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MonsiuerPatEBrown, do games w Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores

Geez glad I played it when it came out.

yamanii, do games w Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores
@yamanii@lemmy.world avatar

Something something digital ownership

Games can still be downloaded by everyone who has it, but this is really puzzling, after so many video essays made about it.

Lesrid, do games w Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores

Thanks for the heads up. HumbleBundle still has keys available.

Renacles, do games w Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores

That’s a bit innacurate, it’s been delisted so anyone who already owns it can still play it.

JustUseMint, (edited ) do games w Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores

What the fuck!! This is for me personally one of the best military shooters ever released. This is a fucking tragedy. If you can get it on gog or pirate it, it’s a seriously phenomenal game I can’t recommend it enough and it breaks my heart to see this. It starts out as a generic bland 3rd person mil shooter, but ends with an entirely different feeling.

“You’re a good person.”

Edit: Hendrix must be rolling in his grave to know that his anti war music in an anti war game was used to stop the anti war game from basically existing at this point in stores.

Cybersteel, do games w Spec Ops: The Line permanently removed from Steam and other digital stores
@Cybersteel@lemmy.world avatar

It’s the military industrial complex and the war economy that is to blame.

DragonTypeWyvern,

I didn’t even think about that, but the timing is pretty suspicious…

Transporter_Room_3,
@Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website avatar

I guess someone doesn’t feel like a hero yet and got butt hurt that genocide isn’t as fun as call of duty made it seem.

RandomLegend, do gaming w Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
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i still remember the days where people were dreaming of become game developers. Being able to make a living by creating what you love the most.

Nowadays you are either an indie developer hoping to scrape enough by streaming on twitch and making devlogs on youtube, or you’re in big industry and pray you’re not part of the next big wave of layoffs…

0xtero,

I think this has more to do with mergers and acquisitions than game development. When two companies merge certain administrative functions become redundant because the acquiring company already has that function. Doubt they actually fire any devs

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

It is how giant publishing houses self-destruct in the gaming space. They fail to realize how difficult it is to build up talented devteams. Everything becomes about maximizing profits in the end. Between the shitty monetization tactics and the terrible working environment they've created, they end up destroying their ability to make good games. I fully expect more mediocrity from Xbox/Activision-Blizzard, if not declining quality.

xkforce, do gaming w Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

Just a reminder that the industry that is laying off thousands, is having one of the most profitable years ever. But if they think that they can make more money by firing thousands, thats exactly what theyll do.

notun, do gaming w Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

This is what always happens when companies merge.

GlitzyArmrest, do gaming w Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
@GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world avatar

Greedy short-sighted execs strike again.

theyllneverfindmehere, do gaming w Nintendo goes after the Palworld Pokémon modder

From some of the things I read it was behind a paid patreon. This likely brought the hammer down extra fast.

SatouKazuma,
@SatouKazuma@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll be shocked if they don’t DMCA the game itself soon.

MysticKetchup,
@MysticKetchup@lemmy.world avatar

I doubt they can unless Palworld literally stole models from Pokemon. While some of the designs are pretty blatantly copied, if they can’t prove the devs copied directly from them there’s not much of a case

jol,

It’s an original game with original content. Nothing about the mechanics in it are patented by Nintendo or anything.

SatouKazuma,
@SatouKazuma@lemmy.world avatar

Nintendo are incredibly litigation-happy, though. They’ll at least try. Calling it now.

profoundninja,

I heard on the radio that the 3d mesh of pals and mons were identical.

lowleveldata, do gaming w Nintendo goes after the Palworld Pokémon modder

Can you fuck them tho

Lath,

Not yet. But the possibility is being looked into.

Sabata11792,
@Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

Ill give it a few weeks.

rooster_butt,

Do they have a Vaporeon clone?

moon, do gaming w Nintendo goes after the Palworld Pokémon modder

You know that Nintendo is watching this game like a hawk, looking for any possible way they can do legal action.

Bonesince1997,

Really, cum, it’s just the modder and not the game, so far.

Ookami38,

Which is why they’re watching like hawks. To make it not “so far”.

bamboo,

I thought all of the IP was controlled by The Pokemon Company, which Nintendo owns a minority stake in. Shouldn’t it be the Pokemon Company who is filing the DMCA takedown and taking legal action?

ForgotAboutDre,

Nintendo is their publisher, so may have the responsibility for this sort of thing.

Mango,
Carighan, do gaming w Nintendo goes after the Palworld Pokémon modder
@Carighan@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah no shit, though. Nintendo is excessive as hell with this, and Pokémon in particular is a franchise they protect like nothing else. Is it still the highest-grossing IP overall? No wonder they are onto anyone using it.

BruceTwarzen,

Nintendo really is the Disney of video games. They had a solid idee 20 years ago and never did anything with it, except add more animals, because they know people apparently buy literally anything with a Pokémon on it. And now they are mad some nobody made a game people actually like.

Algaroth,

Someone made a mod using actual pokemon and put it behind a paywall, meaning they were making money off of Nintendo’s IP. Anyone would get into legal trouble for that. It doesn’t have anything to do with Palworld directly. Same thing would have happened if someone charged money for a mod that added Pokemon to Fallout 4.

BruceTwarzen,

I'm not saying that it's right and they are wrong to go after that guy. But you know very well that they heard pokemon like game that is a huge success and they have all their lawyers behind it, to find anything they can.
I'm not big into pokemon, i played the red one 20 years ago and their game was not original at all. For me it was final fantasy 7 but you catch animals to fight with.

Algaroth,

Bahamut Lagoon did it even earlier. That’s not the point I’m trying to make. This lawsuit has nothing to do with Palworld other than the mod being for that game. All big corporations have lawyers on retainer to protect their IP. Nintendo being mad about Palworld is complete conjecture.

GeneralEmergency,

You mean to tell me that Nintendo don’t want their kid friendly mascot waving guns around.

I don’t know, sounds an awful lot like 1984.

Kecessa, (edited )

Mario + Rabbids

And let’s not pretend that Pokemon isn’t a glorification of actually fighting to solve things and go up the ladder…

520, (edited )

Mario + Rabbids

There's a bit of a tonal difference between an unrealistic, brightly coloured cartoony hand cannon not unlike mega man and an AK47. Just saying.

And let’s not pretend that Pokemon isn’t a glorification of actual fighting to solve things and go up the ladder…

The thing is, Nintendo puts a hell of a lot of effort into pretending exactly this. Not to mention the similarities to IRL various animal fighting tournaments that are absolutely fucking barbaric.

edit: changed comparison slightly. The Rabbids guns are even more cartoony than I remembered.

ClaireDeLuna, do gaming w Nintendo goes after the Palworld Pokémon modder

And grass is green

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