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ms_lane, do games w Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs

Zenimax?

I thought TESO was actually rather profitable?

cyrano,

It is profitable

tourist, do games w Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

people just don’t want to work anymore

NO

THEY CLEARLY FUCKING DO

BUT YOU FUCKING GREEDY CUNTS KEEP FIRING EVERYONE AND TAKE FAT FISCAL QUARTER BONUSES

AND THEN IT’S A 19 STEP INTERVIEW PROCESS WHEN THEY TRY TO LOOK FOR A NEW JOB

AND THAT’S IF THEY’RE “LUCKY” ENOUGH FOR THE DOGSHIT AI TO RANDOM.CHOICE() THEIR RESUME OUT OF THE 900+ OTHER DESPERATE APPLICANTS

THEN THEY FINALLY SOMEHOW GET AN OFFER: $1.89 per full uninterrupted hour at your desk and a single bag of skittles (opened)

Sorry for the caps, I’ve been in the job market recently and it’s fucking brutal. I have to constantly justify my value as a human being and then just face rejection after rejection.

NotMyOldRedditName,

You left off the part where after you finish the bag of skittles the lay you off again.

LostWanderer, do games w Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs
@LostWanderer@fedia.io avatar

Microsoft is literally scorching earth in their Xbox Gaming Division...Gotta chase those short term profits, I guess. 😡

billwashere, do games w Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs

I am so ready to just cancel my game pass. This shit just pisses me off.

Stovetop,

I’m honestly surprised people still have it.

aksdb,

If it fits your gaming profile, it’s a pretty good deal.

Stovetop,

I just think it stopped being a good deal the moment they implemented their first price increase. That signalled that they’re willing to do what every other subscription service does and raise prices as arbitrarily high as people are willing to pay, with the enticement being that once you’re in deep enough, you can’t unsub or you’re left with no games.

If you have copious time for gaming and are always on the hunt for sometbing new, is it still a better deal than buying every game at release? Sure, at least for now. But the patient gaming strat at least gives me a backlog of affordable titles too long to finish them all, and I can also return to it at any time without worrying about titles eventually disappearing from a subscription catalog.

aksdb,

If you go for subscription, you accept that the stuff is temporal. Or at least you should. So it should make no practical difference if a game vanishes because it gets pulled from the catalog or if you decide to cancel the subscription because you consider it too expensive.

scrubbles, do games w Microsoft layoffs are reportedly underway, with ZeniMax and King employees losing their jobs
!deleted6348 avatar

Remember kids, don’t buy into hype anymore. Hype is a marketing tool. They don’t have to make any promises that a game will be good or even come out just because they hyped you up for it. Don’t allow yourself to be excited for anything until it actually releases.

ms_lane,

“When you preorder a game you’re just committing to buying something some assholes in California haven’t even finished working on yet”

Verito, do games w EA CEO Andrew Wilson got a nice pay bump last year, while the company's workers earned less on average

Punchable faces for $200, Alex.

ChickenLadyLovesLife,

Are you kidding me? That’s a daily double punchable face. The mouth is smiling but the eyes are making sure the battery cables are firmly clamped on your nipples.

CmdrShepard49,

It almost looks like an AI generated face. Definitely uncanny valley territory.

tourist, do games w EA CEO Andrew Wilson got a nice pay bump last year, while the company's workers earned less on average
@tourist@lemmy.world avatar

Fuck it, if I worked there, I’d straight up just steal from his office while he’s doing bumps in the bathroom

SharkAttak, do games w EA CEO Andrew Wilson got a nice pay bump last year, while the company's workers earned less on average
@SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org avatar

TIL Sportacus has an evil cousin.

savvywolf, do gaming w Riot will let gambling companies sponsor League Of Legends and Valorant esports teams
@savvywolf@pawb.social avatar

This seems a bit of a risky move… Lets see if this gamble pays off.

Almacca, do gaming w Riot will let gambling companies sponsor League Of Legends and Valorant esports teams
@Almacca@aussie.zone avatar

Breaking!: Shitty company continues being shitty!

SmoochyPit, do gaming w Riot will let gambling companies sponsor League Of Legends and Valorant esports teams

Wait, so let me get this straight… this AAA studio, which is a subsidiary of Tencent, which sells microtransactions for sometimes up to nearly $100, and which has incorporated gambling elements and predatory design in their games for years, has now allowed sponsorships with gambling companies in their esports scene? Color me surprised!

Oh, but it’s really for the benefit of the community and players, since it would happen anyways. And It’s certainly not primarily motivated by the huge profits it could rake in. Right. How noble of them.

I’m sure they have a history of treating their players and employees very well, too.

(obligatory)/s

baguettefish,

Just think of all the incredible engagement players will feel as they gamble their latest limited edition skin away which they bought with their mom’s credit card or their first independent wages.

But hey, at least the slot machine has all your favorite characters and also streamers who have sold their soul. Market research shows that people with dysfunctional impulse control are much more easily exploited that way.

Life can be cruel.

chronicledmonocle, do games w FISH³ is a surreal arcade fishing racer where you have to fish while you drive a fish-powered boat

…uh…cool…

mohab, do games w Rematch review

It suuuucks as a football game. Controls like ass.

Someone bring back PES or cook up a replacement, please. I'm tired of these shitty football games.

Quicky,

IMO, PES was always so much better than FIFA. Matches were slow, measured, low-scoring exercises in passing and breaking down defences. FIFA always felt like a game, whereas PES was a simulation. I’ve not played either of their descendants for years, but I’ve watched my girlfriend’s kid play FC25 and it seems far more like fucking Pokémon than a football game.

Rematch on the other hand is something else. It’s not a football game, despite its appearance. It’s a future-sports game, like Rocket League or Speedball 2. I’m enjoying it from that perspective.

Agree with the controls though, but I’m still putting that down to my own skill issues.

mohab,

Agree with PES being a really good football simulation. I always viewed FIFA as a cynical and jaded attempt at arcadifying football—never really been my cup of tea.

I can't be bothered with the camera management in Rematch. It sucks so bad the game literally tells you get used to no look passing/shooting because you won't have time to adjust your camera. Even when I kinda got used to it and got to score a few goals, I didn't feel any satisfaction—it felt too silly.

echodot,

I haven’t played any of the recent FIFA games but I remember the last one that played had truly awful AI. I never understood why they didn’t have a mode where you could have multiple players controlling different team members. This game actually seems to have that. In fact from the trailer it seems that this might be exclusively multiplayer which is an interesting idea.

Although this game is a football game in the same way Balatro is a poker game

mohab,

I never understood why they didn't have a mode where you could have multiple players controlling different team members.

Older PES games had that and it was super fun before Konami's pachinko machine addiction lead to the franchise's gradual demise.

Rematch is exclusively multiplayer, yes.

SkunkWorkz,

Even in the 16bit era International Superstar Soccer was a better game than FIFA.

Quicky,

SWOS FTW

littleomid, do games w Rematch review

What a cancerous website on phone.

echodot,

Works fine for me. What’s your problem with it?

littleomid,

Probably android with adblocker? On iOS it’s almost unusable. Over 50% of screen at any time is covered with ads.

monkeyslikebananas2,

There are ad blockers for iOS

littleomid,

Then please do recommend me one that works. Because neither Adblock nor anything else I tried work well, or at all with Firefox. Doesn’t change the fact the website is extremely unpleasant to use without adblockers.

Quicky,

I use Wipr on Safari on iOS. It’s not perfect, but nothing is.

monkeyslikebananas2,

I have ad block pro and I also use a VPN that offers ad blocking.

afansfw,

Vivaldi browser has one built-in. It doesn’t always work and some websites just block you for using adblocker, but at least this article looked fine in it with no ads.

Tetsuo, do games w Rematch review

I’m tempted to try it out as an avid Rocket League player.

I’m just not sure there is something in Rematch that I cannot already get somehow in Rocket League.

ChicoSuave,

“What a save!”

I can think of a few things RL has that can’t be found in Rematch. Yet.

vxx,

There’s enough toxicity in Rematch already. You can just spam “good job” instead.

What i’ve noticed subjectively is, that RL has become more mature and less toxic since the release of Rematch.

Maybe all the toxic kids are trying Rematch now and the old farts stayed.

Quicky,

I’ll dispute that. Fired up Rocket League for the first time in a few months yesterday after a couple of hours of Rematch. First game I got into was constant abuse from a teammate against the other two of us on the team. Finished the match with double his points and still got called trash because we lost.

Tbh though I love it. Makes me laugh thinking about how angry the guy must be getting while playing.

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