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Hirom, do gaming w The BioWare layoffs include the writer responsible for Dragon Age's best character

Well, another Mass Effect now looks less likely.

How many people work at Bioware right now? I wonder how big of a cut it is for the company.

scrubbles,
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Last I heard they had some 250 headcount and they just did 50 layoffs. Bioware was already on life support and ea is just playing with the plug

BudgieMania, do games w Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC is getting more expensive and the community is rebelling: 'Remember they need us more than we need them'

If they need more revenue, I wish they would try console releases instead of deteriorating the value of newer DLC. Company of Heroes did it so it is not unheard of, and surely the hardware of latest gen consoles is enough to run a semi-decent experience of Total War titles.

As much as I love the franchise, I'm kinda concerned for its future if they continue down the current route, not gonna lie.

ThunderingJerboa,
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I think that will be dreadful. Like not a huge fan of the dlc price increases (seriously almost 150% increase over the last game when their last lord pack COC was already an increase), just TW on console just sounds awful since the controls just aren't precise enough for what you need to do in those games. Yes, you can plug in a keyboard and mouse in a console but I don't think many people would be willing to do that for just a singular game except for the most tryhardy of people

Zellith, do gaming w Overwatch 2 director opens up about having the worst-reviewed game on Steam: 'Being review-bombed isn't a fun experience'

Review bombs generally dont last the entire release of a game. Perhaps you just made a shit game.

Homeschooled316, do gaming w Overwatch 2 director opens up about having the worst-reviewed game on Steam: 'Being review-bombed isn't a fun experience'

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  • conciselyverbose,

    You understand that the game isn't new, just new to Steam, right? Having zero hours on Steam doesn't mean anything when they forced all the people who genuinely wanted to play it to figure out that it was dogshit on their own launcher first.

    wolfshadowheart,
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    Reposting from another thread:

    Review bombing is when a game gets poorly rated for something, mostly completely unrelated to the game, but due to something surrounding it - be that a publisher decision like deciding to ban and not give Blitzchung his prize money for saying support Hong Kong, or some perceived language/political/regional slights like with Nier Automata. Tons of examples out here in this category, where legitimately good games are being affected by somewhat legitimate but not relevant reasons.

    Overwatch 2 being poorly rated on Steam isn't review bombing. It's gamers saying how shit the game is, like the false promises for Cyberpunk 2077, the addition of denuovo to games, or horrendously egregious microtransactions added to games, like with horse armor or the entirety of everything thst happened leading up to Star Wars Battlefront II (the second). These may be legitimately good games severely affected by terrible decisions from the developers, publishers, or marketing team. Being poorly rated for having egregious microtransactions isn't being review bombed, it's highlighting a serious problem in the games design.

    I understand why the latter is so easily mixed up with the former, but it's something that happens as users and media outlets erode the meaning of these words. It's disingenuous to say that something is review-bombed when it's poorly rated for legitimate reasons but as you said it's something that is now interpreted that way.

    There's also something to be said about Valve's internal metric for review bombing which is the increased number of reviews leaning in a particular direction due to some external force. For example, Assassins Creed Unity being given for free led to positive reviews but was excluded from being counted as a review bombing, compared to something negative like being completely unable to leave reviews at all on the Epic Games store, leading players to leave reviews on Steam.

    In regards to the reviewson Steam, given that the game has been out but just released on this platform, it's still not review bombing. Are there joke reviews? Always in basically every game since before steam points awards. That doesn't mean they were being review bombed, that's just any other joke reviews.

    Tl;Dr is overwatch 2 being poorly rated for something that doesn't have anything to do with the game? Did Blizzard not give prize winnings out? Did the developer make a racy tweet 10 years ago? Are non-localised players upset about something not culturally localized?

    No? It's being poorly reviewed due to changes, removals, minimal upgrades, and increased microtransactions?

    Poorly reviewed for bad decisions. Not review bombed.

    infyrin, do games w The 26-year-old Quake 2 just got the remaster of my dreams, plus a big expansion
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    I am playing this game again, just for the N64 campaign. For anyone who already owns a copy, gets the remaster for free as an update. It’s amazing that a game I paid $3.99 in a bundle, is getting this much packed in.

    iltoroargento, do games w Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine
    @iltoroargento@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

    “Fortunately for Glukhovsky, he is not actually in Russia, and was sentenced in absentia. His current whereabouts are unknown.”

    Literally the last sentence lol thankfully, he’s not in Russia.

    Shawdow194,
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    Yes that is good to hear! Hopefully they never find him

    iltoroargento,
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    Agreed. He shouldn’t have to hide, either, but that’s not where we are, apparently.

    whataboutshutup,

    He only needs to never come back, and for him it’s easy. It’s not yet that stage when they smuggle people back, rn they just clean up cultural landscape from ‘traitors’ to make it 100% sterile. Music scene is already like that.

    jayandp,

    What a relief. He must’ve dipped as soon as he saw where things were headed in Russia. I wonder where he got asylum? But at the same time I hope I never find out, for his sake.

    GammaGames, do gaming w Escape Simulator gets official Portal DLC

    I’m intrigued, the trailer looks fun enough. I wonder if there’s a VR mod?

    SmoochyPit,

    Escape Simulator VR was announced for later this year; I assume it’ll support all of the DLCs and community maps too.

    Theradox, do gaming w Bards are Baldur's Gate 3's best class and I can't imagine playing it as anything else

    I’ve been having fun with my Ranger with a heavy armour build but this article does make a class change tempting!

    ConstableJelly,

    Right? Ranger is probably at the bottom of my list just cause in 5e (as has been noted everywhere else), it seems to lack its own identity. If you’re familiar with those rules, do you feel like BG3 does anything to make the Ranger more worthwhile than the tabletop version?

    Theradox,

    This is my first entry into anything D&D / 5e honestly and the lack of identity kind of drew me to the ranger, I wanted to go for a melee front fighter but the barbarian and warrior trees seemed a bit too focused

    Beast master ranger with the heavy armour proficiency ended up being the “do anything” class when I swapped between a couple

    oo1,

    i'd only play a ranger if it came with a miniature giant space hamster.
    "go for the eyes . . ."

    Dalek_Thal,
    @Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone avatar

    Boo comes with every build, whether you want him to or not

    harpuajim, do gaming w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it

    Seems like Australia gets screwed with these types of things more than other first world nations. Even a lot of third world countries have better speeds on average than Australia. Even then though with a 50mbps connection you can just download it overnight or start it before you leave for work and you’ll be good to go.

    syphe,

    You guys beat us at most things, but at least we have the Bledisloe, and fibre internets

    Ilikepornaddict, do gaming w Larian CEO's advice about origin characters has thrown my Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough plans into disarray

    Seems like a decent system to me. Have a recommendation, but leave players the choice.

    sodiumbromley, do gaming w Anglers rejoice: Sega is giving out free Steam keys for Sega Bass Fishing, the Sega Dreamcast bass fishing classic
    @sodiumbromley@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    I’d given away my email address for less. fuk ya some bass tho hell yah

    Photographer, do games w Official Minecraft wiki editors so furious at Fandom's 'degraded' functionality and popups they're overwhelmingly voting to leave the site

    Stardew Valley did the right thing by self hosting a wiki, makes it both official and independent

    Smokeless7048,

    Several have, including the old school RuneScape wiki!

    Now there’s two, and one is far more content full

    mhague, do games w Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged'

    I’d rather have another team try to execute Subnautica. Unforgivable to make a survival game where enemies go through walls, you can fall through your ship, and your save becomes corrupted if you build too much.

    It’s a AA game that was rough around the edges. Not much there to make you think “without the original devs the game will be totally wrong.”

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

    It’s mooching off healthcare in the us, it’s a basic need for other countries.

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

    Just pop some health potions

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