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4thDimensionDuck, (edited ) do games w Starfield players are being haunted by asteroids
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It’s a weird visual bug. The only solution to remove it (so far) is by using console commands. Open the console, click on the asteroid, then type disable on the console.

I was already disappointed with the unimmersive the space travel is in the game, and this bug just added itself to the list of disappointments.

Some technical notes: When I looked at the asteroids using the console, I expected them to be STATIC Objects; they were actually something called CONST iirc. Just some fun facts.

notfromhere, do games w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

"I’ve had numerous conversations with the LT of Nintendo about tighter collaboration and feel like if any US company would have a chance with Nintendo we are probably in the best position. The unfortunate (or fortunate for Nintendo) situation is that Nintendo is sitting on a big pile of cash, they have a [board of directors] that until recently has not pushed for further increases in market growth or stock appreciation.

“I say “until recently” as our former MS BoD member ValueAct has been heavily acquiring shares of Nintendo and I’ve kept in touch with [ValueAct CEO] Mason Morfit as he’s been acquiring. It’s likely he will be pushing for more from Nintendo stock which could create opportunities for us.

Let the enshittification begin

oxideseven,

Publicly traded companies was just the worst damn idea ever… growth for growth’s sake is ruining everything.

Corkyskog,
@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works avatar

Honestly to me the real shame is everyone’s retirement is tied up in Wallstreet, but no one is personally voting, that’s all done by investment managers. Even in the cases where people get their proxy votes, they mostly throw them away.

Retail investment is a quarter of the market, but only 32% of retail shares had their votes cast (vs 80% for the market as a whole), and on average only 12% of a firms retail accounts vote at all.

WheeGeetheCat,
@WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works avatar

If I own shares through a vanguard index, can I vote in each of those companies?

If so, how?

Someone could make a tool to make it quick and easy

Corkyskog,
@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works avatar

Depends what fund, seems like they are trialing a new proxy vote system

finthechat, do games w RPG experts on why we love Baldur's Gate 3, and the future of the genre
@finthechat@kbin.social avatar

Often when we talk about "hype" surrounding a release, it’s in anticipation of shared cultural euphoria more than that of a great gaming experience.

Maybe I'm hijacking the discussion, but also I don't care. That quote is the first line of the article. That's pretty much exactly what I was trying to talk about the last time I commented about BG3 and called all the excitement surrounding it just "hype" and people were crawling out of the bushes to downvote and dunk on me for criticizing their new favorite game. Every time I looked at my message inbox I was making that "wtf" face the guy made when fucking O'Reilly said "tide goes in, tides goes out, you can't explain that."

glimse,

What are you talking about

finthechat,
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Cold_Brew_Enema,

You’re a complete moron.

finthechat,
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tdawg,
@tdawg@lemmy.world avatar

Just keep digging that hole huh?

finthechat,
@finthechat@kbin.social avatar

I didn't insult anyone. I shared a neutral opinion here but all you people just keep going for that cheap dopamine hit of "let's just downvote this guy together so we can feel good about ourselves" instead of actually talking.

Internet points are worthless anyway. I find a bit of mild humor in the fact that everybody downvoting my comments here actually seems illiterate since everything needed to understand what I am trying to say is in that top level comment.

Though really, I know none of you people are engaging me in good faith at all. Why don't you guys go back to Reddit and Twitter?

radiated, do games w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

Microsoft needs to fuck off.

ieightpi,

im getting really tired of all of these MS acquisitions. I know the nintendo one is very unlikely, but i would be pissed as fuck to see valve swallowed up by this terrifying beast.

mememuseum,

It would never happen as long as Gabe is still at the helm.

ieightpi,

For sure. I hope he’s found a good successor that will keep Valve’s core values alive for years to come.

RisingSwell,

Valve isn’t any more likely than Nintendo, given you can’t buy shares because there are none, and it’s a money printing machine that would have a truly absurd value.

Jimbabwe, do games w If you like short, steampunk SNES-style RPGs, give dystopian freebie Franzen a shot

Just finished my 300+ hour play through of BG3, so something short and snappy to fill the void sounds perfect!

4am, do games w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

If Microsoft acquired Nintendo I will give up on all video games forever.

Like yeah Nintendo is a big bad capitalist company but, just, no. I can’t think of a better way to make gaming worse.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

Microsoft would make the company a lot more retail friendly.

End Nintendos fake scarcity selling tactics.

HarkMahlberg, (edited )
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.social avatar

Forget fake scarcity, the REAL scarcity of pre-acquisition Nintendo games and consoles would skyrocket. Microsoft is only consumer-friendly now because they're still in the phase of acquiring a critical mass of content and users. Once they have both, and everything is on Game Pass, they'll jack up the price as high as they want knowing you'd lose access to all your games if you don't pay.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup, there’s a reason I don’t consider getting GamePass or any other subscription service.

philluminati, (edited )

Nintendo has an incredible brand for easy child friendly and safe gaming experiences. It‘a products are about as retail friendly as you can possibly get. It’s trustworthy. You just buy them off the shelf and slot the cartridges into the unit.

Microsoft is famous for anti-consumer practices, poor UI design, expensive licensing, abandoning products like their Phone, Zune.

Sethayy,

And Nintendo loves to make trash consoles, making them insanely simple to emulate. Microsoft has decades of cyber security experience and would probably lock that right down.

(no of fence to Nintendo consoles, if anything its what made them interesting)

pomodoro_longbreak, do games w If you like short, steampunk SNES-style RPGs, give dystopian freebie Franzen a shot
@pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works avatar

Alright, I definitely will! This looks exactly up my alley.

sturmblast, do games w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

if Microsoft buys Nintendo, Nintendo dies

Kyoyeou,

So, support from Microsoft on Smash tournaments?

Da_Boom,
@Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

Only on Microsoft sanctioned tournaments. Which I highly doubt that would happen.

LemmyTryThisOut, (edited )

They’re doing a fine job killing themselves already.

Edit: why are you booing me? I’m right.

UnfortunateShort, do games w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

Wasn’t this a thing forever ago and didn’t Nintendo just laugh at them? They just had a super successful console and now have more successful IPs than ever, they would be straight up insane to sell a business that runs this good.

Squizzy,

Nintendo is publicly traded, it may be the case that the board won’t have that much of a say.

CypherColt, do games w Starfield players are being haunted by asteroids

Quantum Asteroid? Outer Wilds style!

WheeGeetheCat, do games w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email
@WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works avatar

Microsoft would kill Nintendo so quickly. I think they could do it in 10 years tops, shadow of its former self

mojo, do games w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

What the fuck, this will actually kill Nintendo. Aren’t they way too big to buy?

quams69,

Yeah, also they probably have no interest in being bought. I wouldn’t worry about what a greedy MS corpo wants in this regard

EnglishMobster, (edited )

Microsoft is bigger.

Nintendo’s market cap is about $56.7 billion.

Microsoft’s market cap is $2.44 trillion, with $111 billion worth of cash (not equity, cash) in the bank.

Microsoft is 43 times bigger than Nintendo. They can pay for Nintendo with only cash, if they desire.

These trillion-dollar players are an order of magnitude larger than anyone around them. They can do what they want, same as how Apple ($2.8 trillion) can easily buy Disney ($150.5 billion) if they wished.

This isn’t an exact science, but you can use market cap to ballpark these things and get an idea of how much an acquisition would cost. For example, Twitter had a market cap of $31 billion in August 2022, and Elon bought it a few months later for $44 billion. That’s a 1.4x increase, so applying the same math buying all of Disney would “only” cost about $214 billion - which both Apple and Microsoft (and Google) could do. Nintendo would cost about $80 billion, which Microsoft could do without even taking out a loan.

The issue isn’t necessarily the price; it’s the regulators.

tal, (edited )
@tal@kbin.social avatar

What is Microsoft even making money on these days?

googles

https://www.kamilfranek.com/microsoft-revenue-breakdown/

Azure, Office, and (still) Windows, apparently.

Only 8% of revenue is gaming. They sure do went to grow that.

ShittyRedditWasBetter, (edited ) do games w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

I would fucking love to get Nintendo shit off of the switch. And trash every single line of code that run Nintendos online service. Fuck, can Nintendo do even a single decent multiplayer experience?

midbus,

And give Microsoft even more of a monopoly?

ShittyRedditWasBetter, (edited )

🙄 screaming monopoly in gaming while stream is a thing is an absurd proposition. Game development has an absurdly low barrier to entry and is easily one of the most competitive markets on the planet. Citing a B tier player who is the most open of the console makers as a monopoly when players like Steam, Nintendo, and Sony exist is insane. Gamepass is a fantastic value, MS is a big reason cross play exists, and people lose their shit if a game isn’t available through steam.

Microsoft is one of the companies innovating TBH and I have no issues getting more games on streaming, console, and my PC for effectively $2.50/month once you convert gold. Easily the best value in gaming I’ve had in 30+ years of gaming.

Not having to buy a$300 outdated phone to enjoy the 5 things I enjoy on Nintendo would be a godsend.

4am,

“Microsoft is one of the companies innovating”

“This new Xbox is a windows PC that you can’t upgrade”

Yeah, great. Innovative. Some real Wozniak shit right there. Get your head out of your ass.

ShittyRedditWasBetter,

MS sells a capable device at a price point lower than any PC even close in performance and you bitch about upgrading 🤣

midbus,

Competition is what causes innovation, the only reason Microsoft does innovate is because of its competition with companies like Sony and Nintendo. You really think game pass would be here to stay without competition? That shits only a good deal because it has to be.

ShittyRedditWasBetter,

So working as intended? No real monopoly to be had?

AnonTwo,

What a fanboy, jeez lol

ShittyRedditWasBetter,

Yes. They are fantastic. Y’all just st lazy attacking me instead of dealing with your copium.

AnonTwo,

You aren't really giving anyone anything to work with. Plus you call everyone copium for...some reason, so we might as well call you out on fanboyism since you actually remember that Microsoft gold exists

ShittyRedditWasBetter,

Tell me you couldn’t be less informed lol. Microsoft will let you convert gold into game pass ultimate allowing you to rack up 3 years for like $70. It’s an absurd value and you just want to hand waive it away because it doesn’t support you🤣

AnonTwo, (edited )

Wow, you're doing advertising for them too huh?

But yeah no, I just don't buy any of it to begin with and let the points rot. No interest in getting locked into a system that they'll eventually try to raise the prices on once they muscle out their competitors.

I'm amazed you said these are the best deals you've seen in 30 years. Cause you certainly don't seem to be in my age group. Though maybe you're using the emote spamming to look younger than you are, who knows.

ShittyRedditWasBetter,

Locked into what? More than you are locked into steam? You just make crap up 🤣

AnonTwo, (edited )

Come back to me when I start having to pay a fee so that valve doesn't pull my games.

Also is 🤣 your copium when you need to make an argument look worse in your eyes? It really just looks like an awkward tic at this point.

ShittyRedditWasBetter,

I’ll happily rent most games for absurdly cheap and purchase the few I might play more than once. You can spend significantly more creating a dusty catalog. There is plenty of room for competition 😉

some_guy,
@some_guy@kbin.social avatar

Thinking that Microsoft is innovating and Steam (Valve is their name but whatever) is not is some real small 🍆 energy

AdolfSchmitler, (edited )

Bro did Nintendo fuck your wife or something?

ShittyRedditWasBetter,

I love it. I fucking love it. My opinion absolutely enrages the masses here. Me wanting Nintendo games on game pass is just making blood boil.

Carighan, do games w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

MS wanted to buy Nintendo. The company that has so much money on hand that they are a noticable thing to the japanese banking sector?

Of all possible companies they were looking at buying? Heck, Sony might be more realistic by comparison, at least their gaming/console parts!

stopthatgirl7, (edited )
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And of all the hubris to want to rock up to a company that is over 125 years old and still going strong to tell them you would know better how to run their company than them.

ShittyRedditWasBetter,

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  • stopthatgirl7,
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    Microsoft is never going to love you back, dude.

    ShittyRedditWasBetter,

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  • stopthatgirl7,
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    Yeeeeah, I don’t know what you’re reading, but it certainly isn’t anything I wrote.

    You seem to be a troll, judging by this and other comments I’ve seen, along with your user name, so goodbye.

    ShittyRedditWasBetter,

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  • OctopusKurwa,

    Everyone should block this clown.

    ShittyRedditWasBetter,

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  • Albbi,

    Yup, anyone who responds like that gets a block.

    sanpo,

    What’s your point? Microsoft is easily several times bigger and is a “noticeable thing” in pretty much every country.

    darreninthenet,

    Market cap of Nintendo - 50 billion Market cap of Microsoft - 2.4 trillion

    Goronmon,

    Heck, Sony might be more realistic by comparison, at least their gaming/console parts!

    I mean, judging from the quotes, even MS considered it pretty unlikely back when the email is sent.

    pulaskiwasright,

    Sony is worth more than twice as much as Nintendo.

    dustyData,

    It’s really hard for humans to imagine things at that scale, but Microsoft is so many orders of magnitude larger than Nintendo that whatever Microsoft (and other mega tech companies like Apple and Google) does the entire global international finance system feels it.

    TORFdot0, do games w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

    The only company I’d trust to buy Nintendo is Apple. But I’d rather that not happen

    OR3X,

    FUCK NO

    TORFdot0,

    Do you mind expanding on why you are opposed to it? To me, the companies have very similar values, especially the “we know what the consumer wants better than the consumer does” attitude and similar values toward being a walled garden with crafted experiences rather than openness.

    I know that those things aren’t popular with those who hate apple because of its philosophies and those who think it’s morally correct to pirate Nintendo games; but from a purely business standpoint, Apple would be a much better steward of Nintendo’s IP

    OR3X,

    My primary concern is that Apple has a bad habit of taking anything that they buy and only making it available within the apple ecosystem. I’m not in the Apple ecosystem and do not wish to be. There are, of course, notable exceptions to this. Apple music comes to mind.

    TORFdot0,

    A very valid concern. Thank you.

    The other concern I would have is that Apple hasn’t really dealt with physical media since like the install disc for either lion or snow leopard (can’t remember the last one you could go to Best Buy and buy an install DVD) so I’d be concerned they’d abandon dedicated gaming hardware completely or even if they did have an AppleTV like console, they’d have no support for physical media.

    dudewitbow, (edited )

    They have the opposite mindset when it comes to how they handle hardware. Nintendo targets the cheapest demographic, willing to use old technology if it meant turning profit., Apple targets the complete oppisite by always buying out bleeding edge TSMC nodes. The only thing they share in common is both sell at profit on hardware sales.

    stopthatgirl7,
    !deleted7120 avatar

    I would prefer no one bought Nintendo and they kept on doing what they do. They’ve been around for over 125 and you can still buy the hanafuda playing cards they started out making, so I’m pretty sure they know what they’re doing.

    TORFdot0,

    I absolutely agree with you, the gaming industry is much stronger with Nintendo’s presence. I was just stating that if Nintendo went up for sale, for whatever reason, I’d trust Apple to continue Nintendo’s design philosophy better than Microsoft, Sony, Google, or another big tech company.

    g6d3np81,

    Bought one many years ago, it's unexpectedly pricey for a 5cm paper card (48 cards). IIRC it's their excuse is "traditional look". The box is nice though.

    dangblingus,

    Why would you even type such a thing?

    Stumblinbear, (edited )
    @Stumblinbear@pawb.social avatar

    I can’t wait for yearly Nintendo console releases with merely cosmetic changes at $1500 price points and breaking OS changes that prevent you using games you bought two years prior!

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