Eggyhead
@Eggyhead@lemmings.world
- Comment on Meta axes VR game developers amid $4.97 billion Reality Labs loss 1 day ago:
Sony has a nice headset, but it’s more of a whatever than a serious evolution of the industry.
This sentiment exists because Meta sunk gargantuan losses into engineering progress that the burgeoning VR market couldn’t possibly have managed naturally. If you took meta and the quest 3 out of the VR picture entirely, I believe the psvr2 would still be a good bar for where high quality, affordable, modern VR would be. There would be no outstanding AAA VR meta exclusives, but who’s to say a few of those might not have been made anyway? On better hardware and non-exclusive, no less.
Furthermore, if all those people who opted for Quest 3 when choosing what to buy ended up on other platforms, the incentive for developers to develop VR features for their games wouldn’t be restricted to mobile only and on a terrible store front. I think we would have seen a lot more studios take the Resident Evil route and add VR modes to their games because the VR audience would be on platforms that would require less compromise, and it would be larger than it is now. We would have had much better games in VR by now. Meta fucked shit up.
- Comment on Well played, Todd: You can see Skyrim, or at least its tallest mountain, from the edge of Oblivion Remastered 1 day ago:
Daggerfall, too.
- Comment on Meta axes VR game developers amid $4.97 billion Reality Labs loss 1 day ago:
On the other hand, I think the VR gaming industry in general would be much healthier position today if it weren’t for Meta’s financial boat rocking.
- Comment on Meta axes VR game developers amid $4.97 billion Reality Labs loss 1 day ago:
Last I heard they’re actually doubling down. They were supposedly shifting away from games in a push towards more comprehensive Horizon Worlds integration. Like it will no longer be an app you launch but rather the environment you enter when donning the headset. I heard that a few weeks ago, though. It might be outdated already.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 1 day ago:
Yeah I stopped impulse buying games from sales since then. I have plenty to play already, and I’d rather not risk buying something stupidly now that I won’t have the means to refund by the time I get around to playing it should it not work right fit any reason.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 3 days ago:
The original argument compares windows to iOS, but gets weaker when comparing windows to macOS, which is still pretty corralled, but more or less open.
I asked about Xbox because Microsoft doesn’t sell a phone, and Xbox is an example of a Microsoft-run closed ecosystem. So I was curious about how their closed ecosystems compared.
If Microsoft sold a phone, I wonder if it would actually be more open like windows and Mac, or closed like their XBox and the iPhone.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 3 days ago:
Yeah I wasn’t entirely familiar and it’s not anything I got upset over (again, my fault). It’s just weird because they know I never installed or played it until I asked for the refund. The game was the Grandia HD Remasters. It didn’t even occur to me to scrutinize compatibility on Deck when I bought it because it’s just a 2D JRPG from the PS1 era that supposed had been modernized.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 3 days ago:
I was denied a refund for a broken game on Steam Deck just last winter. I had never played or even installed it, but I had purchased it and let it sit in my backlog too long before trying.
By comparison, I can’t recall a single time I’ve been denied a refund request from the iPhone App Store. They’ve also never sold me software that couldn’t run on the hardware they also sold me.
I understand how it’s my fault according to steam’s ToS, but it still doesn’t seem right to me.
- Comment on EU fines Apple $568m for deterring third-party payment methods on App Store 3 days ago:
Microsoft does with their Xbox, though. Don’t they?
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 3 days ago:
Broadcasting spoilers to an audience tuned in to an unscripted live stream play of an unreleased game on the Internet. I’m sure the risks were understood.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 5 days ago:
He literally could have contributed to lost sales from potential buyers watching the games before they were released.
By allowing them to be better informed of what they would otherwise have purchased?
- Comment on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 adds Hardcore mode 1 week ago:
I just watched a YouTube video that taught you how to cheese the combat system by poking the face with a sword or bashing the head with a mace. KCD2 has kind of forced me to switch it up a bit, which I appreciate.
I have no interest in a hardcore mode though.
- Comment on Nintendo Maintains Nintendo Switch 2 Pricing, Retail Pre-Orders to Begin April 24 in U.S. 1 week ago:
My friend is looking to pick one up after that fromsoft game comes out. I might grab one then as well so we can play together, but I’m more in it for Metroid and whatever the Zelda team cooks up.
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 1 week ago:
Opt in means they’re building up the infrastructure to make it opt-out when nobody is looking.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
Video games, and Zelda especially, should only be for rich, privileged folk. Poor people need to work 3 jobs if they want to play games in all that free time they must have.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
If they owned Mario and Zelda, you can bet your britches they would be.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
I replay OoT and MM at least once a year. I can see myself replaying these new Zelda games at some point and enjoying them, but I won’t likely pay $90 for the privilege.
- Comment on AI slop farms are churning out fake heartwarming videos about Trump figures. 2 weeks ago:
It’s the U.S. equivalent of cheap N. Korea propaganda videos.
- Comment on Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems 2 weeks ago:
I just wish I could have my own personal AI that I could plug into everything, so I don’t need to subscribe to a bunch of separate things that are otherwise stupid for subscribing to.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows | Review Thread 5 weeks ago:
The black samurai dude is already prevalent in Japanese pop culture. The folks going around saying that’s the problem are just confused and dumb. There’s no real issue there The issue lies in how things are portrayed that make the game look not distinctly Japanese, but more western “Asia wonderland”. I lived in Japan for over 10 years, I have Japanese family, so I pick up on some of this. It definitely gives the vibe of a Canadian studio did as much “Japan” ™ as they possibly could without having to actually go there or consult genuine professionals on cultural nuance or visual identity.
I say this as someone who has only seen promotional materials and not the game itself, though. So the game itself could prove me wrong. And I don’t care if you enjoy the game or not, I’m just sharing why it kind of turns me off.
- Comment on 'They Know Who You Are': Harvard Students Use Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses To Pull Up Your Identity In Real-time 5 months ago:
People have survived without tools like this for thousands upon thousands in years. I think we can afford to wait a few more until there’s a privacy-respecting method behind it. I know we won’t, but I’m sure we could have.