givesomefucks@lemmy.world

The idea is to let players buy boxed versions of games directly from their GOG library and have them delivered to their homes.

If it’s full blown 90s box art with a CD and the same price as the game you already bought, that would be terrible.

If it’s something archivial quality that has a reasonable expectation to last and be installable for decades and is (mostly) a flat fee, that would be pretty cool.

Although you could still do it yourself more efficiently.

Absolutely wild that they didn’t understand that was already the analogy…

You didn’t.

A chatbot did.

Now tell the chatbot to stop spamming this shit no one else wants to see

It’s not an “if” it’s a “when”…

Which is why pension funds are being courted. Now that all the money has been made, they want average Americans invested so that it’s everyone’s problem when it crashes.

But they forgot most Americans don’t have retirement accounts anymore. And the ones who do aren’t counting on it to do anything.

Resources are scarce and they’re worried about today, not a hypothetical time when they might be able to retire. I don’t think anyone still working really thinks retirement will happen unless big things change.

You seem to think that crunch is mandatory in the industry. Crunch is the result of poorly-managed products and c-suite deadlines

Explain their launch then…

But did you even read that quote?

A lot of people that may have an issue with crunch - rightly so, I understand that issue, we always try and avoid it, but we don’t hide that this is going to happen at some point

They didn’t say a crunch was “mandatory” it’s not part of the planned process.

But (just like the launch) things will go badly and there will be a rush to fix it. That is a crunch.

The game is not finished, there’s up to two years of early access and a shit ton of stuff to be added. If the Devs promised there would be zero crunches, they would be lying.

Acknowledging that not everything will be perfect is the most important step in limiting how much goes wrong.

I don’t know how average adults don’t understand that.

Quick edit:

Now that I think about it, every post in this community is from the bot mod, and the only time there’s comments it’s always terrible takes. And mods apparently ban people for downvoting the bot spam…

I’m out.

“A lot of people that may have an issue with crunch - rightly so, I understand that issue, we always try and avoid it, but we don’t hide that this is going to happen at some point - they often don’t make it in the door,” he said.

Brammer painted this as being down to Bulkhead seeking to be known as “a place you come to work hard”. “If you care about the work you’re making and the result of what you make here, you’ll feel really valued,” he continued. "If you don’t, you will feel slave-driven. We check people’s socials, and if you’re constantly tweeting anti-crunch messaging: ‘This should never ever be a thing’, we know that and go, ‘Look, you’re not going to be happy here, so we’re not going to go with you’."

So…

They don’t interview people who constantly complain about a shitty but unavoidable part of the job.

They just had a massive launch, it’s not even a week in and they already had a crunch.

If a potential employee doesn’t want that, what the fuck do people want them to do?

Hire them anyway and then fire them when they can’t handle a crunch? Just lie to employees and then toss them away later?

How is a company being honest a bad thing?

feels like what was the point.

Playing the game…

why put the gun in game at all instead of just the spotter scope?

I told you…

I’m pretty sure the Devs even joked about it and admitted it was intentional.

Like, if you can’t imagine these decals would do that to troll cod kiddies…

I don’t know if youve ever seen any video of them actually talking. That’s 100% something they’d do just to fuck with people.

If that pisses you off, do what the devs keep recommending and refund the game.

Literally no one makes you play it, but I’m not telling you that again. Best of luck

Absolutely no fucking reason that the starter sniper should be a break action that can’t even kill with a naked headshot.

There’s 100% a reason…

You don’t start day 1 sniping, you start spotting and stay spotting. They put a gate in place that made anyone who wanted to snipe, have to also find out the value of being a team player.

Otherwise snipers would take pot shots all day never hitting a shot and never contributing.

I’m pretty sure the Devs even joked about it and admitted it was intentional.

Same thing with launchers, why the fuck is the first one (that already takes hours of grinding)

Launchers are support… Just build a fob and it ranks up crazy fast and you get the big hammer too.

But also, spotting and building are how you get the money to buy expensive kits and run around like it’s call of duty occasionally. If you’re not doing those parts of the game, you’re probably constantly broke and not having fun.

and also you still can’t do anything to choppers or AA emplacements.

It’s rock, paper, scissors…

Choppers take out mortars.

Mortars take out AA

AA takes out choppers.

should not be the first explosive unlocks.

We’re almost a week into a two year early access and everything resets in 3 weeks bud…

The devs have already confirmed unlocks aren’t static or based on how good something is. A month from almost everything will be unlocked at different levels and in different orders.

If you’re expecting a polished game thats perfectly balanced you should just refund now. In two years when it releases you’ll have what you want, but I’m going to play the shit out of it in the meantime

Especially since it’s stupid easy to make money and XP in the game.

The exception is driving XP, with an insanely long payoff to a tank. But the biggest beta complaint was tank spam when it was easier to get.

There’s gonna be frequent resets and fine tuning over the two year early access, it’s wild everyone acts like this is a finished game, even tho it’s better than a lot of triple AAA recent releases that cost twice as much.

Game is a grind

Tanks are a grind, its literally 60 hours of driving a truck 99% outside of the zone that everyone has to be in to earn cash and contribute.

It’s 100% going to get fixed, it’s day 5 of early access, people need to calm down. Especially since it’s 30 days to the first reset.

People are going to spend all month and not even get it. Then immediately start the grind again.

If that’s what they want to do, cool. FOBS need supplies and this is the only reason people are doing it.

For anything other than getting a tank, progression has been pretty chill.

Like, last beta people couldn’t shut up about how bad tanks were. Now people won’t shut up they can’t instantly unlock everything including tanks.

Tanks only showing up end of season and requiring a person who drove an insane amount of cargo to fobs is an almost perfect solution. I’d just say it should be limited to one spawn at a time per player to avoid one person buying a dozen tanks for their team. But again, that’s only going to be late season shenanigans, at a time when everyone else has cheap ways to deal with them.

What I have seen a lot, is younger players who are used to always being catered to hate the game. Which is fine, no one is making anyone play it. But not every game has to be COD.

Disposable organic material (they specified cotton) and when dug up they could see how fast it decayed.

This is important in cold environments to measure how “alive” should is with micro organisms.

Something like a peat bog has zero oxygen, so doesn’t support microorganisms, hence little to no biological decay.

In single player games with a handful or two of main characters, they can do it bespoke for each one or at least the biggest ones.

But a sports game like this?

It’s gonna be the same thing for 99% of the players, the same default filter. Maybe they’ll tweak it for superstars, but maybe not.

Yeah, the blade on the throat is the same as a stake in the heart…

“This body might come alive, so we’re making sure”

If a body reanimated, the blade was supposed to just cut the head off. But the move from actual “just in case” routine decapitation and just putting a blade there is a pretty huge leap.

So yeah, primative, but primative because they were advancing, this was the line between an actual decapitation you believed was required, and a ritual just to reassure everyone we didn’t have to keep mutilating every dead body. If modern people started doing it because of legitimate zombie concerns, it would be different.

If someone can compress an entire triple A game into a 50 MB download…

Then surely they know more about this than we do and we should trust them.

/s

Instead of cat proofing, you were supposed to get a server room dog…

fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Creation_Club

Creation club is a decade old…

And the main criticism has always been that it takes free mods, and charges players for them thru creation club.

I have no idea what you’re rambling about

Yeah bro, there’s no way checks notes Microsoft would do something like that…

And explains why this update that breaks mods is to push the same mods except paid and labeled “creations”…

The Fallout 4 update’s due first, arriving on August 18th and “focusing on general Creations improvements”.

They weren’t happy with people fixing their games for free, they want to get paid for it.

Coincidentally, if America used original licensing laws, Fallout would have enter public domain a year or so ago, and anyone could make a full Fallout game by now and sell it.

I’ve always worried about “updates” to prior entries when a new one is coming

There’s a financial incentive to cripple the last game’s years of mod support so the next official entry isn’t compared to that, it’s compared to the base game

Kind of doubting if this is a serious community from the other comments…

But these are the “little red dots” from 2024:

en.wikipedia.org/…/Little_red_dot_(astronomical_o…

And it’s pretty much what we thought they were.

On Windows they own the OS, so wacky folders that you can’t touch even with the highest admin rights isn’t a stretch, but good luck with that on Linux.

They third party authenticate thru the Xbox app and “gaming services”. (The issue here, is even for games bought in Steam or other launchers, if it’s a Microsoft game, it needs this. So the concern is this isn’t optional for Linux, it’ll be a requirement to run any Microsoft game)

If/when there’s an issue, you can’t really do anything, and Microsoft support is just chatbots.

Even something as simple as a “repair” or reinstall. Depending on where the process broke, it could be a huge headache manipulating the two into a state they can be repaired.

It’s bad enough I’m not buying any Microsoft games, even tho I resolved my own issues, it could just happen again at any time. And I just don’t want to deal with the potential hassle.

If they ever release a new fallout/ES, I’ll take the time to see if it’s still an issue.

Rockstar especially is going to shove it down our throats…

They don’t want to ever sell another game, $60 even $100 a copy ain’t enough.

They want people to pay $20 a month for each game they play, that way it’s not just the whales from microtransations keeping live service games alive.

What they’re missing is most people don’t care about live service, a weekly rotating playlists having you do things you could have done anyways without being told to, just doesn’t interest a lot of gamers.

When it does, those people tend to just play 1-2 games at a time, and eventually drop a title for a new one.

Absolutely no one is going to carry a bunch of $20 monthly subscriptions for multiple games.

Did you say F or S?

-Pierce Hawthorne, who’s basically trump

And I said to tell the difference between slop and human indie devs…

They’d have to start vetting games to tell.

You said they don’t have to do that, you just think there’s a magical way to tell?

What you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense. It’s like you didn’t even read the comment chain you replied to. I’m just reiterating what I’ve already said, and it’s probably going to help you understand just as much as the first time…

I know I’m going to regret asking, but how exactly do you logic out that stopping low quality slop games?

It would literally do the opposite because the goal for each slop game would be $49,999.

Your idea would make everything worse, and I’m just curious why you don’t see that.

Whatever limit you try to set, that’s what the AI slop will aim to meet.

It’s just something that can’t be automated, at the end of the day every online market needs a human to whitelist new products and review bait and switches, or the market will flood with junk.

But no one wants to pay for that human level review.

And I know, it may cause delays, but most Indie game do not only beta but alpha builds to fund development. I bought BG3 like 2 years before release because it made Act 1 immediately playable, it’s not even just an Indie dev thing.

So even if it takes a full year, real developers would just register early in the process. The slop tho won’t stay topical because they’re not being pumped out in an afternoon.

They’d have to start doing vetting for that…

All the slop games are “indie” or at least would start to be structured that way to lower their barrier of entry.

I mean, it doesn’t exactly take much to run Steam…

They make a few games, but it’s less making new games and supporting a handful that have been around decades by now.

The reason they have such market dominance, is Gabe isn’t insanely greedy. He has more than he’ll ever spend, and I’d love to see him do more with the massive wealth he has.

But it’s not like he’s fucking over users to squeeze what would be an unnoticeable amount more. So people hang around.!

I’d hate to guess the number of people who have dropped over a grand through Steam

So does most of Trump’s ideas…

What different here, is it’s going to cost billion dollar tech industries a shit ton of money.

They’re gonna end up just building satellite offices in those countries to avoid the 100k up front, pay them even less, and avoid what little US working laws are left.

There was like 110k h1bs in 2024, that’s about 10 billion dollars.

Preemptive edit:

I saw something that trump can just waive this for whoever he wants, so it’s 100% going to be used as a club to try and keep big tech on his side.

Piss him off, and he’ll demand you fire every h1b he waived, or give him a giant check.