Once receiving the signal Chinese household robots sold to the west gonna do project atomic heart, by kicking you in the nuts.

yeah, MP1 and MP2.

Remedy’s next project seems like to be more of the same old same old single player action games, albeit a couple of Max Payne remakes. Not unfuckup:able, with microtransactions, but still safer than some multiplayer hero shooter or smth.

Do any of the studios actually playtest their shit, or do they just make their games based on marketing buzzwords so investors remain happy?

it’s often more risky and expensive to hire, train and develop systems and communities like that, especially when doing it against the tide, than to just try to trip up the competition. It’s not just that it’s dificult and it costs money, but it’s not preferred because investors abhor risks.

Isn’t this seen in global politics all the time. When US says China is too dominant in X and we need to fight it. They are not saying that US will invest in shit that will help them compete. All or 90% of the actions is to try to trip up, sabotage and sanction the competition.

Never replace your code monkeys with clankers, boys.

Requires a subscription service.

Double yikes. That almost by definition means cloud and data storage in god knows where. Somebody really wants that sweet sweet profitable metadata.

The only issue I see here is that Sony will be getting greedy.

It was never about any kind of military threat or even dependence on Chinese supply chains. The Chinese threat is and always was about Chinese development undercutting US tech monopolies and in the process undercutting wall street. The oligarchy needs high tech patents, not to make stuff or be ahead for the sake of national security or just for the sake of being ahead, but to make money. By having patents they can keep being able to monopolize cutting edge sectors and have the world pay them premium to have access. At some point they just got bored of having to pay for that R&D and education. China is a threat by not only having large manufacturing base, but now also climbing up to being number one scientific superpower.

look at the bright side. EA couldn’t get any worse anyway. If it dies because of this then this event might be seen as a boon to humanity.

The company acknowledged that Biden administration officials had pressured YouTube to remove content “that did not violate its policies,”

yeah and what prevents them from doing it again for any reason, for any party for anybody.

Totally consistent Meta is joined at the hip with US government and therefore more or less in league with Zionists, neocons and Israel just like every american big tech, bank and media company.

100% CIA and mossad were watching those channels realtime.

That’s basically giving it away. I guess they can very well expect to make the money back in volume.

Just saying that those who are most obsessive about policing morality or sexuality of others are often just hypocritical/ in denial themselves.

christians have been…

A few closeted and bitter homosexuals in denial have been…

It was struggling from the get go. Now they are running out of interceptors. You need at least two interceptors for one target to have 90%+ chance to down it. Russia has been launching 500+ drones, missiles and decoys almost every night since late spring. Do the math.

They can’t stop or admit defeat because wallstreet is only keeping it’s head on top the water thanks to AI hype.

What was that study… if US loses 9 of it’s 55k substations simultaneously then the whole national electrical network would overload, shit would hit the fan and US could get 18+ month blackout from coast to coast. It’s not just about not being able to scale lake boiling amounts of AI-compute, but also a threat of emp strikes, domestic terrorism and solar flares.

We ban the petty scrapers and celebrate the great ones as innovators and promote them as fortune 500 companies.

Does anyone else find it suspicious there wasn’t any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?

Nobody here disagrees with any point of the petition. I signed it. Even if gaming companies were rushing to send shills to raid discussions they would have done it months ago and last places they would go astroturff for is this Kazakhstani anti-whaling forum. Especially when their target now is the Eu bureaucracy and MEPs. Where I might say they have not a bad chance of succeeding.

donated to some fund that then went to paying a lobbyist/think tank to work for them

It would be more effective to get a quarter of 1.4 million people organized with united demands and on the streets of Brussels with the actual risk of projecting threat violence on EU bureaucrats, then StopKillingGames or any petition or demand would have a much better chance of passing. At that point you wouldn’t even need collect any names before hand :) All the voting, all the petitions all the representation only exists to act as an filter and push the little people people and their little people idea’s far away from actual power as possible.

I’ll be positively surprised if this passes, but I really really really doubt it. Too much money at stake here just for the sake of having some pro consumer common sense.

They hire like two lobbyists with 100k of splurge money and this won’t pass, for sure.

If voting or filling a petition changed anything they would make it illegal.

It’s just the basic logic of maturing market. They couldn’t really increase the game prices that much more without affecting demands, nor could they improve efficiency of making games (the capital costs and team sizes have only gotten up) so they did the thing they could. Try to turn games from a product that the sell into a service they provide and can therefore lock people into their walled gardens and keep continuously charging fees and subscriptions. Too bad games are more of an art form than a news paper or a some tool maintenance contract is.

you would have to declare them as internet utilities.

many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only; in effect, these proposals would curtail developer choice by making these video games prohibitively expensive to create.

<Oh no this would kill live service games

One major argument for consoles is still that there is a single unified platform that gives better bang-for-buck than PC of the same price, and that studios can dev and optimize their games on more easily.

That is not how their business model works. The consoles themselves are sold almost at cost of production or at a loss. The money for Microsoft, Nintendo, Microsoft comes from those exclusives and live service subscriptions. They want to maximize the amount of their hardware in homes and then make the money on selling the thing that actually makes them useful.

They can’t. It’s too sweet of a deal when there is an already existing fanbase ready to give them their money for much less work and risk than building a totally new game.

Oo, it has a demo out already?