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kurikai, do games w Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well

Good discord is trash.

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

I hate to say it, but games should stop using licensed music. Or at least if it has an expiry date, which they all seem to. Every game that licenses a song becomes a ticking time bomb before it is either pulled from sale or all of the music gets patched out, even if you purchased it before then.

EuroNutellaMan,
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

And if using this licensed music it’d be nice to use music from smaller bands if they don’t add an expiry.

lolcatnip,

That kind of defeats the purpose of using licensed music.

EuroNutellaMan,
@EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world avatar

It gets smaller bands better known so it’s not like it’s a bad deal for them.

GreenAlex,
@GreenAlex@kbin.social avatar

I don't understand why a company would even want to use the music if it means they can only sell the game for so long. Obviously, it's not the current reality, but I would outright refuse any deal that involves a limited amount of time to use material that goes into a video game, movie, any form of media except maybe live services that are constantly changing anyways (which is a separate issue).

At the very least, people should be made aware of a game's sale period, though I'm sure that's kept under NDA.

Glide,

Because capitalism is hilariously shortsighted. Line must go up.

beetus,

I mean the game came out in 2012. It’s not really that absurd to base ones licensing contracts for 14 years when the medium (games) generate the vast majority of their revenue in the first months.

Most digital products have an end of life. I agree that the whole digital ownership part isn’t fair, but I don’t think a 14 year selling window due to licensing is the part to be mad at.

chicken,

It makes sense financially if the game is expected to have a big spike of sales initially, and after a while have very few sales, so the expected additional lifetime revenue is less than the cost difference between a temporary and perpetual license.

B0NK3RS, do games w Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

That’s a lot of money for a generation that just isn’t worth it.

Justinwarner, do games w Read Xbox chief Phil Spencer’s memo welcoming Activision Blizzard employees to Microsoft

Just wait for the massive layoffs that’s already happening in the gaming industries 😔

djsoren19,

As long as it starts with Kotick and the other soulless ghouls at the top of Acti-Blizzard, I’m not sure anyone will complain.

Neato,
@Neato@kbin.social avatar

Kotick is retiring because he can't take direction. But will receive hundreds of millions to do so. Why would MS fire anyone else when Activision and King makes money?

ech,

Because that’s how they make more money.

isles,

Redundant departments / systems already provided by Microsoft will be downsized.

ninjan, do games w This is Microsoft’s new disc-less Xbox Series X design with a new gyro controller

I hate flowery language like “now adorably all digital”. What the fuck is adorable about it being all digital?

Zeus,

the same way that removing a headphone jack is courageous, i guess

dependencyInjection,

I mean based on the backlash one could argue it was courageous no?

Zeus,

yeah i guess i can’t argue with that…

stopthatgirl7,
!deleted7120 avatar

Y’know, I can’t think of a lot of adjectives to use for “all digital,” but “adorably” sure af is not one of them.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

Then you have Steam.

Player2,

You’re not stuck to only Steam on a computer, whereas you are stuck on a console

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

What the fuck are you even trying to say?

Steam is entirely digital only.

Player2, (edited )

Yeah. But guess what, you can buy a disk drive. You can install another game launcher. You can even pir-[removed].

There are inherently more options on PC than there are on a console.

CmdrShepard,

I think it’s a reference to it’s smaller size.

ninjan,

Then go “now smaller, adorable, and all digital” or something that doesn’t sound completely daft.

natecox, do games w Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales
@natecox@programming.dev avatar

Price hikes for what, Lenovo? I’m still waiting for them to send me my Legion Go S SteamOS edition that I preordered on day one.

Edit for context: it was supposed to be in my hands May 25th.

Appoxo,
@Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Stop.
Pre-Ordering.

natecox,
@natecox@programming.dev avatar

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  • echodot,

    I would agree normally but it’s Lenovo.

    Railcar8095,

    How does that spread the cost? Does it have some financing for preorders ?

    natecox,
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  • Railcar8095,

    I advice you to rethink this. You’re paying earlier, the money won’t dissapear if you wait until release. Also, real reviews would help deciding what to skip.

    localhost443,

    A savings account earns interest, you can pay into it monthly until product release…

    How does paying up front before release spread the cost?

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  • Don_alForno,

    I genuinely don’t get the “don’t pre order just buy the day it releases” thing.

    Nobody ever said the second part.

    Don’t pre order, wait for reviews a couple weeks after release, buy if reviews are good and no major bullshit is discovered.

    What do you think you’re winning?

    Avoiding the major bullshit.

    Also, even if you did just buy day one: If developers have a lot of pre orders they know they’ll sell anyway they have less of an incentive to deliver the highest possible quality day one. That’s why people are telling you to not pre order. I could not care less if a stranger struggles with day one bugs, but they are helping to lower the bar for everyone else.

    Appoxo,
    @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    I genuinely don’t get the “don’t pre order just buy the day it releases” thing. What do you think you’re winning?

    It’s about sending a message. A message that pre-ordering is not worth anymore and they (hopefully) stop releasing unfinished beta releases.

    SuperSpecialNickname,

    You’re the one enabling those shitty practices

    callouscomic,

    I bet you think General Strikes are also possible or effective.

    Appoxo,
    @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Idk. But I think General Grievous could have been even better /s

    Dremor,
    @Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

    Works pretty well in France.

    Mistic,

    Pre-ordering physical goods is fine, especially if you expect a price hike and supply limitations after launch. I wouldn’t, but I can see how it would make sense.

    It’s the digital goods that make no goddamn sense to buy before they’re out. They’re not limited in supply, and their return window is too small.

    Appoxo,
    @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Meh.
    Yes, for already announced limited runs of physical items that you know the quality off (say merch from artists) it’s more fine than for mainly digital goods.
    And, I have to agree, such a broad blanket statement is not really applicable to every type of purchase or life situation.

    To be fully transparent: Even I participated in pre-orders. Off the top I can only remember some artist merch items like CDs I pre-heard some tracks and know what to expect from it and the Kickstarter for the uGreen NAS. But even for the uGreen NAS I knew the specs, price and if It’s compatible with what I want to do before committing.
    For any other purchase I waited patiently.

    Bakkoda,

    As long as i can chargeback on my credit card I have no problems preordering (couple months out at most though, lol at people doing long term pre orders) I have no problem. Digital goods can fuck right on off. So many slimy tactics.

    winkerjadams,

    Ever heard of the Ouya?

    zipzoopaboop,

    You’re a dumbass if you ever thought it was going to be anything

    Mistic,

    Wasn’t it a kickstarter product? I wouldn’t consider venture a pre-order, tbf.

    Pre-orders are reservations with pre-payment.

    Crowdfunding is, well, funding. You aren’t buying a product. You’re funding it, which comes with additional risks and benefits.

    Of course, there’s always a possibility that a product is being funded using pre-orders, which is financially irresponsible (norm varies from industry to industry). But you must be a moron to pre-order a product from a startup you know nothing about and expect not to get scammed. Outright buying their product would be risky enough.

    Take housing market. You’re pretty much always either pre-ordering or buying second-hand.

    SuperSaiyanSwag,

    I never pre-order, and I am not advocating for pre-ordering, but just curious, can’t the item just be returned if the customer is not satisfied?

    msage,

    I pre-ordered the Steam Deck.

    That is the only thing I did in the last decade.

    Arcane2077,

    Do you even know why you’re saying that? Physical goods that need to be manufactured and delivered are literally exactly what you should be pre-ordering

    Appoxo,
    @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    Yes and no.
    Yes it can make sense fpr physical goods.
    No, it’s not a good thing.

    Arcane2077,

    So no. I was hoping my question would prompt you to consider it

    Ulrich,
    @Ulrich@feddit.org avatar

    Physical goods are no different in that when you pre-order something you really have no idea what you’re getting. You’re counting on the reputation of the company to deliver on their claims. Which is often a bad idea.

    ulterno,

    It would make a lot of sense to the company trying to decide how large their production run should be.

    For the customer, it only really makes sense if they are getting something out of it, like immunity to possible price hikes at launch.

    I don’t pre-order, but then, I am a late stage buyer, so it doesn’t really apply to me.

    DarkDecay, do games w Sony is raising all PS5 console prices in the US by $50, starting tomorrow

    Unfortunately Christmas is gonna be rough time for a lot of Americans this year thanks to the trump tax

    mnemonicmonkeys,

    That’s their fault for voting for Trump or not voting at all

    wizardbeard,

    Literal millions of us (myself included) voted “correctly” for Harris. Blue no matter who. We did our part for your petty ass purity test and we’re still getting fucked.

    Must be nice to live in a world where people only experience the results of who they voted for.

    mnemonicmonkeys,

    Dude, I’m from the US. I know. But the fact of the matter is that there’s shittons of poor people who voted for Trump, and they’re the ones most at risk. And they’re the ones I’m calling out

    GalacticHero,

    Tens of millions of us voted against it and did our best to convince those around us.

    On the whole, we deserve what we’re getting. We asked for it. I just hope the rest of the world doesn’t forget that so many of us tried.

    sugar_in_your_tea,

    Eh, I voted third party. Why? Because my vote literally doesn’t matter in my state, since Trump took it with >20% margin. Votes only really matter in like 8 states because the rest have enough straight ticket voters to secure the election for one of the candidates. And in those 8 or so states, the misinformation was real, so it’s understandable that many people didn’t know what they were getting with their vote, they just voted based on whatever smear campaign made them hate the other candidate more.

    IMO, the fault here lies w/ Kamala Harris for running a mediocre campaign promising the “status quo” when most people wanted real change. If she ran a more interesting campaign with actual plans regular people could understand, maybe she could’ve cut through the noise and reached enough people to win.

    Goodmorningsunshine,

    Americans need to boycott Christmas. Make memories and handmade presents instead of sending money at billionaires

    But_my_mom_says_im_cool, do games w Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide

    That’ll fix their record low sales!

    lustyargonian,

    “Fortunately we have a product for people who aren’t able to get some cash for our console, it’s called xCloud”

    Nobody, do games w Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed

    “We technically thought we would get away with this shit, which was an error. How pissed would you guys be about Coca Cola showing up in ancient Baghdad?”

    TangledHyphae,

    I misread the title at first as “Assassin’s Greed”.

    LinkOpensChest_wav,
    @LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one avatar

    Honestly that should have just been the article title

    subignition,
    @subignition@kbin.social avatar

    Assassin's Creed's Publisher's Greed: "No Pop-Ups. No Pop-Ups. You're The Pop-Ups."

    morrowind, do games w Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok
    @morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

    huh, had no idea it was made by bytedance as well

    halcyoncmdr,
    @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

    Yeah. You might want to look into some other foreign owned companies as well. Tencent owns a metric shit ton of “American” companies for instance, I bet there’s several on that list that would surprise you.

    morrowind,
    @morrowind@lemmy.ml avatar

    Tencent I’m aware of, there was quite a bit of controversy about them a few years back

    halcyoncmdr,
    @halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world avatar

    Tencent happen to own large portions of nearly every video game company on the planet to start with, and a ton of other large companies, 600+ of them in fact. Large enough positions to directly affect board decisions if they wanted to. And that assumes overt sudden changes and not more subtle things.

    Voroxpete,

    IIRC the reason for this is that China requires that games published there be published by entities that are at least some arbitrary percentage Chinese owned. So basically if you want access to that huge market - that loves video games - you have to cut a deal with Tencent or someone else like them.

    CosmicTurtle0,

    I recall that tencent had like a small stake in Reddit too. Like 10% or something like that. Or am I remembering wrong?

    catloaf,

    They invested money, I don’t remember hearing that it got them any share of the company.

    ieatpillowtags,

    That’s typically what you get in return for an investment. The only question is if it’s enough of a share to give control or at least influence.

    shawn1122,

    As of their last filing in September it is 10 to 12%

    franklin,
    @franklin@lemmy.world avatar

    dear God, please let League of Legends get banned, it would be so funny

    iAmTheTot,

    It’s not made by Bytedance. It’s made by one company and published by a second, different company who is owned by Bytedance.

    Zugyuk,

    Not made by, the studio is “second dinner” the same guys that made hearthstone, but in their own studio.

    RxBrad, do games w Valve: don’t expect a faster Steam Deck ‘in the next couple of years’
    @RxBrad@lemmings.world avatar

    Probably for the best. The Deck certification process on games would probably be annoying if they had a whole bunch of revisions with only like 10% difference in performance.

    Wait a few years and make the next one a meaningful jump.

    clanginator,

    Exactly. I’d like to see a few significant improvements for the next gen - namely in screen and performance to match, but my dream would be to see Valve license Framework’s module system (or build something similar of their own) and integrate one of those somewhere on the deck.

    It’d be great for the obvious, like adding high-speed storage, but just imagine the possibilities for a handheld gaming console of attachments people could build with a module system that locks in place like that.

    Obviously the module thing is a pipe dream and unlikely to happen, but I just feel like there’s a ton of additional potential for that form factor that’s unexplored, and I’d like to see longer generations not only for support, but also so that larger iterative work like designing a module system or whatever can be prioritized over rushing out regular performance upgrades.

    CitizenKong, (edited ) do games w Microsoft documents leak new Bethesda games, including an Oblivion remaster

    Since the Oblivion and Fallout 3 remasters will be on the Creation Engine, they will probably just be the old games with HD textures more or less. So basically what is already possible with mods.

    EDIT: Also, I wonder if the Skyblivion project will finally be finished just to get a cease and desist letter by MS because they do their own remaster of the game.

    Nilz,

    Hopefully a better UI for Oblivion, with the included ability to actually remove spells.

    CitizenKong,

    A better UI? By Bethesda? I wouldn’t bet on it.

    BloodSlut,

    Yeah, i was about to say. Oblivion’s UI is actually miles better than Starfield’s. All it really needs is to have the height of UI list elements to be scaled down so that theyre fit for modern monitors and TVs rather than a low res CRT

    TonyTonyChopper,
    @TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz avatar

    CRTs are all that Bethesda has at their offices

    BloodSlut,

    Damn, even that Microsoft money couldnt help them out

    bob_lemon, (edited )

    As long as us Germans get to keep using our “Schw. Tr. d. Le.-En. W.”

    (The German translation for “weak potion of restore health” was too long for the UI, so they just put this absolute butchering in instead)

    TurnItOff_OnAgain,

    What would the full German name be?

    Dunstabzugshaubitze,

    “Schwacher Trank der Lebensenergie-Wiederherstellung.”

    Oblivion auto generated potion names based on their effects and the template they used lead to this super long names in german. A proper translation would have been “Schwacher Heiltrank” or “Schwacher Lebensregenerstionstrank”

    Zagorath, do games w A fake Nintendo lawyer is scaring YouTubers, and it’s not clear YouTube can stop him
    @Zagorath@aussie.zone avatar

    This back and forth from the comments on the article is interesting:

    What the article ommits: The youtuber in question has a long history of threatening smaller channels with various actions against them, from brigading to lawyers to copyright strikes, if they do something he doesn’t like and don’t bow to his will. So I’m not surprised to see someone was fed up with him eventually.

    Two wrongs don’t make a right as my nan used to say. This YouTuber being a bit of a grunt does not negate the fact YouTube itself is happy taking a hands off approach to a fundamental part of their business model because the ones it affects are not the ones that give them most of the money.

    Of course it’s a problem, I just feel 0 sympathy in this case and I find it ironic that it’s him especially that got hit with the same treatment he threatens others with.

    Aielman15, do games w EA just added classics like Dungeon Keeper, SimCity 3000, and Populous on Steam
    @Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

    I’m sure most of them have already been available on GoG for quite some time, I don’t know what took them so long to port them over competing storefronts.

    schmidtster,

    literally in the bloody article lmfao.

    Aielman15,
    @Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

    I read the article and it didn’t answer my question, so I’m not sure what are you trying to say.

    schmidtster,

    are already available through the classic game service GOG. But more choice is always a good thing. This is particularly true when it comes to making older games more accessible on modern platforms, something that’s becoming increasingly rare for all but the biggest titles.

    They were on GOG, more access to more people and compatibility.

    The article isn’t that long and you missed that?

    Aielman15,
    @Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

    That’s not an explanation of why it took them so long.

    It’s the article’s writer (not an EA representative, so it’s just the writer’s subjective opinion) saying “the games were already available elsewhere, but it’s good they are now available on Steam as well”.

    Also, you should tone down your snarkiness.

    BossDj,

    I didn’t see where it says why they took so long to add to Steam?

    schmidtster,

    are already available through the classic game service GOG. But more choice is always a good thing. This is particularly true when it comes to making older games more accessible on modern platforms, something that’s becoming increasingly rare for all but the biggest titles.

    They were on GOG, and it’s for more access to more people and compatibility.

    Article was only a few paragraphs, I thought Reddit was bad for people not reading articles, fucking shit lmfao.

    BossDj,

    Maybe go back to Reddit if your replies are that toxic. I read that. It’s the author’s opinion that he’s happy it’s on steam now. It is not the answer to the question, so I thought maybe you had some insight or I misread something. I gave another user (you) the benefit of the doubt that maybe I missed something. Maybe you’re in defensive mode from Reddit. It’s not needed here

    po-lina-ergi,

    That's not an answer to the question and your reading comprehension is bad if you think it is.

    Sabata11792,
    @Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

    It's a competitor, they only started using Steam since the profit is better than the pride.

    BossDj,

    Steam wins on market share. You’d think they would have started on steam if it was to make more money, or added them to Steam a long time ago. I’m sure their reasoning is sound, just curious what it was. Licensing deals, listing cost, whatever. Maybe they waited for all the true believers to get it on gog and now hope they’ll all buy again on steam for the achievements. By pride do you mean the Origin failure?

    Sabata11792,
    @Sabata11792@kbin.social avatar

    Steam takes a 30% cut of the profit last I read. EA tried to avoid this with Orgin to not pay that 30%. I assume Steam sales have to be pretty good VS Orgin numbers keep using Steam.

    People hate using extra launchers, and EA has a reputation of being comic book villain evil. I assume any tiny bits of good will they get from customers is rare and this is low hanging fruit. People also love Steam to the point of not buying a game without it. The 30% cut probably seemed worth the trade for the wriggling masses running EA.

    bassomitron,

    Maybe they had an agreement with GOG? This is all personal speculation, but GOG was primarily known as Good Old (Ol’?) Games for a long time, as they would put that under their GOG acronym back in the day. It was essentially a storefront that primarily dealt with classics and keeping them available to consumers before they pivoted and started also focusing a lot on modern games. Maybe my memory is flawed and I’m completely misremembering the old GOG and they’ve always focused on modern games as well, so anyone feel free to correct me if that’s the case.

    Anyway, I wouldn’t be surprised if GOG struck a deal with a lot of publishers for selling all their classics exclusively. On the flip side, it could also be that the publishers just didn’t care enough about their old offerings to put any effort into porting them into other storefronts. Now that retrogaming is much more ubiquitous than it once was, some bean counter pitched this idea in a mid-quarter profit seeking brainstorming meeting and here we are.

    DAMunzy,

    GOG doesn’t have the money to do exclusives like Epic Games.

    bassomitron,

    I wouldn’t think getting exclusive access to 20+ year old games that are mostly obscure would cost very much, but who knows. It was just a theory either way.

    DAMunzy,

    Good point that old games mightn’t cost as much to exclusivise

    Rooki, do games w Nvidia’s finally replacing GeForce Experience with this all-in-one ‘Nvidia app’ - The Verge
    @Rooki@lemmy.world avatar

    At least you can still download just the driver. Its literally just bloatware from your graphics card manufacture.

    scrubbles,
    !deleted6348 avatar

    Good, I’ve unchecked movies experience so many times

    DudeImMacGyver,
    @DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works avatar

    You can try, but those assholes will keep trying to get your data

    Rooki,
    @Rooki@lemmy.world avatar

    Just on install, the legal stuff you need to accept is just creepy af. Next time i will get a AMD graphics card, it has a lot more open drivers ( especially because i am a linux user )

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