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geosoco, w Rockstar Adds 'Rotating Assortment' of Classic Games to GTA+ Membership - IGN

who tf subscribes to this?

SSUPII,

Its the membership for GTA V. Having something extra its nice, but why rotate them like this.

geosoco,

that's part of every subscription business plan, sadly. The rotation helps keep subscriptions up longer as people have to wait for things to cycle back around.

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

Are people really going to wait? I thought the whole point was that either the service has to pay for the on-loan games, or if it’s their own product it encourages you to just go buy it if you liked it so much.

geosoco,

Yeah, people definitely wait. Don't have any stats, but I hear people talking about it all the time with regards to streaming services.

THe service does pay for on-loan games, but that's not a reason to rotate. They're paying regardless. THey rotate to try and keep things fresh so people don't cancel.

Omegamanthethird,
@Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world avatar

Oh, as far as video, absolutely. If it leaves one you wait for it to come back on another. But for video games, I just assume once it’s gone, it won’t come back again any time soon. I think there’s kind of different expectations.

geosoco,

Oh yeah, they're probably not waiting months for something to come back. Companies know what's popular, so they tend to stagger those. So people will not cancel if they know next month or the month after is going to be something they want to play.

If you're only interested in one or two games, you'll just buy those (until they stop letting us buy games and force us to rent them).

vlad76,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Same people who went crawling back to Netflix after their shared accounts were shut down.

yata,

GTAO whales.

WrittenWeird, (edited ) w Five Years After Launch, Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting a Solo Mode - IGN

Restricted to High Seas:

  • Become Pirate Legend
  • Earn rep and gold for Athena’s Fortune and Reaper’s Bones
  • Hourglass Faction Battles
  • Captain your Own Ship
  • Sail as part of a Guild
  • Sail as Trading Company Emissary
  • Live Events

Safer Seas:

  • Progress up to Level 40
  • Gold and Rep at reduced rate
  • Seasonal Renown at same rate
  • All Tall Tales
  • Commendations, achievements, cosmetics yadda yadda…

Can anyone give a rough estimate of how much game content is in Safer Seas? Either a percentage of the full game, or number of hours? Also a bit concerned about the “Captain your own ship” bit…

starman2112, (edited )
@starman2112@sh.itjust.works avatar

Lame. They couldn’t just go for optional PvE servers, they have to lock most of the content in PvP servers. Guess I’m still not playing it

CancerMancer,

Yeah they’re going to do the absolute bare minimum they can to bring in pve players without actually giving them what they want as if this game isn’t dead af

mordack550,

The sad thing for us is that we always wanted to have a private server, not a solo mode. I want to mess around with my friends with multiple boats. I don’t care about playing in a galleon, let me play 4 solo sloops with my friends!

glitches_brew,

Kinda surprised safe mode has commendations… Sounds like getting the gold curse just got a lot easier.

Fraylor,

The challenge was never in the pvp. It was stomaching each of the tall tales that many fucking times.

Fraylor,

I have about 600 hours in SOT so I can answer this.

So honestly that’s a TON of progression without risk, but it’ll be slow going. Emissaries allow you to increase your rewards for a particular faction (reapers, hoarders, merchants, order of souls) so you can’t get those bonuses.

You need to be a pirate legend to captian a ship, and you need three of the primary factions at level 50 to become a pirate legend. Literally no difference beyond achievements and cosmetics. Captaincy just let’s you “own” the ship that spawns in, and essentially designates a player as “leader” whereas in normal play its ad hoc on who does what. And a captained ship just has a name and extra cosmetics anyway.

Can’t earn rep for reapers which kinda sucks, but makes sense. It’s the pvp faction. But many players do pve reapers as well.

I’d say safer seas covers about 75%.

merc,
@merc@sh.itjust.works avatar

Also a bit concerned about the “Captain your own ship” bit…

My guess is they mean that if you’re doing the Safer Seas stuff, you get a standard ship and you can customize how it looks (sails, cannons, etc.) from the NPCs in the harbour but you don’t get to name the ship, and any customizations you do aren’t saved for the next time.

If you do the High Seas, you can buy a ship, name it, and unlock lots of customizations (more than standard ones) which are saved with the ship, so they’re there next time you log in and select that ship.

I don’t know about the other current major advantage of a captained ship, which is currently being able to unload all your treasure and sell it extremely quickly. Without that you need to dock, then manually run all the skulls to the skull guys, all the trade goods to the trade guys, all the treasure to the treasure guys, etc.

Voroxpete, w Helldivers 2 - Automaton Pre-Order Trailer | PS5 & PC Games

Oh man this looks great

echoplex21, w You'll Have To Wait At Least Two Years For A Faster Steam Deck

Oh is this the third iteration already?

I think regardless of timeline, Valve accomplished what they wanted which was higher adoption of PC gaming through handheld gaming. There’s been an explosion of PC handhelds in the market after their release and they’re the main storefront for it (even if it’s running windows). Their big picture mode worked extremely well with my Ally. Even though I initially bought the device as an extension for my Xbox with GamePass, I’ve found myself buying a bunch of games on Steam.

Shiggles, w Tobias Sjögren (Payday 3): We are so sorry that the infrastructure didn’t hold up as expected, and although it’s impossible to prepare for every scenario – we should be able to do better....

The best argument against always online games. Makes no damn sense that even when I queue by myself, I’m stuck waiting for a lobby.

Jaysyn, (edited ) w Unity: An open letter to our community
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

Open letter to Unity:

"Get fucked & then die in a fire sale."

war, w Unity: An open letter to our community
@war@kbin.social avatar

Corpo parseltongue of the lowest order, not worth the pixels it's displayed on.

rephlekt2718,
@rephlekt2718@kbin.social avatar

Lol brutal!

CrazyEddie041, (edited ) w Baldur's Gate 3 patch 3 releases today and lets you change your appearance and pronouns
@CrazyEddie041@kbin.social avatar

I'm ready for the impotent screeching of all the manlets who hate parts of speech.

RGB3x3,

PrOnOuNs rUinEd my BG3 BeAr SeX!!

goldgate, w Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth brings the party to Hawaii

Not a fan of turn based combat in the Yakuza series. I guess I would just watch gameplay for the story. Wish an option to change combat style be implemented.

sir_pronoun, w "They don’t care": Inside the triumphs and failures of accessible gaming hardware

Holy Shit, I hadn’t heard of anyone beating Malenia like that. Mad.

eldritch_lich, w Unity: An open letter to our community

It’s almost funny. Honestly, the only way I can see them regaining any trust at all is by a complete change in leadership and increased transparency and accountability.

I haven’t calculated how much the new revenue split would be on average so take this as a random scribble on a napkin, but I wouldn’t be surprised if most studios choose to never upgrade to the next version.

Just remember, the current CEO was too greedy even for EA.

takeda,

It’s almost funny. Honestly, the only way I can see them regaining any trust at all is by a complete change in leadership and increased transparency and accountability.

so obviously it is not happening, and by the time the CEO is replaced it will be too late

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

It's not just the CEO, most of the Board are buddies with Elon. If the Board of Directors didn't specifically want this, it wouldn't be happening.

IHeartBadCode,
@IHeartBadCode@kbin.social avatar

Just remember, the current CEO was too greedy even for EA

John Riccitiello is his name. Dude has the anti-Midas touch. Everything he has ever touched turned to shit. How people keep hiring him is beyond me.

That said, the board of directors is also part to blame for this. One name stands out, Roelof Botha. Same guy from Sequoia Capital that backed the whole Elon Musk taking a loan out for Twitter and old buddy of Musk's from PayPal days. He's also been known for some "choice" selections on where to put VC money.

And of course you have Barry Schuler of "I made AOL popular" fame. So… Yeah, he's a choice selection for the board as well.

But on the other side of it, you've got David Helgason one of the co-founders of Unity who has been pretty vocal about "We fucked up!". But to me that is a tell-tell that Riccitiello et al. sold the rest of the board on the change.

Point being, the board is made up of hard going MFers who fuck up along the way and folks who are easily rolled over by promises of $$$. So while the CEO is indeed "a work of something", the board is a perfect storm of "egos and pushovers".

Either way, yeah, I think that since literally no leadership change is coming from this "you put the same chemicals in, you're absolutely going to get the same reaction out." The only thing they have likely taken from this whole thing is that they cannot be as obvious about changes as they were.

bstix,

Everything he has ever touched turned to shit. How people keep hiring him is beyond me.

Some CEOs are hired for that specific purpose. If a board wants to do greedy shit they hire a fall guy. There are plenty of jobs for that guy.

bobbytables, w "Ubisoft may also request that Microsoft perform technical modifications,including to ensure that the Activision Games support emulators like Proton"

Most of the time Ubisoft games don’t work on non-Windows OS, so bold of them to require that.

raptir,

They do not create native Linux builds, but for the most part they all work under Protein.

mordack550,

Some of Ubisoft games don’t work well on Windows, so…

Pheonixtail, w "Ubisoft may also request that Microsoft perform technical modifications,including to ensure that the Activision Games support emulators like Proton"

But proton isn’t an emulator? It’s an API converter

echo64,

It’s an api emulator.

moody,

It’s a translation layer. It doesn’t emulate anything.

echo64,

emulate

ĕm′yə-lāt″

transitive verb

To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation.

To compete with successfully; approach or attain equality with.

To imitate the function of (another system), as by modifications to hardware or software that allow the imitating system to accept the same data, execute the same programs, and achieve the same results as the imitated system.

smeg,

I’m capable of computing logical operations, that doesn’t make me a computer

echo64,
smeg,

Touché

Nibodhika,

Yes, and I usually agree with you and think the whole WINE Is Not an Emulator acronym is a bit too much because a windows Emulator is the easiest way to explain Wine… That being said emulators have a technical definition, and Wine does not fit it because it doesn’t emulate hardware nor does it translate binaries. Linux is perfectly capable of understanding windows binaries and vice-versa, because they both run on the same platform the binaries are the same, which is to say a specific sequence of bits that instructs the processor to do something is the same for both Windows and Linux binaries. The reason you can’t run windows binaries on Linux (again, or vice-versa) is because they make calls to external libraries that are not available, be it the windows API or the Linux Kernel API. So if you write a library that implements the windows API using Linux APIs you suddenly are able to run windows binaries on Linux, and that’s all that wine does.

dudewitbow,

Its a compatibility layer, which is not usually considered emulation.

ipha,

Wine is Not an Emulator.

It’s right in the upstream name.

HKayn, w "Ubisoft may also request that Microsoft perform technical modifications,including to ensure that the Activision Games support emulators like Proton"
@HKayn@dormi.zone avatar

What’s the context? What does Ubisoft have to do with Microsoft-Activision?

AFLYINTOASTER,

Microsoft-Activision sold streaming rights for their games to Ubisoft as a concession to avoid being labeled a monopoly so the merger could go through.

HKayn,
@HKayn@dormi.zone avatar

I see, thanks!

joekar1990, w Unity: An open letter to our community

Man a 2.5% revenue share definitely could add up especially for mobile you’d be giving close to 20% in revenue to either an app store or game engine.

ASeriesOfPoorChoices, (edited )

or the calculated amount based on the number of new people engaging with your game each month. Both of these numbers are self-reported from data you already have available. You will always be billed the lesser amount.

But yeah. It does add up.

echo64,

Oh, don’t worry, it’s already 30%.

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