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  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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?

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    • Wolf@lemmy.today ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Very often they do, but now always. In this particular case they do.

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      • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fuckin vertical integration bullshit

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  • maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨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

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  • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, I wasn’t planning on buying it before I played it anyway.

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  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ok, no problem.

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yo ho all together hoist the colours high…

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  • UberKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • berty@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Below Zero wasn’t a bad game.

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  • CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain

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    • ceenote@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This looks less like heroes becoming villains and more like villains (who were always villains) tricking the hero and murdering them.

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      • RadicalEagle@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Definitely died as heroes.

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      • athairmor@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨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.

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  • LordWiggle@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pirate it is

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve never bought a game that isn’t indie since 5 years 🫡

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    • crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Same except I made an exception for fromsoftware lol

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  • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨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

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  • AreaKode@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Arrrr…

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  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is this definitely what those devs are asking for? Sure this isn’t just cutting them twice?

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  • LifeCoffeeGaming@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨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.

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    • SorryforSmelling@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨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.

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      • LifeCoffeeGaming@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨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?

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  • DarkMetatron@feddit.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨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?

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    • janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨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

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    • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      apparently the original devs were not interested in this lol

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  • nthavoc@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • ameancow@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 $.

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • chrislowles@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Set your stopwatches for when Tango gets shafted right before releasing their next game.

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  • absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨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.

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    • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨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”?

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      • absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So is like what happened in ZA/UM with Disco Elysium?

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  • mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    O no!!! I didn’t even buy subnautica one!!!

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  • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I thought the people fired were executives, not creatives.

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    • BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, I’m just going to wait and see. If it’s good, I’ll buy it, otherwise I won’t.

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never heard of it, probably never will once I forget about this post.

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  • sommerset@thelemmy.club ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Didn’t even know what it was

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  • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ll pirate it

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As much as I hate Nintendo, publishing wise they’re good.

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  • sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Crosspost this on other communities and social media apps

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  • Green_Mouse@piefed.social ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yikes!

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Gotta be honest, I would do the same and worse for 250 million dollars.

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  • janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I like the idea someone here said about removing it from wishlists to react in a visible way. Is there something else we could do, like a petition or something to try to get that $250k for the team?

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  • Blaster_M@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Welp, guess I’m going to not buy it harder then…

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