If only they could make a Bloodborne GaaS, then Sony would fund it 😔

There’s also the poorly-aging belief that if you work for a big company that grants you job-security. People will gravitate towards worse, more corporate jobs because of that, even if it’s generally not true in the modern era.

Ya well $70 is only for septuple-A games. Nontuple even.

The most heart wrenching for me is seeing the little tweet he posted when he was excited about his promotion. When he felt something good was happening for him, his talent and skill was being recognized, and his life was about to get better for it, only to have a sad reality crush him. :c

Can you give some examples of companies that went to shit after Tencent purchased them, and what investor-pleasing behaviour they did that led to this enshittification? I’d genuinely appreciate that.

Maybe Microsoft should buy it.

Tencent historically is quite hands-off with their investments. Hoping they continue to be so if they did end up purchasing D&D.

I agree wholly except the language “stolen assets” is kinda false considering they own Riot, and they’re their assets by all rights.

Devs clearly refers to the company that develops the game. Try again.

The fact that you’re harping on this point is because you know I don’t agree with personal harassment. You are aware that I don’t agree with people being abusive about specific people who work for the company. You’re making bad faith arguments to try to prove “You were saying this”, which I was not, and if I was, is clearly not what I intended. Move on.

I repeat, for the last time, I’ve never advocated for toxicity or harassment to workers. Only to the companies they represent. Please, if you’re going to argue with me, argue based on what I say, not what you decide I mean.

Sorry, but being toxic about a company is distinct from harassing the individual CM. You’re gonna need to try a different line of reasoning because this is a pretty foolish one.

Remember when they launched the game in a shit state and charged full price for it, then failed to communicate? Actions speak louder than words, and those are some pretty toxic actions.

Sorry but I did specify publishers and companies multiple times. I’ve never once even alluded to personal harassment as I obviously don’t believe in that. I however do think that this game deserves the toxicity it sees and the company deserves to be harassed for not delivering on their promise of a worthwhile product for which many people paid nearly $70 (CAD).

Your company? 100%. Absolutely. I implore people to abuse all companies, even.

Is a publisher who’s failed to live up to the promise of a good game entitled to a good community? The fact they have any at all is a blessing.

Toxic devs get a toxic community. Why should I express sympathy for them experiencing consequences?

Guess I’m just this dense, thanks.

AI has the potential to enshittify what would be immersive worlds in video games. Nobody wants their crafted NPC dialogue turned into ChatGPT garbage. Your comment is just propaganda.

PC gaming’s grown a ton since, in particular, 2016 when the 1000 series of nvidia cards released. I’ve seen all my gaming spaces become more and more PC oriented, with Nintendo Switch often serving as the accessory console to the PC.

PS5’s flopped in terms of actually having anything interesting and unique, and Xbox fits nicely into the PC gaming space anyways.

This isn’t a lemmy thing. This is you being behind the times and struggling to keep up.

15 seconds in, there’s unintentionally teleporting enemies

As long as it’s optional, I think it’s great. It lets me play smash bros with friends who do tournaments. It lets me play, too, with literal children who are gonna have a hard time doing much of anything.

If we rig the jury to all be Silicon Valley investors and CEOs, you just have to say “AI” and you’ll win the case.

seems to be mostly that they don’t want to even remotely be in the same context as unlicensed/proprietary nintendo libraries the portal64 dev is using

This is just a corporate passing of the buck. There’s no reason to believe a third party infringing upon the properties of two parties would give the latter parties any ability or risk of going after one another.

Playnite on Windows is the premiere experience for multilauncher support. Highly customizable, and it has a UX that’s much better to lay-users than something like Gog Galaxy 2.0. Integrations are well QA’d and updated. It’s wild that this was built as a FLOSS project because it’s better than what billion dollar companies have done by a mile.

All games are flawed; SV’s unacceptably so and your copium just justifies GF getting worse on that front.

Why would Epic put a store launcher on Steam? This is a silly argument.

On what basis do you say that? There’s tons of legit malware on there, just search for shit that implements denuvo.

I agree that such games couldn’t have been made by smaller teams. I love BOTW/TOTK, don’t get me wrong. They’re among my favorite games of all time.

Is it worth it though? Is the prospect of games like these worth the necessary instability, the restriction to creativity that they bring? I don’t believe so. Even if we lived in a world where crunch was illegal, that was enforceable, and it was perfectly enforced on a systemic level, I don’t think that our economic system is one where such games can be good for the artistic medium that is video games.

You just did.

How do they compare to modern games in terms of entertainment?

I’d comfortably argue that Tetris is amongst the best games ever made.

but also the devs (even if only in scraps)

If you’re buying games that are more than 3 months old, they do not. Bonuses are given for metacritic scores and launch quarter sales. They’re never given royalties.

there’s not a whole lot of options outside of “only buy indie games” to both support developers and avoid filling the pockets of execs and investors.

What’s wrong with telling people to buy indie games and pirate anything made at the directive of blood-sucking vampires?

Remember when games were just the program on the disk and you didn’t need keys and an online connection to activate your copy?

Remember when games were just some free software on Usenet that someone made because they thought it’d be cool, and shared because they were proud of it?

You’re an asshole for paying industry execs to be vampires after you see they’ve managed to narrowly evade the enshittification of their studio.

would they have called themselves gamers?

I would

a certain minimum degree of investment in a hobby/culture is required before you can name yourself as a participant

The particular games you choose isn’t really relevant to this though. If you have 600 hours in Spider Solitaire, and you think it’s important enough to you that you’ll self identify as a “gamer”, who am I to be a keeper of the gates?

No game project should be AAA. It’s anti-creative, as developers must turn their game into something that appeals to the broadest audience, and it’s unstable, as companies bet their entire next 3 years of revenue on a single title. I’d much rather everything become B or C-tier developments. The great games that come from this development style simply are not worth it for the damage they do to the medium.

Hanlon’s Razor.

NZ and Philippines are often early test markets for western markets and asia respectively. I’m thinking it’s likely that one of the marketing guys convinced Elon to slow his roll and that’s why it’s only rolling out to a small userbase, rather than being implemented for every user at once like his bad ideas always are.

For likes, maybe. Retweets? That’s gotta be at least $100/month. That’s not outside the standard for being able to reuse posts from websites like shutterstock, and other sharable media websites.

19,000^(direct)

I got Okage for PlayStation 2 at Liquidation World for like $5.

It’s not the best RPG, but it’s one of my favourites just for its whacky humour and fantastic character designs.