I'm sure they say this, as they rub their hands together, awaiting their payday for when they slash costs by cutting most of the staff. And then the next day they'll walk in and have a mandate from the CEO: forced use of AI. If they think AI can't do the job of middle managers, especially when the majority of the workforce at that point is other AI, they are embarrassingly naive and shortsighted.
And I look forward to seeing how this all works out for them in ...
I played D3 for over 1,000 hours. Bought D4 near release to play w/friends who bought Day 1. Got through the campaign, and found there was practically no endgame. Nothing to really keep you engaged.
It kinda blew my mind. They had to overhaul D3 so much to get it to where it was, and they seemingly took *nothing* from that game. None of the mechanics or activities that could have at least been optional end-game content to help bridge the gap to newer additions. After all th...
"Strong performance" is an interesting choice of words, given MHW launched with - and mostly continues to have - pretty abysmal performance.
The fact they only bothered to address this criticism in earnest last month is pretty appalling. And that for PC, it'll take til Update 4 in WINTER for any of these promised changes to hit - with a second round coming *even later* - is...insane. Companies continue to reinforce that we should all pretend their release date...
I wrote a comment on a video game news website. I don't know what kind of delusions of grandeur you believe I have. Fair to say I rambled on longer than necessary, but nothing in there was written with any intent of inflating my sense of self.
Because, truly - at least these days - I don't think all that highly of myself. Don't have all that much self esteem either. Apologies if my ramblings on PETAs weird choice of what to focus their attention on rubbed you th...
Never said we couldn't focus on more things at once, that would be absurd. I was trying to say that hey, if you're going to try to rally people around a cause - given we all only have so much time, energy, and focus - that you should probably focus on sliiiiightly more impactful things than asking a video game company to remove an accessory from a clearly intelligent, anthropomorphic cow.
Seems we're mostly in agreement, especially given your 3rd paragraph and l...
I truly can't decide if PETA do these kinds of things because they think if they ask about a truly stupid thing in a popular property, it'll at least get a conversation? Because if not, I just don't understand how they believe these kinds of requests are the right ones to be putting energy into.
I'm a person who's certainly for the ethical treatment of animals - and even standards for animals meant for food production to at least avoid needless suffering...
I find this...odd. We hear about them closing down, or forcing their games' removal from, many competitive gaming events with striking regularity. Most people who do competitive tournament or speedrunning will do so at many events - perhaps even the majority - which aren't sanctioned by devs, pubs, or platform holders. It seems none of them see this as a threat, except for Nintendo.
It simply seems counterintuitive for a company so aggressively against competitive p...
I think the information they pulled is interesting, but I do question the overall value in what conclusions can be drawn with it. There are some factors that I feel the article overlooked that would have had additive value in making use of what they collected.
Simple part: There's ALWAYS going to be more entertainment than there is time, so it would seem unlikely for statistics to shift greatly on playtime. If any great discrepancy was found, I would think that'd li...
I wouldn't say this was done to compare or pit the platforms against each other, at least in a "console war" mentality. Moreso, just using the two biggest similar gaming platforms, which both rely on a bulk of the same product, and comparing the similarities & differences given they have different business models and offerings.
Given how bad N4G runs these days, with slow loads and broken features, I can't do the sanity check I had hoped to do (looking at Switch channel, sorting newest/hottest/etc and seeing if a pattern emerged). Sans that, my gut says it's likely truth, potentially seeming more pronounced with confirmation or recency bias. I'm guessing you were thinking about it, so you'll see it stick out more readily than other things, and the Switch 2 has awkward launch baggage (1st $80 game, $1...
If they didn't care about any other PS game enough before now, and this was the only game that really would have swayed them, it sounds like the bottom line of this move is potentially (?) a net gain in your specific situation: you get to play HD2 with your friends, and they don't have to spend $400+ on a mostly redundant machine they otherwise sound like they wouldn't need or use anyway.
Not trying to be pedantic or anything, there could be plenty of other bene...
This is a kind of funny sentiment. If anyone should send thanks, shareholders should be the 1st in line. But fans?
Fan wishes or desires are always bottom of the list when decisions like this are made. Let's be real: they are not doing this from the goodness of their heart. They didn't hear the plea from fans, from their own or other platforms, and have their heart grow three times that day and opt to spread joy at the expense of profits.
They are...
It's so rare to see any chance for companies to see some kind of repercussions for poor handling of projects or money. But it just makes it all the more clear that these kinds of things aren't potentially illegal for all, just for companies that aren't big enough.
I feel like there should be some simple laws in place that effectively force companies to better balance need vs greed. If you fire "x%" of your workforce, or you allow contract workers contr...
I swear, it feel like we're a few articles away from "Nintendo sends legal threats to guy throwing house party, citing too many people taking turns playing Smash Bros in the basement". Their legal department must be full of cartoon villains. Like an alarm goes off every time a gaming centered celebration is devised, & they dispatch their white panel van stuffed with Nintengoons who all wear permanent frowns. Arriving at their destination, they find wherever the confetti is k...
One of those things that gradually, after every new leak or interview, you could just sense was coming. On top of the more recent smoking gun of the cross-platform job listing, it's been said time and again: the younger generations don't associate with hardware, they associate with the software.
On the one hand, it *sounds* healthier. On the other, it's also clear this is the gross reality as to why we've seen so many games trying to come out in the live-ser...
Was gonna say this felt almost too soon after Daybreak II, but realized that launched in Japan in Sept. 2022, and this game already launched in Japan Sept. 2024. So it's kinda interesting to see them have this ready over a year sooner than the last English release.
And 2 years for core development time (for native release, anyway) is pretty good these days, even for AA like this. Always makes me wonder if the numbers really do show that these AA endeavors just provide ...
My tinfoil hat is snugly on, because I feel like if we look a little deeper, we might end up finding the groups pushing these things are founded/funded by those looking to profit off a disruption of the payment processing market. Could be a new/small company who will happily use this vacuum as a foothold, or those looking to make money off crypto.
With BTC going up to new highs all the time suddenly, I could see some wealthy people stockpiling now knowing an attempt is bein...
I don't think anyone contends anyone is forced to play anything. Moreso, just the general feeling we all start getting at different times for different trends, genres, mechanics, etc. Barebones TLDR: at one time, open world fatigue started as a minority grumble. Eventually, it became a more mainstream feeling. I feel like this just might be the beginnings of that grumble for Souls-likes.
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It kind of feels as if each new release focusing on "topi...
I found that AMD clearly changed the drivers - you can see the link he hovers over shows a slightly different URL on the bottom as opposed to what you see now. Doesn't get you the proper press driver. Daniel Owens ran into the same issue. So for non-optiscaler, native support, we're just gonna have to keep on waiting.
I just wonder how they couldn't either time up the driver release to sync up with this, or to at least communicate WHEN the damn thing is likely ...
I'm not entirely sure how to read this, as it doesn't seem exactly like an exact parallel to Bethesda's paid mods shenanigans.
Rather than single player stuff, this appears to be aimed solely on Cfx Servers. From what I've gleaned, apparently Rockstar bought the Cfx mod team several years ago, coming a few years after weird contentions led them to ban a few of their members. Ultimately, the question is if they plan to keep this contained to only online/serve...