Safety's Off: "Despite the fact that the recently showcased "Samaritan" tech demo is absolutely gorgeous, I can't help but feel as if the next-generation of consoles should be using advanced graphical technology to enhance gameplay conventions, instead of simply providing additional eye candy."
In his latest remarks about Valve's storefront, the Epic boss likens Steam commissions to "a car dealership demanding 30% of gas purchases."
A man that basically called all Linux users entitled cheaters and then said "Installing Linux is sort of the equivalent of moving to Canada when one doesn’t like US political trends" is stirring the pot again eh? Pot meet kettle.
Jamie Hore has been writing about gaming for seven years, and somehow still has not figured out how this industry works. Like, seriously. Publishers lowering their prices just because they now pay Valve five to ten percent less? Come on. That just sounds like someone who has not been paying any real attention to the same industry he supposedly covers.
And of course Sweeney had to jump in. That is kind of his whole thing. Instead of actually working on making his own company’s tools decent, he just deflects and points at competitors, hoping people get distracted long enough to forget that his so called alternative is worse in pretty much every conceivable way for the people that actually matter, the consumer.
Not to mention how unbelievably hypocritical he is when he talks about “benefits for developers.” As if his other tool, Unreal Engine, was not responsible for wiping out thousands of positions across the industry by pushing this massive consolidation of tools. Suddenly everyone is using the same pipeline, the same tech, the same shortcuts, and all that really does is make the eyes of publishers and executives shine greener at how much of their own talent they can cut, because now any cheaper third party studio can step in and do the job, quality be damned.
Interesting take, especially when you realize Epic Game Store has yet to tun a profit.
If they spent just as much effort improving the Epic Store as this guy does complain about Steam then maybe they would've set a new standard by now. Thnx for all the free games tho.
EGS really has barely changed since it launched. I don't think he has any room to talk when they've made zero progress in 8 years
Epic store has not caught up to Steam, regarding features, but it hasn't had zero progress for 8 years. Either you are ignorant or a liar, regardless you are wrong
@gerbintosh I've paid attention and the updates. It really is almost nothing in 8 years. They added cloud save is the one big one but is really just an expected feature.
Library organization is still a mess. (separating EGS monthly free games would help)
In 8 years there's no defending the tiny amount it's changed.
And it shouldn't need to be said but again, people do not need to be defending multi billion dollar publically owned companies.
I want them to do well, I would like more competition on the storefronts, so I'm going to call them out.
I was on EGS' side for a while with this kind of messaging but EGS has had years at this point and the client has barely improved it's usability at all. It's really a nuisance to look at my EGS library.
The Congressional Labor Caucus sent a letter to the FTC warning the debt-financed, largely PIF-owned deal could be bad news for workers
lol ya think? they're sending all that work to the cheaper labor market as soon as possible. and FYI, that labor market has exploded in the last 5-10 years. They have enough people to replace every single job. But honestly, EA is over filled with useless upper management as it is. You could probably trim 25% of their staff with no real loss in production. They aren't gamers, they're business execs. Just look at how many AI related jobs they're already starting to post. Its also hilarious that PIF owns Battle field 6
Wait,
The same congress that attacked Lina Khan when she fought the Microsoft Activision purchase.
The same congress that allowed Disney to buy 90% of Fox
The same congress that allowed Liv Golf to buy the PGA
The same congress that sits back while Paramount tries a hostile takeover despite losing the bid for Warner Bros.
NOW, the suddenly cares about doing what's "right" for works? Yeah, right.
EA now owned by The Saudis and Ubisoft to inevitably be owned by China. In hindsight, once EA and Ubisoft started having their financial woes, they should have pulled a Koei Tecmo/Bandai Namco by merging their operations into one.
When the dust settles on the $55 billion leveraged buyout of Electronic Arts, Saudi Arabia will be its only true owner, despite a “consortium” of investors being involved in the deal. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund will control 93 percent of the company, according to filings with Brazil’s antitrust regulator.
Technically speaking, Saudi Arabia and TENCENT can buy the entire USA. ANf Democrat and Republican will not do crap!
Letting foreign entities own half of American businesses is liberal and very progressive. So is bringing in all that talent from outside the States to replace the talentless and lazy American workers. And here I thought the Trump administration wanted to border is up but nope. We're supposed to worry bout them "radical Muslims" minding their own here and ignore China/Saudi/Israel taking over.
Another thing I hate hearing is "liberal and very progressive"
It's 2025 and that stuff is outdated. Everything and everyway is literally the same thing wheter it's progressive, conservativ. Because they all wants the same thing have, king unlimited oney buy everything including your house.
Now they making mainstream media news that it's AI Bubble justify to highjack the price of RAM.
Another excuse for inflation!
"here I thought the Trump administration wanted to border is up but nope"
Lol, you actually bought what he was selling? Let's see this week alone...
Yesterday he pardoned an international drug lord, while allowing the murder of random fishermen on boats. Remember drain the swamp? He pardoned a Democratic Congressman jailed for bribery just today, nevermind that fraudulent drag queen republican that was kicked out of Congress and imprisoned for their fraud. It's so petty they're picking fights on social media with pop stars while using their music, and even using Franklin the damn Turtle to cartoonify their murders.
People I do not use /s to point out my sarcasm. Should be obvious I don't believe anything coming out of Trump's mouth or any politicians mouth.
its quite ridiculous that they were able to do that. or even allowed to.
but saudis even have their grabby hands in nintendo stocks.
Looking on the bright side, the games may be patched to remove any ideologies that are incompatible for the majority of the world.
The samaritan demo was about graphics not animations, no need to worry, Next-gen will have better animations then that.
This is kind of off topic but I'd also argue you can make something too realistic. Some things get too pretty that it ends up being unrealistic.
I also looked at the demo and just wasn't impressed. I can't really point out why but it just didnt look like something that constituted a need for next gen. In terms of next gen dices frost bite two and battfield footage impressed me more. "shrug" idk I just could get into epics "next gen engine"
grahics have been already in the wrong direction
pure realism over cool artistic style. The result, all games pretty much look the same and are therefore boring
After BF3 I can say it's looking good for PC as the next MOH will use frostbite engine 2 (which is primarily Made for pc http://bf3blog.com/2010/12/... hopefully more ea titles will use it!!
I hope other devs will make there games look better as there games might look bland. It's like comparing DAO2 to The Witcher 2!
I really don't know were console graphics are headed as we have to wait for an e3 tech demo of nothing new..
Am i the only one who thinks that the better graphics and animation get the more rated M games they will be , because if GTA becomes like walking down a real street abusing innocents surely it can't stay an M so they will probably hit a limit to graphics and animations for legal reasons .