Orogun01

First, quality is only delivered insofar as to visual elements (as upper management can't **** with that) all the other elements have either stayed the same or deteriorated. Aside from the occasional oddity, AAA games like blockbuster movies, are down to a very sanitized, risk free formula. Also; I don't give a **** if the CEO makes less money (let's not pretend that the lion share of the profits go to the developer or that they won't get fired whenever is convenient) considering how ****ty AAA games are nowadays (subjective, I know) the price tag is too high for me. Specially when I can wait for sales, price drops or giveaways.

But I hate having to apply eye makeup.

Highly expansionistic is really a matter of opinion though. I doubt the refugee caravans fleeing Central and South America, or the refugees fleeing Syria and Iraq, see it as some new colonial era. They just want to get away from the bombs, the violence, and the starvation. Not haha funny, maybe better for the political thread. Seeing as there's a growing overlap we might consider merging the two.

EA is the same. I guess any major publisher with a GaaS/MTX scheme is going to report more or less the same result. They can't stop because if they do, their market position may be compromised and then they risk being bought out by someone bigger... who in all likelihood engages in those practices anyway. And if they don't stop, they'll be the ones buying studios up, milking them for all they are worth, and running them into the ground. Win/win scenario, right? In any case, the idea is to cater to rich people by giving them the means to also display status symbols online and "stand out from the crowd"—that's literally the raison d'être of luxury items. You can only have this e-lambo if you open the $10k worth of lootboxes that we estimate it'll cost you to get it, based on drop odds. Except that a lot of those companies did get bought out by someone bigger. Tencent comes to mind since they had one of the biggest revenues last year in the industry and they own various stock on game developer studios. Microtransactions work well because of the relative low cost of production vs the high sell value, I don't see studios abandoning them anytime soon, although I don't know where that leaves pure single player experiences. Luckily there are a lot of mid level studios covering that market. Additionally with Microsoft beginning to acquire studios I wonder if other big companies that want to start developing their own content will follow suit. Amazon also bought out some studios but no one of consequence. I guess we will likely see a period of expansion for smaller companies followed by consolidation as they're absorbed by the bigger studios. Kinda of a repeat of the era of 2005 to 2011.

Ubisoft made most of its revenue last year from "Player Recurring Investment", why should they stop if people are buying them? Plus if the games are so compromised by the inclusion of microtransactions you can easily not buy them. I don't get the rage over this stuff and getting the government involved is just going end up backfiring. https://gamerant.com/ubisoft-microtransaction-sales/

The sequels are bound to become even sillier. What's going to stop Earth from carpet bombing everything? It took the combined forces of the Na'vi and a somewhat literal Deus Ex Machina Luna to fight off an ill prepared attack from a small defensive military force that employed terrible tactics. Unless Earth employs General Hux as supreme commander how's that going to end well for the Na'vi lke, at all? Because then the Unobtanium will be unobtainable?

It's ****, but so is every AAA game released nowadays. You might enjoy it...I don't know it was a weird game and I hated what it did to the MGS canon. MGS canon was already completely farcical before MGS V existed and I’m fairly sure it was intended to be that way. It got strange after the MGS2 demo and that line "I live on through this arm" and got progressively weirder after that. Don't get me wrong, it's a great series with great characters and even great story threads but the overarching plot is mental. I was particularly referring to what it did to MSG3, the game has always had a fantastical realism tone to it and saying that it was all parasites kinda flies in the face of that.

The Outlaw King. I know finding a good writer in these times is like trying to find diamond's on a pig's arse but would it be too much to ask for Netflix to get someone that knows what they're doing. No big battles, no real impactful moments and a large portion of Gaelic singing. The **** did I just watch. I think I figured out the Netflix business model, it is the same model that made Hollywood. Produce cheap **** fast and fill in the time slots.

RIP ShadySands, I will pray that it will be as painless as possible but be warned...there will be pain.

Are they selling tickets already?

Because ppl like to watch let's play videos? A series of murderporn videos featuring one NPC isn't a let's play. Nope, but nobody rose hell when Mafia 3 compilations of feeding the alligators made their way around the internet. People love to argue semantics and miss the ****ing point, he got banned because it was against feminist and Google is a leftist hive. So someone in the corporate ladder decided to use their power to dispense some social justice, which got revoked because it held no ground and should they actually enforce it they would have pissed more people than they could afford to. End of the story.

On this episode of how to burn off all of your goodwill with fans in two weeks...Hah. Saying our "best developers" definitely is some sales department BS. Living that life now.I would have said marketing, but I'm curious to hear what department you belong to. I'm design BTW. I guess our sales is marketing, but have heard the pitches given where our best devs will do X when it will just be who is free at the time. Also screws us with over commitment, but eh. I do L3 support. Well ok technically L1,L2 and L3 and dev. Yeah, that seems to be the dynamics of corporate life. Ours is more chaotic so departments work with each other as well as against each other and key figures can screw it all for everyone. Sales are always the golden boys; which makes sense, but they seem to take that as being entitled to your unmitigated attention without any regard for what your workload is. I really hate cleaning other people's messes specially from a department I don't like.

On this episode of how to burn off all of your goodwill with fans in two weeks... Hah. Saying our "best developers" definitely is some sales department BS. Living that life now. I would have said marketing, but I'm curious to hear what department you belong to. I'm design BTW.

She'd be wasted on it.

That's a hypothesis I would like to put to the test.

On this episode of how to burn off all of your goodwill with fans in two weeks... As with any Wall Street-owned company, it's purely a numbers game to them. What's the Diablo fanbase, millions? Tens of millions? And only a relatively small subset of that is angry at this news. The mobile market is in the hundreds of millions at the very least. Immortal is a product explicitly aimed at minors who may or may not abuse mommy's credit card, and the Chinese market. The CCP could make it hard for ActiBlizz to get a foot in the door, but I don't think it will happen. This will most likely be the latest in a long line of money-printing machines, longstanding fanbase or not, and investors are counting on it. And of course, expect any lingering hard feelings to be smoothed over as soon as they announce a proper PC project. Past a certain point, goodwill is overrated, I think. I know the majority of people are stupid, but you'd think that people would have caught on to the fact that analyst are just making educated guesses. I don't have any data but if Diablo 3 wasn't that big of a hit in the Asian market would there be any reason to do a reskin of a mobile cashgrab game?. Brand recognition is what will either make or break this game, quite possibly both.

You mean the highest available without Trial of Iron?... for DOOM does have Trial of Iron xD. I seem to remember there being more spawns on nightmare. Maybe is just memory playing tricks on me, I too am getting old.

Youtubers need to make mountains out of anthills so that they can generate content. Still YouTube is pretty biased when it comes to enforcing policies. It's clear YTs mega-bias played a role, but it's also clear there is a process for justice. There is a reason Alex Jones was btfo'd and this guy got his account back. Why was Alex Jones banned really? I know he was a big conspiracy nutcase but what horrible thing he did that got him banned?

Why are you playing at such low difficulty level?

Youtubers need to make mountains out of anthills so that they can generate content. Still YouTube is pretty biased when it comes to enforcing policies.

It's ****, but so is every AAA game released nowadays. You might enjoy it...I don't know it was a weird game and I hated what it did to the MGS canon.

I doubt that it is "anti-marketing" more like someone at Blizzard covering their ass and doing damage control. Not for the audience mind you, but for the corporate eunuchs high up the hierarchy that care about numbers. That way they can present cherry picked numbers and content and save face.

Sigh. Like herding cats. I'm more of an Azathoth kinda of guy, him I would wake.

I finished Call of Cthulhu .... I didn't call Cthulhu.

Said the guy who sucked on cigars.