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Yeah it's due to the lens distorting it, but even without it you'd see just a bit of the eyelid/lashes. Also the eye might be too dark, I may have ligthened up the whole thing a bit without takng the eye into account.

Dunkey is the master of abusing the MGSV engine to hillarious effect

Iron Man was first tho, and the first with a post credits teaser for the Cap movie, which makes it the first in the MCU.

But even if it flops it isn't a 200 million dollar flop. How many indies would have to flop to match just The Old Republic in terms of money wasted?

Yeah, the reason those games cost so much is again, greed. They want maximum returns and profit, so they pour in lots of money, because that's how these things work, right? You put in more money, more money comes out. And they're gonna keep pushing this until the entire house of cards collapses on them.

Because for every huge, overhyped game that sold big purely on hype and then fizzled out within months of release you can name several smaller, reasonable titles that didn't need 200 million dollars to be made or didn't need microtransactions and lootboxes to continue development.

Hell, if severs are so damn expensive to run, why not bring back dedicated servers, remember when those were a thing?

That is not the same holy shit dude. You're equating story progression and completing a game with locking competitive online tools behind grindwalls/paywalls. By your logic they should just start charging for unlocking cutscenes for money so you don't even have to play the game you bought, because hey, they gotta pay for the game you're skipping somehow, right?

What they're essentially doing here is taking a F2P economy and charging you 60+ dollars to be able to take part in it. That's not how this shit works or should ever work, F2P goes off the model of being free but requiring time or money to progress. P2P is where you pay upfront so you don't have to invest anymore money or time, you got the whole product.

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And the whole reason this is happening is as Jim Sterling put it so nicely "They're not happy with making some money, they need to make ALL the money."
Did anyone really ask for such stupidly high graphical fidelity that you don't even see it unless you stop playing and focus on a single pebble? Or did they go and pour money into doing that before asking if it was actually neccessary for the game to be good and playable? Because surely, if everyone was demanding the toppest of top tier graphics to such an extent then we'd see nothing but super duper highly realistic games as everything else would just not sell.

It's couple of days by bus and not extremely expensive so I'm not putting myself into extreme debt by taking the chance. And if it turns out to be a shit deal then I'll just up and leave (I doubt they offer long term contracts with these things, especially out of the gate). Even if it turns out good I doubt I'd be working for longer than 6 months, get some money saved up and look into other options.