Kushan

Kushan, 2 miesiące temu (edited 2 miesiące temu)

If the game is good I’ll buy it, if it’s shit I won’t. I don’t see how these NPC’s will make the game good and I haven’t personally bought an Ubisoft game in several years.

Kushan, 4 miesiące temu

You make money by both selling more and spending less.

Think about it, you can have none money left over at the end of the month by working extra hours at your job or by spending less money on something - but what if you can’t work extra hours because there’s none available? And what if you need that extra cash at the end of the month? The only thing you can do is spend less.

Phil is kind of saying the same thing you’re saying here, but it’s not easy to just “sell more”, not when everyone else is struggling to have that extra cash to spend.

The games industry right now, as a whole, isn’t growing. That means companies are selling less. Phil end everyone else would love to sell more, by all means if you’ve got some solid ideas on how to do that then every games industry veteran out there will happily listen to you, but the sad and shitty reality is that sales are down and when you’re a business, if you can’t increase sales you’ve got to cut costs.

And that means job losses. It fucking sucks and we can have debates all day long about the merits of capitalism and all that, but that’s the reality of today. That’s the game. Phil is being honest and up front here, it’s a shitty game but he’s playing it and if he wasn’t playing it, someone else would.

Kushan, 6 miesięcy temu

I feel slightly obligated to buy it day one.

Kushan, 6 miesięcy temu

I love this right up until the random rule gets applied, then it’s just frustrating.

Kushan, 6 miesięcy temu

It sounds more like they’ve consolidated build pipeline and this obfuscation is part of it.

Kushan, 8 miesięcy temu

Maybe I’m a bit of a luddite but many of those “outdated” games have far better gameplay and stories than games today.

Kushan, 8 miesięcy temu

Yes, good games exist today, that doesn’t mean lots of games aren’t also terrible live service cash grabs.

Kushan, 8 miesięcy temu

I am doing. What you’re saying is a non statement given the context of the discussion.

Kushan, 8 miesięcy temu

Please highlight where I said all video games were good at a period of time.

Kushan, 8 miesięcy temu

You care enough to reply.

Kushan, 8 miesięcy temu

Lol okay buddy, have yourself a nice day.

Kushan, 8 miesięcy temu

You said that modern games were terrible cash grabs

I said:

Yes, good games exist today,

You seem intent on putting words in my mouth.

Kushan, 10 miesięcy temu

That’s literally the only reason I’m supportive of this. Super mega corporate mergers are usually bad for consumers, but those fuckwits are so much worse.

Kushan, 10 miesięcy temu

You can bet your sweet ass CoD will be part of it. Possibly not MW3 but the next game will be a big day 1 game pass launch, guaranteed.

Kushan, 10 miesięcy temu

No that was fine, it was you slathering your gooey sausage fingers all over them after raw dogging that ice cream with your face.

Kushan, 10 miesięcy temu

It’s a noble stance, but literally everything is digital these days. Even disk based games are requiring day 1 updates (or aren’t coming with the content on the disk in the first place), meaning you’re at the behest of the platform to keep your content available.

Kushan, 10 miesięcy temu

Kingdom hearts has entered the chat

Kushan, 10 miesięcy temu

That’s the problem though, most Switch games are not available on carts.

Kushan, 10 miesięcy temu

I won’t argue that the eshop isn’t full of shovelware because it is - but even shovelware needs to be preserved.

The problem with this line of debate is that there are some games worth having that are only on the eshop and it’s still a digital barrier to you truly owning the software. Saying most games are available on a physical medium doesn’t help those that aren’t and it’s a situation that’s only going to get worse.

Essentially what I am saying is that none of the big 3 are innocent here and just because some are slightly better than others doesn’t make it okay.

Kushan, 10 miesięcy temu

I appreciate the sentiment around preservation, but there’s an argument to be made that if you make something, you should get to decide if you want to destroy it. Banksy did something like this recently by destroying one of his pieces of art when it went up for auction.

Kushan, 10 miesięcy temu

No no, not at all - I agree with you, if you sell something to someone you shouldn’t be able to just take it back arbitrarily.

However, OP is talking about forcing companies to open source something they created - and while I love open source and am a big supporter of it, I don’t think that’s necessarily right either.

Kushan, 10 miesięcy temu

That’s not what I’m defending at all.