Nooooooooooooooo I was literally just talking about being excited for this game.
Pop it in your calendars
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Cheems@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I don’t understand how game dev works, how does a publishing company fire the CEO of a game dev company. Like do these publishers own the game company?
Wolf@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Fuckin vertical integration bullshit
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
“But it’s still mostly the same team, please give us the benefit of the doubt 😭😭😭😭”
Don’t be stupid, don’t buy from a publisher before the 1.0 release
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Yo ho all together hoist the colours high…
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
I mean, I wasn’t planning on buying it before I played it anyway.
CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain
ceenote@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
This looks less like heroes becoming villains and more like villains (who were always villains) tricking the hero and murdering them.
RadicalEagle@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Definitely died as heroes.
athairmor@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The founders are the villains of this piece as much as Krafton. They sold out for a big payday. This was all very predictable.
You’d have to really dense to think that Krafton is going to come along with half a billion dollars and just let things carry on as usual.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Ok, no problem.
LordWiggle@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Pirate it is
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
I’ve never bought a game that isn’t indie since 5 years 🫡
crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
Same except I made an exception for fromsoftware lol
UberKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
they did such a bad job on Below Zero, this could be a turn for the better for the series. though if there are microtransactions that would kill it.
berty@feddit.org 10 hours ago
Below Zero wasn’t a bad game.
Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
I will wait and see how its release goes, not that I ever pre ordered a game anyways
I don’t have high hopes but I’m going to save my opinions for when it’s released
AreaKode@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Arrrr…
LifeCoffeeGaming@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Not sure I can support that take. Kinda focussed on the headline there and ignores the fact that other people work there also, that are probably relying on the success of this game for their paychecks and ability to keep making games. The dev industry in general is not in great shape atm.
Let the courts sort out shady business practices imo.
Support a decent game (if it is decent).
Certainly don’t preorder. Looking at you internet denisons.
SorryforSmelling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours ago
other people got paid already. they most likely wont loose money or portfolio if you boycott. its rare that lower level devs and artists are getting any percent of the sales numbers. This talking point from you is coming straigt from bigger publishers all the way to stockholders that have nothing to do with the product.
LifeCoffeeGaming@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
If a studio goes under cause of lack of sales of a game it’s not the execs who suffer. Can’t see the point your making rn?
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Is this definitely what those devs are asking for? Sure this isn’t just cutting them twice?
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
I thought the people fired were executives, not creatives.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yeah, I’m just going to wait and see. If it’s good, I’ll buy it, otherwise I won’t.
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Just an Idea but could it be that the game was delayed because it is just not ready yet? Yes it could be an evil scheme sure, but maybe it is not. Has anyone here really any hard facts or insider information about the true status of the game?
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
It’s always possible but the announcement coincides with the abrupt termination of head staff so that makes it suspicious. Still could be just for quality’s sake though, I dont know if we can find out something like that unless they want us to
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
apparently the original devs were not interested in this lol
nthavoc@lemmy.today 13 hours ago
My last EA game was Battlefield 3 and I have never purchased an EA game since. Has that stopped EA? No. Why? People will buy it anyway because once their friends buy it, they have to buy it too. Companies all know gamer heard mentality. Your best bet is to slap that digital copy out of your friends’ hands right onto the floor. I don’t know how you do that, but that would be a nice thing to have.
ameancow@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
One of my more depressing moments in dealing with the human race was when people were boycotting Blizzard a few years ago for… well, everything. But the sexual harassment and discrimination scandal was the final straw for a lot of people.
I talked about it with my gaming friends on discord at the time, everyone agreed that what the company was doing was terrible, but the more we talked about it, the more they delved into nostalgia and thought about how much fun they had playing WoW when they were younger.
The next day I jump in discord and all five of them had reactivated their subscriptions and were having the time of their life running around WoW without a care in the world.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
The biggest crime in AAA games is the tools paying top dollar for preorders and early access to games that have beta-level problems with gameplay.
Wait three or more months, they almost always go on sale and have had a patch or two. More playable, save $.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 12 hours ago
I was on an EA boycott for a while without even realising it. They just stopped making anything that interested me.
Only broke it for It Takes Two and Split Fiction, which I paid full price for. I did play a few Respawn games as well (Titanfall 2 and the Jedi games) but got them either as part of PSPlus or Humble Bundles.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
So is like what happened in ZA/UM with Disco Elysium?
absquatulate@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Jesus tapdancing christ is the subnautica fanbase rabid. How about we actually wait and see how the game turns out before we crucify everyone?
I do agree that you should definitely not pre-order it and remove it from your wishlist. But you should’ve done that already.
RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
How about we actually wait and see how the game turns out before we crucify everyone?
Why does it matter how the game turns out if the stance is “we don’t want to fund shady developers fucking over content creators”?
absquatulate@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Afaik krafton have been insisting for a while that the game is not ready. Founders disagreed and they were ousted. But seeing as the previous two games were in pretty dire state when they released into EA, I wouldn’t really trust the founder’s word on it. The whole “squirreling out of paying them 250 million” thing seems like speculation, but what do I know.
Besides, the OP is just ragebainting, seeing as we know exactly fuckall about the game’s actual state at this point.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
O no!!! I didn’t even buy subnautica one!!!
chrislowles@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Set your stopwatches for when Tango gets shafted right before releasing their next game.
viking@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
Never heard of it, probably never will once I forget about this post.
sommerset@thelemmy.club 8 hours ago
Didn’t even know what it was
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
I’ll pirate it
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
I feel like one of these days, some corporation will lobby the government to make piracy a felony and literally send swat team to people’s houses. That’s how dystopian the future will get. Mark my words.
sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Crosspost this on other communities and social media apps
Nikls94@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
As much as I hate Nintendo, publishing wise they’re good.
Green_Mouse@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Yikes!
Tattorack@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Well… Piracy it is, then.
duchess@feddit.org 15 hours ago
Or do the boycott right and don’t play the game at all. Getting the best of both worlds, save the money and play the game, is the easy way out.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Doing the boycott “right” means not paying money. Corpos think each pirated copy is a loss. That’s how they explain it to their investors too:
“Look at all this money we’re not making because of those damn dirty pirates!”
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I’ll just watch some let’s play on YouTube
swordgeek@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Probably not really feasible - it will require constant connection to a back-end server to play or some bullshit like that.
But even if you can, that’s not the answer. The proper action is to deny them entirely. Don’t play the game, don’t play PUBG, don’t do anything that expands their reach, money or not.
They need to suffer with NOBODY playing this game. They need to suffer by people deleting their Battlegrounds accounts. Software piracy is what makes games legendary.