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#1  Edited By mrfluke

Another thread of some kind of complaining, but this time i see your point

because, I'm currently trading in my PS4 pro, and it busts the price of the Ps5 price for me down to $300, so im with you on your first 2 points,

I have a powerful laptop, but I just have no interest in playing on PC and prefer to just keep that for productivity and with the rise of cloud technology, I just don't wanna get caught up in that upgrade race.

but im also treating getting one of these consoles right now like a Phone upgrade, where it's more about the performance upgrades for older stuff and a snappier UI and overall improved quality of life features, and judging from the Series X impressions coming out and the idea that the Ps5 has a even faster SSD in it, it seems like its gonna do that greatly.

Gb always expresses a fair amount of skepticism at the start based on previous patterns (ill always remember around the time of the ps4/xbox one launch how Brad thought there was no need for another set of consoles) so the talk on the hotspot was not surprising,

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Lots of people here expressed their views a lot more eloquently than I can so forgive me if I can’t do it as good

But honestly, not too surprised with his shift, he was always a showman and an entertainer but also can be dismissive at first glance which he had outright admitted and said he got this habit from his father, I remember one interview a while back where he had said he could have never seen himself going solo and prefers to work with a team and collects a check.

To now he’s a one man streaming army, and this is just his side gig.

Dan has always been known to shift his opinions once he properly understands a thing, and he outright admits this as well.

As for the goading people into spending money, it’s no where near as heinous or as cynical as you make it sound, and he always makes it a point that he prefers the amazon prime subscription than people giving him money and stuff like setting bit goals is probably cause he sees people doing this on other streams as well

Also you gotta take into the mindset of the people watching as well, and NOT in a bad way but some people there just kinda love being a part of the theatrics of his streams, he has people there that have easily donated hundreds of dollars already and they all never complain or try to act entitled about it and dan always is very transparent about everything, and never once has pushed people into spending money

(he outright told one of his highest spending viewers that he completely understands if you have to scale it back, and outright told him that to basically chill on spending money)

I tune in for all his stuff when I can and watch the archives and honestly, some weeks it’s more entertaining than the solo GB content that was here before GB restarted doing group content

,but this idea of what your saying (or at least how it comes off) like dan gave up his integrity when becoming a twitch streamer I humbly completely disagree with,

he was always a showman and entertainer and found an audience that loves him for it, and also extremely self aware, as usually during the late late streams where he’s just chatting with the crowd he actually addresses a lot of these criticisms you wrote about and talked about it with them.

(Unfortunately with twitch’s 60 day archive policy some of those videos are now forever lost so I have no direct video I can point you to)

The man helped changed peoples lives with introducing meditation and talking about anxiety and how he coped with it (I remember seeing someone at pax come thank him for talking about anxiety and how his book helped his wife so much and the guy nearly teared up on the spot talking to dan) , sure he’s not above criticism but he’s more than allowed to have his fun and he totally keeps it transparent with his crowd.

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Single handily confirmed that I’ll eventually get a series X through their subsidiary plan

Or wait till they all come to Xcloud

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This came out completely out of nowhere and looks completely interesting.

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No one really knows for sure, but to add to armchair speculation, I’m gonna say that they were part of the sale?

A few website redesigns ago, I believe gamespot used to have footer links to giantbomb directly, and back in the office days they used to share an office space with them

So I’m willing to say yes, but boy if nothing else, when they return to an office, things might change dramatically.

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Disc one will be $500, disc less $450, and they will tout their exclusives as the justification for their price

If they are smart, they would introduce some form of payment plan model like what the series x is doing as well.

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Too much heavy hitters still have to come out this year that this is wayy too early to call especially in a year where the staff kinda seemed lukewarm on a lot of stuff this year? and the vast majority of the big stuff this year is pretty much stuffed into the last quarter of the year.

The ones I can see them coming to a collective agreement on this year so far would be Animal Crossing and Rogue Legacy 2 and Spelunky 2 (I would have said FF7R, but Vinny seemed like he got bored and the story didnt hook him, and I just don't see Abby or Alex touching that game or having strong feelings for it)

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You see the familiar gameplay it’s wrapped in which is totally fine, I just hope sun wukongs staff has some good gameplay weight behind it

But mannnnnn, that game looks so slick and just has a visual flair I haven’t seen since Asuras Wrath, hoping the final product comes together whenever it’s out (that’s a definite next gen game even if it was made with UE4)

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#10  Edited By mrfluke

If anything, Giantbomb would be safe I would think since it's a small operation where all the staff is at home and the premium base is likely still strong. If i was a CEO, i wouldn't just sell off something that from the outside looking in, sustains itself.

But that's my armchair speculation minute, I'm glad some of the premium shows are returning.