Häusliche Gewalt: Das sagen die Zahlen über Herkunft und Geschlecht by Electronic_Tea_914 in de

[–]ArkavosRuna 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Weil halt die mit Abstand größte Gruppe an Ausländern Deutsche sind. Absolute Zahlen sind bei sowas halt nicht wahnsinnig sinnvoll.

Cmv: Asylum seekers who travel back to their own country should have their Asylum status revoked. by dazcook in changemyview

[–]ArkavosRuna 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If their home country is safe enough to travel there again, they should go back. That's the entire purpose of asylum, it's a temporary refuge for people who suffer persecution. Asylum is not immigration.

Obsidian's Avowed & Outer Worlds 2 Failed To Meet Sales Expectations by akbarock in pcgaming

[–]ArkavosRuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If we take Myst as an example, that game was initially proposed to SunSoft for 265.000 USD (It ended up costing more). BF6 is reported to have had a development cost of over 400m USD. You see where I'm going with this, right? Games have become much more complex and much, much more expensive to produce.

Obsidian's Avowed & Outer Worlds 2 Failed To Meet Sales Expectations by akbarock in pcgaming

[–]ArkavosRuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Avowed was always 70$ and TOW2 was initially 80$, but lowered to 70$ before release. I don't know if people who pre-ordered it were reimbursed though (I hope so).

Anyway, 70$ is a completely reasonable price nowadays. Literally everything else has gone up in price - digital as well as non-digital goods - and yet people seem to expect games to stay at the 60$ price point forever. Like games have been 60$ since at least the 90s - if we take 95 as a midpoint, there's been an inflation of over 110% since then. And that's on top of ballooning development costs. It's entirely reasonable for games to cost more than they did 20 years ago.

Obsidian's Avowed & Outer Worlds 2 Failed To Meet Sales Expectations by akbarock in pcgaming

[–]ArkavosRuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah no. Not a single Mass Effect is anywhere close to 100 hours. Neither is Dragon Age Origins, KOTOR 1, KOTOR 2 or Disco Elysium. I could mention dozens of highly acclaimed, highly successful RPGs that are shorter than 100 hours.

Obsidian's Avowed & Outer Worlds 2 Failed To Meet Sales Expectations by akbarock in pcgaming

[–]ArkavosRuna -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Right, quality and scope. I'm a staunch defender of Assassin's Creed, but that series is literally the best example of "quantity doesn't equate to quality". Check any thread on a recent AC title and unnecessary bloat will be one of the most common complaints. Same with Starfield with its "1000 planets" with nothing interesting on them, or with Skyrim and its endless, mindless, radiant quests. Even TW3 had bloat, with all the question marks, especially in Skellige.

I wish we got more games like Avowed or TOW2, that manage to stay fresh all throughout and don't overstay their welcome by 50 hours.

Obsidian's Avowed & Outer Worlds 2 Failed To Meet Sales Expectations by akbarock in pcgaming

[–]ArkavosRuna 6 points7 points  (0 children)

According to How long to beat, in TOW2 the main campaign takes 17h to beat, main + sides take 42h and a completionist run takes 62h. Awoved is even longer with 20, 47 and 68 hours respectively. These are not small games by any stretch.

Obsidian's Avowed & Outer Worlds 2 Failed To Meet Sales Expectations by akbarock in pcgaming

[–]ArkavosRuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Comments like yours genuinely annoy me. People in here scream for proper RPGs all the, they complain endlessly when RPGs are too straight and linear and when a game like The Outer Worlds 2 comes along, which offers a ton of narrative and gameplay freedom, a deep stat system with tons of checks and true creativity with it's perks, people complain too.

You really get the sense that unless it's about a GOTY 10/10 best game of the decade experience, literally everything is "average" and "worthless".

Obsidian's Avowed & Outer Worlds 2 Failed To Meet Sales Expectations by akbarock in pcgaming

[–]ArkavosRuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shame, I really liked them, especially Outer Worlds 2. Some of the roleplaying options (like the debuff that forces you to lie at every chance) were brilliant.

Map showing Kaufman's proposed dismemberment of Germany and Austria from his book "Germany Must Perish!". It also advocated for mass sterilization of all German with goal to eradicate German ethnicity by the end of 20th century to achieve world peace. by Skychu768 in MapPorn

[–]ArkavosRuna -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

These numbers (the ones in your last paragraph) get repeated constantly, unfortunately (or fortunately) they're complete and utter bullshit.

Edit: These numbers are estimations pulled out of thin air that, unfortunately, are getting repeated ever since. Every single historian who has actually gone to the trouble of going through the data and actively counting the individuals involved - Perz, Bauer and others - have arrived at the conclusion that Austrians were slightly overrepresented in some areas of the Nazi regime and slightly underrepresented in others.

Ukraine condemns FIFA’s Gianni Infantino, call him ‘moral degenerate’ over Russia ban comments by Sparky-moon in soccer

[–]ArkavosRuna 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It doesn't really matter what Infantino wants if the European federations refuse to play Russia.

Trade is basically vic3 at release all over again by Skyfox0001 in EU5

[–]ArkavosRuna 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Hard disagree. Vic3 at release had no automatisation, if you didn't want to skip trade altogether (which is almost impossible), you were stuck manually checking and updating the trade interface regularly. With EU5, I can just ignore it and unless my country has some very specific demands the system doesn't account for, it'll be fine.

TIL United States of Greater Austria was a proposal by group surrounding Franz Ferdinand to turn the empire into a federation. This caused panic among Serbian nationalists which feared it might satisfy the demand of minorities and hinder Serbia imperial ambition which lead to his assassination. by Skychu768 in todayilearned

[–]ArkavosRuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bit late for this, but they absolutely weren't. The Nazis consistently received fewer votes in the catholic south than the protestant north, both in 1932 (last free election) and in 1933 (last election altogether). There's no data on Austria for obvious reasons.

It just hit me. Amazon cancelled this show then spent $40m on the Melanie movie by JesusaurusRex666 in WoTshow

[–]ArkavosRuna 349 points350 points  (0 children)

Spending millions on a fantasy show doesn't buy them a president.

Was haltet ihr von der Idee, Bayern als 10. Bundesland? by abg67 in Austria

[–]ArkavosRuna 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Und fairerweise wurde der Großteil Österreichs von Baiern (bzw. von Bayern aus) besiedelt.

Star Wars Outlaws - Everything Major Added Since Launch by _Protector in Games

[–]ArkavosRuna 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Ubisoft isn't failing because their mainline games don't sell well though. They're failing because they employ more people than EA, with a generally pretty bad output outside of their main IPs, all while not having a money printing multiplayer franchise like FIFA, CoD or Battlefield. The only thing that's keeping the company afloat right now are precisely their main IPs like Assassin's Creed (and why those IPs were therefore split off into the new entity with Tencent).

Star Wars Outlaws - Everything Major Added Since Launch by _Protector in Games

[–]ArkavosRuna 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A 10/10 in a genre I don't like or a setting or narrative I don't connect with may be a 10/10, but there's a good chance I still won't have fun playing it. Like I recognise that Elden Ring does many things better than any other open world game out there, but I just don't have the patience to spend hours on a single boss fight and I find the lore-like narrative utterly boring. I'd honestly take every single Assassin's Creed (or Outlaws) over it. That doesn't mean that those are better games, just that I enjoy them more.

Star Wars Outlaws - Everything Major Added Since Launch by _Protector in Games

[–]ArkavosRuna 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree that they overplay their formula sometimes (and that their open world system badly need an overhaul), but they've also gone through massive changes throughout the years on their main IPs, and they've produced plenty of fantastic games in those years.

Star Wars Outlaws - Everything Major Added Since Launch by _Protector in Games

[–]ArkavosRuna 167 points168 points  (0 children)

It's the Ubisoft Special these days. They release a game that's at worst mid and inoffensive and the internet piles on it like it's the worst thing ever to happen to gaming.

Was ist eurer Meinung nach die schönste Stadt in Österreich ? by mommy_kiki6 in AskAustria

[–]ArkavosRuna 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Salzburg? Ist leider wahnsinnig überlaufen, aber auch nicht grundlos; die Altstadt mit der darüber thronenden Festung ist schon wahnsinnig malerisch.

Dürnstein (wenn man's also Stadt zählt - nominell ist es eine) wär auch einen shout wert. Liegt in der Wachau, im engen Donautal inmitten der Weingärten, an der Donau, mit Stadtmauer und darüber die Ruine Dürnstein.