… hadn’t they heard it wasn’t very good?

I mean, No Man’s Sky notoriously did not deliver on its grand promises…for at least 2 years after its initial launch.

And artificially pumping up the price of games because steam has to have the lowest regular price (so even if another platform takes less than 30% gouge, they can’t offer the game for less than steam sells it for).

But people here will jump from the throat of anyone claiming they have any anti consumer policies

Having read one of them, he’s right: They’re not good. The writing is very basic. There might be a cool story in there, but it’s not executed well.

OpenAI can’t afford the other shit they’ve promised to buy as it is.

They haven’t given away anything good in a long time

Epic is having trouble because they thought exactly this. And Fortnite is losing players.

For like 2 years then he’ll leave like every other one of those “continuity positions” mergers like this include.

Yup. People don’t realize that most professional authors are not earning a living through writing.

They’re focusing entirely on appeasing the most expensive to satisfy people, at the expense of actual good gameplay.

Yes. Greenwashing. You pay someone who wasn’t going to cut their trees to keep not cutting their trees, and you get carbon credits to offset your company’s pollution.

You change nothing but get to brag about saving the world.

Weird you’d let all that talent go, then…

Because of the “less purchasing power”.

That’s literally what that means. The currency doesn’t go as far as others.

Sure, We’ll see if this one even sells well. His last few haven’t lasted. Sounds like hype-Master Pete breached containment again

This is supposedly his last one.

Are you talking about lawsuits outside of the half dozen Nintendo patent ones? Because those seem to be ongoing.

Bots weren’t that fluent yet.

You could certainly say that. It would be weirder if it was the majority of people. See how stupid this argument you’re making is?

Well, according Nvidia, they’re all wrong, so who are you going to believe?

Reddit had plenty of shills. Hell like a month or two ago when they announced another setback there were people here saying it was a good idea but they had given up on it.

So, I do.

To all those who vehemently shouted me down when I pointed out how utterly stupid an idea this was when they announced it, who were convinced that the amount of money they were throwing at it garaunteed success, I issue a heartfelt: ha. ha.

Except reusing the same model/texture can be very good for performance. It doesn’t matter if there’s 1 instance or 1000 of a model in the game, it takes up the same amount of memory. Even transforming it/scaling it barely changes that.

What does that even mean?

Now I can ask copilot how best to insult someone’s mom?

Ok… Most of those are probably American made games. And even if it’s 3 devs, that’s not enough to keep most studios open, even tiny ones.

The point was it’s not a lot.

Enough for one dev for a year …such success.

That font is going to get them sued by WotC

There are people that buy awful games just to 100% them and get the achievements. They actively search out things which give easy achievements. Not because the game might be fun, just to see number go up.

Not everything is addictive in the same way to everyone. So I don’t really care what you “buy”, it’s a behavior that exists in the real world.

Most people do not look up all the achievements before they play. So, to them, it appears random, as they just pop up spontaneously as they play. And they usually start of with a bunch and get further apart as time goes on and the harder achievements take longer, so the time varies in much the same way as all those mobile games that have some sort of action economy

Variably timed “rewards” which trick your brain into performing repetitive tasks for longer than you normally would? Achievements definitely count.

They were never relevant. It’s a Skinner box mechanic that really triggers certain people’s dopamine production in an addictive manner.

There are legitimate reasons to dislike the monopoly behaviors that Valve employs.

AI can say anything you tell it to.

And several you don’t.

Microsoft owns King. The candy crush franchise creator.

Is this how they put her out to pasture? “Your AI division has been such shit that we’ll put you in charge of a division we plan to close…”

So…The Sims.

Soda enthusiast?

Untitled Goose Game?

Yes, please stop asking for remakes or reboots or rereleases. There hasn’t been a AAA game I’ve cared about in years. It’s all derivative shit.

Yes I have. And they all act as independent games, not the centralized hub for all work and play “ready player one” style that meta was pitching this whole things as. Those non meta products being semi successful games doesn’t mean the overarching master plan for the metaverse was ever feasible, or even desired. Facebook didn’t have a good game to tout in the end, let alone the rest of it. Despite the billions they spent on whatever the fuck they spent it on.

It really seems YOU don’t know what we’re talking about.

You’re just listing random games, none of which are remotely related to the metaverse…

Except no one is using it because it’s dumb. You need to get people there first before that longevity matters.