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Vopyr, do games w Game preservationists say Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are ‘disheartening’ but inevitable
@Vopyr@lemmy.world avatar

Game-Kay Cards?

4am,

It’s like a virtual license file for a game. It’s basically the same system as before but now you can trade them with people on your friends lists.

People with kids: be sure to set parental controls on this before your kids are bullied into sending away all the games you bought them

WDIT: I see the article is not actually about the virtual key cards but the physical ones. This is a game cert without the game on it, just the license file. You still have to download it.

Honestly I think that fucking sucks because they can just take it away from you.

Vopyr,
@Vopyr@lemmy.world avatar

After researching the question a little more on the Internet, I can confidently say that this is bullshit. Screw Nintendo.

pulido, do games w Game preservationists say Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are ‘disheartening’ but inevitable

People can use Torzu if they want to play Switch games for free.

There will definitely be an emulator for Switch 2 games, as well.

jordanlund, do games w Future of Giant Bomb website in doubt following prominent staff departures
@jordanlund@lemmy.world avatar

Wasn’t the whole existence of Giant Bomb due to similar drama?

kotaku.com/yes-a-games-writer-was-fired-over-revi…

commander,

Even going back to the 90s video game magazines and their reviews were ragged on as marketing material for publishers but there was still some semblance of reverence over the years for the big magazines and websites (IGN and Gamespot. Maybe 1Up). After the Kane and Lynch Gamespot review fiasco, that to me was when gamer internet discourse over game journalism tanked to ever worsening hostility towards games reporters/journalist.

That Kane and Lynch review scandal tanked Gamespots reputation. That was probably also the era of making fun of the game awards guy as the Dorito/Mountain Dew Pope with that Spike TV video game award show

Ashtear,

The irony is outlets have never been more transparent about review process, embargoes, disclosures, etc. because of all that, and yet…

Can only lead a horse to water, though. A staggering amount of people can’t tell the difference between independent reviewers and paid influencers.

Flemmy,

The ~2010’s, official game review scandal which all big videogame influencers like IGN, G4tv, Gamespot etc… (this was before instagram and tiktok) got bribed by corporations so the aftermath of that was splintergroups of indie review sites like GiantBomb. And so let’s plays got born. Still never trusting triple-A game marketing ever again

Poopfeast420,
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The ~2010’s, official game review scandal which all big videogame influencers like IGN, G4tv, Gamespot etc… (this was before instagram and tiktok) got bribed by corporations

Got any sources for that? Unless you think advertisement are bribes, this didn’t happen.

Jeff was fired because he didn’t want to change his low score for a Kane & Lynch game, after Gamespot was pressured by the publisher, who was running some huge ads on Gamespot. He also said that usually this doesn’t happen, because the review side and marketing on these big sites are completely separate, and the reviewers don’t hear of these complaints. In his case however, Gamespot had new execs, who got cold feet, and caved. They left shortly after.

I have never heard of anything else like this happening, except from angry fanboys, that think reviewers are on the take, when Zelda gets an 8.8.

villainy, do games w Future of Giant Bomb website in doubt following prominent staff departures

Giant Bomb deserves more than a thread hanging off the Polygon story post. I don’t think it’s ever looked nearly this dire.

I don’t remember exactly how I stumbled across GB, but I think it came up randomly during TheSpeedGamers Final Fantasy marathon in 2009 (which was the inspiration for the first GDQ marathon in 2010). They weren’t necessarily the first to do the very personality-focused, video heavy, gaming coverage, but they definitely went at it the hardest and with the fewest fucks given about doing anything the “right” way. I’ve spent over 16 years now following the site and the people that have come through it, the Giant Bomb Extended Universe. I couldn’t possibly quantify the impact they’ve had on me over the years. It may not technically be the end but I don’t see a path forward from here.

Just gonna go be sad for a bit and watch the best content GB ever put out. That would be, obviously, Thursday Night Throwdown: Fortune Street (and part 2). <>

NeryK,
@NeryK@sh.itjust.works avatar

Giant Bomb deserves more than a thread hanging off the Polygon story post.

Agreed. Giant Bomb pioneered so much in games media, and for it to end like that is such a shame.

As far as I am concerned, the GB I loved was already struggling after Alex, Brad and Vinny left ; and it ended for good when Jeff Gerstmann was fired abruptly (again !). This news still saddens me however, and I wonder what will be the legacy of GB down the road.

FourGreenFields,

I don’t see a path forward from here.

Without knowing anything (beyond what’s said in the article) about Giant Bomb, I’d assume it’s the same path forward as when the F-word fucked up Gamepedia beyond all recognition. Find alternatives. In the case of Gamepedia other wiki hosting services, like Miraheze and wiki.gg, and more independently-hosted wikis. And some of the wiki.gg admins were Gamepedia admins, as far as I’m aware - it sounds like a similar restart may well end up being the case here too.

It sucks, especially because the F-word is good at search-engine optimisation, but it’s not the end.

AmidFuror, do games w Future of Giant Bomb website in doubt following prominent staff departures

This shit is blowing up!

AntiBullyRanger, (edited ) do games w Game preservationists say Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are ‘disheartening’ but inevitable

OP, please do us a favor of titling post with the true thesis of the article, and not their disingenuous headlines. E.g.

Ziff Davis, Inc. $ZD has contracts with $NTDOY & ¥7974.T that it selected three people to blurb out things that aligns with their portfolios:

Stephen Kick, CEO of Nightdive Studios (which specialises in modern remasters of older, often out-of-print games) said that “seeing Nintendo do this is a little disheartening”, adding: “You would hope that a company that big, that has such a storied history, would take preservation a little more seriously.”

Videogame Heritage Society co-founder Professor James Newman is somewhat less convinced that Game-Key Cards will be a major issue, noting that it’s rare for a game on a cartridge to still be the same game years after release.

“Even when a cartridge does contain data on day one of release, games are so often patched, updated and expanded through downloads that the cart very often loses its connection to the game, and functions more like a physical copy protection dongle for a digital object,” he explained.

Meanwhile, Paul Dyson, director of the International Center for the History of Electronic Games at The Strong Museum in New York said the move to a future where all games are digital is “inevitable”, and that Nintendo has in fact been “in some ways, the slowest of the major console producers to be going there”.

rabber, do games w Game preservationists say Switch 2 Game-Key Cards are ‘disheartening’ but inevitable

I’m just going to emulate then. Physical carts was one of the only thing keeping me spending money on Nintendo

minimalfootprint, do games w Future of Giant Bomb website in doubt following prominent staff departures

Damn, for me Jeff, Dan and Mitch/Mike formed the new nucleus and were quite entertaining.

Usually I am open to change, when it comes from a creative directive. However Giant Bomb seems increasingly to be jerked around by corporate interests in faster intervals. I have doubt’s that GB will keep its identity and not just be a name.

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

It might end up just being a name for game guides, which sucks, but that core nucleus will still be doing Blight Club in some capacity, and Jeff will still do his news show. I think the same thing will live on by another name, just like the old school lives on in Next Lander and Gerstmann’s solo thing.

MoonRaven, do games w Future of Giant Bomb website in doubt following prominent staff departures
@MoonRaven@feddit.nl avatar

GB is personality driven, when Alex, Vinny and Brad left, it already felt like a shift to the end. When Gerstmann was let go, GB really seemed doomed.

Fandom dictating what they can and cannot do when the site relies on their personalities and free form content just shows they don’t want the brand or people.

I really love Nextlander. I like fire escape. I miss Gerstmann, but I don’t want to listen to a solo podcast.

I hope the gang can aquire the brand. Fuck…

7arakun,

Yeah I loved Giant Bomb back in the day, but it was all about the people. With Vinny, Brad, Alex, and Jeff gone I just moved on to their new projects and stopped paying attention to Giant Bomb. Nowadays Giant Bomb is just a name to me.

AceTKen,
@AceTKen@lemmy.ca avatar

I am absolutely in the same boat. I would love to listen to Jeff as well and every time he has a guest on I make sure to grab the podcast, but I can’t listen to one person podcasts. He absolutely needs a co-host or guests every week.

pulido, do games w Future of Giant Bomb website in doubt following prominent staff departures

Sad. End of an era (almost.)

Flamekebab, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC
@Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

I wonder if the next one will take so long that the world it satirises is long gone. Facebook being parodied in GTA V no longer makes much sense, for example

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

This game is set in Florida. It’s pretty evergreen. Especially given the political climate for the past 8 years

massive_bereavement,

Disney world and Maralago?

P00ptart,

Holy shit, I didn’t think of mar-a-fatso. I seriously hope you can storm that place.

sugar_in_your_tea,

I hope they have at least two cities like Miami (beaches and organized crime) and Orlando (Disney and big business). Could be cool to have a three like SA to add in either Daytona (racing and rednecks) or Tampa (ghetto Miami).

nyctre,

All I know about Tampa is a bunch of the early death metal bands are from there so I’m all for that!

lemmydividebyzero,

That’s not necessary. The top secret documents for the government heist are probably located in an unlocked toilet building next to the golf course.

sp3ctr4l, (edited )

… Untill Florida gets absolutely wiped out by a combo of its housing market and tourism economy simultaneously eating shit (this is currently occuring), and then also gets slammed by a, oh i dunno, a series of near record breaking hurricanes … in a record breaking short amount of time, and then can’t rebuild because FEMA either doesn’t exist or is massively underfunded.

Oh and way more people will die, and there will be way more property damage than there otherwise would be… becauase all the agencies and funding that went into tracking hurricanes just got cut to almoat nothing.

Its been … what, over a decade, between GTA V and 6’s planned releaae date?

I’d say that chances are actually quite good that within 10 years after 2026, Florida becomes essentially a mostly destroyed disaster zone, with maybe a few parts of semi-civilization… like a swampy version of the first Mad Max movie.

(For reference, GTA V is based on an amalgamation of LA, San Fran, San Diego, out into the sticks… oh and while we are in thr GTA V to GTA VI gap, a huge chunk of LA got burned to the ground, yay climate change!)

(To me, the challenge of GTA VI would be… how do you even fucking do parody anymore? The country has gone batshit insane during the game’s development, I will be amazed if they actually manage to work in the biting and underhanded social commentary that previous GTA games had… because it would be essentially impossible. My guess is it’ll have some parody and satire, but nowhere near as much as 4 or 5… and the story will basically just be about some cool badasses who are cool and badass and are getting their bag however they can because YOLO)

DoucheBagMcSwag, (edited )

After looking at the jokes featured in the leaks…it hasn’t aged a day.

Tap for spoilerConspiracy theory maggots / qAnnon think Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook is downloading your brain to China and the country of Finland doesn’t actually exist

Stillwater,

Why doesn’t Facebook make sense to parody anymore? It’s still out there

Flamekebab,
@Flamekebab@piefed.social avatar

The world's relationship with Facebook has changed a smidge since 2013.

It's still ripe for parody, but the elements of relevance aren't the same as they were.

ekZepp, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC
@ekZepp@lemmy.world avatar

[Sound of the whole gaming market start breathing again]

villainy,

I guess this November is no longer a big red X on every publisher’s release calendar

Retrograde,
@Retrograde@lemmy.world avatar

Yep, just push that red X over to May next year

absquatulate, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC

So now can we please get the other games that were supposed to launch in autumn?

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

Oh yeah. Everyone’s off to the races now.

dvlsg,
@dvlsg@lemmy.world avatar

This must mean that horizon is going to launch its next game in May 2026.

slaneesh_is_right, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC

They have to wait for the playstation 6 release so yhey can sell it multiple times

ampersandrew,
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

With the PS6 rumored to be targeting 2027, the timing would work out perfectly for that.

Retrograde,
@Retrograde@lemmy.world avatar

Bastards. Always with the triple dip

DoucheBagMcSwag, do games w Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC

Rumors are that they want to charge $100 and they’re sitting back to see the financial climate with the price increases to see if consumers will bend over and take it without any pushback

Or…switch 2 version taking longer than Expected…

OR. they’re seeing the writing on the wall for the console industry and they’re going to release VI for all platforms (PC included) next year

thisbenzingring,
@thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I will wait till it’s $50

TheLowestStone,
@TheLowestStone@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll wait till it’s $10

errer,

I’ll watch other people play it on YouTube for free

Sequence5666,

Without their narration and reaction

Akasazh,
@Akasazh@feddit.nl avatar

I’ll wait till it’s free on epic

DoucheBagMcSwag,

PC version at $50

AndyMFK,

I’ll sail the high seas

DoucheBagMcSwag,

Guarantee it will have Denuvo and Rockstar DRM

colderr,

Most likely will get cracked pretty quick

DoucheBagMcSwag,

Denuvo??

Is there another cracker in the universe besides bat shit crazy Empress?

colderr,

Who the fuck knows at this point, but GTA 6 will be such a hyped up game, that I think somehow we’ll get it.

Maybe people will bribe Empress or something.

Num10ck,

switch 2 version assumption here? weird

sp3ctr4l,

$100 minimum.

My guess would be they’ll do some kind of tiered release strucructure, and/or have already finished or mostly finished 2 years+ worth of major updates, including new ‘chapters’ of the main single player story… and basically, you’ll have to subscribe.

Like … $160 for whole game, major expansion 1, 2 and 3, $120 for game + 1st expansion… Or your baseline $100, and then a subscription battlepass mmo monthly charge, or you can pay more for expansions in chunks, seperately.

Something like that.

LiveLM,

Speaking out of my ass, I think the majority will take it without pushback.
I’m sure there’s a swath of people with a console just play the yearly COD/FIFA, eagerly waiting for GTA 6 to drop. They’ll buy it without blinking.

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