Well it also spits out lawsuits and lawsuits on top of those lawsuits.

And then a bunch of people get rich.n

We got jabronis who leave bad reviews because games are woke.

I actually don’t know if it’s Steam or Enhanced Steam but there’s a way to filter reviews by language. It’s really neat to see something like overwhelmingly positive in one country, and mixed/negative in another country.

There’s been two decades worth of lawsuits because PayPal has a history of withholding revenue and blocking small e-commerce stores.

I’m talking about e-commerce sites selling a board game, making $40k in sales through paypal, and PayPal refuses to give them money.

PayPal’s stance has been, “Fuck you sue us.”

I’m not saying this because I think Peter Thiel, who was one of the creators of Paypal, is a fucking evil villain.

Loss of income is really difficult to sue for. Especially if you’re an indie company in another country, trying to sue an international company. You either sue locally, or open up a office in their nation.

And your case has to be rock solid.

Like tech companies still lose cases around loss of income, even when it’s obvious to the average person that the major company is going out of their way to stamp out competition.

Working at big major companies, email/harassment campaigns work.

Some psychopath got the news journalists on my company because we didn’t have a giant American flag in our campus. We were getting hundreds of emails from randos, were getting review bombed online, and they were even sending letters to the CEO.

We called it flag gate internally. And after a month, there’s that stupid flag.

Like the McRib and chlamydia, we’re back baby!

Johnathan Blow comes to mind.

Peter Molyneux is still top tier delusional, and has a lot of incredible popcorn material.

I don’t know the drama completely, but the Star Citizen folks. Don’t have any names to rattle off.

I hate that you were down voted but you are absolutely correct.

There’s no agreed definition of indie.

Back when I worked marketing and would attend GDC conferences, there were awards for “Indies” that had 30 people teams financed by major companies, competing against 1-2 people teams who took a loan against their house.

It’s stupid and frustrating.

And now, with Dave the Diver, it’s just highlighting the truth - Its always been a vibe, a aesthetic. You just have to make it look indie, and call it that.

Whatever definition you hold personally doesn’t matter.

The worst part, the demo was actually pretty good.

They literally could have released this game with mod support, and sold it for $20 and it would have been a fun party game.

Instead, they kept going on with BS games as a service.

That’s funny! Any particular mods I should look for?

The more I think about it, maybe it’s for the whales of PC gaming.

Let the streamers, YouTubers and FOMO folks pay a premium to do all the bug testing.

Then release a polished version for half the price.

A person like me with a massive backlog is absolutely going to wait until this hits less than $20 anyways.

I bought Borderlands for like $30.

I bought BL2 for $20.

I got BL3 for free. (Which in kinda glad. The story was so ass.)

Then I got Tiny Tina’s for like $5 from a bundle.

Borderlands series hasn’t earned the $80 price tag.

Oh, the dream of earning crypto while I chat with AI chatbots to maybe one day buy NFTs.

I still have the fond memory of the Ecco the Dolphin being called like game of the year by many magazines. So I begged my uncle to rented it from Blockbuster. First few days, I struggled. Then I asked to extend the rental. After a week, I gave up. Game was bs. I played Nintendo hard games.

A decade later, I decided to read about Ecco and how brutally unfair it is and yeah, fuck that game.

It’s more than the store they need to improve.

They’re not just playing catch-up either.

It’s been like 8 hours since release and I’m not seeing any.

Come on internet, gimme jiggle mod.

https://www.nexusmods.com/games/oblivionremastered/mods?sort=createdAt

Oh boy. If you look at Ubisoft’s stock prices, it’s way down.

Like high 80s in 2018. And now it’s 8, roughly 1/10th if it’s value.

They aren’t going to survive another few years at this rate without some bangers. How stupid their leadership has been, with NFTs, with their sexual harassment lawsuits, with bonehead anti-consumer practices is just accelerating this downfall.

Damn! Was a dude in white spidermaning up a wall around them too?!

That felt like Civ 5.

Playing it on launch, it was so bare.

Playing the Complete version, it was finally fun to play.

Oh man I just remembered how great that could have been.

Red Dead 2 dealt with racist cults so elegantly.

And Far Cry 5’s “Oh we’re going there!” And making the most surface-level milquetoast bullshit I have ever seen.

Wait are you taking about cartoon mermaids and their skin color? You know, because of mermaid science?

My basic requirements is that it’s a good game from a respectable company.

And even if it is a good game by reviewer standards, Ubisoft has been an awful studio to the game industry for the past decade. From sexual harassment lawsuits to investing in web3, shutting down servers that causes single player games to lose features, having their own storefront, being creatively bankrupt with their releases, nickel and diming their product…

Not the worse mind you, but easily the bottom.

Buy it when it’s $5 on steam in a few years.

Commenter said Black Skin.

You said “finest detail”.

What are you smoking?

Australian method actor and five-time Academy Award winner, Kirk Lazarus, can explain.

The story’s title is in reference to “The last of the Samurai”, not Tom being a Samurai, and the last one.

Kind of reminds me of Big Trouble in Little China, where the story follows a white guy, and the true heroes are in the background.

That’s the narrative shared by the studio which I begrudgingly accept. Even though the title and Tom being the face of it muddles it a lot. And I also don’t consider it a good movie.

I hate that I’m on the same side as the racists though.

Thanks a lot Ubisoft.

I like how OP also chose to do zero research of all the controversy of the Last Samurai, and the years of PR control.

Haha! You’re in the Gulf of Mexico!

[Depending on where you’re located determines if this is a right or wrong answer]

I’ve been getting a major kick out of the retro games community!

They’re reviewing old games, reviewing new games that look/act retro, interviewing designers of old games. It’s glorious.

Agreed! There’s apparently a huge ecosystem that I wasn’t aware of!

I held onto Windows 7 even a year or two past so-called the EOL. I had a pretty powerful rig and I wasn’t going to pay money to upgrade. Then I think Microsoft just gave Windows 8 for free?

I finally got on Windows 10 when I bought a premade gaming computer. Still not upgrading.

GTA online apparently made them a crazy amount of money so it’s going to be more of that type of game for a long time.

Thanks to all these bad decisions, hundreds of jobs are gone, our stock is shit, our games aren’t selling.

But fortunately, we gave those bad upper management a nice severance package and they’ll be taken care of!

Thanks Ubisoft!

Nintendo, a Japanese company in Kyoto, using American courts to stop Pocketpair, a Japanese indie studio in Tokyo, from selling Pal world.

What the hell.

I owned all sorts of Nintendo products growing up. Around 2005, Nintendo went crazy against roms and hacking, and then when I stopped buying Nintendo products.

I bought some used stuff and… Bypassed security to expand my libraries. But usually it was after the game was like 10 years old.

Maybe he made a nice profit from it then! And he can rehire/rebuild!