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dept, do games w EA confirms The Sims 5 will be free-to-play and co-exist alongside The Sims 4

isn’t the Sims 4 also free to play? They’ll just lock more content behind dlcs.

Anticorp, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

“Oh no! Not the eyebrow raise! We’ll never do it again! We promise!”

HolyDuckTurtle, do games w Starfield getting DLSS support, FOV slider, HDR calibration, and more
@HolyDuckTurtle@kbin.social avatar

Very weird how those were absent from release, but I'm glad they're getting added. Good to see I'm not the only one who found the lack of an "eat" alt-option annoying as well!

dudewitbow,

HDR was the only option I was suprised to not see at launch. Its a space game, litterally one of HDRs biggest use cases.

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

Yeah the base colour tones are absolutely nuts. I spent a lot of time on launch just trying to figure out if my HDR display was bugging out or something.

dudewitbow, (edited )

I had installed a seperate lut and used reshade injectes HSR effect to get a pseudo HDR experience.

I absolutely hated the fact that even on the intro screen on my Oled, the space background was not black. I was like what is this madness.

Neato, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows
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Isn't this insider trading? If I owned a company and sold all my stock and then tanked my company with stupid news, that'd be illegal.

Though I'm surprised they sold it before the news. This kind of fund-raising tactics piss off customers but investors usually love it, the short-sighted creatures they are.

Hegar,

It's obviously insider trader but laws are for the poors.

Ottomateeverything,

The guy who owns the company knows what it means for the long term stock price: a plummet. He knows that’ll come eventually if these changes go through.

Investors may react positively to the news, but when they see the damage it actually does, they’ll pull out too.

The guy running the company has shares that are valued way higher than when he earned them, he is sitting so high right now it’s far worth selling here instead of gambling on the response to the news. It’s just simple “quit while you’re ahead”.

Whirlybird,

No it’s not. If he unloaded a huge bunch out of nowhere just before the announcement then sure, it probably is, but that’s not what happened - he has been consistently selling stock the whole year, buying none.

What likely happens is he is paid partly, or was at some stage, in stock. To convert it to cash you need to sell it.

circuitfarmer,
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“Illegal” doesn’t mean much anymore if you’re rich. No one seems to be enforcing anything cuz we can’t get in the way of that trickle-down.

zib, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows
@zib@kbin.social avatar

As much as I can't stand John Riccitiello, anyone with RSUs will have vested stocks sold on a fixed schedule to cover taxes. They don't get to choose when or how much is sold as long as they have their RSUs configured as sell to cover. The executives are no different in this regard, except they have a great deal more stocks than the average employee. However, this doesn't absolve them of the awful new pricing structure. That shit should have been walked back before it ever left the planning stages.

Talaraine,
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So nobody would ever time such an announcement after such a divestiture.

zib,
@zib@kbin.social avatar

Don't get me wrong, the timing was fucking abysmal. They really should have thought about that ahead of time, but these executives rarely think about anything other than how to line their own pockets.

HeartyBeast,
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So your saying they didn’t time the share sales with respect to the announcement- they timed the announcement with respect to the fixed share sales date.

zib,
@zib@kbin.social avatar

I'm saying they didn't think about it at all because it's easier to blame users for misunderstanding than take responsibility for anything themselves.

Whirlybird,

If you’re selling shares monthly it doesn’t matter when the announcement is, you’re going to have people questioning your sell anyway. They would not have thought about the timing in relation to automated share sells at all because it’s a non issue.

Sanctus, do games w Square Enix games misfire due to being "single producer's fiefdom", report suggests
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Everything will be damaged as “Line Go Up” becomes every industry’s mantra. Nothing will get better, expect worse and worse product quality on average.

eestileib,

One exception is new product categories. They need to overcome the barriers to entry.

Once any product has an established user base, that’s when it will inevitably become shit.

FarFarAway, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

First thought: If this was done on purpose, don’t these people know how many bigwigs get caught. Like, all the time. Even martha stewart got caught. Jeeze.

Why would they think they would special? One would think they would give it up at this point.

Second thoughts: if CEOs, etc, keep this up, it makes me wonder how many people get away with it all the time, for them to take a chance like that.

Third thought: they really think the consequences for insider trading are less problematic to them than facing jail, and paying a fine up to, what, 3 times the amount they made? That makes no sense. Back to the second thought, I guess.

Ajen,

They keep doing it because they know they’ll probably get away with it, and if they get caught they’ll get a slap on the wrist. Martha Stewart went to jail for perjury, not insider trading. If she hadn’t lied she probably would have just paid a fine instead of going to jail.

Crashumbc,

Reality, is this happens SO OFTEN it is like “speeding” is to normal people… all the CEOs do it. After awhile, they do it worse, eventually you have few doing 100+ mph or someone gets killed. Then the government steps in…

MentalEdge, (edited ) do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows
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That’s fucking funny. Lots of faith in their own decisions, huh?

LEDZeppelin, (edited ) do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

SEC: we don’t see nothing, we don’t hear nothing, we don’t do nothing.

Arcane_Trixster,

It’s been a day since the announcement, and a few hours since people noticed the stock dump. What the fuck do you want them to do? Fully research the case, send out subpoenas, call hearings, listen to testimony and level fines all in less than 24 hours?

Sanctus, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows
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record scratch I-I-I-Insider trading!

vlad76, (edited )
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

We’re bored of this business. Let’s just suck it dry, let it whither away, and take our money elsewhere.

Customers…? Who?

Sanctus,
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Curse spreaders, rich and bored.

geosoco, do games w Starfield getting DLSS support, FOV slider, HDR calibration, and more

If folks didn't see, Nvidia released a driver update in the last day or two as well that improved performance on their cards.

BallShapedMan,
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It’s better on my 4090. Though I do have the DLSS patch too.

Hyzerflip, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

Curious to see if he actually buys any of it back, then that’s an issue. Pump stock and sell high, tank it to buy low.

Norgur, do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows

Riccitiello made EA the money guzzling shithole it is today. Who thought he might change when he was given the reigns of unity?

Sanctus,
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Remember when he wanted to charge players per digital bullet fired in FPS games?

IWantToFuckSpez, (edited )

Nobody at Unity expected him to change. It was the entire point that this shit heel got to helm the company. The three founders are billionaires now, that’s why. Two years ago one of the founders, Joachim Ante, sold $40million in stock. They dgaf anymore they just keep selling.

Jaysyn, (edited ) do games w Unity bosses sold stock days before development fees announcement, raising eyebrows
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

The irony of a bunch software devs about to sue the shit out of Unity to get EULAs invalidated.

Hazzard, do games w Starfield getting DLSS support, FOV slider, HDR calibration, and more

Oh, good! I honestly kinda expected Bethesda to do nothing about the missing PC options, especially DLSS. The platform clearly hasn’t been their priority.

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