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sadreality, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 developer says pull your PS5 offline to fix sudden crash issue

You pay for PSN to be able to play this thing online... PSN does not work.

What are people paying for?

Also, release the physical copy assholes... You did it in Japan, why is US consumer getting treated like second class gamer?

Blizzard,

What do you need the physical copy for? You will have to download patches anyway.

sadreality,

There are millions of reasons, such as people in rural areas with bad internet can't download large game, none of which matter since I am paying customer lol

I guess if I am alone then fine but I am pretty sure many others wants physical copies of games.

Blizzard,

Oh, ok. I thought you were preparing some kind of internet down / zombie apocalypse scenario. But patches can be big too (I think? Haven’t even paid attention to that for some time).

UrPartnerInCrime,
@UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works avatar

If someone I’d going to spend the money on a ps5, games, and whatnot, they can afford to buy a cheap external disc player sorry

sadreality,

Weird flex, boy, but ok

null,

How do I trade in my digital copy? Or loan it to a friend?

Blizzard,

Ok. I don’t do any of that.

PapaStevesy,

You’re not the only consumer and they don’t all behave like you. Welcome to society!

Blizzard,

I wrote “ok”, didn’t I?

NeuralDissimilarity,

“OK” may not be the concession that you appear to think it is. Perhaps you meant “oh, I see,” but clearly it is being interpreted as “okayyy, what-everrrrr.”

PapaStevesy,

Yeah, you wrote it, but did you mean it? Not from my interpretation.

Corkyskog,
@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works avatar

I’m okay with the PSN being down from time to time, nothing is perfect… but WHAT? you can play BG3 offline, but you cant buy it offline? now I am more pissed they won’t sell a disc.

UrPartnerInCrime,
@UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works avatar
Quacksalber,

Also, release the physical copy assholes… You did it in Japan, why is US consumer getting treated like second class gamer?

Japanese people by and large demand physical media. In the US, developers have figured that they don’t lose a meaningful amount of money by only providing digital downloads. The typical US customer doesn’t care enough.

SSUPII, do games w $70 Mortal Kombat 1 Switch version called "robbery" as graphical comparisons flood the internet

For the quality offered the cost was very steep, but its also true the Switch doing some major heavy lifting already.

elbarto777,

What does that mean, the Switch doing some major heavy lifting?

SSUPII,

The hardware the game is running is painfully terrible in 2023.

else,

While the OP meant it the way he answered you, the way I see it used most often colloquially is that when someone or something does the heavy lifting especially in gaming, they are providing the bulk of the work. Like doing the heavy lifting in a team game equates to carrying the team, or saying a character does the heavy lifting instead of the player, means the character is overpowered and carrying the player (or vice versa).

nimmo, do games w Ubisoft Montreal's mandatory return-to-office order reportedly leaves staff in "turmoil"
@nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk avatar

I find it quite interesting that Ubisoft Montreal chose the same day as my employer to enforce 2 days in the office every week.

I’ll accept that there is a 1 in 356.25 chance that any employer will pick a specific day to enforce a return to office, but it does seem interesting that there would be 2 employers in different countries picking the same day. Is there something special about that day that makes it a special day to change where and how people work? (I know that there were events on 2001 that took place on this day, but that doesn’t seem too likely a reason to pick that particular day to enact this change)

Dienervent,

It's a monday. So that's already more like 1 in 52. There's been like 5-20 news worthy "return to work" announcements in the past year, I'm guessing half othem have mandatory 2 days, the other half have mandatory 3 days.

Multiply that by the number of things that happen in your life where a coincidence of this level could happen and you should be seeing this kind of coincidence a many times each year.

nimmo,
@nimmo@lem.nimmog.uk avatar

Fair points well made. I thought the 11th was a Wednesday and I’ve been off on holiday for a week or so, so brain no worky so good just now.

I’ll l go back under my lurking rock again.

Oneobi,

Heh, the 2 days will become 3 and then 4.

These idiots are totally destroying work life balance but honestly, they do not care about our welfare or mental health. We are just human machines that they think they own.

What is completely laughable is how they have become advocates of the environment and reducing carbon. Yah, my unnecessary shitty commute is really not contributing! They turn a blind eye to that yo.

sugar_in_your_tea,

We recently went from 2 days to 3 days, and I chalked it up to our new CEO (old one replaced for unrelated reasons). Granted, many departments were full remote, in violation of company policy.

I’m hopeful that we can get back down to 2 days in office. However, if the industry goes for 3 days as standard, the might not be realistic.

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,
@Talaraine@kbin.social avatar

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,
@HeartyBeast@kbin.social avatar

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.

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

CEO runs his business like a business that makes him money. This and more at 10.

RightHandOfIkaros, do xbox w Peter Molyneux says he regrets over-promising his games

His most recent game, Legacy, is described as a blockchain business sim in which players buy non-existent plots of land with cryptocurrency.

So basically this person and their companies are currently entirely worthless. Got it.

Kolanaki, do games w BioWare lays off senior writing staff as part of its recent job cuts
!deleted6508 avatar

Neverwinter Nights Hordes of the Underdark and Shadows of Undrentide were peak Bioware titles, IMO. The absolute pinnacle of their writing.

Mandy, do gaming w Starfield install size revealed, available to preload now

can these subpar double triple a games stop not compressing and optimising their shit again, and not dumping all of their over compensating textures and files on us? no?..okay…

Skiptrace,

I think this is Compressed. Remember 4K Textures are a lot of data.

Mandy,

with how this game looks, i refuse to believe that that amounts to that many gb of data (u sure thats 4k?)

Megaman_EXE, do gaming w Xbox 360 digital store will close next July

Being able to still download old purchases is my biggest thing. I’m glad they aren’t removing that

SilverCode,

This is my biggest reason for not buying the latest gen consoles. They lean heavily towards digital downloads, and I want to be able to unpack the console in 20 years for nostalgia and play a game without worrying if the game store is still available to download it.

There are physical disc versions, but I get the feeling even there the games won’t work out of the box without and internet connection to the online server/store

BotCheese,

in my experience the “physical” copy of a game now, only gives access to installing a game. But I dont really use consoles so maybe I am misunderstanding how it works.

weirdo_from_space, do games w Overwatch 2 is now Steam's "worst game of all time"

Every week some other game seems to claim that title.

Exec, do gaming w Far Cry has a new IP director
@Exec@pawb.social avatar

I hope the Blood Dragon gets a proper sequel this time

vlad76,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

That would be awesome!

Hubi,

I kinda hope they go back to a more gritty and realistic theme like they had going on with FC2. I wouldn’t mind a Blood Dragon sequel though, I feel like there’s a lot of potential.

falsem, do gaming w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot

Yeah, blame your customers.

Simplifying is really different from what they did which is completely alter characters, unnecessarily kill off characters, introduce new plots that didn't exist, etc. The Lord of the Rings movies, and the recent Dune movie both did a lot of that but are considered fantastic adaptations. Even Game of Thrones was an excellent adaptation for the first ~5 seasons and had huge mass market appeal while still being complex.

This is just shitty writers making excuses.

isthingoneventhis,

man the dune movie was so interesting sounding and watching it was such a … idk… it was an experience. There was so much stuff that seemed so loosely strung together to the point of feeling almost baffling. I wouldn’t think LoTR or early GoT are comparable?

falsem,

:shrug: I liked it.

C4RP3_N0CT3M,

You might need to go back and watch it again. I had a completely different experience, and I found the plot rather cohesive. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen in my opinion.

GoodEye8,

I felt like Dune needed some prior knowledge of the books to really follow the plot. Not because the plot wasn’t cohesive, but because so much plot was condensed into a movie that was already 2 and half hours long. It’s not the fault of the movie, the book is just dense. But it does end up disorienting for the average viewer who can’t instantly adjust their understanding of the universe to fully follow the plot.

C4RP3_N0CT3M,

That's fair. I never read the books or even watched the original movie, but I do have fans in my circle that have given me a bit of an indirect knowledge of the Duniverse. Even still, the acting, the cinematography, the music, everything in this movie is just amazing to me.

Console_Modder, do games w The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer
@Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works avatar

That’s so fucking weird to drop a remaster or remake like that so suddenly with no advertising or announcement. Something about this still doesn’t feel right in my gut, so I guess I’ll believe it when (if) it does drop. I don’t even know if I am going to buy it if it’s real, I have more faith in the modders behind Skyblivion than I do in Bethesda to actually do right with their IPs

simple,

What’s weird is that they’re still keeping it a secret even though it’s been rumored for months. We know it’s coming, but they’re still acting like it’s going to be a surprise.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Video game marketing changed dramatically about 2 years ago. No one likes long marketing cycles anymore. There are too many opportunities for delays or “puddlegates”.

Stovetop,

Microsoft likes doing shadowdrops, apparently. Hi-Fi Rush being the most prominent, but they also shadowdropped the Ninja Gaiden 2 remake a few months ago.

TachyonTele,

Bethesda used to have a very short time between announcements and release. This game isn’t made by them, but they probably made the devs keep a tight lid on it.

Nima,
@Nima@leminal.space avatar

i think its a panic project that was fired up quickly because Starfield failed so miserably.

unless this was just a side project that a few devs were working on and it was latched on to as a product that could be focused on.

i suspect that while todd was failing to put out fires, a couple devs were like “should we tell them we’ve been messing around with Oblivion assets in our new engine?”

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

No, they contracted this game out to another developer, and it’s in Unreal. It’s been in the works for a long time. If they’re smart, it’s a testbed for getting future games off of their usual Creation engine.

Nima,
@Nima@leminal.space avatar

ooooooh! I’m very happy to have been corrected. it might actually be decent, then!

thank you much for the info. that’s interesting.

femtech,

343 is doing the same with halo.

bilb,
!deleted4216 avatar

I hope they made it impossible to mod. In my new but rapidly growing religion, “modding” (desacrating) games is a mortal sin. Elder Scrolls games have damned the souls of many hairy, soft-bodied men.

OneRedFox, do gaming w Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't
@OneRedFox@beehaw.org avatar

It’s also ok to wish that they run at a consistently smooth framerate. It’s one thing to look like crap and it’s another to both look like crap and run like it too. I’ve been playing Palworld on medium for the past couple of weeks and it was pretty jarring going from that to seeing the Legends Z-A footage.

Ghoelian, do games w Nintendo loses trademark fight against Super Mario supermarket

There was this coffee corner near us when we went on holiday to Greece, called the Super Mario Coffee Kiosk.

I’m still surprised Nintendo hasn’t tried to sue them yet, they even ripped off the logo and Mario himself.

maps.app.goo.gl/GDb1im57PSED5fmt5

driving_crooner,
@driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br avatar

This one in Colombia is even worst

maps.app.goo.gl/XxU2yaDEkh7M5jUD6

ayyy,

“Mario Bross” lmao

ipkpjersi,

Especially since they have a trademark for Super Mario when it comes to coffee lol

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