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mox, (edited ) do gaming w Publishers are absolutely terrified "preserved video games would be used for recreational purposes," so the US copyright office has struck down a major effort for game preservation

The argument against it is founded on copyright.

We fund copyright in order to enrich our culture, by incentivizing creative works.

Blocking creative works preservation strips away the cultural enrichment.

What’s left? People being compelled through taxes to fund profit police for copyright holders who aren’t holding up their end of the bargain.

Edit: Note also that publishers and their lobby groups are not artists. They are parasites. They are paid more than fairly for their role in getting creative works out there in the first place. I can’t think of any reason why they should have continued control after they’ve stopped publishing them.

Cirk2, do gaming w Starfield design lead says players are "disconnected" from how games are actually made: "Don't fool yourself into thinking you know why it is the way it is"
@Cirk2@programming.dev avatar

“But throughout that time, I actually had no inkling what game development was actually like. How hard the designers, programmers, artists, producers, and everyone else worked,” he says. “The struggle to bring a vision to life with constantly shifting resources. The stress.”

Then tell us about it. Make it heard where you get Stressed and where you rub up on the state of the art. List off what had to be finished in crunch time. What got pushed by Marketing or Management. Leaving everything up to a nebulous “you don’t know” makes any criticism easily dismissed and reduces leverage against systemic issues.

MJBrune,

Ideally they didn’t have any crunch time.

savvywolf, do gaming w Why did Baldur's Gate 3 blow up? Larian lead writer says it's thanks to "a big gamble" with CRPG standards
@savvywolf@pawb.social avatar

So I bought the game a while ago, but haven’t really been playing it (I need to get into the right headspace). However, I’ve come to realise something.

This is the first game I’ve bought for over £40 in a while where I haven’t felt scammed or that I’m complicit in something immoral. I feel like they “deserve” the money, which is a strange feeling considering the AAA industry right now.

The game doesn’t even include DRM, not even the “free” one you can enable through steam.

Schlock,

I know the feeling. It is the first time I have spent more than 30€ on a game and not regretted it.

Callie,
@Callie@pawb.social avatar

same here. I typically buy games on super deep sales a few years after the games comes out just so I don’t end up disappointed by the product, but this game feels properly polished. a few bugs here and there but none so far that I’ve encountered that are game-breaking

notgivingmynametoamachine, do games w As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG

Yar har fiddle dee, 80 bucks a game just ain’t for me, yar har fiddle and fat, I’ll just fucking sail the high seas numbnuts publishers, good job trading the 60 bucks I was willing to pay for the 0 you’ll be getting from me now.

And remember kids, if buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing.

catloaf, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version

Literally just let people host private servers. It worked fine for decades, and still does.

imrighthere,

The HalfLife model worked exceedingly well, until gaben fucked it all up.

huppakee,
@huppakee@lemm.ee avatar

But then they don’t get money, and they really like getting money.

uis,

Wait until some blizzard empoyee comes out and tells how it is expensive for publisher to not pay for hosting.

JakobFel, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version
@JakobFel@retrolemmy.com avatar

And this is exactly why Ubisoft is dying. Good riddance.

ms_lane,

Yep, couldn’t happen to a nicer publisher :)

Eat shit Guillemot.

BroBot9000, do games w Ken Levine says BioShock nearly went nowhere and was almost canceled: "We can't make those games because they don't sell"
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

We can’t make art because of capitalism. Fucking sad.

They don’t sell because no fucking company wants to market a product that they can’t milk every fucking cent from. They aren’t producing anything of value, only subscriptions, game passes and addictive gambling loot boxes.

Games as a service is a scam. Stop preordering the latest AAA wank and support indie devs.

More standalone experiences that are unique and creative instead of factory produced sludge.

morphballganon,

There are still good AAA games. The trick is to wait for reviews with gameplay videos and only buy the good ones.

BroBot9000,
@BroBot9000@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, buy them two years later once the bugs have been finally patched and the DRM is ripped out and gameplay doesn’t stutter anymore.

Or just 🏴‍☠️ AAA and give that money to indie devs that are actually trying to produce a unique and creative experience.

HawlSera,

Bro, most of the games I’ve been playing are ports of older titles, Indie Games, or straight up non-profit fan games (Dr. Robotnik’s Ring Racers is the kart game of the ever btw)

xavier666,

I only buy games which are 5 years or older at this point.

HawlSera,

Valid, gotta know which games won’t run on FOMO and if it’s going to be a case like Overwatch where it starts out as a good game and quickly devolves.

Mango,

Try space station 14!

TurboHarbinger, do games w Well played, Todd: You can see Skyrim, or at least its tallest mountain, from the edge of Oblivion Remastered

Just like you can see cyrodiil from skyrim.

But sure, let’s make an stupid article about it.

edgemaster72,
@edgemaster72@lemmy.world avatar

ad revenue isn’t gonna generate itself

SkyezOpen,

If we can generate content with Ai I’m sure we can generate views too. Just an endless ouroboros of Ai generating and viewing it’s own shit to milk ad money.

thermal_shock,

Krocodil. Not even once.

RememberTheApollo_, do gaming w Popular Female Skyrim Modder Has Abandoned Her Work Due to Daily Harrassment
@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world avatar

IMO the vast majority of people that use community mods are pretty thankful and just enjoy them despite any issues the mod has so long as overall it works well. They just play and keep their mouths shut.

There are a few that offer real and constructive criticism.

And the rest are the vocal trolls that just hate on everything. Unfortunately if they aren’t “fucking your mother last night” on whatever game chat you might be on they’re busy trashing on the “unplayable” game they’ve spent 500 hours playing in the last several months or on the forums berating the modders’ efforts. They’re just hateful people and hating on women in general is par for the course, if one dares participating in gaming they’re just another target for their shitty incel behavior.

obbeel,

I think the gaming community being made of socially awkward, isolated and unemployed people doesn’t help the scenario. But I think there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Smoogs,

If you’re assumed to be a male, the trolls attack you if you don’t carry them. Fine, move on.

If they find out you’re female, they attack you just for existing. You can move on but It is relentless.

There is a difference in gaming experience when it comes to trolls.

RememberTheApollo_,
@RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world avatar

I wasn’t debating that at all.

Smoogs,

Maybe not in your opinion but using an IMO for reductivism/dousing down a topic isn’t exactly an empathetic ally move.

SteefLem, do games w EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea"
@SteefLem@lemmy.world avatar

Is this a single player shooter? I thought it was multi player? And theres nothing wrong with single player shooters “in todays market” look at jedi fallen order great game and singlr player. But a shit game is a shit game single or multi.

Hyperreality,

It's worse than shit, it's mediocre.

At least people talk about shit games, which means some people buy a copy just because they're curious.

Mediocre stuff? No one's interested.

maxenmajs, do gaming w GTA 6 and Alan Wake parent companies are locked in a trademark dispute over the letter ‘R’
@maxenmajs@lemmy.world avatar

Bullshit lawsuit. The two R logos are quite distinctive. Rockstar has their iconic star and Remedy’s R is whatever it is.

otter,
Shelbyeileen,
@Shelbyeileen@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you for this. It’s a pretty shit article when they don’t show the comparison.

Chailles, do games w More than Skyrim or Fallout, Todd Howard says Starfield was "intentionally made to be played for a long time" and Bethesda's looking 5+ years ahead
@Chailles@lemmy.world avatar

We can just wait for the mod that recreates Skyrim in Starfield.

Dr_Cog,
@Dr_Cog@mander.xyz avatar

Land on a planet, you step off the ship, and you suddenly get captured. Hard cut to black.

Slow fade in… “you’re finally awake”

Chailles,
@Chailles@lemmy.world avatar

“Walked right into that UC ambush, same as us and that thief over there.”

“That’s Solomon Freestar! The true High King of Skyrim!”

And the dragons are just space ships and the souls you absorb are just… uh… radiation I guess from damaging the reactor. Or the magic space civilization from Starfield originated from here, so that’s why everyone has magic.

I’m not backing down from the space ship dragons though, that part is just brilliant.

sorrybookbroke,

“Spaceships are dragons” Buddy we all know you’re just trying to make an excuse for your vore mod.

“No, no, you need a warm and soft fleshy interior which you have to enter through the mouth, how else would you have dragon spaceships”

We all know how this goes

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

Why do I have to enter through the mouth? What if I want to take the backdoor and be less conspicuous?

Naz,

God I love Lemmy lmfao

Chailles,
@Chailles@lemmy.world avatar

It’s just a coincidence the airlock happen to be teeth shaped. A teeth pattern ensures none of the air escapes.

sarsaparilyptus, do gaming w THOSE GAMES is a pitch-perfect parody of "those games"

This is not the Katamari Damacy people, it’s the people who ported Katamari Damacy Reroll.

SCmSTR, do games w "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"

I’m sorry, but I still can’t help but laugh about the anti-woke Asterion flat-butt mod, and now in my head I just see all anti-woke gamers as jealous flat-butters.

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

They hate us cause they anus

SplashJackson,

E pluribus anus

SCmSTR,

Woah… Is that a… A Triple entendre?

Aint us (the original idiom)

They’re anuses/assholes/jerks (the pun)

No cheeks, just anus (literal)

Gradually_Adjusting,
@Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world avatar

The complexity was initially sensed, though I did not encompass it at the time of writing

dumbass, do games w Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version
@dumbass@leminal.space avatar

Hey Ubisoft, you can’t complain when I pirate your stupid games, because there’s nothing to own apparently.

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