The opening is always a bit naturally DDOS’d. It’ll smooth out.

Stumbles ass first into giving creative control of their property to one of the most devoted and talented studios of the decade, leading to a wildly successful and popular game.

“That’s great! Let’s give it to someone else!” - some stupid ass exec who can only see ahead one financial quarter at a time.

And I’ll voice mine.

Mine is neither, but go off.

Nah, I think I will.

Lol, the cognitive dissonance of whining about capitalism because their vidya game got a little more expensive. Not only is the entitlement and hypocrisy off the charts, there are so many ways to play games for cheap and/or free, the criticism is entirely moot. Don’t like the price a company is asking for for an entirely optional commodity? Don’t fucking pay it. It’s not that hard.

That’s nice to hear. Alan Wake 2 was a great game and gorgeous, but even after upgrading my gpu, it was a pain trying to get it to run even sort of smoothly. A bit over ambitous, methinks.

Control, otoh, ran great when it came out and still runs great, all while looking great as well. Going back to whatever strategy worked their seems like a good idea.

“Kind of”. Exploitation is the whole game. I linked to some videos in another comment that dug into it (https://lemm.ee/comment/20719563).

Most likely nothing. The whole system is designed to lure kids into making content and not pay out.

PMG has a pair of videos looking into it -

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY

There is a continuing story, but the first two are very different games, even from each other. They’re certainly fun, but won’t really be indicative of anything other than if you like the story or not, which you could mostly gather from wikis or video summaries. All that to say - it likely won’t change your experience of 3 if you don’t play the previous two directly.

Blackmailing customers onto your service isn’t competition.

“One for exploring and one for fighting” is much less meta than I was expecting from a “Double-Deckbuilder”.

I fucking hate all caps titles.

What’s really funny is that he still could’ve faked it. Like, it would be simple to talk on face cam while someone else plays. This showcases his deep narcissism that he is buying his own pathetic hype.

Things can be about multiple things.

What world are you living in that “PC exclusives” are a thing, let alone a problem?

It’s an ironic line to start with.

They can be, but they’re not.

Not liking racist ≠ " I love [insert corporation here]". More than one bad thing can exist in the world simultaneously.

I haven’t delved too deep into the shitshow that followed that game, and I know it’s convoluted as hell, but it seems like that’s referring to previous associates of the studio, not the studio itself. The page mentions Martin Luiga in association with it, for whatever that’s worth.

I can sympathize with that. The whole game is intentionally bleak and rough, which can be pretty off putting (though it does make the few nice parts exceptionally nice). The devs made a pretty overt choice to focus more on being fairly confrontational art rather than being particularly accommodating to the player.

That’s not an inaccurate description. Though context is important - most of the characters know yours through behavior and actions that neither you or the character remember. A lot of the game is playing with how you handle that.

Mine’s the grim reaper hallway meme and half finished games.

Why does matter. A lot. Just pointing to something and saying it’s a problem doesn’t help. You need to know why it happened to have any chance of changing things. That you and epic both apparently think throwing cash around should solve it suggests little will actually be done.

It’s always wild to see Valve be blamed for another company shooting themselves in the foot (or in this case, yet another company entirely).

Probably, but it hasn’t been on the table yet. Saying that it was is just going to hurt valid criticism.

To be clear, that was not a thing. Just the PSN account doesn’t require payment. The subscription is for playing in MP and (I think) access to online media like yt.

Hah, yeah. I’m pretty prolific at filling up my drives as well. Should still help, though!

If only there were a way to connect to a network without an intermediary like PSN. Damn shame that it’s impossible.

Lol

Just nabbed 4tb of ssds. Happy to not have to do this anymore (for a while).

There is a steamer named Will Smith as well.

Hilarious that this happens the week of the 5090 release, too. Wonder if it’ll affect things there.

Do you always argue with people that agree with you? How is that helpful?

Booo

To note, at one point in the interview he said it’d be funny to come back at the age of 90 and add an update. He’s not saying SD will be his only focus until then, he’s saying he will go back to it over time, presumably with different projects interspersed throughout.

Because the owner of the overarching app will make more money and have more control. Don’t you want that for them? /s

Not many opportunities arise to use the word properly - that industry was decimated.

What did I say to suggest it had anything to do with politics?

Not exactly “interesting” - he’s just deeply narcissistic. Here’s a handy guide:

"That didn’t happen.

And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

(Current story sits here)

And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

And if it is, that’s not my fault.

And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it."