They started out pissing off Steam users with Metro Exodus going exclusives and pulling it from Steam. Not a great first impression and a lasting one at that. Not everyone will care and will buy from epic, but alienating a whole bunch of Steam’s core users off the bat is probably going to ensure they’ll never win them over.
I claim games from epic and have bought from even origin and uplay, but I’ll probably never spend any money at epic.
People will never be satisfied with awards. Let the community choose? You get popularity contest. Let the review outlets choose? Then you get only a certain kind of games to win the contest. Steam is very community focused in most of their recommendations and in this case, awards. This has ups and downs and sometimes its stupid. In case of RDR2 who knows what the reason was why they chose this game. It might be an attempt to troll in mass. Or a misunderstanding.
I take awards as one kind of view and never in isolation. Context matters. So I ignore those where I think it is stupid awards, like Starfield and RDR2, and look at the other candidates. And the other categories as well. And then move on with my life. Just like with the other award shows. Who cares what game won what award? It rarely impacts my choice.
It would be less disrespectful just to leave the steamdeck version equally fucked than to openly slap people in the face with "it's arbitrary, but fuck you".
Good for them! While I don’t think unionization makes sense in all industries, game development is arguably a good fit for a collaborative approach to labour relations.
Complete tangent, but does anyone else find it strange that a gaming news site doesn’t use id Software in the headline? If you’re into video games, one would think you’ve heard about id Software; they basically created the modern FPS genre. That being said, I might be showing my age here and id Software was a much bigger deal (on a relative basis) in the 90s and 2000s.
For a second I thought you were being serious and I started wondering whether you meant the chemical production industry or the chemical engineering profession…
But then I realized that it would be pretty dull without ions. :)
Arguably the professional services industry (e.g. consulting, investment banking) isn’t a good fit for unionization. These aren’t verticals, but professions, but things like executive management and B2B sales also don’t seem like a good fit for unionization.
At the end of the day, in B2B sales all that matters is how much revenue you generate and it’s not like there is defined functional skillset for B2B sales that allows for “scale economies” in collective representation model.
(I’m not a lawyer, this comment should not be viewed as a credible source)
They probably mean professionals that are hired by clients on a retainer agreement as opposed to working for an employer on a permanent or semi-permanent basis. Legal advice, legal representation, financial advice, personal assistants, individual contractors, and so on.
One could make the argument that since the retainer is not an employment contract, and the retained professional is not one of many employees (instead usually individuals or small teams), then collective bargaining doesn’t make sense. The difference is that the retainer agreement is much more specific and favors the person whose services are retained, compared to employment contracts and labour laws in the USA. It’s also a legally binding contract and the client can be taken to court if it is breached (e.g. by withholding payment).
On the other hand, if those people are also employed by a company (e.g. a non-partner associate in a law firm) or employ other people in turn, then those people can (and should) also benefit from collective bargaining.
Different company, that was Private Division. While searching to see if there were any connections I did find a funny quote they tried to use as an excuse to fire the leads though:
Krafton was not willing to take the risk of the resulting damage to the Subnautica franchise and the Company’s long-term reputation–a risk that, if materialized, would be irreversible, as shown with Kerbal Space Program 2
cheers. I was in doubt because french justice famously disregarded a very incriminating recorded phone convo between Sarkozy and one of his accomplices. So I thought, maybe this is similar
Maybe something is lost in translation, but it doesn’t read as if you are asking a question. But that you’re using the question as device to make your point.
ah ! thank you for chiming in. What point does it sound like I am making?
To clarify, I was trying to express the following : I hope these emails constitute incriminating evidence, but I cannot tell due to my complete lack of knowledge wrt US law.
The point it sounds like you are trying to make is “Email is not evidence.”
By writing “I don’t know how decisive is an email conversation printout.” after your question, it reads as if you ask the questions just so you can give your own answer.
By placing “Hah !” before the question also implies that the answer to the question is so obviously negative that it doesn’t need to be answered.
If you do both of those things, almost no one will see what you wrote as a question, at least in English. I don’t know Parisian French, so it might not read that way in other languages, and you might not have meant it that way.
The best thing that could happen is to have the Subnautica founders either settle with them to take back the IP (and ideally at least the payout they are owed), or utterly wipe the floor with them in court, and then use the damages awarded to create the true successor to Subnautica that it was always going to be without the interference, meddling and sabotage from Krafton.
I have played it! I thought the water gameplay was pretty good, but the on land was not my favorite.
I really liked the cyclops submarine as a mobile base. It just felt like it made the underwater sections feel claustrophobic and dangerous at every turn once you encountered the larger leviathans. I missed it a lot in below zero
Yeaaah, it might sell okay but there’s no way it gets a positive rating on steam after all the controversy. The people in charge are really bad at their job
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