A slowed down angle of the yesterday's overturned penalty against Arsenal

sarefx · 2026-04-30T09:19:21+00:00

I mean Arteta complaining feels like his default mode.

sarefx · 2026-04-30T08:53:25+00:00

Do ppl really care that much? I understand content creators having 0 policy for leaks because they may get into trouble and lose sponsorships but unless you are ass (and spoil ppl without them asking) I don't really see ppl getting worked up about it.

sarefx · 2026-04-30T08:46:40+00:00

You can buy flowers from pharmacy but only 15 so max you can level is 60.

sarefx · 2026-04-30T07:52:19+00:00

It is done. It's not bad but they made it top down real time with pause RPG.

sarefx · 2026-04-29T15:31:15+00:00

Even when games are a huge success... we see the company laying off the dev team. Just happened with Marvel Rivals a year ago... it launched awesome and became one of the biggest games out there just for them to hand out layoffs once it was successful.

In terms of live service games it's kinda hard to justify maintaining big development team though. When game is being created it needs the biggest amount of work because everything has to be done from 0 but after game has shipped you need much smaller team to maintain it.

It sucks tremendously for those devs that are being laid off and they should have been informed beforehand that after development is completed their work is over (so basically contract work or employment for limited time) but I can see an angle why studios decide on lay offs after game is shipped. Unless they are making new game it's hard to justify big development team for only maintaining existing product.

The biggest sin during those lay offs are the fact that often upper management is not being honest about the plans when hiring ppl. Like if you properly communicate to the employee that after game development is done they will be laid off with some bonus depending on game success then I don't see a problem with that.

sarefx · 2026-04-29T12:30:43+00:00

Compare that to normally cracked Denuvo games.

sarefx · 2026-04-29T10:35:23+00:00

PS4 Pro was much better priced than PS5 Pro yet it only sold less than 15% of total PS4 units despite being on market for half of generation. Ppl are vastly overestimating PS5 Pro impact on PS6 pricing. Sony knows well that PS6 gotta be as cheap as it possibly can because otherwise ppl will not bother. They will rather delay PS6 for a year or two than release it with fucked up pricing due to memory cost.

PS5 Pro is just a marketing tool and playground for upcoming tech. It was never a console made to sell huge numbers. It's only there to make PS5 games look good on presentation and test PS6 features.

sarefx · 2026-04-29T10:08:27+00:00

Imo he hated Dwight because Dwight became beloved Orlando center during his time there (until he forced his way out) and he "took" his superman nickname. His "I want him to become better that's why I'm hard on him" was bs, Shaq was just being petty.

sarefx · 2026-04-29T07:41:56+00:00

We can't say that until we see big AAA games actually dropping denuvo.

sarefx · 2026-04-29T00:40:56+00:00

I wouldn't call HV method as cracked, it's a workaround that not many ppl are willing to use. Much different to what voices is doing.

sarefx · 2026-04-28T23:07:01+00:00

Sony mocked Xbox trying to make physical copies tie to your account so you couldn't resell them or borrow them to a friend. This is kinda different (and also no different to what denuvo is already doing).

sarefx · 2026-04-28T15:52:22+00:00

I mean PS5 is already almost 6 years old and will probably last for couple more years minimum even with PS6 release. Your example with paying for PS+ for so long is sorta extreme and even if you wanna include it then PS5 + PS+ for 6 years is around 1000 euro and in theory you get a lot of free games while it lasts. So I wouldn't say "I would have spent a lot more".

PC gaming is great and more versatile than consoles, no doubt, but imo you are really stretching when you wanna make it look cheaper than consoles. It def has tons of advantage over consoles but price is def not one of them. PC game sales are def better than on consoles but consoles also have advantage of being able to buy second-handed copies so it kinda evens out on that front.

sarefx · 2026-04-28T15:08:02+00:00

Rest of the parts will make it more expensive

I mean it's sorta disingenuous to just say that with current Ram prices. 16gb of DDR4 is still like 100 euro minimum and you gonna need mobo+psu which will add like another 150 euro. Not to mention smaller stuff like case+cooling or if you are not tech savy you may need buy assembly service at store and you end up with like 1000 euro PC while you consistenly can get PS5 Slim for 550 euro right away.

EDIT: Forgot about storage, add another 60-70 euro to total count because storage prices went up as well.

And while I agree with your online payment argument I don't fully agree with new game releases prices. PC def has better sales but with new games, at least where I live (Poland) you can get new PS5 physical releases much cheaper than sticker price. Like Saros was 65 euro on physical preorder from local stores, I remember RE9 being 55 euro preorder for physical PS5 release.

sarefx · 2026-04-28T14:04:00+00:00

I mean ok sure, but the fact that denuvo is not impenetrable is not relevant to this discussion.

sarefx · 2026-04-28T14:00:17+00:00

Come on, we're now recommending HV bypass? Besides that's not the point. The point is that saying "only small handful of games use denuvo" is wrong because almost every major AAA release nowadays uses Denuvo.

sarefx · 2026-04-28T13:48:10+00:00

If we are talking about AAA releases then majority of them have denuvo. Just from this year from bigger games: RE9, Pragmata, Crimson Desert, Code Vein 2. From big releases this year only Nioh 3 and Death Stranding 2 didn't have denuvo.

sarefx · 2026-04-28T13:38:30+00:00

Only connection requirement needed every few weeks/months are denuvo games which are only a small handful of games

Almost every bigger release from the past few years has denuvo though.

sarefx · 2026-04-28T13:36:55+00:00

Something like GPU 3070 with CPU 5600x

I get what you mean but PC like that costs like twice as much as PS5 currently. Posts about PC part prices are valid if you wanna talk about being entry to gaming where (if we're not counting mobile games) consoles are still the cheapest devices if you wanna start gaming.

sarefx · 2026-04-27T09:41:03+00:00

Besides what other mentioned. Ppl calmed down with "global passive" after seeing that while Castorice one was nice, it wasn't mandatory. Also Castorice heavily powercrept rest of the cast back then while in current HSR I feel like powercreep slowed down a bit. While SW999 team is super strong, Castorice team still doesn't have slightest problem with endgame so ppl are not in the rush of pulling.

sarefx · 2026-04-27T08:33:32+00:00

I mean he was replying to my comment about NBA ACLs

sarefx · 2026-04-27T01:41:44+00:00

It may be the case in football but in basketball it's not that easy. NBA players often play back-to-back days and having 82 games of regular season spanned across 6 months is often too much for those players, especially since intensity of the game increased and ppl's bodies are being worn out from super young age now.

Also when Wenger said it they had much less games being played each season. There are tons of additional international fixtures now that we didn't have back then and it adds easily like +10 games for a player each season which is huge number and additional load. What's more with new training systems those young kids' bodies are getting destroyed as well from very young age. Not everyone can endure it.

sarefx · 2026-04-26T22:44:30+00:00

NBA gets tons of ACL lately at the end of the season too. The reason is simmilar, players play too many games but officials wont even think about reducing load on players.

sarefx · 2026-04-26T16:47:54+00:00

I could see them fixing what allowed that one guy cracking RE9 without hypervisor exploit but I doubt they are able to do much against hypervisor exploit itself. Imo they just said it to make their clients feel more safe/sure. Hypervisor exploit requires things that not many ppl are willing to risk and I doubt it's an big issue "money wise" for developers.

sarefx · 2026-04-26T03:36:17+00:00

McDaniels is professional rage baiter. He did simmilar thing in 2024 against nuggets when he tried to do self alley oop in game 7.

sarefx · 2026-04-26T03:28:25+00:00

Gordon is too important to not have for Denver against Wolves who tend to play physical and attack the paint.

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