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NuXCOM_90Percent, do games w Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Clocks Up 114,000+ Concurrent Player Peak On Launch Day, But Reports Of Poor Performance Dominate Player Reviews

So… I noticed over the past few weeks that apparently Somebody had been running “guerilla marketing” and Wuchang was apparently the most important game ever released?

And now it apparently became the center of another culture war?

… What the flip? It looked cool but it very much looked likea “good first try” and the Iron Pineapple video mostly aligns with that.

ZeroHora, do games w Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Clocks Up 114,000+ Concurrent Player Peak On Launch Day, But Reports Of Poor Performance Dominate Player Reviews
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

But Reports Of Poor Performance Dominate Player Reviews

Sounds like UE5 to me.

Yep, UE5.

naticus,

Clair Obscur immediately had rave reviews everywhere, especially with users, and that was also UE5. UE5 isn’t inherently low performance, but inexperienced devs can make any engine run inefficiently.

shadowedcross,
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I think the issue with UE5 is that it’s easier to make a game look good, and the systems that allow for that aren’t necessarily very efficient.

SonOfAntenora, do games w Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Clocks Up 114,000+ Concurrent Player Peak On Launch Day, But Reports Of Poor Performance Dominate Player Reviews

It’s at 21% positive score on steam. Apparently it doesn’t run it crawls.

throbbing_banjo, do games w Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Clocks Up 114,000+ Concurrent Player Peak On Launch Day, But Reports Of Poor Performance Dominate Player Reviews
@throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world avatar

Stop pre-ordering games holy fuck

Codilingus,

I don’t think pre-ordering is mentioned anywhere in that article…

Brunbrun6766, do games w Splitgate 2 Will ‘Go Back to Beta’ to Undergo a Massive Rework Amid More Layoffs and Splitgate 1 Shutdown
@Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world avatar

What a Trainwreck

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w Splitgate 2 Will ‘Go Back to Beta’ to Undergo a Massive Rework Amid More Layoffs and Splitgate 1 Shutdown

Yeah it’s dead Jim.

Remember when multiversus had a relaunch?

elgordino, do games w Splitgate 2 Will ‘Go Back to Beta’ to Undergo a Massive Rework Amid More Layoffs and Splitgate 1 Shutdown

My friend group enjoyed Splitgate 1 but we just bounced off Splitgate 2. It just wasn’t fun. Portals seemed to be an afterthought, rather than fundamental to the gameplay. Also the maps we played seemed to be tighter and less arena based.

Still not sure why they decided to do ‘2’ rather than continuing to iterate on the first one really.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

I recall them saying that their tech stack in the first game couldn’t handle the influx of players that they got at their peak, and that’s what led them to start with a rewrite.

ZoteTheMighty,

I think the reason you pivot to 2 is always because execs say that they didn’t monetize enough early enough and it’s best to just try again with the week 1 sales peak because they’re short sighted idiots. Splitgate 1 was a game worth revisiting for months, but 2 isn’t going to hold your attention for a weekend.

awesomesauce309, do games w Splitgate 2 Will ‘Go Back to Beta’ to Undergo a Massive Rework Amid More Layoffs and Splitgate 1 Shutdown

When splitgate 1 launched its problem was a lack of polish. They polished it up and made an incredible live service game with terrible cosmetics. Then they gave up on all of that to make call of duty but sometimes there are walls to portal through. Now they are giving up on that and taking it all down. They need to hire an art director to rework it from the ground up and have splitgate 2 be splitgate 1 v2.0

FilthyHands, do games w Splitgate 2 Will ‘Go Back to Beta’ to Undergo a Massive Rework Amid More Layoffs and Splitgate 1 Shutdown
@FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works avatar

Are FPSs great again?

vikingtons,
@vikingtons@lemmy.world avatar

nah

Thassodar,

I’d take Temu Titanfall 3 rn tbh

vikingtons,
@vikingtons@lemmy.world avatar

That’s fair enough. I can’t talk; I still play games like pubg and halo infinite (firefight / custom games)

Console_Modder, do games w IGN interview w/ DK Bananza devs
@Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works avatar

They really did not need to make DK do an ahegao face in the thumbnail and yet, here we are

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

DK loves the bananas!

Walican132,

Lmfao thanks for describing it like that I hate it.

overload,

That’s a new word to me, but yeah of course there’s a name for that.

Stovetop,

Oh, banana!

emb, (edited ) do games w IGN interview w/ DK Bananza devs

A couple interesting bits:

  • Koizumi is the one who suggested this team do a DK game
  • They decline to specify information about DK’s age, why Pauline is 13
  • DKB started out on Switch 1
  • Part of the inspiration for the gameplay was one dev just doing technical experiments with voxels
simple,
@simple@piefed.social avatar

DK's age, why Pauline is 13

Why are people so obsessed with connecting this game to some weird timeline

prole,

There are people who play Nintendo games for plot? Lol

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

It’s never made sense.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/fictionalcrossover/images/5/54/DKCHeroes2.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20111108103547

Why is Mario still young when Cranky Kong, the original Donkey Kong, is old?

victorz,

It’s make-believe—it doesn’t need to make sense.

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

Many make-believe things do need to make sense to actually be enjoyable. Not Donkey Kong games, though.

FooBarrington,

WAIT CRANKY IS DONKEY?

My whole world has just been shattered

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar
Walican132,

Rare games aren’t Nintendo Cannon? (Idk just finding something new to argue about on the internet)

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

Nintendo isn’t consistent in their own games, so it doesn’t matter either way. Mario and Luigi race with baby versions of themselves!

Walican132,

Ah so the better theory then is eventually at some point time travel is invented in the Mario universe and is used in wildly inappropriate manners.

“Bet I can beat infant you in a race” “You’re on!”

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

I guess Partners in Time would be when the time travel was discovered! Conveniently explains child Pauline as well, I suppose. Well, the “how,” but not the “why.”

Walican132,

Yeah we are never going to know why. Also why no shoes. Have they never been on the internet.

FooBarrington,

It’s simple market analysis.

Elden Ring has women with bare feet and is very successful.

Expedition 33 has woman with bare feet and is very successful.

Walican132,

Street fighter 6 and Juri support this as well.

Fucking gooners.

slimerancher,
@slimerancher@lemmy.world avatar

It’s interesting that both this and Mario Kart: World originally started as Switch 1 games, and only later they decided to move to Switch 2.

CluckN,

I remember when they did that with Breath of the Wild. Link literally has a WiiU gamepad that you can’t use on the WiiU. You can only use it as a main monitor.

Megaman_EXE, do gaming w The Elder Scrolls Online Dev's Unannounced MMO Was Doing Well and Even Scaling Up as Xbox Cancelation Blindsided Staff

If I had to take a wild guess, it’s higher-ups sacking employees to get a quick payday.

Microsoft keeps buying up dev teams, promising games, and then prevents games from releasing. I have been questioning their desire to make future consoles, to be honest. It seems like they’re trying to focus on gamepass and maneuvering out of the console market. Especially with their new handheld being made by a different company.

Sophocles, do gaming w The Elder Scrolls Online Dev's Unannounced MMO Was Doing Well and Even Scaling Up as Xbox Cancelation Blindsided Staff

Microsoft is quickly becoming the worst company in gaming, which is saying something when you have the likes of Nintendo and EA. They bought up a bunch of quality companies making good games just to fire everyone and shut them down so their crappy flagship titles have no competition. Companies want to kill and destroy all games old, new, and even hypothetical so that their glorified slot machines get the spotlight. This is the beginning of the end for mainstream gaming. (Indie gaming is going strong though).

megopie, do gaming w The Elder Scrolls Online Dev's Unannounced MMO Was Doing Well and Even Scaling Up as Xbox Cancelation Blindsided Staff

MORE SOULS ON THE ALTER OF THE AI GOD, you know, just a few more and it shall burst forth from the machine and solve all our problems.

Just keeeeeeep pouring resources and capital on to the fire, any day now. Don’t worry about the climate or housing prices, the inevitable AI god will solve all that, surely. All the ruined lives and destroyed careers will be worth it, promise.

sculd, do gaming w The Elder Scrolls Online Dev's Unannounced MMO Was Doing Well and Even Scaling Up as Xbox Cancelation Blindsided Staff

For more context, Bloomberg also reported on this:

Xbox Executives Were Blown Away by an Upcoming Game. Then They Canceled It.

bloomberg.com/…/microsoft-s-xbox-cancels-blackbir…

No paywall version: archive.ph/daYYd

But Blackbird’s cancellation was particularly shocking because it had blown away executives at Xbox just a few months ago. During the demonstration in March, Spencer was enjoying the game so much that Matt Booty, the head of Xbox Game Studios, had to pull the controller away so they could keep the meeting going, according to two people who were in the room.

This is a game that even Spencer was enjoying and then they just cancelled it. I have no word.

Manapany,

I will play the devil advocate here, but a mmo in this economy ? Very little chance to succeed event if it’s good. I’m not saying canceling it was a good call, we will never know. But I can understand that being blow away is maybe not even enough for a live service to be good.

Nighed,
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We don’t even know it’s business model, they all want live service games right?

Feels strange, especially for a dev that has actually made a modern and (apparently) profitable MMO.

Midnitte,

I mean, WoW still chugging along - it makes so much money from cosmetics they could probably ditch the subscription fee…

Manapany,

Yeah and good job trying to compete with that !

Midnitte,

Well Microsoft owns Blizzard, so I guess they don’t really need to compete

Manapany,

Of course they compete even if they are the same company. For a game to be profitable it need to attract consumers if you take it from another of your product that not good. Even more reason to shut it down imo. Why bother create a new IP a new community and risking to loose big, when you can put resources on your other product that already have that.

sculd,

The MMO market is still big, just not as big as its used to. A MMO by a successful team has a much better chance than most games.

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