I’m a bit surprised they haven’t joined forces with Peter Molyneux. They clearly need someone with a bit more experience at the PR side of things so they don’t over-promise!
I remember playing Wolfenstein 3D with the mouse. There never was a question of what the mouse was for. It was for looking. The only question was what part of the keyboard to use. I started with arrows and Ctrl/Shift and used that for many years.
Can’t remember what game made me switch but it was when the controls became more involved with reloading and healing and such requiring specific keys and being very commonly used during gameplay. Probably Half-Life? I know it wasn’t id Software’s games, at least. Mmh… I’d love to remember, now.
Well, if you play Steep, The Crew 2 or whatever their successors are called, i wouldn’t call it terribly shocking. In fact, honestly, I think it would fit really well with the actual game. Instead of fake sponsors, well, you get real ones! My main problem with that of course, is the slippery slope of actual, real world sponsors getting pissy that players want to wear their own custom designs and not the official sponsor logos. And then they make sponsored gear with in-game bonuses and we have this capitalist nightmare… I’m guessing this is what we’re gonna get, isn’t it?
sigh
On the plus side, I can always vote with my wallet.
I agree! There really should be no excuses at this point… you’d think. Even in 2008 I already felt we were behind the loop, but apparently I was vastly underestimating how bigger companies just dgaf.
For real, same shit in France. Doesn’t matter how dirty Marine is, she’s got a solid block of morons behind her while the Left, as per fucking usual, can’t decide on who to push forward. What a clusterfuck this is gonna be :(
Divide et impera. Still as effective now as it ever was throughout history. Whether it’s planned by nefarious parties, or naturally occurring from lack of teamwork.
The question bring why you’d keep working on something you got money for. Especially when you’ve been shown time and time again that people keep buying your games anyway. Seems more cost effective to pay those marketing people than your code monkeys…
“To be laid off”, or even better “to be let go”, are fucking euphemisms for “fired”, “kicked out”, etc.
That sort of vocabulary is typically used by HR to sound more benevolent, whereas when it’s happening to you, you’ll use the more aggressive terms.
My favourite one was when I asked the user “can this happen?” (Some value being negative) and they reply “no never”.
Then, of course, I get an occurrence the day of the live demo with the user and her boss.
I ask again, “uh, so is this normal? Has it ever occured before? Because I asked you if it could happen and you said never.”
Now the boss replies “oh, we meant it’s extremely uncommon. Almost never happens”.
Turns out it happens once every few months, amongst hundreds and hundreds of transactions.
So I gently explained that the computer doesn’t care how often it happens. If it can happen, I need to code it in otherwise things go wrong!
Thankfully I had planned the eventuality, so I had a nice error message, but still. A lesson was learnt that day.
It’s the kind of testing my colleague would do. “well, nobody would be idiotic enough to enter something weird when they are asked for a number”. And so he’d only write tests for numbers. That kind of stuff.
The unit tests I’m looking at in this latest jobs are some primo “dev testing” bullshit. Their sole purpose clearly was to be able to say “we unit test our code in our pipeline and it all passed” and that’s about it. Ugh.
FUCK whoever thought translating Excel formulas was a good idea. It is the most infuriating shit. Everything I learnt in English is now useless, without googling every fucking function every single time. Fucking idiots.
Kinda shows the unadulterated greed of companies, in general. Never let go of anything that could potentially bring money at some hypocritical point. Ever.
What a load of bollocks.
Its not a joke. I worked for a big european bank network and the software there didn’t know how to translate from EBCDIC to UTF8 because none of the devs writing the software knew enough of the other side (mainframe vs PC) to realise this was an issue.
Their solution was “if the file has a ? in it when we receive it, it’s probably a £”. Which of course completely breaks down the day you have any other untranslated character.
I spent fucking weeks explaining this issue and why this was abominable, but apparently this wasn’t enough of an issue for people to fix it. Go figure…
Think of it this way : should games that people pay money for be below average, ie, failures?
Anything below 60% shouldn’t even see the light of day, really. Seen like this, it seems a lot more reasonable to me that 30% of released games would be below 70%. In fact, I’d say it’s still way too many games that probably should still be in the oven.
It’s based on a french comic book, drawn and written by Spanish artists, so not really. It’s a direct homage to Hollywood noir movies, but with anthro. It’s played straight too, not a parody.
I get the feeling that there is something like a “look at them laughing with us!” when really we are laughing at them, kinda situation… you know?
Like they think that so many mods being made is because we love their games, when a majority of mods are really the fans fixing shit that shouldn’t be broken in the first place.
It sure comes from a place of love, perhaps, but it shouldn’t be happening to such an extent in the first place! I shouldn’t need a UI mod to play Bethesda games! Not should there ever be not one, but several Unnofficial Patches!
I’m literally chatting with a friend in China right now who received a phone call from her boss at 9:30pm for some last minute report she wanted my friend to write for the next day. The friend had previously blocked her number… So she used a different one. Insane shit.
This is acceptable for commonly used, hot items. But you also need a colder storage for stuff that you ain’t gonna wear everyday!
This young lady is just inefficient and has no care for the cost of hot cache.
Personally, I use a top of bed hot cache, a chair warm cache and the rest in cold closet.
Stealing implies depriving the original owner of something that you know possess.
The entire digital medium invalidates this concern by its very nature, yet we keep reintroducing it anyway.
The penultimate step before they just release a barebones framework that just lets the community create all the content (including patching their shitty code) while they keep raking in the money.
I’ve Kickstarter, when I wanna give money to struggling artists who may or may not deliver on time (hi, Poots!) Big studios can kiss my ass. And I say this as a fan of CDPR! I almost preordered CP2077, because I felt bad not paying full price for The Witcher 3. But then I remembered it just fucking encourages them. I’d rather have paid for a print copy of the artbook, to give them extra money. Ah well.
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