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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Please note that the genre is PvEvP Extraction Looter Shooters. So some games, like Deep Rock Galactic and Helldivers 2, are missing from the list because they do not fit that category.

    I have tried to play (ie, only played a few hours each, not like multiple days):

    • The Cycle Frontier
    • Escape from Tarkov
    • ARC Raiders (the closed beta in June 2023)
    • Dark and Darker
    • Delta Force Hazard Ops
    • Lost Light
    • Marauders
    • Hunt Showdown
    • Gray Zone Warfare
    • Incursion Red River

    Games that I tried that don’t exactly fit the genre but are close enough I feel like I should include them:

    • Steel Hunters (the closed playtest in March 2023)
    • Sea of Thieves
    • SYNDUALITY: Echo of Ada
    • Dungeon Stalkers

    Its not that I haven’t given the genre an honest go.

    I hate that death means I lose not only the items I picked up, but also the items I brought into a match. The behaviour of players in this particular genre is almost always peak toxic. I am thankful that the genre exists, because it is a sponge taking some of the toxic people from other games. The people that derive fun and pleasure purely from ruining someone else’s game experience (like cheating, harassing, etc.) It is not a genre of game I enjoy, because some other players always ruin the fun.

    Some games had a PvE mode, which was fine but the loot was limited to be basically useless. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t just have separated inventories, and perhaps allow transfers of items below a set gear level to keep the PvP economy balanced.















  • I immediately don’t like those silicone pads. Just expose the buttons underneath like a normal person, please. I imagine they designed it that way to try to obscure the fact that this is just a glorified Raspberry Pi Zero case with built in 720p display not all that dissimilar from something like the already existing PiGrrl.

    This is something that should cost like, $50 USD or less, but is probably going to be listed for more. As this article points out, this market is oversaturated. You can already get other devices for that price or less with better or comparable specs. I don’t think they will be able to price this aggressively enough to compete.




  • Sometimes, the only way for players to get the developer’s attention is by doing something drastic like that. Not always, but many times. Because developers and publishers think Steam Review Scores are important for game sales (and I mean, they are, but maybe not as much as they seem to think).

    Sometimes this comes from players in a different language complaining about bad translation or something.

    Review Bombing, the term, is almost used to discredit when people have negative sentiment for something, and does nothing to explain why players may be doing it. Sometimes it is warranted, sometimes it isn’t. But most people are going to read that term and think “Ah, its just a bunch of whiney children,” only to later feel frustrated at the things those negative reviews were talking about.