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frauddogg, do gaming w Gearbox confirms layoffs following sale by Embracer
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Embrace

Extend

<-- Gearbox is somewhere near the peak of here.

Extinguish

StalinIsMaiWaifu,
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I think you forgot exploit

Postmortal_Pop, do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

Most recent update took away buddy features on my and my son’s phones. Between that, the lack of content, and no real reason to progress, I think I’ll be giving it up.

darkghosthunter, do gaming w Embracer CEO says it's "way too early" for the company to "start talking about" acquiring new studios

And they better sty that way for a while. More acquisitions will bring debt that will probably be gambled on, instead of trying to stabilize their portfolio.

The only ones who won with Embracer buying spree were studio owners and execs with their bonuses.

fckreddit, do gaming w Embracer CEO says it's "way too early" for the company to "start talking about" acquiring new studios

Embracer thinks that by buying studios, it could somehow magically make money. Embracer has no sense of the gaming market or who to sell what games? It has no sense about what projects to greenlight or not. It had already failed once, and it will fail again, most probably.

Dark_Arc, do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade
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I liked it when it was first a thing and you’d see huge crowds of people in their early twenties out in parks and things … but I don’t think I ever really liked the game itself.

MentalEdge, do gaming w Embracer CEO says it's "way too early" for the company to "start talking about" acquiring new studios
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No shit.

It was way too early back when you did go on a studio buying spree, too, so maybe just stick to funding the studios you do have.

actionjbone, do gaming w Embracer CEO says it's "way too early" for the company to "start talking about" acquiring new studios

It’s not way too early to break out the guillotine for use on the Embracer CEO.

Varyag, do gaming w Embracer CEO says it's "way too early" for the company to "start talking about" acquiring new studios
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FUCKING STOP. Pieces of shit gambled with several studios to get themselves bought and it blew in their faces ruining several of said studios losing many many people their jobs.

Draegur, do games w Embracer CEO says it's "way too early" for the company to "start talking about" acquiring new studios
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i wish the gaming community could form a SPAC and buy Deus Ex collectively, with the sole mission to immediately release it into the public domain.

Then EVERYBODY can create Deus Ex games.

ampersandrew,
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In the meantime, we can hope that Core Decay (formerly also an Embracer game, before the Saber split) turns out okay.

FlyingSquid, do games w CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games"
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I’m not a huge gamer anymore, at least not of newer games… aren’t microtransactions a bigger problem in multiplayer games because it gives player willing to spend money an unfair advantage over skilled players?

acosmichippo,
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not necessarily, they can be cosmetic only.

FlyingSquid,
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Sure, not necessarily… but in practice? Again, this is not something I have personal experience, but based on what I’ve read about it, it generally is about giving someone an advantage, isn’t it?

SnugZebras,

Some of the older COD games had guns you could only get with real money, and they were overpowered. Nowadays it seems even free to play games have mostly cosmetic micro transactions.

webghost0101, do games w CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games"

Is this a “its ok of ifs multiplayer” in disguise?

TheLowestStone,
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What people don’t say is often more important than what they do. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the The Witcher 4 is an always online multiplayer game with mtx.

TankovayaDiviziya, do games w CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games"

Give it twenty years and CDPR will also succumb. Ubisoft, EA and Activision were kings until they got greedy. All companies eventually enshittify because it is all about money at the end of the day in this capitalist culture we live in.

rimjob_rainer, do games w CD Projekt CFO does "not see a place for microtransactions in single-player games"

Imo they shouldn’t do Witcher 4, you should stop when it’s best. They won’t be able to meet the expectations and only disappoint when people compare it to W3.

acosmichippo,
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so what if it isn’t as good as w3? it doesn’t ruin w3.

retrieval4558, do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade

I played when it first came out, then again around 2018. Felt like a huge waste of potential to me. Unless there’s some legal reason, I absolutely cannot comprehend why a normal pokemon battling system wasn’t included.

Unless doing something besides just reskinning their other game (Ingress?) was too much work.

kadu,
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I’m not surprised that something carrying the Pokémon brand is somehow both extremely lucrative but also unwilling to dedicate the minimal effort necessary to add obvious features

the_artic_one,

I absolutely cannot comprehend why a normal pokemon battling system wasn’t included.

Because it doesn’t fit the design of the game.

Pokemon Go is meant to be played while walking around outside. This means you can’t have a lot of text because glare from the sun will make it too hard to read. The real battle system also requires more congnitive load than most people can handle while walking and takes too long which will lead to people stopping for extended periods of time at which point you’re no longer playing a pedometer game.

deathmetal27, do gaming w Sega layoffs hit 240 staff, including at Total War studio Creative Assembly

Creating Hyenas in a market already full of such shooters was the dumbest decision.

Also IIRC, Relic actually found an independent investor and thus did a management buyout from Sega rather than being sold outright.

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