I’m glad they’re calling out Microsoft’s bullshit with contractors. Most people don’t know a massive chunk, I think even a majority of Microsoft employees are “v-”, contractors. They pay them less, they get no benefits, no PTO, no health insurance, and then after 18 months they’re out. Contractors usually rotate around between the big firms but Microsoft is notoriously bad.

I say good on them for calling it out. Microsoft just wants cheap labor with no benefits. Fuck that, give contractors benefits, or stop using contractors and just hire them

Well if anyone knows what 8 year olds want it’s large corporations. Case closed folks.

Yeah why would they keep making games that were successful when instead they could make games that no one asked for

I loved shadow of mordor/war, and always wondered why they didn’t make another. However I also guess better to go out early before it’s done to death

Then they really are horrible at gaming because there are millions of people chomping at the bit to pay any amount for dlc to that game

Seriously they could have done sims level DLC and people could have just kept buying. New mounts, small new areas, bits of story here and there, a new class

I’m glad I’m not the only one genuinely confused by this. Are they shorting their own company? What is going on?

I mean, a Gollum game?

Which is fine, but I have no idea why they’re just throwing everything they have in the trash. They built the whole world and just sat on it. Expansions could make them so much money to fund the next game in the short term

WHY?! WHY ARE THEY BEING SO STUPID WITH HOGWARTS?!

They built this whole world into the game and did NOTHING with it! It’s empty! Hogwarts the settings is perfect! The castle was fun to walk around in, to explore! I 100%'d the game because I loved exploring in it! Then they did nothing else to the game. I don’t even remember what the antagonist’s name was!

The game oversold all expectations! People just loved shelling out money for it! Then WB just dropped it.

I see things bitching every day about how their game studios don’t make enough money and then they shit the bed here by just letting that game sit here!

If they’re actually worried about money why are they not cranking out DLC every 4-6 months?! People would buy it! The world they built is begging to have more stories told, and people are holding out their wallets asking for more content for it - and they cancel it?!? They can’t bitch and moan that games don’t make money and then they just flip the off switch on their freaking money printer.

Thanks. That was cathartic.

I have large groups of pc gaming friends. Not a one uses that useless game bar. As is Microsoft tradition, too little too late.

My first thought when I saw it was “oh sweet I can access discord in game without alt tabbing”. Nope. Didn’t integrate discord. Didn’t integrate steam friends. Only can use their music apps. Worthless to me.

It was amazing storytelling. It was never about saint Denis, or the heists, it was about the little things you overheard in camp, the gang itself. Truly a amasterpiece

Vertical Integration, Lemon

I’m usually pretty cautious on stuff like this, I’m in the minority that says the newest games don’t need to get 60fps 4k ultra on the newest GPUs, that it’s okay if you can get medium. Gives games room to future proof themselves.

But this is bad. A mid tier brand new GPU can’t play your game more than 720p 35fps? That’s laughably bad. I’ll wait to get some other reviews before I judge completely, but that’s just utterly unacceptable.

But they care so much about history there at Ubisoft

Dear God how shitty is that. “We never said it was ten gig you stupid moron”. We just took a fairly standard industry term and flipped it around.

They’re years behind and they have a half baked idea. Of course they’re going to come out with one!

They also have piles of metrics saying it’s going to become the dominant in the market, that it’s way better than the competitors, and that the Xbox interface will be loved by all.

And then it’ll come out, be mediocre at best, and silently dropped in 3 years.

It’s Microsoft. I’ve seen this one before

RDR2 is one of the best story games ever. It’s one of probably 3 or 4 I would call masterpiece, and it legit made me cry. I connected with the characters, I felt the pain of the gang falling apart, I felt fear and pity for dutch, it was just amazing. RDR2 is one of those few games where you can say "sure, it has amazing gameplay, the side games are fun, and it plays great, but I don’t play it because it’s one of the most fun games to play, I play for the story "

Unless you absolutely need CUDA for AI workloads, I only recommend AMD for Linux at this point

This guy technologies

I’ve used 2020 on Linux many times, works well!

Oh good! Maybe MSFS2024 will finally work!

Oh gears, amazing co-op! Great cover system and a chainsaw on a gun. Phenomenal!

Truly just the brute force solution. Need a shitload of compute? GPUs can do it! No one stops to think if we really need it. It’s all about coulda, not shoulda. Yeah, ML and AI has a place, but big tech just thinks “slap an LLM everywhere”. Just such horseshit

True, I do dislike when gamers just unilaterally say “this game is bad”, because it’s such an opinion. Is it bad, or do you just not like it? Maybe other people do like it

I actually think Syndicate is one of my favorites, behind only black flag… I absolutely loved it. To me Unity was the boring one

God a takeover from Microsoft. Talk about a way for it to become immediately uncool. This fun thing just immediately needing a live account and Xbox shit all over it.

That being said I’m still leaving, but think of how accelerated it’s endshittification would have been

Self host, codeberg, make mirrors everywhere

Of course they’re united, it’s the only thing that makes sense. Blackwater, Mac, Jenny, Davey, all questions to have answered

Rockstar games are a number one source of clickbait. Always “We don’t know when it’s coming, but we’re really excited!”

That mission was one of the best in all of Halo. Where you really feel how dire and ruined everything is. Mixed with running around actual civilian places contrasted to the numerous forerunner built, bunkers, or nature locations or the other games and it really hits home.

(Outskirts and New Mom asa got close, but with the graphics of the time and mostly being outside it didn’t quite hit the same)

Now this is the piracy everyone needs to rally against

No one disagreed that it’s a bad thing. (Go ahead, reread it) But it’s an understandable thing. That’s the point you’re not getting.

People have families to feed. How long are you willing to go without income before you consider Amazon or Meta? How long do your morals hold up before you’re facing eviction. It’s super easy to hold to them and judge others when you’re fully employed, but buddy I gotta tell you, I’ve been laid off twice in 3 years, and I stared down losing my house or taking a job at big tech. I was lucky that a smaller company came in last second and I landed there, but I hold zero ill will to those who work there.

Most of them have no assumptions to what they do, but individuals need to feed their families, to provide a roof over their heads, they have kids who need college paid for or medical insurance. You judge them, but I question what you would do in the same position. If you were facing losing your home and you had Amazon sitting there offering more money then you’ve ever made - how long would you hold onto those morals?

I don’t even expect an answer. I don’t expect it to be truthful.

No matter where you are in an organization, unless you’re csuite, you’re nothing. Always remember that. You do not get a say, your opinion is tolerated at best. I’ve known people at MSFT for decades and they think they’re opinion matters. It doesn’t. Tomorrow some exec will come in and stomp on you. Work to live, don’t live to work. Them saying this is good, but I like to remind people that they won’t care. Money talks.

and if they let me buy it license free I would. However between the options of buying a license to play a game whenever I want vs renting it for 1 month, I’ll take the license.

Eh. That’s not a big of a loss as you’re making it out to be. I purposely buy my games, I want to own them. (Asterisk with licensing and all). Point being that I don’t agree with Ubisoft that we need to get used to Games as a Service. I don’t want to rent my games. Even mid tier games, I want to own them.

They own money printers and can’t figure out how to turn them on. God you don’t even have to make good games, just okay ones. Hogwarts was an okay game and it printed money for them. (Seriously why no dlcs? Just more money printing)

The shadows games weren’t perfect, but they were fun. A lot of games were fun but mid. They just have to get their executive hands out of the creative pot and just let the creative folks do what they fucking do. No micro transaction, no live service, no boring ass story because you’re afraid it might scare away some players. Just let them make a mid level game.

But nope. All their shitty ideas didn’t work so better to shutter the studios

I mean that’s awesome, but it’s a mod now almost 15 years in the making. I gave up hope about 10 years ago

Shocking. When your entire customer base asks “why?” When you announce a product that’s usually a good indicator. Also wasn’t it like 800 dollars?

That’s a huge problem I have with the franchise though! It’s been their cash cow so every game has some sort of riff on the whole future story bit, but they can’t commit to any of it and there’s no end in sight. So I refuse to get attached to their overarching story because I have no confidence that it will every complete!

The two scenarios that will play out are (and I’m not saying which one is likely, just these are the only two):

• Assassins’ Creed continues to be huge -> They will never end the overarching story and it will keep trickling in
• Assassin’s Creed dies out -> They won’t know it until their last one bombs so bad that the suits never make another, leaving it open

So why be invested in the story at all?