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- Comment on 2024 Steam Awards Nominees Announced 4 days ago:
It’s going to be based on user votes, and given just how popular that game was I don’t think it unlikely to win.
- Comment on Balatro Dev Calls Out PEGI For "Real Gambling" Rating Hypocrisy Vs. EA Sports FC 5 days ago:
Correct. Just like the ESRB
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!" 5 days ago:
Black Myth Wukong had one of the highest concurrent player counts of Steam of all time. The game was very popular in China.
Meanwhile Astrobot’s sales figures were lacklustre, according to some reports.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 6 days ago:
I largely agree, but the interests have gotten misaligned. Back then it was the threat of regulation which changed things up, I think the governments should do a little more of that.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 6 days ago:
but… Looks like they don’t audit so good, if this article is evidence
That’s the whole issue with it being a lobby group. It makes them a ton of money, so they are incentivised against making a rating for it because that would draw more attention/limit sales.
And that’s where the whole government lobbying part comes in.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 6 days ago:
Not entirely sure about the European PEGI, but the American ESRB is funded by the same companies that it regulates. It was created after the outcry about violent games and was the industry self-regulating to avoid the government getting more involved.
It is a lobby group for the industry, for better and in this case very much for worse.
I assume PEGI is little different.
- Comment on Split Fiction™ | Official Reveal Trailer 1 week ago:
The “EA Originals” that they have put out have mostly been fairly solid, Hazelight’s games especially so.
Eternals of Aveum had its fair share of flaws, but it was a complete package.
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 1 week ago:
Might as well add those details to your comment.
Cynthia Williams
- Comment on Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again' 3 weeks ago:
He also had that one Elden Ring “build” where he was carrying like three shields
- Comment on What's your favorite car to drive and in which game? 3 weeks ago:
Whatever the car in Distance is called
- Comment on Cities: Skylines latest DLC came out this week, 18 months after its "final" DLC came out last year 1 month ago:
This is for the original release, not the sequel.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 2 months ago:
this place simply isn’t big enough to have the niche communities
Yeah. Wanted to recommend Lemmy to a friend, but the few topics they were mainly interested in had little to no engagement.
- Comment on Remedy Entertainment Has Received A Loan From Tencent 2 months ago:
Epic paid for (part of) Alan Wake 2’s development. Without them we may not have had the game in the first place, and certainly not in the state it released in.
- Comment on How to decide what kind of controller one should purchase? 3 months ago:
It does have back buttons, which is why it’s unlikely to launch in the west as Scuf (owned by Corsair) is a major patent troll when it comes to those. That’s also the reason for the original Steam controller no longer being released.
The Hori one is launching at the end of this month, if I recall correctly. I might look into importing it once it does.
- Comment on New Darksiders game teased by THQ Nordic 4 months ago:
Nordic Games bought what remained of THQ back in the day when the latter went bankrupt. (THQ used to be comparable to the likes of EA and Ubisoft before they made some poor decisions)
The holdings company behind THQ Nordic rebranded into Embracer some years ago.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Fortunately, the remake is being made by THQ Nordic.
How is that fortunate though?
THQ Nordic, the company which became Embracer, bought Piranha Bytes, shuttered the studio when they fucked up, and is now using their IP for a remake?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Piranha Bytes GmbH was a German video game developer based in Essen. It was best known for their Gothic and Risen series of role-playing video games.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_Bytes
Embracer has reportedly closed Elex developer Piranha Bytes
- Comment on Bungie Lays Off Over 200 Employees, Announces Plans For Deeper Integration With Sony 4 months ago:
So much for the “get to keep your own identity”
- Comment on Paramount Cancels Halo Series After Two Seasons 5 months ago:
I hear they even tried making him relatable to G*mers
Impossible; he fucked in the show.
- Comment on Dev of cancelled Life By You game shares some information, including just two weeks notice of cancellation after being given the thumbs-up a few weeks prior 5 months ago:
Disastrous, unoptimized launch. Paid DLC whilst the game was still full of performance issues (DLC which was later made free, after outcry. But their hand was shown).
Probably much more, but those are the two big things I remember.
- Comment on Elden Ring: Shadows of the Erdtree will come with a day 1 patch with various improvements 6 months ago:
Yeah. And consider the verification process games have to go through on consoles, probably easier to do it all in one big update.
- Comment on Star Trucker delivers its chill mix of Euro Truck Simulator and Freelancer onto Steam and Game Pass this September 6 months ago:
It’s nice to play something casual with something else playing in the background
- Comment on CachyOS gets experimental handheld edition for ROG Ally, Lenovo Legion GO and Steam Deck (soon) 7 months ago:
Rock liver here, what happened?
- Comment on Xbox Reportedly Debating Putting Call Of Duty On Game Pass Alongside Price Hike 7 months ago:
I doubt I’ll stick around if it gets more expensive. Price hikes were inevitable, I guess. It was good while it lasted.
- Comment on The Witcher 3's REDkit mod tools launch May 21st, enabling a new era of ambitious overhauls 7 months ago:
I keep avoiding RPS links for that reason.
Oh, you want to withdraw consent? Have fun disabling them separately for each individual partner.
- Comment on HELLDIVERS 2 sees over 130K bad reviews on Steam as Sony double down 7 months ago:
How do you mean, Halo is already on PC?
And the issue isn’t the account linking in and of itself, but this being a sudden requirement after the game has already come out and people have already purchased the game.
On top of that: PlayStation accounts are unavailable in many countries where this game has already been sold. Where it may have been a deal-breaker for some, others will effectively be locked out if no change to the policy is made.
Either way, adding this requirement after already having sold the game is ridiculous.
- Comment on PUBG, the game that Fortnite copied, copies Fortnite by bringing back the battle royale shooter’s original map 7 months ago:
Nor did PUBG invent battle royale
- Comment on Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions 8 months ago:
Also, now that I’ve seen it; these feel a lot more egregious. There are ones for reviving your NPC teammates (once).
- Comment on Critically acclaimed Dragon's Dogma 2 hits "mostly negative" on Steam after players raze it for microtransactions 8 months ago:
Regardless, if people don’t make a stink things won’t go back and most likely will get even worse.
So, I say, good on them.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator confirms harvesting in a certain direction is faster - but not for long, as 1.6 fix due 9 months ago:
Buffing certainly has this place, don’t get me wrong. But recently there seems to have been this narrative about how developers should only buff, never nerf; which is blatantly not true. A narrative the original comment seemed to be feeding into and I wanted to call out.
