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acosmichippo, 5 miesięcy temu do games w ‘We want to protect what we have’: Blizzard cinematics workers discuss the reasons for joining a union

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

CosmoNova, 5 miesięcy temu 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.

PushButton, 5 miesięcy temu 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, 5 miesięcy temu

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.

ayyy, 5 miesięcy temu 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!

jjjalljs, 4 miesiące temu 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, 4 miesiące temu

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, 4 miesiące temu

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, 4 miesiące temu

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.

hoshikarakitaridia, 4 miesiące temu do games w Sony’s Light of Motiram lawsuit demands an ‘impermissible monopoly on genre conventions,’ says Tencent

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, …

Runaway, 4 miesiące temu 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, 4 miesiące temu (edited 4 miesiące temu)

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, 4 miesiące temu

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, 4 miesiące temu

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.

ms_lane, 4 miesiące temu 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, 4 miesiące temu

Eager to fit in?

Passerby6497, 4 miesiące temu

With the people who fell for Store Citizen? No.

mika_mika, 3 miesiące temu do games w Genshin Impact is introducing a Roblox-like games creation platform October 22nd | Massively Overpowered

They are probably already drooling at how much they are going to make off of these “fully customizable characters” via micro transactions alone.

markz, 2 miesiące temu do games w Roblox’s CEO calls moderation problems ‘an opportunity’ and platform gambling a ‘brilliant idea’ in unhinged interview

I mean, I wouldn’t expect the ceo of roblox to not be a sociopath.

MotoAsh, 2 miesiące temu do games w Roblox’s CEO calls moderation problems ‘an opportunity’ and platform gambling a ‘brilliant idea’ in unhinged interview

CEOs are more dangerous than pedos. Mostly because they’re far more open and have the money to do damage to more than those they psrsonally meet.

Case in point: This fucking creeper.

OrganicMustard, 2 miesiące temu

Pretty sure a lot of them are pedos

Zirconium, 2 miesiące temu

Not a CEO but the people who run the North American boy scouts

flamiera, 2 miesiące temu do games w Roblox’s CEO calls moderation problems ‘an opportunity’ and platform gambling a ‘brilliant idea’ in unhinged interview

Roblox's problem is that it is lead by the wrong people.