mechoman444
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- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 6 hours ago:
Look, the reason Concord crashed and burned isn’t some deep philosophical mystery. It’s because the game simply wasn’t good enough to survive in a genre that’s already stacked with better, cheaper options.
It launched with no real identity. Everything about it felt like a watered-down version of other hero shooters, same structure, same archetypes, none of the charm. Characters were forgettable, abilities didn’t mesh well with the modes, and the balance was all over the place. The movement was slow, the time-to-kill was absurdly long, and fights dragged on like you were playing in molasses. That’s not “a bold design choice,” that’s just poor pacing.
Then you add the fact that they tried to charge forty bucks for something that, by every metric, should’ve been free-to-play. On top of that, content was thin at launch. Maps were bland, the mode selection was tiny, and there wasn’t enough variety to keep anyone invested. When a live-service shooter launches with barely anything to do, the writing is already on the wall.
Players didn’t walk away because they “didn’t give it a chance.” They walked away because the game gave them no reason to stay. Sales were abysmal, concurrency numbers cratered immediately, and Sony pulled the plug in record time. That’s not player bias or community toxicity; that’s a product failing on its own merits.
You can dress it up however you want, but the reality stands: Concord entered a crowded market with nothing special to offer, priced itself like it was a premium experience, and then delivered something that felt half-thought-out and generic. It wasn’t some misunderstood masterpiece. It was just a bad game.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 6 hours ago:
They could have but it’s their game they refunded all the purchased copies of it. The whole point of copyright is to protect intellectual property for its owners if they don’t want people playing it they shouldn’t be.
And keep in mind copyright protects everyone not just large corporations like Sony.
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 6 hours ago:
I agree but that doesn’t qualify it for preservation.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 12 hours ago:
Here lies the core of the disconnect. The property is not yours. When someone takes or uses something that does not belong to them, against the owner’s wishes, they have committed a violation. The owner’s reasons are irrelevant; it is their property.
Consider this scenario: you write a book you do not wish to publish. Then an external entity steps in and announces that they will publish it and distribute it for free. You would rightfully feel that your autonomy had been overridden.
This is why copyright laws exist. They can be exploited, like any system, but they remain the most effective framework we currently have.
Sony isn’t giving the game away for free you’re taking it by force.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 17 hours ago:
I’ve noticed here on Lemmy that the general user base just doesn’t like copyright laws or have a complete lack of knowledge of what a copyright is how they function and why it’s beneficial to copyright works.
It’s actually really frustrating mainly because you get downvoted for supporting copyright which is insane.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 17 hours ago:
• The term endures for the life of the author plus 70 years.
• For works made for hire or anonymous/ pseudonymous works, the term is 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever expires first.
Dude. I noticed that there is a collective misunderstanding of copyright and intellectual property on Lemmy y’all need to read some wikis or something.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 1 day ago:
Imagine you create a product that is mechanically functional but fundamentally terrible. Only a tiny group is willing to pay for it, and even that isn’t enough to break even. You have no choice but to pull it from the market and discard it. Then the government steps in and starts distributing that product for free. This is your personal intellectual property, you no longer control it or own it.
Your comment is deeply frustrating. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of copyright and intellectual property, which is frankly astounding.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 1 day ago:
They’re not. Sony refunded all copy’s sold. Sony lost a metric butt ton of money on the game realized it was a massive ideological and developmental mistake and tried to correct course.
For some reason people are being super stubborn about this objectively terrible game.
Jesus just let it die.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 1 day ago:
Not the 7-layer burrito! Omg!
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 1 day ago:
No you didn’t. ??
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 1 day ago:
Your claim that all games deserve to remain playable is incorrect. If maintaining a game places the developer or publisher in a financial deficit, then the game does not merit continued operation.
The fact that third parties find ways to keep such a game running is irrelevant; it has no bearing on whether the game inherently deserves preservation.
Your position relies on an unsupported opinion and appeals to users’ emotions rather than presenting a substantive argument. As stated, it is an empty assertion without meaningful justification.
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 1 day ago:
All games, even bland, boring, or bad ones, deserve to remain playable.
In answer to your question, zero, of course.
The above statement is the one I have an issue with.
- Comment on Sony’s Concord Is Playable Again Thanks To Fan-Made Custom Servers 2 days ago:
No… They don’t. If the cost of running the servers for that game is more than the game can bring in there is no point in continuing service.
I understand that “gamers” believe otherwise but Sony, or any other company is going to go into the red because an extremely tiny base if people want to keep playing said game. Especially a massive utter flop like concord.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 days ago:
It’s a significantly better fridge in every way a lot of my clients have a really hard time understanding or believing that.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 days ago:
If you’re in the states you’ve probably had the ice maker replaced in that fridge.
I wouldn’t expect it to last much longer definitely count on it breaking down at some point in the very near future.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 3 days ago:
Appliance repair man here. You can turn the screen off from a cover you remove from the top of the fridge door. Do so. You don’t need a fucking android tablet on your fridge.
Also don’t buy these kinds of appliances. They’re terrible!
- Comment on She strongly disagrees 1 week ago:
So theres a problem. I want to upvote you but you’re ar exactly 42 upvotes at the writing of this comment… What do I do?
- Comment on When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes? 1 week ago:
Not sure if this is supposed to snide, sarcastic or serious but… Uhhhh… That’s not how taxes work.
- Comment on I love fucking pasta 1 week ago:
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- Comment on At this SF grocery store, you can't leave unless you buy something 1 week ago:
Yes I am.
- Comment on Y'all seem to have lost track of the correct response to people crying about dead baddies 1 week ago:
Btw. Great movie!
- Comment on Why isn't the rest of the world doing anything about the USA? 2 weeks ago:
Yay! I’m a winner! Wait…
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 weeks ago:
No it wasn’t just one study. The 2016 WHO trial is just the one that got the headlines because it made for a catchy story. There were several other male birth control studies going back to the 80s and 90s where men dropped out because they didn’t want to deal with the side effects. Things like acne mood swings and injection pain.
In the WHO study around twenty out of three hundred twenty men quit over side effects. Earlier trials saw the same thing a few percent tapping out for the same reasons.
So no it wasn’t some isolated case. It’s been a recurring theme across decades of research. The numbers are small but it’s there. Pretending otherwise just tells me you stopped reading after the first article title.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
You guys have really weird ways of indicating you don’t know what marketing is.
I recommend to start with the Wikipedia page and move on.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, neat math, but biology isn’t a group project where everyone gets an equal share. Female birth control exists because it’s actually doable. One egg a month is easy to manage, shutting down millions of sperm without wrecking everything else? Not so much.
And every time male birth control does make it to trials, guys tap out the second they get a mood swing or a cramp. Meanwhile, women have been tanking those side effects for decades just to keep the rest of us from multiplying like rabbits.
So no, science didn’t “target the wrong gender.” It just went with the one that could handle it.
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
Riiight. Of course.
If cars weren’t all they were cracked up be they wouldn’t be shoving them in your face.
If credit cards weren’t all they were cracked up be they wouldn’t be shoving them in your face.
If breakfast cereal weren’t all they were cracked up be they wouldn’t be shoving them in your face.
What a weird of saying you don’t know how marketing works.
- Comment on Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod? 2 weeks ago:
It’s so other lizard people know.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 weeks ago:
I mean ya… That’s pretty much how I feel.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 weeks ago:
It’s possible to build a competent gaming manchine if you’re ok with 1080p. A ten year old card still runs 1080p perfectly fine.
I have a Ryzen 5500 on a radeon 550. It plays mostly everything at 720 to 1080. It’ll do lite 4k but it does what it needs to do.
I bought a Acer nitro with a 3050 in it for my teenager. 🤷 It’s perfectly fine. She plays mostly counter strike anyway.
I play a bunch of indie stuff and remasters… Unless you want 60fps in cyberpunk in 4k ultra ray tracing… You can get into a pretty decent build for well under 1k.