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terminhell, do gaming w Pretty Girl Horse Racing Game 'Uma Musume' Is Engrossing And Weird As Hell | Aftermath

Don’t play it? Who cares? Ya it’s kinda weird, ill never play it or install it. That’s that, why try shaming people for stuff like this?

theangriestbird,

Did u read the article? Gita seems to be in love with the game, I wouldn’t say they were shaming it at all!

terminhell,

Misread the title - thought it said gross and weird

onlooker, do gaming w Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss'
@onlooker@lemmy.ml avatar

Matt Turnbull doesn’t have a singular clue what LLMs do and what they should be used for. Except touching up your resume, I think that’s actually a good use for LLMs. However, he also suggested using it as a career coach and even a psychiatrist. That man is a raving lunatic.

Samdell, do games w A Fond Farewell To Polygon, From The People Who Worked There - Aftermath

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NeuronautML, (edited ) do games w Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return

Who would’ve thought that an industry that disregarded and actively attacked and insulted their viewer/reader base, who gained a fame for 10/10ing all games under the sun and folding to the most miniscule of complaints from pressure groups would end up not having viewers/readers at all ? Not to mention hiring people who hate video games, can’t play them and/or plagiarize footage from youtube to showcase the game as journalists.

Let me play the tiniest violin concerto for you guys. Now roll over and let youtubers take your industry.

Kolanaki, do games w Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return
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Don’t regular game journalists also get paid dogshit?

NeoToasty,

As of Nov 6, 2024, the average annual pay for a Video Game Journalism in the United States is $123,552 a year. Just in case you need a simple salary calculator, that works out to be approximately $59.40 an hour. This is the equivalent of $2,376/week or $10,296/month.

inb4_FoundTheVegan, do games w PSA: Break Your New York Times Games Streak Today.
@inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world avatar

Oh… sure, okay, done! My streak will remain at 0.

This was the easiest picket line not to cross.

Chronographs,

Yeah I lost all respect for them after it came out that their article on the October 7th attack was all bullshit

darkkite, do gaming w With Ryujinx Gone, We Can't Trust Nintendo To Be Reasonable - Aftermath

my theory is that this will harden the next generation of nintendo emulator devs to be more anonymous and uncontactable.

i also suspect that nintendo has only delayed switch 2 emulation which is probably really close to switch 1 and can be trivially emulated relatively speaking.

i do think they’re going to partner with denuvo though which with make piracy harder, but i think the switch will also be cracked.

Didros, do gaming w Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else - Aftermath

And there are millions of people lining up for jobs that suck that LITTLE to work at. That is how our world functions. It chews people up and spits them out.

Funny how much we hear about it in the video game industry, but every school closure loses teachers. Every hospital lay off looses nurses. Every time capitalism grinds people into dust, those people are dust now.

charleroi2, do gaming w Paradox Lays Off Entire Studio Before Its Game Was Even Released

Tbf game looked like shit in their latest video. No way it would turn into something decent anyway

SuperSaiyanSwag, do games w Sony's Neil Druckmann Interview Shows Why We Need Journalists

It’s an unpopular opinion in most forums, but I love most gaming journalists. I prefer their podcasts and their articles and their opinions way more than any YouTuber/streamer. I just get more insightful and less bias information from them.

Aielman15,
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

People should just stop thinking about gaming journalism as a monolith, and start thinking of it as any other job. Some people are capable of doing it and they show it, others are completely incapable of writing a decent article without resorting to snarky comments or biased opinions.

A local website in my language employs a YTuber as a reviewer for reviews on games that he is a sponsor of on his channel, and those articles are laughable to say the least (I’m not going to name the games nor the person). But I’ve also read good articles on the same website, written by people who actually care about their job and have the skills to do it well.

But for some reason, gamers keep parroting this awful opinion of gaming journalists being incapable of playing games or having opinions on things. No, it’s just that certain journalists are better than others. (And for god’s sake, people should stop using the Cuphead video as a talking point. It was not a true review, it was a joke video, ffs)

anyhow2503,

There’s a reason for the early rise in popularity of independent gaming reviewers and it isn’t the hard-hitting, honest quality of mainstream entertainment journalism at the time. With the advent of influencers though, it feels like everyone is just regurgitating the same pre-approved, publisher-friendly nonsense. I’m sure there are exceptions, but it feels more difficult today to find an honest review when every random internet personality is signing sponsorship contracts that require them to praise the game every 20 minutes.

Cybersteel,
@Cybersteel@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve gone back to written content by some no named randos on forums or image boards.

Boiglenoight, do games w Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games

I think this person means non partisan, because Metal Gear Solid is filled with political intrigue.

bigkahuna1986, do gaming w Big Video Game Publishers Like Microsoft Are Paving Their Own Path To Irrelevance

Of course they’ll manage to nearly destroy the video game industry before they finally quit.

mrfriki,

Even if the whole industry were to collapse tomorrow, we already have games enough for a lifetime of 24/7 gaming.

haui_lemmy,

If we only were allowed to do anything else than prepare for work (school), work and prepare for death (retirement for normal people).

But obviously the people need cheap toys that break asap so they can buy new cheap toys and we need to produce, sell, transport and plan them.

snooggums, do gaming w I Love That Dragon’s Dogma 2 Doesn’t Let Me Save Scum - Aftermath
@snooggums@midwest.social avatar

The author apparently doesn’t know that BG3 (and a lot of other games) has an honour mode that doesn’t allow save scumming, so people can choose to play the exact same way if they want to.

Aurenkin,

Yeah for these things I think having an option is best. I personally don’t play this way but I can see the appeal. I don’t really see the harm in letting people play how they want to play

UndercoverUlrikHD,
@UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev avatar

Larian doesn’t lock your save files to an online server. You can jump into appdata and save scum manually even in honour mode.

Tygr, do games w Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees In Its Games Division - Aftermath

I’m not understanding. As this is the first I’ve ever heard of this, I went to their site and it looks like freebies for games you play and games from other developers.

Did Amazon make their own games? If not, what were these 180 workers doing exactly?

potterpockets,

They made New World and were supposedly working on a LOTR MMO.

drcobaltjedi,

Didn’t New Worlds turn into a ghost town month after launch?

potterpockets,

Yeah it cratered pretty hard, but they have been adding content to the game. Launch was a buggy clusterfuck.

Selmafudd,

I played at launch and yeah the bugs is what drove most people away. They were exploited pretty hard, there was like a 4 or 5 day period there where 3 seperate dupes were discovered and they didn’t do any roll backs

Pika,
@Pika@sh.itjust.works avatar

I bought new world, never actually played it, I had tried the beta and said well this seems cool and got it then never played it at launch

LiveLM,

Might wanna get to it eventually before Amazon shuts it down

neshura,
@neshura@bookwormstory.social avatar

Not entirely well versed in the New World Saga but from what I’ve heard and read here’s roughly what happened:

  • The dev team was developing a hardcore always-on PvP MMO, which is fine but not for everyone
  • Playtest rolls around and the devs get back player numbers you would expect for a hardcore PvP MMO
  • Speculation: the higher ups really don’t like the projected return on their investment given the abysmal (for their ideas) player numbers and force the Studio to pivot to PvE content
  • At this point the entire game has been designed around PvP and the devs now have only ~1 year to somehow shove PvE content in there
  • Launch comes and since the devs had to spend all available time on forcing in PvE content what is present is buggy and doesn’t fit the game mechanics
  • Ensue several months of panicked back and forth patching of the game by the devs, making the entire mess worse because everyone is pissed by one change or another
Zikeji,
@Zikeji@programming.dev avatar

To be fair, a lot of the game breaking launch bugs that hurt the game for me were with PVP (specifically, the instanced wars). I do know there were others but those PVP bugs are what I’ll always remember. The lag, the broken healing, the hatchet exploit, and a few others.

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Cuz it was killing gpus

scottywh,

The article has the answers.

germanatlas, do gaming w 'Friendslop' Isn't Real, But People Love Posting About It Anyway | Aftermath

In my house we call them multiplayer streamer bait!

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