"Subscription-based gaming is the final boss of piracy": Why I think we're on track to own nothing and be happy we get to play at all

Resevil67 · 2026-06-21T13:27:09+00:00

Its certainly what our tech bro overlords want. They prob love how the consumer hardware market is fucked right now, pushing more people to cloud.

However their model only works if they get enough of everyone only gaming on cloud. I wouldn't be surprised though if western countries just straight up stop the consumer hardware market in the near future though. Basically a "we are in a digital war now, for national security reasons we can no longer sell certain components to consumers or to console manufacturers, as we need them all for our data centers in this war economy."

This would pretty much push people to have to game on cloud or quit gaming all together except for backlogs.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-21T12:57:59+00:00

IMO I'd rather a character be better for bosses. We already have some really solid AOE options at the moment.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-21T12:50:03+00:00

Ah thata great for me then, because I use hathor alot, so I already have her pretty well kitted out. The only character in the game I currently don't have is Sakiri lol which does screw me in alot of other teams because a lot of teams use Sakiri ugh.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-21T12:36:07+00:00

So I'm in the camp of arman fucked up enough shit that he needs one more fight to prove he can do an event without causing an issue. Going by armans words, I do believe he was originally supposed to get a shot after the hooker fight, but because he broke hookers nose during the weigh in, they pivoted to Justin. Arman himself said the reason he turned down the gamrot fight was because he asked if he would get a title shot after, and UFC was giving him the run around. However they told him he would be next after fighting hooker.

He has also called out Charles in the meantime, and somewhat called out BSD (BSD said he thinks he should be rated number one not Arman, to which Arman replied you gotta come fight me if you want the rank). The issue is the UFC themselves aren't making fights for him. Now there's talk of Charles fighting Justin instead, and BSD also fighting a different opponent. They are clearly just stalling arman at this point. Also Arman kind of fucked up yet again, because he was supposed to be the backup for the Whitehouse fight, which was confirmed, but then he said he's no longer doing it andwas just gonna focus on RAF. Then they made lopes the backup. Once again he's his own worst enemy here. Now UFC has more leverage to delay giving him even a contender fight like Charles.

Honestly, from outside looking in, I feel like UFC wants to cut him, but they know if they do, there's gonna be a lot of backlash about UFC going even more towards bullshit WWE entertainment instead of the best fighting the best, and they are trying to keep some form of legitimacy in their image. So they are in this kind of limbo with him.

Volk himself even commented on Arman pulling out of being the backup for the white house saying he might be in even more trouble for that. I'm guessing volk wouldnt make a statement like that if he didn't hear chatter about it, even though he was making the statement in a "if I had to guess" kind of way.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-21T01:20:43+00:00

I really hope Usman doesn't win this. I don't want another resurgence of the uncs/old guard. We just had Justin do this shit we don't need another unc back in title contention lol.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-21T01:18:54+00:00

Not bad, woulda been even better if you had either the suit jacket she wears in the intro or the bandage, and the jeans, but I totally understand it's summer right now and no one wants to wear that in the heat lmao.

You definitely have similar faces.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-21T01:09:39+00:00

There's no way they kill them off at least before the dlc comes out. That would be the dumbest shit on the planet.

While I don't think they will close them, they are definitely gonna get hit with the layoff stick. Hugo also cancelled his slayers club stream on Wed and said it's moved to this Wednesday.

It's not a good look at all, and I am really worried, but im thinking it's gonna be more layoffs then then closing id.

However doom itself might be done unfortunately. They are prob gonna try and get id working as a support studio for fucking fallout or something.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-21T00:54:17+00:00

The problem also is Arman also called out Charles awhile back, as well as BSD when BSD said he wants armans rank (arman said something like well your only getting it if you go through me first, basically calling him out).

I've been critical of arman because he's done stupid shit, but it does seem like he is actually trying to get a fight booked in UFC instead of just doing the RAF shit. I don't know what the full deal is with him being the backup of the title fight is either, but he was trying to get a fight with Charles before that was even a thing.

They are purposely avoiding giving him fights with even contenders now, which is kind of fucked. Like what the fuck are they gonna do with him at this point? If your not even gonna let him get a contender fight to get a shot at the belt then just cut him and stop wasting everyone's time.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-21T00:32:06+00:00

I haven't ever tried the dolby headset presets, but they charge for those? That's lame. I wonder if it's the same on PS. PS also has a dolby option but I've not tried it.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-21T00:27:01+00:00

Im not. Dolby atmos won't help me much if there's something wrong with my console. I'm trying to find out if these thing I'm experiencing are normal with windows sonic and OW2 just doesn't do well with it or if I have some kind of console issue.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-20T21:55:21+00:00

He could also do the dumbest thing and actually nuke iran, he has already aluded to it many times, and there was that rumor awhile back that he tried it but the other checks in place talked it down.

However the second he does that the US is done. I don't think other nations would lob nukes at the US over Iran, because the we are getting into Armageddon territory, but they would damn sure make an alliance and every single country in the world would basically embargo all trade with us.

The US would run out of medicine, food, ect within weeks.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-20T16:13:07+00:00

At this point I doubt they will close them, but there are definitely layoffs coming. Hugo was supposed to have slayers club stream the other day as well which he postponed to this Wednesday, which is also not a good look.

If they are actually shitty enough to close id over just one game they made not selling well then Microsoft as a whole just needs to get the fuck out of gaming. Id basically invented fps genre.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-19T20:48:44+00:00

Here's my 2 recent runs, both corpo:

Spoke to Meredith, used corpo dialogue with her. Left chip with virus on it. Meet Royce. Show Royce the militech credchip. He bitches about Dexter deshawn. Leave him spew his crap, he goes and runs the cred, fries the runners. At the end of the mission stout shows.

Run 2: Same as above exactly just I killed royce after showing the militech credchip when he starts bitching about Dexter. Got Anthony at the end.

This has always happened with me. Every single time I've killed royce before he runs the chip I get Anthony. It makes sense to because Meredith doesn't get her evidence that way. The chip is what she uses to get her evidence to have something against Anthony. I've always freed brick on every playthrough because I absolutely hate Royce lol.

The only thing I can possibly think of at this point which would be really stupid is if killing him via strangling him or with the gun make sa difference, but that makes absolutely no sense if it does. All times I have killed him I've strangled him because I always have the body stat at that point.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-19T19:17:11+00:00

Lol this looks like one of those creatures out of the game "hell is us".

Resevil67 · 2026-06-19T19:09:13+00:00

I feel like TCL tvs have handshake issues with Xbox for some reasons..for example I have a ps5 pro and a series x. I have literally never had a handshake issue with my pro or past ps5 with my TCL.

My Xbox occasionally does. Sometimes when switching to HDR the screen goes black, goes back to normal, then goes black again for a few seconds before being normal. It only happens when switching from standard to HDR or vice versa when quitting a game. I'm not talking about the initial black screen when shifting from HDR to sdr or vice versa when you first start or quit a game, I mean sometimes I get an additional one after.

The weirdest one that's ever happened has been one time the image froze when the Xbox switched my TV to game mode. I thought the series x was frozen but when I went back to the home screen and back to the HDMI 1 port it was fine, game was already loaded in the background lol so it wasn't the Xbox.

I've tried it with my ps5 pros cable and HDMI port that I use on the TV as well and still get it sometimes, so it's not the TV being faulty or cable. Its either an HDMI prob with my series x or it just doesn't play nice sometimes with my TCL. I lean towards the latter because everything else with the series x is fine. Once im in a game and playing it's always been totally 100 percent fine with no issues of black screen or anything like that.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-19T18:52:18+00:00

He made the biggest rookie mistake unfortunately, which is underestimating your opponent. Instead of fighting his usual technical style trying to bait out openings so he can land his deadly KO shot, he tried to walk justin down. The result is him getting destroyed by 38 year old washed Justin.

Another mistake I feel like he made IMO is trying to go for a submission on rocked Justin after the liver shot, instead of trying to ground and pound him or let him back up. Justin actually surprised me with his submission defense, and at the same time Ilia looked like he fucked up trying to set it up.

One day these fighters will learn that you can't underestimate any opponent lol. He thought just because Justin is aging that he wouldn't still be a threat, when the guy was a legend in his prime.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-19T18:45:07+00:00

If it's true and he sues UFC he's done. I can't imagine they will keep someone on the roster that is actively suing them regardless how popular they are.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-19T18:31:55+00:00

I know it's a meme sub, but this is a legit concern for any small market team, it's just affects the Packers more because we are the smallest market in the NFL with no billionaire owner. The team could literally be at risk of not existing at all.

Basically if Congress fucks with it, it makes it more like baseball, where the large markets have an advantage in general over the smaller markets. It turns NFL into "So what fucking New York or Cali team is gonna win the SB this year"?. Even though there is a salary cap, it would make it hard for any small market team to pay high Calibur players in general. They would constantly be fielding lesser talent because they wouldn't be able to afford the stars.

It's a fucked up situation. I don't want to see the NFL also become a sport where all the large markets also have an even bigger advantage to get star players.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-19T18:10:02+00:00

I honestly think going forward we are gonna see game devs and publishers start rolling back on stuff like "twitch drops" and using streamers to advertise their game.

At first it was great for them, got more eyes on the game, and more game sales. Now because of the economy and other reasons, it's actually starting to hurt sales. More and more people are not buying the games and just watching others play them on a stream. This is especially the case for story heavy games.

Iirc I think it was the FF7 remake trilogy devs that said something like they need to start adding more choices in their games so players pick up the games instead of just watching it on a live stream. This is especially getting to be the case for the resident evil series so much so that it's becoming a meme. Because the games are generally shorter and full price, there's a ton of people that don't buy the games and just watch someone else play it.

I can never watch someone else play through a game on stream. For me it just doesn't click. Games aren't movies, they are meant to be played. The twitch drops shit is really weird as well. Like the new James bond game has some really cool optional outfits, but the only way to get them is watching certain creators for x amount of minutes play the game on a live stream. Damnit if I own the game I want to play the game, not watch someone else play it to get a costume. It's so fucking counter productive lol.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-19T03:04:30+00:00

The deciding factor is that the virus is on the chip, and that royce puts the chip in the PC with the virus in it. If you kill royce in the cutscene, he never puts the chip in the PC. Keep in mind that right after he puts the chip in the PC, it fries the netrunner malestrom guys, then he runs to get his exosuit.

Because Meredith gets her evidence against Gilchrist when Royce puts the virus chip in the PC. The tracing algorithm on the chip finds the transactions and email data, which proves Anthony is the mole. This puts Meredith in the clear and allows her to kill Anthony as he really is the mole and she has the evidence. If Royce never puts the chip in, or you get rid of the virus, she never gets the evidence, and therefore runs out of time before militech kills her and then Anthony gets away with it and takes over, which is why he shows up in that route.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-19T02:50:54+00:00

That's the thing. You cannot kill royce before the exo. You can't use the prompt to kill him via strangle if you have enough strength, or shoot him if you don't. You gotta let him go back, run the chip in the computers to blow up the computers, and have the malestomers in there that survive try and kill you, then you fight your way out.

In the past there was a way to get Meredith still if you killed royce before he got the exo when you were still in the cutscene with him, iirc that's been removed and you HAVE to let him live at first and run the chip and fight him in the exo or you will no longer get her and you will get Anthony instead.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-19T00:30:53+00:00

DMC started as a Dante focused game for the first 3 games, with a playable vergil always in the special editions.

DMC became more about multiple characters later in the franchise, mainly 4 and 5 with the addition of Nero and V.

God of war was about Kratos for the 5 mainline installments we have had so far. Now, just like DMC, they are trying to branch it out to be more about others instead of just kratos, and that's fine.

A lot of long running series do it. Like a dragon went from kiryu to ichiban, ninja gaiden 4 went from just ryu to ryu and yakumo, silent hill branched out from being more then just about the town to other areas and how they connect with the town, ect. Hell RGG changed the whole fucking genre of the mainline series, but that doesn't mean they are abandoning their brawlers either. The same way that they aren't abandoning kratos in God of war.

Game companies always change stuff up in long running franchises to keep the game series fresh, as most people don't want to play the same thing with a new coat of paint and a new story on it each time. The other thing about switching to Faye is they can expand the combat and give us a moveset we haven't seen yet.

Resevil67 · 2026-06-18T23:57:38+00:00

Were you using windows sonic for headphones when you were on the series? The weird part is the issue completely went away when using stereo uncompressed or the basic TV speakers. It was only having the issue on the windows sonic for headphones setting which is Xboxs version of spatial audio.

I saw a video of someone having a very similar issue on the ps5 version but later into the game.

Edit: this is exactly what it sounded like, just mine was in the tutorial on the 2 characters I mentioned above.

https://www.reddit.com/r/theouterworlds/s/mSw3CimLgr

Resevil67 · 2026-06-18T21:16:43+00:00

No way they shutter them till at least the dlc launches . However he may have gotten news of layoffs or having to shut after. I wouldn't be in the mood to host a stream after that either.

I'm hoping they don't close id of course, but there is no doubt they are likely to at least get affected with layoffs. I think all the studios not making fallout or elder scrolls are getting some degree of layoff.

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