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4am, w Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email

If Microsoft acquired Nintendo I will give up on all video games forever.

Like yeah Nintendo is a big bad capitalist company but, just, no. I can’t think of a better way to make gaming worse.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

Microsoft would make the company a lot more retail friendly.

End Nintendos fake scarcity selling tactics.

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

Forget fake scarcity, the REAL scarcity of pre-acquisition Nintendo games and consoles would skyrocket. Microsoft is only consumer-friendly now because they're still in the phase of acquiring a critical mass of content and users. Once they have both, and everything is on Game Pass, they'll jack up the price as high as they want knowing you'd lose access to all your games if you don't pay.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yup, there’s a reason I don’t consider getting GamePass or any other subscription service.

philluminati, (edited )

Nintendo has an incredible brand for easy child friendly and safe gaming experiences. It‘a products are about as retail friendly as you can possibly get. It’s trustworthy. You just buy them off the shelf and slot the cartridges into the unit.

Microsoft is famous for anti-consumer practices, poor UI design, expensive licensing, abandoning products like their Phone, Zune.

Sethayy,

And Nintendo loves to make trash consoles, making them insanely simple to emulate. Microsoft has decades of cyber security experience and would probably lock that right down.

(no of fence to Nintendo consoles, if anything its what made them interesting)

JokeDeity, w Diablo 4 Twitch viewership continues to drop as Diablo 3 overtakes it

Diablo 3 was incredibly boring to me, I played the beta for 4 and felt like they doubled down on everything that made 3 boring and uninteresting so I never looked back. I had a lot of fun with the remaster of 2, however. Blizzard, like almost all companies these days, is run by business majors who don’t care one iota about the products they’re making.

bionicjoey, w DC Comics adamant The Wolf Among Us' source material is not in the public domain, as its creator calls them 'thugs and conmen' and insists it is

If there’s an ownership dispute between the creator of the thing and the people who sell it, I’m always gonna side with the person who created the thing. Publishers are a cancer.

Rebels_Droppin, w Respawn added a new game mode to Titanfall 2 today, just called "???" The description is "Your rockets will blot out the sun" (reference to 300/Battle of Thermopylae)
@Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world avatar

Anyone able to try it out? Not at home at the moment to try myself but curious as to what it is.

nanoUFO, (edited )
@nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works avatar

You basically get the energy rocket launcher and the two teams fight each other till they run out of spawn tickets. You can’t switch the primary out for another and no AI or Titans from what I saw. Also it’s 2x XP. I’m not that fond of it tbh maybe I just suck.

hal_5700X, w Alternative sources for the No Pronouns mod for Starfield
@hal_5700X@lemmy.world avatar

I still don’t see the big deal about the pronoun mods. You have the power to use it or not. Also banning the mods only helped it. Streisand effect, everyone.

TheOlympian, w Alternative sources for the No Pronouns mod for Starfield
@TheOlympian@artemis.camp avatar

Y'all know there is no "removing" the pronouns for this mod right? All these do is remove he and she and default to they.

So I guess what I'm saying is I'm glad you're working so hard to remove the antiquated gender binary from your own personal fantasy future game. What a fantastic show of support for the trans and enby community! 😂

firebreathingbunny,

It removes "pronoun choice", which isn't a thing that exists in the real world, anyway. You can't choose your pronoun. Your biology and the rules of English grammar dictate it.

TheOneCurly,
@TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page avatar

Yikes

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

Another only digital console: ew.

Gyro in an Xbox controller: W

sugar_in_your_tea,

I wish they’d make the drive an optional add-on that you could buy later if you decide that digital only isn’t for you, instead of using it as product segmentation. But that would be pro-consumer, so not gonna happen.

Tronn4,

They should make it HD DVD drive compatible 😁

insomniac,
@insomniac@sh.itjust.works avatar

Or at the very least let us convert our disc licenses to digital.

sugar_in_your_tea,

That’s problematic because you can resell disks. I suppose they could sign disks independently and then only allow one digital owner, but then you’d need a formal process every time you resell, or worse, disallow reselling, and the cost for producing disks would go away up (not to mention returns would be a headache).

Poiar,

Fuck no.

I’m not getting an external disc drive. It will only end in tears.

I’m going all PC, Nintendo, or PS5 if Xbox goes all-digital.

I thought the selling point of consoles was supposed to be second hand games being cheap

sugar_in_your_tea,

Another benefit of having an external disk drive is that you can replace it if yours goes bad. I’m not sure what’s going to “end in tears,” it would work just like any other USB device, you plug it in and the console could load games from it.

But yeah, an all digital console makes no sense to me, unless it’s an interesting form factor like a handheld or an arcade cabinet. So the only console I have is a Switch, and everything else is on PC.

UrPartnerInCrime,
@UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works avatar

I was all for physical copies for years. And I get why people still would be because they have massive collections. But honestly now I’ve got the disc drive ps5 version and it hasn’t been used at all. Granted I only play like 3 or 4 games at a time for a long time, but every game I’ve bought has been digital.

Plus, your point of being able to replace the drive is huge (to me atleast) because every console I’ve had the drive went first; they were also super out of warranty. So I get why people want built in drives but it’s just one less port that’s going to breaks that also less and less people are going to want or need.

Lastly cause im like weighting a thesis or something haha but I bought a 4tb external hard drive that’s plugged in the back of the ps5 that holds everything I could want if the internet went dark. And I can throw that in the microwave incase of a solar storm so

sugar_in_your_tea,

Will that drive still work on the PS6? Will it work in 20 years? Can you buy more games after a Sony has shutdown the digital store? Can you sell your digital purchases if you don’t want them anymore?

Those are the kinds of problems physical media solves.

I buy digital media on my PC and physical media on my consoles, because PC games aren’t hardware specific whereas console games are.

Corkyskog,
@Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works avatar

I fear more and more games will become like BG3, digitally exclusive. I asked for it for my birthday and was told the game didn’t exist for PS5. I was confused, as I most certainly have been reading reviews, then I found out it’s only digital and thats why no one saw a copy.

sugar_in_your_tea,

Yeah, it’s too bad they don’t have a physical release, but it is DRM-free on PC, so game preservation is totally not an issue.

MrScottyTay,

Ps5s next model is reportedly going the external disc drive route

UnRelatedBurner, w Alternative sources for the No Pronouns mod for Starfield

I hate how the very few fighting back this bullshit get’s handled. Def saved if I ever play this game

Linkandluke,

In all seriousness, why? You can just leave the default value and be referred to as your preferred pronouns. You can literally do nothing and get exactly what you want. What’s the point in going out of your way to install a mod to effectively do nothing?

firebreathingbunny, (edited )

There is no such thing as a preferred pronoun. It is nonsense. Out it goes.

Binthinkin, w Alternative sources for the No Pronouns mod for Starfield

This is hilarious to see. It’s like watching human brain rot IRT.

Onion should write an article about lazy losers who mod games to gain edgelord status at some gamecon.

firebreathingbunny, (edited )

We are winning against attempts to shut down our resistance.

ChaoticEntropy, w Devs on Unity Runtime Fee: "The trust is gone forever"
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

Some things you can’t take back, especially when as CEO you don’t even try to take it back but just indicate that they might scale some of its extremes back. For now.

Mandy, w $70 Mortal Kombat 1 Switch version called "robbery" as graphical comparisons flood the internet

a glorified tablet has an inferior version of a game from other systems, who could have thunken?

more news at 8

MentalEdge, w Meta is shutting down three Oculus games without explanation
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz avatar

If Echo Arena wasn’t safe, then neither is anything else.

Rexios, w EGDF calls for EU regulation on non-negotiable contracts in wake of Unity backlash
18_24_61_b_17_17_4, w This is Microsoft’s new disc-less Xbox Series X design with a new gyro controller
@18_24_61_b_17_17_4@lemmy.world avatar

I wonder what the haptic feedback being a speaker is all about?

ArchmageAzor,
@ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world avatar

The vibrations a speaker can produce could be very useful for haptic feedback. If this is a speaker modified for that purpose with a thicker, heavier membrane I think it would work very well

Melonpoly,

That’s basically how haptic feedback already works. You can play music though the dualsence/ switch vibration motors.

PM_ME_FEET_PICS,

I like when I mute my switch and the rumble makes the pokemon Screams.

MrScottyTay,

Think like Nintendo’s HD rumble. There’s certain patterns it can do that make it sound like… sound. In Golf Story for example, the hits with the club, with the hd rumble on, you can perfectly hear the skins of hitting a club even with the audio of the game down. It’s strange and great at the same time. The steam controller also used it for those turn on, turn off jingles you could have on, they also sound great.

jeeva, w Alternative sources for the No Pronouns mod for Starfield

I just cannot figure out how downloading and installing a mod is somehow less engagement with this clearly dangerous pronoun selection compared to, I assume, not moving the menu from the default, creating your character, and getting on with the game?

Does the pronoun selector come back to haunt you during later exploration? Is it the final boss?

As an aside, I’m genuinely a bit worried about what terrible hellscape a site named “basedmods” which is only available on some kind of onion-or-web3 routing must be. (Jokingly, as I clearly can’t resist knowing about it, does anyone have a Firefox add-on that will remove it from the websites I browse?)

firebreathingbunny,

It's resistance against cultural imperialism. You wouldn't get it because you clearly have no principles. You are happy to bend the knee against any and all opreasion.

HKayn,
@HKayn@dormi.zone avatar

Apparently customization oppresses.

firebreathingbunny,

This mod customizes the game to remove the cultural imperialism from it. Problem?

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

The mod doesn't work, though. I can call my male character "Silvia" (a female name). The game gives you the option to choose names that do not match what is culturally traditional.

They should give you less options. Don't allow choosing names either.

In fact, remove character customization entirely, then there won't be any "imperialism", right?

I'd go further: make the game more lineal. Remove meaningful choices for the story. Do not allow the player to play in a way that might end up fitting any particular imperialistic agenda. People shouldn't have freedom to choose to follow any ideal.

firebreathingbunny,

Good luck with your mod.

mephiska,

By “principals” your really are saying bigotry. Because you are a bigot.

firebreathingbunny, (edited )

By principles I am really saying sanity. Biology is immutable. English grammar is a matter of established consensus. Personal pronouns are objectively wrong per both standards.

blunderworld,

Oh so you like Jordan Peterson, got it.

firebreathingbunny,

I never mentioned him once anywhere in this thread. You're hallucinating.

blunderworld,

Never said you did. But you’re claiming oppression over the completely optional feature of… checks notes choosing a different combination of letters. Thats the sort of pathetic mental gymnastics I expect from Peterson and his ilk. Maybe youre more of a Joe Rogan or Matt Walsh kind of guy, but its not too much of a stretch to suggest one of them is informing your dumb ass opinions.

firebreathingbunny, (edited )

The oppression is forcing people to accept this completely nonsensical concept as part of a mandated world view. I resist and I use my freedom of choice to mod the game so that it is no longer nonsensical.

I do not consent. No means no. Capisce?

breadsmasher,
@breadsmasher@lemmy.world avatar

If you’re sincerely asking,

during character creation you select skill points, traits, a name, body type, gender etc. And a pronoun. Its literally just a menu choice in character creation.

The only impact to the game is being referred to by your chosen pronoun.

Its the most ridiculous thing to be seething over like OP is here

firebreathingbunny, (edited )

Pronouns cannot be chosen. They are determined by your sex per the rules of English grammar. It's the most ridiculous thing to be seething over objective correctness like you here.

jeeva,

So that is literally the last time, assuming no bugs, you would encounter it?

… Yeah, that is pretty much what I figured. 😑

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