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n3m37h, do games w Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 5 Adds New Playable Epilogue With 3,589 Lines of Extra Dialogue, Much More

A patch with 3000+ lines of dialogue? Every other fucking developer, take notes… PLEASE

paddirn,

“Gamers want spoken dialogue in their DLC, heard you loud and clear.”

Tattorack,
@Tattorack@lemmy.world avatar

Other developers have already voiced their opinions on Baldur’s Gate 3. And it’s been “Oh no! Baldur’s Gate 3 is ruining the expectations of gamers about what a game is.”

Meanwhile most people playing BG3 have been saying “Finally, some good fucking food.”

gonzo-rand19, do games w Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN

So it's a $10 tutorial? Don't care how expansive and cool it is, that's just fucked. The project scope should've been adjusted to make sure it would be free.

tiramichu,

Exactly! What sort of logic are they even trying to apply there? Basically saying “We put a lot of time into our tech demo, and it came out better than expected, so we’re going to charge for it!”

That’s just crazy.

The whole principle is that the intro experience is supposed to be free. It exists to get people pumped about the cool new thing they just bought and excited to play with it.

I guess Nintendo decided that - since you already bought the console - they don’t especially care if you are pumped or not. They already got your money.

hakase, do games w The Switch 2 Nintendo Direct Will Be 60 Minutes Long, Nintendo Confirms

Nintendo is never getting another cent of my money.

soloner,

Hell yeah !!

samus12345, (edited )

They might have from me if the Steam Deck didn’t exist, but their advantage in the past was always being cheaper than the competition. I’m not interested in paying $400 $450 for a locked portable console.

cyberpunk007,

I loved my switch. I spent a lot of time with it. But since getting the steam deck… All the things I can do with it, and the cheap games, and even the high end games that I can play, it’s just too good. I beat hollow knight on my PC. I bought a switch after that, bought hollow knight collectors and never played it. Was fully planning on buying silk song on the switch but now I think I’ll go for the steam version.

samus12345,

I’m hoping to get one soon. I’ve really enjoyed my jailbroken Switch and the prospect of a more powerful, even more open portable is enticing.

shadowplayer2,

Even though I know lemmy is the minority of minority consumer sentiment, it gives me hope that this comment has a decent amount of upvotes in a nintendo post.

Seriously, fuck nintendo’s anti consumer bullshit.

Katana314,

I’m curious what other people’s main gripe is (likely emulation fights?) For my own, it’s when they enacted an assault on Garry’s Mod assets.

That domain never did anything to harm their brand and was a source for tons of fan content. Emulation has its murky arguments about capitalism, but going after GMod was just litigation and harm for its own sake.

hydroptic, do games w How Hidden Nazi Symbols Were the Tip of a Toxic Iceberg at Life Is Strange Developer Deck Nine - IGN

How is it that gaming as both an industry and as a hobby so consistently manages to attract the worst people you can imagine?

chakan2,
@chakan2@lemmy.world avatar

It’s an escapist thing. People just trying to escape the reality of their lives.

hydroptic, (edited )

I definitely play games for the escapism (have you fucking seen this shit that’s going on?) but I manage to not be a bigoted conservative sociopath just fine. I don’t think that’s the cause

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

You asked why it attracts them. Which is escapism. Not everyone looks for escapism for the same reason. And it explains why GTA VI has so much outrage around it.

Zahille7,

You know there are mods to remove/replace all the pride flags around the map in Spider-Man (2018)?

hydroptic,

I didn’t but that does not surprise me at all. Apparently reich-wing chuds even made a mod to remove the ability to choose “they” as a pronoun in Starfield – I guess the fragile little flowers felt that they were being forced to accept the existence of us queers?

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

Harvestella let me play identifying as They and even though I identify as They on a different spectrum it’s still kinda nice.

Sacha,

Mods are a different beast and not representative of the game, devs, or player base. Mods like this often get removed from big modding sites like Nexus, forcing them to be mostly in their own spaces. (There is/was a bg3 mod overhaul that makes every black npc white, some lesbian npcs into men so they are straight couples, the ability to change your gender and lock it to the body types. Etc and so on. But you can’t find it on Nexus. I remember the white Wyll mod but it got removed within 3 days)

It’s another matter entirely when a developer bakes this kind of shit into the game. Not every game has mod support and not everyone mods.

Gabu,

It doesn’t, but go ahead and delude yourself.

hydroptic,

I have a sneaking suspicion that if I were to look at your past comments you’d prove my point for me. You might do it right in this thread for that matter

Kolanaki, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss
!deleted6508 avatar

I would not think there is much incentive to do so when the game is good and selling well.

ABCDE,

Because I want it to be. (:

Will be getting it on Steam later on though!

MindSkipperBro12,

Pay full price, it’s worth more than they’re charging it for.

Bob_Robertson_IX,

I agree, I was of the mindset that I wasn’t going to buy it at launch because too many games are broken at launch, but then I the reviews were all great, and I learned that there would be no microtranactions and I realized that this is the type of game I want to reward by buying early and paying full price. I’ve not been disappointed.

ABCDE,

Okay? I already said I am going to buy it but it would be great if it was on Game Pass which I already pay for, which apparently is downvote worthy that I am a bit poor at the moment.

caut_R,

People can be weird, don‘t worry about it. You wait until it costs whatever it‘s worth to you, not others.

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

apparently is downvote worthy that I am a bit poor at the moment.

Nah, you didn’t mention anything related to you only being able to afford gaming via GamePass in your current situation, so it can’t be that. Maybe your comment just didn’t jive with people on its own merit, completely unrelated to your financial situation. (I don’t have any particular feelings about your comment in either direction, so I’m just speculating.)

ABCDE, (edited )

It’ll get it on Steam later, the implication was there. Odd, though. I was considering console until I saw how the frame rate is: “frame-rates are in the low 30s in performance mode (with some screen-tearing) and a nearly locked 30fps in quality mode” (Eurogamer). Definitely getting it on PC, eventually.

Rose,

Games reach Game Pass via deals similar to those offered by Epic. Microsoft pay the publisher a fixed amount, so if it is believed that it beats the proceeds from the projected sales for the given period, there’s no reason not to agree to it. In other words, it’s all about how much they would offer and how long it would have been since the game release.

Venat0r,

It can decrease the value of the game in the customer’s mind though, which can result in them being unwilling to buy it at a higher price.

Thrashy, do gaming w New Survey Reveals That Many Game Developers Consider Their Career Unsustainable
@Thrashy@beehaw.org avatar

I work in architecture, a field that is also notorious for long hours, excessive crunch time, and mediocre pay. Real-time 3D graphics have started to become important to the design process over the last several years, and at a previous firm I met a 3D vis guy who’d transitioned into my industry from a job at a game developer, “because the hours and pay are so much better.” It boggled my mind that conditions could be so much worse in game dev that my own field would be an improvement.

TwilightVulpine,

Seems like any career that is commonly seen as a passion comes with an additional level of exploitation. Game developers and animators get a raw deal.

andrewrgross,

It’s also, imo, because it’s a relatively newer career. Nurses, teachers, mechanics all existed as industries before he decline of labor. I work in biotech, and people have these oblivious conversations on reddit that are like, “I have a masters but can’t find a job with any stability or a living wage in my city. What am I doing wrong?”

And each time I explain that what they’re doing wrong is trying to get paid under late stage capitalism in a high risk-high reward casino industry filled with foreign visa-holding indentured servants and no one who has ever heard of collective bargaining.

TwilightVulpine,

All those professions are badly in need of strong unions for sure.

regul,

Not to diminish your point because all fields should be unionized, but nurses and teachers are drastically underpaid and overworked, despite many of them having unions.

Dominic, (edited )

But those unions are negotiating against employers who have immense market power. State governments essentially have the last word on teachers’ salaries, and a lot of the country has consolidated to the point where there are only 1-3 major hospital networks in any area.

Without the ability to switch employers for better pay, the unions are the only way that those professions have to improve their pay and working conditions. (This may explain why travel nurses get much better pay than most nurses.)

regul,

Travel nurses are often used as scabs or to avoid hiring a full-time unionized employee.

Thrashy,
@Thrashy@beehaw.org avatar

Yeah, lab work has the cultural cachet of STEM and knowledge work, but looks a lot more like manual labor in practice. One of the lab planners at my current employer switched careers after getting her master’s because pipetting thousands upon thousands of well plates for her research gave her severe repetitive stress injuries that made it unbearable to continue working in the lab.

Biotech has another problem, in that the VC money --and therefore the job market – is concentrated in a small number of HCOL metros. A friend of mine founded a startup out here in the Midwest, and he struggles to attract enough funding to retain staff who are constantly being lured away to the coasts by better-funded firms offering better pay, even though that money wouldn’t go nearly as far in a place like SF or Boston compared to Kansas City.

regul,

The Missouri state government is a crucial piece of the puzzle there.

Thrashy,
@Thrashy@beehaw.org avatar

He’s on the Kansas side, which for all its own foibles is at least not Missouri.

Macaroni_ninja, do games w Ubisoft launches NFT game with figures costing up to $63K
@Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world avatar

I know it will fail but I really hope it will fail big time to accelerate the dowfall of this soulless corporate piece of shit company.

Aielman15, do games w Microsoft Layoffs Hit Call of Duty Warzone Mobile, Which ‘Didn't Hit as Big as Hoped’
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

Phil Spencer underperformed for 10+ years and yet he’s still there.

Must be nice having the peace of mind that no matter how you fuck up, other people will pay in your stead.

sp3tr4l,

I recently randomly came across a youtube channel of someone criticizing Phil Spencer…

…who in that very video, described herself as an Ex-MSFT executive producer for multiple failed or non successful games in the early 00’s, but blamed the failures on everyone else around her.

These people have literally zero self awareness.

They have absurdly massive egos and senses of entitlement, they all do exactly what they criticize other people for.

DeceasedPassenger,

Would you mind sharing a link? Piqued my interest

sp3tr4l,

Ok, so, she didn’t criticize Spencer in the same video she describes herself as an ex-MSFT executive producer… she’s criticizing the Concord producers… for basically poorly managing the development.

Here she is in an earlier vid criticizing Spencer:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=69gs773bZRI

And here is the later Concord vid where she basically blames the devs of multiple MSFT projects she was an executive producer on for just not listening to her.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=6IM11RtGLJ8

Like… I agree with her general message of ‘feedback from players is important’ and ‘don’t vastly misjudge your target demo’ but like… you were the executive producer and … you say your dev teams weren’t listening to yourself, who you are portraying yourself as the player advocate…

So … shut down development if they won’t listen? Pull the funding, or threaten to?

Or, if you were just an advisor and tangential contributor with no real power… then what was your job?

What were you being paid for? Talking at people for them to not listen to you so you could then be smug about it later and just bounce around companies based off of your own clout?

To me this is the exact kind of bullshit that leads to games with massively inflated budgets and design by committee:

You have all these corpos that don’t really do anything other than have mixed at best track records, who all act holier than thou and all are somehow involved in development basically so they can network and build their resumes, with little to no actual care that their unnecessary involvement blows up entire studios and ruins the careers of actual coders, level designers, artists, etc who actually make the game.

All these excess people who just generate conflicting demands and unnecessary meetings and emails that require extensive reworks… otherwise known as bad management.

Specifically to Concord, we saw how the lead art design person on twitter went from towing the company line about how great the whole project was to basically flipping 180⁰ after the game was canned and saying that development was excruciating with art being redone and redone by committee and then all the higher ups refusing to acknowledge any of their role in the process.

Its… Its the nature, seemingly, of nearly every single large studio these days that corporate office politics rules all, everyone has to play the game of humoring all the opinions of these overpaid execs, and then when shit blows up, nobody takes accountability for anything and everyone instantly becomes piranhas seeking a scapegoat.

ms_lane,

When your predecessor was Don Mattrick, it’s not like you have to perform that great to be better.

They need Peter Moore back, he’s the only leader of Xbox/Microsoft Games that’s ever been any good - he took Xbox from zero to its peak golden age, then he left and we got the dark age of Kinect.

merari42, do games w Fortnite Players Band Together to Pick on In-Game Tesla Cybertrucks: 'Destroy on Sight' - IGN

No idea how Fortnite works. But can you (realistically) use the Cybertruck to cut off your enemies fingers with it’s automatic doors.

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

Dunno. But it seems like its bulletproofing has been accurately translated into the game.

Deceptichum,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLV-4HMrAz0

JerryRigsEverything 50cal vs Tesla.

echodot,

Not that that was a very useful comparison because I don’t think any car can survive being shot with a 50 cal that’s kind of the point of them. They kill vehicles.

RightHandOfIkaros,

“This car claims to be bulletproof, so to test it we are going to shoot it with this 40mm artillery canon at a distance of 10 feet.”

~ some YouTuber, probably

Kolanaki,
!deleted6508 avatar

So it’s not very bulletproof at all?

MentalEdge,
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

bingo

PDFuego, do games w Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble
@PDFuego@lemmy.world avatar

“After” profits tumble? We haven’t even had a chance to buy FF16 or Rebirth yet, and if they’re like Remake there’ll still be a year to wait for it to get off Epic and onto Steam. Just sell us the damn game if you want money.

ImplyingImplications,

Japanese companies and making your product impossible to purchase. Name a better duo.

sigmaklimgrindset,

Japanese companies and doing everything via fax machines.

aStonedSanta,

Imagine Japanese board execs as you do republicans. They can only understand what they can physically see or physically happens to them. Aka. Everything outside of Japan is inconceivable.

mnemonicmonkeys,

Japan actually has a rather conservative culture, particularly in politics, so comparing them to US Republicans os very apt

aStonedSanta,

Oh trust me. I know. 🫡

e-ratic, do games w Bethesda Is Responding to Negative Reviews of Starfield on Steam
@e-ratic@kbin.social avatar

Some of Starfield’s planets are meant to be empty by design — but that's not boring. “When the astronauts went to the moon, there was nothing there. They certainly weren't bored." The intention of Starfield's exploration is to evoke a feeling of smallness in players and make you feel overwhelmed.

May as well boot up SpaceEngine then.

Carighan,
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Starfield, the epitome of scientifically correcty simulations. Why would I expcet my Starship Travel Simulator 2000 to be a fun-focused game after all, durr.

Zron,

scientifically correct

Why doesn’t nasa just open up the starmap and simply fast travel to the moon or mars?

variants,

they do basically except they give spacex a chunk of money to have their rocket tp them

HeavyRaptor,

It really evoked a feeling of smallness in me. Namely how small and devoid of content the universe feels.

This is made worse because every inhabited planet I go to has some elaborate situation just waiting for me to solve it. For example: I land on the landing pad, walk 30 meters through a gate and am greeted by a hostage situation in a bank where the hostage negotiator is going to let me, some random, go do his job instead of him, trusting me with the lives of everyone involved without even blinking.

Bimbus, (edited ) do gaming w IGN posts written review of Cyberpunk: Phantom Liberty, but withholds video review. CDPR is, once again, not letting reviewers use their own gameplay footage before release.

Just play the free patch and if its still ass don’t buy phantom liberty. Ez

NuPNuA,

No, everything must be a conspiracy.

jordanlund, do gaming w GameStop Cuts Jobs Amid ‘Unsustainable’ Sales Decline
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

The move to digital sales is killing their business model.

They can’t buy and re-sell used digital games.

Pre-orders on digital content can be done through the respective app stores.

Gamepass renders the buy, sell, re-buy consumer behavior irrelevant.

givesomefucks,

I mean, all that was intentional…

But this was a dying business years ago, it was propped up by a few people who made a shit ton of money and a whole bunch of idiots they convinced to hold the bag.

GameStop was never going to last long, it was just delayed

Fapper_McFapper, (edited )

At the very least, two bag holders have read your comment.

Conyak,

It could if they were willing to modify their business model. They could have leaned into the game merchandise more but relying on used game sales was never going to be sustainable.

BetaBlake,

It should have ended years ago, it’s a crap company who were annoying to do business with, it became a meme and got to live a few extra years. But I say good riddance

EuroNutellaMan, do games w The Day Before Servers Shutting Down Next Month, Leaving Game Active for Just 45 Days - IGN
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

Lasted less than Liz Truss lmaooo

Vytle, do games w Civilization 7 Outlines Crucial 1.1.1 Update as It Struggles to Compete on Steam Against Civ 6 and Even the 15-Year-Old Civ 5

The game is lietarlly half cooked, and they clearly wanted to sell the other half piecemeal as DLC.

The game literally only has 3 eras. Every other civ game has 6.

But don’t worry, they’re adding Mount Everest.

What a fucking joke

VitoRobles,

That felt like Civ 5.

Playing it on launch, it was so bare.

Playing the Complete version, it was finally fun to play.

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