Dudewitbow
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- Comment on Ubisoft comes crawlin' back to Steam 2 days ago:
its more or less that yes. they saw the money but not the time and effort to get users to use your platform.
and its not like impossible, as long as you can create games people will play and stay at itll work (e.g Riot), but they legit put such little effort in the launchers that it was creating a negative user experience, and never put in the money to make it better.
- Comment on Concord Director Steps Down As Studio Behind Historic PlayStation Flop Waits For Sony's Decision 1 week ago:
battlefields a bit different. battlefield basically nowadays is that the game always launch in a terrible state, and fixes itself a year down the line. battlefield players will play the game regardless and maintains ~6000 user playerbase active
- Comment on Grasshopper CEO Suda51 says people ‘care too much’ about Metacritic scores 2 weeks ago:
the advtage the steam system has is first the bought game/gifted game situation, as well as the more important factor, the recent opinion score, as at amy given momemt a game can get good because of a major change (e. g payday 2 reverting all the pay 2 win content the original publisher mandated) or gone to shit because of greed or a bad patch.
the problem users have is finding a curator that has a similar taste in games that they do. If I was a fan of JRPGs, im not going to care about the opinion on some person who doesnt really play jrpgs. at the same time, if you like some niche genre, to the general public, that niche is always less popular, so itll get worse ratings thanit should compared to people who enjoy said niche.
- Comment on Aldi announces wage increases up to $23 an hour; hiring thousands of employees 2 weeks ago:
Aldi Nord controlled stores in the US are Trader Joes, Aldi Sud stores in the US are just Aldi
- Comment on Borderlands' theatrical run grinds to a halt with just $31 million worldwide, which is barely enough to cover the marketing costs 2 weeks ago:
to me, Mortal Kombat goes under the “Soo bad its good” category.
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 2 weeks ago:
the problem is the covid supply chain ended a while ago and console sales havent drastically picked up since then. the PS5 has been orderable direct from sony for quite a long while now, and shortly after in stores. physical game sales (something console users champion, has gone way down (according to sony, only 30% of their users buy physical now)
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 2 weeks ago:
im not saying consoles have 0 appeal and wont have buyers, its just that their market is in real time, decreasing while on pc has increased, especially post covid. with the advent of streaming, more and more people are shifting over to PC because of it. im not saying consoles are dead as in 0 sales, but the market is forever going to decrease for it, as more people get into pc, and those countries that cant afford to already got into mobile gaming (mobile gaming accounts for more than 50% of the profits of game sales)
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 2 weeks ago:
the difference is at least you can see it in more real time numbers. Xbox is clearly a dying brand, which leaves Sonys home console sales for now (~60M) and the switch as a handheld device. Devs are already starting to port everything on PC, and 1st party game development rate has gone down a lot. 3rd party devs are also starting to abandon console exclusively/timed exclusively over time (capcom making the next monster hunter simul release on pc instead of a year and a half cadence, square enix backtracking on making final fantasy a timed exclusive due to not enough sales)
Japan is completely flipping its old image of PC being the device for porn addicts of years past and starting to heavily buy into pc too, which is why Valve went to attend Tokyo gameshow to pitch the steamdeck for japanese handheld players(which remain the majority of console purchases in japan)
- Comment on Sony announces the PS5 Pro with a larger GPU, advanced ray tracing, and AI upscaling 2 weeks ago:
were basically at the point on the timeline where PC and Mobile basically kills consoles.
- Comment on My new m.2 ssd 4 weeks ago:
possily running into b vs m key situation. if you have a laptop that was made during the transition period of sata based m.2 to pci-e based ones, knowing which key you needed is important.
- Comment on Gen Z is actually taking sick days, unlike their older coworkers. It’s redefining the workplace 4 weeks ago:
dependent by employer
- Comment on U.S. Announces New Rules Banning Fake Reviews and Testimonials, Allowing Authorities to Seek Civil Penalties Against Violators, Deter AI-Generated Fake Reviews 4 weeks ago:
would they not have to have evidence that a review is fake? especially if you bought a product (e. g on amazon) its very easy to verify you have likely bought a product and have it in question to review.
- Comment on So sick! 4 weeks ago:
most channels dont have/cant afford/gave a shit about having a product designer on board
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 4 weeks ago:
steam if multiplayer, since i have the client open all the time so it can update. I liek to have GOG handle single player experiences if possible and offered. though its really for me pricing, and generally speaking, 3rd party stores give me the better deal for steam keys. (not like g2a or anything, but like humble and shit)
- Comment on Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will end service in Nov 28 - but will transition to a paid offline app 5 weeks ago:
nintendo and DeNA crates a joint venture team last year, so i highly doubt theyre pulling out of mobile, theyre just relying less on it.
- Comment on Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will end service in Nov 28 - but will transition to a paid offline app 5 weeks ago:
i mean iirc capcom already had done something similar beforehand with megaman x dive
- Comment on Actors demand action over 'disgusting' video game sex scenes [BBC] 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Close call 1 month ago:
people want to pay their 60$ for a roster update
- Comment on Danger 1 month ago:
isnt the LOTO procedure to ask the person listed on the tag whats wrong with it before actually trying to use it. Boss ego crazy to completely just ignore the tag without understanding why it was on there in the first place.
- Comment on Anon wants to play a game 1 month ago:
bleach, ammonia based cleaner, mixing container.
uh oh, accidental chloramine gas bomb
- Comment on Anon checks out mobile gaming 1 month ago:
the flash game era benefited from an era where building a PC wasn’t completely streamlined yet, and game distribution on desktop also wasn’t streamlined (early steam was reviled and most users did not like it). Steam launched in 2003, and 2005 it went to allow 3rd parties. 2005 is also coincidentally when youtube was released, which marked the start of users moving off of well established sites like newgrounds to it over time, which flash ultimately died when mobile became more mainstream and neither google nor apple wanted to support flash. down the line.
- Comment on Anon checks out mobile gaming 1 month ago:
you get the problem PC has (zillions of devices of different hardware/os configs) but at an even lower performance minimum. heavily limits what developers actually can do with it.
also doesnt help that more than half your userbase doesnt want to actually pay for the game.
- Comment on 51% + 50% = ? 1 month ago:
there are different methods of rounding, and this one is likely caused by the always round up method when at a .5 value. there are methods that evenly distribute rounding
- Comment on Bungie Lays Off Over 200 Employees, Announces Plans For Deeper Integration With Sony - Game Informer 1 month ago:
bungie hasnt been affiliated with microsoft for almost 2 decades now.
the whole point of destiny was microsoft wanted them to keep working on Halo, but they wanted to work on something else, so they bought their independence
- Comment on Can someone help me determine what power outlet adapter I need in the Philippines? 2 months ago:
its underrated as a spot for english speakers imo as its of the very short list of countries where you can go to and freely converse with some of the population, as english is one of their primary languages, but culturally be very distinct.
- Comment on Phish-friendly domain registry ".top" put on notice 2 months ago:
i wouldnt be suprised the reason why its popular because it was the cheapest. after . com, the top ones were .top and .xyz, which i think when i went to buy my. own domain last year, were the cheapest options you could buy.
- Comment on Animals are not gifts. 2 months ago:
id take it if the animal was meant for consumption and not as a pet
- Comment on For L.G.B.T.Q. People, Moving to Friendlier States Comes With a Cost 2 months ago:
if i have to make a guess, if you want a state with a lower cost of living, New Mexico is probably the cheapest?
- Comment on Anon gets an ultimatum 2 months ago:
its often used in circles relating to japan for awhile, mainly anime as shows like Welcome to the NHK(2006) cover it. still technically speaking, not a new term, and i wpuldnt be suprised if /A/ on 4chan used it for more than a decade now. definitely not recent.
- Comment on Anon gets an ultimatum 2 months ago:
NEET is a term that came out of the 90s in the UK, and was a borrowed acronym in Japan after that. not a new term by any stretch of the imagination and is barely younger than the modern internet itself.