Delete the discord.

DRG survivor has gotten a bunch of updates. I’d say it’s far better than how it was at launch.

The investors who own the AAA market want steam gone because they distribute the indie games that are destroying the AAA market. Our current administration is fully of cronies who do the bidding of the ultra wealthy.

What makes you think everyone in america is doing that? What does that have to do with valve?

why?

I’ve been tired of live service games since before fortnite had battle royale.

You’re describing teamspeak 3. It’s on version 6 now and has those features.

As far as I’m concerned blizzard died when they merged with Activision.

RIP remedy

Xfire was all we ever needed.

Hypebro nonsense

Epic is still barebones 8 years in. Steam wasn’t by that point.

You don’t need to have a massive impact just to stand on business for your own principles.

How is everyone involved at every step of this so utterly mentally impaired

Most of the shareholder oligarchs who own our economy are lead poisoned boomers and this is all just their way of competing with each other for the top spots on the forbes richest people list.

Publishers are barely even necessary anymore. Word of mouth is king. Marketing is annoying and untrustworthy. Cut out the unnecessary middlemen that have been choking the creativity out of gaming for years now.

Nobody deserves insolvency more than Ubisoft. They are not just greedy. They’re also incompetent and delusional. They took solid gold franchises and fucked them to death.

No lies detected

Unfortunately our copyright system mandates that copyright owners must defend their IP from infringement, and making money off of an early access mod that revolves around copyrighted materials you don’t own is definitely infringement.

yeah I hope more left handed mice get created by the smaller companies in the future

I used logitech mice for years but I finally stopped and I’m glad I did. There’s cheaper, better options now.

oof

It amazes me that anyone played any far cry or assassins creed game in the last 10 years and went “yes this is a good game”. All they make is bare minimum surface level crap and it’s been that way for a loooooong time.

For Honor was their last good game.

Warner brothers patented the nemesis system from shadow of mordor

Yes. I play stealthy and non-aggro and most of the time my lobbies are full of people dicking around with no fear of aggression from other people because the rats are busy killing each other in the aggro lobbies.

aggression based matchmaking. the game puts you with people who pvp as much as you do.

OP, what is an example of an excellent game in your eyes?

seems like they’re giving up on PC gaming entirely in the future imo

me too Mario, me too

It’s more likely that the devs are not being given the time or resources to do this kind of thing properly. Their bosses are too concerned with what will save money and generate shareholder value.

Arc Raiders launched as a feature complete game, mostly bug free, well optimized, with a sufficient amount of functioning servers, and with genuinely innovative game design.

It sold incredibly well at 40 dollars. I’ve bought it 4 times myself.

Expecting every game to meet those criteria is not “absurd”. It used to be par for the industry and it still should be.

AAA games from publicly traded corporations are just absurdly underwhelming. They want us to think these standards are absurd so they can keep their minimal effort bullshit gravy train running. It’s not going to work anymore. That’s the free market. Adapt or die.

Aka the market has rejected your overpriced bullshit. Adapt or die. Welcome to the free market.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a mega corporation and previously had the winning formula. You adapt to meet evolving market demand or you die.

These c suites got too comfy doing everything to only please their shareholders. They forgot that pleasing their consumers wasn’t optional. We are your money supply. If you lose us, it all comes crashing down.

Not only that but E33 showed people what ex-ubisoft devs could do when you actually let them be creative.

Let’s give Ubisoft to North Korea then

Allowing the working class to never have any kind of power is the highest priority of the ultra wealthy. That’s the only real threat to their own position and gravy train.

You sound like me when I was young and stupid. Have a good one my dude

Your expectations are too high and your cynicism is clouding your judgment.

They’re currently being sued by Nintendo and palworld did not make anywhere near the kind of money that would let them survive a lawsuit AND a game cancellation.

You’re making assumptions about their financials that are only ever true for enormous studios like epic games, which pocketpair is not. The gaming industry does not operate as simply as you think it does and companies don’t have the freedom to throw money away on something as simple as virtue signaling.

It doesn’t matter if a company used AI back in 2022 when it was new and less understood; it matters what companies choose now. If you’re going to throw blind skepticism at them for not making arbitrary financial risks just to appease you, then you’re not worth appeasing anyway because you’re too cynical to be a potential customer.

Yeah because they spent money making it. If you spend millions of dollars making a video game, you can’t just shut it down and refund every order of it without putting your studio in serious jeopardy financially. That’s not an option for them, so the best they can do is just not rely on AI anymore. Clearly they tried it and learned that it actually sucks ass.

Companies can change their mind about stuff like this.