Some seriously soft language is being used by reporters. Just call it what it is. It was a clear sieg heil, twice!!

Hoggle

Lol at 20 million. That’s like me paying 20 dollars

I haven’t thought too deep about my desire for the industry to push to indie, but this was an interesting read.

Another point that I’ve thought though, is that marketing budgets are insanely high in AAA in order to cut through the noise of the rest of social media.

I would imagine that if EA or whoever was pumping out 10 times as many games, they would need to share that marketing budget equally. The chance for cut-through for each game would be small and many of the projects wouldn’t even make financial sense compared to putting bets on a smaller number of the bigger budget games. The game release cadence would be really confusing and noisy, with people not knowing what is worth playing.

Very much agree with the last point about games being profitable as fuck. It should be enough that the industry is making shed loads of money above cost without the need to increase shareholder value every quarter by cutting jobs.

I wonder how much of the ballooning cost of AAA budgets are due to losing technical expertise by staff turnover/churn? I can’t imagine that creates an atmosphere of efficiency.

No dramas!

I think I just wanted to mention arrested development lol. It being a smart, well-written show about very dumb people

Ah true I haven’t heard of him! Love to hear about autodidact geniuses.

Yeah, I have a sub atm while I work through some games. It’s in a good place right now (compared to a couple of years ago), but I’ll probably drop it in a month or two.

1. most of the cast of Arrested Development
2. the movie: Idiocracy
3. lots of examples, let’s go with Alan Turing or Richard Feynman

Brutal, I love it

Things can always get worse

Strange that Lithuania would do that, given their history with being victims of Russian imperialism.

10 years ago now :O

I’d be mildly surprised if this was true, but just look at this man’s cold, dead eyes and tell me you don’t have a weird feeling about him.

Great, it doesn’t make sense not to have cloud gaming integrated easily(i.e. no translation later needed, as it’s running on a server) Especially if you already have the games in your library.

You could add them to your steam family to give them access to your library?

Otherwise, seeing as he’s played a lot of console games, maybe an RTS would be a good option? Something where kB+m is a better controller layout.

Strange that that’s the case. The thing that made the Witcher 3 good was the writing of the side quests, not the combat.

Not sure if I’ve played a game that’s pivoted to be more like the Witcher that has met that standard in that regard.

Mass Effect Trilogy and DA: Origins came out after the EA acquisition though. It seems like everything post ME:3 has been disappointing though.

I bought Alan Wake 2, and glad I did. Accidentally decided to buy Red Dead redemption 2 on there because of a discount code making it much cheaper than steam a couple of years ago.

Huge mistake. I added it as a non-steam game so now to launch Red Dead redemption 2. I need to launch steam which then launches epic which then launches Rockstar Games launcher which then launches the game.

Laws mattered. Not anymore apparently.