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scrubbles, 4 dni temu (edited 4 dni temu)

WHY?! WHY ARE THEY BEING SO STUPID WITH HOGWARTS?!

They built this whole world into the game and did NOTHING with it! It’s empty! Hogwarts the settings is perfect! The castle was fun to walk around in, to explore! I 100%'d the game because I loved exploring in it! Then they did nothing else to the game. I don’t even remember what the antagonist’s name was!

The game oversold all expectations! People just loved shelling out money for it! Then WB just dropped it.

I see things bitching every day about how their game studios don’t make enough money and then they shit the bed here by just letting that game sit here!

If they’re actually worried about money why are they not cranking out DLC every 4-6 months?! People would buy it! The world they built is begging to have more stories told, and people are holding out their wallets asking for more content for it - and they cancel it?!? They can’t bitch and moan that games don’t make money and then they just flip the off switch on their freaking money printer.

Thanks. That was cathartic.

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Which is fine, but I have no idea why they’re just throwing everything they have in the trash. They built the whole world and just sat on it. Expansions could make them so much money to fund the next game in the short term

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I’m glad I’m not the only one genuinely confused by this. Are they shorting their own company? What is going on?

I mean, a Gollum game?

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Seriously they could have done sims level DLC and people could have just kept buying. New mounts, small new areas, bits of story here and there, a new class

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Then they really are horrible at gaming because there are millions of people chomping at the bit to pay any amount for dlc to that game

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I loved shadow of mordor/war, and always wondered why they didn’t make another. However I also guess better to go out early before it’s done to death

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Yeah why would they keep making games that were successful when instead they could make games that no one asked for

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Jesus everyone yes, hp sucks. A lot. But this is still good news. Steam and Linux are being legitimized as real platforms. The more companies who jump in the better.

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Miceosoft!? Create original IP? Agreed they’ll keep regurgitating their IP no matter how many lame halos it makes.

Hell not even dos was theirs.

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I’m usually pretty cautious on stuff like this, I’m in the minority that says the newest games don’t need to get 60fps 4k ultra on the newest GPUs, that it’s okay if you can get medium. Gives games room to future proof themselves.

But this is bad. A mid tier brand new GPU can’t play your game more than 720p 35fps? That’s laughably bad. I’ll wait to get some other reviews before I judge completely, but that’s just utterly unacceptable.

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But they care so much about history there at Ubisoft

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They’re years behind and they have a half baked idea. Of course they’re going to come out with one!

They also have piles of metrics saying it’s going to become the dominant in the market, that it’s way better than the competitors, and that the Xbox interface will be loved by all.

And then it’ll come out, be mediocre at best, and silently dropped in 3 years.

It’s Microsoft. I’ve seen this one before

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RDR2 is one of the best story games ever. It’s one of probably 3 or 4 I would call masterpiece, and it legit made me cry. I connected with the characters, I felt the pain of the gang falling apart, I felt fear and pity for dutch, it was just amazing. RDR2 is one of those few games where you can say "sure, it has amazing gameplay, the side games are fun, and it plays great, but I don’t play it because it’s one of the most fun games to play, I play for the story "

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It was amazing storytelling. It was never about saint Denis, or the heists, it was about the little things you overheard in camp, the gang itself. Truly a amasterpiece

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Oh good! Maybe MSFS2024 will finally work!

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I’ve used 2020 on Linux many times, works well!

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Oh gears, amazing co-op! Great cover system and a chainsaw on a gun. Phenomenal!

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Truly just the brute force solution. Need a shitload of compute? GPUs can do it! No one stops to think if we really need it. It’s all about coulda, not shoulda. Yeah, ML and AI has a place, but big tech just thinks “slap an LLM everywhere”. Just such horseshit

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I actually think Syndicate is one of my favorites, behind only black flag… I absolutely loved it. To me Unity was the boring one

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True, I do dislike when gamers just unilaterally say “this game is bad”, because it’s such an opinion. Is it bad, or do you just not like it? Maybe other people do like it

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Self host, codeberg, make mirrors everywhere

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Which is why looking at some of those games I kind of get why games need to charge more. Definitely not keeping up with inflation. However, I also see a much broader range in those games, and if they want game prices to go up then they also need to understand price ranges for quality.

Something like RDR2, true masterpiece, I would go to 100. Maybe 120. That game is perfect, no flaws, and several hundred hours of gameplay.

Assassin’s creed could stick at 60. Very much a mid game, gets a mid price.

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I disagree. I have no problem if a product is of high quality and it gets it’s value.

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You’re going way off point of what I originally said, and I’m not having an argument here about rich vs poor or class systems. All I said was that a higher quality game earned a higher price than a lower quality game. Anything else you want to assume or believe is your own, but it’s separate from my statement.

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Got it, you want to argue your point, I don’t want to, we’ll leave it here.

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That mission was one of the best in all of Halo. Where you really feel how dire and ruined everything is. Mixed with running around actual civilian places contrasted to the numerous forerunner built, bunkers, or nature locations or the other games and it really hits home.

(Outskirts and New Mom asa got close, but with the graphics of the time and mostly being outside it didn’t quite hit the same)

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And they’re shocked that no one bought the PS5 pro for 800 dollars

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Eh. That’s not a big of a loss as you’re making it out to be. I purposely buy my games, I want to own them. (Asterisk with licensing and all). Point being that I don’t agree with Ubisoft that we need to get used to Games as a Service. I don’t want to rent my games. Even mid tier games, I want to own them.

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and if they let me buy it license free I would. However between the options of buying a license to play a game whenever I want vs renting it for 1 month, I’ll take the license.

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Shocking. When your entire customer base asks “why?” When you announce a product that’s usually a good indicator. Also wasn’t it like 800 dollars?

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That’s a huge problem I have with the franchise though! It’s been their cash cow so every game has some sort of riff on the whole future story bit, but they can’t commit to any of it and there’s no end in sight. So I refuse to get attached to their overarching story because I have no confidence that it will every complete!

The two scenarios that will play out are (and I’m not saying which one is likely, just these are the only two):

• Assassins’ Creed continues to be huge -> They will never end the overarching story and it will keep trickling in
• Assassin’s Creed dies out -> They won’t know it until their last one bombs so bad that the suits never make another, leaving it open

So why be invested in the story at all?

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For me it’s the arrogance. It’s the calling of themselves “AAAA” gaming and trying to push base prices of games past $100 and then making bland boring games. They think they’re amazing. This is their reality check. Their games are what I play when I have nothing, and I mean nothing else to play

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Hey maybe shadows will finally turn them around, I’m sure they did I’m something interesting and new with the game to get us to take notice.

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I would never expect anything day 1, ever. Scalpers ruined day 1. And though I would be surprised if they were out of stock a week later. Unlike Nvidia they actually want to sell cards.

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Unfortunately it’s pure capitalism. No matter what company got paid. They don’t care about it users got the card they wanted, or even if the scalers make a profit or go bust, they already got paid.

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I’m very sorry man, I’ve been through that, and I have friends that have been cut at unity before. They treat their workers terribly.

Focus on getting better first, just process it for a bit. When you’re ready to start looking, the market is warm right now. I’m more than happy to help review resumes.

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Good then, glad you’ve made it through, but obviously stay frosty. Those execs will cut every engineer as long as they still look good. Be ready for anything

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Romanian trains are always so pretty

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Archived. Of course they have no legal reason to take it down, but I’m sure that won’t stop them.

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I hate questions like this. How would anyone but you know if it’s fun? Fun is completely subjective. Some people didn’t have fun in Veilguard. I had a lot of fun in Veilguard. Was Veilguard A good game? Now that’s a bit different question.

Things can be both not good but also fun. Among Us isn’t going to win game awards for narrative, but it was fun as hell to play.

Only way to tell if it’s fun is to go and play it, and return it if you don’t like it. Stop letting other people tell you if you’re having fun or not. Just, go enjoy things

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Your disclaimer is what I really like tbh. We’re all just random people online with our own opinions, why would anyone take our word for if something is fun?

I’m glad you’re having a good time though!

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Then it becomes 10.

I raided 6 2tb SSDs for my games now. It’s great, but it’s almost full.

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In Halo they’ve given up on moderating unranked. Unranked is where ranked people to to “practice” now, you can see their shitty clans running around and 360 no scoping all of us just trying to chill. Inevitably every game is crazy one sided, they high five and move on, and we get swamped 50-13

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So EA put way too high of a sales target on the game, obviously held it back from becoming what it could be, and now are blaming the studio with layoffs, ensuring the next game will flop.

I don’t care what their “numbers” and “projections” were. The game was on the top 10 list in Steam. Even if it wasn’t an A+ game I’d say it looked like it at least hit Assassin’s Creed numbers, I’d hardly call that a failure. Sounds more like a failure to accurately predict, maybe they should fire their business analysts instead of the people who you know, make the games.

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I’d like to see how they measured success. Was it to break even? Well from what point? Including the time that it was supposed to be a live service game? Through the committees and executives shutting down ideas? It was in the top 10 for games on Steam that week and had generally favorable reviews. If that didn’t match their plan, that’s on them.

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Taste the meat, not the heat - Pro-Pain

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Oh great, they’re “modernizing” the gameplay, sailing, and more. It’s literally one of two AC games I enjoy, why change anything?

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What a horseshit article. 90% of the “comparisons” are “We don’t know yet”. “It’s up in the air on the switch”. Only concrete thing I saw is that it has 2 USB-C ports.