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- Comment on The first Red Dead Redemption could finally be coming to PC - and soon - according to a fresh datamine 1 day ago:
I know, it’s such a wasted area down there. Why not just do that? Maybe that’s what’s happening… But I don’t want to get excited. Seriously that would sell soooo much
- Comment on Game Pass’s “only (outside) shot” for sustainability is to get GTA 6 or Call of Duty, says former Microsoft senior PR lead 4 days ago:
Oh, the number one game that gamers want to buy. But yeah I guess what other hopes do they have
- Comment on Warner Bros. Discovery Boss Calls Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League's Release 'Disappointing' 5 days ago:
hm, when we cut funding the games don’t do very well. I guess we better cut funding.
Seriously is this No Child Left Behind but for video games?
- Comment on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf set to arrive by next March, according to report 6 days ago:
That’s the end of their fiscal year, so wouldn’t be surprised, especially with the “announcement” date coming this year. I just hope EA doesn’t bungle this release.
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 1 week ago:
only until it becomes popular enough. Although I will say that Yuzu flew too close to the sun, not saying all the maintainers, but several of them were openly for piracy and for the latest generation stuff. That’s stuff that will get you taken down immediately. Fly under the radar, keep it about older games, and usually no one cares. They started taking a bite out of switch profits though, and that wasn’t good for big N
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA nukes 8,535 GitHub copies of Switch emulator yuzu 1 week ago:
sigh
Okay anyone have a clone they’re willing to share?
- Comment on All three remastered Mass Effect games and their DLC are 90% off on Steam 1 week ago:
I’ll see you in 10 years, my friend :(
- Comment on All three remastered Mass Effect games and their DLC are 90% off on Steam 1 week ago:
Legendary edition is one of the few good remasters that have been done. Yes there is drm and promotion garbage, and I’d say be hesitant about it if I were paying full price.
For 90% off for an opportunity to play one of the best gaming series of all time? Just go for it
- Comment on The huge life-sim Life by You from Paradox hits Early Access on June 4 1 week ago:
Yeah a big “we’ll see how it is after release”
- Comment on Catholic Priest AI chatbot is defrocked within a week after taking confession and okaying Gatorade baptisms 1 week ago:
It doesn’t matter how hard you try, people can jailbreak out of generative AI prompts. Companies don’t like that notion but at this point it’s impossible to prevent.
- Comment on Game of Thrones reportedly has an MMO in the works, nearly a decade after the last one was cancelled 2 weeks ago:
That was going to put HBO and DirecTV on the map, they were top tier streaming back then. If you didn’t have HBO you clearly didn’t like quality TV. Netflix was ahead sure in terms of subscribers, but HBO was the elite tier that everyone wanted.
Now look at it, 7th or 8th tier and bullshit discovery shows. It’s honestly hard for me to think of another company that fucked up the huge of a lead.
- Comment on Fortnite will let you hide "confrontational" emotes, including the game's most popular 3 weeks ago:
Person who wants people to feel triggered is triggered. This is meta.
- Comment on Gearbox Publishing Rebrands as Arc Games After Embracer's Deal With Take-Two 4 weeks ago:
Oh damn you’re right, I completely forgot that was Paradox. I had just looked at Infinite that day to see if it was worth getting and read the horrible reviews…
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws have Season pass + EA + Locked content at launch for Premium 4 weeks ago:
agreed. I’ve been pretty okay with ubisoft while everyone else was getting up in arms, but this is my personal breaking point. Yesterday’s trailer featured mostly DLC content and didn’t tell me anywhere that it was DLC only content.
So yeah. I’ll wait for it to be cheap. Plus if it’s online only (which of course it will be), I do not want to waste 60 dollars on a game they’re going to rip away anyway.
- Comment on Gearbox Publishing Rebrands as Arc Games After Embracer's Deal With Take-Two 5 weeks ago:
Bold. Bold to be proud of Star Trek online after dumping it after only a few months.
- Comment on EA Anticheat arrives for Battlefield V in April, will break it on Linux / Steam Deck 1 month ago:
I’m torn. Stupid that it breaks Linux, so it’s immediately a no go for me. However, battlefield is absolutely horrible with cheaters. Like, the most frustrating franchise with cheaters. So, yeah I’m conflicted
- Comment on Bethesda Gives A Small Update On The Elder Scrolls 6 1 month ago:
So small it should have just been the title of the post
- Comment on GTA 6 release date could slip to 2026 under Rockstar "fallback plan", according to reports 1 month ago:
I wonder if this is connected to their very recent layoffs somehow…
- Comment on Today we learned about a survival game featuring Will Smith, but only because it's a massive failure 1 month ago:
Every time a mobile game fails an angel gets its wings - or a PC gamer gets 0.01Ghz.
- Comment on GitLab takes down Nintendo Switch emulator suyu due to the DMCA 1 month ago:
Oh no, as we learned a DMCA hit on a repo is usually the end of the repo…
It totally doesn’t spiral out from there…
- Comment on Steam Families launches into beta, making it easier to buy and share games with your kids 1 month ago:
It’s only use is proving you own something in a decentralized way. If it’s steam we’re buying from them it’s centralized, there’s no need.
One thing I’d love would be that there’s one proof of ownership chain and companies list their games, you purchase it then it’s on the chain forever. Torrent, download, disc, it checks the chain and shows you own it. But then we still have the “I got hacked and lost my wallet” issue.
However that will never, and I mean ever happen. The chain is the antithesis of corporate control so nothing like that will happen.
- Comment on Among Us Animated Show Casts Ashley Johnson, Elijah Wood, Randall Park, And Yvette Nicole Brown 1 month ago:
ah the “throw a bunch of b-list celebrities at it hoping one of them will catch an audience” approach
- Comment on Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Review - The Final Verdict 1 month ago:
“final”? It’s been out a day. Pretty sure that’s the opposite of final
- Comment on Former Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Director Forms New Studio, Giant Skull, To Create Action-Adventure Game In Unreal Engine 5 2 months ago:
Dunno about them specifically, but the gaming industry as a whole
- Comment on Former Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Director Forms New Studio, Giant Skull, To Create Action-Adventure Game In Unreal Engine 5 2 months ago:
Wonderful! I hope these layoffs have a silver lining of many new studios opening
- Comment on Warner Bros. leave developers feeling "sick and dizzy" as more Adult Swim games are being delisted 2 months ago:
Thanks for the explanation. As a developer myself I’ve experienced startups failing, projects getting deprioritized, but I’ve never worked in the gaming industry. I know how crushing it is in those scenarios, and this sounds worse. WB is throwing it away not because they’re out of money but because they don’t even care about it anymore.
I hope this means developers won’t trust WB with their games anymore, or refuse to work for them. I know if I was burned that badly I wouldn’t go back to work for them.
- Comment on Warner Bros. leave developers feeling "sick and dizzy" as more Adult Swim games are being delisted 2 months ago:
ELI5 - Have these devs completely signed over their rights to the game to WB?
What would be the repercussions of just open sourcing or putting it on steam themselves?
Why can’t they switch publishers if this one clearly isn’t doing their job and is removing their game from storefronts. I mean, that’s their job right, to put the game in front of as many people as possible?
- Comment on Migrate your Oculus accounts to Meta this month or lose your games 2 months ago:
I’ve been getting emails all month about this. Never bought anything, don’t care. Fuck the account, just delete it.
- Comment on CBS Sued by ‘SEAL Team’ Scribe Over Alleged Racial Quotas for Hiring Writers 2 months ago:
Yeah, from what I’ve seen there’s just no good way to enforce that companies aren’t assholes. If you force a percentage of racial bias then it’s just as racist as not having one (because they shouldn’t need it forced, still treating them differently). If you do nothing then it’s obvious what happens. If you test based on “is there at least one” then that’s tokenism. No good answers.
- Comment on Opinion | How Bad Can It Get for Hollywood? 2 months ago:
While not also having massive corporate overlords who are demanding ever-growing profit for their shareholders