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- Comment on ‘We tried and it didn’t work out’: CDPR co-founder says it shouldn’t stray from AAA open-world RPGs 2 days ago:
It was still a really good game by the time they stopped working on it, and one of the least greedy CCG I’ve ever seen. Hearthstone was already starting to lose players, and they had a shot at being a replacement, even if the mechanics of the game were rather different.
And then Marvel Rivals came out and the CCG landscape was just overpopulated.
- Comment on In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data 3 days ago:
Next up: souls as property.
Satan: “I got a good deal on this one… only needed 500 dollars!”
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- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 1 week ago:
Kernel-level anti-cheat can go fuck itself.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000 Maker Games Workshop Is Doing So Well It’s Giving $27 Million to Its Staff 1 week ago:
I don’t think it has anything to do with their physical media, and everything to do with their successful video games sales over the past few years.
- Comment on After a lengthy legal battle and billion-dollar loss, 'Fortnite' is back on iOS 2 weeks ago:
Especially when Apple is the one who dictates what is “perfect”.
- Comment on Death Stranding 2 preview: how a big dollop of Metal Gear is expanding Kojima's bizarre epic 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure there’s plenty of fans, and you guys and gals can enjoy your sequel.
But, I’m just not down with Kojima whipping out his Kojima and Kojimaing all over the place. The man cannot write a cohesive story that makes any amount of sense if his life depended on it, and the absurdity has gotten even worse over the last few games. He has nobody to tell him “no”, so every shit idea and thought in his head ends up in the game.
- Comment on After saying negative reviews 'might just cause our death' and 'we've got a few months left in the oven', No Rest for the Wicked CEO claims he never said they were in 'immediate financial danger' 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 3 weeks ago:
That’s what the pre launch marketing campaign is for. Getting on YouTube and Twitch channels is just to get the snowball rolling.
Right, and that’s what this game didn’t have. You have a trailer and some people who happened to discover this game and decided to play it. No real marketing campaign push to get indie streamers to play it. The name makes it even worse because it’s not a unique phrase.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 3 weeks ago:
It’s not one you should rely on. People don’t stare at their Steam page every day.
This should have been promoted through the usual YouTube and Twitch channels. Find all of the YouTubers that review indie games and start sending emails.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 3 weeks ago:
I think NRFTW is fantastic, and it’s exactly what I was expecting it to be. However, people saw it at the same “style” as Diablo or Path of Exile and expected the game to be like those… except they’re not. And for those that do realize that, you have the other idiots that refuse to accept that it’s an EA game that still has a long roadmap until completion and bitch about the lack of an “endgame.”
Honestly, I think trying to compete with Diablo and PoE2 is already too much, even if it’s trying to say it’s not those. Those games are huge, with long-running, dedicated fanbases, and they do enough to oversaturate the market just fighting amongst themselves.
This was the wrong type of game to be trying to dive into the first time they cut themselves off from Microsoft’s financial cushion.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 3 weeks ago:
It’s always lack of advertising. The unfortunate fact of life is that 99.99% of indie studios have no clue how to market their game. They think they just have to make a good game, and boom, people will flock to it.
Steam is there to make sure users have a platform to download their game. It’s not there to market it.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 3 weeks ago:
At this point, I’m just calling this an excuse.
I mean, fuck Japanese IP laws, but also fuck Nintendo for trying to gaslight us into pretending everything is normal and standard. Nintendo of America is not in fucking Japan.
- Comment on Whoop backpedals on its paid upgrade whoops 3 weeks ago:
Awesome, a smart watch with no display. Very cool!
- Comment on Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards 3 weeks ago:
A city with 70% black people, and they find the one white guy to put on the front page of the article.
- Comment on Internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 3 weeks ago:
Okay, now apply that argument to the next levels upstream, the ISP, backbone providers, CDN providers, the domain name holders, the SSL certificate trust companies. They all earn money with it.
You see how ridiculous that argument becomes.
- Comment on Internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 3 weeks ago:
If they had confidence in their reporting, they wouldn’t post this in their Opinion section.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Governments generally do their best to avoid that, because people would start holding off on purchases expecting lower prices next week, month, quarter,… and it would tank the economy.
That’s not how human nature works. If people need groceries, they aren’t going to hold off purchases until the prices go down.
- Comment on Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website
IGN, the EA of games “journalism”.
that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing
That we’ll later summarize with another LLM.
- Comment on Well played, Todd: You can see Skyrim, or at least its tallest mountain, from the edge of Oblivion Remastered 5 weeks ago:
Good job, reporter! You’ve done your work to signal boost an AAA game for corporate profits without managing to actually add any new information!
- Comment on Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini 1 month ago:
Which is worse: Bixby or Gemini?
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 1 month ago:
Yeah, he claims to understand 4Chan culture, but then post such a clickbait article that focuses 4Chan as the “violent, seething underbelly of the internet”. Oooo… spooky!
- Comment on Meta could take a $7 billion hit this year because of Trump's tough China tariffs 1 month ago:
It’s a pretty high gamble here, one that risk-adverse corpos normally don’t take. I don’t understand why they are going along with it.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 1 month ago:
Starfield? Try Fallout 76.
Hell, Fallout 4 was still not a great game, but at least it was functional and had a story. As soon as they announced that there was zero NPCs in Fallout 76, I knew that they COMPLETELY lost the plot, and the point of any of their previous RPGs.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 1 month ago:
$$$
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 1 month ago:
Wtf happened to bethesda
Todd
- Comment on Morpheus Actor Laurence Fishburne Reveals He Was Turned Down for The Matrix Resurrections — So He Might Not Be Back for Matrix 5 Either - IGN 1 month ago:
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 1 month ago:
That’s exactly my point. Reddit is still shit, and you can’t exactly fork the data, because they’ve locked down the API.
Bluesky could do the exact same thing.
- Comment on Give them some privacy 1 month ago:
Imagine getting sued by Nintendo because you said the word “Nintendon’t”.
- Comment on Give them some privacy 1 month ago:
Those pussies couldn’t even put out their tag line without having some legal blurb at the bottom.
Oh noes… my registered trademark!
