Some reason… I think its money.
So sound whoring is a pay to use privilege now?
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As an audiophile myself, I would not buy this. What the hell does head shape or ears have to do with it? I have my perfect home audio setup set up the exact way I like it. Everyone else can polish a game with good audio, I’m not paying extra for one game to have what everyone else does out of the box. If I’m spending more on audio quality, I’m buying hardware, not some weird dlc
If this was like a Dolby codec thing where it was like “hey we have to pay for the license but not everyone needs it” then fine that makes sense, the license costs money but 99% of players won’t care. But it doesn’t sound like that’s what’s is happening
If this was like a Dolby codec thing where it was like “hey we have to pay for the license but not everyone needs it” then fine that makes sense, the license costs money but 99% of players won’t care. But it doesn’t sound like that’s what’s is happening
This I could understand as well, but they’re just testing the waters and this is, Oblivion: Horse Armor DLC, again. Even funnier, it seems my remarks pissed off a few of their marketing shills.
yeah the only thing I could possibly compare it to is how Windows 10/11 did not include the HEVC codec in Windows and instead you had to pay $3 or something for a copy of the license on their store to play HEVC on Windows. To me, that made sense. <5% of users would ever use HEVC directly on their machine - why include a mandatory license across all versions of windows out of the box? Atmos too is like that I believe.
This is just some weird gimmick. Measuring my head? For what? Makes no sense.
Oh shit this is hat immersive game pack shit?
Yeah, it’s garbage, don’t fucking use it. FFXIV did a whole thing back in end Walker and it just ruins audio
Meanwhile my 5.1 setup works with most games out of the box, and universal HRTF works better than IG on the 6 pairs of phones I’ve tested it on on 2 different fucking Games
Scam software
Imagine still buying and playing Cod games in 2024
Black Ops 3 on steam has enough workshop content to last well past this flash in the pan. I’ll stay with that.
a general setting thats available to everyone, and a paid version of that same setting but customized to your individual ears seems pretty reasonable to me actually
This game costs 80€. No other game in the market costs as high as that for a base edition. You’re claiming that a 80€ game offering a 20€ subscription to a feature every other game that offers it has it for free, is a reasonable thing.
Some people are really delirious…
Tbh I don’t know any other game that allows personal HRTF customization other than the PS5 presets
No. The game is paid. It should come with all available settings. This is just one step away from studios hiding HD textures behind paywalls.
And this line of thinking is what let’s them get away with it.
Didn’t someone already do something like that? Was it Bethesda or Ubisoft that locked 4k textures behind pay wall?
Bethesda brought HD texture packs for Skyrim and Fallout, yes. But they are free DLCs and came out several years after release. Bethesda did a paid modding shop.
But this is a feature that other games just have, that’s paid, on a preorder full price AAA game that’s already more expensive than other games.
Stop trying to compare, this is a whole new precedent of greed and mtx.
Did you not read the entire comment? I said behind a pay wall as in paid DLC. Sorry for having a bad memory I guess.
what other games offer this feature for free?
Before I read the article I just assumed that the developers put uncompressed audio files into a DLC, in order to both reduce filesize of the game and provide people that car about audio a better experience.
But actually its just an extra charge for spatial audio for some reason. Who will even actually buy this? I wonder if this is a test to see if it is financially valuable to keep in the game engine (spoiler alert, most people do not care about this and wont pay extra for it).
I care a lot about audio and that’s why I don’t use spatial. Stereo all the way with a good pair of headphones, or better yet, a really nice stereo monitor setup.
Then again, audio is also a drop in the bucket of why I don’t care for COD games lately. The sound is often weird, and the hit marker sounds too much like a cash register, which reminds me what COD games are really about - in case I forgot about the clowns and gorillas running around for a moment.
Proper spatial audio, ie not the DSP effect that upconverts stereo, but something like Atmos or DTS:X that’s sending object based audio to an arbitrary number of speakers, does sound better to me on headphones in the few games that support it. The only game where use it regularly that I can think of is MSFS, but it does sound better than headphone stereo. You do have to pay Dolby to use it, or buy headphones that come with it, however. Sounds best on my 5.1 home theater, but also does a good job with binaural headphone output.
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“For some reason.” Money. The reason is money.
Steam needs an anti-wishlist so I remember not to buy it when it’s on sale for $1 ten years from now 😅
That’s what the ignore option is for. I just wish I could do it for entire companies.
You can.
Except that’ll never work with COD. They almost never go on sale, and are still sold at full retail price years down the line. Hell, if you go to buy the original Modern Warfare from like 2007, it’ll STILL be $60!!!
It was on sale for 9,99 just a few weeks ago.
That’s still pretty expensive for a 17 year old game though.
Can’t you hide games?
Oh true, I forgot about that feature.
PSA: you can also block publishers (and I presume developers too)
Balatro is like, $10 and available on my phone tho-…
Imagine paying for the privilege of hearing unemployed dudes and 12 year olds call you racial slurs in higher quality.
Can I get higher quality slurs? I want my racism to be more sophisticated than the common man; like Measurehead in Disco Elysium.
Granted, the slurs are now far more hurtful to you when you hear them due to their high quality.
“For some reason”? Greed. That is the exact reason.
“Because fuck you, give me money” - AJ
Fun (probably) fact. Warzone players complained almost constantly about the lack of audio quality. It was an issue that only got worse with each “season”. So now that this happens, I can see why.
“Hey players, you complained and we listened! Now pay the fuck up!”
“A Personalized Profile analyzes your unique head and ear shape for precision sound,” reads the option on the Call of Duty store.
Sounds customized for your specific ear shape??? I’ve never been less willing to believe something in my life
It is a real thing. Very few people have identical ears on both sides of their head, and almost no one shares the same shape with another person. There’s a few active implementations of this on truly wireless earbuds, but the latency makes it irrelevant for most things except music. Depending on just how unique the ear shape is, it can drastically change how things sound.
In no capacity should it be a paid feature in a game, though. In a more competitive game with a lot of value placed on audio like Escape From Tarkov, this would completely change the game and how it is played.
TLDR: Your ears are unique, and your brain spends your entire life from the moment your ears are hearing things, tuning to them.
Sony did this with the ps5, you had to send Mark Cerny ear pics…
Shocking. A company mistreats the people purchasing their game like crap with a micro transaction for “better audio quality”. I really hope this bites them in the ass.
I think you just outed your alt.
I don’t get it, am I missing something?
They posted the same reply from 2 different accounts. And it doesn’t appear to be one of those bots that copies replies and reposts them.
Isn’t that just a glitch? I think I had this before when I repeatedly clicked post on a bad internet and it posted twice.
Exactly. With the constant Lemmy server hacks this startrek.website account rarely works anymore. But someone’s paranoid and shown he’s got 7 alts lol. Jfc, irony much?
Lol and I don’t understand the logic either, why would someone post the exact same comment twice from different accounts. I kinda agree that there’s no way 9 different people down voted your comment for an obvious glitch, maybe someone has a lot of time to hate.
The same exact reply was posted twice from the same account and once from a different account with less punctuation. So I assumed they posted once and it didn’t look like it worked (but did), they tried again and it didn’t look like it worked (but did) so they logged out and back in to try again, except it logged into and posted from a different account.
¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ I’ve done it when my connection is being crappy.
I think you just outed your alt.
