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st3ph3n, do gaming w 60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows

Currently playing: Yakuza Kiwami, released 2016. Yep.

uzay, do gaming w 60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows

I read that as “6-year-old or older gamers”. I was surprised to say the least.

JasonDJ,

Based upon how obsessed my 4yo was with Kirby and Mario and Smash last year, I wouldn’t be surprised.

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

It is rewind time.

chemical_cutthroat, do games w Will Smith Zombie Game No One Has Heard Of Bombs
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Looks like the church of scientology will need to find another cash cow.

norbert,
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Hollywood has plenty of scientologists, it's wild.

VirtualOdour,

Kinda but numbers are way down, scientology is dying at the moment

therealjcdenton, do gaming w Larian Studios Is Officially Done With The Baldur’s Gate Series

Too bad BG3 was boring, excited to see what they’ll do next

supernicepojo,

Unpopularopinion posting…. what do you normally like to play? I didnt enjoy BG3 either but I didnt care for the other Baldurs Gate games mostly because of the setting and characters.

Spacehooks,

It got better once I got plenty of mods. Broken bugs annoyed me like the painters house causing a million rolls or The invisible wall stopping me from crossing the bridge. Maybe I was super unlucky but it ruined the game for me.

therealjcdenton,

I like Deus Ex, in that game things are shown to you without some guy narrating your game telling you what is happening. And Deus Ex was released in the year 2000

supernicepojo,

I get the BG3 usage of narration due to the DnD setting and DMs narrating the story. Spoon feeding is not acceptable and is insulting to the player. I remember Deus Ex very well along with others like System Shock. The world they put you in can be confusing and unfamiliar at first glance and takes time to get involved in.

ActionHank,

As a long time CRPG fan, I was not into it at all. But expressing that you didn’t enjoy it is wrongthink, and the rabid fans will downvote you to oblivion.

therealjcdenton,

I speak the truth

PieMePlenty, do games w Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs)

They took away access to a game we payed for and replaced it with an inferior product with the hopes and dreams to one day have single player content… which you would have to pay for anyway. Thats all i have to say on the matter of overwatch. Fuck blizzard.

sirico, do games w Overwatch 2 story missions future uncertain after January layoffs (according to ex-devs)
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haui_lemmy, do gaming w Sony Reportedly Halts PSVR2 Production As Headsets Fail To Sell

Those who can afford it might want to buy something open source instead: shop.simulavr.com

Not affiliated with the product. Its linux based and not a walled garden afaik. In 5 yrs when sony drops support for the headset, you can still use this one.

helenslunch,
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Holy fuck, that price though. How about an open source wireless VR headset that’s…wait for it…just a headset, that runs on whatever computer you connect it to?

haui_lemmy,

Feel free to invent one I guess. I think we‘re basically in the same ballpark with that as we are with phones. Nicht qualifications needed and only proprietary players so far. Someone correct me if needed pls.

InEnduringGrowStrong, do gaming w Helldivers 2 Is Too Popular For Its Own Good
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Bring dedicated servers back.
Can’t have persistent server capacity issues if I can throw my own hardware at it.
This also gets rid of match making, which is whatever. Just give me a server browser and I’ll find a few favorites and hang on those.
It can also keep working long after the companies give up on them too.

Arbiter,

Seriously, it’s also the only way to preserve the online game long after it’s stopped being profitable.

conciselyverbose,

This also gets rid of match making, which is whatever.

In the real world, probably.

But it doesn't actually have to. There's nothing stopping you from letting users add multiple matchmaking servers, and even adding some basic rules to queue up in multiple (eg: primary matchmaking for 30 seconds, if no signal indicating good progress towards a match, fall back to also joining server two, etc). It would take a little thought to the base server you provide to handle everything gracefully, but if your priority is actually to give your players the best chance to have a long term ability to form their own communities and play the game reliably instead of to maintain an iron grip to squeeze every penny out, you could do it.

xfc, do gaming w According to Kotaku: 25 Days Into 2024 And 5,800+ Video Game Layoffs Have Been Announced

Why is it happening this week? Are we approaching end of financial year in the US or something?

peter,
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All the companies that didn’t want to do layoffs at Christmas

rwhitisissle,

A lot of companies overhired during COVID, Trump basically turned the Federal Reserve into an unlimited money hack for banks and other companies, the tech sector is particularly sensitive to boom and bust cycles of mass hiring/layoffs every few years, there’s been Fed rate hikes recently, and other factors. Your more conspiratorially minded would say it’s a concerted effort to make people too afraid to unionize by making them think their jobs are in danger.

WebTheWitted,

Some companies end their fiscal year at the end of January, i.e. FY23 ends January 31, 2024.

LoamImprovement, do gaming w Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games

Imagine a company telling you that you should get used to not owning the things you buy when arguably the most popular game in their most popular franchise is about being a literal fucking pirate.

TheAnonymouseJoker, do gaming w Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games

I want Ubisoft to be comfortable with the fact that they cannot earn money increasingly every quarter, and they will fall off the cliff very hard.

windowsphoneguy, do gaming w Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games

Yeah, apparently I don’t own The Crew 1 anymore.

x4740N, do games w Steam’s Most-Hyped Zombie Game Is Out, And It’s A Dumpster Fire
zephyroths, do games w GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles

PC releasing at the same time might just rob consoles of sales they could have. While I don’t support what they do, this is what I think the most logical reason

ddkman,

In my view this is short sighted. A game with this many systems in it may actually need time to be decently optimised for keyboard and mouse inputs. When GTAV finally released it also carried a bunch of improvements. R* doesn’t want to sell games consoles. They don’t make any.

efstajas,

It needs to be “optimized” for controller input in exactly the same way. They could’ve chosen to budget for this “optimization” (whatever that even means) pre-launch.

I think the most likely explanations are 1) larger player base on consoles, 2) Rockstar wants to get the release cash injection ASAP, and 3) staggering platform releases like this prolongs buzz and even leads to a bunch of people buying the game twice.

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