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- Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenseswww.gamesindustry.biz ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 50 comments
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 3 weeks ago:
Delta Force has a Battlefield-ish multiplayer mode. It’s free to play and you unlock new characters and guns as you advance. (Then there’s an extraction mode too if you’re into that.) I just tried it for the first time after the beta several months ago and I thought it was alright. No jets, but still solid.
- Comment on Xbox fans are compiling lists of all the Activision, Bethesda, and Microsoft games still missing from Xbox Game Pass — and it's pretty huge 1 month ago:
I can’t go that far. I can’t be upset at people for looking at deals and NOT thinking “but what about the companies?” Granted this hits differently as a field I love, but still, I get it.
- Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Xbox fans are compiling lists of all the Activision, Bethesda, and Microsoft games still missing from Xbox Game Pass — and it's pretty hugewww.windowscentral.com ↗Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 26 comments
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 1 month ago:
Even wilder to me is that they own the *.new TLD. So they have shortcuts like sheets.new and doc.new, which take you to those respective documents in Google Focs. And that’s neat for people using them, and unfortunate for literally everyone else in the world who might want to make a fun *.new domain.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 month ago:
After I made my comment I saw someone else make a comment about getting a message saying that. I never did. Mine just worked. Weird.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 month ago:
That’s the old way of handling it. (And I think it still works.) They have a new implementation that’s just the family group admin sending an invite and the recipient accepting.
- Comment on A live-action Call of Duty film is on the way 1 month ago:
Some scenes in MW2 stick out so strictly to me still. ::: The march through the neighborhood, the White House, the knife throw at the end … ::: It’s funny to me that the controversial moment won’t be a big deal at all in a movie, as there’s no player control.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 1 month ago:
You got lots of downvotes, but assuming you’re earnest, the game has a reputation of being rife with cheaters. Here’s a popular video that showed how bad it was a couple of years ago: youtu.be/p5LfGcDB7Ek
There’s also lots of allegations about the developers but being great people, which you can read in this thread. I have no idea about that, though. But complaints are not rare.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 1 month ago:
This is why I loved the DMZ mode of Warzone when it launched. The stronger bots were mother fuckers but there were missions to finish, so the players (all fresh from Warzone and new to having prox chat,) were mostly carefully happy to talk and often helped each other. It got pretty sweaty over the next two seasons though. After that it was kill on sight.
A few weeks ago, soon after they spun it off to its own download apart from Warzone, someone cracked it for solo play. I’d love someone figuring out a way to let people play private servers for that.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 1 month ago:
I agree with you, but there are people who enjoy moving over others’ sandcastles more than making their own. Some people enjoy ruining things for others. Others believe everyone else is cheating too, and their cheating is evening the playing field. The latter is a very common defense when asked directly.
Several content creators lose to cheaters and manage to interview the blatant cheaters who admit to it. There are also relatively popular YouTubers whose entire channels are accusing pro players and streamers of cheating in COD and games. Lots of people assume good players are all cheating, and that it’s approved (if not facilitated) by the developers. (Which is a necessary belief for them, considering these players will also often perform very well on LAN tournaments against other pros.)
- Comment on Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters 1 month ago:
I get annoyed just hearing a pre-recorded greeting at a drive thru. I can’t imagine ordering through an LLM, and yet I imagine I’ll have to deal with it sooner rather than later.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 1 month ago:
I initially uploaded it on March 30th, 2021. YouTube still shows that as the upload date for the video, and I’m stuck on my phone at the moment, so I’ll look to see if I can find a date for the claim updates later to sate my own curiosity, but that’s recent enough that I trust my memory of it being months, plural. I got an email about that copyright strike that day. I don’t have another email about that video saying it was approved or dropped or anything, until there was another claim (after apparently a manual review) on February 9th of 2023, resulting in a regional block.
Not that I’m complaining at you. I’m just surprised. I thought this was typical. Though I was annoyed at YouTube. I thought the video could’ve done a little better on YouTube than it did in Vimeo of I pointed people there instead, you know? (100-ish vs 30k on Vimeo those months earlier.)
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 1 month ago:
If you’re knowledgeable, I have a question. Years ago I uploaded a YouTube video that wouldn’t publish because of an automatic claim. I instantly disputed it, and it took like 5 or 6 months to resolve. But I saw someone today say that claimants had a week or two to respond to a dispute. Do you know if that’s the case now, or if someone was talking trash?
(I found a similar claim on YouTube, but they may’ve found the same line and repeated it, and who knows if FAQs are actually up to date.)
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 1 month ago:
It’s funny, I remember watching The Scene from torrents (or maybe eDonkey2000/eMule?) 20 years ago. And it was relatively popular. Though I don’t remember the last time I even had a BitTorrent client installed. If you’re right, then we’ve failed ourselves. (And you may be right.)
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 1 month ago:
People with enough of a viewership would still be offered sponsorship for videos. Like YouTubers who do their own ads in videos.
- Comment on "Multiple" future Hardspace projects are coming, as Hardspace: Shipbreaker devs Blackbird Interactive take full ownership 2 months ago:
As much as I’d love the ability to have mods, and I’d love that, I’d love multiplayer even more.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed 2 months ago:
I think the general idea is that if I want to spin up a server for my friend group that’s been gaming together for 20 years, we can buy the game and do just that. That’s opposed to the money I spent on the game being useless when they decide they want to stop paying for servers.
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 2 months ago:
Didn’t even know that was a thing; that’s how long it’s been since I looked at it. Thanks!
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 2 months ago:
Or, maybe, it’s just MasterCard’s way of saying “It’s Visa”? (Not that I know this. It could well be a lie for all I know. But also, maybe it’s not.)
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 2 months ago:
These three plus Doom and Shadow of the Colossus are what was I thinking.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 2 months ago:
And a screen where it plays YouTubers comparing it to every version of Madden for a decade-plus after. Eventually finding Madden to look better, but always finding Madden lacking in features.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 2 months ago:
Exactly; that’s why I’m here. That said, I would like to see other communities grow. !games@lemmy.world and !squaredcircle@lemmy.world, for instance.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 2 months ago:
Holding companies responsible for the infringement of them using copyrighted materials without restitution to the creator is literally the only tool we have in ever changing current copyright laws, and we’re watching it be waved away.
- Submitted 3 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 18 comments
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 3 months ago:
This is exactly why I said:
But I think it’s worth communicating that we all understand new government regulation is likely going to be a pain in the ass. We just think it’s worth the pain/money.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 3 months ago:
Game Pass obviously and absolutely affects game sales. At the same time this conversation only happens because we’re comparing “the industry with Game Pass” to “games at face value”. That second one only lasted 10-15-ish years. Before that, there was “the industry with game rentals”. Blockbuster was also absolutely eating up some sales.
Blockbuster was just seen as a “try before you buy” case to many, as you want to okay a game more than 3-5 days. So maybe the answer is not lease your game to Game Pass for a year at a time. Just offer it for a month or three. This also would let Microsoft make more deals for more games in their rotation. Seems like a shorter time helps everyone out.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 3 months ago:
I think your response is coming off as kinda “oh just do it different”. But that still means an entire industry of people are going to have to change how they make things. (And still spend time and money evaluating things at the end, just to be sure nothing slipped through.) I’m in favor of this at least being looked at and honest conversations happening, (which will not happen without this.) But there will certainly be an adjustment period where people on ground level learn and develop new “best practices”. And invariably someone will screw up. The companies are obviously only worried about money. They’ll get over it, is my opinion. But I think it’s worth communicating that we all understand new government regulation is likely going to be a pain in the ass. We just think it’s worth the pain/money.