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Dungeon Keeper has been done dirty by EA.
Ridiculous mtx milking bs they released makes me sad

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I’m sure Unity execs had a meetingwhere they thought studios wouldn’t switch engines over their bs.

I’ve heard the same bs before…
f"switching to {competitor} would be way too much work for {customer}, they’ll make a fuss but they’ll stay with us" is something I’ve heard in some form or another for every big account that’s been lost.

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Absolutely.
But greedy short-sighted fucks will chase short-term profits over long-term relations or sustainability.
Every single customer account I’ve been involved with and that we’ve lost, I have a paper trail of warnings I’ve flagged but were ignored.
Squeeze them enough and they’ll drop you at the first occasion.

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Yea I just no clue this even existed.
Isn’t harebrained the guys who made the shadowrun games?

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I’ve played a lot of their previous games and I didn’t even know this game existed before now and I browse gaming related stuff pretty regularly.
I’m more of a patient game these days though because most game release in a state of hot garbage before eventually getting fixed.

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This reads like corporate kool-aid.
Honestly, I wish them the best, but it reads just like the stuff I see from my own workplace when they try and convince themselves instead of their audience.
Maybe they use the same corpGPT model

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If ads weren’t riddled with malware or absolutely obnoxious…
Browsing without an ad blocker is cancer

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How far has Blizzard fallen.
They used to make polished, interesting games.
Now they make… idk… shareholder money?

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Planescape: Zelda where all Zelda universe coalesce into the city of doors. Wait, wrong franchise.

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Some of the textures in Cyberpunk are bizarringly low resolution by default.

Yea I’d sometimes notice this with some ground clutter, some graffiti or furniture, like they were blurred by mistake.

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Yea, I was never that into trading.
I made a car that looked nice to me and I kept that with the stuff I already had unlocked.
Sometimes I’d unlock something new and try it out.
I never really got too involved in the cosmetics, but had some friends who played this like it was day trading or something.

I remember some new car decals being almost the opposite team color which I thought was a terrible design choice.

It’s been a while, but soon after Epic bought them out it started lagging and rubber banding like shit for me, which got old quick.
I must have had hundreds of crates when I stopped playing.

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I fail to see the advantage of using those over the Index knuckle controllers…

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Better it be autonomus than autonomthem.

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I should replay SMW…

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Greedy out of touch old fuck.
Then again, it’s s not like the board is much better.
He’s gonna be their golden fall guy now, but it’s shit all the way up.

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It will keep getting harder to tell the AI edits from reality. This one’s pretty good.

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I liked Van Helsing.
Nothing ground breaking but it was a decent hack and slash.
The $10 bundle sounds like a decent deal if it’s a similar quality to Van Helsing.
No way I’d pay the $100 non bundle price though.

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First step after installing a new game: disable Chromatic aberration, lens flare, film grain, motion blur.
Also:
Set FOV to something more inline with my screen and position.
Shitty console ports have this locked in, usually to a very low value that might make sense when you play from the couch but too low when playing in another setup.

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I’ve read the other day that they have… 11 Assassin’s Creed games incoming or some shit.

11 new Assassin’s Creeds for 2023 and beyond

  • Assassin’s Creed Mirage [single player] (in production) - Oct 12, 2023
  • Assassin’s Creed Nexus VR (in production) - 2023
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Jade [mobile] (in production) - 2023
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Red [single player] (in production) - 2024?
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Hexe [single player] (in production) - 2025/2026?
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Invictus [multiplayer] (pre-production) - 2025/2026?
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Nebula [single-player] (prototype)
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Raid [multiplayer] (prototype)
  • Assassin’s Creed Codename Echoes (multiplayer) (prototype)
  • Assassin’s Creed Nexus 2 [VR] (not greenlit yet)
  • Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Remake [single player] (green light)

That’s a bit much.
Meanwhile, I’ve ve been done with this franchise since AC3…

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Yea, there’s no way I’m strapping Facebook to my forehead.
VR is nice, but Meta can suck it.

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In a way they were already gone, that’s just another nail.

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This way you can play first person but still have an animated 3rd person rig for shadows and reflections.

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Color blindness settings and subtitles is really such a low bar, it’s crazy to think plenty don’t even bother with that

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These days, I just rebind buttons in SteamInput.
Using a Steamdeck, I actually prefer that than to deal with whatever rebinding UI the game might have.
There’s some things like action layers that I don’t expect game makers to ever implement.

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Denuvo is like having to call your helicopter mom every other minute to make sure you still have the right to play.
If the call fails, or she doesn’t pickup, or if you can’t call for any reason (maybe your in the woods and have no service) you’re instantly teleported into a dark room and all your toys are gone because everyone assumes you’re a criminal now.

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Wait wait wait, Deep Rock Galactic VR? Ziplining and grappling and shit, whew, I gotta check this out.

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2 -3 weeks ago the CEO of Striking Distance Studios (The Callisto Protocol) announced he was leaving because the game didn’t do well enough.

Honestly, it’s a game I’d probably play eventually but I have enough of a backlog to be more of a patient gamer.

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Classic cash grab, not too surprised.
Yet people keep buying these games.

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Very true.
It’s also kinda sad.

The idea that it could be designed to not be grindy in the first place doesn’t even occur to them.

Orphan crushing machine vibes.

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If the human body or cancer were Free and Open Source, it’d be much easier to cure too.
Fucking closed source human DNA.

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I had pretty much the same thought process.
It’s dark, but brilliant.
Yet I can’t imagine RMS being offended by this, so I shouldn’t either.
That’s the kind of thing I wouldn’t be too surprised to hear from the guy himself.

The world is a better place because of him and I wish him well.

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Gaming studio not as profitable as pachinco machines, requires squeezing to extract short term shareholder value.
Just leaving Sega’s stock price here
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/d10e97e9-dfe3-4948-86f7-499d2d49838a.webp

Their net annual profit is also up


<span style="color:#323232;">2023 45.9b JPY
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2022 37.03b JPY
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2021 1.2b JPY
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2020 13.7b JPY
</span><span style="color:#323232;">2019 2.6b JPY
</span>

While Sega has had problems, 2023 is still a record year for them.

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a dirty secret or two to leak about the tourism industry.

Probably all variations of “people fucking suck”?

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I’m now imagining in-universe LARPing goblins.
Love it, that’s great.

Shhhh, that’s the weird player guy.
He’s clearly using Stealth, just stay cool, pretend you didn’t see him, sometimes they just go away.
Trust me, let em steal your shit.
If they yell SNEAK ATTACK before swinging just pop some fake blood and play dead, works everytime.

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Maybe delete the whole booking policy and start over with a fresh one.
Sorry, haven’t used will in a while tbh.

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Russia can end the war within 2 days, even now.
They could just… fucking leave and never come back.

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It’s just standard issue Russian thermos

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Right?
I don’t really get it either.

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Yikes that sounds annoying and yea they should definitely make it possible, this really shouldn’t be much of a challenge to code on their end.
I’ve only had to do this a handful of times because I moved the base stations or reinstalled. (Index)

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Weird thermos, too bad they have no rations to put in it either.

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Yea, but here, that 60 bucks also gets you the full macOS version of that game.
For sure, it is pretty steep by itself if you only game on mobile, but if you look at it as including a version for your handheld when you buy it for PC… it’s pretty much what Steam already does with the Steamdeck, which makes sense to me.

Now the price itself, yea, I find it a bit expensive, even on PC/Steam and I’ll probably wait to grab it on sale one day.

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That one guy took responsibility for their own fuckup.
I’m sorry, I’m pulling your leg here, we all know this is too crazy to happen.

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Dedicated servers ran by the community with a server browser to find games/servers.
Really the golden age of multiplayer.

Found a nice server that runs well, chill and well moderated? add it to your favorites.
No lobbies, well… technically the whole server was the lobby, kinda.
No progression unlocks bullshit.
No ranking. No waiting on matchmaking. Just play.
No AI spying on every thing you say or do.
Maybe a “SIR this is a Christian server, so swearing will not be tolerated” or other warning of some kind now and then, even on games like Counterstrike.

Eventually, you’d get to know people, kinda like how you might start recognizing names here on lemmy.
You’d make friends, rivals, etc.
I miss those times.

I got into Titanfall 2 pretty late (like last month) and waiting 10 minutes to even get into a lobby is just annoying.
As opposed to joining a server and playing non stop on there.

It’s even less costs to the publisher than to host and scale on their own because the community is running your servers.
But then they can’t pull the plug to force people on a new release.
They can’t spy on as much shit.
They can’t sell as much private data.
It’s probably easier to sell microtransactions this way too.

In a way… gaming was decentralized. I miss it.

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Or people who trigger some false positive in whatever way they implement such a piracy detection.

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How many FF7s are there now?

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OP’s link didn’t work Ooops’ link didn’t work, but yours did so thanks.

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Yea for sure, he could have been a blank slate without being as bland or generic. By that I absolutely don’t mean to imply the actor is any of these things, but that they played it safe in character design.
Expecially in a universe of endless aliens.
It’s not even a choice that has to be limited between our own human heritages.

I vote Ewok Jedi myself.

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