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- Comment on 2 days ago:
Arc Raiders launched as a feature complete game, mostly bug free, well optimized, with a sufficient amount of functioning servers, and with genuinely innovative game design.
It sold incredibly well at 40 dollars. I’ve bought it 4 times myself.
Expecting every game to meet those criteria is not “absurd”. It used to be par for the industry and it still should be.
AAA games from publicly traded corporations are just absurdly underwhelming. They want us to think these standards are absurd so they can keep their minimal effort bullshit gravy train running. It’s not going to work anymore. That’s the free market. Adapt or die.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Aka the market has rejected your overpriced bullshit. Adapt or die. Welcome to the free market.
It doesn’t matter if you’re a mega corporation and previously had the winning formula. You adapt to meet evolving market demand or you die.
These c suites got too comfy doing everything to only please their shareholders. They forgot that pleasing their consumers wasn’t optional. We are your money supply. If you lose us, it all comes crashing down.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 1 week ago:
Not only that but E33 showed people what ex-ubisoft devs could do when you actually let them be creative.
- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 1 week ago:
Let’s give Ubisoft to North Korea then
- Comment on ‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Is Postponed Again — to November 2026 2 weeks ago:
Allowing the working class to never have any kind of power is the highest priority of the ultra wealthy. That’s the only real threat to their own position and gravy train.
- Comment on Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom 1 month ago:
Imagine if this was all proprietary and these conflicts were resolved with costly legal battles or the abandonment of entire projects and IP.
oh right that’s exactly what happens with corporate software every day.
- Comment on Massively Overthinking: Is it possible to launch a new subscription MMORPG in 2025? 2 months ago:
No. We all poor now.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 months ago:
That’s essentially what I’m saying. It will always end up this way. Whether we call it late stage or post capitalism or just capitalism is irrelevant. It’s a system that empowers sociopathy and sociopaths will always choose to enrich themselves at the expense of the country and it’s citizens.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 months ago:
It’s post-capitalism. Capitalism was only ever capable of bringing about merit based class mobility temporarily before the sociopaths all trickled to the top over the decades and then and shut that shit down. Neo-feudalism is the inevitable result, and that will eventually be dismantled by another working class revolution.
All economies have lifespans.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I go one step further. Ideology is the enemy of progress. It all eventually corrodes and corrupts into anti-humanitarian bullshit, even if a particular ideology starts out good.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Surpasses 3.3 Million Copies in 33 Days 5 months ago:
And from ex-ubisoft devs no less; the undisputed king of mediocrity. It’s a testament to how utterly crushing the weight of shareholder influence and middle management bloat is on the people working there. Creativity cannot flourish within a publicly owned company that only seeks profit and nothing more.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 5 months ago:
What’s important right now is converting people away from windows. I expect Steam OS 3 to be much more beginner friendly than any other distro. If an average PC gamers first impression of linux is constant troubleshooting, they’re not going to try another kernel; they’re just going to go back to windows.
Even if valve stops support later, they will have still introduced many people to linux in a beginner friendly way and wrestled the gaming ecosystem out of microsoft’s grip that much more.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 5 months ago:
It’s normal for old versions of an OS to stop receiving support after a new version replaces it. That’s not unique to steam OS. if I install an old version of bazzite, or any deprecated Linux kernel, modern apps will not necessarily be made backwards compatible with it.
But steam OS will have more installs than any other Linux variant just because of Valve’s brand recognition alone and the FOSS community will target it as their primary platform for software compatibility as a result.
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 5 months ago:
I agree but steam OS is going to be a hell of a lot more popular and have more support as a result.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 6 months ago:
borderlands wasn’t the first looter shooter. that was hellgate london.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 6 months ago:
Indie games and small publisher titles are my bread and butter. They keep the spirit and innovation that I grew up with alive.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 7 months ago:
I miss firefall. It was very innovative and enormous. The devs were trying new ideas in the alpha all the time.
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 7 months ago:
Not every game is an MMO. A game like the crew 1 that is past it’s prime is not expensive to keep a few servers running for. It’s a negligible cost.
They could also put in the time to give players the tools to host their own servers, or simply allow offline play. This used to be standard for all PC games. They chose to do neither of these things in an obvious effort to force players towards the sequel or their other games. They should not be permitted to do anti-consumer things like this.
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 7 months ago:
On places like reddit, Lenny, etc where there is a vocal minority complaining about this. The vast majority of consumers don’t come on here nor do they keep themselves informed. They’ll grumble at the price a bit, then buy it anyway.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 7 months ago:
I love invading people’s games and then never hacking them. It doesn’t tell them you’ve invaded so you can just mess with them covertly and pretend to be an NPC.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 7 months ago:
You’re right, which is why I didn’t say that it was. You and the person I’m responding to are being toxic and you’re not helping yourself by doing that. I am and have always been a defender of trans people, and you are jumping at every opportunity to assume I’m not simply because I don’t agree with your methodology. That’s retarded. Grow the fuck up.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 7 months ago:
I haven’t played the game nor do I want to. What I said is still true nonetheless. If you want to convince someone to boycott a piece of media, being a presumptuous dickhead is the exact opposite way you accomplish that.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 7 months ago:
Hyperbole and bad faith arguing is not compelling anyone to support your cause or your point of view
- Comment on One-handed games? 8 months ago:
deep rock survivor is a surprisingly fun and simple game that is designed for one handed play
- Comment on Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to just trade in their PC for a newer one, because how hard can it be? 8 months ago:
Celery and peanut butter together are the best if you like both of those things separately
- Comment on "There comes a time when we all declare the war is over": Former PlayStation Studios boss Shawn Layden on the future of video game consoles 8 months ago:
This is only a problem for capitalist shareholders (aka the ultra wealthy) who need to extract more wealth from consumers than they did last quarter but they’re already at the limit of how much they can do so. Now the largest barrier is time and attention.
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 8 months ago:
The tech industry chases acquisition and investor money only now, not consumer demand or innovative achievement. It’s all just people trying to get rich, mostly so they can escape the effects of late stage capitalism.
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 8 months ago:
looks like me and the boys are going back to teamspeak
- Comment on Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year 1 year ago:
- Comment on What Ever Happened to MSN Messenger? 1 year ago:
Pidgin was dope