I’m glad to say I’ve never had dealings with Intuit by that measure then.

This is why the reform needs to start at the top. Ubisoft is doomed until the leeches are gone.

Any time a competitor starts forming, buy them, lay off the staff, and coast on that too.

Hey! Don’t go calling Norton out like that, man

Didn’t do it for me, sadly.

PoP really can’t catch a break from these clowns

I was thinking that too. Well, just to wait until the malware is removed from this one just like with Double Exposure. Maybe if SqEnix sees they don’t start making money until after performance-harming software is no longer bundled in their games, they’ll learn the lesson. (I can dream, at least)

Writing quality and general theme. Among those four titles, you’ve got zombie apocalypse, space western, Batman, and an urban fantasy retelling of fairy tales. Taking Borderlands for example, if nothing about the Borderlands franchise interests a player, it’s unlikely the Telltale one will either. It’s not impossible, but I wouldn’t put money on the odds.

Precisely what I was thinking of. I know Yahtzee can be tough on games but damn, he really didn’t hold back on that one.

Or Thief VR from what I’ve heard.

May I suggest an AMD card instead? Even on the second market, they’re typically better bang-for-buck

Ah yes, an apology. The thing that takes no effort and doesn’t do anything without them getting rid of the lunacy that they never should have engaged with.

If it’s the culmination of his work, does that mean it won’t have any of the features he claims to be in it? Is there a chance it’s not even a game? You just download an WEBM file that’s 50 gig in size?

The only right thing scum like Bobby Kotick can do is drop dead for what he had a hand in doing to the market and his crimes.

To be fair, they’re both correct interpretations of how the title is written. It’s the article itself that makes it a lot clearer than a single-sentence title could.

Purge LARPing?

Right. I’m going to have to suggest you re-read my comment and the context. What I was saying was that a ghost function that isn’t AI-powered wouldn’t be susceptible to legal action under this patent. I also have no doubt Sony will force this in anyway. All of the big companies have gone gaga for AI. I have absolutely no idea why other than very poorly made projections, but the reality is they insist on using the biggest crowbar they can find.

I don’t disagree with the 30% being too much. That said, Steam often provides more than just a sales pages for the fee, they always provide server access for multiplayer and cloud saving. That has to get covered somehow. I also believe in celebrating the good things going and there really aren’t many of those in the gaming market these days, certainly not in the AAA-money tier. I’m going to enjoy the wins we get. If you don’t want to do that, enjoy being miserable, I guess.

But the closure would certainly have nothing to do with union busting, right? Riiiight?

No one wants a ghost recording? Due to the common use of it in racing games since forever and the implementation of a similar mechanic in FromSoftware games being so well received.

Till it goes public or his son decides to shit all over it for profit.

This risks being true for any and every successful company and is a genuine concern, but this is why I only named Gabe in my comment. Being a private company and him as CEO, based on statements from him in the past, pro-consumer practices are his directive. What-aboutisms have nothing to do with it.

Agreed. I think the examples you named would lead to there being an insane amount of categories, not to mention the ludicrous amount of games that would fall under a category like “roguelike of the year” and some categories wouldn’t be present some years based on design trends. Categories absolutely need reform though. The way TGA currently does it is obnoxiously flawed.

Couldn’t agree more.

I’m neither simping for Gabe nor am I glazing anything I like. In fact, I often don’t like Steam, the client, at least. Why I say Gabe is because he (or his staff) commonly make consumer-friendly decisions for the platform. Check out a YT channel called Bellular News and search Steam. It’s full of good-news pieces of things Gabe or Steam have done in the last year alone. Compared to all of the bad-news pieces always being about pretty much every other company, hearing about Steam is a breath of fresh air.

He certainly deserves it. Between Ross and Gabe, we gamers actually stand a chance in this capitalist dystopia we call reality.

Thankfully that’s unlikely due to such an approach having a completely different implementation.

Why would they make an easy solution to a problem they’ve created when they could sell you a convoluted one that makes use of everyone’s favourite buzz word?

I’d back that. Possibly GOTY and genre GOTY, but then none of the “Best Soundtrack”, “Best Gameplay” and such. I think if a game is winning the top prize, it’s already pretty obvious it’s doing many of the aspect categories well too, so give some of the Spotlight to games that really shine in that particular aspect.

A friend of mine keeps making the argument of “What, we need to say ‘you’re winning too much’ and give pity prizes to the others? If it’s the best, it’s the best.” and I think that’s typically fine until we have years where games like Baldur’s Gate 3 and Expedition 33 come out and make the award ceremony boring and not giving other games awards they deserve. My example this year is Dispatch and the difference between TGA and the Steam Awards. Dispatch is my personal GOTY, I love it, but I can easily say the gameplay was meh. Why I love it is the fact it absolutely nailed comic book superhero stories up-to-and-including the delayed gratification of the waiting period to think and theorise before the next piece comes out so, for a Story award category, I don’t think anything beats it.

Part of the challenge is not that many people played Dispatch compared to E33 so giving a much smaller competitor the award, I think, would be a great way of pointing the spotlight on an amazing work of art and possibly get more people to give it a go, possibly coming to a similar opinion on their own. Filtering out the crap and helping us players focus our time on the worthwhile games is already part of what we expect from gaming journalists, so why not a prestige event too?

Edit: Didn’t realise how much I rambled on for before hitting post so TL;DR: Individualising awards = Yay

This feels a lot more like what we should have seen at TGA. I’ve got no qualms with E33 as GOTY (nor Silksong for that matter), but seeing almost every award go to it was so monotone and boring while basically nothing else got a look-in despite being more than good enough.

Then it’s a good thing you don’t have to play it if the game ever comes out, huh? And believe it or not but you also don’t need to be an asshole about other people enjoying something. There are a lot of objective downsides to AI, but an IP you don’t like is just something for you to ignore. The horror.

No, that’s Micron and their Crucial brand who’re leaving the consumer market to further feed the AI stupidity.

Why not? People bounce off Linux all the time. I’m not implying they’re doing it in droves or anything.

Also a possibility, yes

Not much of a surprise to see people have bounced off.

It must be nice to never be held accountable or feel any of the repercussions of your fuck ups, let alone those of others like the rest of us

Almost like they were greedy morons who achieved nothing.

And that’s more than likely why Embracer isn’t bothering. In the land of Triple Ehh, if it isn’t going to make all the money, it isn’t good enough. So glad all those IP got sold off, they risked being ignored…

Tried just last year. Nope

And that it’s all because companies are throwing money into the void for AI nonsense that no one has asked for or wants.

And water is still wet

*if it eventually releases