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utopiah, do games w Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

“read the runes” … people need to stopping believing that money is money. Money is money AND strings attached. It’s totally different to get 1 EUR from a friend vs 1 EUR from a brank vs 1 EUR from VC vs 1 EUR of public subsidies. Money NEVER comes without string so one must be cautious they are not getting a noose around their neck while signing a contract.

PS: IMHO NLNet is an example of “good” money. Other examples welcomed. In software in the game “industry” specifically I don’t know where one can find non “bad” money so please if you have examples, do share.

yakko,

Bad money chases out good, they say.

utopiah,

Fascinating, digging into en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law then, thanks for bringing that up!

yakko,

I thought I might be playing it loose applying it to the case of private equity in the creative arts, but it feels right

sadfitzy, do games w Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop

I’m interested to see the fan response to this.

jjjalljs,

I feel like the average video game player has really poor media and political literacy, but maybe it’s just the ones who make noise online who fit that profile.

rafoix,

Sport games sell very well every year and have tons of predatory monetization. The target audience is not very discerning.

ChaoticEntropy, do games w Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

Mass Effect but now Cerberus is unequivocally the good guy.

Timberfang, do games w EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm

At least they (hopefully) won’t be getting even worse?

Cheems, do games w Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop
@Cheems@lemmy.world avatar

I almost certainly will never play another NFL or NCAA game again. Cod can go fuck itself. I’m almost definitely not in the demographic to which they’re trying to sell games to anymore. But God damn I know I’m not the only one in this field.

TheAlbatross, do gaming w As Game Pass prices get laughably high, Microsoft is reportedly spinning up a free version of Xbox Cloud Gaming—but of course you'll have to sit through ads

Canceled my sub via the handy link in the 50% price hike email.

Microsoft can huff my piss

specialwall, do gaming w As Game Pass prices get laughably high, Microsoft is reportedly spinning up a free version of Xbox Cloud Gaming—but of course you'll have to sit through ads

I was wondering how they would be able to run such an expensive service based on just one person’s ad revenue:

Microsoft is also currently testing a limit of one hour for sessions, with up to five hours free a month

I just don’t understand how Microsoft thinks someone is going to sit through minutes of ads and be okay with only 5 hours per month in return.

savvywolf,
@savvywolf@pawb.social avatar

When I was a kid my parents would only let me play games for half an hour a day. That works out at, using the monthly times, three times as much as Microsoft is letting people use.

Microsoft, is it an ad supported tier or a limited trial. Pick one.

dreadbeef, do gaming w As Game Pass prices get laughably high, Microsoft is reportedly spinning up a free version of Xbox Cloud Gaming—but of course you'll have to sit through ads

Gotta drink your verification cans

Midnitte, do gaming w Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam

Get embarrassed, Randy Pitchfork.

theangriestbird, do gaming w Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam

Anyone else been playing this one? It’s so wildly derivative (almost everything is ripped straight from either Vampire Survivors or Risk of Rain 2), but I can’t seem to stop playing. The one unique mechanic is the momentum-based movement, and for some reason that is SO addictive. The loop is solid, only thing the game needs now is more weapon variety and more stages.

knightly,
@knightly@pawb.social avatar

I have, and you’re absolutely correct. There’s shades of Tribes in the momentum mechanics and something about them tickles my pathfinding brain something fierce. My biggest request would be a less-punishing endless mode so I can play around with the maps and builds more leisurely.

theangriestbird,

Totally! I am real curious to see what the dev does from here. Seems like there’s a really strong foundation to go nuts with DLC or updates or whatever. I’d happily pay more than the $10 for packs of new characters or weapons, the game already feels like a great package for $10.

bl4kers,
@bl4kers@beehaw.org avatar

Huh. I’ve heard of Risk of Rain before but when Steam recommended it to me I thought it was a JRPG

theangriestbird,

Risk of Rain? Haha yeah it’s just a really cool roguelike that is very fun in co-op. Definitely more skill-based than Megabonk.

jjjalljs, do gaming w Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam

I keep forgetting borderlands 4 even came out. I guess I block most ads, but none of my friends have even talked about it.

etchinghillside,

I assume I’ll have to wait around until the next gen Steam Deck to play it.

Dutczar,
@Dutczar@sopuli.xyz avatar

I only remembered it was being developed from watching a Nintendo Direct half a year ago, and then only heard about it after launch due to performance issues and Randy opening up twitter again.

The worst part, it’s apparently really good, which I didn’t expect. But I can’t run it on anything and won’t for a while.

TheGreenWizard, do gaming w Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam

Practical games for practical gamers

viking, do gaming w Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam

This game is really fun. I’m impressed by the efficiency of the programming as well. Even in survive mode at the end of a level, getting attacked by probably thousands of monsters constantly, there was no hint of a slowdown on my modest gaming computer running Linux.

theangriestbird,

Yeah that part is amazing! I’ve noticed that a lot of the projectiles are 2d sprites, I wonder how much that helps the framerate. It’s impressive no matter how you slice it.

Lumidaub, do games w Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'
@Lumidaub@feddit.org avatar

Oh no. Wait. Don’t go.

Sabin10, do games w Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title'

Dude hasn’t released a proper game since 2010, I thought he was ready done.

Agent_Karyo,
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

He is done with releasing good games, he is not done releasing trash.

echodot,

He actually does know how to make good games, but the problems start as soon as he’s put in front of a camera.

Don’t have him going on TV and talking about the game. In fact make it a term of his employment that is not allowed to mention the game at all in any environment. Just take his phone off him basically. If he was just left alone to develop a game it would be fine. All common sense goes out the window as soon as he’s interviewed.

Agent_Karyo, (edited )
@Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world avatar

He knew how to make good games back in the day, he doesn’t any more or simply doesn’t care.

Masters of Albion seems to be largely based on his previous game, Legacy, which was a crypto/NFT scam (selling virtual land based on speculative pitch that the tokens would make mad real world money).

I tried Legacy for an hour (just out of curiosity), it’s shit. Almost feels like a low effort game to justify the pump and dump in-game land sale.

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