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MarcomachtKuchen, do games w Help on Animal Well?

There was a good spoilerfree guide on the steam forum that I used to get more into the advanced stuff. But I think I’ve made all the totems without external help so maybe you’re missing something obvious

mrgoosmoos, do games w Day 354 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

have you played Majora’s Mask yet?

I would recommend simply carrying on the N64 train and playing that next.

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

I played the 3DS Remaster when I first played OoT. I loved it. I have it set up so I might. I’m not sure though because Majora’s Mask is a very situational game for me

SkunkWorkz, do games w Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales

Wasn’t it obvious when that datasheet was released in one of the lawsuits. They paid Rockstar hundreds of millions for GTA V. Of course it’s unsustainable. Not to mention the pricing of GP is too good to be true. MS is hemorrhaging money on GP, on purpose. They basically play the standard Silicon Valley play book. Instead of making things yourself just sell access to customers to producers and price out the competition by undercutting them and incur heavy losses, so you become the only gatekeeper in town. And instead of a store like Steam where the studios and publisher can set their own prices they use a subscription model so they can not only gatekeep access to the customers MS can decide what they want to pay these game devs before the product even hits the service. And if they ever achieve a monopoly the game devs basically have no choice but to accept whatever MS offers.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

They paid Rockstar hundreds of millions for GTA V. Of course it’s unsustainable.

I wouldn’t be so sure. Best estimates for their subscribers are north of 25M and as high as 35M. The $1 subscribers have dried up by now, but even if we assume an average of $10/month/user, in the current world where there’s a $20 tier with the really juicy stuff, that’s at least a quarter of a billion dollars per month in revenue. Now that’s revenue, not profit, but those several hundred million dollar deals also died down, as well as their willingness to license outside content anywhere near as much as they used to, which they can feasibly afford to do because they’ve built up a portfolio of games that they own in perpetuity, not unlike what Netflix did.

_stranger_,

MS may not have invented it (although I’d argue they essentially did) but they did perfect it. That was the whole idea behind windows and IE, market share dominance at any cost.

ILikeBoobies,

We call it the Walmart model

CatDogL0ver,

MS is making money from Gamepass

ano_ba_to,

Have they paid off the 70 billion? If they are making money, why are they firing people and cancelling projects?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Depending on how you do accounting, they may or may not have paid off the $70B. They’re firing people and cancelling projects, according to reporting, because they want to free up $80B of capital across the organization to invest in AI. Whatever money these other sectors are making, the money AI could make is seen as being way higher.

Krompus, do games w Day 354 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
@Krompus@lemmy.world avatar

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DamienGramatacus, do gaming w You would think the dinosaurs would have been a greater discovery then the artifact she is chasing

To be fair, it’s self defense. There is no way to de-agro the T-Rex or raptors.

LovableSidekick, do games w The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact

Ahh, backpedaling to “defending creators” - that’s a bold move, Cotton.

Korhaka, do games w The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact

Yeah, because the choices they have now is working great for quality games…

SatansMaggotyCumFart, do gaming w You would think the dinosaurs would have been a greater discovery then the artifact she is chasing

Tomb raider came out six years after the Jurassic Park movie so Lara Croft knew what she was doing.

fluxion, do games w The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact

Yes, it curtails you from making absurd choices about how to fuck customers out of the money they paid for your games

noxypaws, do games w The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact
@noxypaws@pawb.social avatar

Curtailing developer choice is rather the point, no?

lordnikon,

Yeah just the choices that fucks over paying customers. They are saying they would like to keep doing that and this laws would curtail that.

Will someone think of the poor shareholders? /s

SlartyBartFast, do games w Day 354 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing

Hey this is Zelda

justOnePersistentKbinPlease, do gaming w You would think the dinosaurs would have been a greater discovery then the artifact she is chasing

She's an old school Archeologist(read: basically a fancy thief), not a Zoologist/Paleontologist.

qarbone, do games w The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact

Why are publishers speaking for devs about how much choice devs would have? Why not get devs to speak?

Psaldorn, (edited )
@Psaldorn@lemmy.world avatar

Because sometimes publishers like to be the ones curtailing dev choices

MotoAsh,

Because most devs are just codemonkeys implementing what they’re told to. This is pure manipulative propaganda from the suits who are already robbing wages from good devs.

peoplebeproblems, do gaming w Don't touch me with that stuff

Choom, you gotta remember any Edgerunner know they’re gonna flatline young.

Most people get chipped to perform their job, which is basically to barely survive a corpo life. Some have chrome for medical reasons. Most people don’t wanna be a chrome jock anyway, with cyberpsychosis and all.

Also, ripperdocs are the closest thing to medical attention proles can afford. And I suspect with the jack they make they can afford actual medical care.

Empricorn, do games w The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact

Giant corporations have proven no amount of profit is too much. There needs to be some guardrails. And some form of preservation of the games your loyal customers have enriched your company to access.

lordnikon,

It’s almost like government was made to create and enforce those guardrails.

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