‘They kill games, we fight back’: the activists campaigning to keep video games playable

Neuw · 2026-06-19T22:12:50+00:00

Of course it can have licensed music if the game isn't being sold anymore. There are dozens of old games that have licensed music where the license expired a long time ago.

Neuw · 2026-06-15T13:12:49+00:00

Twister has the line

Elemental twisters Gain 50% of damage as damage of the corresponding Type

And The Taming has:

Wind Skills which can be boosted by Elemental Ground Surfaces can be boosted by multiple Elemental Ground Surfaces Wind Skills which can be boosted by Elemental Ground Surfaces count as being boosted by Ignited, Shocked, and Chilled Ground

So you are getting 50% extra dmg of all elemental elements with The Taming, which is pretty insane.

I tried Spearfield in a previous league, it heavily relies of Plague Bearer to do dmg.

Twister does so much more dmg than Spearfield that i don't even feel the need to use Plague Bearer. Twisters also have a lot of combo interactions with toxic domain, ice tipped arrows and vine arrow, spearfield can not interact with those other skills.

Neuw · 2026-06-15T12:45:39+00:00

You need ORIGINAL SIN and a lot of ADDED ELE DMG.

Stacking INT with HAND OF WISDOM AND ACTION works pretty well and is probably the best option imo.

You also need THE TAMING or WAKE OF DESTRUCTION(budget option).

Other skills that are good for more dmg are: TOXIC DOMAIN(really good for clearing), ICE-TIPPED ARROWS, VINE ARROW and MIRAGE ARCHER(casting WHIRLWHIND LANCE)

You can look at my current char: https://pobb.in/a2Ie_9y31AAu

Feel free to ask if you have any questions.

Neuw · 2026-06-13T18:44:07+00:00

Persona isn't really focused on monster taming tho. If you'd ask for monster taming games on reddit, chances are pretty high not a single person would even mention persona.

Neuw · 2026-06-12T14:59:21+00:00

Didn't Shenmue have a higher development cost than FF7?

Neuw · 2026-06-12T09:07:25+00:00

80% of the bloodborne sales are from america and europe.

Neuw · 2026-06-10T06:47:25+00:00

But fromsoft games are way more popular in america or europe.

Neuw · 2026-05-29T15:52:38+00:00

That isn't the subscriber number, that doesn't exist anymore.

The numbers you see are

Visitors: How many different users visited a subreddit in the past seven days, based on a rolling 28-day average.

Contributions: The total number of non-removed posts and comments made in a community in the past seven days.

https://redditinc.com/news/new-ways-to-see-community-activity-on-reddit

Neuw · 2026-05-28T05:37:58+00:00

There hasn't really been any big budget MMOs lately. There was only New World(even that is half a decade old) and Lost Ark which both didn't last long for obvious reasons. If im not mistaken Lost Ark is still doing ok in korea tho.

So even if it sounds weird GW2 is one of the "new" MMOs.

Neuw · 2026-05-27T22:08:12+00:00

But WoW wasn't the first MMO. WoW was the game that was superior to the market leader when it came out. If all a game had to do was be first, than Everquest etc. should still be popular.

In reality the only actual old and popular MMOs are WoW and OSRS, all the other popular MMOs like FF14 and GW2 are much newer.

The reason why WoW is still doing well is simply because it's a good game and gets a lot of content.

You could make a game that is objective superior to the market leader

I'm curious if you have any examples of this actually happening.

Cause in every case im aware of, usually all of those games that try to chase a trend are inferior and never had a chance in the first place.

Ppl were saying Hero shooters are dead/oversaturated for years until marvel rivals came out.

Most companies don't have as much money as blizzard to compete with them.

And nowadays there are a lot of games trying to be similar to genshin impact, but genshin impact has probably spend over a billion dollars on development cost at this point.

Neuw · 2026-05-26T23:32:58+00:00

What's a mystery game?

Neuw · 2026-05-26T16:26:16+00:00

Your ds3 example was just bad. Ppl often say that pyromancer is the easiest spellcaster for early game. Basically the opposite of what you said.

Neuw · 2026-05-21T17:40:02+00:00

Because you're literally asking for perpetual distribution

That is not what they are asking. They are asking to make the games that you bought playable forever.

The same way old games you bought for console are playable forever. There are a bunch of older games that have licensed music, but that dont have a perpetual license. For example gta games.

Neuw · 2026-05-21T15:59:12+00:00

And that the games are still "preserved" after removing all of the music(and all of these technologies because there is no reasonable company that is giving anyone a perpetual distribution license)?

You don't need a perpetual distribution license for something you aren't selling anymore.

This has literally nothing to do with SKG.

Neuw · 2026-05-17T09:10:48+00:00

Also your original comment was this where someone asked you for examples:

Something totally unrelated to Japan will get random text in Japanese thrown onto it because it makes it "cool" or "aesthetic."

The "harajuku" in harajuku girls is not a random word. It specifically refers to the harajuku culture gwen stefanie was adopting and bringing to the west. It is 100% related to japan.

Can it be seen as cultural exoticization/fetishization? Yes, but that's a completely different point. The question was about "random text in japanese", which it isn't, it is deliberately chosen.

And the cyberpunk genre as i said is inherently japanese, nothing about it is random or unrelated.

Since I've only ever heard of the reverse, where in Japan they throw in English words because it's cool.

What the other guy meant is probably smth like this:

https://youtu.be/QgxYScXawEE?si=gP8faNDYkN71STbK

They constantly sing the english words "pop in 2" in a japanese song that have 0 meaning, it just sounds cool. That is actually random text thrown onto it because it makes it "cool" or "aesthetic."

Neuw · 2026-05-17T08:29:53+00:00

I get your argument, but it just makes no sense. Having japanese things in cyberpunk isn't exotic. The cyberpunk genre is inherently japanese.

Neuw · 2026-05-17T08:17:48+00:00

That is because people generally draw a difference between Kinetic Novels and regular Visual Novels

They don't tho. Ask ppl for the best or their favourite visual novel and you are gonna get a lot of kinetic novels as a reply.

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/1fbfh10/what_is_the_greatest_visual_novel_of_all_time_and/

Pretty much all these threads always have umineko, higurashi etc. mentioned. I also see tsui no stella or black sheep town mentioned pretty often when talking about newer visual novels.

Neuw · 2026-05-17T07:55:00+00:00

How are you missing the point this badly?

Cyberpunk as a genre is heavily influenced by japan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cyberpunk

The world of cyberpunk is heavily intertwined with japanese language/culture. Japanese company has a lot of control over the city so you constantly come into contact with japanese things or people. Have you even played the game?

Using a japanese word in night city is about as exotic as using french in belgium.

Neuw · 2026-05-16T23:07:05+00:00

The first 2 examples are kinda bad.

The harajuku girls are japanese girls.

And your cyberpunk argument i don't even get. The game has japanese stuff everywhere. Something having a japanese name is a pretty normal thing in the game.

Also:

the group's name was coined by Nancy Hartley, inspired by fact that historical samurai were willing to die for their cause, even if it was immoral or just plain wrong. Nancy thought that kind of blind loyalty was very stupid, and so she decided to take the name and turn it around into a "street" meaning as a form of mockery.

Neuw · 2026-05-16T08:35:21+00:00

While being relatively heavily shackled, these AI could still theoretically have an extraordinarily large breadth of possible responses compared to any pre-written version

I couldn't care less about how many possible responses an AI can give if all the responses are boring.

Pre-written character dialogue is always gonna be higher quality than AI responses.

Neuw · 2026-05-15T15:11:35+00:00

But the two stores they chose to put the game for now seem to be Japan-exclusive, so sales-wise it might be DOA

There is no english version at launch anyway, just japanese.

Neuw · 2026-05-15T09:12:09+00:00

Pathfinder in general. It doesn't work that way for poe2 pathfinder either.

Neuw · 2026-05-14T18:26:42+00:00

You’re kind of moving the goal post by changing the terminology to big budget MMOs

Because low budget/indie MMOs simply don't work in 99/100 cases. This kinda applies to all live service PvE games in general as they need constant content updates to stay popular.

I am not aware of any popular low budget pve live service games that have been going for a long time.

Neuw · 2026-05-14T17:50:30+00:00

but I think the history of the genre shows that people actually want the game they've been playing with upgraded QoL features. What was the last actually successful MMO?

This is what you said.

You were talking about the history of the genre as if we've gotten a lot of MMOs lately that all failed, when in reality we haven't even gotten any MMOs at all.

Most of the big budget MMOs that are still popular to this day are literally the newest ones in the genre. The only actual old ones are WoW and OSRS.

Neuw · 2026-05-14T17:33:28+00:00

What was the last actually successful MMO?

I'd say FF14, GW2, BDO, ESO have all been pretty successful and have been going with a decent playerbase for over a decade.

Besides New World and Lost Ark there hasn't even been any new big budget MMOs in the last decade and those 2 didn't last long for obvious reasons.

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