wildginger

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck Ubisoft.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didnt say it was

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck Ubisoft.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Choosing not to use epic because of the companies pretty nasty decisions and financial backers is completely justified. The world is not always about getting things for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fuck Ubisoft.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it was only on their launcher I wouldnt care. Its the little exclusivity deal on epic that annoys me.

  Its one thing to only sell your stuff on your own personal store. Thats fine, whatever. But to create fake exclusivity on pc? Nah fuck off dude, especially from ubisoft

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the next "grown up game" now that Minecraft only goes for children?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The game is really not that different, you can play old versions just fine, and mods easily add or subtract any mechanics you like.

  Its not minecraft bud

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thats either because your boss privately wants to hoard wealth, or is trying to set the books up for a clean sell.

  Public means you sacrifice everything in the name of profit.

  Private means you operate on the ideals of the private owners.

  A private owner can have ideals of profit. A public company cannot have idealistic shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Veteran Videogame Analyst: Subscription growth has flattened [in video games]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Demos were bad for business.

  A good demo for a good game was minor advertising that was dwarfed by good press. If every player wont shut up about how good the game is, their friends would skip the demo and buy anyway.

  A good demo for a bad game was good advertising that bit you later. You got more up front sales, but got harder drop offs once word gets around that the demo was all you had.

  A bad demo for a good game stuttered sales. Some people would turn away and maybe never come back, and it took time for word of mouth to tell everyone to skip the demo and just buy the game anyway.

  A bad demo for a bad game was shit all around.

  In the end, this punnett square made it pretty clear that the best option was to make a really good demo if youre game was shit, or you thought you needed the help finding an audience. but if you knew (or “”“knew”“”) your game was good? The demo was wasted time and effort. Either it was a smaller ad bump you werent upset to cut costs for, or you were slowing sales by accident.

  Demos are good for us, but suck for the company making them. So they largely stopped making them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your opinions about 'handicap' features in games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure they are well aware, and are bringing up a different accessability feature they also support

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WotC Denies Using AI Generative Art In Promo Materials, Later Admits, Yeah, It Did⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God I wish mtg and dnd could escape the claws of wotc and return to the hands of designers who want to make good games, not money squeezers and advertising scams and gimmicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I agree, the corpos dont and will fight tooth and nail to cut the cost anyway.

  So unless the US gets the stones to collar and muzzle these businesses (they wont) we have to work around these monsters who will bite your arm off to skip lunch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Making the text to speech program sound like the voice actor who voiced the character who is trying to say your name is the part that requires AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adult casts in (J)RPGs, a list⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Arent you the “the world would be better off if kids werent real” guy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MSI teasing a handheld gaming PC like the Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, let them. Let every company take a swing, and let 2-3 actually get a serious foothold that survives as a real option, and becomes a reliable machine.

  Theres only been 3 consoles for too long. I love that valve has made the steam deck into a computer console, and want to see more options and variations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Player Gets Banned for 1 Year After Recording Baldur's Gate 3 Scenes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And specifically, something to be mindful of for games with server reliance. VAC bans happen on games with valve servers, so any multiplayer game puts you at the mercy of these systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t DO IT Steamboat!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your op said that people are acting like they are making memes that would have been illegal to make a month ago.

  No one is acting like that, theyre making memes to make fun of disney now having to see comics, movies, games, and shows with the mouse in it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Player Gets Banned for 1 Year After Recording Baldur's Gate 3 Scenes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When literally no one mentioned pc masteranything, and you accuse people of being peak reddit after comparing a random comment to a shitty community stereotype?

  Yes, sweetie, thats rude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t DO IT Steamboat!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Point? There is no point, its a joke. Its not a statement, theyre making fun of the mouse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Player Gets Banned for 1 Year After Recording Baldur's Gate 3 Scenes⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the community downvoting you for being rude is completely fine bud

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t DO IT Steamboat!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … And this post isnt genuinely claiming that this meme was illegal before the first of the month. Its making fun of the change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a new era.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, fully digital isnt a massive flex. “Cash is king” is a saying for a reason

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t DO IT Steamboat!⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People using the mouse in memes doesnt matter because thats not a copyright violation, but the many people using it in comics, and planning to use it for tv shows, youtube short content, and video games absolutely are.

  The memes are joking and referencing the advent of that content, not stating that they, the memes themselves, are part of that content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 7 and Windows 8 Support⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard through the grapevine and definitely not by experience that there are many easy ways to remove the watermark too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam keeps on winning⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, because in your previous comment you said literally the exact opposite, that people just needed to open it via the launcher to get the next update.

  My previous comment already says this. With metro exodus, they expected people to rebuy the game on epic, and only reversed the decision after the immediate backlash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam keeps on winning⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They made you re-purchase half life? If you owned half life, you had to rebuy half life again on the steam page?

  Or they launched a new launcher, and did what every single other game publisher does when they launch a new launcher, and ported all of their own personal titles into the launcher?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam keeps on winning⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Show me when steam forced people who had paid for a game from a completely different retailer to rebuy the game on steam, while completely deactivating the copy that was already purchased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam keeps on winning⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You really are not listening. You are going off on old grudges that have literally nothing to do with what I am saying to you.

  I get it. Steam kicked your childhood dog. That has nothing to do with epic buying a game out of peoples mouths.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam keeps on winning⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, not exclusivity. Pointedly spending large amounts of money to take already purchased games away from people.

  Exclusivity isnt a new concept. Im still patiently waiting for the next horizon game to come to PC at all. Exclucivity isnt kicking your customers in the teeth.

  Wagging your fortnite cash in peoples faces by showing them you can take away what they already paid for is the kick in the teeth.

  And, more importantly, it showed me how they value me. They will spend extra money to directly inconvenience me in the hopes Im stupid enough to pay them for inconveniencing me. Bad launcher? Thats fine, blizzards launcher is dogshit and I played overwatch for years. Exclusivity again, fine. Ill wait if Im really going to be stubborn, and I wont if I really want the game.

  But going out of their way to antagonize other users of the competition, as if Im supposed to find that cute and rebuy what I already purchased at a store I already chose? Zero respect for your customers means you will do the same or worse to me even if I am stupid enough to pay you, if you think antagonizing me again will wiggle out more of my money.

  Fuck them forever, they cannot rebuild that trust. The only reason they havent done it again is because steam changed their tos. And they will do it to you as soon as they think theyve got a stable userbase

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam keeps on winning⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, but thats still also not about steam. Steam is a store, but they dont make much product. Game devs do that.

  Game devs are the ones no longer making physical copies of their games. We should be pushing for the producers of games to be offering these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam keeps on winning⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … Because years later, steam got good.

  Epic started out shit, and then used their fortnite money to impro… No, wait, sorry, they used their fortnite money to buy exclusivity of games people had already preordered from other stores.

  Starting out shit and then slowly improving is one thing. Starting out shit and then kicking your customers in the teeth is completely different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam keeps on winning⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, hold on. Why shouldnt we rely on pirates for preservation?

  Valve is the only major PC game store that isnt public. Possibly the only PC store period, tho I dont know that for a fact for the smaller distributors. The private nature is why they currently operate as the best option for users, and the odds of the other stores going private is basically zero. So when valve shifts winds, they will be the end of an era.

  Do you expect us to be able to request or rely on public companies to ever do better for game preservation and user to user trade than a private company does? You already arent pleased with valves stance, and there is no indication anyone will ever do better than them.

  Who else would ever do better? Pirates are the best option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with Epic Games?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, they have never done it so far. Because it cost them a large amount of public opinion when they had almost nothing else to lean on. It was a decision that they survived only because their other products like unreal and fortnite funded it.

  Once they think they have enough dedicated users, who are unwilling to leave their libraries, and they believe they have earned a steam equivalent customer reputation? They will do it again.