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ms_lane, do games w Star Citizen’s Manchester office shows off its newly opened ‘briefing room’ theater space

Turns out you don’t need to call it ‘non-fungible’ or ‘web3.0’ - just lie and you can sell JPEGs for tens of thousands of dollars!

itztalal,

Eager to fit in?

Passerby6497,

With the people who fell for Store Citizen? No.

Runaway, do games w Sony’s Light of Motiram lawsuit demands an ‘impermissible monopoly on genre conventions,’ says Tencent

…or it’s just a clearly blatant ripoff lol

CosmoNova, (edited )

Which still should not be illegal, right? And believe me I have no problem when Sony and Tencent go at each other‘s throat. Let them fight. But I remember reading the same type of discussion about Palworld. You can‘t protect a style or a genre. Especially when said genre is as old as the medium. Unless Tencent stole code or use the exact same names it should still be legally distinct enough to be perfectly fine. It‘s up to consumers if they want to buy a blatant ripoff.

Runaway,

Palworld is a different game using similar mechanics. This game looked like the same game. I think the cases are different and I think basically trying to make the same game is not fair.

Sure no one cares about tencent vs Sony but what if it was tencent vs a smaller dev? Derivations are fine but ripoffs really probably should be limited.

Not to mention the original looked like they basically stole designs lol

CosmoNova,

I didn‘t see footage or screenshots where they literally stole the likeness of a character. It would be bad if they did that but I‘ve seen no evidence of it. As far as I know mixing generic tribe aesthetic with generic sci-fi aesthetic can‘t be protected either. I don‘t want to repeat my previous comment but I don‘t see the issue here. It would open a barrel of worms for the entire industry if vague aesthetics are suddenly protected. The lawsuits would never stop and small dev teams would make concessions left and right to fence off armies of lawyers.

hoshikarakitaridia, do games w Sony’s Light of Motiram lawsuit demands an ‘impermissible monopoly on genre conventions,’ says Tencent
@hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world avatar

From what I’ve heard it’s just really clear copyright infringement.

Raising monopoly is also funny considering this genre is saturated by not only Sony, but also Ubisoft, EA, Valve, …

jjjalljs, do games w Massively Overthinking: Is it possible to launch a new subscription MMORPG in 2025?

Who has money to spend on a subscription?

Also even when I had money, I don’t want to keep buying the game every month. It’s stressful, and sometimes I like playing other things.

Goronmon,

Looking at the amount of money gacha and other “free”-to-play titles of pulling these days, it seems like quite a few people have lots of money to burn on gaming.

jjjalljs,

You’re probably more correct than not. I’d be curious to see like those people’s budgets. How many are carrying credit card debt or neglecting other parts of their life to spend on digital gambling?

ryathal,

That’s likely what is preventing any new subscription based mmo. Why bother with a reliable and fair price when lootbox bullshit makes you 10x the money.

ayyy, do games w ‘We want to protect what we have’: Blizzard cinematics workers discuss the reasons for joining a union

Gotta make sure the Cosby Room is around for generations to come!

PushButton, do games w ‘We want to protect what we have’: Blizzard cinematics workers discuss the reasons for joining a union

The cinematics are probably the most valuable asset Blizzard still has.

Their games went downhill, but god the animations are gorgeous. I forced myself to complete the Diablo 4 campaign because of them.

TheRealKuni,

I forced myself to complete the Diablo 4 campaign because of them.

That would be a lot easier now. The game improved enormously around season 4 I think. Whatever the Loot Reborn season was. And nearly every season has included some QoL improvements.

I honestly love Diablo 4. It’s a great podcast/audiobook companion.

CosmoNova, do games w ‘We want to protect what we have’: Blizzard cinematics workers discuss the reasons for joining a union

Working for a billion dollar company is the only reason you need here. There are far more of course but that should be enough reason.

acosmichippo, do games w ‘We want to protect what we have’: Blizzard cinematics workers discuss the reasons for joining a union
@acosmichippo@lemmy.world avatar

well if anything good comes from AI maybe it will be a resurgence of unions.

LostWanderer, do games w Microsoft’s Xbox division faces the possibility of significant layoffs soon – again | Massively Overpowered

Wow, if they want to turn Xbox around, they are going to need people. Cut Phil’s pay instead! He likely already gets far more compensation than he needs.

DoucheBagMcSwag,

They’re not turning anything around. They’re retreating from Sony and consoles.

When Microsoft started putting it’s once exclusives on PlayStation this was made clear

Handmaid,

Even clearer now that the neXtbox is confirmed to be a prebuilt PC. They want PC/Windows to be their sole focus going forward with Xbox being a brand/app that runs on anything.

The 70bil USD ActiBlizz acquisition that was championed by Xbox fans is what ironically killed their traditional approach. Line must go up, and Xboxes weren’t cutting the mustard.

DoucheBagMcSwag,

The OS will probably be the same as the Xbox Ally. PC but walled off from Windows

LostWanderer,

Yeah, that’s the reality…Big Business People making choices that will make the line go up. To be fair, it is a savvy move to make software readily available if the hardware isn’t moving; especially in the case of Microsoft’s first party games. Sony, being the consumer hostile and shoddy PSN holder, wouldn’t be my first pick for victor in the console space. Strange things happen when you got a few good exclusives, and pricey consoles, I guess.

It’s good that Microsoft is contemplating how to move forward, but, I disdain the news of more layoffs. They really should keep their core staff and cut pay for CEOs and C-Suites of Xbox instead. Since they are the ones who actually failed Microsoft. The neXtbox (essentially a prebuilt PC) and handheld might be a way for them to reach audiences again. Even though Valve is killing it in the Handheld Market with SteamOS and their Steam Deck; Microsoft better not recoil in fear due to this, as staying the course and making better choices will help.

shayana,

They are the ones responsible for killing xbox though. Shit games, awful GUI, trash naming schemes, bad series S holding series X and the rest of the industry back, bad marketing and list goes on. If they cared about physical consoles, phil spencer would have been fired by now.

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w MMO Hype Train: Dune Awakening stumbles, trips, and sometimes sprints in its early experience

I believe I will stick with XIV

Bebopalouie, do games w MMO Hype Train: Dune Awakening stumbles, trips, and sometimes sprints in its early experience
@Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca avatar

Have been watching a bunch of streamers play it. An amazing game. Tons to do.

littleomid, do games w MMO Hype Train: Dune Awakening stumbles, trips, and sometimes sprints in its early experience

It’s not an MMO.

robolemmy,
@robolemmy@lemmy.world avatar

It’s a Moderately Multiplayer (forced) Online game

Zahille7,

Are there no single player capabilities?

robolemmy,
@robolemmy@lemmy.world avatar

I haven’t bought the game and probably never will, since I don’t like the Dune-iverse at all. I have friends who play it and it’s a 100% online game. I’m sure you could pretend to play solo but you’re still connected to a remote server.

CMLVI,
@CMLVI@lemmy.world avatar

How would you have a multiplayer online game without forced online play? It’s a requirement of multiplayer (I guess barring LAN, but what is the likelihood of anything being “massive” multiplayer while on LAN) and online. That’s like 2/3 of the name

Noodle07,

Right ? Haven’t looked too much into it but it’s like V rising or rust ? You join a server with limited amount of players ?

Zahille7,

You can play V Rising completely solo.

You can’t play Rust solo or on a private server unless you buy/rent one

littleomid,

You can host your own server, locally ok PC in rust.

Noodle07,

So is that how dune works too ?

hisao, do games w Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered

Let me explain how Honkai Star Rail handles gearing. Every single character has six relic slots: head, hands, body, feet, planar orb, and planar ornament. These relics go from level 0 to level 15, and four of them have a randomized primary stat. They all feature four randomized secondary stats, and every three levels a random one of those secondary stats gets a bonus. Each relic also belongs to a set of relics, and characters benefit from having two or four pieces of a given relic set. That means for every character in your party, you need to get the right items at the maximum rarity, the right primary stats, the right secondary stats, and the right level-ups for those secondary stats.

This is min-maxer mindset and I would hope randomized systems like this will prevent it but unfortunately no: even here some people think they actually need to roll every dice exactly the right way. I don’t think it’s true that this is really necessary. And no, it is not necessary to do top 10 world parses; you can just beat endgame content on modest, casual difficulty and call it a day, rather than try hard to set a record.

hisao, do games w Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered

Even co-op in gacha games doesn’t qualify as MMO, because for that you need hundreds or thousands of players being simultaneously in the same persistent world. This is the same reason why games like Dota, League of Legends or Counter Strike aren’t considered MMO.

NIB, do games w Gachapwned: How gacha MMOs drown us in progression and randomness | Massively Overpowered

Star Rail isnt an mmo. And while it has many “progression mechanics”, they are slowly introduced to the player. And once you understand them, you dont really need to think that much about them. It is basically an anime+idle game.

You watch your anime episode every now and then and you afk farm daily for a couple mins(so that your characters slowly become stronger). You dont need to think loads of time to understand them but i guess it depends on what you mean by loads of times. Maybe i have played many games(mobile and conventional), so i dont have any issues with the systems.

If you want to build a character, you can choose them and the game will highlight their ideal “gear” and “stats”, though those recommendations arent always perfect. If you want to tryhard, you can use this site

www.prydwen.gg/star-rail/tier-list/

And see what gear and stats are ideal for your character. Or just use your brain. Most dps like crit damage/rate, attack and speed. Most supports really love speed. Or watch a guoba video about the character you want to gear. Ultimately, if you afk grind gear, it doesnt take a giant brain to understand that the dps set, wants dps stats, or that the break set wants break damage stats.

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