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Nowhere? They will be bankrupt and shutdown the LLC. Whatever their LLC accounts has will go to Nintendo, and any other asset the same. But I doubt they had pretty much anything, maybe the latest Patreon payment and maybe some extra money to pay websites and maybe any office or similar if they rented anything.
got $2.4 millions out of it
Did they really? I doubt their LLC had that much money. But honestly I don’t even know what or how much money they would have there, I guess it was used for the webpage and similar, maybe pay themselves from the Patreon… but I guess that would be gone monthly… Idk… Maybe they rented some office space??? Idk…
They will declare it bankrupt and that’s the end of it…and unless they owned something with it which I doubt there isn’t much assets if any to give Nintendo or sell.
If I have to listen close-ish then they don’t stick out or they do very little so sounds good enough to me. Let again we don’t need exact replicas for gaming.
Plus probably lot of usage would be to pregenerate stuff not realtime so they can fix specific cases where it sounds weird by editing or similar.
Let’s agree to disagree, I do not see that happening games, you think will happen let’s leave it at this.
Then regarding the refunds availability nowadays I would say that most platforms have it available, they are on epic, steam, gog, Microsoft, Google Play/App Store. Sony offers but it’s more for mistakes when buying or for games completely faulty/broken, cannot test games so not very useful.
The only big exception is Nintendo which you could get one contacting support on rare occasions but it’s not usually the case, and when it is usually is a faulty case similar to Sony. And of course third party sellers keys.
What I was only saying is that for games it doesn’t work the same. Because if the game is bad it doesn’t matter shit if appears on the frontpage they won’t sell it anyway. On other platforms they can game the algorithm all they want and that works because is usually free content for the user and at least part of it will be watched and they will get some ad revenue, for games won’t matter… they still have to make a good game not just adjust the game to the algorithm, otherwise they don’t get any money.
An exception could be gamepass as at least they could get some money of people trying a game and then giving up if is shit, since is a subscription service and they might get paid by minutes played or similar.
It matters the creator loses the money if there is s refund or simply doesn’t get it at all if the user quickly see the bad reviews, on YouTube if the video ends up being shit he gets paid anyway, yeah maybe somebody read the comments before hand and yeah maybe next video you won’t watch from him so is not zero result but it’s not a so direct effect.
Plus the parent comment was about the development of games I still do not see games development being effected to play with the algorithm, the marketing and hype yes but the game I don’t think so. But maybe I lack some clear example of something like this.
Not sure about that, gaming the algo helps with discovery but at the end you have to please the customer, specially in a world where refunds and reviews are a thing.
So although the marketing, store info, pictures etc will try to game that at the end the game and it’s development won’t be affected much.
On YouTube/TikTok/etc doesn’t matter because people don’t pay anything (directly) and people might watch the content anyway to the end even if at the end they think it wasn’t worth it, it doesn’t matter anymore they cannot refund or complain about it much, there isn’t a review system, just comments or some upvote downvote but sometimes not even that.
Unfortunately there is a path set and unless some new European laws or equivalent come up… They will eventually simply stop doing physical stuff. Or nearly stop.
Like for games for example I do not expect after this generation for example more physical games… They did this mix this year to tempt people to get the cheaper digital version and start getting used to digital to simply cut the roots and next sell you just digital, they will say something “this way you can keep your existing games” or similar to convince you, which is good but stops all second hand, the store cuts of the physical, etc. And they will sell nee improved versions or similar of some games for tHe next gen. Next will continue the subscriptions and so on…
The media the same with the subscriptIons and digital owning stuff…
I feel the future is bleak. Piracy will still be there but… who knows with lobbying and similar if stuff gets worse too.
That would be okay if I could like have my own copy hosted by myself or stored. Like a DVD or BluRay. But it’s not the case.
I feel like they shouldn’t be legally allowed to call it a buy but an indefinite rent or some other naming if you cannot store your copy or ensure I will be able to access it always.
But do they need to for the copyright case? Aren’t most pages on internet, like “Here is where you can sent us a DCMA request, we will take it down after checking it”.
Then they don’t need to vet it until there is a request, still that is work not gonna lie but they don’t have to check every single upload stuff, plus they probably would have a report system or similar if the issue isn’t copyright but idk that somebody uploaded something illegal somehow.
Of course maybe I am missing something and there is some laws that require active monitoring of each uploaded stuff.
Bethesda’s goal, as usual, is rent-seeking. […]
It’s not exactly that, yes they want to get fees/rent that I agree, but this at least the current idea is not a walled garden, devs can decide not put it in there, or put it there but free. Of course if that changes in the future, and that might be the plan, then that’s another topic.
Every mod I’ve seen and every modder I’ve talked to has a donation link you can send money to, and the ones who didn’t had organizations and charities you could send your money to instead.
Yeah but they cannot enforce it or totally make it a paid mod. A Bethesda implementation would be more enforceable, well maybe not so much on PC, due to piracy… but at least on consoles. So if somebody said, look this is good content I am not giving it for free, they cannot currently do, (in part maybe due to EULAs too… not sure, but not just that).
It was part of the Humble Bundle for Android 3. So if you have that or somebody has that they can give you the APK. That said it didn’t have DRM so I expect the APK to be around if you want to pirate it.
The issue here would be that it might not be compatible withe current Android versions or Phones.
And at least the last rename isn’t like international in some places we still have HBO Max naming.