I have but one question.

Do you wear spandex, OP?

To be fair, BG3 is like bottled lightning, and I think it’s unreasonable to expect many (if any) other studios to produce something like that.

Even the Divinity games were way above par, with a much more lukewarm (but not unsuccessful, I guess?) reception.

Ah yeah I meant Sweeny.

Epic Games is not publicly traded.

And TBH their history with Unreal is not that bad. And Valve is already extracting a truckload of money out of us through their percentage cut.

Carmack is absolutely a character though, lol. I have to wonder how controversial EGS would be without him.

Its happened to me after a full day too.

I am just using the browser UI, and just mean the notifications on the site.

Sometimes I get a reply with no notification even within Lemmy, and someone else said this happens to them too.

What do you mean, are you on some client that has notifications disabled by default?

Genuine fediverse noob here.

Now this is a good reason.

And random note, but I didn’t get a notification for this reply?

Right but I dont see how its anything but a minor annoyance.

Like, if the game is really good… What is so bad about installing the epic client?

I get it being annoying… But why is it such a deal breaker? If the game is good, why not just install it, play the game, leave it when you’re done?

The other storefronts have some cool features (namely gamepass for xbox and all of steamworks and the app stuff for steam), but it doesn’t really matter if the game doesn’t use em.

Rimworld was another shining example. Its actual early access was a forum release, the Steam EA was polishing.

That being said I have a dead EA or two in my library. Starforge comes to mind…

as opposed to trying desperately to find your article as you scroll and having pop ups and other things interrupt you as you read

Joke’s on the websites, as I run Cromite, so no pop ups or anything.

…But also, most of the written web is trash now.

:(

the YouTube experience is far less annoying on average.

Are you sure about that?

I opened YT links without premium on a new browsers and holy moly! I got 1-3 minute unskippable ads every time.

I immediately clicked them off, of course.

GN is indeed a rare outlier. They’re like an oldschool tech site that rose at the exact right time to grow up on YouTube.

And our site was like the opposite. Uh… let’s just say many Lemmy users wouldn’t like its editor, but he did not hold back gut punches, and refused to watch his site turn into a clickbait farm.

I briefly wrote articles for an oldschool PC hardware outlet (HardOCP if anyone remembers)… And I’m surprised any such sites are still alive. Mine shut down, and not because they wanted to.

Why?

Who reads written text over their favorite YouTube personality, or the SEO garbage that pops up first on their search, or first party articles/recs on steam, and so on? No one, except me apparently, as their journalistic integrity aside, I’m way too impatient for youtube videos, and am apparently the only person on the planet that believes influencers as far as I can throw them.

And that was before Discord, Tiktok, and ChatGPT really started eating everything. And before a whole generation barely knew what a website is.

They cited Eurogamer as an offender here, and thats an outstanding/upstanding site. I’m surprised they can even afford to pay that much as a business.

And I’m not sure what anyone is supposed to do about it.

One can’t offload “usable” LLMs without tons of memory bandwidth and plenty of RAM. It’s just not physically possible.

You can run small models like Phi pretty quick, but I don’t think people will be satisfied with that for copilot, even as basic autocomplete.

About 2x faster than Intel’s current IGPs is the threshold where the offloading can happen, IMO. And that’s exactly what AMD/Apple are producing.

The localllama crowd is supremely unimpressed with Intel, not just because of software issues but because they just don’t have beefy enough designs, like Apple does, and AMD will soon enough. Even the latest chips are simply not fast enough for a “smart” model, and the A770 doesn’t have enough VRAM to be worth the trouble.

They made some good contributions to runtimes, but seeing how they fired a bunch of engineers, I’m not sure that will continue.

I wouldn’t call that “large.”

Strix Halo (256 bit LPDDR5X, 40 AMD CUs) is where I’d start calling integrated graphics “large.” Intel is going to remain a laughing stock in the gaming world without bigger designs than their little 128-bit IGPs.

If they wanna abandon discrete GPUs… OK.

But they need graphics. They should make M Pro/Max-ish integrated GPUs like AMD is already planning on doing, with wide busses, instead of topping out at bottom-end configs.

They could turn around and sell them as GPU-accelerated servers too, like the market is begging for right now.

I remember when SBF news was peaking right around the time Stable Diffusion 1.5 came out, and thinking of how fundamentally gutted the entire premise of an NFT was in like a month.

Evangelists of the stuff will tell you that you can own your own digital corner of the information highway (Second Life came out in 2003, and most MMOs have housing), or that you can trade rare items with your fellow players (TF2 and Counter-Strike have been doing this forever). Then there’s this idea that you “own the item” in question more than you would otherwise (you don’t, you own a certificate that’s associated with it, and the item will vanish if the infrastructure does). Then there’s the whole “you could use a sword from one game in another game!” nonsense, which I think we can all agree was cooked up by people who don’t understand how game design works on even a fundamental level.

This is so on point for the web3 space, and parts of the AI space too.

Evangelists waltz in and berate you for not understanding how gloriously awesome their system is… without even making a cursory effort to check if it already exists, much less accumulate a deep understanding and appreciation like they expect you to do.

I think there’s also a “Netflix effect” where old games are incresingly accessible as an alternative to newer crap, kinda like (from my personal observations) how a lot of young people seem to be really fluent in old movies and TV due to streaming and YT.

Its going to bite these publishers in the bum.

I feel like you’re attacking the wrong thing.

The subscription hike is something, but U.S./U.K. inflation from 2008 to 2022 is about 40%, and that’s not accounting for any changes in corporate taxes. Its… well, it’s kinda mad that WoW hasn’t increased the subscription price that whole time, if that’s true, but that’s partially because they sell expansions, right? And those probably creep up with inflation.

The problem is the choices they’ve made with that money, aka shoving more aggressive monetization into the game instead of keeping it simple, which was so central to its appeal long ago. Of taking short term profits instead of investing in R&D, new game development, and deeper development for Runescape. This is the real corporate greed. Making money is fine, but just taking it as pure profit at the expense of long-term health is destructive, greedy, unfair to the employees and wrong.

Also, I played Runescape ages ago, and well… I just got tired of the game. I feel like thats why many people left, and I also think it’s kinda mad expecting most players to play the same game forever.

Yes, but this is an offline game, and I’ve never seen such a warning without some plausible justification. There’s no basis for interfering with an online component here, so what would Larian even say as they sent warnings?

Using an legally purchased offline game “illegally” would be quite a precedent, no?

My guess is that it won’t get shut down because WOTC can’t make Larian bully people into shutting it down.

Yeah. Larian didn’t seem very interested in blocking this capability (they left all this stuff in the executable), like they did the absolute minimum they were contractually obligated to do lol.

Thanks, this is exactly what I was trying to ask. What “motivation” potential modders have.

wotc would have to “admit” to doing what the community only suspects (deliberately restricting these tools in the contracts) to harass modders, right? That could be a PR disaster, hence I hope that means they’ll turn a blind eye.

I am not tapped into the BG3 mod community, is stuff going to take off like Skyrim?

It seems more “character oriented” and less sandboxy, so that’s wishful thinking I suppose.

I think this is your phone doing you a favor, dynamically restricting the apps so they don’t misbehave in the background.

I hate turn based combat too, but it was super enjoyable in coop. And it’s quite good for being turn based.

It’s also real-time outside of combat, FYI.

For solo, I’d probably get the mod that automates your companions, and reduce the difficulty to your taste to compensate.

It should be the first, no question.

Still an understatement, it deserves it and more.

I don’t even like turned based games. I don’t like most high fantasy. But holy moly, what a ride BG3 is.

I’m just gonna be pissed of their mixed support of modding (due to wotc) kills the modding community. If Skyrim and Rimworld can have a whole universe of fan content, BG3 should too.

TBH this is a great space for modding and local LLM/LLM “hordes”

It’s crazy that Twitter has such an outsized influence on the public, and I think it’s because news outlets amplify it so much.

It doesn’t have that many active users. And news rarely covers other platforms when something makes a lot of noise and reaches many eyeballs.

Some places on a “budget” like Ao3 just rate limit hard.

I don’t like that solution at all though.

That’s what I figured, but I am envisioning a future where lemmy is huge and the network of admins is quite sizable.

I guess that doesn’t change much?

Would lemmy instances do this?

I know they can’t afford to now, but hypothetically? A lot of people here don’t seem to like data scraping for AI.

I don’t like turn based games, I don’t really like classic fantasy, I especilaly hate hotbar style WoW combat. I am not a D&D fan. I really thought I wouldn’t like BG3.

But I adore BG3.

The writing, the dialogue, the areas, quests, it’s all just too good. The game is huge, AND deep. Even the combat has grown on me, though I would still prefer something in the vein of the later Mass Effect games.

7% is still a lot, especially when that last few percent is the profit over the development costs.

I wonder what “tail” sales will be like for this game.

A lot of people suck in the real world.