CosmoNova
@CosmoNova@lemmy.world
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 17 hours ago:
I mean have you SEEN his latest cash grab? It doesn‘t even need his name attached to reek of failure.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 1 day ago:
That‘s how Crunchyroll itself started out if I remember correctly. Now look at it, completely unrecognizable. It‘s exemplary for how things have been progressing or rather regressing this century so far.
- Comment on Digimon Story Time Stranger Physical Editions Sell Out In Japan; Steam Hits 60K Concurrent Players 2 days ago:
Saw the 120€ price tag of the special edition+ and was so disgusted I lost all interest in it immediately. I mean even the base game price seems too steep but that‘s just a huge red flag for me. Definitely a contender of „might pick it up for a tenner on a sale in a few years.“
- Comment on Adult games hit once more, as Valve seemingly denies Early Access to games with mature content 2 days ago:
They simply could‘ve nuked the 18+ section of Steam.
Was this ever a demand by payment processors??? To remove games like Red Dead Redemption 2 or Cyberpunk 2077? I really don‘t see how this is evidence of Valve pushing back against anything. Perhaps people need to stop brainlessly sucking off Valve‘s dick for a minute.
Valve axed smut games because it was an easy business decision requiring minimum effort. They chose the boring and predictable path of lowest resistance which is the exact opposite of what they‘re being praised for here. Of course it‘s mildly annoying for Valve and they would rather sell whatever they want but they‘re not fighting for costumers here at all.
- Comment on "Valve must stop making excuses": Steam under fire for "significant price disparity for PC games," causing regional pricing that's "often 20% to 30% higher than the dollar equivalent" 2 days ago:
That would mean a $70 game in the US costs $86.10 in Poland. Not $100. The math doesn‘t check out for a lot of games I think.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 2 days ago:
You are absolutely right. This is a huge violation of user privacy on Discord‘s side which of course is as outrageous as it was to be expected from Discord. Like, Discord is the first company I would suspect to not care about any of this. They probably think lower of consumers than video game companies do.
- Comment on Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month 3 days ago:
Possibly from people booting up 15 year old laptops to see if they‘re still running so they can install linux on them before trying it on the big machine. Yes, this is my made up narrative but I believe that more than in a Win7 comeback.
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 3 days ago:
Larian also had to sell 30% of their company to Tencent to raise more money during development after they already raised money on Kickstarter. If it was a case of WotC just giving money they probably wouldn‘t have had to do that. Good games take time but also a lot of money. Let‘s hope they‘re not selling more of their company any time soon because they could end up being the one being pointed at.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 4 days ago:
To be fair it‘s as absurd as it was inevitable. Gamepass was always meant as this temporary thing you can try out to play some new games until everyone jumps ship because of increased prices. It has been preached for years.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
So basically EA got tired of watching Ubisoft and Nintendo fight over who is worse and dropped a nuke.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
EA 0.00052 seconds after hearing Nintendo is the worst game company…
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 1 week ago:
The funny thing is the original is only playable with fan patches so technically I can see demand for a remaster. They just really fumbled this in a weird way.
- Comment on Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year 1 week ago:
It‘s public knowledge they use Roblox so if course they‘re using Discord too.
- Comment on Palworld x ULTRAKILL collaboration announced 1 week ago:
They‘re instead making a farming focused game next that looks an awful lot like Nintendo‘s upcoming Ditto game. That itself looks a lot like a Palworld clone with Harvest Moon or Stardew Valley characteristics.
Personally I would’ve preferred they overhaul base building in Palworld itself just the way they presented their new game because it‘s rather shallow in the former and yet has too many overlaps with the latter for me to justify a new purchase.
If they‘re going to release a shooter it will no doubt have a lot of overlaps with Palworld too.
- Comment on Sony’s Light of Motiram lawsuit demands an ‘impermissible monopoly on genre conventions,’ says Tencent 2 weeks ago:
I didn‘t see footage or screenshots where they literally stole the likeness of a character. It would be bad if they did that but I‘ve seen no evidence of it. As far as I know mixing generic tribe aesthetic with generic sci-fi aesthetic can‘t be protected either. I don‘t want to repeat my previous comment but I don‘t see the issue here. It would open a barrel of worms for the entire industry if vague aesthetics are suddenly protected. The lawsuits would never stop and small dev teams would make concessions left and right to fence off armies of lawyers.
- Comment on Sony’s Light of Motiram lawsuit demands an ‘impermissible monopoly on genre conventions,’ says Tencent 2 weeks ago:
Which still should not be illegal. And believe me I have no problem when Sony and Tencent go at each other‘s throat. Let them fight. But you can‘t protect a style or a genre. Especially when said genre is as old as the medium.
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 2 weeks ago:
In the end of the day it‘s the wealthy & powerful VS us. That guy is also not a socialist if he proposes this. Simple as.
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 2 weeks ago:
I‘m not surprised in the slightest given who governs these countries nowadays. They‘re far more right than your average EU country.
- Comment on Happy Birthday! 3 weeks ago:
Given they were literally on the payroll of organized crime and happily profited off of blood money I‘d say it‘s quite ironic how they abuse the law.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Switch Mario Galaxy collection will retail for $70 3 weeks ago:
They are really good games that me and my siblings enjoyed a lot. I‘ll probably replay them again one day but on a computer.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 3 weeks ago:
I don‘t think it does anything for game preservation. What is it preserving exactly? Not the titles. Those are subscription based. A piece of plastic where you can insert your handheld in? Just get a cheap VR headset for your phone. And if Nintendo thought Wario Land was so great then why did they stop making those games like 2 decades ago?
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 3 weeks ago:
So they‘re selling a literal piece of plastic that becomes utterly useless the moment you lose access to their subscription service. Also, 14 games that they plan to release over time? Damn they must hate their customers with a passion.
- Comment on Konami’s AI project backfires, Yu-Gi-Oh! videos deleted over unauthorized use of popular actress’ voice 3 weeks ago:
Konami and AI are a match made in heaven (or hell, depending on how you look at it) then.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 3 weeks ago:
Alright, that was unexpected. To be honest it doesn‘t even make sense. You literally can‘t patent broad gameplay concepts in the US. This patent shouldn‘t even exist according to the law so Nintendo probably doesn‘t have the best of chances here. I’m assuming they‘ll lose that patent in trial as quickly as they got it. How ridiculous.
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 3 weeks ago:
I believe existing work doesn‘t matter much in Japanese patent law for some reason. You either have patented it or you haven‘t. That‘s what we‘ve been seeing with this lawsuit again and again. Honestly, Pocketpal should consider moving to Singapore or something to avoid this bullshit.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
That‘s an interesting hypothesis. I‘ve also mentioned a shift in the algorithm that favors smaller channels a little more in another comment.
If we take into account that a lot more people also browse Youtube shorts now and older channels have been struggling with it then we have a good mix of things that drive potential viewers away from many channels.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
It horrifies me as a German. They also get titles, descriptions and comments wrong all the time. It legitimately doesn’t work.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
The overwhelming majority of Youtuber visitors use the official app and even those who use a browser don’t have an adblock 88% of the time if my memory serves me right. So no, it’s not adblock.
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 4 weeks ago:
I‘ve read some complains directly from people when it was happening. It‘s honestly not hard to believe that people get frustrated when a service with a good track record on availability spontaneously goes down for a few hours. It‘s okay when you say that you don‘t care though. I wasn‘t personally affected. But it did happen.
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 4 weeks ago:
Purchasing and downloading are different services within Steam. You could update and download games just fine during that period. You just couldn‘t buy anything new for a while. And yes I have seen people complain about it on a Discord for example so there was a degree of frustration.