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rimjob_rainer, do games w Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions

Tell Sony, they got so fucking greedy with their PS Plus.

Mek, do games w Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions

I mean, this is a very Captain Obvious take. The problem is; it won’t change and it’ll only get worse.

Naatan, do games w Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions

No one wants mass subscriptions. “Gamers” is a red herring.

mojo, do games w Meta Quest 3 demand allegedly 5 million units below expected level

When’s the last time you heard the word metaverse? Love all the companies that tried to immediately follow, assuming it was going to be a thing. They’re probably on to AI now.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS, do games w Starfield user score drops to "mostly positive" on steam

Steam has long since proven itself it be a useless metric to get any valuable statistics from.

It’s reviews have always been filled with memes, but especially now that reviews can be monetized.

Even poorly done negative reviews rake it a lot of Steam Points.

nanoUFO,
@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

How can reviews be monetized also the overall score is what really matters and is far more trustworthy than any games reviewer. Oh you mean points, I still fail to see how that matters when a game has 10k+ reviews and some tiny portion of them are memes. There is literally nothing better in terms of reviews.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

Steam reviews are generally 90% memes or circle jerking.

Ghost Recon Breakpoint had mostly negative. The reviews all complain about either no achievements or the fact that the game was locked to their Ubisoft launcher first. Not real criticism of the game, especially considering most of what people complained about on release was fixed by the time it got put onto Steam.

It’s now 7 months later and it’s finally gone up to mixed with mostly positive reviews recently, despite no changes to the game.

Compare Breakpoint to Wildlands, it’s not as good previous game, all of the recent reviews are still circle jerking but posting positively.

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/10a8765c-8a8b-428e-804e-6f6b5dcc9a13.webp

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/2b5ada46-2be2-4194-b670-28f9d901558d.webp

As soon as Steam embraced the memes and shit reviews by adding a Funny button its reviews went to shit.

nanoUFO, (edited )
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You do realize you are cherry picking right? The power of steam reviews it that it’s just users posting what they want and there is a score aggregate with cool tools that tell you if a game is being review bombed. There are plenty of very good reviews on steam and I use them all the time when going through my many thousands of wish listed indie games. Please don’t tell you me you think reviews done by “game journalists” getting early review copies and going to review events is better… on the whole. At least with steam reviews I know it’s people like me rating a game.

jws_shadotak, do games w Only Up, one of 2023's biggest Twitch games has been removed from Steam, due to developer's stress

The game is Only Up, which is like a 3D version of Getting Over It.

MarcomachtKuchen, do games w You can now play as a Minotaur, Kobold, and even FFXIV races in Baldur's Gate 3

Already? I thought with all the cutscenes and fully animated models, custom models for races would take way longer

EnglishMobster,

As long as there’s a shared skeleton, you can make any model work with any animation that has the same skeleton.

So all that was needed to be done was to figure out what skeleton the animations were looking for and then set up an equivalent skeleton for the modded race. Then you can just reuse the same animations the game does.

Rouxibeau,

I think he was implying full integration with relevant racial dialogs

Aganim, do games w Postal 2 Redux is bringing back the controversial FPS with a full remaster

Has it really been 20 years? Damn, I’m not ashamed to admit I don’t think I ever finished the game in that time.

Each playthrough ended in fucking around with gasoline, pissing out some innocent bystanders that happened to stray too close and taking out the rest with cat-silenced guns. Bonus points if the cat gave out and was launched straight into somebody’s face, vomit all around. Good memories playing this with my younger brother. 😁

KingThrillgore, do games w Thief has a new spiritual sequel, built by the Deus Ex and System Shock devs
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

OtherSide also failed to make System Shock 3 so expecting this to ship is… hopeful

osprior, do games w MW2 remastered multiplayer mod shut down by Activision day before launch

IW4x exists if you want to mod the original MW2 with dedicated servers, been meaning to try it for a while so can’t comment on its popularity

HouseWolf,

Alterware Is the updated build of iW4x you can still download.

Works for either Steam or old iW4x builds if you still got the files laying around.

Aielman15, do games w This cult classic mind bending puzzle series is coming back to PC
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Great games, I have fond memories of me and my brother playing those flash games.

If you don’t want to pay, the Flashpoint Collection already has these flash games and they are fully functional, although I think I’ll grab this release to support the dev after all these years.

OfficerBribe, do gaming w The Day Before parody, built by one person for $1,500, looks better than the actual game

It’s a cool video, but I wouldn’t call it a parody

AdamantiteAdventurer, do gaming w Activision Blizzard workers speak out after Bobby Kotick’s CEO exit
@AdamantiteAdventurer@beehaw.org avatar

He in all likelihood doesn’t regret anything he said or did, but just that he got caught.

shapesandstuff, do gaming w The developer of The Day Before seems to be deleting evidence that it was ever an MMO game

I’m really confused about this. I only ever heard about this as ane extraction shooter. But I also only found some tiktok clips didn’t follow it in advance or anything

tacosanonymous,
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They had a video that advertised it as an open world survival mmo.

wildginger,

And a steam page, that still advertises it as an mmo

shapesandstuff,

Same goes for eft to be honest. Idk “with mmo elements” might make more sense in that case.

uninvitedguest,
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Nutteman, do games w Redfall can be the next Cyberpunk 2077, if Microsoft wants it to be.
@Nutteman@lemmy.world avatar

Arcane’s studios are no longer the same ones that brought us dishonored unfortunately and I don’t think it is gonna get better any time soon. Really hope I’m wrong there was a time where Arcane was my favorite people making games.

BananaTrifleViolin,

I think this is the real problem with the gaming industry. Development studios are treated as if they're sources of IP when in fact it's more about the people working for them.

A good dev team is the people who made the games. A team gets bought out by a big publishing giant and it seems they inevitably lose the people who made them great.

That's not to say big publsiher owned studios can't make great games but I'd argue the best games are coming from the indy studies whether that by one man bands like ConcernedApe or big independent studios like CD Projekt Red.

Also CD Projekt Red was highly motivated to fix Cyberpunk as it's a smaller studio, and pretty much their entire future business needed it to be fixed and work. They need and want to make more Cyberpunk games. Microsoft has zero motivation to fix Redfall - it was a commercial failure in a big coroportation; they will just dump it and move on but also be more averse to trying to make new IP.

Nutteman,
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It’s definitely due to the industry. Turnover is insane and it’d not the employees faults

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