To be fair, Bioware has been on the chopping block for some time. I imagine even without going private EA would’ve gutted Bioware if Mass Effect 4 wasn’t a massive success. In my mind the possibility of Bioware getting shuttered has risen only marginally because that possibility was already high to begin with.
Absolutely. I agree that royalties aren’t the solution here and I agree with what the problem is. Your previous comment just kinda came across (at least to me) like giving some praise to Gearbox for giving out royalties when IMO it doesn’t really deserve praise when those royalties don’t meet the expectations of the people actually doing the work. Especially when the owners get to set their own special deals with guaranteed payouts.
Let’s not toot Gearbox’s horn. While Borderlands 3 was their biggest success when it launched the people working on it got less royalties (per person) than they got for Borderlands 2. Meanwhile Pitchford bargained himself a 12 million bonus before the game was even released. Oh and when people complained about getting less royalties Pitchford said, like the asshole he is, they’re free to quit. Gearbox does royalty situation union-less (as I know 40% of the royalties are split between the employees), but that comes at the cost of having to put to with one the biggest assholes in the industry who will tell you to eat shit if you don’t like something.
I thought there was some way but I guess I was mistaken.
I hate Game Pass. It’s a poisoned well. If it’s a continued success it won’t just turn games into subscription service content (meaning we’ll own our games even less. Anyone thinking MS will continue selling games separately I guarantee if Game Pass sticks around for the next decade there will be “only on Game Pass” games) but it will become a locking mechanism for whatever MS new gaming OS will be. MS will make sure Game Pass won’t work on Linux so MS could continue having OS dominance in the gaming space. And of course the service will eventually enshittify because $$$.
The future of Game Pass is a future nobody wants. Paying for an overpriced service to play a curated list of games you can’t own on a machine that will track everything you do and feed you ads every chance it gets.
Probably a controversial take but this race is a perfect example of why I think Lando doesn’t have what it takes to win the WDC. Piastri putting in the wall gave Lando the perfect opportunity to make up points and he finished exactly where he started. You do not win a championship if you don’t go for the points that are left on the table. If Lando somehow gets the WDC it’s not because he won it, it would be because Piastri lost it.
Yeah. IMO the research has taken a wrong metric and come to kind of a useless conclusion. If your goal is to have a lot of new players at launch then of course a short early access is better. Theoretically even better would be to skip early access and go straight to 1.0 because then you have less people who picked up the game during early access.
With the meta point I didn’t think AI would be the one figuring out the meta, I seriously doubt AI could be that intelligent.
I imagined a scenario where the veteran/hard-core crowd of any game community figures out the meta but AI consumes the steps of how we end up in such a meta and then spits out that information to the average gamer so they could follow the steps into the meta. It would affect communities because there would be less of a reason for the average gamer to partake in a community but I doubt it would be some sort of a death knell for communities or game development.
I’m currently playing No Mans Sky and the game throws so many random items your way without any indication as to what it’s used for. I have containers upon containers full of things I’ve never used because I have no idea where or when to use them. I could google and end up in a fandom wiki where I’ll get wrong information because the page is missing information about the last X updates that have changed what the thing does. In that scenario I could absolutely see a use case for gaming AI where I don’t have to waste my time getting the wrong information as the AI can instantly tell me that wrong information.
But more realistically I could also see AI being used to help people get from nothing to a meta build, because most games that have meta builds have guides only for what the meta build is and no explanation how to get to the meta build or what parts of the meta build are important. That’s why you see people blindly imitating meta builds and then getting absolutely obliterated because they have no idea why the meta is meta. AI could fill in those blanks while playing the game. I guess it could even be abstracted to just helping follow the meta meta. Like for instance in CS2 if you’re an average player and you have no idea how the rounds flow the AI could tell you “the opposing team has X economy, buy Y and be aware of Z”, which technically isn’t cheating as it’s just game knowledge, but IMO it’s borderline cheating.
I could come up with ideas how AI could be used by the average gamer, but all those ideas kinda expect AI to be actually useful and I’m not sold on AI being that useful.
I think you played the “offline” mode which doesn’t keep any progress. That is not the PvE mode. I haven’t played official PvE because I’ve jumped to Linux and the anticheat kinda kills the possibility of playing EFT. In PvE most maps are run locally so I could play most of the game in PVE but Streets of Tarkov still boots up a BSG server and I imagine anticheat kicks you out of the server which means I can’t play all of Tarkov. Also PvE cost extra money and I see no reason to pay when SPT is arguably the better PVE experience.
That said I’ve heard good stuff about the official PvE. For many people it’s the de facto way to play Tarkov because no cheaters. But I swear by SPT because SPT mods let you customize Tarkov to your liking. Don’t like the AI? There’s SAIN to replace the AI logic. Want more realistic night vision? There’s a mod for that. Don’t like how some of the weapon sights are fucked up by BSG? There’s a mod to fix sights. Want to turn Tarkov into a rogue-lite? There’s a mod for that. Don’t like getting lucky with keys? There’s mod that puts more keys in traders or a mod that let’s you shoot locks on locked door. Don’t like having to nudge your character into weird positions just to get the crosshair in the right position to loot something? There’s a mod for that. If there’s anything you want Tarkov to be it’s very likely there’s a SPT mod for it.
Tarkov now comes with PvE mode. But if you don’t feel like paying extra there’s SPT (single player Tarkov) with a wide range of mods. Fika is now used only to turn SPT into coop Tarkov (and Fika isn’t officially supported by SPT devs).
I think the other guy was being sarcastic.
When you don’t know how to pass others you’re only as fast as the driver ahead of you.
Okay, the smug “you’re not one of us so don’t speak” argument… Alright, then we’re just not going to have a discussion. Just don’t forget that if one of these groups ever use payment providers to suppress trans rights you supported this.
In this context it’s definitely a hot take considering the prudish neighbor was able to make freaky shit “illegal” anyway, and in far greater capacity than any single government could. Rape and incest ain’t for me but I take serious offense when they get banned because a handful of people decide for the rest of us how the world is supposed to look like without anyone else getting a say in the matter. At least if they went the legal route the process would’ve a) been transparent and given an opportunity for others to make a case and b) not instantly affect the entire world.
This “scary government is going to take away your rights” just leads to private enterprises taking away your rights without any oversight. This entire thing is a case in point. The government can take away your rights but at least you have a way to fight for your rights, what are you going to do against oligopolistic payment processors taking away your rights?
Neither can Steam. Visa and Mastercard make up 90% of all online purchases outside China. If they cut off Steam then Steam is effectively dead.
Using years and hundreds of dollars is not min/maxing precision. That’s a stupid excuse for something you should own up because your made up numbers detract from your point. If the numbers don’t matter then this shouldn’t make your argument look ridiculous.
Nintendo, the company that makes gamers pay them $5000 for a new console every year, and then $800 for a new skin of the exact same game every month, and calls it innovations and consumer friendliness.
You can’t just make up numbers and expect to have reasonable argument. By making up numbers you’re just opening yourself up to criticism (which it seems you can’t take) even if the actual point you’re making is right.
When I first heard about the firings and the delay to the game I thought “This doesn’t sound plausible. Are they really going to ruin their investment and effectively kill the company to supposedly save a quarter of a billion. That would be unbelievably stupid”. But with every subsequent nugget of information it’s getting increasingly clearer that they, Krafton, actually are unbelievably stupid. They’re pretty much guaranteed that if Subnautica 2 gets released (and that’s assuming Subnautica 2 is in a good enough position to be released) the studio will shutter as all the talent will move on and all the money Krafton spent acquiring the studio is thrown in the wind. They’re not even going to save the quarter billion because the delay means they’re going to be paying at least 6 months wages for minimum effort work because I doubt anyone at that studio is willing to put in the effort after being cheated out of their bonus.
Even if it’s all so obvious I still find it hard to believe the publisher is THAT stupid. But that’s the world we live in, where people get to make idiotic decisions because they’re greedy as fuck.
If you no longer ask for a team order that exists, you are no longer a racing driver.
I’m guessing the RB door is left open due to Lindblad having some struggles in F2.