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rubikcuber, do games w Star Wars Outlaws Requires The Internet To Install It
@rubikcuber@feddit.uk avatar

The whole Internet?

Graphy,

Mom said it’s my turn to install Star Wars!

JoeKrogan, (edited ) do gaming w Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

Well I’m comfortable not buying any of theirs. They’re in my steam ignore list along with EA 🖕🖕

Ubisoft disable multiplayer in games like splinter cell and then have the nerve to charge you 20 ducats for a 10 year old game with only half the gameplay requiring a shitty launcher and with glaring bugs that they just didn’t bother to address.

As for the future. There is still emulation. So stock up 😉

Filthmontane, do games w GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles

PC is always current gen. When will they learn?

MaxVoltage,
@MaxVoltage@lemmy.world avatar

they did a long time ago the game will be online only without a story

III,

PS is always “millions of iterations of current, next, last, the previous, the one before that and the one after that” gen. I believe they have learned.

miguel, do games w Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People'
@miguel@fedia.io avatar

That's excellent news. Good for them

oh_, do games w Long-Gone Classics The Sims 1 And 2 Are Finally Coming Back To PC
@oh_@lemmy.world avatar

EA will mess up the “remaster” I am sure.

InquisitiveApathy,

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  • ICastFist,
    @ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

    Mentioning the releases costs USD1.99

    BertramDitore, do gaming w Elon Musk Admits To Cheating In Path Of Exile 2 And Diablo 4 Amid Fake Gamer Controversy

    And so they banned his accounts, right? Right??

    DebatableRaccoon,

    From what I heard, PoE did. Not sure about Diablo.

    Dagnet,

    There is pretty much nothing current Blizzard wont do for money, Elon just need some ‘sorry I cheated’ money and he is good as gold

    Aradina,
    @Aradina@lemmy.ml avatar

    Banning him will be the way to get money, since he can just make a new account and buy the game again

    fushuan,

    As far as I know his account has not been banned. He admitted cheating yesterday and there’s no news on any ban. He was mentally banned in December but they reinstated his account. That’s before all the current drama so idk.

    I wish there were news of his ban though.

    scrubbles, do gaming w Star Wars Outlaws Is A Crappy Masterpiece
    !deleted6348 avatar

    Great article. That’s exactly how I feel playing games like that too. They’re so well done, and the world’s are so great. They just forget the game part of the game.

    Etterra, do gaming w Starfield’s Paid Mods Ignite A Review Bombing On Steam

    It’s like Todd is an infant without object permanence.

    redcalcium, do games w Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs

    wtf I never heard of this game before. How come a game that cost ~$140 million had virtually no marketing except for Will Smith posting it on his youtube channel?

    Crashumbc,

    Rich People’s ego. He thinks his “name” is enough that he doesn’t have to market.

    reflectedodds,

    For real, I might get it to try it out. I’m learning about it from this post.

    Joelk111,

    I wouldn’t…

    reflectedodds,

    Is it that bad?

    drengbarazi,
    @drengbarazi@lemmy.world avatar

    Just… An AAAAA game.

    SeabassDan,

    Calm down, Will.

    tocopherol,
    @tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    “We can save millions in advertising, just get your friend Will to post about it, it will be great.”

    ShepherdPie,

    I think we’re seeing the marketing right now.

    Furbag,

    95% of the budget went to paying Will Smith.

    Blackmist,

    The post-apocalyptic zombie shooter allegedly had more than 300 developers on it and a budget of nearly 1 billion yuan (around $140 million)

    The word “allegedly” is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. There is no way on this Earth that a mess like that cost $140 million to develop, unless somebody pocketed $130m of that and then just outsourced the rest to a tinpot Z tier studio.

    rickyrigatoni,

    Will and Jada are scientologists so that’s exactly what happened.

    Blackmist,

    He wishes he got that from it, and looks like he was barely involved other than a quick poorly made advert and use of his face. It’s not even his voice in game.

    The whole thing looks like it was thrown together in Unity by a dozen people from mostly stock assets. If that figure is anywhere near accurate then Tencent got scammed.

    local_taxi_fix, do games w Skull And Bones Open Beta Review: It’s Meh, Matey

    I played the beta for 20 minutes and was so disappointed I immediately launched sea of thieves to recover.

    It just felt like a cash grab done as cheaply as possible.

    DebatableRaccoon, (edited ) do gaming w Square Enix Wants To Make Fewer Games – New CEO Takashi Kiryu wants to focus on making AAA and indie titles and marketing those titles better

    Now that is a business strategy. Just make them ownable and not all looter shooters and people will probably buy them

    Edit: typing whoopsie

    Draedron, do gaming w Final Fantasy XVI Suffers From Its Superficial Handling Of Slavery

    Unlike OP I have played the game and have to say I diaagree completely with the article. You see the deeper implications of the slavery wherever you go. Sure the violence is the biggest factor but so many side quests show the emotional toll the slavery has on the people. Even just walking in those areas is gut wrenching. I dont know how a final fantasy could portray it better. It is hard to handle already.

    stopthatgirl7,
    !deleted7120 avatar

    Unlike OP

    …why are you bringing me into this?

    dreadgoat,
    @dreadgoat@kbin.social avatar

    You post a lot. I see your name come up non-stop. That is great! It is really appreciated. I'm certainly not doing that work.

    You also post quite a bit of inflammatory clickbait without having any personal knowledge to back it up. That's a bit confounding. At the bare minimum, you need to be prepared to accept criticism for that.

    I can personally say this is the second time you've posted a FF16 ragebait article and gotten offended when prodded about the fact that you yourself haven't even played it. Why are you spreading information that you don't even have the ability to evaluate?

    stopthatgirl7,
    !deleted7120 avatar

    I post things I think people can talk about, even if I can’t actively take part in it. That’s it.

    And if you don’t like what I post, you are more than welcome to block me - I actively encourage people blocking folks they don’t like. Please, feel free.

    dreadgoat,
    @dreadgoat@kbin.social avatar

    I've already said that I appreciate your efforts. I'm not going to block you, your work is valuable. I'm just explaining that you ARE going to be criticized for what you choose to post, and you shouldn't act surprised. If you really don't care about whether or not the stories you are propagating have merit, then just ignore anyone who pushes you on it. Consider attacks on "OP" to be the original author of the article, not you.

    Or, be more selective about what you post, if the approval matters to you. Consider it constructive feedback.

    stopthatgirl7,
    !deleted7120 avatar

    Please block me. I’d block you (actually, I will anyway), but blocking on kbin is busted and means you would still see and be able to comment on my posts. Hopefully they’ll fix that.

    moral_imperative,

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  • DebatableRaccoon, do gaming w Unity Cutting About 1,800 People In Company's Largest Layoff

    And yet another instance of people paying for the mistakes of the higher ups.

    TheDarksteel94, do gaming w The Plucky Squire Should Have More Faith In Its Players

    On the other hand, there’s a lot of people who need to be handheld through the experience. Maybe this is even their first ever video game.

    Ideally, it would be an optional thing, but oh well.

    ByteOnBikes, (edited )

    I don’t think their implementation is the way to go. It reeks of bad UI, like Clippy in Microsoft Word.

    Mario games are so accessible without the heavy handed videos/stops, because their designers think about how to best teach the player through play.

    It’s like teaching by giving people a hour long lecture vs hands-on experience - there’s usecases for both, but in a interactive medium like gaming, one is superior than the other.

    theangriestbird,

    Ideally, it would be an optional thing, but oh well.

    Yeah tons of games ask you at the start of the game, like “have you played this kind of game before?” Def seems clumsy for a game that otherwise seems pretty well thought out.

    DdCno1,

    I have seen people (in person and on the Internet) click tutorials away, proceed to utterly fail at the most basic tasks only to then blame the game and the developers, including in reviews. I don’t blame developers for trying to prevent this from happening.

    theangriestbird,

    Idk if that’s a useful example case. Streamers are under pressure from their audience to be entertaining, so they will frequently skip tutorials against their better judgment bc tutorials aren’t fun to watch. I can’t speak to your irl examples, but it’s possible that there was a similar dynamic happening there. At least, I can say that I have personally felt a similar pressure when playing games while other people are watching me.

    Edit: user reviews are good example, though. I could see a dev over-tutorializing bc they are anxious about negative user reviews.

    Blackmist,

    It is optional isn’t it?

    Minibeard is there for if you get stuck. The puzzles just aren’t really hard unless you’re really not used to games at all.

    Honestly the hardest part was the rhythm and bubble shooter sections at the end.

    MentalEdge, do gaming w Starfield’s Paid Mods Ignite A Review Bombing On Steam
    @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

    A-fucking-gain?

    Did the shitstorm that happened last time teach Bethesda nothing?

    What am I saying, no, of course it didn’t.

    saltesc,

    Feels ritualistic at this point.

    Bethesda does the thing; gamers and modders do the thing. Bethesda says, “Whoops!” We all laugh.

    Only difference this time is it feels like 76 has been out longer than when they usually try this.

    ursakhiin,

    Last time Bethesda just moved then out of steam and made money off of them on their own platform.

    DebatableRaccoon,

    Bugthesda. Bugthesda never changes.

    Theharpyeagle,

    To be fair, it’s a pretty common play. Company makes unpopular decision, walks it back, tries again a little later once the novelty has worn off and the MSM doesn’t care to pick it up again.

    I think this particular move is pretty ballsy with how egregious it is (especially considering that starfield didn’t do anything particularly outstanding to overshadow it), but I don’t doubt they’ll try it again. If people keep buying their games, where’s the risk? At worst they’ll still get a few dollars from those who, for whatever reason, buy it, and then it’s forgotten by the next time a game comes out.

    Instigate,

    They definitely did learn. They learned that they could charge for mods and people, sadly, will pay. They’ve learned that they can make more money by paywalling what should be essential patches and bugfixes. They learned that the average gamer is willing to be fleeced. They learned that they can run an IP into the ground and still extract maximum cash from it.

    They’ve learned. They just didn’t learn the lesson that we here on Lemmy wanted them to learn. That’s a sad fact of being part of a minority community.

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