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Ubisoft doesn’t care about a great game that’s only modestly profitable. It is too afraid of that. Shareholders demand mediocre games that a lot of people will buy.

scrubbles, 4 dni temu

Bah what do you mean? They’re only losing… all of their institutional knowledge, handing off a complex piece of software to a more junior, less qualified, probably offshore team.

This is a cause for celebration! Bonuses for the MBA who came up with this idea!

scrubbles, 10 dni temu

When Google fired all of those staffers last year there was a report that there was a huge bump in startups being formed. That’s where actual innovation happens, not at large companies but the small startups. I see that happening now too. They’ll eventually get bought up, but the cycle will repeat.

scrubbles, 11 dni temu

Yeah their head editors just left saying that they were being forced to write lower quality stories and things with agendas. I wouldn’t trust Kotaku much anymore.

scrubbles, 11 dni temu

Just as a heads up, when you post an article, unless otherwise stated, you are telling people that the source can be trusted. So, yes in a way you are asking us to trust them

scrubbles, 13 dni temu

There are probably workarounds sure, but they shouldn’t be the default. Keep up the pressure on these suits so they know what their stupid decisions cause

scrubbles, 22 dni temu

They really did nothing to limit scalpers. I like to imagine scalpers with dozens of Xboxes sitting around because they all came back into stock. Not taking a stand against scalpers will probably hurt in the long run, they don’t buy games or subscriptions

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Best review I’ve seen so far

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free update Hmmmm… cautious… okay…

Creation Club Ah okay that’s why

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Paid mods essentially

scrubbles, miesiąc temu

always was

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I hate how these games are too afraid to play with anything cannon.

It’s always “Yet another faction” or some enemy you’ve never heard of before. Yeah, they talk about the Hutts and Crimson Dawn, but that’s all you’ll see of them, those 2 cutscenes.

I guess what I’m saying is I would love a game where you fight crimson dawn, or with the hutts, or you join up with them, or something. I don’t like how every game franchise has a new faction/enemy that conveniently you’ve never heard of before and will never care about again after this. Yes, it can be fun, but it makes it feel extremely disconnected from the rest of the universe.

Edit: I learned from another thread that the Hutts aren’t even going to be a part of the base game, that’s a Season Pass/DLC item! So the base game will be even less connected with the star wars universe!

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I guess a balance is needed. I agree, and maybe I just sound like a whiny gamer, but I hate it being completely disconnected, but I agree everything right now is set in between episodes 3 and 4, and there’s so much more.

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Marketers really trying to attract people with any 2 second scrap of cutscene

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By killing the product completely they’re forcing their users to upgrade. It’s always profits man, that’s always the reason

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Very neat, 20-40mil is what I expected, makes sense. Thanks for the detailed reply! When I win the lottery maybe I try it…

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Man reading through comments here… I’m getting real burned out on the constant negativity in the gaming community. It’s always been negative, but ffs we used to have fun too. Now a new game drops, no issues I’ve heard so far and it’s still only negative stuff. Isn’t anyone excited?

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See, that’s awesome to hear, and that makes me happy. I personally haven’t played them but my SO is super excited, and I think I’m going to pick it up for them. Thanks for being excited about games!

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So many gatekeepers. And worse when you’re having fun doing something that they don’t approve of.

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I always love that. It’s some liberal plot all the time. Like video games artists aren’t some of the most lgbtq folk I’ve ever seen lol

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

They didn’t do fuck all! They have an extremely unstable alpha of one game mechanic! They just need another few hundred million to get everything else done.

Oh and there’s yet another engine upgrade they’re going to do, and then implement this cool technology over here, and VR, and cryptocurrency, and AI…

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

This one of those “Unfortunately we don’t really know anything about the upcoming game, so we’ll just guess”, while picking apart frame by frame of the trailer?

Meh, pass. Remember the rumor that GTA 6 was for sure going to bring us back to huge map including San Fiero and Las Venturas?

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Added with games, where game devs also receive some of the most vile stuff around, it’s just a recipe for disaster

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Very good! I’m worried they’ll all be laid off tomorrow, but I’m very happy overall. Even tech workers are realizing now companies never liked us, we were an expense, nothing more. Now is the time to unionize

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Probably because of the massive fallout

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

I’d say it’s remarkably consistent how gamers will pick up on budget reductions and cost cutting in games. This isn’t the movies, we aren’t going to just spend 2 hours with a piece of media where some editing handwaving can get us to ignore or not even notice something. These are 40-120 hour games here, we’re going to notice when business stepped in to tell the creative folks to drop something.

Even Hogwarts, a game that I 100%'d, was obviously affected by that. The fucking Merlin Trials. Revelio? You can’t tell me there wasn’t some committee decision that was “We have this big open world, just throw those in every 100 feet or so to make it feel active”. The more corners are cut, the more gamers will notice. They can bank on that.

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Corporate America can absolutely be a cult. I’ve jumped around a fair bit, but you can always tell who the lifers are. Think the company is their savior, love the CEO even though they only met them once, go to all the functions, it’s sad to me. Most of those lifers were making much less than me because I jumped around to bump my salary, they are constantly passed over for promotions because “now just isn’t the time”, and usually they ignore their home life and never take PTO.

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Been saying it since last year. The companies are so terrified of a recession that they’re going to cause one. The funny thing is that this time the market is actually trending up again. This time they just want their bonuses.

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

I was in Europe on their rail and we rode from Switzerland to Rome in a day. Albeit a bit long, 8 hours, but when we got off we realized that entire trip was the same distance as Denver to Seattle, a flight we frequently take.

Flying takes us about 3.5 hours plus security, waiting, travel to and from the airport. Plus then sitting on a cramped plane with very little service.

I wish I could take 2 more hours and have an enjoyable ride like the rail they have over there.

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

All of the stories were like that in starfield. If I could sum it up it would be “jack of all trades, master of none”. Too much stuff crammed in and none of it fleshed out well enough.

Base building was fun, until it was tedious because they only half automated the process.

Ship building was fun, except you could only customize to a point.

Exploration was fun, except they only made really 10ish buildings to just spawned them everywhere instead of generating custom ones (I fought at the same building at least 2 dozen times)

With exploration, we want you to wander through giant spaces and planets, but give you no explorer or vehicle to use.

We also want you to explore the galaxy fully immersed, but couldn’t solve the loading screen problem that yanks you out of the immersion.

So so many cool ideas that you can tell the committee was just like “no, it’s not with finishing that, players will be fine with it”. The entire game feels like it was built by committee.

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

For puzzles, absolutely unpacking, also have seen similar friends put time into that remodel game that escapes me right now. House Fixer maybe?

It is more action, but I have had success during covid with family who was trapped at home by introducing them to Mass Effect (on story mode, the easiest setting). The story is so engrossing through the three games that they overlooked the action. If she likes big stories, I would suggest that. On keyboard and mouse it’s not the most confusing game either, pretty simple.

If you were thinking Factorio but want to do it together, check out Satisfactory. It’s a 1st person version of it that supports multiplayer, and you could set up a dedicated server. (I’m biased though, I have over 2000 hours in it and I am a mod of !satisfactory). Satisfactory is definitely less intimidating than factorio for newbies to the factory building environment, and there’s a creative factor in there too.

I’ve also had luck with people giving them portal. Portal is a great game to introduce them to not anction gameplay but helps them learn movement controls. Honestly out of the three I suggested maybe portal first and go from there. Would introduce movement, a weapon, and the second has a pretty strong story.

For anything else, what are her interests, what does she do for a living? Maybe we can put forward some more.

scrubbles, 2 miesiące temu

Good, I’ve unchecked movies experience so many times

scrubbles, 3 miesiące temu

As a mass effect and dragon age fan, I empathize so much with you. Love deus ex too, so many rpgs just left ignored.

I really don’t understand it. All of these games would be smash hits. Let’s be honest even if they weren’t very good the franchises are known so well that they would all be bought, and older game sales would swell too. To me it’s a no brainier, make the game, it prints money. They’re just so terrified of having to… Invest in something to get a payout.

scrubbles, 3 miesiące temu

Commented. Thanks for letting us know! HSR should be a huge priority right now

scrubbles, 3 miesiące temu

Don’t worry, by buying so many studios they will invest more into gaming, and we’ll get better games than ever!

Monopolies are never good, kids. Attempted monopolies are just about as bad.

I’m also real tired of the copro euphemisms going around trying to hide that they’re firing people.

scrubbles, 3 miesiące temu

This always happens with mergers, and it’s disgusting that our government knows this and allows it to happen without a plan.

T-Mobile buying sprint did the same thing. “Oh, we’ll need everyone on deck!” Really? You’ll need 2 teams rolling out the same phone? You’ll need twice as many people managing the same amount of plans? That’s just not how it works.

Surprisingly, as soon as the heat was off of them after the merger they laid off entire departments that were “redundant”. Never trust a corpo kids.

scrubbles, 3 miesiące temu

The easiest layoff method there is.

Still, the most putrid word for me is “right-sizing”

scrubbles, 3 miesiące temu

Phones really don’t like “corpo”… but I’ll leave it for you

scrubbles, 3 miesiące temu

We’ve tried layoffs, we’ve tried cutting funding, revoking investments, and still they refuse to be profitable! We’ll close them now to show them how they failed.

scrubbles, 3 miesiące temu

Yeah I think expectations are too high, where people expected a perfect game like cities skylines forgetting that when it launched it was also a very rocky start.

Gamers in general are just very entitled, and very unforgiving

scrubbles, 3 miesiące temu

It wasn’t polished yes, graphics were not great and people were justified being disappointed and returning it if they felt like it was game breaking

But the vitriol is what I mean, the pure hate, the threats to developers, the anger thrown at them. That is what I’m referring to. If some graphical issues make you so mad that you need to literally threaten people then I think you shouldn’t game anymore. That’s where I say entitled and anger issues.

scrubbles, 4 miesiące temu

Maybe they’re learning from Sony. That barely anyone runs out to get another console for exclusives, way more people will wait or just not play the game. They’re mostly just leaving money on the table

scrubbles, 4 miesiące temu

I think I’m perfectly comfortable with not using subscriptions.

I’ve replayed mass effect a dozen times. Cyberpunk 2077 4 times. Witcher at least 6 now. Why would I want to start renting my games over buying them?

scrubbles, 4 miesiące temu

And people think I’m crazy for buying physical discs of movies and having 20+ hdds spinning

scrubbles, 4 miesiące temu

I can get a 20tb HDD right now for $300. When I am talking about 100s of TBs it makes a difference

scrubbles, 4 miesiące temu

Bingo. AI is shockingly good at building simple things, helping with direct questions about items. It cannot replace humans in its current state.

At this point it’s CEO bluster just like the blockchain, where the suits are talking about technology like they personally handcrafted it while the actual engineers are sitting in the back of the room thinking “uh, there’s no way it can do that”.

I think we’re going to see a couple hilarious cycles of some shit thinks they can replace humans with AI, fail spectacularly, and then quietly go back.