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Re: Unity - on the one hand, pretty sucky move by them. On the other hand, maybe this will mean 7 Day to Dies dev's will suddenly be in a rush to actually freaking finish their game and move on.  Either that or they'll spend 4 years moving to a new engine and Beta will happen in 2030.

Also - there's going to be a Titan Quest 2? The teaser trailer was useless, the few screenshots are ok. But I am a bit dubious.

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11 minutes ago, MrBrown said:

You know budgets have ballooned out of control when a game sells over 3 million copies and that's nowhere near enough to cut even, never mind turn a profit.

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1 hour ago, Keyrock said:

You know budgets have ballooned out of control when a game sells over 3 million copies and that's nowhere near enough to cut even, never mind turn a profit.

Reading the article, it seems to me it's more about it not being enough to cover for the big failures before it.

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9 minutes ago, MrBrown said:

Reading the article, it seems to me it's more about it not being enough to cover for the big failures before it.

I seem to recall a similar situation roughly a decade ago with Torture Porn Tomb Raider when it sold several million copies and was considered a "failure" for Squeenix because they bled so much money elsewhere and were counting on TR to recoup it. They need to make some changes at Squeenix and run a tighter ship or they're going under sooner or later.

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7 hours ago, MrBrown said:

This is misleading. They are still up from last year. Also FF16 was not a flop.

That said, "stocks only go up"-mentality is exactly why we have to deal with so much garbage nowadays.

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Probably it's not really what people want from a FF game. Personally I didn't like the style either. At least they tried to do something different, I guess.

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2 hours ago, Lexx said:

Probably it's not really what people want from a FF game. Personally I didn't like the style either. At least they tried to do something different, I guess.

PS5 exclusive (no PS4 version) probably didn't help either. Also, tons of good games this year apparently that (at least to me) gave off better marketing vibes.  Pair that with economic/inflation consumer doom and gloom and it probably became an "I"ll get it later when it's on sale" title for many. Maybe. 😄

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5 minutes ago, LadyCrimson said:

Also, tons of good games this year apparently that (at least to me) gave off better marketing vibes.

Yeah, this has been a really good year for gaming as a whole. We've had a lot of really great games released in 2023 from AAA, AA, and indie developers alike. Had FFXVI released during a dry spell it probably would have done (even) better just on the basis of gamers being desperate for something, anything to play. I suppose it's also possible that Final Fantasy no longer has the brand value that it once did, that Squeenix hoped it still did. That's baseless speculation on my part, though. I stopped giving a $#!+ about Final Fantasy 2 decades ago so I'm all types of out of the loop.

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On 9/12/2023 at 11:05 PM, melkathi said:

So you could get a script to loop installation and uninstall, to create costs for a Dev studio, once it passes the $200.000 in revenue

 

Here is the official unity blog post about it:

https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates

In before "Install bombing" will become the new trend 🤷‍♂️

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cyberpunk dlc will come out soon

hope hardware doesn't melt

Damn, still almost 2 weeks to go. I'm really hype. Even rewatched Edgerunners again over the last 2 days. I really need more.

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3 hours ago, uuuhhii said:

 

cyberpunk dlc will come out soon

hope hardware doesn't melt

Guess will wait for new PC to play this

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The most dystopian thing about Cyberpunk 2077's near future is that inexplicably the Skrillex hairstyle is still popular.

Speaking of...

 

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8 hours ago, Lexx said:

Damn, still almost 2 weeks to go. I'm really hype. Even rewatched Edgerunners again over the last 2 days. I really need more.

not that into the rest of the show but rewatch first two episode often

really like the way trigger showing night city

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6 hours ago, Malcador said:

Guess will wait for new PC to play this

new system requirement are just insane

how many player will have a 3080 to run ultra

doesn't even know what nvme is

didn't even have ssd and there is already upgrade on the market

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7 hours ago, uuuhhii said:

doesn't even know what nvme is

Those are new types of SSD - you need newish motherboard to have a slot for this one. NVMEs might become necessary in the future - it is them that allow rapid loading of PS5. Microsoft implemented “direct storage” as well, which is supposed to help in loading data if you own NVME. 

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