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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I could feel myself coming apart at the seams": Suicide Squad leads on almost leaving the games industry after its failure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had a moment like this even doing indie game dev as a passion project. There’s a never ending flood of marketing and sales advice for game devs, and it can really suck the fun out of a project if you start to obsess over doing everything the “right way”.

  Unfortunately marketing is a necessity, and if you need to make money from a game you have to try and make a product, not just a piece of art. I think for most creatives they want the business side to stay as backseat as possible, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite investors moaning that Elden Ring's success hasn't been milked hard enough financially, FromSoftware parent company's CEO has kept his job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or an algae bloom, because they inject the money first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony say goodbye to PC and hello to AI in their annual business report, which must be a good thing, right?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now introducing Steam Agent. It buys your games for you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Israel boss leaves after investigation into whether IDF contracts broke Microsoft's code of ethics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So… Yes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah that seems like a good guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Increasingly? Does this mean sex 2 is finally coming out? 😳

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 people⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone know what this is referring to?

  games competing for time against other increasingly-engaging forms of entertainment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"As soon as it fired up, he'd get up and go to lunch": How Age of Empires' developers tested mission difficulty⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This kind of thing sounds a bit obvious, but it’s actually a really good test for all kinds of games. Basically, how effective is it for the player to do no action? It’s more effective than it should be sometimes if it’s not accounted for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After listening to your complaints, Bungie is making it just a tad less annoying to buy cosmetics in Marathon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an obnoxiously common practice, but this might be the most dickish version of it I’ve ever seen. That’s so barely over the amount wtf

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slay The Spire 2's placeholder art should be a lesson to all the developers caught up in AI-generated nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes less time, too.

  I’ve had to use AI on some client projects (I do graphic design), and I’ve found it to be quite a bit more time consuming than using stock art or placeholders, because there’s a level of pickiness that enters the picture when the client thinks they can have anything they can think of (they can’t, but they still try).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve accused of "letting children and adults alike illegally gamble" via loot boxes in New York state lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People were constantly saying this when I was a little kid. I’m 35 now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's throne room rejigging has seen Sarah Bond take the bullet for marketing strategy which was "failing internally", report claims⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Things are definitely going to be way better now that she’s been replaced with an AI division executive! They even said they don’t want to use “bad AI”, so it’s definitely going to work out!

  🫡

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Supreme Court strike down majority of Trump's tariffs, so hopefully that's one less hardware buying headache to worry about⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell of a thing that I’m surprised when the highest court actually follows the law

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Highguard studio Wildlight confirm layoffs, after level designer claims "most of the team" have been let go⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I always think this stuff is sad. Even if the game wasn’t great, it just sucks to see hard work go to waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord attempt to put out the fires with a clarification over new age verification⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’sadvanced, didn’t you read? 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why reviving the shuttered Anthem is turning out tougher than expected⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That engine really was a piece of work, huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mirror's Edge's iconic art style? Yeah, turns out it was sort of an accident⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Accident is weird to describe what’s in this article. It sounds like standard iteration that all creative works go through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨POSTAL: Bullet Paradise gets cancelled over generative AI with Goonswarm Games shutting down⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can’t trust someone called goonswarm games, who can you trust? 😔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Pass will "either kill everyone else, or give up", says Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “The service will succeed or fail”. Not much of a hot take, even though I agree with his sentiment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 prices might climb due to tariff changes — US hikes Vietnam tariffs to 20%, up from 10% when the console launched⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or better yet, don’t buy one at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellaris updates are slowing down to stop empires randomly destroying themselves, among other bugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was pretty ambivalent about the subscription. I don’t like subs in general, but I joined stellaris a little late and the amount of money to get all the DLC is very daunting. I can see how as a new player it would be a good offer.

  That being said rent to own is always going to be how it should be imo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellaris updates are slowing down to stop empires randomly destroying themselves, among other bugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, yeah that performance point is rough.

  Stellaris is such an interesting game to follow. I’ve never seen another game so willing to change major stuff regularly. It’s definitely got its upsides and downsides.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The founders of Playdead are having a legal war over who made more of Limbo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TLDR: he said she said, they’re going to court

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stellaris updates are slowing down to stop empires randomly destroying themselves, among other bugs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw the game got a lot of bad reviews lately. Was 4.0 that bad? I haven’t played for a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods' new owner is a company whose co-founder has already had to reassure folks that NFTs and crypto aren't incoming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sad to see, but I was feeling it was only a matter of time for a while now. The mods could migrate but hard to replace the mod manager.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's story mode just got a lot easier, so more people can enjoy the year's best J'RPG⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This actually kind of irritates me. I’m one of the people who hasn’t enjoyed the timing window stuff, and set it to easy. It felt just right for me, but now with this patch things feel completely effortless. This should have been a new difficulty, not a change to the existing one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lethal Company's next monster "does things that make absolutely no sense, just because it can"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I really admire the creature design in this game. I don’t think any of the copy cats have ever nailed that as much even if they’ve done other things better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GeoGuessr Map Makers Make Most Popular Maps Unplayable In Protest Of Saudi-Backed Esports World Cup - Aftermath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But are you an esport?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GeoGuessr Map Makers Make Most Popular Maps Unplayable In Protest Of Saudi-Backed Esports World Cup - Aftermath⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Geoguesser is an esport?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox players are going to start getting paid to watch ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  And by paid we mean given in-game cosmetics with no monetary value.

  This is not a new thing at all. Mobile games have been using rewarded ads for years so I’m not sure why they’re acting like it’s some groundbreaking thing.