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Look at this guy, putting the G into S.C.G! Unfortunately I cannot help as any of the few games I played and would have given as a potential suggesting already seem to have been covered by you @Azalus! However I would like to welcome you to forum and hope you find out what the game is - be very curious to know when you do as I've had this same thing many a time with old games or cartoons/TV shows of my youth

Kinda what I was expecting - I've cut the above quote but appreciated the whole post. My concern/issue was this though. Rather than an issue of affordability some consumers(notably moreso ones like us) rather than seeing this is a service they might pay X Y or Z for would actually see it as offering so little or possibly being disappointing(without going into it Nintendo's online and promises have tended to be rigid at times) that they wouldn't subscribe at all. I wonder how this will affect the system as a whole - especially trying to foster online multi environments etc. Low player bases aren't ideal, and die off much quicker. In the short term it isn't great, but I feel like in the longer term it does more damage to make people feel less encouraged to adopt in future or continue to subscribing to the service once starting etc. I worry how well it'll thrive without that. I agree on top of that the way of announcements and reveal and delays don't seem particularly rational given their lengths and reasons/features given. I also recognise the difference of affordability and choosing not to use the service. I do wonder what might happen given the perceived lack of value but apparent...openness? of the family pass? If they don't lock down too tight on that I could certainly see more older single gamers coming together to share a family pass for much cheaper content if it's as easy and simply being tied to your NNID username/login. They said you'd be able to play on ANY switch with it, right? Not limited to a particular console or two or having a specific primary etc?

Well as long as people aren't getting on my back for reasonably asking him where his figure came from, and can allow the fact I haven't changed my numbers repeatedly I'm fine with that - because it's a foundation for the points I wanted to come onto. People have already mentioned the value of the service to them, something which you surely can't come up with without considering cost. There's going to be different ways to compare this too - which is also related. I wanted to avoid just getting repeats of the same issues people feel they have with it atm though. So first off - for those who don't feel it's worth the £18 yearly(remember this at the moment is a minimum/cheapest price, and shorter term buys work out more expensive). Ignoring the family pass for the moment - for those who don't feel it's worth the £18 then what DO you feel it is worth? Is there a lower price threshold you'll pay for it in its current speculated state (I realise there's lot of room for movement and unknowns in here) or do you simply feel it's a service that does not currently offer enough to bother with at all? Next up - how do you feel the price compared with alternatives; either both at advertised pricing and obtainable? My point here as an example is that ps+ has been recently raised to an official price of...£60 for 12 months? Though in reality you can often get it for less via places like CDKeys etc and Sony themselves often do small deals on it - this is something I think we're unlikely to see from Nintendo and I doubt anywhere will sell pre-paid 12 month cards etc for anything less than £18 so it's likely to be an absolute bottom. What happens next if, as some are wondering, the service isn't up to scratch? There's already murmurs of potential issues of withdrawing currently existing free online play to behind the subscription; what happens if the service just doesn't get a good uptake? There's enough Switch owners here dithering on the fence and for me online has been a big question mark that's held me off purchasing a switch for a while. Another reason I wonder about this came up in General sales etc - some suggesting that retail sales seem to be down more these days and someone else wondered if it was due to a proliferation of digital options for consumers now. What happens if this online service doesn't quite keep up with shifting patterns or trends, especially when we've seen retailers dump Nintendo lines previously with the Wii U? Tbh I don't see it really happening with the Switch as demand still seems to be going, but I do wonder what will happen after this online service is launched. Questions also still hanging out there about piracy/hacked devices and whether this will be a service designed to counteract any negative effects of that. I'd like to hope they have designed a service smartly enough for it but given its been rather notably hacked relatively short into his lifespan I'm curious whether they'll be prepared for what could come(even if it was a Tegra vulnerability rather than their own). I'd also be curious about the verification when it comes, and if someone clever might find ways to get hacked Switches online playing without paying etc. For me there's lots of questions about something we don't really have many answers to - I can't say it makes me keen to jump in with the system atm.

So my numbers haven't actually been faulty anywhere whereas Ronnie's repeatedly have and I'm somehow mistaken by logically following them and pointing out the flaws in them, trying to see why this has occured? Gotcha. It's not my fault he can't keep track of his own calculations and decided to repeatedly state different numbers. I wasn't inconsistent - this all stemmed from his portrayal of a price of 1.20 a month, which still even from there is 75% of the 1.50 it actually is (so 25% or 20% depending which way you work it). I wouldn't mind if there was acceptance of it - but somehow I'm wrong because of something Ronnie has continued to mistate and misrepresent; even after I've rather civilly highlighted the discrepancy. Would it be ok for me to misrepesent the price the other way, claiming it to be more expensive or a rip off price designed to exploit the consumer when it isn't even the correct pricing for that market? I'm just saying I'm not gonna let bad numbers fly around unquestioned when they're incredibly weakly based (I would ask you to show me from the last 10 years any UK price that converted as a direct analogue from a USD price given the exchange rate of the time - I can't recall a single instance where the UK has recently gotten a digital service or product from Nintendo at a price directs let convertible from USD - it's generally always more expensive and if you're going to consider doing such a comparison (tho hopefully this is a lesson in why it's bad) the better idea would to use EURvGBP for your approximation as well as making that clear that's it's exactly that.

I'm referring back to my original post calling it out - 14.40 is neither 10p short of 1.50 a month and 18-14.40=3.60 and 3.60/14.40 is 25%? Arguably do it the other way and it's 20% - that's still a significant room of error. I have a benefit of a doubt on the original - but why is it constantly being claimed that different numbers were posted? I already knew the £18 figure before I'd seen his post made, so I felt it was disingenuous to suggest a price of £14.40 in comparison - let alone if you want me to go into a longstanding history of considering that UK digital prices do not convert in line with US digital prices and it's a bad comparison to take - as I said one mistake I can see, but it's repeated. Ronnie claims claiming a 10p difference which never happened - yet me working a 14.40 Vs 18 cost is apparently me being irrelevant? It's contextually related to a misrepresentation in price - and I'd say given we've had a few people talk about the value offered by the service I think it's relevant too(and glen-i for example has said he doesn't have the disposable income for it at the price, tho dcubed also offered the counter of sharing family membership). What's important is surely not to have wrong information floating around when it's not needed? I am posting quite Ronnie specifically here - I'm happy to accept one mistake or two but it seems to run through, what does it serve for the thread if it gives people like me oppurtunity to call it out? Why post bad maths or bad information at all, why make speculative conversions with no basis at all, and try to downplay them when called out? I'm all fine for accepting what's being said about relevance - but my numbers add up whereas Ronnie's don't. Whether I'm a mod or not I'm not going to just let people go about posting estimated numbers as if they're fact or what could be argued as straight up bullshit and not call them out. How is it ever going to be sensible to constantly let that happen? Or let me put it to you another way : How many people here wouldn't be keen to pay £18 a month for the service as they see it to be now, but would possibly pay it if it was £14 instead? Or £14.40 to be precise?

You seem to still be misreprenting your own numbers - I mean making one or two mistakes I can understand but to repeatedly do it leads me to believe you ARE being intentionally misleading in order to troll. These supposed small price differences are quite significant when you consider them relatively and especially in context of people who possibly don't feel they have the disposable income for the service. I mean implying a service 25% cheaper than it really is is quite a large room of error, is it not? Not particularly helpful to the thread to have the wrong or misleading information in it, particularly when we know otherwise.

Is it a big surprise given the Xbox and Microsoft's current sort of position/standing in the market? Also how does this Xbox game pass thing work in regards to PC? Few of my mates played for a bit on PC during the trial and possibly thinking of picking it up later on - but similarly I don't think they have/will quite yet. Ofc it's a bit of a shame that due to it being Rare etc this won't make it to ps4 - they could make a killing with the install base of the ps4 now. I can only see it growing bigger and I'm not sure how much competition is really going to impact on it now vs vice versa. It'll be interesting to see how sales go over time - I imagine a few people are looking to pick it up eventually but the other thing that surely affects how good/worth it it is is also the size of the playerbase?

Yeah they got a bit unfairly lumbered with this flaw given its a hardware flaw and on Tegra's side rather than their own, but again as a manufacturer you kinda have to suck that up as part your responsibility too. I do wonder if the simple oppurtunity of getting into the system like this now though will give others more oppurtunity to find new flaws and exploits. Also quite interesting in the context of online - do they have any verification methods or safeguards against hacked switches potentially causing knock on effects to their online ecosystem?

Why go off a US price converted into GBP when we have a UK price of £18, and after that also your maths still isn't adding up. Do you wilfully try to misrepresent information when it's not needed, or is it genuinely mistaken? Pretty much modifying the saves off the system via PC or so and then using it to trigger flaws that can access the system - Twilight Princess and Smashstack and even Bannerbomb all utilised a method of modding the SD card contents and letting the system try to load it to then trigger a doorway in to run code etc. Iirc one of the early original Xbox softhacks utilised a specific game for a hack, I can't recall if it used custom saves/codes or if it was a harder in game thing to do though. Indeed!

Sorry are you able to point me to the source suggesting this is going to cost £14.40 a year? By your numbers that's what I can work out, and as far as I've seen that's absolutely not the case at all.

Apparently the IW guys are big Fortnite fans(and hey when you build a very accessible product why be surprised) and it's very interesting how they approach the whole model. I don't really play atm but I like what they're doing; just feel it's a bit of a shame they essentially mugged of PUBG for it but hey - that's the business.

(Wrote this yesterday but it didn't post, one good thing about the forum saving posts!) I was very skeptical but I did try to sort the comments by recency and there's quite a lot actually supporting it even recently. A few other videos suggested blowing air into then as well(like with a can but ofc I just blew into it myself) and some others suggest trying to lube/clean it slightly with liquids even water(I didn't risk that) but it seems to have been ok since for me, though I also haven't played as much ps4 as I usually would this week so still gonna see how it goes.

I know it sounds weird, but there's YouTube videos! And comments to support it! And I did actually do it to my bad pad which was pulling right off the bat - admittedly I've been super busy and not played much but I didn't notice it causing problems during a few OW matches!

@Ashley I realise this may seem mad but a lot of info I'm finding is suggesting a series of 20-30 clicks on the stick. In natural, then up then down then left then right(30 in each before next). Don't think the order matters but just go opposite direction after first then other two directions kinda like you would with wheel nuts. It's weird and seems peculiar but a lot of comments seem to suggest it's something that's worked, my pad was definitely shit when I put the ps4 on and now it isn't but it's always a bit mixed anyway. @Eenuh if you've still got the old one could be worth a try too. No idea why it should or does work(blowing into sticks suggested also) but apparently it does. My broken stick might actually be my right one now I've held the pad and tried it though.

Oh god yeah the build rates of people who play loads - it's just too much for me to handle! How do they co-ordinate that terrible navigation so rapidly! Tbh I know I need to work on it, and gunfights in general(I just tend to avoid conflict and survive) but it seems like more effort than I can be bothered with atm

I bought a gold one after I got my ps4 and it started doing that about a year ago. Basically my left stick very slightly veers to the left often, but also sometimes it'll be doing it when I actually press the right trigger even if I'm not touching the left stick. Googled a bit and spoke to a few of the Broverwatch guys from here and apparently it's only a new buy solution - I did open the pad and have a look but it didn't seem like something obviously fixable. Interestingly built pad otherwise though. Edit: you've inspired me to look into new fixes. I've just seen some weird thing about a 30 click re-calib; gonna keep researching do some experiments and let you know how it goes.

I pop on once in a while, but usually I'm OWing/MHing/getting back into Terraria now and too shit at it to really enjoy it fully by actually winning stuff. Enjoy that they continue putting in new content and modes etc but I think without me managing to get better I kinda lose a bit of interest. Do wanna try and get back into it tho(the other problem is it's very dangerous for losing hours to it :p).

Had a bit of a go on King Oddball(it's ps4 too). Looks like a small Angry Birds-esque title but with release timing on a pendulum swing rather than aiming. World map that slowly seems to make a few simple things occur too, but appreciating that in the design. Recommend it for anyone looking for something quick and smallish - assuming you don't get hooked by the nature of it being very 'one more go'-ish!

They're coming.

You are NOT being weird brah, and tbh I hate that you even have to refer to it as a 'man-thing'. Dare I ask why adoption isn't a possibility? edit: nvm I seen that. I say for now, yeah it's a worry, but does it need to be? Yes and no. Make the plan for the IVF/screening, but be clear you won't want to have her genetically mother a child that isn't yours genetically too. That isn't unfair! As said - taking an alternative option where you have equal standing is the best imo(or adoption) and also some counselling/therapy now for the both of you to prepare for the inevitability. EDIT: seen you've said you'd rather it was at least genetically related to your wife than to neither; be sure you're not compromising and taking this decision lightly, and it's what you truly truly do want. Love is rather quite deceptive albeit not with intent, and mostly to oneself. I don't mean to judge your wife here but I think it's incredibly unfair and very unloving to demand her own genetic child that you won't have a genetic part of. If she's so insistent on having her own then she surely has to be able to come round and see why you have the absolute equal objections on the other side? She shouldn't get to take a precedence in this - and it's not light decision. This may stick with you way into a future you cannot see when you take such a decision, it may stick with her too, and most importantly it may stick with the child - and whilst there was never any ill-intent on any sides through it all, things can still not work out as hoped. I'm not saying everything's gonna be terrible blahblah etc. - but is it something upon which you would be willing to take the risk? Any of you, for any of you? I think looking at it and having the hard discussions, and therapy, now is better than accidentally making a bad decision later if everyone's feelings weren't explored and communicated; as many others here have also said already. You're both right in her wanting to have a plan now for if it doesn't work later, but also you for being not terribly worried in the immediate short-term as you've got 6 tries too. Stupidly obvious thing to say in a relationships thread - but you always gotta find and strike that balance.

Shame it might be BR game as that seems so much of all the rage now, but I have a potentially misplaced faith in Housemarque to manage Something Interesting* that it'll hopefully have that hook they've managed to work into their games...

How long did PS2 keep running alongside PS3? Sony were in some parts their own competition at first, given the PS2 seemed to be such a ubiquitous console for folks. For me PS4 surely has at least 2-4 more years, maybe with a cheap switch thrown in alongside. It feels quite future proof to me tbh.

Yeah it was his one hits really fucking me up, I think eventually I was trying distance glaive with a healing kinsect - even after getting my t-buff going in was so risky(or generally staying still anywhere) because of his lightning hits, doing both close and far(and sometimes I didn't realise a teammate he was aiming for was so close), so I really wasn't doing much. Considered maybe a horn for support but I don't think I'm quite good enough with it tbh. I might grind up for a high level horn just for Kirin if I don't have one with suitable songs already, but I'm not even sure what the best would be for it. How useful is elderseal against Kirin? I think my latest Glaive has high elderseal too. @Kav I still haven't really played much for the last few days. I can usually be on any time after 6ish if not esrlier, but I keep OWing with a few of my friends who are a bit newer to the game quite a bit. Essentially any sort of time in the evening; I'm the sort of guy who needs a shout rather than a proscribed plan, things tend to come up/change a lot - so if you see me on psn just give a shout/psn message and I'd probs jump over. Ftr atm I rock full Uragaan pretty much, with Odogama legs on hand for vale/effluent/Kushala, but Uragaan legs otherwise. Tbh I made it all just for looks and not for decorations etc; I think that's the stuff I'm gonna have to think about changing up soon. Interesting what you say about the tempered Kirin @Hero of Time, I was really kinda shocked by the jump up! Though at some point I thought Beetlejuice was hard as well so...

I've not even seen any tracks so far, though I've not been on as much as I hoped to be in the past week or so. Might get some hours in this week - I'm a massive gold/shiny fan so deffo wouldn't mind the armour, but if it comes to it I'll continue rocking my Uragaan bits instead. Btw if anyone's still stuck on the Kirin I'm happy to team up! Did jump in once or twice to an SOS against but it was super unfair twice(fucking hitting me with lighting about two levels above when it's right down in that pit off the cliff). That in addition to the fact I'm not terribly great at not getting got, basically I just lose a lot I've levelled up a few more weapons and got some more mats etc now tho so may craft some specific lightning resist gear or weapons tailored to it; it's a shame a regular sort of social didn't come together here but I can see how the pacing was very different for many of us.

Where's everyone at with this these days? Didn't end up as social with the forum as I had hoped to but I do tend to join a lot of SOS/random online sessions. Been HR49 for a fair while(need to defeat tempered Kirin) but in lack of doing that I was randomly killing all sorts just to grind up a few weapons etc. Got my Fire and Ice dual blades, Buone Fiore hammer, a horn or two, and maybe 3 Insect Glaives(my real main weapon). Did a few spring blossom bits but was always active than I intended to be! Anyone gone after this new Elder Dragon Kulve they dropped?