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1984, do games w Microsoft expected to finally buy Activision Blizzard next week
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

It’s fine, they already turned into shit.

Microsoft will make it worse but it’s easy to avoid this stuff, unlike Github.

derpgon,

I’d argue GitHub is one of those project they didn’t absolutely fuck up.

s_s,
@s_s@lemmy.one avatar

yet

derpgon,

Well, it’s been a few years already, and no enshitification yet.

Tlaloc_Temporal,
@Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca avatar

They owned Minecraft for… 4? 5? years before enshitifying it. There is no time limit for enshitification.

derpgon,

True. I forgot about that since I haven’t played on public MP server fot quite a while now, usually just vanilla/modded with friends.

Razputinsgirth, do games w Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient

I've been seeing a ton of cyberpunk ads since starfield was released just shitting on starfield and talking up cyberpunk. This seems like a smear campaign. Frankly if your a fan of sci Fi and video games. You should probably try both when they're on sale.

drekly, (edited )

Cyberpunk put ALL their money into marketing, and they’re heavily investor-pressured into showing the game is better received than it actually is. I still firmly believe that a large percentage of the praise is astroturfing. Especially when they downvote everything negative without a response

tehmics,

Ok here’s a response. I pirated cyberpunk on release fully expecting it to be buggy. I enjoyed bits of it at the time but I stopped because it was too buggy and unpolished.

This is CD Project Red’s track record, but somehow everyone forgot about how bad Witcher 3 was. I expected this 2.0 update eventually and I’m glad they started another marketing push, so that I can know it’s time for the game to actually be ‘done’. Obviously they paid streamers to show the game, that’s no secret. But also it looks genuinely better, just like Witcher 3. So I’ll probably actually buy it next time it goes on sale, after pirating it to see if it’s worth it now.

Meanwhile Starfield looks exactly like the milktoast Skyrim reskin I expected it to be, with nothing really standing out. Bethesda has been slowly comodifying their games since Morrowind -> Oblivion then followed an obvious template since Skyrim. It really shows in their boring designs.

Cyberpunk was trying to do too much, but Starfield isn’t doing enough.

drekly,

Fair point about starfield, I haven’t played it yet but have heard many negative things.

But your point about cyberpunk, in response to me is “It was too buggy to enjoy on release and I haven’t played the late, updated version” , but you’re glad it’s being marketed on every platform?

That doesn’t do it any favours 😅

PoetSII,

Fwiw it’s ‘milquetoast’

LoamImprovement, do gaming w Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient - Opinion

The only thing I don’t like about Cyberpunk’s writing is that everyone seems to be deathly allergic to pronouns, even when it would clearly make the dialogue flow better.

fckgwrhqq2yxrkt,

That’s to help you remember the names.

gothicdecadence,

Never realized that but you’re probably right! It never irked me, I just assumed it was a stylistic decision. I actually like it tbh

fckgwrhqq2yxrkt,

Yea! It always seems to help me remember them.

LoamImprovement,

I’m talking more about the dialogue between V and other characters where they just adamantly refuse to begin sentences with the words I/me/my/etc. It begins to wear after a while.

upstream,

Well, the player can choose which gender V is, plus there’s a lot of catering to gender fluidity.

It’s definitely a conscious choice, but I can’t say if it’s to not have to record more variations of dialogue, and maybe NPC’s use it less so not to draw attention to them not knowing V’s gender.

That said, nothing that really bothered me, although I still haven’t gone through the entire game.

But maybe it’s just how they picture 2077? Just look at recent history and draw an exponential curve and assume pronouns just went out of fashion?

LoamImprovement,

I mean, it really doesn’t have anything to do with V’s gender, it’s literally just that they start every sentence like, for example, “…Thought” or “…Look like” instead of “I thought” or “You look like,” even when the VO is enunciating in a way that sounds much more emphatic than the dropped pronouns would imply? It makes the dialogue feel kind of disjointed at times.

Granted, I’m using the female V voice, I have no idea if the male VO runs into the same problems, but I imagine they’re reading off of the same script, so it seems likely.

spiderkle, do games w Microsoft expected to finally buy Activision Blizzard next week
@spiderkle@lemmy.ca avatar

The logical question here is: will COD be in gamepass? otherwise what’s the point of this takeover.

Maalus,

Starcraft 3 is the point

ryathal,

Those devs already left. At best it would be a hollow shell of a game like aoe 4.

Maalus,

There are some games made by SC devs or SC players, we’ll see how it turns out. I would like to see SC3 with full financial support of a AAA studio.

ryathal,

Aoe 4 wasn’t great and that was AAA support. The people that made SC great are gone, most are at frostgiant, Dreamhaven, Warchief, and more.

Maalus,

Yeah okay, let me want what I want instead of trying to convince me not to

ryathal,
Maalus,

Ffs buddy, learn to let it go. I mentioned the two games in my previous comments already. Then I mentioned I would like an actual Starcraft 3 from Blizzard. You don’t need to point me at anything, just accept someone else wishing for something and move on.

kemsat,

Nah nah, StarCraft: Ghost is coming back. It’s just a matter of using the Gears of War engine & adding in StarCraft textures & models & SFX.

RedAggroBest,

I’d rather it look and feel like Halo

Bonskreeskreeskree,

I’m sure black ops 1-4 will definitely be a part of it!

UkaszGra,

Candy Crash instead of blue screens.

Kushan,
@Kushan@lemmy.world avatar

You can bet your sweet ass CoD will be part of it. Possibly not MW3 but the next game will be a big day 1 game pass launch, guaranteed.

FireTower,
@FireTower@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe they’ll make warzone no longer free to play but instead included in game pass as a means of recruiting more members.

mojo, do games w Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient

Both are behind Baldurs Gate if we’re making comparisons.

Sinfaen, do gaming w CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months

And Epic Games announced a big layoff coming soon. I dunno what’s happening in the industry rn, but it’s not looking good

Jaysyn,
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

Silicon Valley Bank imploded, taking the easy money away from them.

Nawor3565,

That was just part of it. The entire tech sector massively retracted after the boom it saw during COVID, which is also responsible for the sudden enshittification of so many different products/services all at once.

Mic_Check_One_Two,

Yup. They can’t take out interest-free loans to pay off their almost-interest-free loans. So now they’re scrambling to save money and build value the old fashioned way.

Thalestr,
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People with lots of money want even more money. Less employees means less money that has to be paid out which means more money in the short term. Makes line go up for a while. Makes suits happy.

John_Coomsumer,

The only thing happening in the industry is the same thing happening in every industry and most of the first world:

The wealthy owners and executive leader roles have learned that COVID, COVID supply lines, interest rates, ‘consumer sentiment’, and inflation, are all very easy scapegoats that both the public and investors will easily buy as reasons for lowering product quality and availability, while also firing employees, squeezing the non-fired ones to death, and raising prices. This has lead to almost 2 straight years of corporations showing record profits (even adjusting for the inflation that they are largely responsible for in the first place).

This downward spiral will continue until some force with nearly as much power pushes back.

This is typically and ideally a representative government in the form of regulation or taxation. But the US government has suffered decades of regulatory capture and congressional gridlock.

So the only other potential option is a large amount of highly populated unions. Which have to fight against nearly 100 years of media and political demonization and nearly 150 years of ‘american independent attitude’.

The perfect modern system has all 3 parties; unions, government, and corporations, equally strong and antagonistic. Just as the perfect modern government would have the executive, legislative, and judicial branches equally strong and antagonistic. Neither could be much farther from the case here.

Stronger bigger unions. Weaker smaller corporations. And a government that actually functions. All are necessary to fix our current shit show.

Aatube,
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It already happened, at least on Mediatonic (Fall Guys), a subsidiary. They axed lots of game designers, the UI/UX designer, some other people and even the person who made all the promo art

Disgusted_Tadpole, do games w Microsoft expected to finally buy Activision Blizzard next week
@Disgusted_Tadpole@lemmy.ml avatar

Activision Blizzard has become such a huge pile of disgusting shit that people are quite tempted to see what would happen if the devil Microsoft buys it.

What a time to be alive

MeanEYE,
@MeanEYE@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, never thought I’d live the day to see it but here we are. Blizzard use to be the darling of all gamers, only one who did things right and released games when they were actually done. Then money hungry shitheads took over.

KingThrillgore,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Absolutely nothing.

Clbull,

I’m just happy to potentially see Bobby Kotick, Ion Hazzikostas, Mike Ybarra, etc ousted.

Don’t get me wrong. Fifteen years ago I would have flipped if Microsoft put in a bid to buy Vivendi and get their paws on Blizzard, after seeing how badly they ruined Rare. Activision tanked the brand so bad that I’m actually rooting for Microsoft.

LetMeEatCake,

I don’t think Kotick is at all certain to be kicked out. As easily as I can see MS letting him go with an enormous golden parachute, I can just as easily imagine them keeping him onboard because all they care about is Activision’s ability to make money.

In all likelihood Blizzard isn’t going to be managed any differently. Microsoft’s modus operandi with gaming acquisitions is to leave the leadership in place and let the dev/publisher run itself. Why is everyone expecting different here? The most likely outcome is MS does nothing to Blizzard and Blizzard continues on more or less the same trajectory as before.

YeetPics, do games w Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient
@YeetPics@mander.xyz avatar

Lemon juice makes oranges seem sweet.

Shialac, do games w Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient

well, yeah. It’s a Bethesda game, of course their storytelling is bland af

Xanthrax,
@Xanthrax@lemmy.world avatar

I know everyone says it, but FUCK they should let Obsidian do the writing, and they need to drop that ancient game engine. Microsoft has probably killed this company.

Fallout: New Vegas had some of their best story telling. The Outer Worlds had awesome lore too. I’m really surprised they didn’t bring them along.

jmcs, do gaming w CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months

*Devs working in Poland. Unions in Europe are per profession or economic sector not per company.

Kajo,

Unions don’t work the same way in all european countries.

In France, the union I belong to is organized by local company and public service, with a spawling system of dual cascading federations by geographic sector and economic sector.

And there are several competing national union organizations which overlap. I don’t know exactly how the other ones are organized

ek1t6ufv,

Austria has basically one big union (ÖGB), in which there are specific unions for different industries.

So, yeah. Every country has their own history and different approaches to unionization.

Blake,

This is the difference between a trade union and an industrial union. You can join an industrial union elsewhere in Europe or even in the US, such as the IWW.

ninjan, do games w Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient

Mass Effect and Dragon Age makes Cyberpunks story telling feel ancient as well in my very firm opinion.

GentlemanLoser,

You’re welcome to your opinion but those are some old games. Are you sure it’s better or is it nostalgia?

Shalakushka, (edited )
@Shalakushka@kbin.social avatar

I just replayed DAO last year. It holds up in a way Cyberpunk didn't manage on its first play through. The rest of the series is a trash fire though. Mass Effect is forgettable outside of the excellent world building of the first game.

drekly,

Yeah nobody knew how to tell stories 10 years ago, it’s only thanks to new storytelling technology that cyberpunk can tell such a boring story with barely any variations. (YOUR BACKGROUND WILL SHAPE YOUR STORY! lol)

Chozo,

Barely any variations? Did you even finish the game?

There's several significantly different paths you can wind up going down in the end. Like, incredibly different endings. And your actions do influence how those endings all play out, too.

LagrangePoint,

I hear this argument from people who played the background prologues and thought those were the major decisions in Cyberpunk. Mild spoiler alert to anyone who hasn’t played: they are essentially short tutorials, not major storylines.

GentlemanLoser,

I didn’t say anything like that. I’m asking you if you’re judging newer games against your nostalgic view of how good those games were. But you’re weirdly defensive about it so go jerk off to female Shepherd and come back with that post nut clarifty

drekly,

I am not the same person

nicman24,

mass effect 3 story was shit

dylanTheDeveloper,
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

We got like 3 colors

dylanTheDeveloper, do games w Cyberpunk's storytelling makes Starfield seem ancient
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

I think what starfield is missing is full body animations that go along with conversations, seeing NPCs pick stuff up or pace around while talking and communicating through body language

MossBear, do games w Microsoft expected to finally buy Activision Blizzard next week

Please bring back Overwatch 1 the very next day.

dylanTheDeveloper,
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

Halo Watch

I_Comment_On_EVERYTHING, do gaming w CD Projekt Red devs unionise after its third round of layoffs in three months

Good for them! My union did massively right by me so far and as far as I am aware there have been zero downsides.

Blake, (edited )

For workers, unions are 100% upside.

The extent to which you are arguing against overwhelming evidence cannot be understated. You are arguing against something less controversial than evolution.

We know that unions promote economic equality and build worker power, helping workers to win increases in pay, better benefits, and safer working conditions.

But that’s not all unions do. Unions also have powerful effects on workers’ lives outside of work.

High unionization levels are associated with positive outcomes across multiple indicators of economic, personal, and democratic well-being

Unions raise wages of unionized workers by roughly 20% and raise compensation, including both wages and benefits, by about 28%.

Unionized workers are more likely to receive paid leave, have health insurance and pension plans.

Unionized workers receive more generous health benefits than nonunionized workers.

Unionized workers receive 26% more vacation time and 14% more total paid leave

How unions help all workers

Workers get significant economic benefits from labor unions

Unionized workers earn 10.2% more than their non-union peers

Supporting workers’ right to organize is a key way to help boost wages and support quality jobs.

Unions provide major economic benefits for workers and families

gmtom, do games w Microsoft expected to finally buy Activision Blizzard next week

I know this isn’t a popular opinion but I’m actually pretty optimistic about this. Blizzard has been shit for a while and this will at least change things, even if it might be for the worse. Also give me their entire catalogue on gamepass pls.

ILikeBoobies,

Blizzard’s only game worth playing is HOTS and it’s a prime candidate for being trimmed out

But I don’t expect this to improve the rest of Blizzard

utopianrevolt,

Diablo 4’s foundation is pretty good in my opinion.

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