demonsword

demonsword, 2 miesiące temu

cool joystick

demonsword, 3 miesiące temu

But several people also noted that the games industry goes through cycles of mass layoffs, because simply having a stable business isn’t enough for investors. Revenues must grow by a chunky margin: if they don’t, costs must be cut. Embracer’s mishandling of their business might be grotesque, but it’s business as usual nonetheless. “We make a shitload of money, but it doesn’t go back into the games,” one person commented. “It goes into a lot of now very wealthy peoples’ pockets, and the people who actually make the games kind of scrape by, most of the time.”

late stage capitalism

demonsword, 5 miesięcy temu

intereresting read, thank you

demonsword, 5 miesięcy temu

enlighten us plebs with your wisdom and tell us which conclusion should be drawn then

demonsword, 5 miesięcy temu

Archived version

demonsword, 8 miesięcy temu

I develop software for a living and still this looks like deep, black magic to me

demonsword, 8 miesięcy temu

Kernel level anti-cheats are a must nowadays to lift the barrier to entry which excludes quite a bunch of cheaters.

$40 ain’t much of a barrier to entry

demonsword, 8 miesięcy temu (edited 8 miesięcy temu)

I’m curious about that too

EDIT: nevermind, another post below has the answer: it’s a programmable wheel

demonsword, 10 miesięcy temu

well, it was right there on the article…

In a similar lawsuit against Apple, Epic lost on several claims though the game developer convinced a judge that the phone maker should loosen restrictions on payments through its app store.

demonsword, 10 miesięcy temu

that cake is flipping the bird to us

demonsword, 10 miesięcy temu

A p2p-share-hosted daily-routine blogging system without any central authority. The unique selling point of Goldkarpfen is its calm way of publishing: nodes will only sync once a day. This is a more human approach to communication and will reduce stress and improve the quality of content.

???

demonsword, 10 miesięcy temu

stay a while and listen

demonsword, rok temu

Honestly, blacksmithing isn’t that hard

it’s well beyond the reach of most people, specially considering the price of the tooling alone

demonsword, rok temu

We live in a world where hundreds of millions of people are literally starving, dude.

demonsword, rok temu

But even rolling from there, a 300% hike in base prices would mean games cost $200, and that’s just not true.

if you consider that nowadays (almost) all games ship incomplete and demand DLCs… yeah, it’s true

demonsword, rok temu

DLCs aren’t the only “evil”, there’s also the case for microtransactions and other stupid monetization bullshit schemes

demonsword, rok temu

So don’t play those games

…and I don’t, I prefer supporting indie devs

demonsword, rok temu (edited rok temu)

You do realize indie devs consisting of one or two people are also businesses, right?

seems to me that there’s some sort of critical mass they need to achieve first before the fuckery sets in, small teams aren’t “evil” (yet) simply because they can’t be (yet)

EDIT I mean “evil” as in “we want profit above all else, let’s milk this cow dry until she dies”

demonsword, rok temu

all of this takes place in our own minds and nothing is real

demonsword, rok temu

I have a hard time believing that such a bland, empty review was written by an actual human being

demonsword, rok temu

Gacha is so close to P2W that I didn’t know until recently that those are separated concepts