wccrawford

@wccrawford@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Destiny 2 Has Lost Massive Amount Of Steam Players Since Last June⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gee, I think that’s about the same time they decided that they community wanted more difficulty and made the decision to make the lowest levels of the game into bullet-sponges and to make no changes at all to the parts of the game that veteran players wanted more difficulty in.

  Now it’s super grindy for veterans, and not fun for newbies. Exactly the opposite of what was wanted by all.

  I am not at all surprised that people are quitting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout creator asks why triple-A RPGs focus on violence, doesn't provide very hopeful answer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have another answer: It’s because true innovation is hard.

  We have a ton of super-popular violent games to source ideas from for new games. We take an idea and modify it a little, and it’s fun.

  We don’t have nearly as many super-popular non-violent games to source from. They exist, but there just aren’t as many of them, and they’re generally pretty “cozy” instead of pumping the adrenaline. Sports/racing games are an exception, but “non-violent” still depends on the exact sport and implementation. Many of them aren’t non-violent.

  It’s the same reason that fantasy often still uses elves, trolls, and dwarves. They’re really easy to source from, and coming up with compelling new races that aren’t essentially the same as the tropes is hard.

  Indies are into innovation. AAAs are into money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Feeding the trolls. Doomed to failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft blames “technical error” for showing pop-up ads in Assassin’s Creed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not defending Ubi here, they absolutely should have ripped this code out. They had to know the outrage that it would generate.

  But it might not have been a management decision. It could have been a “20% time” project where a developer designed and implemented a system that they thought management would like, and then it never got ripped back out after it was rejected. Those projects are usually barebones and use existing assets as much as possible, so it wouldn’t even mean that they had to stand up other systems to support it… They could just link to an existing ad from something else.