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Gerudo, do games w Would-be City of Heroes successor, Ship of Heroes, decides to launch the MMO with a $45 price tag and a $15 monthly subscription and it's, er, going about as well as you'd expect

I can’t believe the devs sat there, built that abomination, and said, yeah $45 and $15 a month sounds about right…

Blackmist, do games w 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'

“we haven’t optimised this at all, lol, $80 please”

TheObviousSolution, do games w 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'

That’s the thing, Randy, we aren’t interested in a monster truck, we just need a car. A 5090 is not a leaf blower, and your game looks more like a clown car than a monster truck given the way it runs. Thanks for telling us that you are basically only interested in whales, although I can’t imagine they are happy either regardless of how they’ve probably thrown money at you already.

stringere, do games w 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed'

Bought it to try n Linux. I don’t have the greatest video card but I can play Dune: Awakening, Helldivers 2, Monster Hunter Wikds, Avowed, Black Myth: Wukong…

Borderlands 4 was stuttering on the barely animated character select. I lowered settings all as low as possible and it was still unplayable with delayed/missed input and stuttering.

entropicdrift, do gaming w Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'
!deleted5697 avatar

The bigger context of that quote is basically that they’re heads down and preparing for crunch. The person who said, “I don’t know if we’re going to make it” also said “but we’re doing everything we can to make it happen” (this is my paraphrase, I don’t know if I got the exact wording)

rainwall,

The bigger, bigger context of the quote is that this game was initially supposed to be released in 2014, and now 2026 is looking unlikely.

And yes, im just talking about squadron 42, the spinoff fps of the even later game that is even farther from release, Star citizen.

The 12 years of release date slippage makes people extra wary about any qualifiers or maybes that the devs add, regardless of context.

entropicdrift,
!deleted5697 avatar

Sure, that’s true. I was a year 1 backer, just after the initial Kickstarter ended, so I guess to me that part of the context kind of spoke for itself. Thanks for highlighting it, I honestly do appreciate it.

Sidyctism2,
@Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I know some of the SC story from knudsens channel, but somehow it never really hit me that they are developing a spin-off of a game that hasnt even released yet

Hadriscus,

it’s a wandering daughter job

hoch, do games w After stretching the definition of 'beta' for 8 years, Escape From Tarkov is finally hitting 1.0

Russian garbage

SonOfAntenora,

The community is even worse if you’re wondering.

alekwithak, do games w Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

I’d love to play some video games, anyone know where I can find some of this free healthcare?

peteyestee, (edited )

State Medicaid. Just make sure you keep your wage under the limits.

Don’t do this… But that’s what he means.

Sell drugs or have a hustle on the side and get more money. /S

It’s the same game from the street to the big businesses. Big businesses and rich people just make charities and get offshore bank accounts to rape our economy.

MyNamesTotallyRobert,

Looking forward to the federal thc hemp ban. Then I can grow weed for huge profit margins, quit my real job, and actually sit around and play video games without giving anything back to society all day like he’s accusing us all of doing. Wish they’d make alcohol illegal too. We have enough dipshits in congress for this to happen after they do all this horrible stuff and then get angry when non of it accomplishes what they think it will accomplish. Moonshine is even easier to mass produce than weed and like 4000% easier to get away with.

Buske,

It’s much worse than that, They have the entire US stock market rigged to so the same.

gerowen, do games w Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
@gerowen@lemmy.world avatar

We have free health care? Coulda fooled me.

VolumetricShitCompressor, do games w 10 years later, no one has replicated Rocket League's mojo

I stopped playing when they decided to require an Epic account to log in years AFTER I bought the game on Steam. It shouldn’t be allowed to alter the terms and conditions in that way afterwards. I bought the game on steam to play it on Steam and wouldn’t have otherwise if a third party account would’ve been necessary.

fuzzzerd,

I didn’t like it either, but you could still play locally against ai without it, it was their online matchmaking and game servers that required the new epic account.

Still sucks, but it’s not quite the same rug pull that’s often seen.

Beacon, (edited ) do games w Hunt: Showdown 1896 goes offline for a day after its latest update caused so many problems Crytek had to remove it completely

Weird how these kind of giant mistakes can be released. Is there no testing being done before release?

Barbarian,
@Barbarian@sh.itjust.works avatar

I have a friend who does game QA. A lot of the time issues this major are caught, documented, and then management decides the extra delay to solve it isn’t worth the effort because “it’s not going to impact enough people to matter”. Then, once a firestorm erupts due to public backlash, they try and blame it on QA.

My friend has gotten very good at ass-covering, and makes sure every issue ticket is very explicit, not only in terms of what the issue is, the cause, reproducibility, but also how likely the average user is to hit it just to avoid blame.

DoucheBagMcSwag, (edited )

Huh so the TV show Mythic Quest was based on real events you say…?

NutWrench, do games w Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital
@NutWrench@lemmy.world avatar

I think the new owners will fark NexusMods to death and you should start looking for a backup site to host your mods.

aaron, (edited ) do games w Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital

asdf

xavier666,

pinky-promise

SweetCitrusBuzz, do gaming w Byond game engine suffers a weeks-long DDoS attack, apparently because a wanna-be Bond villain is trying to force it to go open source: 'Attacks on Byond servers are a symptom of your obstinance'
@SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org avatar

We agree with the desire, but in this case at least, not with the method.

MouldyCat,

“We demand you voluntarily side with progress”

They have an interesting concept of voluntary to be sure

SweetCitrusBuzz,
@SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org avatar

Wow, yeah.

saigot,

I would be on board if they also hit unity or unreal but that is probably not really possible. As it is its really just feeding into monopolies.

LettyWhiterock, do games w Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets

They just keep doing it. I haven’t played any of their post-halo games and it seems like it’s going to stay that way. Feels like controversy after controversy. Removing content from Destiny 2. Stealing art. Stealing art. Stealing art. Stealing art…

HawlSera,

I really wanted to like Destiny 2, but then they started releasing expansion packs faster than I could feasibly buy or play them. Then I learned that most of those expansions had no content anymore anyway because they think removing content is a good idea, so I just gave up.

Sadly it seems like they really would have been better off as a Halo-Making Machine like Microsoft wanted them to be.

Grizzlyboy, do games w Bungie confirms it stole art once again, will undertake a 'thorough review' of Marathon assets

They’re doing it again! Bungie has fallen far, completely incompetent management.

A_Union_of_Kobolds,

It’s such a damn shame, too. Destiny 2 was some of the most fun I’ve had in gaming over the last decade. Absolutely jaw-dropping environments at times, clever encounter designs, the gunplay, so many things to love. And I have no doubt Marathon will be a hell of a thing from what I’ve seen. These people can design a game.

But GODDAMN stop stealing art from people. Upper management has got to be atrocious with all the bullshit they’ve pulled over the years. And you know that bullshit starts at C-suite and rolls downhill.

Just a damn shame.

echodot,

It’s surprising how few people at the top you need to change in order to change a company culture. One of the companies that I regularly work with has gone from being a nightmare because we could never get information out of them, to a nightmare because of how whiny and demanding they’ve become. That was the result of the CEO changing, that’s it one person and it results in a totally different corporate personality.

A_Union_of_Kobolds,

Dictatorships be like that. You never hear about these problems with co-ops, just saying…

RightHandOfIkaros,

Is it only the management though? You mean to tell me absolutely none of the artists knew about this, or that literally ONLY ONE “ex-employee” artist knew this was going on among the art team? Do Bungie only have one artist making art assets for textures across various objects, as well as assets they use on their website and in their trailers?

“Ex-employee” is a scapegoat, but I guarantee you there was more than one artist, entirely unrelated to management, that knew this was going on and will happily blame the scapegoat to absolve themselves of their involvement.

XnxCuX,
@XnxCuX@lemmy.world avatar

Is it far fetched to say their art team could be large, but also underpaid and ignored it so the work was done? Not right but sums up my work experience in an entirely unrelated and uncreative field.

Really just devil’s advocate, im curious for any corporate artist opinion

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