Thread:Velt211/@comment-2003:D6:4722:2E2A:DD17:3F8A:F36C:2C58-20190924042015/@comment-2003:D6:4715:BA26:86F:AE07:3915:B983-20191026090119

Haha, the magazine was kinda crappy though. At first they had good games but then the school shooting happened (2002) and games got hit hard (anime too, incidentally...one group wanted to start an anime-only channel but stopped that then), so any game USK 16 wasn't put in the magazine anymore until later, when their sales started going down. It was also more for newbies, rather than more experiences gamers. I guess the additional information like service numbers weren't too bad in the time when the web wasn't everywhere. It's not out of 6 by the way, they represent school grades...just with decimals. So 1.0 would be the best, 6.0 the worst. What I noticed, the blurb I showed you is basically how I write in German. "Strategiespiel-Steuerung" is how I would write it too...or "Metal-Trance-Mix". I guess the 1-2 years of buying that magazine formed me in that regard. (After all, I always read every single page.) Possibly. And two of them are doing the retro podcast I've mentioned before (apart from doing their daily jobs in the gaming industry). Depends, I guess. Mincecraft is a sandbox game after all. Others that are still being played are pretty diverse and range from excellent campaigns (with memorable characters) to excellent multiplayer modes or MMOs with a certain kind of quality. That's definitely a large factor + the typical network effect. I read about people's kids consuming Youtube like crazy all the time. No idea why they don't limit the hours...or why they give access in the first place. Man, if I had a kid, I certainly wouldn't be happy with all that. Mine would have to play with marbles or roll hoops :P Don't ask me. People are crazy and irresponsible, so it makes sense. I get the idea of spending money on your hobby but you don't really get anything from it. You don't travel, have an experience or whatever, you just pay for some 0s and 1s... Yep, new release for those yearly games always make the previous game redundant. Add to that that publishers are closing down servers and you won't even be able to play it anymore. Even newer niche games lose their numbers more quickly than it used to be. Too many releases and the changed mindset regarding consumption and you get a situation like that. It's basically just like the companies wanted it, people consume something, then throw it away and consume the next thing. Absolutely. Private servers are great, as are LAN modes. However, LAN modes make the publishers cede control over their games to the players which is why something like Starcraft II and DotA 2 don't have them. It's pretty bs and reason alone I wouldn't be buying/playing their games (well, I guess I did try DotA 2 to see how it is + see how Steam is -  both are aren't good/bad). We used Hamachi as well back in the day. It was for Companies of Heroes though. It was completely DRM-free, so you only needed to install the game and then play LAN via Hamachi. No DVD in drive required. Good times.

Hehe, I don't really care anyway, I guess. They have seen an eroge before...but maybe they didn't pay too much attention to it. Usually I just take the items out of the package, show those to them and then say which invoice is for which item. Then I put it back in the package. I guess they type the information into the computer from the customs papers/invoice, rather than looking at the games more closely.

I mean, you have a comments box on Amazon, so sellers tend to write there if there is a tear in the shrinkwrap or whether there is a dent or something. But there are also enough sellers that don't do that and then I have to deal with those which usually means losing the money since I will have to buy the game again and there is no refunding/returning when sending it to a forwarding service. But yeah, it is advertised as new which means it's not damaged. Had the option to buy it from a store like Getchu or something but I trusted the seller since I've had good experiences with him...but now I'm not so sure anymore. At least I'm slowly running out of games to buy. There are a few more which are still available and reasonably priced but after that there are the no-new-copies and the super-expensive categories. Both I'm not too interested in. Yep, it's a bit of a shame that they release more than ever with lower quality than ever. Anime is the best example for that in my opinion. Makes me wish they got a baby boom again...or the bubble had never burst. (The sad part is that I had seen Daiakuji on adult Yahoo Auctions before...even with some pre-order goodie, but I had no access to that at the time. It also was less expensive than the copy that I bought.) Also, with access to adult YA, I'm checking like 80 pages every day (Amazon.jp and YA).At least I either have those bookmarked in my browser or saved in a folder on my desktop. So it's actually pretty fast going through that list.) Should I ever get down to a reasonable number of games still needed, I might tell you what I still need...in case you come by any of those items on some weird website, you can then poke me :P).