Category: Gaming

Observations,mistrust chronicles and exploits

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Where’s my stuff? Digital download or Physical purchase

Woke up feel knackered this morning. Was it because I spent 2 hours on The Division™ last night.

Maybe?

I hit the sack around 2 am after a few side missions and it still feels like I’m barely touching the surface of this game.

As part of my discipline regime, I often just remove the Game disk and leave it in my office. Of course, this option is never there for Digital downloads but you can always just delete.

It takes a bit of effort nowadays to just go with physical purchases but, for me, nothing is better than to actually hold the item in your hand.

In the meantime, physical DataCentres are migrating to Cloud Service Providers, often without your knowledge and this raises challenging questions of actually knowing where your stuff is.

Most of your game data for The Division™ is actually not on your console but hosted nicely on Sony’s Network…..somewhere.

Where is my Data? Who knows?

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Masculinity and Gaming

The Virtual world may well be one of the last remaining frontiers where masculinity can be unashamedly flaunted.

Titles like FarCy Primal lean towards the pure CaveMan but it is by no means isolated. The sheer ability to fight back physically or with intellect is something that seems to be frowned upon.

A simple scenario of morals and ethics. You find an intruder in your home, do you?

A. Grab a crowbar and beat his brains out

B. Call the police

C. Laugh as your attacker turned victim falls into the man trap you had set-up earlier breaking his legs. You then walk calmly over to him and shoot him in the face at point blank with a saw-off Shot Gun.

Maybe, this is why Computer Games are still not the acceptable genre of entertainment, they sometimes feed into emotions like fear, hate, rage and nurture thoughts of premeditated homicide.

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Why are you Twitching so much?

Full-time Professional Game streamers are a fascinating element of the industry.

I’ve been following or watching Streamers for about 2 years, they harvest massive audiences.

Twitch.TV started 5 years ago was acquired on September 25, 2014, by Amazon.com and is one of the platforms that make it happen. Games or Clans stream directly from any console or Computer with full on cameras and live chat moderated by Bots.

To actually make direct money Streamers need to build up a following or channel averaging 15,000+ views per video and have over 100,000+ subscribers.

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Open Betas, an industry on it’s own

Being amongst the first batch of gamers to jump into a new title is always good….especially when it’s free.

Beta releases, Open or Closed, are usually only available for a limited time to Elite players or pre-orders customers.

$23 Billion spent on Games in 2015

A win-win as the publishers get a chance to really test on the public and gamers get a fresh insider look.

I’ve signed up for Ghost Recon but it’s a bit of a lottery.

Last of Us 2 may not have an actual Beta but it tops as one of the Most Anticipated Games of 2017 so far.

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Writer’s block

It’s been over 10 years since I have even bothered to blog anything….with the dominance of social media it hardly seems worth it.

Anyhow, this is for my own personal Cognitive behavioral therapy.

The first thing I hit is writer’s block, not because I have nothing to say but because there is so much I cannot say publically.

Day 1 is always a bit tricky so I’m gonna kick off with a weekly diary style.