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[Mamoulian War]

4 minutes ago, Malcador said:

Okay, odd hiring practice to me to hold that against a worker especially as well if they're interviewing with you odds are they are trying to leave anyway. 

Not everyone are trying to leave though  If you do your interview right, you can find that out. Also anyone who is voluntarily seeking employment in these days in a company, who have won the worst company award in America for example, might not have the best of judgment skills  and sometimes that kind of skills is a mandatory prerequisite for some job positions  

Edited December 21, 2020 by Mamoulian War

[Malcador]

13 minutes ago, Mamoulian War said:

Not everyone are trying to leave though  If you do your interview right, you can find that out. Also anyone who is voluntarily seeking employment in these days in a company, who have won the worst company award in America for example, might not have the best of judgment skills  and sometimes that kind of skills is a mandatory prerequisite for some job positions  

Well, yes, assuming they've not been laid off, they are actively trying to leave their "bad" company.  But as for why people would seek a job at a company with a "bad" reputation - people need money and experience so often you have to take what you can get rather than waiting for an ideal post.   Wouldn't think it would mean they are stupid or anything.

In any case the CDPR complaints seem pretty typical for software companies, management rushing things, etc. . Always interesting to note how large the scope of projects are, that people can be deceived by management as to the state of them.   At least compared to one old workplace management is not run under omerta, so they have that going for them  

Edited December 21, 2020 by Malcador

[Mamoulian War]

36 minutes ago, Malcador said:

Well, yes, assuming they've not been laid off, they are actively trying to leave their "bad" company.  But as for why people would seek a job at a company with a "bad" reputation - people need money and experience so often you have to take what you can get rather than waiting for an ideal post.   Wouldn't think it would mean they are stupid or anything.

In any case the CDPR complaints seem pretty typical for software companies, management rushing things, etc. . Always interesting to note how large the scope of projects are, that people can be deceived by management as to the state of them.   At least compared to one old workplace management is not run under omerta, so they have that going for them  

Well, what you say is valid for the most of the jobs out there, but there are not enough programmers and other IT professionals to fill out all the posted job positions. EU lacked few years back more than 500 thousands IT professionals to fill all such positions, and it is rising more and more. So you have a choice in that regard, and if you join Acti or EA in current conditions, you probably do not care enough about what kind of job you do *shrugs*

[Malcador]

19 hours ago, Mamoulian War said:

So you have a choice in that regard, and if you join Acti or EA in current conditions, you probably do not care enough about what kind of job you do *shrugs*

Not necessarily, your work is not your company's and projects are massive.

Way late on this and speaking of people working at "bad" companies in the 90s   but the creator of DirectX died - https://venturebeat.com/2020/12/07/friends-remember-microsoft-renegade-eric-engstrom-who-suggested-a-directx-console/

[Keyrock]

On 12/17/2020 at 5:47 PM, Keyrock said:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2020/12/wasteland-3-now-available-on-linux-from-inxile-entertainment

The long awaited (mainly by me, I don't know that we have many, if any, other Linux gamers here) Wasteland 3 Linux version has arrived. Next time it's discounted I will scoop it up immediately.

Aaaand it's on sale. 

/buys game

[majestic]

1 hour ago, Keyrock said:

Aaaand it's on sale. 

/buys game

Have fun, these days you don't have to wait half the game time for the game to load.

Fun to see that inXile learned nothing from their Bard's Tale IV debacle. Even Obs here managed to cut down on loading times in Pillars 2, and the ones of Pillars weren't so bad when compared to WL3 or BT4... or Pathfinder: Kingmaker.

[Keyrock]

11 minutes ago, majestic said:

Have fun, these days you don't have to wait half the game time for the game to load.

The benefits of not being an early adopter. I'm taking the same approach with Cyberpunk 2077, I'll buy it when version 1.20 (or higher) releases.

[Keyrock]

They're actually making this. 

[Lexx]

Wait.... so this monolith in the desert thing was a "KFC console" advert all the time?

Edited December 23, 2020 by Lexx

[Malcador]

57 minutes ago, Keyrock said:

They're actually making this. 

Finally a use for all that heat CPUs & GPUs generate. 

[Hurlshort]

Chicken fryer and gaming console in one? Take my money!

[the_dog_days]

3 hours ago, Keyrock said:

They're actually making this. 

It's worth it for the memes.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

On 12/23/2020 at 8:22 AM, Keyrock said:

They're actually making this. 

I guess the McConsole is now inevitable.

[Oner]

In case New Vegas hadn't been praised enough yet:

 

[Wormerine]

6 hours ago, Oner said:

In case New Vegas hadn't been praised enough yet:

Uuu, I will add it to my watchlist. I stumbled on his “F3 is garbage, and here is why” a long time ago, and he won me over. This is just pandering at this point. 

[Katphood]

On 12/23/2020 at 5:52 PM, Keyrock said:

They're actually making this. 

 

I bet it's all digital, who would like their game discs smelling like chicken? 

[Keyrock]

2 hours ago, Katphood said:

 

who would like their game discs smelling like chicken? 

/raises hand 

[Wormerine]

Wait... KFConsole is not a LOLZ joke? 

Edited December 26, 2020 by Wormerine

[Raithe]

https://www.ign.com/articles/cyberpunk-2077-class-action-lawsuit-filed-against-cd-projekt-sa?

New York-based Rosen Law Firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against Cyberpunk 2077's publisher CD Projekt S.A. due to its alleged violation of federal securities laws.

 

Announced in a press release, Rosen Law Firm is filing the class-action lawsuit on behalf of purchasers of the securities of CD Projekt S.A. between January 16, 2020 and December 17, 2020, and is seeking to "recover damages for CD Projekt investors under the federal securities laws."

The lawsuit claims that CD Projekt has "made false and/or misleading statements" and/or failed to disclose that "Cyberpunk 2077 was virtually unplayable on the current-generation Xbox or PlayStation systems due to an enormous number of bugs."

[Malcador]

I am going to guess unlikely they will win, but would be funny if they did.

[Zoraptor]

Probably want a settlement. That's the problem with caving to Sapkowski's sellers' remorse when they didn't have to, shows you're an easy mark.

[Katphood]

On 12/25/2020 at 6:38 PM, Keyrock said:

/raises hand 

I guess they already do smell like chicken when you open the box. 

[Azdeus]

7 hours ago, Malcador said:

I am going to guess unlikely they will win, but would be funny if they did.

You could sue every goddamn gamecompany if that were the case really. Tell me one AAA game that wasn't overhyped.

[Sarex]

But this company forbade PS and XBOX reviews.

[Sarex]