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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: 'go play Path of Exile instead'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, we’re in the same boat. I’m going through the backlog, but I have yet to truly find my comfort food even though those two games are excellent. Especially PoE2.

  Regardless, agree on your points. The latter two franchises have shown that live-service can be done well. Though I still don’t quite get how Warframe pulls it off… I guess it’s that they never broke their model while Bungie… you know.

  For Last Epoch, the campaign wasn’t even finished and then suddenly. Don’t write checks you can’t cash, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: 'go play Path of Exile instead'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They should have just put a fork in it when it became very apparent early on it was too ambitious for the studio to handle. And that was long before it blew up in popularity. Now the game has been unprofitable for the past few expansions and their owners are coming to collect. Live service was a massive, greedy mistake as Bungie is also not learning with D2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite Metroidvania?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a gentle way to put it 😆. But I agree it’s so great. Need to get back into it at some point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Must be nice to simply write off 250+ million. Sony needs to be broken up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sony seemed to want it to fail. Reviewers only got their hands on it shortly before release. Most didn’t like it. Marvel Rivals was dropping soon. It was doomed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Sega Master System⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My first system. My confusion about it not getting a Nintendo quickly evaporated playing Hang-On, Outrun and Space Harrier (at home!) Such a cool piece of hardware. I remember being bummed by the lack of selection in stores, but still have a stack of bangers. I need to re-cap it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of your favorite Master System memories?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an OG one in US. I never met anyone else that did except my uncle. My first game was Fantasy Zone. Remember finding it very stressful . Played a lot of Psycho Fox, Space Harrier, built-in Hang-On and shooting gallery, Outrun, Rampage. Lots of weird games too. The Space Harrier and Outrun soundtracks were bangers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hah, very true. i was thinking further back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone hates Sales except C-suite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish he’d stop getting any kind of attention at all. He is a fraud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yep, I actually own 7,255 games on Steam. I’ve played 23% of my library. I regret nothing.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very similar to my account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mullvad has partnered with Obscura VPN⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mullvad is blocked quite often so this has me curious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s really on a roll. X is a racist right-wing extremist horror show for any person with fucking common sense and forums are banning links to it. Got dumpstered by PoE community for boosting until he admitted it. Made fun of mercilessly by *nix geeks for his moronic woke mind tweet. Pivoted to “trolling” like he just discovered /pol and he can’t even do the salute correctly. He’s not good at anything. Even Trump looks visibly disgusted in every picture where they’re together.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nightingale Developer Inflexion Games Is Laying Off Staff⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They jumped the gun releasing without a campaign at launch. People were merciless in reviews about that. It’s better since that was added but still feels a bit hollow. I hope this isn’t a mistake because it has potential and seems like it’s evolving quickly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re also assholes as customers. Worked for a company that did monitoring for them and they were an absolute nightmare to deal with. They were so demanding of our time and liked to wave around legal threats so often that eventually management shelled out for a consulting company (who were SMEs with our product) just to manage their install.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this attrition is expected by Amazon. IBM and others did this earlier. If enough people choose to RTO they will do “real” layoffs and get a pat on the back in the news for not letting as many people go as they would have had to before. Optics I guess. IIRC this is the second round for Amazon.

  Some are saying companies are doing this to keep their property values up but I think that’s only one facet. What I don’t see being called out often is companies doing this are hiring replacements overseas in tax havens and/or where they can pay less for talent. Real kicker is, those hires wind up being remote anyway to the anchor offices.