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Who has been long-awaiting a Warcraft 3: refunded patch?

RedditWanderer, 7 dni temu

Saw videos/articles online that this was the “end of gamedev” or whatever.

While patents for games are shit, theyve been around a long time and are hard to enforce. Palworld made it incredibly easy for one of the most ruthless companies to go after them. I expected they waited to see the final game before taking action, and until palworld made a ridiculous amount of money.

I’ve worked on Pokemon clones that are commercially available, and while they didn’t sell as much as palworld, they took a bit more care designing around stuff

RedditWanderer, 7 dni temu

Funny you mention THAT game.

Not that I have anyyy insider knowledge, but great care was taken to avoid very specific things. Also who knows, had coromon exploded in popularity, maybe Nintendo would have bothered.

RedditWanderer, 29 dni temu (edited 28 dni temu)

That’s why these things are always “so close” to being done. You hear the milestone is near, and then it disappears. I have a theory Nintendo waits for as long as they can so people invest a lot, then they send the papers. In a way it discourages people from even starting imo.

Edit: why is this being downvoted. Nintendo slowrolling developers is just like, my opinion man. It’s not controversial

RedditWanderer, 28 dni temu

I was just saying I find Nintendo are slowrolling devs by waiting till the last minute to sue them. I guess it’s to make sure it’s a slam dunk

RedditWanderer, 4 miesiące temu

Xcom, xcom2

RedditWanderer, 4 miesiące temu

Microsoft and Epic take less because they have less. Both their ecosystems are shit. They are also trying to get into the market, once they own a decent share of it they are hiking that right back up. Gaben is smart leaving it how it always has been, while continuously improving the platform.

People don’t like the 30%, but they are still choosing steam because it’s the better platform. Epic and co are the ones who make things exclusive and try to corner the market.

The article points to a “similar case with sony”, but it’s not similar really. Sony has exclusives too.

This entire article is shit and there’s no victim here, except Microsoft and Epic maybe. This is a class action lawsuit nobody asked for.

RedditWanderer, 5 miesięcy temu

He just doesn’t have time to make food anymore. Gaben only makes money

RedditWanderer, 6 miesięcy temu

There was no confusion around who delisted it

RedditWanderer, 6 miesięcy temu

There’s been confirmation for 7 days.

This is steamdb change list for HD2. This is a developer update.

The “speculation” was just clickbait. There are multiple articles confirming it over the last week.

RedditWanderer, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

Steam doesn’t push changelists from developer accounts, and don’t push it themselves without making a major announcement. This is why all the reporting on this has been clear AH/Sony delisted it. There are countless articles confirming this days ago.

Article from 2 days ago

Sony made the strange decision to delist Helldivers 2 from over 150 different countries in which the PlayStation Network isn’t supported, though we’re still not quite sure for what reason.

RedditWanderer, 6 miesięcy temu

Any articles for this speculation or uncertainty? Because that’s also something Valve would be quick to shut down and point to Sony, for legal reasons.

Or is this all reddit threads from people who don’t understand how steam works?

RedditWanderer, 6 miesięcy temu

So there was no speculation, you just hoped these articles straight up lied.

RedditWanderer, 6 miesięcy temu

We knew who delisted the game, because steam doesn’t just do that.

RedditWanderer, 6 miesięcy temu

So many threads about Hello Games (No Man’s Sky) and other Sony backed titles being “victims”. They knew what they were doing,

RedditWanderer, 6 miesięcy temu

What does it matter if the game “launches successfully” if it doesn’t sustain itself? They knew theyd likely lose their players but they were hoping theyd be special - this game is not successful in the end.

Your entire argument boils down to: they wouldn’t have been able to cheat us into thinking this was a good game without sony. If theyre going to take my money and kill the game anyway, it would have been better to not make it at all. That’s what thousands of indie devs have to contend with every day.

RedditWanderer, 6 miesięcy temu (edited 6 miesięcy temu)

Unless there’s evidence that AH got a special deal, there’s no chance they didn’t know this was an eventual requirement.

I’ve been an engineer in the AA/AAA games industry for almost 2 decades, my job often involves assessing the technical feasibility of games that big publishers like Sony want to invest in/ acquire.

Someone somewhere at AW agreed to shove PSN sign-in requirements in the deal, hoping it would blow over like many games before. (e.g rocket league / epic account debacle). Now the devs are sorry it’s not working out and say “their hands are tied”, but they must have known this was coming. There are way too many legal ramifications for this to be a random power-move by Sony.

Edit: sony apparently lifted the requirement today

RedditWanderer, 6 miesięcy temu

The worlds video game industry*.

They got really buffed on investments during the pandemic like we were going to stay in our house for the rest of our lives.

Now interest is high and investors aren’t as excited. It wouldn’t hurt for the industry to crash and get rid of these moneygrabbers who are in for a short peak, we’d have better games

RedditWanderer, 8 miesięcy temu

They make 5 billion a year, thats less than 2.5% of the money they make every year, it’s a rounding error to make the spreadsheets look real good to the money lenders .

My company just let me go with a 6 figure package (x amount of pay + stocks). They could have easily kept me there for another year, but that’s not as good for the spreadsheets.

RedditWanderer, 8 miesięcy temu

Yeah that was kinda my point. All that matters is what the spreadsheet looks like now. It would have probably been a net positive to keep me given they are only going to grow and spend a fortune on hiring and new stocks. That’s a different spreadsheet though, I also live in a country where it’s expensive to fire full time employees collectively, so it’s not like they are paying these kinds of sums for everyone. It’s pretty cheap to make things look good on paper.

RedditWanderer, rok temu (edited rok temu)

Holy shitballs. It feels like just yesterday we were firing up payday 2 on release day with a bunch of friends and risking having a seizure at any moment on the “start heist” page.

I figured yeah payday 2 was like 5 years ago, time for a new one. 10 fucking years… i need a drink!

RedditWanderer, rok temu

Damn that’s sad to hear.

All they had to do was remake payday 2 with a few improvements/new puzzles/ maps and they would have made bank.

Payday 2 sold 40 million copies full AAA price too (like 79$ back then or wtv). They should have had the money to make a good game.

RedditWanderer, rok temu

Straight out of “30 things I hate about your pitch”, which is a great GDC talk. In that talk he has one thing that is “in the real world you can’t double jump”. Don’t make a realistic setting that is realistic just because.

RedditWanderer, rok temu

He’s saying the “Least buggiest” is not proper phrasing. It should be something along the lines of “the least buggy/bugged” and it’s a pretty bad title for someone claiming to be a “journalist”.

RedditWanderer, rok temu

Doesn’t matter what he claims, he just wrote an article for a publishing/news/media company. That’s called journalism, professional or not.

jour·nal·ism /ˈjərnlˌizəm/ noun the activity or profession of writing for newspapers, magazines, or news websites or preparing news to be broadcast. “she had begun a career in journalism”