Half a century ago, when Marx was writing Capital, free competition appeared to the overwhelming majority of economists to be a “natural law”. Official science tried, by a conspiracy of silence, to kill the works of Marx, who by a theoretical and historical analysis of capitalism had proved that free competition gives rise to the concentration of production, which, in turn, at a certain stage of development, leads to monopoly. Today, monopoly has become a fact. Economists are writing mountains of books in which they describe the diverse manifestations of monopoly, and continue to declare in chorus that “Marxism is refuted”. But facts are stubborn things, as the English proverb says, and they have to be reckoned with, whether we like it or not. The facts show that differences between capitalist countries, e.g., in the matter of protection or free trade, only give rise to insignificant variations in the form of monopolies or in the moment of their appearance; and that the rise of monopolies, as the result of the concentration of production, is a general and fundamental law of the present stage of development of capitalism.
Big monopolies keep getting bigger, capitalism is not a broken system at all
whats funny is I still havent found a way to mod Fallout 4 into a playable state
the whole completely lacking interesting sidequests and lore part is kinda a deal breaker
I had an alright time with it after installing the Boston Cream Pie mod list with Wabbajack.
https://www.wabbajack.org/#/modlists/info?machineURL=boston_cream_pie
Damn dude that's a comprehensive list I'll have to try that out next time I wanna play fo4. Spelunky 2 comes out in a week so it'll prolly be a while tho :)
THIS. Never forget how the first two Fallout games were just amazing. Didn't they also sabotaged Obsidian when they were making Fo:NV?
Bethesda also ruined TES, Skyrim is a fucking joke, the story is stale as fuck, you can't choose a genuinely good side (peasants revolution maybe?) because it's literally BOTH SIDE BADism but CHOOSE THE LESSER EVIL OR NORDIC TRUMP. It has completely thrown out RPG elements out, TES:III fucking kicks TES:V ass in that regard, even with the shitty combat system (as if Skyrim had anything remarkable good about combat). I still love Skyrim but it's not a good game unless you heavily (and I mean HEAVILY) mod it.
Fuck Bethesda and fuck Todd Howard. And no, I'm not a g*mer -- I'm a Communist Gamer.
The game was also torn apart for its terrible quality assurance and BETHESDA WAS IN CHARGE OF QUALITY ASSURANCE
It is subjective though. I liked Skyrim. Yeah there's stuff to be desired, but eh, still played it a lot. The combat is dogshit though.
skyrim is legit great even if it is a bit clunky
fallout 4 ? fucking terrible
tbf not being able to choose a good side isn’t a bad thing. been a while since i played morrowind but i don’t really remember there being any clear cut good guys there either. not all media needs to have “good guys vs bad guys”
it's annoying sometimes though, when i'm playing deadfire where i have to pick between looters, fascist imperialists, neoliberal imperialists and caste-based native societies where the lower castes literally have to eat trash, i mean... that's a tad bit too much
but i don't mind games like tyranny where that premise is set from the start
which seems like they may have fucked up
maybe the people behind the story don't think both sides are that bad
There are some mods that add back a lot of unfinished content that was removed and the story gets a bit better when you do that, but even then its still not great.
I disagree.
I played and really liked the first 2 and still thought 3 and New Vegas were great imo.
Considering they also also own Lionhead Studios, maybe we'll get a Fable/Fallout 76 crossover that disappoints in ways we never thought possible.
Fable but there are no npc's, more microtransactions than quests and you can pay $4.99 for every additional inventory slot (you're only given 10 from the base game purchase price)
they also bought obsidian so maybe now we will get one last good fallout game before they destroy that studio too
Honestly Obsidian needed some help. PoE2 was decent but a failure, and Outer Worlds was meh. We'll see what Obsidian can do with the resources
I built a new computer for it (and Cyberpunk), and then it was like, "this is it?!"
Honestly can't blame you for getting hyped. Games media would not shut up about that game, it was paraded around as the next big thing for months and given amazing review scores. Then a week afrer releaase no one talked about it
Pirated it to play for a few hours expecting to want to buy it, found it pretty lacklustre so I never bought it. I feel like we need the demo disks in cereal boxes again; lots of people buy into the hype and are out their one budgeted hobby purchase for the month
I'm gonna have to get over that no one uses the subs and everyone posts on main 😤
tbh fuck not posting on Main.
I get it for the REALLY niche shit but its kinda weird having so many specific communities with very little posts a day
I guess. Been posting in the games sub, but fuck it, I'm just gonna start posting in main
noo comrade you were keeping games alive, please keep posting eventually we will get there
As if everyone isn’t just using all on the home page unless they’re looking for something specifically in the niche subs. We all see the posts in games
Yup. The community is still too small for all these niche subcommunities
look, once all gaming is consolidated into a monopoly, we will get the best smash bros ever!
And then there is only the one company to nationalize.
Nintendo will privatize Japan before it will get nationalized so be careful what you wish for
lol considering agar.io was bought by MiniClip (which apparently is owned by Tencent now?) and went to shit
Microsoft purchased Zenimax (bethesda's publisher) MS now also owns ID Software (Quake & Doom), Arkane (Wolfestein& Prey), along with more studios that i do not recall the name of but include games such as Tokyo Ghostwire & Deathloop (both upcoming), Dishonored and Evil Within so this is huge
The fact that 3/4 of those games you listed originally came out 25(or 30) years ago and that's still their "bread and butter" is proof that "capitalism breeds innovation" is bullshit.
This is exactly it. Capitalists just assume that the Venn diagram of "profitable innovation" and "socially useful innovation" is a circle, but the evidence entirely refutes that. I mean really, it's only the idealists who believe that. Actual capitalist economists would see it how we see it, they just think we need to put "incentives" in place to correct it.
It's like how we have a desperate need for new antibiotics but none are being developed since it's not profitable. I mean there are a million examples but that was the first one that popped into my head.
Doom Eternal is still different than original Doom. The main similarity is the core concept.
Oh man I'm genuinely worried for Arkane.
EDIT: Wait I think you got mixed up? Wolfenstein was made by Machine Games, and Dishonored was made by Arkane
Monopoly bad, but I'd rather see Bethesda go to Microsoft than EA. Glad I'm always a late adopter on consoles, though.
man id have some schadenfreude if they yeeted howard
Fallout used to be my fav franchise and now I cant stand it (NV is still my GOAT tho)
These sons of bitches are going to crush Sony, aren't they? The writing is on the wall. Sony has been focused on the games admirably, but Microsoft is just going full on with the live service dystopia that will probably win out in the end. Not that either side wouldn't love to give it to the other, but those Microsoft cash reserves are the reality.
I mean now that Msoft owns Bethesda they too are a Single player games company
Theyre producing that Obsidian elder scrolls game too
yeah but gamepass aint gonna sell on indie games alone
they need some killer titles to get the numbers churning
I actually think the xbox game pass is a pretty good value? for the price of buying 2 or 3 games per year, you get access to a pretty big catalog of AAA games and good selection high-quality indie titles, too.
Yeah, it's good value if you play more than a couple games a year. Microsoft is losing money on it, and they have the luxury to do so. They're going to loss lead their way to swallowing a huge chunk of the market share when it comes to live services.
The gamer-developer contradiction...
The developer-shareholder contradiction,
The shareholder-hedge fund manager contradiction,
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Don't forget the gamer-as-shareholder-as-hedge fund manager contradiction
