movies, tv shows, comics, tie-ins… They probably make way more money from those than video games

In other news, Krafton extends the payout today too.

Nobody knows what’s going on, at this point just wait until this goes over to court and we’ll see who did what.