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The_Hideous_Orgalorg, w Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle

I wonder if this will result in the shareholders holding the ex-EA CEO accountable for destroying their revenue stream.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please,

Good luck. If the SEC hasn’t already started building a case against him for insider trading, then nothing is going to happen to him. He’ll get a golden parachute and scurry off to ruin some other company.

conciselyverbose,

"Selling shares before the announcement" was a pretty egregious misrepresentation. He has scheduled pre-registered sales on a regular basis because he gets paid partly in stock.

It was always going to be relatively soon after a sale of stock.

sinokon,

Just want to add you’re right but what pisses me off is that they still can influence decisions based on this. Let’s say his shares are sold at x day, just do some decisions before that and boom your auto sell share price is now either higher or lower. Only because it’s predetermined they still influence it and SEC now can’t do shit.

conciselyverbose,

This has nothing in common with insider trading and doesn't resemble it in any way. The shares he sold weren't a relevant proportion of his ownership. He didn't sell then deliberately tank them. He sold then announced something he thought would improve the value of his big stake in the company. The decision almost definitely cost him a lot of money by substantially lowering the trajectory of his company's ability to maintain market share.

SuddenlyBlowGreen,

He sold then announced something he thought would improve the value of his big stake in the company.

In what universe?

Revan343,

If he didn’t think the announcement would improve the value of the company, why did they do it?

conciselyverbose,

Exactly. It was plopping his dick on the table, then realizing "oh shit, no one actually is impressed by this".

Insider trading would be more "I know we're about to get sued for this egregious fuckup and have no defense, so I'm going to sell before the news leaks". Strategy knowledge can be part of insider trading, but it would tend to be more buying shares because you have advanced knowledge that a highly lucrative contract has been signed before the announcement. It would be harder to have selling because of a strategy decision be insider trading unless you were opposed to it internally, because decisions you make are intended to make the shareholders (you) money.

SuddenlyBlowGreen,

So he would get a huge bonus from the short term gains, and then dip before the company suffered the long term damages.

wccrawford,

As if you can’t schedule your announcements to fall just after the scheduled stock sales… Or just before them, if you want.

JonEFive,

Don’t you bring facts into this! We want to be outraged!

Being serious though, they ought to be investigating whether there were any changes in those sale orders. If they’ve been the same and unchanged for the last two years or some long period of time, I don’t think there’s a case. But if they’re was an adjustment a month or two ago, that would be very problematic.

Aqarius,

You know, that might just make it worse. As in, this wasn’t some 5d plot, he genuinely thought this would work.

CookieOfFortune,

I think he might autosell his stock so that wouldn’t be insider trading, but since of the board members might.

p03locke,
@p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Ha, yeah, that defense worked so well for Martha Stewart.

Varyag,
@Varyag@lemm.ee avatar

Why, it was THEIR idea in the first place.

The_Hideous_Orgalorg,

Yes, it was their genius idea, if it worked. Must be blamed on somebody else if it does not work.

AdmiralShat,

This was a board decision, not the CEO as an individual.

They are all equally resonate and if they fire him it’s to save face and kick him as a scape goat

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Going to need proof of that.

In nearly every company, CEO makes the plan. Board wants a process and results. CEO is the one who spearheads it.

Ryantific_theory,

I think you mean a nice golden parachute to reward them for taking the heat, so they can swap in a new expensive face to implement slightly less unpopular fees.

The_Hideous_Orgalorg,

The American dream.

The_Hideous_Orgalorg,

He resigns. gizmodo

ProvableGecko, w Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 - PC Tech Review - DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction Deep Dive

In a couple of generations when path tracing with reasonable levels of performance is available on mid-range cards (eg. equivalent of 4070) I might consider Nvidia. Until then team red for me

kugmo, w Five Years After Launch, Sea of Thieves Is Finally Getting a Solo Mode - IGN
@kugmo@sh.itjust.works avatar

A solo mode in an online-only game? I hope the servers get fucked Payday 3 style (they won’t) so people will stop buying these garbage games.

Pxtl, w Payday 3 players endure second consecutive day of server issues, preventing them from playing
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

P2P and player-owned dedicated servers need to come back. This “everything runs on the cloud” stuff is so bad on so many levels.

orca,
@orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts avatar

It also means players get rugpulled whenever the suits decide the game is no longer worth maintaining.

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

Exactly. I wonder if it’s possible to make a commercial game that’s fully decentralized. Sell the licenses as NFTs, use activitypub for the masterserver so you just toot out your games, release the game and dedicated server as free binaries. I hate NFTs but they’d be more consumer-rights friendly than the current approach of steam owns everything.

mindbleach,

Seriously, it’s a four-player game. Not some MMO clusterfuck. Not an arena shooter bragging about 128 codblops on a single map, like it’s Stand On Nuketown. You need matchmaking - you want anticheat - you’ll do some DRM bullshit. Other than that you should want to offload bandwidth and latency to your players. They’re all on the same team!

Serdan, w Payday 3 players endure second consecutive day of server issues, preventing them from playing

“endure” 🫡

GentlemanLoser,

Remember remember Payday 3 in September

themusicman,

Earth, wind and fire?

GentlemanLoser,

Haha, no but that tickles me

Guy Fawkes (the guy the V for Vendetta mask represents) tried to blow up UK parliament in the 1600s. The Brits have a nursery rhyme for it:

“Remember, remember the 5th of November, gunpowder, treason and plot; for there is a reason why gunpowder and treason should ne’er be forgot.”

I was just being silly by implying that living thru Payday 3 server issues are on the same level and get their own version of the rhyme

Serdan,

You had me doubting my memory for a moment there. I used to know the movie version by heart, but it’s been a hot minute. 😄

Maybe it’s time for a rewatch

GreenMario, w Payday 3 players endure second consecutive day of server issues, preventing them from playing

Yeah Day 1 was completely unplayable for our 4 man group. Like we don’t need matchmaking we’re in a party just roll a server up and go.

Seems fine now since last night, had no issues getting games going.

SnakeRattleNRoll,

I envy you - was able to play a few matches shortly after release with friends, and havent been able to find a match since.

Solo, with friends, public - doesnt matter, just sits and searches for upwards of 30 minutes before i opt for something else.

GreenMario,

I went to work but apparently some of my friends are still struggling to get into games so it’s not fixed yet, we just have caught a downtime period I guess.

fckreddit, w Dragon's Dogma 2 brings back all the joy of Capcom's 2012 cult hit with few real changes

GOBLINS ARE WEAK TO FIRE. Bro, I have been killing Goblins for about 40 hours now, I know.

bionicjoey,

Even in numbers, a weakling is a weakling still!

BetaDoggo_, w Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 - PC Tech Review - DLSS 3.5 Ray Reconstruction Deep Dive

It’s a shame that this game got written of by so many people due to its shaky launch. The game’s story and side quests are good and most of the game breaking stuff has been fixed. The visuals and art direction are great so it’s nice to see it getting support for new technologies even if no one can run them.

AsAnAILanguageModel,

Yeah I think it’s mostly a meme now. Either you read comments from people who loved it, or jokes from people who haven’t played it. I had no expectations before playing it and liked it so much that I even preordered the DLC, to show my support. (I don’t care about the preorder bonus, and I don’t think preordering games is reasonable, but I’m gonna play it right away anyway, so it doesn’t matter in this case)

orbitz,

I never noticed many bugs and had 93 hours in the game under two starts, never finished it though, to be fair I don’t finish most games so not much of a difference there. Was playing today and was reminded how gorgeous it is. I love cyberpunk as a genre and have a half decent video card (3070) and the neon, reflections, smoke all look like some of the best of not the best I’ve seen in my 39ish years of gaming. The downside is at 1080p (yeah I know) is the hair looks distorted/crimped close up (mostly bangs and end of the hair) but still looks better overall than any hair I recall and the rest is all eye candy.

Oh guess I should add, it really does feel like a cyberpunk world should, least to me. The setting is perfect for me but I’m sure there’s flaws I haven’t noticed.

PugJesus, w Dragon's Dogma 2 brings back all the joy of Capcom's 2012 cult hit with few real changes
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THIS SKELETON IS SKILLED INDEED

nottheengineer, w Payday 3 players endure second consecutive day of server issues, preventing them from playing

They had three days of load testing and the infrastructure still failed on launch.

Sounds like the devs knew it wouldn’t work but management insisted on launching anyways.

vsh,

Meanwhile Larian (BG3 devs) held the newest patch for one additional day to test it out and make sure it works properly. You really see the difference.

Pxtl, w Unity: disappointed at how removal ToS has been framed. We removed it way before the pricing change was announced not because we didn't want people to see it.
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

That’s the thing about breaking trust, you lose the benefit of the doubt on everything else you do, too.

“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” – Warren Buffett

Thecalicocar, w Dragon's Dogma 2 brings back all the joy of Capcom's 2012 cult hit with few real changes

Nice. I haven’t played the original yet. Planning to play it.

Maajmaaj,
@Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca avatar

It’s on sale for $5 on steam. I’m redownloading it on my switch rn actually.

7112,

Same price on GOG too

Maajmaaj,
@Maajmaaj@lemmy.ca avatar

That’s 🔥🔥🔥, I went ahead and double dipped, just in case my switch shits the bed. It’s getting older.

simple, w Payday 3 players endure second consecutive day of server issues, preventing them from playing

I mean this is pretty much par for the course for any online game launch. Hey, at least some people will stop buying early access so eagerly.

mojo, w Unity: disappointed at how removal ToS has been framed. We removed it way before the pricing change was announced not because we didn't want people to see it.

We broke the law you just weren’t supposed to see it!

LucyLastic, w RC Revolution Announced for PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch

Will this be the new Re-Volt?

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