magekyou

I guess some people have decided reading is beneath them.

This is an interview about a merger between an Engine company and a Monetization specialist company, specifically analytics, as in understanding what your userbase is doing with your end product, how they're REALLY using it.

So right there, you should already understand that this comment isn't meant for the triple A, console world. He's talking about a completely different market.

"This isn't their first stab at multiplayer"

It always irks me so bad when I read shit like this.

Dude have you ever so much as taken a stab at coding something? Like just straight up lines of code running logic. With just straight up code, the same coding concept will have to be adapted per project depending on the structure of your other classes that are working AROUND that code. Add on top of that that you are dealing with new meshes, new...

@Stefd75

I feel like too many times, stuff is just assumed and is repeated ad nauseam until it becomes gospel so let me ask you this :

Can I have any source, just ONE, of IGN taking money for good reviews?
Just one. And then we're gonna analyze together just how credible that source is.

P.S : The "marketing drivel" you seem the despise is why you drink coca cola every day while every other brand fades into obscurity. But you tell me again how that's "drivel", while buying every product that was ever targeted at you. Keep believing it's 100% your "choice", while marketing strategists laugh in a pool of your money.

If you'd bothered really reading and understanding point 2, you would'nt have wrote your stupid reponse.

They can make "such lofty promises" BECAUSE they know for a fact that whatever game they put on their store WILL at least sell for 2 million $. It's not a free gift, it's a statement of just how shure they are of their visibility strategy. That's what point 2 means, it's not "drivel" straight out of marketing department, it'...

Word.

Jesus will people stop with the ridiculous epic store hate? The reason why the game doesn't get to be on the store is twofolds :

1) Epic guarantees 2$Million sales on their store, as in, they pay you if you don't make at least 2million

2) The reason why they can even guarantee that is because the store is HIGHLY CURATED for visibility, controlling the games per genre depending on the size of the market of that specific genre.

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People who dont want crossplay clearly never popped an old favourite game only to find just a couple of hundred people playing, and knowing another couple of hundred are playing on each other console.

Crossplay would allow game to last much longer. When a game starts dropping players, it creates a cascading effect where because less people are playing, more are leaving, meaning even less players. Literally EVERYONE wins by having crossplay become an industry standard.

I've re-read the new edied paragraph and yeah it sounds much better.
I still don't 100% agree but i get what you're saying.

My bad if i came up as aggressive, the internet and all.

It's the last point I don't agree with :

"It's a PlayStation 2 game that wasn't worth the wait"

Excuse me, WHAT? What does that even mean? The combat is deeper than ever, the visuals are fucking GORGEOUS, it's like an interactive pixar movie most of the time, we've had a good mix of semi-open and linear world, how, HOW is it a PS2 game?

"there still should have been more improvements to truly make ...

lol

And I find it odd that extreme violence, gore, drugs and so much more gets a free pass but not... sex..? Something a majority of people will experience multiple times in their life? The act of reproduction, the act of passing down your genes?

I find it odd that society still has this much of a stigma for anything sexual. Sex is literally all around you. At any given time, Millions of people are having sex, much more than people dying of gunfire or violence.
But se...

"They wasted their time doing silly live action crap in Quantum Break which obviously wasted resources"

Wasted their time? Wasted resources?
Lol, they did what they damn well pleased as creative developers. No waste or waste of time. They got better at their craft, and they delivered exactly what they wanted to deliver. And they made money doing that, proof is they're still around, while people like you overthink and criticize their business decision,...

An art style that will age well hopefully

Which once again proves that game design > Technology.

" I always look for designers who aren’t super-passionate game fans. I make it a point to ensure they’re not just a gamer, but that they have a lot of different interests and skill sets.”

This is literally the requirement of every entry level game designer job, at leadt as far as i know here in Montreal.
Game design is a tricky field because everyone and their mothers believe they have "the best idea" and could "design the best game" when ...

Wow did ANY of you even read the fkin reddit post??

The character design of Paladins has been done WAY before Overwatch, in Hi-Rez older game, Global Agenda. Read before you speak for christ sake!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Pa...

For the lazy, here are the video breakdown. Remember once again that Global agenda is a 2010...

That's what one would call "Artistic Direction".
This is the Manga/Anime style, it's SUPPOSED to look like this.

Wait till you see then in action and animation before saying a still image looks like a plastic toy.

I would, and many game designers would.
You still think of games as triple A stuff with conplex 3d movement and multiple actions. The game 2048 proved that you only need a good game mechanic and a good objective, and you have a game.

2048 is a game, so is Solitaire, so is Duet. And they are GREAT games from a game design point of view. Just cuz its not YOUR type of game doesnt make them any less viable. Any game designer learn that.

I remember I went...

Lol, what I really meant is, we are not living in a time where anything outside of martial sex is frowned upon. And no frankly I don't understand the 60's, but judging from your comment I guess it was actually a time of liberation, and it makes sense considering the popularity of elvis presly and the beatles.