It’s not a mistake when one of the upper management guys was ranting about it before it happened…

That’s interesting, as the initial reviews seemed to not like it.

Maybe the publisher wanted to push it onto some other team?

Funny coming from HP, who has poured billions into making their printing experience suck. Deliberately

People said the same thing when XP came to its end of life support dropping. You overestimate how technical the average person is. Or how patient those that are technical are who just want their programs to work without hours of tinkering each time they install something

You, specifically, enjoying a …remake of a spiritual successor to a game that came out decades ago… doesn’t mean the genre is alive and kicking.

Remaking a game from a few decades back reads more as desperate than anything else. They’re relying on nostalgia for sales, not actually attracting a new audience

I clearly touched a nerve. And, just like I’d expect from someone who would overreact like this to a very neutral comment, you completely misread what I said.

…Who was asking about Myst?

Point and click has been a dead genre for like 2 decades now

Maybe we should be barring these companies that dump their teams after releasing a game from winning awards?

What do you think will happen to them, because they pulled this?

so why the focus here?

I can pay attention to more than one thing. These greedy corporations abusing legal systems is why the world is so fucked. Trying to handwaved this as not mattering sounds like you admit you’re wrong

Not only are they getting away with it, it looks like they’ll continue to benefit from it.

I’m not sure what reality you’re living to think they’re not.

That’s where I do look, but even there it’s been a slim couple of years.

This is literally what Nintendo is doing right now.

They filled this suit, and only THEN filed for a bunch of extra patents they didn’t already have in order to increase the damages they could claim from Pocket Pair for being in violation.

I already think patents for game design mechanics are idiotic an unethical, but this is absolutely insane.

I was just thinking this. Japan’s patent system is so fucked up. You can do everything right, look up all relevant existing patents to make sure you’re in the clear, then a competitor ex post facto files and kills your business.

How about instead of wasting all this time sprucing up a game we’ve all already played… They make a new one.

I hate this remake remaster treadmill that the AAA scene has turned into. I haven’t been excited about anything coming out in years because it’s mostly shit we’ve already seen.

It’s not defamation if you’re actually a piece of shit.

Not a damn thing. Doesn’t help that the endless mergers have lead us to just a couple AAA devs left. And MS grinds every dev they attitude into dust. Very few ever make anything actually good after being bought.

“Still” is burying the lede. It’s gotten worse.

They have game-interrupting full screen ads? Our just product placement. Because only the former is banned

There’s plenty of proof of stake tokens that do not waste all that electricity that mining does

Very few game sequels are that tied in to it’s predecessor narratively that this is an issue. I would say the vast majority of games are designed to be picked up from anywhere in the series.

Even Mass Effect, where you play as the same character throughout a multi game story arc, still has each game giving the player an on ramp, and each game having it’s own miniature arc to play through.

And various local billionaires

The answer to that is very little of it. Their networth is due to their ownership of these stocks. If the value of these stocks dip more than others (and due to the AI craze, they are more inflated than even other tech stocks), they lose collateral to borrow against (this is how musk bought Twitter).

Computers have a life span. Every year, there’s a whole swath of people getting their first one - often for school, which is already prohibitively expensive

There are chips in nearly every single appliance you own at this point. From your car to your toaster.

Hitting the tech sector harder than everything else will remove their ability to leverage their own tech businesses to buy up others.

Which is insane because it was all over the news just a couple years ago about why vehicle prices had gotten so high… Because of a chip shortage.

You think the 3 richest men in the world hanging into his coattails at all times will let him wreck all their businesses in one fell swoop?

Everything he’s done thus far has been at the behest of someone else.

I dunno, I remember way back in StarCraft the original, everyone upon entering a game would immediately change their setting sto Very High Latency…because who the fuck knows why.

Republicans like to complain about perjury traps, but that was an actual perjury trap. Starr was playing word games the whole time. People focus on Continue answers being ridiculous, but those are the kinds of things you have to say to combat the absurd questions he was being asked. Bill is still a piece of shit, but this whole thing was political theatre.

I don’t understand the hype around it. Played it briefly, but found it clunky feeling. Characters are so big, they had to tone down their speed, so everything feelings sluggish. And the abilities just feel mostly useless.

But it’s F2P, why bother being patient with a game you don’t have to pay to try out?

So…a mod.

Modders did it. Saying “unpaid software engineers” is painting a very different picture than what actually is the case.

Given that their biggest market just declared tencent a security threat, may not want to hitch their wagon to that horse

…but also, not false…

100% focus on customer service

Lol

Yes I do. During the winter steam sale I looked at my wishlist and saw that almost everything on it had been sitting there as coming soon for a few years now. I think helldivers was the one game I played that came out in 2024.

There’s always specific rumors. They’re always just rumors. Those rumors are spreading because gamers are bored.

Because there’s nothing else exciting in the game industry right now, so people are looking for any excuse to be hyped.