MrFinnbean

@MrFinnbean@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A sudden epiphany.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Opposide for me. I realised i enjoy playing games much more than making them.

  But im happy for you that you found a thing you can be passionate about and spend time working on it too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At the moment you are my favorite person and i hope your socks are never wet and your food always warms up evenly in the microwave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly dont know if this is sarcasm or not.

  Game engines like unreal engine and unity have huge prefab libraries that contain both free and paid models and people can share or sell their own prefabs too. The problem with those are that you cant just pick models willy nilly as it can make the game feel like patchwork quilt when every asset has little different art style. Also in bigger production games things like polygon counts start to matter a lot, so in some cases its easier to make assets from the ground up than start to fiddle with existing models.

  Most bigger studios have pretty large internal libraries they can pull from. Like for example mountain lions in GTA V and Red dead redemption are almost identical. They even use the exactly same sound in both. And bears in Skyrim and Yao Guai in Fallout 4 have same skeleton and some of the animations are fully reused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you stranger! I had forgotten Dink Smallwood completely. Core memory unlocked!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have money to pay premium to not see ads. What in the world makes you think that I have money to buy what you are advertising me?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I love how many unique people who are immune to adds here are.

  You are being effected by adds, you will do purchace decision effected by add campaing. You have done purchace decision effected by add campaign.

  You can have moral standing and boycot companies. You can decite you dont use that one brand, but as long as you are consumer, your buying habits will always be slightly effected by adds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What youvare talking about? Any good service does not let anybody who contacts them change the login email just because they say they have lost the access to it. Thats like basic security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, predatory use is what i fear.

  What i can gather from the article at the moment they are testing what is the percentage they can discount the game and make most profit still from it. I dont inherently see any proof they are aiming for full dynamic pricing.

  If they give for group A, 50% discount and make 1000 sales from 70€ game they make 35 000€.

  But if they give group B, 25% discount from 70€ game they make the same 35 000€ with only 667 sales.

  Then they have group C as a control. If the control group will make as much money as the other groups they know for sure discounts are not good busines.

  Simple so far.

  After the initial numbers they most likely will follow the retention. If i were there i would follow each group weekly and take a note how much money each group generates. At this time it would be best that each group gets the same discounts and adds etc. My hypotesis would be that people who buy only games from big discounts are more unlikely to buy games at full price. Meaning that even if there were more sales there would be less income and the customers have lower CLV. It does not mean they are bad customers per se, but it would mean they are not the core customer group they should focus their effort on.

  If they are doing what they are doing to figure out their audience really is, this is not predatory. A/B testing is unfortunaly the best way test it, and to company as big as Sony, the data they collect is unmeasurable in value. Everyone of us had been part if some companys A/B test at some point. Adds, news site headers, youtube videos, hell even telemarketing calls do this all the time.

  Im not saying they are not looking into to dynamic pricing, but with what information the article gave me i cant say that they are.

  Sorry for the long text. I wanted just to justify why i dont see this for a reason to immediadly jump in to conclusion that Sony is trying to screw everybody up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly what i was thinking. A/B testin is the best way to get data.

  What worries me more is what they are going to do with that data and if it will lead to predatory business model or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pissing in the shower is better in every way than pissing in the toilet.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Keeping the shower on when you piss on the toilet seems wastefull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨women⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. I feel dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You have a point with that, but as long as consoles are easy to use they have their audience. I have both pc and ps5. I do mostly prefer my pc, but i honestly cant deny that ps has its merits. The time i have owned the one console i have needed to upgrade my pc twice.

  As long as there is no convinient way for less computer savy people to play casually, consoles will be a thing.

  And before you start to crusifix me, remember most people playing games do it casually and like it or not, those people are the majority and the audience that bring biggest part of the money in to the industry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some proper games for the phones. Most of them are ports like disco elysium, octopath traveller or balatro, but because the dont get a lot of downloads in app store and google play, the platforms tend to push free games over them. And that makes sense for them, because they also profit from every transaction and ad that those games show. Quality single pay games just have one purchase per player and the audience for them is way smaller.

  I personally as a consumer see so much wasted potential with mobile games. I remember when i had one hand held machine for tetris and another machine with shmup while my tamagotchi was dying somewhere. When i got gameboy it was crazy how i could take multible games with me when going on a long trip. Now we have almost always in our pocket a machine with multitudes more power than anything back then, but because how apple and google have build their enviroments devs dont have incentive to make quality single purchase products because they wont get the visibility they need.

  Sites like itch.io are too small to make a difference. It would need some big player like Steam to add mobile game category in to their app, but apple and google are making it really tedious to install and update anything outside their own controlled enviroments that understandably serve for their biggest audience, who are children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well go mod something else then. Ill manage just fine without your help.

  It sounds nitpicky because there are only like handfull of games that let people mod the game as much as skyrim does. The vast majority of the games just soils them selfs if you touch the files. Its not perfect, but its better than most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet still its one of the most modded engine of all times. Most games dont have any kind of mod support and they just stop working completelly if you do anything beond texture change.

  Bashing creation engines modding is like yelling in a desert about how the water in the oasis would be better with ice cubes. You are not wrong, but it seems really nitpicky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well its does not mean “fuck all”. It means the games are run based and randomised.

  Also Rogue had zero meta progression.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. The romance of giving the right colour knicknack 20 times to somebody and get the relationship meter to green.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think i might have touched this subject before, but im really torn how many games handle sexuality of the characters.

  I kind of hate how in many games every dateable character are main character-sexual. I feel like it robs the characters some depth when they dont care of the character is he/she/other. It makes the characters feel bland amd plastic.

  But on the other hand games are a medium where player should be able to craft their own story and feel accepted, so devs should limit and hinder the player as little as they can. Especially when the real world can be so hostile towards the sexual minorities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you fell out of love with.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been thinking about loosing the “romanticism” with games a lot and i feel internet and the large amount of games available are big factor to it.

  Back in the olden days as a kid living in the boonies i had only handfull of chances in the year to buy a new game. And when i had, i had allready made a decition that today i will buy something, before i even knew what was available in the store. Going in the game shop was a mystery. I did not know anything about the games beforehand unless i had seen one in the friends house. The purchase decition was made allready at home, but the product was chosen at the store by looking the package game was in and the few description words on the case. Some if those games i bought was really bad, but i could not just refund them so i played them anyway. And if i liked the game a lot i might play it trough multiple times a year.

  Now when im buying something i know allmost everything about the game beforehand from reviews, if the game does not click the moment i start it, i will just refund it and when i finish the game its likely that i will never start it again because i have allready something new to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you fell out of love with.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could say every Final Fantasy game after FF9

  But real answer is GTA V. I loved my first playtrough and enjoyed the game a lot. Since then i have tried to start it fresh half a dosen times and every time i just loose intrest about midway trough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that if you hesitate between Ketchup and Mustard, you should pick Mustard. It's healthier.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I truly hate it when people call things they dont clearly have knowledge about a pseudoscience. Traditionaly ketchup contains lots of sugar. Both are condiments so they are pretty similiar in use.

  But amount you use either one is so small it does really matter which one you use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨God of War Trilogy Remake - Announcement Teaser | PS5 Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nostalgia sells and people who have played those games when they were young are now working age so they have money to spend.

  Also the first game is over 20 years old so there are complete generation of people who havent played the original and getting more people intrested on the IP is good for the next new GoW game.

  You may groan, but i 100% see why companies are doing this. And personally i will play these and im glad they are being made. Its not like they are milking the same game like The Last of us remake was or how ever many different releases Skyrim has had.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sell a barrel of oil to a man and he will soon buy a another. Sell a solar panel for a man and he wont need another one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gas stations, tanker trucks, oil pipelines, ect

  These are big reason for the push back also. Companies have spend hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars building the infrastructure for fossil fuels and they will fight for keeping those investments alive.

  Another thing slowing down clean energy is that wind and solarpower arent yet as reliable as coal power. Cities and nations can calculate how much coal or fossil fuel they need to keep lights on and stockpile fossile fuels for future use easily and they work even if there is no wind or sky is cloudy.

  Hydroelectric is renewable and quite reliable, but its not neccessarilly good for enviroment either. Geothermal would be great, but its really expensive and its not possible to harvest everywhere in the world.

  My personal opinion is that nuclear power with auxilary solar, wind and hydroelectrics would be best compination. Especially since battery technology is currently taking big leap with solid state batteries and it seems we might soon have electric vechicles with reasonable range. Even more so if the new batteries are as safe as manufactorers claim and in case of accident there is less of an risk of the unholy hellfire batteryfires are currently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the cant was more in the terms of “you cant have a viable business” than “its physically impossible”. I mean in a theory it would be possible to create moonbase and power it up with AA-batteries, but its just not something that can be done.

  Also with batteries you did not say anything about what would happen to the empty ones. There would be logistical hurdle to overcome with those. Even the cheapest industrial sized battery would still be leagues more expensive than the sheetmetal used to transport oil.

  Again, not talking trying to defend fossilfuels. Just making points why big companies are fighting against the change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What happens to those expensive batteries containing rare-earthminerals after whom ever has used them? Do you just let them have those or do you buy them back and transport them empty or what?

  Converting energy to create hydrogen is fairly inefficient and transporting it need lot of preparations and the buyer has to have magnitudes more expensive equipment to use it limiting the markets where to sell it.

  Im not advocating for fossil fuels here. Im just stating why its more convinient for big oil to sell easily transportable oil barrels that can be packed in to basically free steel sheets or plastics and are easy to redirect towards whom ever pays the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you propose you make those power cables from lets say USA to Australia? And if suddenly some other country wants to make a better deal for that energy you cant just redirect those cables to lets say Italy.

  Or with batteries. What happens to those expensive batteries containing rare-earthminerals after whom ever has used them? Do you just let them have those or do you buy them back and transport them empty or what?

  Im not advocating for fossil fuels here. Im just stating why its more convinient for big oil to sell easily transportable oil barrels that can be packed in to basically free steel sheets or plastics and are easy to redirect towards whom ever pays the best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich oppose clean energy because it is renewable. If clean energy became non renewable, or fossil fuels became renewable, they would no longer oppose a transition to clean energy technology⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also you can transport and sell a barrel of oil to anywhere on the planet, but you cant bottle wind or solar energy and transport it outside of your powergrid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love hating epic just as much as anybody else, but those exclusivity deals are not necessary just bribing the devs.

  The first Hades game would have been much smaller in scope and features, without epic funding them and helping them implementing something like EOS, the game would be definedly worse than it is.

  Remedy has also stated they could not make Alan Wake 2 without Epics funding. People often say the Epic exclusivity ruined its salea, but realistically without it there would not be a game.

  But even so, i think them suing Steam is a asshole move.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So its a glorified a procedural generator that does not save anything it makes?

  What the fuck. Its like saying game devs are being replaced because people see dreams when they sleep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They would be capable of imitating a counter for some timeframe but to actually keep track of it over a long gaming session?

  The article was little light on the details, but if the whole game is run on ai thats what is going to happen. But if AI is creating real code and the game it creates has real files that are saved on the computer, things like point counters are not anymore tied by the limits of AI’s memory.

  But i just dont see how AI in its current state could make large cohesive projects.

  Also there is no such thing as artificial intellect. AI is just nice marketing word for something that tries to mimic what real AI would be.