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ampersandrew, 17 dni temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

Here’s a pretty good summary from a few years ago.. While her byline is full of articles reporting what everyone else is in games, she’s also one of the few who will break stories as well.

ampersandrew, 17 dni temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

Rebekah Valentine is a top tier games journalist doing reporting for IGN.

ampersandrew, 17 dni temu do games w Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced

It’s the part where the Switch 1 hasn’t gone down in price that the article is talking about.

ampersandrew, 17 dni temu do games w Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced

You didn’t even mention Epic’s giveaways or the games that come with a month of Amazon Prime. If you needed a gaming library in a hurry, there are great games given away for free or cheap on PC all the time.

ampersandrew, 17 dni temu do games w Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced

There’s a very good couple of paragraphs in this article showing where the likely culprits are in the pricing of these consoles. There’s about as much competition now as there has been for the past four decades, but Moore’s Law has broken down.

ampersandrew, 17 dni temu do games w Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games?

Ctrl+F for “Descenders” came up empty. I think that’s the author’s issue.

ampersandrew, 17 dni temu do games w What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"?

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II did this really well just this year. Largely a story about contrasting a desire for adventure with the horrors and realities of war, it also has quests that are full of comedy. You can try to attract a pack of wolves using what the shepherd refers to as his absolute dumbest sheep; you can get blackout drunk with a band of mercenaries who may or may not have killed your childhood friends; you can clean up and decorate a crypt full of loose bones for a man who speaks only in rhymes, poorly, and might be a ghost.

ampersandrew, 18 dni temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

Well, the difference is that now you’re paying for it by viewing ads and, down to personal preference, a worse product. With commercial interruptions, you’re saying how much your time is worth, if nothing else. In any case, yes, that’s worth it to a lot of people, and it gives niche creators power over their current or former bosses.

ampersandrew, 18 dni temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

“Whaling for media figures” is just paying for the quality product you want.

ampersandrew, 18 dni temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

See, that’s just it. This entire business doesn’t survive on ad revenue anymore. Everything that isn’t Gamespot and IGN have folded, because the money that used to be there in ads isn’t there anymore. Subscriptions are what keep companies like this sustainable and afloat. Kinda Funny came from former IGN employees, and they knew the power they had to bring their audience to them rather than surrendering to the whims of IGN. Digital Foundry, Giant Bomb, Video Games Chronicle, MinnMax, GamesBeat, Aftermath…they all transitioned to doing this.

ampersandrew, 18 dni temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

If people were powerless to the whims of a corporation, Kinda Funny wouldn’t exist, but if you believe you’re powerless, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

ampersandrew, 18 dni temu do games w After More Layoffs, Unionized IGN Workers Are Done Picking Up The Slack: "We feel greatly understaffed and undervalued"

Hey, you can also dislike them because their site is littered with Marvel news, unusable without an ad blocker, and barely usable with one.

ampersandrew, 19 dni temu do games w Best Co-Op Games?

Rainbow Six 1 (GOG) and 3 (Steam) are both playable via LAN and some of my favorite co-op games ever. The first game may require hacking some easy-to-read level config files to make them finishable, but 3 doesn’t have that problem. Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear isn’t available for purchase anymore. I hear SWAT 4 (GOG) is great for scratching this itch too, but I haven’t played it myself.

While not so story focused, you could also co-op Star Wars: Battlefront II; the good one, from 2005 (GOG).

ampersandrew, 19 dni temu do games w Atari has acquired five Ubisoft games, including Child of Eden and Grow Home, and will re-release and ‘evolve’ them | VGC

As a cautionary tale, I said the same things about Embracer acquiring unused properties and underutilized studios in an attempt to revive more niche series for underserved segments of the market.

ampersandrew, 20 dni temu do games w Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?

Wasn’t prediction baked into the netcode very early in the FPS genre? I wasn’t playing multiplayer in the Doom days, but by the late 90s, you wouldn’t have latency so much as you’d have rubberbanding. Games also use very little bandwidth, so 56K was no different than broadband, from my recollection.