Cypher

@Cypher@lemmy.world

Profil ze zdalnego serwera może być niekompletny. Zobacz więcej na oryginalnej instancji.

Cypher,

Not a fan of all these posts having the same image, a screenshot of whatever the biggest news piece is would probably be an improvement

Cypher,

Every single MBA holder I have met has been a completely shit human being. Without exception.

They’re qualified to be pig feed.

Cypher,

I haven’t played or watched Balataro but from the description on steam

You’re going to need every edge you can get in order to reach the boss blind, beat the final ante and secure victory.

Unless ante here is referring to something else it seems it does have them?

Cypher,

Firstly you could read user names before going off, I was simply asking a question that Im unwilling to buy the game to answer.

Cypher,

Between your immediate downvotes and the tone of your message your response is unnecessarily long and rude

Cypher,

As a gamer, fuck you, funkos are for freaks who watch tv and have a Live. Laugh. Love. Doormat.

Cypher,

My response was all in good fun ;)

Cypher,

Like most fandom types gamers who make gaming their whole identity are prone to over reaction.

You just need to look at the insanity of the pro-shipping vs anti-shipping fandom ‘wars’ for another example lol

Cypher,

I received a refund in 2018 though they have since tried changing their EULA and TOS to make it harder, they have no legal standing to refuse a refund to Australian customers.

I was refunded for around $750 USD IIRC and at one point was in email contact with Will Leverett prior to my refund being approved.

Cypher,

That’s hardly unique when damages exceed what a person can pay, wage garnishing is actually relatively common.

Nintendo also gave Gary Bowser a warning and he signed an agreement saying he would stop his illegal activities… and then he continued anyway.

They gave him an out at no cost and instead he landed himself in prison because he fucked around and found out.

Cypher,

In what way is Nintendo guilty?

Cypher,

That’s just punitive damages awarded by the court and also isn’t unusual.

Cypher,

The industry definitions of alpha/beta disagree with you.

Words have meaning and you’re using them wrong.

Cypher,

In video games development, and more broadly in software development, Alpha state refers to a feature incomplete and largely untested state and is unrelated to internal/external sales, review, testing or release.

Alpha software is not thoroughly tested by the developer before it is released to customers.

While outside of recent trends, particularly in crowd funded games development, alpha releases to customers for paid software are less common they do occur and don’t have any bearing on the alpha state of the software.

In general, external availability of alpha software is uncommon for proprietary software, while open source software often has publicly available alpha versions.

Further

A feature-complete (FC) version of a piece of software has all of its planned or primary features implemented but is not yet final due to bugs, performance or stability issues. This occurs at the end of alpha testing in development.

And for Beta

Beta, named after the second letter of the Greek alphabet, is the software development phase following alpha. A beta phase generally begins when the software is feature-complete but likely to contain several known or unknown bugs

I am both a qualified software developer, and have worked in the video games industry. I hope you have learnt something.

en.wikipedia.org/…/Software_release_life_cycle

Cypher,

Sometimes people want to play with a toy and not scream at their OS because of… millions of possible reasons.

Is overwatch 2 really that bad? angielski

I’ve played maybe 10 hours total of Overwatch 2 and it is incredibly boring (to me). But it seems to get lots of updates often, heavy monetization which sucks. The steam reviews are scalding. It really makes me wonder… is it that bad? Like really? It’s hard to gauge if the game is thriving or on deaath’s door…

Cypher,

He did give reasons. Can’t you read?

Cypher, (edited )

Elite was the first game to utilize procedural generation, which has been extremely popular across multiple genres.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)

guinnessworldrecords.com/…/first-use-of-procedura…

While some might not consider it a game mechanic I certainly do, as gaming the proceduraly created levels is a core part of certain games, see mapping tactics in Diablo 2 for example as you use knowledge of procedural generation to reduce the time to find and kill bosses!

Cypher,

You’ve likely listened to the same or similar lectures I have on level design and I seriously apply those lessons to every single game and UI I have influence over!

Cypher,

See I thought of Rogue first but trusted the Guiness book of world records! I guess they need to be corrected

Cypher,

I would counter that FFXIV is poorly written, has horrible pacing and awful quest design.

The dungeons aren’t the worst Ive seen but offer little challenge.

Cypher,

Good to see you have formed a strong opinion without having all of the information.

Cypher,

There are other BZ2 enjoyers!?

I keep hoping for a modern take on it

Cypher,

I wasn’t even happy with Larian, their data collection is on by default.

The whole account and telemetry is completely unnecessary.

I just want a game. No accounts. No external features. No DLC. No microtransactions. No telemetry collection.

Just a game. It doesn’t seem like much to ask.

Cypher,

There’s no pretending, they’re all middling trash.

Firefly gets by solely on the setting.

Cypher,

Well… I have complete disinterest in the Japanese setting and mythology so I will give this a pass.

Cypher,

Nintendo had a stake in the company doing the broadcasts but is extremely unlikely to have retained copies of the levels.

The only way to have retained the levels is by having received them by satellaview and then disconnecting the device, for 25 years, and hoping the memory isn’t too volatile to recover.

It’s extremely fortunate that some people recorded levels on VHs and that those VHS weren’t damaged or lost.

Cypher,

It is highly likely that Nintendo don’t have any copies of that content given it was done through a partner company.

Cypher,

Fuschia

Cypher,

Which hasn’t happened. There is no case to be made.

Cypher,

The only person who claimed the models were the same has admitted to scaling models for his comparisons.

The meshes are completely different. The actual designs are distinct enough.

So yes Im sure. Feel free to check back in a year or two when Nintendo have gone quiet and done nothing.

Cypher,

The guy who made those has admitted to scaling/editing models.

I assure you they are not the same.

Cypher,

They’ve done a great job and nailing the art style modern Pokemon games should have had, while being distinct enough to avoid any serious chances of a lawsuit winning.

Modders will be the ones running afoul of Nintendos lawyers.

Cypher,

People don’t tend to be polite when they buy a dodgy product of any kind, why would video games be different?

Cypher,

Can you tell me a single industry where you treat customers like shit and not get abuse in return?

People are acting like angry reviews are somehow unwarranted when customers are being sold defective products.

Cypher,

Such a toxic community! I popped over to reddit and saw posts like this

old.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines2/…/kitiiqn/

This bug was introduced with the last Patch last year before they went for christmas/new year holidays. They are back since 1 week now and i think and hope they patch it as soon as possible . To be fair its only a Problem early till midgame before you got youre economy half way working, after this point you dont have money Problems at all . I find the ai pathfinding + the cargo System more gamebreaking then the money bug

On steam checking new reviews shows people are unhappy and refunding but there’s hardly any vitriol there either. Moderators are quick but not that quick.

Over on the official forums we see complaints, disappointment and frustration but little in the way of outright hatred.

I’ve yet to run across anything that crosses a line in terms of content I would moderate, however that doesn’t mean moderators didn’t nuke such comments before I could see them.

This looks like the expected reaction to a game being broken on release. The devs are simply shifting blame to the community.

Cypher,

You’re not familiar with the car and motorcycle industries are you?

People spend years tearing into companies over vehicles, spending hundreds or thousands of hours meticulously detailing every engineering problem, real or imagined, and shitting on anyone who disagrees.

The only difference is that car and motorcycle companies generally shield their employees from criticism to a much greater degree.

You don’t usually see the engineers names in a credit screen in your car. Those engineers aren’t generally seen shit posting on twitter about how entitled the customers are because that would get them sacked.

Cypher,

Show me people being dicks about it, I’ve looked and haven’t seen it.

I’ll tell you a dick move I have seen though… Ive seen a developer lie about features and deliver a broken mess for full price.

Cypher,

So because it’s “industry practice” to screw over consumers it’s somehow on consumers?

I suppose we can apply the same logic to scams, victims know about scams and fall for them anyway so it’s their own fault when their life savings get stolen.

No point in blaming the scammers. Everyone knows how it works.

Cypher,

however that doesn’t mean moderators didn’t nuke such comments before I could see them.

Im well aware of survivorship bias and even addressed it in my comment.

It isn’t the first time devs have shifted blame for their failures to their customers.

Cypher,

So… blame the system? The devs are the antagonists in this system and the only ones with the power to stop pushing out broken garbage and marketing based on lies.

Blaming the victims won’t change the system.

There will always be people unfamiliar with the pitfalls of the system. Always fresh victims to part from their money.

So I blame the company because the company is the system. I blame the scammers because they are the system.

Oh and regulations don’t even slow down scammers of any kind. They already know they’re breaking the rules, breaking laws is just the next logical step.

A step companies are all too willing to take because the punishments cost less than they’ll profit.

I do not blame people for being fooled… because there’s always a scam good enough to fool even me. And I’m smart.

Cypher,

See I still disagree; Im Australian and we measure a lot of things (social, political) by what we call the pub test.

If you can’t convince people in a pub that something is a good idea then it doesn’t pass the political pub test.

The social pub test is similar, it’s where if doing something in a pub would cause another patron to throw you a beating it fails the pub test.

If you rip someone off for $60 to $120 in a pub and they realise they will punch your head in.

Mean comments are an entirely reasonable if somewhat juvenile response to being lied to and ripped off.

Devs acting like victims because people said mean things after they lied to and ripped those people off is ridiculous.

They should grow a thicker skin or get out of the game of scamming people.

Cypher,

The comments in here are really disappointing and a reflection of what this community has become, corporate bootlickers.

Excusing companies scamming customers because gamers dared to point out the scam? All because the companies quarterly profits weren’t up enough, is a really toxic state and not what this community should be.

Cypher,

Can you link any prerelease announcements that include the bugs and performance issues?

Cypher,

I still find it underwhelming that you can build an empire but it goes completely unrecognised by other factions.

You have personal reputation and that is it.

I don’t see this expansion changing that.

Cypher,

I haven’t found a mod that handles what I expect from building an empire, and it would require a decent bit of work, which I’m not currently interested in doing myself.

Cypher,

The four days before cheating became rampant were amazing

Cypher,

Ive downloaded a lot of mods from sourceforge over the years

Your poor malware ridden computer….

Cypher, (edited )

I’ve written game engine wrappers and converters for all sorts of code and file types.

It would honestly be easier to fire up Unreal Engine 5 or Godot and start again.

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