Honestly I don’t see it as the developers losing anything. They still make the same products, they still sell the same products, and when they’re done with those products forever they have to give hosting capability up to the public.

What are they afraid of? That we won’t play their new games if they can’t shut the old games down?

Never meet your heroes ig

Just threw me for a loop for a moment that it uses the same name and that this page displays links to both.

Also, the games market was brought up a lot by the global pandemic and had to come down eventually.

Whats wrong with PirateSoftware? He runs a ferret rescue which doesn’t claim any tax incentives and he teaches people about security and ethics, I’ve never heard of him having beef with anyone.

Hmmm? The UK isn’t part of the EU anymore so they won’t have much impact lol.

Hmmm, bit curious about the automated enforcement system, but they claim the newly unallowed content already wasn’t allowed before and they’re just changing the wording of the terms.

You know what, he’s right. I’ll go get off my ass to spend the evening running my 2 million dollar quarts mine and then swing by my 875k dollar quarts furnaces, weight seperation, flotation cells, and crystalization facility to create a bunch of semiconductor grade silicon used in solar and electronics production.

OH WAIT! I DON’T HAVE $3M FACILITIES TO RUN! Somebody else is out there doing the work that used to take a hundred men. The world doesn’t need us all doing 12 hour days, the world wouldn’t take us if we even offered.

I think patent laws and proprietary software supported by major OS have always had some impact, even the 90s, but yeah it’s definitely a poor state for the market to be this concentrated.

Technically Intel is also releasing some cheapo GPUs in similar capability to nVidia but they all have the same manufacturers anyways.

I’m ngl, finances had no impact on my decisions to stay at 3080. Performance and support did. Everything I want to play runs at least 60 to 180 fps with my current loadout. I’m also afraid once Windows 10 LTSC dies I won’t be able to use a high end GPU with Linux anyways.

I genuinenely did not know that WoW was still running, tbh.

Some people still have strong possitive feelings for AIM.

Runescape outlived WoW and all the rest because people preferred it.

Other MMOs wish they could have been RuneScape

I think its easy and smart to make political decisions as a business, it simply has to come from a place of pure empathy for real people who actually exist.

I was once building a game where a dinky little neon space fighter zips around the field shooting down enemies that spawn in until the boss. Everything was going great, the engine was handling large number speeds, the parallax background I custom coded with an rng star map worked perfect, right up until I tried to implement enemy tracking of the player: that shit would not work no matter how hard I tried.

I was about to share the old demo for you dudes to try but looks like I’ve lost the .pck file associated with the Godot executable or the embedded pck is no longer recognized.

I hear he also collected child porn, citation needed.

Listen, I unironically love being woke. Accessibility for impairments? Human rights? Equity? Regulations standing in the way of greed? Overrepresentation of minority demographics? Fuck yes to all of that shit. Hell’s Yeah.

But the direction of these games have been poor for a lot of reasons. It doesn’t feel woke, really, it feels like they want us to believe they aren’t Handsome Jack’s corporate studio goons like they are.

Epic makes their money off microtransaction stores and they bought exclusive rights to a bunch of titles a while back, meaning you could ONLY play them on Epic.

There are worse companies, though.

Calm down folks I was making a joke at their expense.

Yeah but it’s being reported by Polygon so…

/joke

Wow that took a while…

IDK, I still think about how the dufuses added recoil to laser guns in FO4. And the fact that land mines and similar traps change every time a save is loaded is super dumb because it’s just like “OH DID WIDDLE BABY GET BLOWN DA FUQ UP? LET ME FIX IT FOR YOU (Removes the landmines)”.

I enjoyed the combat in FO3 more.

They changed the recipe. Skyrim, Fallout 3 and 4, Oblivion, and Morrowind all had something in common: handcrafted environments densely packed with points of interest.

Starfield used procedurally generated content. It generates abandoned mines and outposts from a tileset and then drops you in the literal desert between them.

Yes, in fact the report specifically mentions that NBA 2k24 outperformed expectations. Other than that they’re probably earning passively off of older titles and GTA V microtransactions.

The company made over 5 billion revenue and spent over 2 billion cost of operating in 2024, I don’t think this has anything to do with affordability.

NBA 2K24 also outperformed expectations.

According to SEC filings, Take Two Interactive studio made 2.241 Billion USD profit in 2024.

I’m willing to make a deal. You help me get citizenship and I’ll get you another signature.

P.S. I don’t do anal.

Yes, this will turn their potential studio shutdown into an guaranteed studio shutdown! Problem solved.

There is a really fun Doom mod called “my house” that seems totally absolutely normal artsy house recreation at first…

Until you discover the mirror universe and the downstairs (at the time this mod released multiple overlapping layers of level geometry was not technically possible).

That game, bro, omg

You stumble around, find a key, a corpse gets up and you have no idea how to fight back, and then do it all over again.

TBH I haven’t seen evidence that layoffs generate capital. It just fudges cost to revenue ratios to emulate quarterly gains in hopes of appeasing shareholders.

They’re gonna have to have a main cast who is just a literal chimpanzee in a vacation shirt flinging actual shit all the time just to achieve any level of unrealistic over the top satire. The real world is just too ridiculous for anything less to be their usual exaggerated caricature.

Hang on, they just now announced it, it’s been delayed, and they still plan to launch it next year? This is gonna be a straight up shit show, folks.

Those Tankies are looking for me, that’s a certainty.

Only one flex slot open, high tier items cost 6K, Divine Kevlar is basically a hard requirement for Dynamo Ultimate

Thats been every haze since the nerf

yikes tough crowd

No, I haven’t. That’s the whole point of my edit, that I’m talking specifically about how the 2022 title failed. I’ve not made a single statement about any other SR title.