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kanisatha
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18 minutes ago, Hurlshort said:
So Larian is Madonna and Black Isle was Whitney Houston?
That analogy works for me!
edit: Bioware is clearly Bobby Brown.
LOL
On the Larian forum I've put it as: BG3 is to video games what Taylor Swift is to music, or 'Barbie' is to film. For some this will obviously be a huge compliment. For me, equally obviously, it is sooooo *not* a compliment.
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10 minutes ago, BruceVC said:
Yes but net profit is part of sales, you cant have any profit without sales
And once a game is completed gross profit and net profit will be a big part of the overall revenue because operating costs and cost of sales arent much especially with digital downloads
Thats why revenue is always at the top a standard P&L statement and then you deduct expenses and tax to end up with Net Profit
No, what I'm saying is that net profit and not net sales/revenue is what matters. For example:
Game A) 12X revenue, 10X cost
Game B) 4X revenue, X cost
Which game is the better deal for the developer?
But even if you had:
Game A) 20X revenue, 10X cost
Game B) 2X revenue, 1X cost
Does this mean every developer must only make Game A and never Game B?
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1 hour ago, Malcador said:
https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/nato-societies-must-be-ready-war
Lot of articles from all over about how war with Russia is real soon. Although apparently Russia has been knocked back 18 years as well.
Yeah, lots of similar articles in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy as well. Main argument seems to be that as Russia and Putin get past their shock over how the war went at the beginning, and now see the war being successful for them (whether true or not), they are becoming more emboldened to push back against NATO, including renewing their core policy of trying to drive a wedge between Europe and the US.
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1 hour ago, BruceVC said:
Correct and sales figures matter. They literally are the most important factor in the sustainability of any gaming franchise or development studio. Nothing matters overall as much as sales figures, marketing and reviews is only part of a products success
No, it is net profits that matter. Otherwise, what you are saying is that every game made must sell as much as the biggest seller or else it is a "sales failure.," which would be an unsustainable creativity model.
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7 hours ago, Gorth said:
Then there are of course international politics... similar lists from Trump, The Bushes, Boris Johnson, Vladimir Putin, Modi, Bolsano etc...
And what of the lies of the Clintons and Obama and Biden?
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The deep-dive only made me more sad, because there was no mention of whether there would be a third-person option. So much of the interview was about gameplay. Surely the question would've been an obvious one to ask. But it was not asked, and the interviewees did not say anything about it, which makes me feel it must only be because it is confirmed the game will be exclusively first-person. And that in turn means I won't get to play the game.
So very sad.
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3 hours ago, xzar_monty said:
A popular Russian TV programme called Vesti Nedeli did a special piece on Finland last Sunday, claiming that 1) Finland is more russophobic than the US, 2) all Russian-language schools in Finland will be closed, 3) Russians living in Finland will be stripped of their citizenship, 4) Finland will try to take Karelia back by force and 5) Finland is also dreaming of a new Greater Finland that would stretch all the way beyond the Urals [!].
But why would any Russian ultra-nationalist be concerned about/upset with this? This is exactly what Russia is doing, which they consider to be okay. So why shouldn't others also do the same thing?
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15 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:
I have not find it in a serious news yet, but some of them are claiming, that Putin signed decree, making the sale of Alaska as illegal
De facto, he decided to annex part of USA, and considers this land as occupied now
Has anyone a link to a credible source about this?
Please, please, please Mr. Putin the Great, send your troops to Alaska. The people of Alaska, oppressed by the nazis as they are, will surely welcome your troops with flowers!!!
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19 hours ago, Wormerine said:
The AAA Pillars of Eternity 3, obviously.
Honestly, I'd rather have a AA PoE3. Or maybe a AA PoE3 with a AAA budget?
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About damn time.
And if Western leaders are sincere (LOL) about their anti-fossil fuels rhetoric, they should be supporting and aiding this, because it is precisely Russia's undiminished energy sales that have made Western sanctions against them so very pathetic.
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1 hour ago, Gfted1 said:
In addition to Sarex points, head bob and weapon sway are two more that will get me. Basically whenever Im looking at my own two arms then Im too close in. Even slightly over the shoulder view is ok, but looking out of my "own eyes" is
. Goes all the way back to Doom/Duke Nukem/RoTT/Heretic/Hexen. Hell, even watching my own kid play Overwatch would give me a headache after about 15 minutes.
You and me both. I had to drop it out of fullscreen to be able to handle watching it. For me, it's more about the motions that close-in being too disoreinting such that I can't follow what's going on.
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The first-person combat is definitely going to be problematic for me. Even just watching it fullscreen was extremely disorienting for me.
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18 hours ago, Keyrock said:
It's sad how many games, even now in 2024, still have cutscene conversations with characters just standing in place. The hand gestures help a bit, but it's a far cry from watching characters naturally walking next to a wall and leaning against it while talking to you, or starting seated then standing up and pacing around. Maybe they walk over to a desk and pick up a book.
I seem to recall the DA games having this type of animations in cutscenes and dialogue.
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54 minutes ago, Keyrock said:
So, "you will own nothing and you will be happy," basically.
How very Soviet!
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1 hour ago, Hurlshort said:
I mean, it's called Door Kickers. That's not a real stealthy way to enter a room.
Indeed. The term door kickers IRL refers to our special forces (esp. the SEALs). To use that term for CIA field agents seems rather silly.
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6 hours ago, Gorth said:
Just some old Poms
This is one of my most loved Pink Floyd songs, but because I now despise Roger Waters I am not able to like Pink Floyd's music the way I used to.
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15 hours ago, Keyrock said:
Humans ****ing suck.
Preach.
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18 hours ago, ShadySands said:
I didn't enjoy it but I really, really wanted to. Funny how that works.
This is *exactly* how I feel as well, and @Wormerine can vouch that I said this very thing on the Larian forums over and over again when I kept coming under attack for criticizing the game. I really and truly *wanted* to belong to the BG3 fan community. But the game just isn't good for me in far too many ways.
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22 hours ago, BruceVC said:
Kanie thats a terrible thing to suggest, you cant say the masses are know nothing asses ...thats a betrayal of the liberal code. You a very bad liberal
Well, what do you want me to say? I've always been anti-elites. But in recent years I've also become completely disillusioned with mass publics. As with so many other things so too with society and the world, I no longer belong or fit in anywhere.
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13 hours ago, Hurlshort said:
As was already stated, Steam awards are voted on by the public, so they aren't quite the reviewer circle jerk. Also as much as Keyrock doesn't care what gets an award, publishers do tend to look at that stuff, and that directly affects what games get funding going forward. So I'm bummed when a game like JA3 doesn't get the recognition, despite knowing that it was better than everything else that got awards this year. Hopefully the sales numbers were big enough for awards to not matter.
It's always good to remember that Fallout: New Vegas got shafted by Metacritic ratings and Obsidian nearly was shuttered because of that.
Very true. That's why for me it doesn't matter whether the awards are being made by biased insiders with their personal agendas or the masses who are generally know-nothing asses. Either way the results usually don't reflect quality or merit. And sadly nowadays, this has become true even with the Nobel prizes.
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16 hours ago, MrBrown said:
https://store.steampowered.com/steamawards
Starfield won for "most innovative gameplay". I guess it really has some fans.
If BG3 can win for its "story" and "characters," then why not Starfield for "most innovative gameplay"?
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For the strategy games fans here, I just came across these two games, both supposedly scheduled for release in 2024. They both look quite good to me. Millennia may have already been shared here, but Ara is definitely new to me. What do you guys thing?
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It's on my Steam wishlist. But I'll end up a 'no' if they don't give me a third-person option.
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On 12/30/2023 at 9:25 AM, Hawke64 said:
It looked like a compilation of official trailers with some commentary. Still, I am looking forward to the game, whenever it is ready.
Yes me too!
It's Steam page is up so I've already wishlisted it.
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Ukraine Conflict - Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war
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Not all of us.