maynarkh

maynarkh, 8 miesięcy temu

I also think single player games tend to be much better on the narrative, immersion and storytelling side.

maynarkh, 9 miesięcy temu

If they’d cut MTX, it would be a welcome change.

That said, Unity’s new model encourages MTX in some ways, as new buys incur new Runtime costs, while MTX purchases from existing customers don’t. If anything, this encourages a model where there needs to be an upfront cost to cover the Unity tax, and further in-game purchases to make actual money.

maynarkh, 9 miesięcy temu

I don’t know if it’s just anecdotal, but it feels like a lot of content is moving to Youtube. People make a 10+ min video out of what used to be a paragraph on a wiki site.

maynarkh, 9 miesięcy temu

Isn’t this it? store.steampowered.com/steamos/buildyourown

maynarkh, 9 miesięcy temu

TBH that would explain the decision. Pump up the projected revenue numbers right before an acquisition and exit.

maynarkh, 9 miesięcy temu

So did Windows at one point at least.

maynarkh, 9 miesięcy temu

There absolutely were non free language compilers at some point. If we hadn’t had tjings like GCC, it’d be a different world.

Just look at Apple, they always asked money for XCode.

maynarkh, 10 miesięcy temu

It’s not like nationalism in video games is a new thing.

maynarkh, 10 miesięcy temu

Would commercializing the trained AI count as a commercial public performance though? The legal problems with AI don’t come with the training, but when you start selling it.

maynarkh, 10 miesięcy temu

I haven’t been playing a lot of CS for a while, but this does not sit well with me:

CS2 will only be available on PC and will be free to play. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive will be replaced by this game.

CSGO, despite being eleven years old, is now enjoying a golden time. Indeed, the game reached a new activity record four months ago with 1,818,773 concurrent users.

People are enjoying CSGO, and the owners are going to yank it because they don’t want to compete with its popularity.

maynarkh, 10 miesięcy temu

I’m a huge fan of the originals, still boot Black Hawk Down up from time to time.

Judging from the trailer, this is not a reboot of the series, but a Battlefield 2042 / Call of Duty mashup multiplayer hero shooter. Except I guess less polished. Kinda bummed out to see the owners of the IP use it for such a blatant trend chasing cash grab.

maynarkh, 10 miesięcy temu

Never has a teaser got my interest so much in the first few seconds only to slam it to zero just seconds later.

Starts off with a nice thematic shot of something that could be Black Hawks flying over Fallujah … oh yeah, we get a Black Hawk Down remake, gotta go clear my calendar. A few shots of stealth gameplay … well, not what the original was about, but why not?

“Recon arrow, out!” … “Powering up, let’s do this!” … and a dude outrunning a tank in a shot where everyone fires only tracer rounds. Meh.

Why does every studio have to release the same game over again? A while ago it was all battle royales, now everyone is releasing hero shooters.

Just don’t call it Delta Force then if it’s not a real sequel to the originals. This is more like Overwatch: Fallujah.

maynarkh, 10 miesięcy temu

The point I think is that a “console” is from a certain PoV a locked down piece of hardware only able to run certain software in certain ways. So eg. Stadia was a console, while AWS virtual desktops are not, despite both being just VMs running on some cloud service.

Point is, it’s the software that makes a console, not the hardware.

maynarkh, 10 miesięcy temu

I think there is a difference between “capitalism” and “capitalism”.

I think a more nuanced argument is that better games come from companies that are not primarily driven by the quarterly revenue cycle of Wall Street, that is defined as “capitalism”.

I think it’s more of a hit-and-miss, and good corporate leadership is the kind that people forget it’s there when good games come out. I mean CDPR had a CEO both when Witcher 3 was the thing, and also when Cyberpunk 2077 was the thing that flopped. Obviously, people were more interested in the beancounters’ influence in the latter case.

maynarkh, 11 miesięcy temu

3 billion devices run Java.