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RightHandOfIkaros, do games w Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN

So basically they shut down their games actively being developed or games like NieR Reincarnation (I am legitimately upset they did not patch it to work offline, that was a great game that died yesterday) just so they could claim a loss. This is likely for tax reasons, if I had to guess.

philycheeze,

From the looks of things, Warner Bros was just the beginning of this practice.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Nah, companies have been doing similar practices for ages. Its just they’re being more public about it now.

kbin_space_program,

Now they're attaching pretend numbers to the cancelation.

Starkstruck,

I still don’t understand how even with a tax write off they make more money than if they actually sold the damn thing.

wahming, do gaming w Hollow Knight: Silksong Got an Xbox Store Page on April Fools Day and Fans Don't Know How to Feel - IGN

The entire ‘article’ consists of screenshots of twitter and reddit posts. Jeez.

Manos, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline

Has it not mooned yet? Apes must be in shambles.

muse,
@muse@fedia.io avatar

More importantly, hows AMC and silver doing? Truly those will make us rich

Templa,

MOASS!!! 😵‍💫

Moneo,

That subreddit was simultaneously the funniest and creepiest subreddit I’ve ever visited. It’s hilarious how sure they are that they will all be billionaires but I always got the creeps when thinking about how I was reading the comments from a bunch of people just throwing their life savings down the toilet.

muse,
@muse@fedia.io avatar

If it's any consolation, i feel a heavy dose of those posters weren't buying anything. "Bought another 700 this week on the dip!"

Sure you did, bud. You're totally not trying to make more bagholders.

ramble81,

I bought a few thousand dollars because I could and I’m just sitting on it because I’m very curious what’s going to happen. I really believe the float has been locked up for a while and there’s some serious shenanigans going on. I either will strike it rich or at some point throw in the towel and write off the losses on my taxes. But I look back at when everyone wrote off Bitcoin and look at it now.

snugglesthefalse, do games w World of Warcraft Subscription Numbers Are Higher Now Than at Expansion Launch in a Franchise First

I’m happy, I finished the burning crusade story and got out. No more blizzard from me, probably ever.

Anticorp,

WotLK was pretty great. Cataclysm was okay, the beginning of the end IMO.

Squirrel,
@Squirrel@thelemmy.club avatar

I know I’m in the minority, but I absolutely loved MoP. It’s probably my favorite expansion.

captain_oni,

Same! The music, the lore, the fact that the factions were starting to realize their conflict is manufactured and doesn’t make any sense anymore.

Also, I really liked some of the qol changes.

MeekerThanBeaker, do games w Where's Our Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Review? (IGN denied review code)

Guess they are trying to get every sale possible as this likely won’t do well. A shame really. Really enjoyed the Arkham series.

I’m guessing it’ll be in the 40s range on Metacritic once all said and done.

Vordus,

It’s Rocksteady, so it’ll be higher than 40s. Heck, it’s almost impossible to get a score lower than 40 on metacritic…

Mid 60s I’m guessing, perhaps as high as 69 if reviewers are feeling generous. The kind of score which would be absolutely fine if it were a cheap and cheerful B-game made by a scrappy team of underfunded devs, but which is an absolute embarrassment when applied to a multi million dollar tentpole. The kind of score that implies ‘meh’.

MeekerThanBeaker,

Could be right… though it went from me wanting to get this around launch day to… let’s hope it’s on GamePass. My backlog of games also helps me to wait on this one.

DoucheBagMcSwag, do gaming w Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Is Getting an Offline Mode After Release, Rocksteady Confirms - IGN

AFTER release…how convenient

bjoern_tantau, do gaming w Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Is Getting an Offline Mode After Release, Rocksteady Confirms - IGN
@bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de avatar

Oh, really? In that case let me pre-order it right away. Of course they will deliver on an empty promise!

deegeese, do games w Nintendo Cancels Japanese Esports Events Following Threats to Staff and Spectators

People are just the worst.

TubeTalkerX,

Right you are fellow Algorithm!

Potatos_are_not_friends, do games w Bungie Devs Say Atmosphere Is ‘Soul-Crushing’ Amid Layoffs, Cuts, and Fear of Total Sony Takeover - IGN

was with this threat looming that Bungie leadership - not Sony, according to Parsons - made the choice to lay off roughly 100 employees last month.

But the cost-cutting at Bungie isn’t limited to just personnel. Multiple current employees confirmed to IGN that the company has implemented numerous other cost-cutting measures recently, including a studio-wide hiring freeze, reduced travel budgets, elimination of holiday bonuses, keeping its annual Bungie Day virtual, delaying its weeklong company “Pentathalon” event to next December, and reducing numerous morale events such as cooking and knitting classes from monthly to quarterly. Bungie is also pausing or fully ending benefits like annual employee compensation adjustments to meet market rates, its new hire lunch program, employee donation matching, its peer recognition program, and gift cards for employees birthdays.

Aremel,

So Bungie is officially dead

BrowseMan,

Whouah, okay so all the good things removed.

Fuck the employees I guess?

azurefirefly, do games w PlayStation Portal Is Out Today, But Fans Are Having a Hard Time Finding One - IGN
@azurefirefly@lemmy.basedcount.com avatar

Who even wants one

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Honestly I would have said me a few years ago.

The PSP was a AMAZING system. Not because of the games. But because it was such a great system for emulation.

But this is a post Steam Deck world.

RGB3x3,

But this doesn’t even do what a PSP does. It doesn’t play games natively, it just streams from your PS5 that you already have to own.

It’s essentially the Wii U.

FooBarrington,

The WiiU was it’s own console that actually had interesting integrations with the tablet. The Portal can’t do anything like that since there is no second screen.

It’s more like a portable Steam Link.

ILikeBoobies,

Wii U is a better console than the PS5 in part because of the game pad (not power wise)

This helps close the gap although the Wii U still comes out ahead

hubobes, do games w Bungie CEO Claims Layoffs Were Due to Destiny 2 Underperformance - IGN

The CEO has to go because they failed to deliver? Right? I mean that’s why they get paid so much, to take responsibility. Now they will face the consequences of their failure! No?

Kyrgizion, do games w Bungie CEO Claims Layoffs Were Due to Destiny 2 Underperformance - IGN

In their defense, Destiny 2 did morph into a vast turd over its lifetime. Terrible story, terrible characters, repetitive gameplay, zero innovation. Gog is full of 15$ games with much more to offer than Destiny 2 ever had. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

verysoft,

I think they had the ideas guy in once every couple years and then they just reused the shit of the mechanic he came up with at that time.

Sanctus, do games w New Report Makes Disturbing Allegations Against The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Developer - IGN
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

I mean nobody wanted this game in the first place, couple that with this sewage outlet and there ya go. They really had a follow-up game planned for this? Like it was gonna be a hit?

nonailsleft,

They spread The Hobbit out into three movies and banked $2.5B

Sanctus, (edited )
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

And thats a movie based on a legendary book. Hell yeah it made that much. Now turn around and say, “hey, bud. You know the split-personality leper following the protagonist? Ever wanted to be him?” Fuck, no. And it was never advertised as anything more than that. You have to relate a little to who you are controlling in a game, otherwise it doesn’t sell. Who relates to smeagol? People who wish they sold knives that don’t whisper to you?

all-knight-party,
@all-knight-party@kbin.run avatar

Well, Smeagol is an interesting character because he is tragically relatable underneath it all. He was consumed by his greed, and completely lost his mind to it. His flashes of innocence and weakness make him at times sympathetic. But, then he reverts to Gollum and you see the consequences of his weakness, again and again.

That being said, being at times partially relatable does not make me want to be him, even in a video game. I think an interesting game where you play as Smeagol is absolutely possible, but that's an unnecessary uphill battle if I've ever seen one.

scrubbles,
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Wanna be Aragorn as a ranger? Galadriel in the second age? Elrond during the last alliance? Fuck you, here’s Gollum.

Mirshe,

I mean, I get it from one angle - Gollum is one of the longest lived characters in LOTR. The issue is that even being 500 years old, he doesn’t really witness or interact with it all that much. Someone like Galadriel or Aragorn or Gandalf would be far more interesting.

NutWrench, do games w Capcom President Thinks Game Prices Are 'Too Low' - IGN
@NutWrench@lemmy.world avatar

Tsujimoto also went on to claim that a slow economy wouldn’t have a big impact on video game prices either: “Just because there’s a recession doesn’t mean you won’t go to the movie theater or go to your favorite artist’s concert. High-quality games will continue to sell,” he said.

Yes it does. “Recession” means you have less disposable income to waste on poor quality entertainment.

AstridWipenaugh,

Recessions also cause a spike in vice and escapism, so it could drive more game sales or at least offset the lack of disposable income.

A_Random_Idiot,

Spike in affordable escapism.

Going to a movie matinee for 3 dollars is not comparable to dropping $$$$Absurdity for games like these assholes want.

stopthatgirl7,
!deleted7120 avatar

Closer to $12 than $3, though. Last time I went to movies, one ticket was ¥1800. And that’s not touching the concession stand.

That said, Baldur’s Gate 3 ran me ¥8500.

Neon,

20.- CHF for Chinema, 70.- for BG3 over here

korinflakes,

Most cinemas in my region charge $12 to $20 per ticket. But, there was one I found in Brisbane with tickets as low as $4. My wife and I would literally go watch movies just to sit in their air con.

Holdoooo,

Ah yes, BG3, the new gold standard.

greavous,

Why not. 3 dollars for a couple of hours of entertainment is poor cost efficiency compared with what I’ve got out of some games. Don’t get me wrong, capcom don’t need to raise prices as I’m pretty sure they make plenty of money already, but cinema is not cost effective entertainment compared with a video game.

A_Random_Idiot,

Can tell you’ve never been poor.

greavous,

Can tell you’ve been on the Internet too long! Nice rebuttal to a simple explanation of making money go further.

A_Random_Idiot,

Not only never been poor, but super offended at the mere concept that someone is poor and cant bootstrap magic math their way out of it.

stephenc, do games w Capcom President Thinks Game Prices Are 'Too Low' - IGN

Maybe you should stop spending millions on overblown graphics, motion capture, voice acting, pointless story/cutscenes, and other bullshit and just make a game like you did in the old days then, Crapcom.

SeeJayEmm,
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I mean story, and voice acting are part of many games.

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