People saying that these budgets are too damn high, but even with Cold War (which had a huge downtick in sales number and higher budget than the others) it’s still making up to 3x the budget back on sales. Why wouldn’t they keep doing it?

Poor baby

American football is okay. Just scrapes into the top 3 of American sports for me.

Biggest GLOBAL even in the WORLD of American only football*

*Other football has 10x the viewers

Yeah what is this comparison? We all know the superbowl exists, but American Football… ew.

Yeah, if you ignore like ALL of the nominations and winners at The Game Awards for the last 10 years and take a look at checks notes Fortnite

I was wondering what you meant by Top 20 until I checked their website. I thought it was just still BR with some variations. It’s basically Roblox now.

Serious question: what is the benefit of Shadowplay now?

I used to use it for all game recording, but Windows Game Bar and Steam have both implemented that functionality now.

They have evidently learned that giving it to the nations that are richest and most ethically dubiously results in the best kickbacks.

Came here to comment the same. I love the game but those mechanics are 17 years old.

Because the single player fortnite was completely disappeared after they fully pivoted to making it a cartoon PUBG.

Ah so we are picking and choosing whose statements we take as absolutes then.

It’s okay to hate if you only hate cunts

I think we might be talking to a project manager.

If it’s an integral and common industry practice, how has the industry not entirely eliminated crunch already?

Careful, I made the exact same comment and you’ll find it downvoted to the bottom there.

And through that alone we have abolished crunch culture.

Shaw explained that the act of asset reuse is essential in stopping crunch

Well aren’t we all stupid thinking crunch was caused by poor project planning? The solution all along was simply to cut corners!

Spanel revealed that the Czech studio has received less than 10 cents for each hour of live online gaming DayZ has tracked since the game went live over a decade ago

This is some business analytics bullshit metric.

Over 10 years? That’s not bad. I have 1000 hours in some games and even if I knew that up front, I probably wouldn’t pay $100 for them still.

Conversely, I have 3 hours in DayZ standalone and I bought it on release (though I had thousands in DayZ mod).

So this is what the ramblings of Sony fanboys look like in 2024

That’s quite the wide net you’re casting there

This is a weird and popular trope with various European countries that hold themselves above others. Somehow things like racism and bigotry are purely an American phenomenon, usually said alongside spewing some sort of bigoted vitriol like this guy.

1.5 weeks? There was already some gaudy, not fitting the theme/period skins available in the Vault Edition on launch.

What are you on about? Seeing a line of code doesn’t make you a developer.

I feel like I only need to reply to this, because this is the second time I’ve directly replied to something you said using your own words, to then have you say those words don’t matter.

It also completely ignores the point I was making that some “QA” code, some pick through code, some may not understand it at all, but why are any of those not classed as developers?

You design a character? Not a developer. You test the game? Not a developer? You develop the story and draw the art? Not a developer. None of that is writing the game’s code. You can be both a developer and an artist, for sure, if you write the game’s code.

Oh I see, so you are indeed only calling programmers developers. Absolutely unhinged take.

Maybe if it’s the invincible guy, that’s worth it.

Make random comparisons from other industries all you want, this whole conversation is about game devs and to think that people inherently involved in the development of a game “are not developers” is absolutely part of the industry’s current problems.

This ancient attitude is the same upper management position where cutting swathes of knowledgable established QA will bring short term profits only to later hire even more fresh QAs, often contractors or outsourced.

You think QA has never seen a line of code? If we ignore what another commenter mentioned that there are high level QA jobs that are very technical, or are literally coding positions, even a lot of entry level QA also have formal education on game design. Many go on to be designers, coders, artists. Do they only become actual developers then?

What’s the imaginary line to being part of game dev to you?

If you’re trying to hint that Quality Assurance doesn’t have “developer” in the title, therefore they aren’t part of development, I better tell all of the programmers, tech leads and game directors I know that they aren’t real developers either.

Someone must have used “unimaginable” and “AI” in the same slide presenting to the CEO. Understandable misunderstanding.

QA aren’t devs? I would like to know your definition of development.

I can believe QA didn’t find that issue with a 7 month long soak test

This quote gives confirmation he is indeed a Project Manager.

Pfft, just give us stats that improve by doing the thing (eg. agility that improves by jumping around and visibly improves jump height every time it increases). I’d rather that nuance over a block of text with a witty name that gives a massive instant boon. Tangibility is right, but the numbers aren’t the boring part.

But just imagine how much more money they would have got out of you if you could also add a couple of extra quarters to change your character’s outfit

I had to look up Bayern Monaco to see if it was some sort of new team

JENS LEHMANN FINED €135,000 FOR DAMAGING NEIGHBOUR’S GARAGE WITH CHAINSAW

I said something similar in another thread, but Phil is looking (and acting) more and more like an alien cockroach is inhabiting his skin lately.

What a horrendous metric for any human.

Dig a big hole and put them in, don’t tell anyone where you buried them. The people will crave the buried treasure in years to come.

Now we are detaining CEOs for potential criminal activity on their platforms, I expect to see many other CEOs behind bars before the end of the weekend

What year is this? Are we in GamerGate again?