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MacedWindow, do games w Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade
@MacedWindow@lemmy.world avatar

I had fun with Go when it launched, but haven’t played in years. What I love about it though is how many"non- traditional" gamers play it. I’ve had more than one 50+ coworker I’ve known tell me they play it often, and do no other gaming besides it. Two of my sisters also play, and they don’t play any other games. I think that’s awesome.

inclementimmigrant, do games w Activision Blizzard boss Bobby Kotick departs in just a few days

And while it’s a good thing that this asshat is gone, I’m sure he’ll be running another company soon enough and spreading his cancer and bad practices elsewhere very soon as a CEO at some other company.

Plus you know that he’s not the only cause of this at the company and his underlings that are just as cancerous with their bullshit are still there.

Thalestr, do gaming w Meta Quest 3 review impressions - one of VR gaming's best options
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I cannot trust any publication that “reviews” a product like this without taking at least a little time to go over the legitimately harmful business practices against the customer.

JasSmith, do games w Unity reveals plans to charge per game install, drawing criticism from development community

Are they trying to lose to Unreal?

vrojak,

At this point you've got to wonder if they're trying to lose to Gamebryo.

Kolanaki, (edited )
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GameBryo Execs: “Finally, we can deal with someone besides Todd Howard!”

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

The real threat is Godot. It’s getting better and better. Why pay for a commercial game engine, when you can use one that comes with a literally no strings attached FOSS license? And you have full access to the source code, so you can fiddle with any line of code, if need be.

eldritch_lich, do games w Unity reveals plans to charge per game install, drawing criticism from development community

I looked through the announcement post and all I can say is that this is beyond absurd. Can they even legally apply these changes retroactively? All these relatively large indie games used Unity. They can’t exactly tear everything down and use another engine. They didn’t even accept such terms at the time, so how can they suddenly be expected to pay for every download they get?

And I was so excited to finally start learning Unity too… damn. I probably should have seen something like this coming way back when they announced their IPO. I was going to learn Unreal at some point as well but I guess I’ll just uninstall Unity and skip right to UE5.

There’s definitely going to be huge action taken from every studio that used Unity in their games. I have a hard time believing that they’ll get away with the retroactive part at least.

Donjuanme,

It isn’t going into effect until January 2024, and it isn’t retroactive. And I don’t think you need to worry too much about breaking 200k paid installs if you haven’t even learned the language yet, but I admire your drive if you do.

hedgehog,

It isn’t retroactive in the sense that it applies to installs before that date, but rather in the sense that it applies to games made with Unity before the announcement.

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

UE5 is great. Honestly, it would have been the better choice even before Unity decided to curb-stomp their entire community and customer base.

But then, what did we expect after Unity merged with a company known for malware. Predatory practices are their whole business model.

green_witch, do gaming w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot
@green_witch@beehaw.org avatar

Yeah, right.

I don’t think any American was like “wow I want a shittier version of the Witcher to watch, that’d be sooo great!”

masterspace,

American test audiences literally said that for I Am Legend which combined with studios unopinionated cowardice caused them to ruin the ending, amongst many, many, many other times that test audiences have given bad artistic feedback.

His anger should probably be focused at the showrunner / studio, but I’m guessing he’s not risking burning those bridges so is instead blaming the only other party in the decision making process, the test audiences.

green_witch,
@green_witch@beehaw.org avatar

Judging by your other claim in this thread that Americans have a 20% illiteracy rate, as an American here’s a 20% effort response:

Hurpdurp what’s i am legend gotta do with witchermans durrr

masterspace,

You do have a 20% illiteracy rate, and the response is that American test audiences have ruined very obviously good plots with their stupidity many times before.

green_witch,
@green_witch@beehaw.org avatar

Help, my literacy rate goes down every time I read your comments. Now, I can only communicate this way:

❔️🤔📖

LennethAegis, do gaming w Dark Souls reportedly being turned into Netflix anime
@LennethAegis@kbin.social avatar

Dark Souls is kind of a lonely game, I wonder if they'll recruit some ally npc characters like the Solaire, Siegmeyer and that funny little guy named Patches. Or will they go the Samurai Jack style and revel in the loneliness of the journey.

Holodeck_Moriarty,

Maybe it’ll take place back in the day of Gwen, Artorias, and all the knights.

uninvitedguest, do games w Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free
@uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca avatar

Still not enough a reason to connect my TV to the internet.

caut_R,

My LG OLED autoupdated through the internet last year and now VRR is broken (flickers no matter what or how stable the FPS is), only way to „fix“ it is to set the refresh rate to whatever my FPS is gonna be (most of the time) and then lock my FPS to that and hope it doesn’t dip below that too much (or it‘ll flicker). Support is as helpful as you might imagine.

So yeah, don‘t connect your TV to the internet or you‘re at the mercy of the manufacturer. Lesson learned.

Toribor,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

I setup rules on my router to block outgoing traffic from my LG OLED but I still have it on the network so I can use wake-on-LAN.

SidewaysHighways,

care to share those rules?

Toribor, (edited )
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

This would vary based on what router you use, but this is the way I handled it on my Ubiquity EdgeRouter.


  • I added a DHCP reservation for my TV so it’s IP address on my local network doesn’t change.
  • I added a new firewall policy (with the highest priority) that accepts all traffic by default between my internal LAN network and the WAN interface of my router.
  • Then I added a rule to that policy to drop traffic from the IP address I assigned to my TV.

https://corndog.social/pictrs/image/1a2955a0-9c54-46a9-8c26-9eb0422b421c.png

Now the TV can no longer phone home to send obnoxious notifications or issue surprise firmware updates but I can still turn on the TV and adjust the volume over the local network. I use Home Assistant for this, but I think the LG remote android app would still work as well.

SidewaysHighways,

thank you so much! pumped to get rid of those pesky notifications but the home assistant Notifications are awesome

overload, do games w Braid: Anniversary Edition "sold like dog s***", says creator Jonathan Blow

I was going to buy braid, but the original was delisted and the anniversary edition is 10x the price on sale. Will have to wait a few years for it to fall into 80% territory again.

Angry_Autist,

Or you can just pirate it and choose not to support an anti-vaxxer

overload,

I didn’t know that about the creator. I’m fairly anti piracy when it comes to indie games, even if I don’t agree with the devs views. I still hope he gets it and has a bad time with COVID if that is the case though.

breadsmasher, do games w Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

DOTASHOOTER

Zerfallen,

shoota

Axiochus,

Shota

ChippiChappa,

Still a better than LoLi

aeronmelon,

Dooter.

ABCDE, do games w Steam is now banned in Vietnam

This was about a week ago, since then it was unblocked, then reblocked. Note, this is only the store itself (and the store within Steam), you can still play your existing games, so it seems they have blocked the store front to hamstring or reduce sales so that Valve will then pay whatever tax amount is going to be asked for.

illi, do gaming w Embracer announces plan to split into three companies, including "Middle-earth Enterprises and Friends"

Love how the picture is from when Golum was telling Smeagol he doesn’t have any friends

garretble, do games w PlayStation won't launch any "major" games in existing franchises this year
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

On a personal level, I’m actually kind of fine with this.

So far this year we have already had some very long games launched that I’m interested in, and I feel like they could keep me busy for basically most of the year. I’m also finally playing Cyberpunk (and it’s now fun and only mildly buggy!).

But Persona 3, Like a Dragon, and soon FF7 are big, fat games that could take months to finish. And I haven’t even had a chance to play Baldur’s Gate yet.

So, for me, I’m not hurting for content at all. But I know that’s just me.

aniki,

Is the FF7 re-telling even finished? Are they going to finish it? I am so lost on what chapters are what and when and why.

garretble,
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

The second game of the FF7 remake series comes out in a couple of weeks.

My understanding is that there will be three games.

FunkyMonk,

There is a prequil 'Crisis Core' and I expect more spinoffs again but they keep saying it will be 3 core games for the 'retelling'/remake project.

garretble,
@garretble@lemmy.world avatar

Oh yeah, I forgot about Crisis Core.

aniki,

Are they going to make more Crisis Core games? The PSP game got remade, right? I’ve been playing the pixel remasters of FF1-6 and was thinking about getting CC.

JowlesMcGee,
@JowlesMcGee@kbin.social avatar

Correct, the PSP game got a remake that's been out for a bit.

Grass,

The first one gave me the impression of a sort of sequel that requires alternate timeline and some characters seemed to be at least somewhat aware of it, but I could also just be overanalyzing incorrectly. Second part soon ish on PS so I expect part 3 on PC by the time I’m 90 if I’m still alive then.

FunkyMonk,

yeah there is a big 'fate' sort of narrative about other possible events and shifting death flags

grumpo_potamus, do games w Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch

Is this really a problem for people - not knowing about new game releases? Especially for things you may already be interested in watching outside of a video game? If someone is a fan of sports, racing, etc. it seems they can find new releases in those genres pretty easily already.

The article mentions creating a custom game or in-game items based on the content… Wow, great - more in-game hats. And I bet that generated game is going to be top quality.

echo64,

Yes, or rather its a problem for publishers trying to get their product noticed. Marketing in the past decade has fast become the most expensive part of making things, just getting people to know your thing exists, yeah its hard.

It’s not a problem for people, people don’t care. Companies do.

On the other side of things, it’s why we have so many sequels and franchises now, it’s much easier to market franchises. No one can make a Call of Duty killer, primarily because even if you make a game people would love, it’s hard to get people to even know.

MrMcGasion,

It’s also arguably a bigger problem for the bad publishers like Activision, who have been trashing their own reputations for so long that even if they buy a huge “World Premiere” ad spot at the Game Awards, once I see it’s an Activision game, my brain just automatically turns off any interest I might have had in a game, because I know that even if the trailer makes it look interesting, it will ultimately probably be a disappointment due to greedy management. There are plenty of good indie games to play, and if and when Activision does publish a good game, I’m much more likely to believe word of mouth of the people I trust, than the recommendations of publishers, who are generally just out to push a $90 deluxe edition preorder of whatever is coming out next week.

makyo,

And even if they did know about it they wouldn’t have room next to CoD on their harddrive

HurlingDurling, do gaming w Unity CEO John Riccitiello 'retiring' from company weeks after pricing controversy

Hope his golden parachute doesn’t open

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