cool joystick

But several people also noted that the games industry goes through cycles of mass layoffs, because simply having a stable business isn’t enough for investors. Revenues must grow by a chunky margin: if they don’t, costs must be cut. Embracer’s mishandling of their business might be grotesque, but it’s business as usual nonetheless. “We make a shitload of money, but it doesn’t go back into the games,” one person commented. “It goes into a lot of now very wealthy peoples’ pockets, and the people who actually make the games kind of scrape by, most of the time.”

late stage capitalism

intereresting read, thank you

enlighten us plebs with your wisdom and tell us which conclusion should be drawn then

Archived version

I develop software for a living and still this looks like deep, black magic to me

Kernel level anti-cheats are a must nowadays to lift the barrier to entry which excludes quite a bunch of cheaters.

$40 ain’t much of a barrier to entry

I’m curious about that too

EDIT: nevermind, another post below has the answer: it’s a programmable wheel

that cake is flipping the bird to us

stay a while and listen

A p2p-share-hosted daily-routine blogging system without any central authority. The unique selling point of Goldkarpfen is its calm way of publishing: nodes will only sync once a day. This is a more human approach to communication and will reduce stress and improve the quality of content.

???

We live in a world where hundreds of millions of people are literally starving, dude.

Honestly, blacksmithing isn’t that hard

it’s well beyond the reach of most people, specially considering the price of the tooling alone

So don’t play those games

…and I don’t, I prefer supporting indie devs

DLCs aren’t the only “evil”, there’s also the case for microtransactions and other stupid monetization bullshit schemes

But even rolling from there, a 300% hike in base prices would mean games cost $200, and that’s just not true.

if you consider that nowadays (almost) all games ship incomplete and demand DLCs… yeah, it’s true

You do realize indie devs consisting of one or two people are also businesses, right?

seems to me that there’s some sort of critical mass they need to achieve first before the fuckery sets in, small teams aren’t “evil” (yet) simply because they can’t be (yet)

EDIT I mean “evil” as in “we want profit above all else, let’s milk this cow dry until she dies”

all of this takes place in our own minds and nothing is real

I have a hard time believing that such a bland, empty review was written by an actual human being

Gacha is so close to P2W that I didn’t know until recently that those are separated concepts

yeah, this kinda is their schtick

communist Russia

Russia != USSR

even if the glorified rootkit denuvo puts out had 0% impact on game performance it still would be “evil” as it mere existence broadens surface area for potential attacks on your system