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Carighan, do gaming w Microsoft quarterly gaming revenue up 49% following Activision purchase
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

That’s news? If I spend that many billions of more people to fire, I damn well expect that my monthly revenue goes up. They’ve got to have some dedicated whales paying for lootboxes, after all.

Katana314, do games w Dark and Darker dev says Nexon's "trade secret and copyright" lawsuit against it has been dismissed

It honestly feels like a very strange world where Palworld isn’t investigated by Pokemon for infringement, but DnD is investigated by Nexon. Granted, I don’t think either claim has validity.

chaorace,
@chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

It’s a pretty different situation under closer examination. The DnD developers are ex-Nexon employees and they (allegedly) pitched the idea internally before deciding to leave and take the idea with them.

Nexon thought that they had a legal leg to stand on because of how IP laws work (i.e.: employee ideas on company time are company IP). Perhaps more importantly; they probably felt a need to retaliate in order to send a message to other employees who might want to try something similar.

Palworld, on the other hand, is made by a team with no ties whatsoever to GameFreak. If Pokemon were a younger franchise they might possibly have a patent case of some kind, but even the 3D games go back almost 24 years now.

Halosheep,

It’s my understanding that they were in fact working on a very similar game at Nexon that was canceled and will never be released. There’s even leaked footage of the game out there.

drislands,

But Palworld is being investigated.

Katana314,

The announcement they made seemed more like a statement of awareness than any foreboding of litigation. They already filed a takedown more specifically for the mod that changes to Pokemon models.

CalicoJack,

And knowing how hawkish their lawyers are, they’ve probably had their eyes on Palworld since it was announced anyway. If there was anything actionable, they would have jumped on it already.

Draedron,

Palworld has no former employees of gamefreak and is a completely different game than Pokemon and a completely different genre. Some of the monsters look kind of similiar to pokemon but they arent copies.

Sheeple,
@Sheeple@lemmy.world avatar

Honestly, all Palworld has to do is change a few models and they’d be out of the hot water. I do have to say though the few models that are noteworthy are HIGHLY problematic to a point of “X pokemon but color swapped”

PrettyLights,

And Pokémon did it to Dragon Quest.

There was an image of a Pokémon mesh or framework being very similar to a Pal’s, but the author didn’t mention they manipulated the size and perspective to make them look closer but other users noticed.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/56e8e55a-0777-4fbe-911b-31656d8864ca.png

PrettyLights,

The DnD claim has a lot of validity, as a fan of DnD. Have you looked into it much?

The DnD devs are accused of working on Nexons game, stealing source code, leaving nexon, and buying the same assets Nexon used to rapidly build DnD from p3’s ashes. The main leader who quit nexon directly poached from the p3 team to build the clone game as well.

I’m no Korean law expert, but there’s something worth looking into there.

Palworld just has a similar art style, and the idea of catching monsters in balls. There’s a lot more mechanics to palworld than Pokémon has, whereas DnD was actually P3 but made by a new team.

Phegan,

The palworld devs never worked on Pokemon. The dark and darker devs were, allegedly, employees of Nexon working on a similar game. It’s completely different

FrickAndMortar, do games w Stardew Valley creator confirms he's made "a ton of progress" on update 1.6

That’s pretty great. ConcernedApe is a prince!

Aurenkin, do gaming w Starfield's new PC patch delivers the game we should have had at launch

Oh wow, they got rid of the loading screens?

Cosmicomical, do games w GTA 6 has patented a new locomotion system to make "highly dynamic and realistic animations"

Did they just patent procedural animation?

simple, do games w Lords of the Fallen reaches 1m sold in 10 days

The devs have honestly done a great job following up with updates and hotfixes. They say the next patch will address the enemy density which is one of the biggest issues. They’ll reduce enemies overall and will move the current enemy placement to NG+.

amenotef,
@amenotef@lemmy.world avatar

I read this post (without knowing the game yet but having it on a wishlist to get in a few months) and can’t stop thinking how lucky we were with the quality of Dark Souls, Elden Ring, BB and Sekiro.

Wumbologist,

It really does look like they’re putting in the work and I’m excited to check it out. I’m just waiting to hear that the performance has been ironed out to pick it up.

people_are_cute, do gaming w Unity CEO John Riccitiello 'retiring' from company weeks after pricing controversy
@people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Too late, Unity ain’t getting that lost trust back up anytime soon.

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’

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

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

Will it then be MicrosoftActivisionBlizzatd?

520,

Nah, it's an acquisition, not a merger

shasta,

So they’ll just call it Microsoft. Got it.

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.

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

I really do hope they get rid of Bobby.

Mechaguana, do gaming w Blizzard veteran Chris Metzen is Warcraft's new executive creative director
@Mechaguana@programming.dev avatar

Man I have no idea what will happen now. Will he diminish the amount of dicks in our salad or dress it up better? His pay must be insane to be putting up with the current state of blizzard.

JoMomma, do games w Why does everyone swear so much in The Witcher 3?

Why the fuck not?

Mambert, do gaming w Payday 3 players endure second consecutive day of server issues, preventing them from playing

I started getting into games this morning. It’s fun. I don’t like the online-only part of the game, but they support Linux straight from release, and I will always support that.

blindbunny,

This is an important take. I didn’t even know it was Linux native. I believe all of the payday games are. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

Mambert,

IIRC payday 2 lost it’s native Linux build, however, I never played it, just used proton.

AndrasKrigare,

Surprisingly, I have some games where proton actually runs better than native. Proton’s gotten really good at this point.

Mambert,

Same! I have some games launch natively end up being super zoomed into one corner, can’t navigate around or anything. I have no idea what the fix is, but switching to proton works.

arefx,

I played a bit of payday 2 on my deck and it ran great, I’m not sure if it was using proton or what but I had no issues. I just wish the anti cheat companies would develop their stuff to work on Linux

Callie,
@Callie@pawb.social avatar

that’s pretty great that a big release like this supports Linux

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