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MonkderVierte, do games w Sony finally surrenders: PSN accounts will be 'optional' for games on Steam, but they'll give you free stuff if you sign up

Patient gamers be like: look, this is what they need to do to emulate a fraction of our power.

MilitantAtheist, do games w Diablo 1 and 2 devs secure $4.5 million for a new ARPG: 'We're going back to what made those early Diablo games feel so awesome but taking them in some cool, fresh directions'

“Sounds great, but hear me out, how about everything is AI generated!”

I’m sure I’ve called it.

CptOblivius,

They’ve used procedurally generated parts since the start, which is basically early ai. Hopefully they don’t go full monty though.

RandomVideos,

AI is also used to describe enemy behavior

Don_alForno, do games w Exodus, the new game being led by BioWare veteran James Ohlen, finally reveals some gameplay, and boy it sure looks like Mass Effect

but I’m back to feeling rather ambivalent about the whole thing, which to my eye looks like nothing so much as an alt-universe Mass Effect.

And that’s supposed to be a bad thing?

More Mass Effect is always a win in my book.

merthyr1831, do games w 'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action

lol nice try NZXT

DontMakeMoreBabies, do games w 'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action

Renting a gaming PC seems dumb as fuck.

MutilationWave,

Renting most things long term is dumb as fuck, yet Rent-A-Center is a thing. Technically they do rent to own, but they will set you up with a whole shitty bachelor pad. $10 a month for the table, 20 for the couch, and only 50 for the TV. Over a five year loan. They will and do repo shit and rent it to the next dumbass. Quick what’s 50 times 12 times 5? Doesn’t matter I have a shitty big screen for only fifty bucks!

catloaf,

Even if it works out to spending $3000 on the end, that’s still only $80/month, and their demographic is people living paycheck to paycheck who don’t have the few hundred at any one time to buy the stuff outright.

MutilationWave,

Yeah $3000 for a $600 TV. Just like in the gamers Nexus video, you’d be better off buying it on a credit card.

kyle, do games w Critical Role's plans to make a videogame have become an 'active pursuit', says CEO Travis Willingham, after almost 10 years of growing a D&D campaign into a full-on franchise

I’m interested but not especially optimistic. Depends on who is actually making the game, I believe they know tabletop games well, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to a CRPG.

Random aside, the article says Marisha Ray voiced Jaina Proudmoore, but it was really Laura Bailey.

Kyrgizion, do games w Warcraft Rumble, Blizzard's first new RTS in years, will finally shed its mobile shackles and come to PC in December

No thanks.

Nuke_the_whales, do games w The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing

But they own it. I thought even I could download a ROM if I have the actual game no?

RoosterBoy,

No, at least in the US, you can only back up your own ROM if you own the game, not download someone else’s backup. The real problem here is that Nintendo’s (idiotic) stance is ALL emulation/backups are piracy and here they are being hypocrites about it.

ricecake, do gaming w Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'

These articles are basically just advertising for GoG.
They have the same issues as steam does regarding only selling licenses, or not having inheritable or transferable accounts.

DRM free is great, but as a service they aren’t fundamentally different from steam. They just like to market themselves like they are.

RootBeerGuy,
@RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

This has been posted a million times already, but I am still going to repeat it. Yes you are right, in their own legal docs they also only talk about licenses.

Difference for the consumer however is that you get the installation files which are supposed to work offline. Meaning if you take care to store that, it will not be gone ever, no matter if GOG goes down. With Steam this gets more complicated and may only work for some games.

ricecake,

I get that. DRM free is great and better. I just don’t like the advertisement that casts it as “you own the game”, or entire articles built around posts by their marketing department.
It feels very ambulance-chaser-y.

Lonsfor, do gaming w The Doom mod that turns Margaret Thatcher into an undead cyberdemon has been removed by Bethesda yet again, this time for 'disobeying a ZeniMax employee'
@Lonsfor@c.im avatar

literally 1984

Kaboom, do gaming w The eagerness to grave dance on unpopular games has become a bad habit

Dancing on concords grave is more fun than playing concord, and it’s free!

Neato, do gaming w Hidetaka Miyazaki 'knows for a fact' other FromSoftware devs want a Bloodborne PC port: 'If I say I want one, I'll get in trouble, but it's nothing I'm opposed to'
@Neato@ttrpg.network avatar

Why would he get in trouble? Sony only owns 15% of From. And who the hell would fire him? That’d be like firing Kojima. And we see how that turned out for Konami.

theangriestbird,

Sony execs: “well we were going to send Kratos after him, but he only said he ‘wasn’t opposed’, so you can send Kratos home.”

sneezycat,
@sneezycat@sopuli.xyz avatar

Knowing how good companies are at taking decisions, they’d be capable.

The_Walkening, do gaming w You can't take it with you, but you can't leave it for someone else either: Valve says you aren't allowed to bequeath a Steam account in a will

I wouldn’t suppose that people are required to inform steam that they’re dead. Therefore, I’d assume the easiest way to bequeath games/DLCs, etc, is to get a wishlist from your loved ones, and then gift all of those games prior to death on a credit card that you might not be able to pay, due to being dead. Steam gets the money, the CC company gets shafted. Alternately, share your credit card details with a loved one and that list, and have them order within hours of your death (this depends on whether or not you were plausibly alive when those CC transactions took place)

ChuckEffingNorris,

Surely debts are taken from your estate?

Communist,
@Communist@lemmy.ml avatar

Simply have no estate and it’s all wins!

keepcarrot,

I would just give them the username and password of my account, then they can enjoy tomb raider 3 or something.

mnemonicmonkeys,

And if they don’t want to always use that specific account, they can set it up for family sharing

Shadowedcross, do gaming w Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios

Ah, you see, the issue is that it wasn’t profitable enough. You just gotta try harder, devs, it’s easy.

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

It’s crazy though, they plopped HFH on the store the day it was announced with no marketing push, it became a critical and audience darling and execs said it was a breakout hit.

What else do you need to stay alive in this industry? Insomniac made one of the best selling games of the year and got rewarded by getting 10% of its workforce cut.

Yttra,

I wonder if a number of those people playing it day 1 on gamepass affected their numbers, because there’s no way they didn’t account for GP downloads…

Maybe it didn’t bring enough new GP subscribers in addition to sales…?

panned_cakes, do gaming w 'We have not confirmed any instance of Vanguard bricking anyone's hardware' following its League of Legends rollout, Riot says, but there are definitely problems for some players
@panned_cakes@hexbear.net avatar

LOL “we didn’t destroy their devices” what is going on in there gamers??

nix,

Yea this is a very worrisome denial.

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