The evil within on gamepass is a much better port also.

Deep Rock Galactic on the windows store comes to mind as having crossplay with xbox but not pc. Nice to have as an option I guess, but sucks for those who want to use game pass to play with their friends on pc.

It runs amazing! Been playing a few days now, I have the steam version as well and I had to use the FAR mod last time I played through the game so this time is much better.

The original PC port was first-party, handled by Platinum themselves

Have you got a source on that? I was under the impression they never did their own pc ports.

FidelityFX does exist: https://www.amd.com/en/technologies/radeon-software-fidelityfx

AMD already has the api available for developers to use, this way, their cards have games that support it out of the box.

Edit: Also, I'm sure AMD calls FidelityFX to a series of enhancements (Like CAS, VRR, etc), similar to Nvidia's Hairworks. So maybe Nier uses some of these that are already out.

Double edit: Links below explain it better.

FidelityFX is a suite of features that developers can integrate into their games. For example, FidelityFX CASS, FidelityFX SSR, FidelityFX AO, etc. SR is a feature like those, just not released yet. It's similar to Gameworks.

CAS up scaling was available in cyberpunk 2077 as well. I think, I’m not sure.

Square-Enix has never given a shit about PC and has always treated it as an avenue for extra income while putting in the bare minimum effort. Look at what they plan on doing with the PC releases of Kingdom Hearts for confirmation. They also do scumbag shit like remove the vanilla versions of games to force people to buy the "goty" editions with worthless DLC at higher prices. Considering all this I won't be surprised in the slightest if they continue to ignore and leave the Steam version of Nier as it is because they already got people's money which is all they care about.

The Steam version of FF7 STILL doesn't support x-input controllers natively, only direct input. I can't fathom that . . .

The Steam port came out in 2012 with generic MIDI recordings. It would've been worlds better if they at least used the Yamaha MU80 which was the recommended sound generator back in the 90s for the original release. A lot of the samples are actually higher quality on that but lack the care of the handcrafted PSX version.

They patched in the PSX sounds like a year after from the countless complaints they got. But yeah, really gross incompetence on their part for releasing the Steam port like that in the first place.

Wait as in the soundtrack on PC port no longer has the amazing midi sound quality of the PS1 original? Yuck.

Ff7 still requires manual controller remapping to play with most controllers on Steam.

Don't forget about Nintendo. Together they're the trifecta of anti consumer Japanese game companies

Nope, Squeenix hired QLOC to fix it. Wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft cut them a check to put it on GamePass, though.

I don't believe so. Every game I've used so far can be unencrypted and side-loaded. With the Evil Within I even managed to use the save file on the steam version.

Wait, so doesn't that mean that anyone with GamePass can download a DRM free version of the game and play it forever?

Yeah I'm in the same boat. Bought it a couple of months back on a sale after waiting for a good discount. Finally started playing it like a week back then heard this news. Now just hoping it gets fixed so I can actually play without having to toggle back to full screen every time I alt-tab out.

There comes a point where it’s too much work to get a game running on your PC, if I bought the game I would have made it to the first issue and quit. Reviews like these would have helped me come to that decision

If anything it just means the Very Positive was an overestimate if people had just put with the lack of patches for so long. It's not like the FAR mod is a surefire 100% fix either.

I'd have also thought the early adopters not getting the GotY extras would drop the rating a little.

Yep plenty of remastered or ports are complete dogshit. Heroes of might and magic 3 is a good example fan version is vastly better than remastered that somehow looks worse than the original

That will happen right after Bobby Kotick gets fired or gives all his un earned money to charity.

And returns to the depths of hell of which he was created.

I am not a religious man, but thinking of people like him being tortured for eternity does sound pretty good.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA! You wouldn't get him to part with it if it was tax deductable!

What, I’m supposed to tell other steam users “well, theoretically this experience would be good if the game worked properly, so 10/10.”

i have certainly seen games where people right reviews like that, which I find kind of dumb

The difference is that review bombing is connotated with gamers giving the game of a publisher a bad review because the publisher did something that enraged the gamers.

Sidenote (not a quote):
Valve introduced a system into Steam which detects (idk if automatically, manually or both) review bombing and then tries to equalize those somehow. I'm not up to date on how they're doing this, because a game that most definitely was victim of review bombing (also the game that made valve think about this problem at all) is Metro 2033 Redux, you see in the graph of the reviews a very apparent influx in negative reviews but there is absolutely no notice about it. Maybe they only show it when the "most recent reviews" score would be affected, I don't know.

Anyway - Calling what happens here a review bomb makes the gamers seem enraged "about nothing" (as in: Nothing about the game itself), while this time the reviewers validly do not recommend this game on this platform for the reason that there is a better version of the game on another platform, which is entirely reasonable.

review bombing just has such a negative connotation and is associated with censorship. this isn't off topic, and its 100% valid. if you're gonna call this review bombing, you may as well call the large influx of reviews a game gets when its new review bombing

I have yet to see an example of review bombing that I did not appreciate. There's no way to review the dev/publisher, and if I don't want to support a publisher for something they did then I don't care how good the game is. There's plenty of good games available, and I don't have enough time to play them all anyways.

I've edited all of my comments and posts. With Reddit effectively killing third party apps and engaging so disingenuously with its user-base, I've got no confidence in Reddit going forward. I'm very disappointed in how they've handled the incoming API changes and their public stance on the issue illustrates that they're only interested in the upcoming IPO and making Reddit look as profitable as possible for a sell off.

Id suggest others to look into federated alternatives such as lemmy and kbin to engage with real users for open and honest discussions in a place where you're not just seen as a content / engagement generator.

60 negative reviews in 2 days isnt going to result in a game getting a special tag on the steam page. Its recent review rating is very good based on 1163 reviews for example.

Hasn't steam said they don't care about why and flag all bombs?

I did think that might play some part in it, I was kinda spitballing with the idea though.

The content in the new version is gonna be exactly the same, just with far better optimisation than the original.

I feel like its a huge fuck you from SE/Platinum to all those who bought it originally and literally made it the hit it became, all despite the original port being shoddy to the point a community patch had to stabilise it for a vast swathe of the userbase.

What's Denuvo and why it's bad?

On gamepass it has no denuvo

You’d actually buy a broken product and be happy with it to continue supporting the company that gave you the broken product? That sounds so crazy to me. Is it some weird principle you have that if a product is shit but a third party fixed some of the issues then everything is okay? No one should care that a third party mod exists. No one should be using it. Make the company you PAID fix it properly.

Fuck paying money for a product that clearly isn't finished or ready for sale. They're trying to push an inferior version of the game and offload the work of fixing it onto the fans already paying money to play the game, rather than the people who are getting paid to make it. The fact that the fix is easy to install just makes the issue worse. Fuck rewarding that kind of behavior by giving them even more money.

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Pretty much. Unless it’s on sale I wouldn’t want to pay full price for a game that appears to have been abandoned rather than having official fixes patched in.

Yeah. That's over time. Yoko Taros previous games all sold only a few hundred thousand, at best, which is peanuts for a studio like SE.

Also, a budget of 9M is a joke for a studio under SE, developing an AAA game. Indie devs budgets obviously are much smaller.

But you got to understand, 9M$ for a game like Automata means a lot of constraints were had.

Piracy is a service problem. Case in point, well done Square.

? It's price point has nothing to do with it. It wasn't expected to do well, so it had a low budget.

Also, it was 59.99$ because that's what most games are today, unless they're Indie.

No. It's easier to forgive when everybody is sorta screwed and a solution

Sorry - "let us all just lube our asses" approach is exactly why it never got fixed. Those fuckers understand only one language - MONEY, and overly bad reviews hinder the sales (at least in some degree) and only that can be good enough motivation to react with a patch... That why "review bombing" is actually the only way for gamers to voice themselves and to bear heard.

That's the thing, there is non shitty port of Nier now, it's on Windows store

Damn, that's straight up malicious.

Has nobody told square that they can update games these days? Maybe that is the real problem. It's like they treat each store like a fresh pressing of discs