Posts made by TokyoSlim

I fully did not come into this thread thinking I was going to take a trip back in time to 2000

@klinjon not literally, but functionally. There's the least amount of dialogue in any of the Wick movies, and most of it just goes to set up fighting.

@bam541 let me know what you think of 13 Assassins

I'm mostly happy it's over so that soon I won't have to hear people complain about how they would have done things differently in public.

The episode itself was fine. Edmure Tully and crazy moon door titty sucker kid made an appearance, so that was an additional bonus for me.

The film festival has started, by the way - so I'm gonna be watching a lot of stuff over the next 24 days.

@mbun said in Epic Games Store:

that still sucks.

That's the internet for ya. Not something to get real mad over tho.

@mbun Buying a game that's not region locked from a storefront in a different region is not piracy. In general, PC games are never region locked. The game itself may be illegal in your location due to censorship, consumer, or licensing laws - but if that's the case, then they'd be just as illegal if you purchased them from any other vendor.

I am not promoting circumventing censorship, consumer, or licensing laws in whatever country you happen to be in - just pointing out that buying a game from somewhere you don't live is a common thing that people do. People on this very forum have probably logged into a Japanese PSN account and bought Japanese copies of say... Judgement, which doesn't release in North America for another month.

Also, sometimes localized stores are worse. Gamers in China didn't want a Steam China store, because it allowed the govt to block the quasi-illegal global store they'd been using until then. And now the localized Chinese version of Steam has only approved and or censored games. That's why companies recently started censoring their games for the Chinese market... Because a localized Steam storefront opened up.

Now in order to sell in China, they have to make a game that will explicitly pass censors in China, which a couple years ago, they didn't have to do.

That being said, I'm sure many previous Steam users just VPN outside of China to buy off global Steam.

@mbun if it's on the internet, the game is available. That's the entire point. It may not be available as CONVENIENTLY as if it had a localized storefront, but again, same thing with thousands of other storefronts or services. Epic store is not unique in that regard, only in that people are looking to complain about it.

Probably bribed China with a SALE!

@binarymelon good for them :)

@mbun said in Epic Games Store:

people were writing in about how Epic Store still isn't available in lots of countries

Sadly, that's something that happens with all internet based International distribution models. That will improve over time or it won't. Many websites period are not available in China, for example. You'd have to use a VPN service to bypass the govt firewall to watch YouTube. Just sounds like people want to complain to me.

Or people don't know how to use the internet.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/wccftech.com/epic-games-store-features-roadmap/amp/

They also just rolled out regionalized pricing this last week, so... Looks like they are improving the service to me.

Everyone mad cause of a sale. Lol

4/5 if you like action movies
2/5 if you like dialogue

The Episodic nature of the game has little to do with wanting to preserve the story or anything, it's just that they don't want to wait 10 years for this game to come out.

Some of the best writing in a video game, IMO.