I miss firefall. It was very innovative and enormous. The devs were trying new ideas in the alpha all the time.

Not every game is an MMO requiring vast server farms. A game like the crew 1 that is past it’s prime is not expensive to keep a few servers running for. It’s a negligible cost.

They could also put in the time to give players the tools to host their own servers, or simply allow offline play. This used to be standard for all PC games. They chose to do neither of these things in an obvious effort to force players towards the sequel or their other games. They should not be permitted to do anti-consumer things like this.

On places like reddit, Lenny, etc where there is a vocal minority complaining about this. The vast majority of consumers don’t come on here nor do they keep themselves informed. They’ll grumble at the price a bit, then buy it anyway.

I love invading people’s games and then never hacking them. It doesn’t tell them you’ve invaded so you can just mess with them covertly and pretend to be an NPC.

Every power supply expert has stated that it’s dangerous to use any kind of extender or adapter with 12vhp

Concord suffered from being too safe and generic. There wasn’t a single thing about it that didn’t seem generic and played out. It was originally conceptualized around the time when overwatch 1 was super popular and then they took way too long to finish it. The fact that it was pursuing an outdated trend and doing nothing original with it is why nobody had any interest in it.

Gamers could have identified that it was going to flop from a mile away, but the people calling the shots were businessmen and shareholders, not gamers. The industry has been hollowed out and enshittified because it’s been taken over by non-gamers who want to turn all games into soulless child casinos.

It wouldn’t be the first artistic industry ruined by capitalists and it won’t be last.

Big name studios are usually publicly owned which means they have shareholders to answer to and they demand a return on their investment. That means no risk taking which means no niche genres. It’s why shareholders (ultra wealthy people) are the enemy of art and why publicly traded studios all go to shit after enough time.

And indie devs don’t want to touch the sim genre because it’s an incredibly challenging thing to make and would take most people years and years to get anywhere on it. Their only shot is having an angel investor to keep them afloat.

This is only a problem for capitalist shareholders (aka the ultra wealthy) who need to extract more wealth from consumers than they did last quarter but they’re already at the limit of how much they can do so. Now the largest barrier is time and attention.

I’d say try it out to see if you like the gun mechanics and movement/different classes. If you do then you’ll love the game even more when you get to the higher difficulties. If it’s not your thing, you can refund on steam if still under 2 hours of playtime.

The tech industry chases acquisition and investor money only now, not consumer demand or innovative achievement. It’s all just people trying to get rich, mostly so they can escape the effects of late stage capitalism.

shareholders are poison to gaming

If a corp has shareholders to answer to, they will only churn out unfinished dogshit.

Very few people actually need or more make use of the power that nvidia’s high end cards provide

Bethesda being owned by Microsoft means they’re tainted by the influence of shareholders now. The decay is inevitable. Wall street ruins all studios with time.

The shareholders demand a return on their investment, so they demand that every game be no less than a billion dollar hit. This is where infinite growth shareholder economics gets us in the end. It is toxic to any art medium.

Why are the devs so confident that “less is more” is what the players of this genre want?

Absolute braindead idols.

I’ll take worse anything over a blurry vaseline smeared image during motion. The fact that devs of high speed games like shooters think this is the most acceptable compromise is bewildering.

Like getting devs to stop using TAA

corporations ruin everything they touch

denuvo execs are going on the list.

They’ll do that anyway. They engage only in ideological proclamation, not critical analysis. They think truth is dictated by consensus.

You deal with these people by disenfranchising them and removing their opportunities to gain power, not by engaging them directly in debate. Never engage with an echo chamber if you don’t want the ideology of that echo chamber to infect others like a virus.

because windows is doing everything in their power to ruin their OS with privacy violations and ads. I would switch to Linux yesterday if my favorite games worked on it.

This company is run by delusional narcissists.

I saw an anecdote from someone who used to work there and they said their infrastructure and resources were outdated as hell. Basically zero support or investment from leadership. Those corpos are intentionally just trying to milk them and the customers dry before total collapse or a buyout.

265 million in 2013 money which is 358 million in 2024 money.

Competitive games always attract the most toxic people. I stick with co-op games for that reason.

You can see every moment a senior dev went to management and asked for time or money to develop a certain type of interaction and were told no every single time.