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Skyrim patch incoming

Following news that, at 280,000 concurrent players at its peak, Skyrim has broken player count records on Steam (that bit is actually true), Bethesda decide to take the PC entirely seriously again and will release a patch containing a slew of new graphics settings that everyone’s worked out how to do in ini files already. “Sorry,” said a man, “it’s a mystery to us that we didn’t put those options in in the first place too. Yeah, it’s pretty embarrassing that people can make the game look orders of magnitude better with a few quick tweaks in Notepad, isn’t it? I think we were distracted by a cute dog or something. Oh, there’s another one! Look at its floppy ears!”

XCOM FPS remake “a marketing ruse”

Turns out the controversial remake of godlike strategy game X-COM as a noisy FPS was a red herring. “Yeah, we’re not going to do that,” said a man. “I mean, it doesn’t make a lick of sense, does it? I’m amazed anyone fell for it, to be honest. The truth is we knocked up a few trailers to get the X-COM name back in the public consciousness – what we’re actually doing is a full-on remake of the original game. We’ve been secretly working with the Gollops for a few years now, and it’s so exciting that I think I’m going to fai….”

Syndicate remake renamed “Future Manshoot”

“It just seemed like the sensible thing to do”, said a man.

First Skyrim DLC announced

Fears of horse armour and oddly disconnected standalone dungeons were allayed today, as Bethesda revealed the first DLC for Skyrim would be a complete, faithful remake of the entirety of Morrowind in the updated engine. “Well, it was perhaps our finest hour,” said a man. “Seems silly not to keep it alive, doesn’t it?

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http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/11/17/good-news-from-another-universe/

Good old RPS...

Hahahaha. If only. Also a bit surprising that nothing's broken 300k on Steam yet; didn't Terraria hit like 200k concurrent users at its peak?

Of course, the fact that over 200k are playing Skyrim on Steam right now does kinda give us a hint at the sheer number of sales; in the first two days apparently half a million of the 3.4 million total physical copies sold were PC; this suggests that a vastly higher number were sold on Steam. Of course, this makes sense; buying the physical copy requires downloading on Steam anyway. So, if we're averaging 200k users at any point, then we simply divide that by the percentage of time the AVERAGE owner of the PC version is playing it, to get the total number of copies sold so far. So if everyone was devoting 4 hours a day to it, then that gives us 1.2 million. (chances are the average percentage is lower, given not everyone is QUITE so fanatical... Or has work)

That, and we can only hope that gamesas won't follow the Bobby Kotick route with DLC, like they kinda did at times with Oblivion. (it wasn't just horse armor: it was selling us rooms already found in the vanilla game!) While the idea of truly "micro" transactions may appeal, I think it's best to stay in the $10US range, and think "booster pack." (like Knights of the Nine)

YOU BASTARD

You got me excited for Half Life 3 for a second there! :swear:

Oh that was evil, Exorince. So very evil.

Don't let Bethesda remake Morrowind. They'll just screw it up!

AUGH. Exorince, you almost had me going for a second there with that thread title... :slap:



I saw an article on Fark the other day that said Skyrim had actually sold 7 million copies as of yesterday, I think. Pretty sure that's across all platforms, so no idea on PC specific sales figures.

Me too. Oh well. bliviongate:

This. I can safely say that after playing Oblivion I wouldn't trust Bethesda to remake their own game.

Hm. Will it be a remake of the game Morrowind, or will we go to Vvardenfell? Judging by the ingame talk about Vvardenfell I'm guessing the former. I think it will be interesting to see at least.

The moment I saw Half Life 3 in the title, I knew the topic was a joke.

You got me at Planescape. Ah...if only...if only...

Half life 3 has been delayed another 2 years. thanks

There are no such things as delays...only Valve time.

and according to Valve time, Half Life 3 is right on schedule. :nod:

I wouldn't mind if Morrowind was Skyrim's DLC...go back to the ye old stomping ground check up on some old friends and see what Vivic looks like after that big floaing chunk of rock fell on it. All of this with Skyrim's graphic engine----mmmmmmmm :drool: .

Too bad Half Life 3 turned out to be a rushed console port; huge dissapointment.

:lmao: It used to be Duke Nukem Forever that did that.

:lmao:



now then.., who's a naughty monkey.. :nono:


no, really..

I just..

:rofl:

Ehh. Thought the article was funny until the Skyrim DLC Morrowind joke. :meh:

I thought that only happened when people made fat jokes about Gabe.

... ...Wait. That's another month delay there. Sorry guys.

MY RAGE... IT KNOWS NO BOUNDS!

I laughed hysterically at the Lego MMO bit, especially since I predicted that it would collapse around New Year's 2011-2012 when it was first released.

Wrong payment model, Lego. Monthly subscriptions aren't something little kids could readily do, and those who can are already on WoW.