I shifted to that view a long time ago. I have a selection of “classics” I play on rotation and I add a few indies or modern ports every now and then.

The multiplay scene went in a direction I don’t intend to follow. Some old friends are thinking about hosting a retro lan party, but I’m going to make it clear that I’m walking if they try sneaking in any modern shit.

1. If the DLC is permanently owned and pays to the artists who made the map, that’s fine.

2. Even if it is “permanently”, but tied to a server that could be shutdown, it’s not permanently owned. Fuck that

3. If the DLC isn’t permanently owned, but “rented”, that profit only goes to the executives that probably fired the artists. Fuck that.

I don’t know why EA would be relevant to anyone for the past 20+ years, but here we are.

Ratchet & Clank had it’s first three games released in three years. Same graphics and no one cared.

Saudi Arabia or Sexual Assault?

The games I played didn’t have ranking. It was better.

And a Mac client.

I guess it’s fine, but we’ve had text-to-speech for decades without ai. Just use that for placeholder voices.

Bungie had always been a Mac first, PC/console later game dev up to that point.

And CEOs will be the easiest position to replace with AI. Can’t wait for the share holders to figure that out.

There’s dozens of other people bringing that up in this thread. And to be fair, if Gabe put the money Half Life 3 development, those programmers, writers and artists would be getting paid.

I stopped buying anime when they bought up all the major NA distributors.

The good talent that wanted to make that game left because Gabe waited too long.

And how much would Half-Life 3 cost to develop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnBtIaMnkTQ

You underestimate my level of cynicism at this point. You also underestimate my disrespect for the average gamer. If they’re not lapping up one form of propaganda, they’re lapping up another.

I’m not sure how much I should care. I haven’t bought a Ubisoft game in decades anyway. They don’t make anything I need, so it’s not like it’s an inconvenience to boycott.

Ubisoft better get comfortable with not owning their own company.

I don’t even know how it worked, but the official GoG listing for Factorio doesn’t have the linux binary on it, but when I logged into GoG via Heroic Launcher, I had the option to install that rather the Win binary though Wine/Proton.

It’s not official, but I’m liking Heroic Launcher. Really, GoG should just support them(or Lutris) and link to them directly for linux support.

Marathon (1994) has several call outs to the player when the AI giving you mission briefing calls the PC out for not caring and just wanting to shoot things. There’s a lot of meta commentary in that series.

I stopped playing TF2 when I kept getting popups about having too many unopened loot crates or some shit.

I don’t want to punish my computer by installing origin.

I don’t know what they’re taking about. Amarillo’s Butt Slapper isn’t published by EA.

I can’t start boycotting a company that I’ve been boycotting for well over a decade.

Corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures.

They had a reputation for buying better companies to own the IPs and gutting the teams before the late 2000s. It’s sort of cathartic seeing that happen to them now, but not really because all the shitheels who made those decisions will probably be getting a nice payout while the actually workers will just get kicked to the curb.

They’ve never made good games. They sometimes allowed one of their devs to make a good game when they weren’t looking, but no one is perfect.

How American.

They know their core audience.

At least he didn’t punch anyone this time.

I once swore infront a bunch of other adults in a non-work, but professional setting and someone stopped me to point it out. I paused, looked around for any kids and when I didn’t see any, pointed out it was fine. They were on the conservative side, but I’m not bending at the knee for that shit.

Must have slipped through the cracks.

Yeah, except this was irl at a lan part. Where they could see the woman’s lack of response. Whether they came with their boyfriend or alone, they never showed up to a second time.

“girls don’t play video games”

It’s just one joke, over and over again. I’m a guy, but one of the reasons I stopped going to lan parties was hearing this same few jokes again and again whenever a woman showed up. If it wasn’t a woman, it would be something else from the limited number of topics and opinions they had. When it wasn’t frustrating, it was simply boring.

Most of those devs are probably freelancers or from hired studios doing esoteric work. It’s still crazy to see these numbers when most of the games I play are indie and have tiny credit listings. 450 people could make at least ten of the games I play.

The smaller the dev team, the more pure the vision. Doesn’t always mean it will be good, but the good ones are great. The best AAA game still looks and feels like all the rest.

Here’s something. No way of knowing which games they’ll go after next.

They were always going to go after every 18+ game and then every queer game under the guise that it’s corrupting to youth. The fact that you’re confused about that is part of their plan.