Recent reviews by Pure But Undead

if we hit 1,000 crashes by the end of the month, i'll post 5 videos of me oiled up and twerking

After 800 hours playing it, I didn't improve my skills in-game.

However, I learned new language skills: now I can curse in Russian and Brazilian Portuguese.

Also, my tolerance level to guttural screams and loud sounds was increased.

Now I can bear the crying of my children for longer and I can make them feel better by singing sweet traditional songs from other cultures, such as Очи чёрные (Dark Eyes) or Garota de Ipanema (The Girl from Ipanema).

In conclusion, Counter Strike transformed me into a better father and a better person, in addition to making me more patient, tolerant to hateful people and more trained in languages and cultures.

Better than any psychiatric therapy. 10/10

After 600 hours I realized that there were not 9 idiots in each match, but 10.

The new privacy policy is insane,

it allows them to acess and store (*and share) ridiculous amounts of information that they have no buisiness knowing.

I have puchased this game years ago and now they block me from playing it unless i forefeit my right to privacy?

I consider this to be fraud.


Edit: here are some examples:

information that they collect includes:

– Nickname, phone number, SteamID64(*), purchase history, etc. to provide and operate the game;*

– Nickname, email address, device information, and records of the issues you experience (to provide customer service)*, and

– Email address, gender, age, country of residence, language, and information for delivering goods (i.e. name, postal address, and phone number)(for participation in the survey, and other events).*

When you participate in social features (such as in-game chat), the information that you disclose is public information. We may store and access it, and it may be read, copied, collected or used by other users without your consent.

*When they name a reason for collecting this and that information it doesn't legally bind them as far as I can tell.
It seems to be just an explanation for the reader, especially considering this list is under "information we collect" and not "how we use your information", that comes later.



who they share the information with includes:

marketing platforms and providers of analytics services relating to player behavior*, in order to tailor the Service and to conduct marketing activities
*this does not mean that they only share information that's necessary for the analytics, it means that they are allowed to share what they have with a company that provides those analytics services.
player behavior is also not limited to ingame activities, it can be simply activity of you, the player, as far as the wording goes.



they also retain the right to give out your information if their company is aquired or merged.

We may also share your information where such disclosure is essential to comply with a legal obligation or a lawful data access request, pursuant to a merger or acquisition, with our affiliates for the purposes described in this Policy, or where you have otherwise provided* your consent or at your direction.

*"or where you have otherwise provided your consent" reads like "We may share your information in such and such cases and also however we see fit (as long as it's legal)" bruh💀


please check out the privacy policy to see for yourself:
https://na.battlegrounds.pubg.com/pp-steam/
it's all there and not super hard to understand.



tldr: privacy unknown: bad game 😔

You never really stop playing TF2. You just take long breaks that last up to a few years before coming crawling back,

[Review from the perspective of a free-to-play player]

I played this game back when it first came out, got to max level, did some end-game content and pvp, and generally found the game to be pretty enjoyable. Decided to pick the game back up when I found it on Steam as free-to-play.

What a 180 it's taken... The story, voice acting and gameplay are all still pretty great, but EA's dark shadow now looms over just about every aspect of the game. It's like they went down a list of every single feature and function of the game to make them all juuuuust inconvenient enough compared to subscribed players that each disadvantage by itself kind of just makes you roll your eyes, but when you put them all together you can faintly, through the ether, hear the excited, heavy breathing of the EA execs as they climax while fantasizing about getting their grubby little sausage fingers into your wallet.

"You like to pvp? Great! We got you! Give us money or else you can only do ten matches per week though."

"You enjoy running flashpoints and taking down bosses for epic loot? No problem! Give us money or else you can't equip that epic loot you picked up though."

"You want to be space-rich and earn a bunch of credits to buy anything you can think of? Absolutely! Give us money or else you can only hold a pitiful one million credits though."

Don't worry about forgetting all the disadvantages you're at either. They'll remind you. Constantly. Every time you unlock a new feature, you'll get a nice popup rubbing in your face how much they hate FTP players, and just about every window you open will have a lovely little "give us money" button for when you finally cave in.

Long story short: If you don't mind subscribing and you enjoy the thought of those EA execs ramming you from behind while they gently caress and whisper sweet nothings to your credit card, you'd probably enjoy the game.

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I've played this game for over 6 years now, and I'm finally going to write my FINAL review of this game.
This game... used to be very fun. (It still is at times). But now... it's not that fun anymore.
WG really only cares about the money at this point, this game used to be very fun but now it's just another P2W game.
The matchmaker of this game is so trash at this point, that your only way of winning is using OP tanks or even going further by using OP tanks in a platoon. (Like Smasher platoon, T22 platoon, Obj. 252U etc.)
And to get those OP tanks, you ofc need to spend a sh*t load of money to get those tanks.
This game used to be fun, it really was, but now because all this P2W sh*t it really isn't that much fun anymore.
You can already tell from how many players are starting to quit the game (or the amount of players who have already quit the game in the last year or so).
So at THIS point of the game, no, I would not really recommend this game (unless you're willing to spend a lot of money that is), I myself am a F2P player and I don't really win that much anymore just because of the trash matchmaker.
WG really need to fix their matchmaker and care about their customers, I mean it.

1. Download ET Legacy from https://www.etlegacy.com/
2. Install it to game's directory (in Steam library, select Wolfenstein ET, right click Manage -> Browse local files)
3. In game's directory, rename "etl.exe" to "et.exe", so Steam launches ET Legacy instead of default exec
4. Enjoy

It makes the game to work properly on modern systems, as you would expect, and it lets you filter the servers with bots, among other things.
Or you can follow this video tutorial by the ET Legacy dev

I played the precursor to this game copied almost identically, Shop Heroes, on and off for several years. This game is nearly a carbon copy, but a more polished, simplified version.

I dropped a couple hundred hours into this over two weeks, and a couple hundred dollars. It was an immensely fun bit of nostalgia. I don't regret my purchases, though I am quitting today. I had two weeks of fun.

1. F2P is not viable in Shop Titans. The main reason is that you must pay $10 monthly to be able to repair your items with gold rather than gems. Gems are incredibly valuable, and items break frequently. Expensive gear can take days or weeks of farming to obtain. So basically, if you are f2p u must run all your dungeons in junk disposable gear, meaning you will progress far more slowly. And who on earth wants to play a game where you can never use the good gear you craft. So I paid my $10 so I could play the game.

2. Guns, crossbows, and wands are behind a $50 paywall. These items are all noticeably more powerful than the free recipes, so it gives you an edge in combat, but more importantly economically.

3. The amount of new p2w blueprints being added to the game is ridiculous. And you must buy them (with real money - $20) within a few days of when they appear or they are gone forever. Shop titan's precursor had new p2w blueprints every few months, and you could always go back and buy them later. Shop titans apparently adds new p2w blueprints twice each month. So there's $20 each pack. Then, if you buy the pack, you get $80 worth of flashback pack offers. And again, you must buy them or the blueprints are gone forever. A few packs give best in slot gear. Having logged thousands of hours, I don't think I made any mistakes. But doing so cost me $200. Then 5 days later I got my second pack offer, which would inevitably be followed by another $80 of offers... and I quit.

They are simply vomiting out blueprints to cash in. New pay packs you must buy or lose the blueprints forever twice a month is ridiculous. This is simply not fun. There are a couple of early game items that can't even be obtained anymore as they were only offered initially when the game was released on steam. And they would be quite helpful/profitable early game, and of course sell for very high prices due to rarity.

Sorry, but if you are going to require a $10 monthly fee, it should not be necessary to also have extremely greedy p2w packs as well. World of Warcraft offers an immense amount of content for $15 per month. Shop Titan's does not provide value for your money... at all.

5. Can't undo champion seed upgrades. You have half a dozen champions forever. If in your noobness you make poor choices in allocating attribute seeds, this is permanent. They can churn out two new blue print packs a month, but the game doesn't even feel finished yet. There's no way to even sort your damned inventory.

I wasn't looking to pummel f2p players by p2w. I simply planned to compete with the other p2w players. But I'm sorry... $200 in, and realising I will probably have to spend $1,000 in the 1st year just to get all the old packs is ridiculous. And then I'll continue to be up for $60 a month in new packs each month, and the $10 monthly fee indefinitely.

This is simply ridiculous, and this game will not thrive. Disappointed. This is shop heroes version 2... with ridiculously increased paywalls. And it's not like the rng ability system on heroes is any fun either, as you can simply spend gems to reroll each attribute until you get the perfect hero, completely removing the rng. Notice the 12 carbon copy ninja's with equal stats on top of the leader board. This costs 20k gems or $200 if you paid for it in cash. Sorry but if the game is built around the rng attribute system, it should not be possible to circumvent the rng simply by paying real money/premium currency. Allowing players to cookie cutter build the perfect characters with enough gems takes any of the fun/accomplishment in obtaining strong heroes. That you would get it was never in doubt... it is just a matter of time or in game grinding.

In their prior game, you could buy any of the old packs any time. I was content buying what i saw a use for, and let the rest be. Forcing players to buy every pack because you never know for certain if they may become useful or meta in the future is... not at all fun.

This is a very expensive, limited tiny mobile game. One that I am quite attached to. But the way this has been setup like a skinner box to try to milk extra money out... removes any and all of the fun.

Game will likely be nearly identical in a year or two, with the addition of dozens more pay packs. Thank you for a fun 2 weeks of nostalgia. But every time I think just maybe this mobile game will be different... it never is.