The fact that a term that just means “paying enough attention to be aware of the world around you” is used derisively is incredibly indicative of how much of a braindead mess a lot of the population has become.
That and DEI are the biggest boogie men for the right at the moment. DEI has a specific meaning but anytime they see a black person in a position of power it’s DEI.
Honestly a good article, and a perfect example of performative security. Security was ever present, hassled people, wore tactical vests and made a big show - but still did nothing of actual value
Twitch backpedaled and said they’ll add moar security, but won’t do anything to actually protect creators like grant them their own security guard.
To me, it’s obvious. Guy didn’t have a knife, didn’t threatened her, it’s some lonely creepy dude who doesn’t respect her and very sick in the head. They don’t need another row of metal detectors, they needed someone managing the line and access to her so he couldn’t just walk up to her, and if he did still make it that close then an immediate boot out of the premises with charges for assault filed with a permanent from all future events.
Instead they just… Let him walk around and be chill, and sounds like he was only banned well after the huge backlash.
That’s how you end up with Horizon Forbidden West having 3500 credits, because you credit every single employee of every single company and division that even looked at the game for those five seconds.
That also is kinda problematic, because now your contribution is buried in the names of all of your coworkers who didn’t work on the game, so were you then properly credited?
“Battlefield 6, made by {list of every single person currently employed by EA}”
But let’s be real, most of us aren’t going to read all of them.
I really tried with Cyberpunk. I love that game. But the credits just went on and on and on and…
I did it with Animal Crossing though! But every time I ask K.K. Slider to play a song, the credits roll. And there’s an achievement for doing it 50 times. It takes a year. He shows up once a week. I mean it takes a year if you play Animal Crossing every Saturday after 6pm.
I can’t wait to roll credits on Blue Prince. One dude made that game. Like Stardew Valley.
It's not about whether you or I are going to sit down and read through them all. It's for the sake of those workers, that they have documentation of what they worked on that they can cite and say "I'm in there, you can check the credits and confirm."
I sorta wish other work was like this. This is one of the reasons linkedin is hard to not be on as it gives a confirmation of where you worked from your connections and if you give and get recommendations that verifies it that much more.
missingno already explained it, so tangentially related: I like to look out for fun or interesting names. makes a bit of a game with my partner and we read a lot more of the names that way.
Also, playing through a bunch of metal gear at the moment, it’s fun to count the number of roles Kojima gave himself :D
They should hide somewhere in the game itself the real credits of the people that spent significant effort to make the game. An Easter Egg if you will. Like just after defeating the dragon, you find a scroll in their horde with the real credits.
I wouldn’t put it past Blizzard to suddenly decide to axe Hearthstone. As sad as that would be, it already has a pretty dwindling playerbase from my understanding.
Although, to be fair, WOTC has been the best advertising recently for any card game that isn’t MTG, so maybe they’re seeing a surge now.
At this point, with all the charts and videos dedicated trying to explain what Game Pass is and deals exist, I really think a DLC approach would have been better. Like with pizza, you would have your Game Pass + any number of DLCs to enable additional features. So everyone could have their own Game Pass setup and pay only what they are interested into. In example:
<span style="color:#323232;">$10 Game Pass Base
</span><span style="color:#323232;">+ $8 Day One First Party
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (exclusives for a month, and added to Base after a year)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">+ $8 Premium Streaming
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (shortest wait times, highest quality)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">+ $5 Additional Library
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (EA Play & Ubisoft+ Classics)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">+ $4 Loyalty Benefits
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> (Rewards program, game specific benefits, icons, walllpapers, soundtracks, stickers etc)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Note: Online Console Play is always included.
</span>
I just made up price numbers, so don’t quote me on that as being bad or so. At least from marketing standpoint it would be easier to market, and nobody pays extra for stuff they won’t use such as some vbucks for free to play games.
For a second I thought you meant bundling pizza with the deal. Which I think would work well. Imagine getting one free dominoes pizza a week with game pass ultimate++. Haha
I think the biggest problem with thos approach is custo.ers could potentially pay less to get what they want, and thats taking profits away from the company. Why would they want that?
While I understand the stance for a communuty, honestly it's such a cowardly move. Im getting tired of games that make great political commentaries and/or cutting satire and then state "no political discussion".
I'll report to the nearest Democracy Officer for mentioning democracy, I guess...
They don’t want there to be a flame war between real actual humans who realize that it’s a parody of fascist imperial colonialism a la Starship Troopers, and brain broken groypers who idolized the sheer raw power of just taking everything as though you are entitled to whatever you can get your hands on.
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