Kichae

Kichae, 9 miesięcy temu

I think I've reached the point where no one will be able to convince me that Star Citizen is not a money laundering front.

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

People spending more time with fewer games is not a reason, in publishers' minds, to reverse course. It's the intended outcome.

Having the same number of people (or near the same number) playing fewer games, and filling those games with monetization features is cheaper and easier to maintain than having a broad and growing library of titles.

Remember, the ideal for publishers is to have one game that everyone plays that has no content outside of a "spend money" button that players hit over and over again. That's the cheapest product they can put out, and it gives them all the money. They're all seeking everything-for-nothing relationships with customers.

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

Now do 1985.

Never mind, I'll do it myself: NES games were $50, which today is about $185.

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

Especially when they can just type in a provocative prompt and get 500 words of generic rage bait in a second.

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

Not just that CRPGs can sell, but "Man, look at how much success they're having with our CRPG franchise!"

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

This is especially true of publicly traded companies.

A publicly traded company's customers are it's investors, and it's product is shareholder value. Everything else they do is just the manufacturing process.

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

And that turned out for the best, too.

I started playing Pathfinder.

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

That's just the system. This is what happens when people confuse commerce with capitalism: They think that capitalism is being rewarded for doing commerce better. Instead, capitalism is about leveraging ownership of property and underpaying workers in order to get money for free.

And the thing about money is that it's really just a proxy for power. When you only have enough of it to eek out a comfortable life (or less), you don't really notice, because all of your power goes in to achieving or maintaining that acceptably good life (or hanging on for dear life trying to survive), but once your needs are comfortably and handidly met, money is entirely about being able to make other people do whatever you want. And the more money you have, the more things you can get them to do, or the more of them that you can get to do what you want.

And if you've managed to be one of the lucky ones who just get free money for owning shit, then you have the power at your fingertips to try to grow your power over others exponentially, while still doing no honest work in your days. And if you're a shitty person who gets off on all of this, that's exactly what you'll do.

The wealthy are insufferably greedy leeching assholes because one does not become wealthy without being greedy, leeching off of others, and being an insufferable asshole.

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

"They should have researched that thing the company hadn't done and given no signals that they would do."

Dear God, do you listen to yourself talk? I hope no one else fucking has to.

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

And when both get too close, that's when you release yellow

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

But only in Japan.

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

Unity: Successfully implemented a product strategy that floods the market with game developers that know how to use its product.

You, an insufferable prick: "Why would they use a product they could find ready-trained developers for when they could use a niche product no one has any skills in??!?"

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

Wait, this is a Bethesda game. I assumed that that was the explanation.

Kichae, 11 miesięcy temu

Also, Oblivion just wasn't amazing. It was fine. More than good enough, even. But it was also just unmitigated and completely ubcofused sidequest sprawl. In my attempts to experience all that it had to offer, I ended up feeling like I experienced nothing of value.

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Well, you see, the technical issue that's stopping them from selling it is called "canibalization of sales", which is technically an issue for their marketing department.

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New consoles don't come out in response to new technology, though. They never have. The next console generation comes when people stop buying the last one.

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Ubisoft Connect. That will stream Steam to your system, which you can then use to launch Battle.net, which will give you access to Game Pass, which...

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Because they sold a whole bunch of copies.

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I haven't played handheld in at least 4 years. I'd honestly prefer a version of the system that was screenless at this point.

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Yeah. Rumored computational power, claimed to be coming from development units, puts it at a healthy fraction of the Steam Deck's when docked, but a much smaller one when undocked. So, people shouldn't get their hopes up about a Steam Deck+ coming from Nintendo.

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No, they'd still need IP rights for the characters/world/name. Releasing it for free doesn't alleviate that issue in any way.

They could strip it of all of the Simpsons related stuff, but they'd also have to create new levels, since those are owned by the epriginal publisher.

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What are you talking about? They totally addressed that. Someone from HR even stepped down! /s

I used to work in a small Ubisoft studio, and while I was there one of the managers investigated an employee for sexual harassment. He took it super serious, and, as far as I can tell, did everything right. Then he took the case to HR and... Left the company about 6 weeks later.

The sexual harasser also left, eventually, but I think the order of things tells a story.