Don’t give Bungie your hard earned money because Destiny 2 is now pay to win and they’ll always try to screw you. Don’t get sucked into this game and give this horrible company your money.

Bungie was given 1.2 BILLION to retain talent. They decided to fire 100 people going back to the Halo days.

That right there ended any money I’ll ever give to Bungie.

Wonder if google’s moves on playtesting req’s - requiring testing teams of 20 or more users - is going to be a way to assert the play store is safe/well curated etc…

either way shit’s gonna get worse for indie devs :|

I am. you have to pay way more for butt blast processing and even then you can only find reliable ‘vendors’ in the city.

It’s really not an indie game, so I was glad to see someone else take the trophy.

the part that really makes me heave is that Sony gave them $1.2 billion earmarked for retention, and they gutted multiple longtime departments including people from the Halo days.

Whoever’s making the decisions at the top have gotten real cynical.

suspect pc is last priority due to the higher rate of piracy and lower rate of in-app-purchases. oh and the mod scene - for some reason rock* doesn’t want people extending the lives of their products even for single player play. weeeeeak.

but it’s not. CS has an economy, but the entire simulation runs alongside it, not on it.

I think you think you know a lot more about game dev than you actually do.

I’m curious from a gamedev perspective why you think any of the mechanics are sacrosanct - all economies are fake. they depend on mutual agreement of arbitrary values and systems.

I use the F-Zero start screen tune as my alarm clock.

Kotick or Riccitiello

I mean, yeah, if you drop those two as the alternative, every time, fuck those guys every day and twice on sunday. But… Gaben’s got a very different record.

I’m of the opinion that he should have to testify like anyone else just to preclude Trump and their ilk from trying to get out of testifying in person.

monkey’s paw

nailed it, I completely agree in this one instance.

have an ASUS TUF A15 laptop with an nVidia GTX 1650Ti graphics card and I am SO sick of 500MB driver “updates” that are basically beta tests that break one thing or another. What are the chances of upgrading to a Raedon/AMD graphics card? Or am I stuck with this shit?

in a laptop? practically none. there are some very rare ‘laptops’ out there - really chonk tops - that have full size desktop gpu’s inside them. the vast majority, on the other hand, will have ‘mobile’ versions of these gpus that are basically permanently connected to the laptop’s motherboard (if not being on the mobo itself).

one example of a laptop with a full-size gpu (legacy, these aren’t sold anymore): https://www.titancomputers.com/Titan-M151-GPU-Computing-Laptop-workstation-p/m151.htm note the THICK chassis - that’s what you need to hold a desktop gpu.

console at the moment where you actually own the games you buy

but but blast processing

Sheer overhead. It’s not a general purpose game engine, it’s a hotrod FPS engine with all the visuals crankABLE to 11. But if you’re not pushing for the high end pc/console FPS, adapting it to your game’s flow and perf reqs can be challenging. And it’s not the easiest engine to develop AR/VR or other new tech on, requiring hyper optimization and throttling lot’s of the engine’s gorgeous visuals. It’ll be interesting to see where it goes from here though, unity has fucked themselves 8 ways from sunday on developer confidence and their own fragmented shit show outside the board room didn’t generate lots of confidence either.

I’m playing with godot a lot these days lol.

Yup. For every idiot like this, there’s an indie game or even a Larian Studios offering MUCH better bang for your bucks.

your understanding is misplaced; their ongoing costs are MASSIVELY offset by their in-app purchases already. to claim they need more is just greed.

Did John ‘charge for ammo’ Riccitello end up at take two this quickly!?

Man, if this phenomena was rallying around a decent company with a decent history that’d make sense… it’s a wretched company that’s been historically crap to it’s customers and employees. Your ‘concern’ for me is hilarious, you have a great night lol

I hated that, still took it but I really hated it

they fucked you because they could. you kept going back, that’s part of growing up I guess.

they’re just awful.

GameStop is trash.

Yup. And none of this is a surprise or new revelation - they’ve been trash the whole fucking time. Some folks just got so into their ‘big short’ fanfic that they thought keeping this company alive would be fun and profitable.

hopefully they had fun. it’s gonna crater sooner or later thanks to their business practices, and thank goodness. Mom & Pop shops like Pink Gorilla are way better any day.

probably an online order.

the fact that GS sells shit in this state speaks more about their cocksucker business; the idea that you’re standing up for it - stonkdweeb adherent lol. get a fucking life.

it was a company circling the drain for great reason before it got saved by a bunch of reddit dweebs. enjoy your movie, I strongly doubt your hodls will be worth it lol

risc-v maybe sometime in the future but nah man, nah… x86 ftw.

it’s absolutely not the same product. one is called CS:GO the other is literally called CS2. They’re two different games with a shared asset pool. Gameplay between the two is not the same. Game modes aren’t the same. Fuck, they didn’t even port over the bots code.

I’ve been playing cs since 1.6, been on numerous raids of Al Queda, I was there when Harambe OD’d you little shitstain. Get fucked lol

they’re different products. puting cs:go as a ‘beta’ of CS2 is asinine, taking it away w/o player agency is snide, and me having to explain this to you is pitiful.

You can play cs:go (apparently) by rolling back CS2 to previous betas… such a stupid ‘solution’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3jomwTCh6Y&ab_channel=TroubleChute

rats maps and gungame… .cs source ate hundreds of hours of my time.

arms race, flying scoutsman, for two…

And damn near every single Google effort into the games space has failed except for android games, which ride on the enormous platform install. Their latest effort was a joke - stadia was DOA.

I respect valve because they’ve provided indie game devs with the same distribution AAA studios get, they’ve never asked for exclusivity and did tons of uncompensated VR pioneering (remember Abrash and co were Valve before Oculus) and never once tried to ‘own’ vr. And they’re a private company, so that means the decisions - and investments - they’ve made worked out enough to free them of a board dicking shit up.

Keep going, Valve. I don’t like everything they do, but overall they’re a gem in value added.

Right? Unreal’s microsplat tech is going to boggle minds, unity needs an asset library to rival.

yeah I keep waiting for some brilliant game-ready tech to come out of one of those acquisitions like Weta and… ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Yup, it’s not like we’re unaware they’ve been unprofitable the entire time and cheap debt isn’t a thing anymore. The underhanded nature of backward-changing the TOS and acting like per-install charging wasn’t a borked concept from the start are what did it for me. I will never give them my trust much less business until there’s a change in leadership across the board.

It’s a start, JR being out. But yeah, a new board, and new leadership that actually came from within Unity / the game dev community is needed for devs to have any return to faith in Unity.

I nominate Keijiro Takahashi as the interim CEO. I don’t think there are many who understand unity at a 1:1 mindmeld level like that. Set a new set of goals, get LTS into actual LTS shape, unify the pipelines, restore confidence, save the princess, drive the darkness from the lands and forge a path to profitability that doesn’t alienate unity’s most valuable asset, the community.

There is nothing you can do with the console that can’t be done with a PC.

you can tie your games to single platforms in order to punish the poors who can’t afford a sonycube and an xboxstation and a nintendyo

death track was gnarly, but I managed to beat it with (iirc) every car one summer between sessions of mw1 and cotab.

Also David Lynch’s batshit insane original movie.

yeah, seeing the miniseries and the new film has given me a lot more appreciation for how fantastic Lynch’s execution really was. Still one of my all time favorites and I love the books (er, original herbert, not the son as much).

If you liked that stuff, check out Herbert’s other writing, specifically the Dosadi Experiment and Whipping Star. Any universe that posits a Bureau of Sabotage that fights against the galactic bureaucracy becoming too effective gets my respect.

haha that damned wizard, I always thought it was just bad luck but apparently KQ3 has some really squirrly RNG that causes a lot of grief. DOS games were my gateway to learning the command line too, bad command or file name? a youth wasted brilliantly.

Never finished bg1 or 2 but enjoyed them both in my youth so I figured I’d hammer through them - beamdog had them on sale for $5 recently. This way I can justify buying bg3 lol.

Mech Warrior on PC. The first one. Recruit wingmen, salvage mechs, negotiate with those cheap kurita bastards, regain your family’s honor.

16 colors of line-rendered mecha in glorious 386 powered 3d.

they’re on strike until they get some of that sweet sony bungie acquisition money.

musk is going for the hat-trick