I’m sure when they were a hanafuda maker they were a little less litigious…

Some publishers call it a “battle pass” or “seasons” instead.

If you say so :)

Yeah, but then you have to install EGS.

At least for video streaming services, they care more about new subscribers than retaining subscribers. That State of Decay may be a retention game, but the indie darling was the first thing they played upon subscribing. That’s likely going to hold more weight.

“Please drink verification can”?

It appears that they have.

Is this your first time on an internet forum? Or the internet in general? Topics often drift. Just because the post is about something doesn’t mean every single thing in the comments is going to be explicitly about that.

I dont understand what you’re trying to argue. The person you responded to made a point about Major studios trying to make a hit… but focusing on business principles over actual game production.

You responded by boiling it down to “Devs should make better games” which wasn’t close to approaching the point they were making.

My point was that devs are not always the ones in control, and trying to simplify a point about business majors running studios into the ground is somehow about the development team being bad is missing the point by a parser.

No one said Team Cherry was a AAA studio. At this point of the comment chain, no one had said anything about them at all until you brought it up. No one is trying to disparage your fanboyism.

The difference is that devs arent the ones in control in most AAA studios.

The hype for silksong has been going so long that it’s become a meme🤡. Just because it’s not as obvious anymore doesn’t mean it no longer exists.

He’s a symptom more than a cause. This isn’t a recent development, just a recent escalation.

Because the problem isn’t with the currency itself, it’s with the intermediaries necessary for large scale mercantile interactions like selling games on an independent storefront.

Just because you use crypto doesn’t mean someone who holds that crypto in trust for you can’t just not give it to you if they don’t feel like it. And as there is less regulation covering that currency, you have less recourse in getting it back from them.

I can’t speak to all the positives and negatives of crypto, but I can say it is not in any way a cure-all that you can just inject into capitalism to fix everything.

Crypto doesn’t ensure you get the product. Like with real cash, other party might just run away with money

Which is why intermediaries exist and why crypto isn’t in any way a solution for the problem this entire post is about. And why bringing it up randomly is complete tech bro wankery.

So there is a network and backbone to it. And you need to do something more than “I give this person a bitcoins for my game” especially when working through a separate storefront. Both to ensure that the person receives their game and you receive their currency.

The problem with current transactions isn’t the money itself, it’s the services that use that currency.

So you just need to say “I give this person .001 bitcoin” and they magically get it? That’s wild to me.

So when dealing with volume purchases via a secondary store front (as established in the article) doesn’t need any kind of intercession from Steam or another processor to deal with any and all purchases? It’s all completely autonomous with no intervention needed by anyone at all?

Are there more legal protections for crypto payment processors than traditional payment processors? My understanding is that there’s less regulation in the crypto space these days.

Tetris was just a go fish ripoff.

Dr. Mario was clearly inspired by tetris, but it had enough of its own unique mechanics (using matching blocks to get rid of germs being the one I can think of) that it’s not just a shameless copy.

I dont recall the combat being too different. You basically smack things until they die.

The gameplay loop is roughly similar, if a little more fleshed out. Get quests from villagers, create workbench that create things over time. Grab resources from various sources with skills that increase gradually over time. Multiple levels of resource tools, like axes, pickaxes, swords, etc.

If youre looking for a heavy action game, it’s not a main focus. It’s definitely more on the resource gathering/crafting realm of gameplay.

Their next game might have more of an action combat focused gameplay loop, as it takes place closer to a cartoon area of the world. I dont imagine it’s going to get anywhere near the typical hack 'n slash action rpg model that’s typical these days.

Which made billions of dollars for them, that they then put towards things like Andor and Encanto and at least a third to half of the more recent Pixar movies.

No one’s saying they don’t also produce shit, but often that shit bankrolls the things that aren’t.

In addition to a number of products that push boundaries of what’s possible in the industry.

… in addition to a number of other games that have iterated on the ideas.

I’m not gonna say that Nintendo is some saint of game design and innovation, but they’re nowhere near the worst, either.

I played Sandrock years after Portia, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think it’s an improvement. The mechanics are roughly similar, but I feel Sandrock is a little more polished.

There is an annoying water conservation mechanic that can be a bit irritating to deal with. Everything uses water, so if you run out you basically can’t do anything, but you can buy it and make moisture collectors to make things a little easier.

Well if I knew I would have invited him!

Optimization isn’t necessarily a global thing for software. Often you need to optimize it for different types of hardware. This is often especially necessary for consoles, as they are specific kinds of proprietary hardware that are relatively static. Optimization for the PC (or Steam Deck) is not necessarily optimization for a Switch 2, which may even require optimization between handheld and docked modes.

Painting with such a broad brush is how these people got to where they are now, don’t make the same mistakes they did.

You can also resell (physical) switch games, which you can’t do with steam games.

But that’s honestly beside the point. Your argument started as a comparison of the prices of the two consoles. Trying to justify a bad argument by changing it after the fact doesn’t make it suddenly a good one.

So now we’re comparing brand new systems to old used ones? Give it a year or so and I’m sure you’ll find used switch 2s on ebay for cheaper as well.

That wasn’t the argument, though. Im not saying the switch is better, I’m saying the argument that it’s wildly more expensive than the steam deck is patently ridiculous.

The Switch 2 is only $50 more than the cheapest model of Steam Deck.

I doubt it was phonebanking that did it, that was just the ground level cover. Guarantee they made a direct financial threat against shareholders.

Nah, pretty sure the policy got implemented in the first place because the deep pockets of the ideological lobbyist group.

That’s probably an aspect, but likely there weren’t enough people talking about it because most who did though it was mediocre at best.

For a franchise this popular, a few noisy bigots won’t stop people from seeing it. If anything, it draws more attention to the show. You can see this with shows that are actually good.

This isnt anywhere near the level of mainstream game that most of these boycotts are focused on. It’s definitely a more niche audience.

The biggest thing is if streamers get in on the boycott. That’ll affect sales the most.

But they said they wouldn’t!

It was very much not an action oriented game. It was more about building resources and exploration. I can definitely see it not appealing to large swatches of the gaming population. Especially those used to the modern spate of action rpgs.

They’re literally selling faster than the original Switch, what the fuck are you smoking?

Wii fit trainer?

Sometimes people have ideas that just don’t work out. Even if the same people make another game, unless they just make a carbon copy they’re going to try and do something different. Sometimes it doesn’t work as well as the original, but at least it’s not churning out the same thing over and over and hoping people don’t notice.

Granted, Gamefreak has basically been doing that for 25 years, so what do I know?