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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alan Wake 2 still hasn't quite made its money back, according to Remedy's latest financials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know I tuned out of Alan Wake 1 really early thinking it was going to be a boring ‘look around with a flashlight game’. I was very surprised by how fun and intricate the combat eventually got when I went back and actually played it through.

  And just how funny and tongue in cheek all the writing is. I think it’s a bit of a hard sell because they want to gradually build and surprise you with new things, and all their humour is super deadpan and satirical of this hard boiled story, which can make it seem kind of boring at a surface / marketing level until you get into it and realize what’s happening and how much fun it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alan Wake 2 still hasn't quite made its money back, according to Remedy's latest financials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I will be buying this as a Christmas present for several friends.

  Really, really fantastic game, and Remedy is one of the best studios in existence right now. I can’t think of many other games / studios that take swings as big as them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is horseshit. Apple is making billions of dollars a year on the app store.

  Setting a CDN and a document search service take like 5min on Azure / AWS / GCP, and get you 90% of the way there, and your annual bill for them might push into the hundreds of thousands, but nothing close to approaching the amount of money that Google and apple are taking in through the app store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Precisely, it would be a stupid waste of money to launch simultaneous lawsuits against everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question: how is it possibly “complete” bullshit, when we know for a fact that console makers are taking like a hundred dollar wash on every console sold whereas Apple and Google make substantial profit on every device sold?

  I mean I would love to see consoles forced to allow sideloading and alternate app stores too, but I can’t fathom how you cant see the difference in business models…