hmmm, should i support the studio capitulating to a fascist regime? Or should I support the studio being bought by murderous religious fundamentalists?
so Saudi Arabia bought fifa, basically, with a free add on of some other sports games and a ton of dead ip that they hold.
All the sports games are basically gacha games now anyway with just yearly roster updates. And yet they get tons of whales dropping 10k+. Such a scam. Figures the saudi royals and kushner would be all about that unethical bullshit
China isn’t Saudi Arabia, and Trump collective media control efforts hasn’t reached gaming yet. Tiktok was China ownership reduction from 40-20 percent, while China still retains algorithm control. This one is a buy.
It’s an opposite movement of ownership between countries, yes, but every different overall and in the details.
Was EA even doing anything with any of the actually good IPs they had? I haven’t heard of anything particularly interesting coming from them in a while now (ie. decades).
I mean, they published Split Fiction and Tales of Kenzera this year and their Star Wars games were more than decent (let's hear it for the atrociously underrated X-Wing revival they made with Squadrons). They also published the C&C Remaster that same year, which I feel doesn't get enough credit despite getting a lot of credit. Probably one of the best examples of one of those in recent memory.
Let's not be disingenuous, none of that is their bread and butter, but it's not like they were entirely dormant.
It's been EA since a different millenium. I think it's time to get over it.
FWIW, the remake itself was made by an external studio including members of the original team and they apparently collaborated closely with some sort of consulting group of modders and preservation-focused community people.
Well, yeah, but those principles don't typically relate to videogame companies nor to purchase habits regarding 30 year old videogames.
Voting with your wallet is ultracapitalist, self-serving non-activism people deploy performatively to make themselves feel better about stuff they don't care that much about, not "principles". No offense.
Honestly that’s a valid assumption, but I still have some faint of naivity that they won’t whilst the code is closed source and the devs don’t plan to include donation pages
Shit sorry should have clarified, i meant that ubisoft would never release the source code. I would not be surprised if pierre cochon, world famous ubisoft dev #3352 got shot at gunpoint for even suggesting that
Same, picked it up on a whim a few months before the shutdown, couldn’t put it down. They got the tone perfectly, and the map is really good, and their progression system actually requires you to play the game. It felt magical, like a NFS World sequel of my dreams, the only downside was trying to set up steering properly.
Then i tried the crew 2, and haven’t tried it since, just doesn’t feel as good.
There’s no way it’s VR. They already have the Index name for the VR line. It’d be called the Index 2 without a doubt. Maybe AR glasses, but frame does not imply glasses. Sure, glasses have a frame, but so do so many other things. Have you ever heard of a main frame? Those aren’t a type of glasses.
They’ve been working on standalone VR for a while now, like the Quest, so it wouldn’t have to be called Index 2, since it’s not just an improved version of what they made before. A colloquial term for glasses is “frames”.
The vast majority of people today have no idea whata mainframe is or think it is an old and outdated concept (or where Dot and Enzo live). Similarly, the Index branding is pretty much aligned with “VR is insanely expensive” so it wouldn’t make sense to reuse that.
What we do know is that Valve have a console form factor device in development and a new VR device in development. There are arguments for Frame being either of those. My hopium being that it is the unified ecosystem where, through the power of streaming (I am all for Steam Link either using moonlight or making better moonlight), you can have your VR/TV/Handheld gaming get supercharged by your desktop or whatever but, time will tell.
Although, truth be told, I mostly just want a Steam Controller 2.
Main frame was just an example of a type of frame that aren’t glasses. There are many other types of frames that have nothing to do with glasses. A frame is just the structure of something. The people using that name to say it must be glasses are hyper-focusing on one usage of the word.
Although, truth be told, I mostly just want a Steam Controller 2.
Jokes on all of you, it’s actually just a Steam branded digital picture frame that cycles through the cover art of games from your library that you’ve never played to constantly remind you of the money you waste.
My first thought on hearing frame is server. I’m likely way off the mark (to the point I don’t actually think it’s what they’re doing) but it could be the basis for a cloud gaming setup for steam. Would extend the deck life and allow them to optimise settings for proton locally.
What if it's some system where you buy a server system in a box with everything pre-installed, you can use it as a console game box, and when not in use it's a game streaming server to other players (like Geforce Now), and it pays a bit in your steam wallet.
So it would be a Mainframe, without the Main as it's distributed, hence a Frame
I really hope not, that feels like crypto all over again, with inconsistent payouts and varying electricity prices… And on top of that probably awful service since people tend to have the weirdest internet connections.
Though if you remove the part where it’s used to stream games to other players, that sounds too niche to be viable, but could be cool. If going in that direction, I’d imagine it more likely to be gaming servers for businesses, like VR gaming spots, where they have multiple gaming computers hooked up to headsets.
I wouldn’t mind a budget dedicated server of some sort designed to shove in the corner of my room and host game servers on paired with a similar ease of access as SteamOS
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