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

Paradox Deputy CEO Mattias Lilja is announcing this just like he was the one to announce the changes to Cities Skylines 2 development.

Apparently he was made Deputy CEO only this year, but has been with Paradox for years. I really wonder: does he get picked to announce these things because no one else wants to take responsibility? Or is he the one stepping in where the rest of the management have let things run out of control?

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

Honestly, 80% of everything is crap, and 80% of businesses fail, and that’s nobody’s fault. It would be even worse if they tried to ship a turd they knew wouldn’t satisfy players.

I understand if you’re sad that the game didn’t turn out and you don’t get to play it, but I’m just proud of them for taking the risk to begin with, and I’m sorry it didn’t turn out how anyone would have liked. Sometimes thems the brakes.

Kit, do games w Galacticare Has Got That Old Bullfrog Spirit

I’ve been playing this on Gamepass and it’s pretty good. Feels like Two Point Hospital with a couple QoL improvements.

jumjummy,

I found it to be way too similar to Two Point Hospital, but somehow less engaging. The overly silly theme just didn’t do it for me unfortunately.

Boozilla, (edited ) do games w Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games
@Boozilla@lemmy.world avatar

I think this explains at least part of the phenomenon…

youtu.be/GkpgP8ovFZQ

benignintervention,

Guilty as charged. I’ve played hundreds of hours of souls games and all I know about the lore is that souls are money

Jarix,

Now compare that narrative experience the Super Mario Bros.

Im sure it’s been done, but i would love to see interpretations of a First Time User Experience of OG mario if it came out today.

I cant tell you how many games ive just noped out of because i just want to actually play the game and not read or listen to either dialogue or forced tutorial railroading for 20+minutes (even 5 minutes of NOT being in control of what im doing is annoying) when you start a new game.

Even character creation can impede just wanting to get started. Let me come back later, or engage with that as i PLAY the game. Injecting extensive dialogue or forced interactive tutorial should be a reward or a much appreciated rest from the action, not a burden i must bare.

Not every game needs to be story rich to be fun, thank you vampire survivors

NocturnalMorning,

My friend has told me to watch a bunch of YouTube videos for the lore. It’s apparently very deep.

Bruncvik, do games w How A Small Video Game Narrative Studio Wound Up At The Heart Of A Massive, Anti-Woke Conspiracy Theory - Aftermath
@Bruncvik@lemmy.world avatar

When I was still buying new games, I’ve had development studios I preferred, and others I avoided. Those were simpler times (and simpler games), when one small studio did everything.

Later, additional external companies got involved, and some tried to hide their presence. I remember when The Adventure Company started using a very customer unfriendly sort of copy protection, and I started using a list of affectted games, so that I could avoid them.

These days, multiple companies are involved with game design. As a consumer, it’s only normal that I’d like to know who had their hands on developing a game I’d be interested in. I haven’t played any games Sweet Baby was involved with, but if I did and had a strong opinion (negative or positive) about their work, I’d appreciate a list of games they worked on, to make a purchase choice that would suit me best.

WalnutLum, do gaming w I Just Wanted To Save My Game - Aftermath

The steam deck’s pause-on-power-off has been very convenient for games like this

moreeni,

I’ve seen people do this thing with window managers for Linux

somnuz, do gaming w I'm Stuck On Top Of This Mountain In The Long Dark

Well, as the devs wanted the visual feeling of the game to resemble a painting — then it only fits to say “there are no mistakes here, just happy accidents”

moreeni,

This aricle is not only about the visuals. Did you, by any chance, get confused by the thumbnail and the title thinking it was just a screenshot?

somnuz,

Oh, no worries, I’ve read it. What I meant by the quote is, you are not stuck anywhere, you are just camping in one of the best spots in the game…

I can only hope you had the polaroid and some charcoal on you to map out that great vista in the meantime, between all that looting the cargo containers.

Send_me_nude_girls, do gaming w Most Video Game Artwork Will Never Be Seen - Aftermath
@Send_me_nude_girls@feddit.de avatar

And it’s a damn shame. It’s also very stupid, as I’d like to see them, the work is already done and it would be free publicity. Win-win

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

Any info on what exactly the dev got out of the deal? Huge sum of money? Big titty waifu? Unreleased version of Smash with Waluigi?

moreeni,

Likely not getting his life destroyed by a lawsuit

turkalino,

It would be sad if that’s what Nintendo convinced him into believing, because as the article points out, there’s legal precedent for emulators

jol,

Even so, you can’t win a legal battle against Nintendo that easily even with precedent. It will cost you money which you might not have…

bountygiver,

yup, the system is rigged from the start. Big corpos can easily bully an everyday person by stalling the legal process and stack up your legal fees until you cannot afford them and had to settle.

jol,

They have lawyers on staff earning a salary, so stalling literally costs them no extra money.

mindbleach,

Yeah, Bleem won that lawsuit. And the next lawsuit. And the next.

And then they ran out of money.

mindbleach,

They sent goons to his house.

What he got out of it is, they left.

DebatableRaccoon,

Given Nintendork’s history, this wouldn’t surprise me.

SnotFlickerman, do games w Video Game Developers Are Leaving The Industry And Doing Something, Anything Else
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Personal opinion: This is actually excellent because we could actually use developers who have worked these jobs and thus are familiar with how they work, and then they can develop actually useful code for small businesses.

For example: restaurants often have the ability to order online, but they have zero rate limiting, so you can end up with 30 different orders made within 30 seconds of each other and all those people will expect their orders ready at the same time and in the meantime you’ve got exactly three cooks and each meal takes at least five to seven minutes to get out. Someone could design a rate limiter, no one has. Because there aren’t developers working those jobs realizing that workers are being worked to the bone because of businesses refusing to add limits to how much demand can come through their door.

NuXCOM_90Percent,

Yeah… that is nonsense.

Also, the good online ordering software DO provide those features. Restaraunt owners just tend to license the cheapest one (or pay their girlfriend’s kid to write an even cheaper one) for obvious reasons.

Goronmon,

Because there aren’t developers working those jobs realizing that workers are being worked to the bone because of businesses refusing to add limits to how much demand can come through their door.

I’m not sure why you believe game developers would be better suited to this than people who actually do business software development. And it’s less about what the developers want to do with software than it is about what the people to are buying the software want to do with that software.

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I guess Open Source doesn’t exist?

Goronmon,

Restaurant owners don’t care about Open Source.

Blaster_M,

Restaurant owners would care about open source, if the offerings weren’t expensive to implement. See my comment on the same level.

Goronmon,

I meant more that a restaurant owner isn’t going to see or really get any value from an open source solution vs closed source specifically. They are just choosing a platform at a price point that works for them.

Blaster_M,

And my point being they absolutely would use something FOSS if it worked, because for a restaurant, the less money spent on overhead the better.

Blaster_M,

Open Source exists, but it is janky, lacking in features, and literally every single one is used to upsell the expensive proprietary software by the same company that has the features lacking in the open source release.

makingStuffForFun,
@makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml avatar

The paywall in open source business apps is infuriating. I’d rather they just go full commercial.

mundane,

That’s due to decisions by the money bags (or lack of funds) and not the competence of the engineers.

thingsiplay, do gaming w I Have Some Thoughts, And Concerns, About Civilization VII - Aftermath

It’s a bit too early to judge. Just my 2c Edit: At least the person who wrote the article seems to understand and play those games. So I give him that. From content wise, this is a good article.

Aussiemandeus,
@Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone avatar

Yeah certainly a solid article, unfortunately I haven’t felt the need to upgrade from civ 6 at all. So I probably won’t move on unless it is absolutely amazing

t7tis, do gaming w Valve Let Team Fortress 2 Rot And They Should Feel Bad About It - Aftermath

TF2 is no longer making a lot money for valve. Veteran players have all theirs special hats/cosmetics and no new player wants to invest time and money in a game so riddled with cheating bots. They could easily handle the situation. Detecting obvious cheating bots isn’t hard but valve doesn’t even try. Yes, there are community servers, like Uncle Danes, that are good at handling bots, but it’s also a big burden for them to constantly ban/remove cheating bots.

Valve is testing server side AI cheat detection in CS2. Let’s hope that they will bring that to TF2 valve servers. Maybe don’t VAC ban players being detected (AI is buggy), just remove them when detected and maybe disallow them from joining valve servers for a week.

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

16 Final Fantasy Games and the Earth is still getting consumed by us.

AFC1886VCC, do games w IGN immediately lays off every non-UK person at their newly bought sites, including some key members like deputy editor Alice Bell

I haven’t cared about IGN since I was a horny teenager watching Jessica Chobot hosting the daily fix

DebatableRaccoon, (edited ) do gaming w AI NPCs Have Potential, But Not The Kind Big Video Game Companies Want

Oh dear, I guess game companies will just have to keep paying people instead of finding yet another way to min/max their greed stat.

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