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  • tb_,
    @tb_@lemmy.world avatar

    It’s a gift link?

    Maybe your add-ins ‘cleaned’ the link somehow, but if you use the full one you can read the article.

    dubyakay, do gaming w Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff Votes to Unionize

    Wait, I’m missing something. What does World of Warcraft have in common with Microsoft?

    pepsison52895,

    Microsoft purchased Blizzard.

    dubyakay,

    🤯

    I must have been under a rock.

    No wonder they were able to unionize so quickly. And I bet they had to, knowing Microsoft’s track record.

    DebatableRaccoon,

    Being under the ActiBlizzard umbrella wasn’t exactly a walk in the park for a lot of employees either.

    Cube6392,

    I knew a dude who worked at Activision Blizzard and his description of his workplace sounded horrid. The weird part was his fawning bright eyed love for the office culture. He viewed it as a perfect dream workplace. I don’t even know it there’s a takeaway from all that. It just always struck me as notably odd

    DebatableRaccoon,

    Sounds like a strange form of Stockholm Syndrome.

    t3rmit3,

    And they paid $69 billion, which is the dumb joke amount Elon initially said he’d pay for Twitter, but these dorks actually did it

    shasta, do gaming w Microsoft’s ‘World of Warcraft’ Gaming Staff Votes to Unionize

    Do they have any leverage? How much money is wow still making off new content at this point?

    MajorHavoc,

    They have plenty of leverage. WoW runs on centralized servers which cannot maintain themselves, and are likely still under constant forms of Cyberattack, waiting for a serious vulnerability.

    seliaste,
    @seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    WoW is still a lot of money iirc, the playerbase is still big

    VinesNFluff, do gaming w GameStop Raises $2.14 Billion on Back of Roaring Kitty-Led Rally
    @VinesNFluff@pawb.social avatar

    Is history repeating? Didn’t this happen like 2 years ago?

    ImplyingImplications,

    Gamestop has been a meme stock since covid when it jumped from a few dollars a share to $50 a share. Since 2020 it has fluctuated quite a bit but has overall trended downwards. Now it’s gone from $10 up to $30 each. A fool and his money are soon parted.

    Carighan, do gaming w Microsoft’s Xbox Is Planning More Cuts After Studio Closings
    @Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

    C-suite bonuses ain’t gonna pay themselves, you know?!

    godzilla_lives, do gaming w Bloomberg - Microsoft’s Xbox Is Planning More Cuts After Studio Closings

    Welp, reckon it’s time I take my happy ass down to the local used game store and sell my Xbox. Thing’s collecting dust anyway. I think I’ll get a new camera lens instead.

    verycoolusername, do gaming w Embracer Group Cancels ‘Deus Ex’ Video Game

    This is just terrible. I love Deus Ex and was hoping to see a new game in the next 5 years.

    AFreeLarryHoover, do games w Capcom Targets Smartphone Gamers
    @AFreeLarryHoover@lemmy.world avatar

    They need to target a Mega Man Legends 3 release.

    Murdoc, do gaming w Video-Game Company Unity Closes Offices Following Death Threat

    Man that website is annoying. Say, where’s that summary bot?

    ylai,
    SolidShake, do games w Microsoft Plans Major Job Cuts at Xbox Gaming Division

    Makes sense after how successful the oblivion AI remaster sold.

    augustus672,

    Can you provide proof that AI was used? It’s not disclosed on the Steam page which Valve requires for all games.

    SolidShake,

    Yeah. They used UE5. Which has insane AI tools. So, you know how you can walk around and see all the detail? Well if you think bathesda hand painted in new brush and details and redid ALL the character models etc etc you’re nuts. But what’s funny is, in the character models. You can literally see the AI used because nothing is significant. The motions are all exactly the same except the main character. The mouth movements are the exact same. Everything is exactly how it was but just overcoated with a new engine. And UE5 literally advertises their AI capabilities.

    BlameTheAntifa,

    I want to respond in a rational, reasonable way, but this is so factually incorrect and utterly unhinged I am not sure where to even start. Ordinarily I’d be all about dumping on Bethesda, too.

    SolidShake,

    Dude … You can literally tell if you didn’t glaze so hard.

    propitiouspanda, do games w Inside the 'Dragon Age' Debacle That Gutted EA's BioWare Studio

    If you look at it critically, Dragon Age Origins and Awakening are really the only good games in the series.

    It went to shit, fast. Now they’re just pandering to the wrong people expecting it to save their game when everyone who was interested in the original has long since moved on.

    Crankenstein,

    Only slightly disagree.

    Inquisition and Veilguard aren’t bad games. They are each fun in their own ways and cater to certain audiences.

    That audience just so happens to not be in any way related to the Dragon Age fandom.

    commander, do games w Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game

    Not buying it. GTAV was the least played for me in the series besides the first 2 games. I thought it’s story was a major downgrade compared to Vice City through GTAIV. I feel like GTAV was a pullback from any bit of endearing human spirit to leaning heavily into wacky self-aware sarcasm. Not that the series wasn’t that. Just that 5 to me was an edgy non-clever series parody. It’s not that different than Far Cry. Empty commentary. Just mocking everything. Felt more affection in the 3 series and 4

    Regardless since GTAIV, we’ve had a gluttony of open world games. Even the battle royale games I think fill in a niche for social multiplayer that’s wacky and real world pop culture referential. GTAVI and it’s RP community support I think will be what sends it past or below GTAV success. High unit sales expectations but I’m more tepid than most. Maybe it’ll be even more effective at whale hunting

    pyre, do games w Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion

    oh no not the expansion to the game no one even remembers

    dude they shut down monolith and canceled the only game with a nemesis system we were going to play. nothing they do is newsworthy anymore. they were always shitty but now they’re also completely pointless.

    jordanlund, do games w Annapurna Video-Game Team Resigns, Leaving Partners Scrambling
    @jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

    Sounds like if they had stuck around, they would have been let go eventually anyway…

    ChicoSuave, do games w Behind ‘Suicide Squad,’ the Year’s Biggest Video-Game Flop

    Holy shit, in a year of bad games, Suicide Squad stands out. Honestly shocked Forspoken or Redfall didn’t get top spot.

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

    Forspoken and Redfall were last year.

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