Sanctus

Sanctus, 10 miesięcy temu

The mating of the dinosaurs. This is the same shit that happened to record labels the minute people were able to record quality sounds in their own homes. What happens when all the gaming industry is rolled under some parent organization?

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

They could add they Aether. I’m not going to lie though, the beauty of minecraft is not the content. Its the emergent systems from redstone and the like. Unless I am mistaken and Notch intended for people to make functioning RAM and computers inside minecraft.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

I mean nobody wanted this game in the first place, couple that with this sewage outlet and there ya go. They really had a follow-up game planned for this? Like it was gonna be a hit?

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

And thats a movie based on a legendary book. Hell yeah it made that much. Now turn around and say, “hey, bud. You know the split-personality leper following the protagonist? Ever wanted to be him?” Fuck, no. And it was never advertised as anything more than that. You have to relate a little to who you are controlling in a game, otherwise it doesn’t sell. Who relates to smeagol? People who wish they sold knives that don’t whisper to you?

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Weren’t given the funds? This game is bad for many reasons and none of them are because they were only given 15 million euros to make it.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Now go after Blizzard

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

I don’t know if I have ever heard of an American exec being properly punished by the law.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Ember is the reason I have my feitshes.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Its really not hard. They have the lion’s share of IPs but not a single person there can take a risk on a new mechanic or feature. Their problem is they want high ROI in an industry that is largely based on ephemeral measurements. You can’t predict the next hit, so you have to climb out on limbs and take risks to stand out.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

You say that, but Space Station 13 never became mainstream. Mischief Maker was left to rot and never remade. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles fucking removed the features we loved in the remake. Monster Rancher isn’t made anymore. Theres a host of IPs with great gameplay that are now lost to history. If it was so predictable companies would do it, because it makes money and companies solely exist to make money. But thats not the case. They churn out the same SaaS digital storefronts endlessly chasing the easy money. Nobody would have guessed Rainworld would have made the money it did, yet it triumphed. There is no formula for capturing the attention of apes with star-brains long enough to garner fame.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Am I missing something? Theres only text and a screenshot. Why is everyone arguing? You can’t even watch it.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

I don’t know how to say this but corporations suck. They turn human spirit into profits and excrement. Anything led by a corporation will inevitably suck if it doesn’t right off the bat.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

I’m sure there are. But, at least in the states, many tech people are also right-leaning libertarians. Co-ops are unpopular with them because they want to be the kings in the castle, not equal with their peers.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Don’t worry, the environment has a plan

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

I fed Gale his robe when he was bitching about magic items once, had to have the whole deep.lore conversation with him suddenly naked. My point being Gale is a great thumbnail for this article about naked men.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

I forgot about this the minute there was drama with it and the writers were changing the story. All they had to do was remake the models and textures for it to be a masterpiece for the second time. Sad, but glad it wasn’t turned into a dumpster fire.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

So is every game going to have AI in the chats listening for “Naughties”? Because thats just spyware.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

I’d imagine they’d have started over in six different engines by now.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Hell yeah, fandom needs to be abandoned its an ad riddled shithole

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Star Citizen players in shambles rn

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

They were fighting in the middle of the ocean?

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Increasing complexity, tighter deadlines, demand for highwr profit margins, decrease in education quality. Theres a lot of reasons and not all of them are necessarily bad. Its good that we can simulate what we can. I think the profit motive is just starting to show its ruinous powers as shareholders demand more and more.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Its more than a shame, it ruined the replay value completely AND I can’t play it with my kids to get them into it without buying a switch for each.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

The problem with this game is its design choices. Over simplified enemies leave much to be desired from previous titles. A world that levels with you means you never feel like you get better. I had to get lucky with a fucken item drop just to make my druid viable. Restarting every season? Only streamers and NEETs have time and desire to do that. This game was a pile of the worst design choices of the last 10 years. They even managed to make an established character (Lilith) bland by trying to make her seem morally grey. Chick has been trying to turn Sanctuary into her own faction for the Eternal Conflict since its inception. If I could I would refund this game, which sucks they already got their money.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

You know whats better? Not reporting shit, I just published my game. I don’t want to report a bunch of numbers to Unity each month. I want to push updates to fix issues my users are complaining about. How the fuck are the biggest chucklefucks in charge of every company? Give me the fucking reigns I can do better than this.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Wow, thats amazing! You know what is even more trivial? Not having to do it at all.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

I can when I didn’t have to do it before and this policy is forced upon me by an established vendor. Thats like saying you can’t bitch about material vendors in the construction industry, you absolutely can because they make your business work and you’ve entrusted them not to fuck you.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Its not the tracking of sales thats the issue. Its having to report it to someone so they can take even more of my money when we haven’t been doing that for years.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

It’d be pretty cool co-op too.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

For all we know “space” is the same map for each planet and only a few assets get swapped depending on orbit. Maybe this was a cheeky way to make their ancient engine run all these new features without crashing.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

That has precedent and is a very interesting conjecture. I vote this explanation.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Its all smoke and mirrors, my friend. The cake is a lie.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

When there is nothing left to squeeze for profits, customers are consumed.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Its not an old game, MK1 is the latest release. The people getting served this are running it on hardware that was weak last generation. At a certain point you simply cannot push these devices any further. MK1 for Switch was never going to look beautiful, the current gen Switch can’t do it. I’m okay with devs making their games available, I mean at least you can play it. Theres a reason a Switch 2 is in the works.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

I hope all the devs with weight followsuit. My little project moving won’t really disturb anyone but me. Sweeping and sudden policy changes like this are bullshit.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

record scratch I-I-I-Insider trading!

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Curse spreaders, rich and bored.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Everything will be damaged as “Line Go Up” becomes every industry’s mantra. Nothing will get better, expect worse and worse product quality on average.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

Remember when he wanted to charge players per digital bullet fired in FPS games?

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

This honestly sounds like a lot of overhead in development. How does Unity track my installs? Do I have to do anything to my games? Do I have to warn users about privacy related to Unity’s tracking? Does it have to be in my TOS? These are just privacy questions.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu (edited 11 miesięcy temu)

I’m miffed to say the least. I hate 2D in Unreal and I’m mid development in Unity. But now I might as well halt and move to Unreal.

Edit: my feelings are totally biased. I’ll get over it.

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

I meant specifically how I feel about making 2D in UE since I am used to Unity. But yeah sudden ass-fucking policy changes are bound to piss people off

Sanctus, 11 miesięcy temu

I’m surprised this IP is still going.

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Make us whole

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The problem is by-and-large people don’t care. As hobbyists some of us might, most of us say we do, but the profit and cash flow says otherwise.

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I would have thought the PC numbers would be higher.

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Yeah, without those early days of casual PC gaming I can see how that affected the market over there. I mean, if it wasn’t for Kongregate, Newgrounds, and Miniclip idk how many Americans would be on PC gaming.

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I mean you have to verify it as much as any answer on Stack Overflow. Lets not act like dudes haven’t been ripping code from there and just flying with it.