MrFinnbean
@MrFinnbean@lemmy.world
- Comment on Lmao 8 hours ago:
I was sure you were bullshitting, but no. Its true.
Iron and nickel core + enough mass for gravity to start compress the planed and we are just little more dense than Mercury.
- Comment on Lmao 8 hours ago:
Uh… being smaller or larger does not really change the laws of physics… if the gravity is too high, no fuel has enough energy density to escape the gravity of the celestial body.
If you need 150kg of fuel to get 100kg worth of matter to escape velocity it does not matter how much fuel you have. It will not ever be enough to leave.
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 2 days ago:
Would be simpler just to call them turtles and landturtles.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 2 days ago:
Do you think discussions like that happen in real life?
- Comment on Starfield on PS5 Pro is the best it's ever been, but it's still Starfield | RPG Site 6 days ago:
Simple answer. Because they dont think about those things or care about them.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 1 week ago:
They run on pc sure. On the spesific spects computers they use. They need things like support for different resolution. Work arounds for the controller only features. If you want to make things like mouse control feel good, it needs lot of fiddling. Optimizing for million different hardware possibilities, error handling, launching, settings, key bindings and propably million other things i cant think right now.
Its not just flicking a switch.
- Comment on There's nothing 'euro' about 'eurojank,' says Stalker dev 2 weeks ago:
Ukraine has been always one of the biggest wheat and fertilizer producers in the world.
Is Missouri part of international decition making? Does Missouri participate in UN summits? Does the governor of Missouri have voice in international treaties? Does it have embassy in other countries?
There are probably distinct provinces in Canada and China outperforming many countries, so why should they exist on a lower tier than a “country”, just because they were persuaded or “persuaded” to incorporate into something larger?
Because povinces dont decide foreign policies. Dont have militaries, cant make treaties.
- Comment on To make video games for Gen Z, be authentic 3 weeks ago:
I dont agree with this article at all. There are still as much intrest to longer single player games than before. Its just that the audience is wider now that 15-30 years ago.
Back in the 90’s and 00’s gaming at home had pretty high level of entry. PC side was just starting up and installing and trouple shooting games were much more cumbersome than now days. If you bought a console you basically committed to the games on that console. Thats why games were catered to much narrower audience. Those audiences are still there, but now that the bar for starting to play games is so much lower there is completelly new group of gamers on the market.
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 4 weeks ago:
Opposide for me. I realised i enjoy playing games much more than making them.
But im happy for you that you found a thing you can be passionate about and spend time working on it too.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 4 weeks ago:
At the moment you are my favorite person and i hope your socks are never wet and your food always warms up evenly in the microwave.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 4 weeks ago:
I honestly dont know if this is sarcasm or not.
Game engines like unreal engine and unity have huge prefab libraries that contain both free and paid models and people can share or sell their own prefabs too. The problem with those are that you cant just pick models willy nilly as it can make the game feel like patchwork quilt when every asset has little different art style. Also in bigger production games things like polygon counts start to matter a lot, so in some cases its easier to make assets from the ground up than start to fiddle with existing models.
Most bigger studios have pretty large internal libraries they can pull from. Like for example mountain lions in GTA V and Red dead redemption are almost identical. They even use the exactly same sound in both. And bears in Skyrim and Yao Guai in Fallout 4 have same skeleton and some of the animations are fully reused.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 4 weeks ago:
Thank you stranger! I had forgotten Dink Smallwood completely. Core memory unlocked!
- Comment on Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value 4 weeks ago:
What youvare talking about? Any good service does not let anybody who contacts them change the login email just because they say they have lost the access to it. Thats like basic security.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 5 weeks ago:
Yes, predatory use is what i fear.
What i can gather from the article at the moment they are testing what is the percentage they can discount the game and make most profit still from it. I dont inherently see any proof they are aiming for full dynamic pricing.
If they give for group A, 50% discount and make 1000 sales from 70€ game they make 35 000€.
But if they give group B, 25% discount from 70€ game they make the same 35 000€ with only 667 sales.
Then they have group C as a control. If the control group will make as much money as the other groups they know for sure discounts are not good busines.
Simple so far.
After the initial numbers they most likely will follow the retention. If i were there i would follow each group weekly and take a note how much money each group generates. At this time it would be best that each group gets the same discounts and adds etc. My hypotesis would be that people who buy only games from big discounts are more unlikely to buy games at full price. Meaning that even if there were more sales there would be less income and the customers have lower CLV. It does not mean they are bad customers per se, but it would mean they are not the core customer group they should focus their effort on.
If they are doing what they are doing to figure out their audience really is, this is not predatory. A/B testing is unfortunaly the best way test it, and to company as big as Sony, the data they collect is unmeasurable in value. Everyone of us had been part if some companys A/B test at some point. Adds, news site headers, youtube videos, hell even telemarketing calls do this all the time.
Im not saying they are not looking into to dynamic pricing, but with what information the article gave me i cant say that they are.
Sorry for the long text. I wanted just to justify why i dont see this for a reason to immediadly jump in to conclusion that Sony is trying to screw everybody up.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 5 weeks ago:
Exactly what i was thinking. A/B testin is the best way to get data.
What worries me more is what they are going to do with that data and if it will lead to predatory business model or not.
- Comment on women 1 month ago:
Ah. I feel dumb.
- Comment on Farming for self sustainance 1 month ago:
Not touching the animal part, but human slaves? Im confused. Do you think farming just happens without any labor? Or do you think that working on your own farm growing food for your self is slavery? Or do you see all work as slavery?
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 month ago:
You have a point with that, but as long as consoles are easy to use they have their audience. I have both pc and ps5. I do mostly prefer my pc, but i honestly cant deny that ps has its merits. The time i have owned the one console i have needed to upgrade my pc twice.
As long as there is no convinient way for less computer savy people to play casually, consoles will be a thing.
And before you start to crusifix me, remember most people playing games do it casually and like it or not, those people are the majority and the audience that bring biggest part of the money in to the industry.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 month ago:
There are some proper games for the phones. Most of them are ports like disco elysium, octopath traveller or balatro, but because the dont get a lot of downloads in app store and google play, the platforms tend to push free games over them. And that makes sense for them, because they also profit from every transaction and ad that those games show. Quality single pay games just have one purchase per player and the audience for them is way smaller.
I personally as a consumer see so much wasted potential with mobile games. I remember when i had one hand held machine for tetris and another machine with shmup while my tamagotchi was dying somewhere. When i got gameboy it was crazy how i could take multible games with me when going on a long trip. Now we have almost always in our pocket a machine with multitudes more power than anything back then, but because how apple and google have build their enviroments devs dont have incentive to make quality single purchase products because they wont get the visibility they need.
Sites like itch.io are too small to make a difference. It would need some big player like Steam to add mobile game category in to their app, but apple and google are making it really tedious to install and update anything outside their own controlled enviroments that understandably serve for their biggest audience, who are children.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 1 month ago:
Were you in market for buying the car when you saw those adds? I you werent then they did not loose a sale even if you hated the add.
Can you honestly say, that if you were in really need of a car and there would be opportunity to buy a yaris with good price and it would be good fit to your needs at the moment, you would pass it just because some add you saw at some point?
Was it so effective you repeat the name of the product years later in some random discussion on the internet?
I think the adds worked pretty much as intented.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 1 month ago:
Sometimes even if you buy from different place the owner of the companies are the same. Like if you ask offers for new windows in norther europe the three biggest companies are owned by same company.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 1 month ago:
I bet i have heard the same add, even living in Finland. I live close enough to border so i get good mix of Finish, Swedish and Norwegian adds. And every single one of those are way louder than the podcast is.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 1 month ago:
I bet you were thinking about some add when writing this.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 1 month ago:
Well go mod something else then. Ill manage just fine without your help.
It sounds nitpicky because there are only like handfull of games that let people mod the game as much as skyrim does. The vast majority of the games just soils them selfs if you touch the files. Its not perfect, but its better than most.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine 1 month ago:
Yet still its one of the most modded engine of all times. Most games dont have any kind of mod support and they just stop working completelly if you do anything beond texture change.
Bashing creation engines modding is like yelling in a desert about how the water in the oasis would be better with ice cubes. You are not wrong, but it seems really nitpicky.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 month ago:
Well its does not mean “fuck all”. It means the games are run based and randomised.
Also Rogue had zero meta progression.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 month ago:
Ah. The romance of giving the right colour knicknack 20 times to somebody and get the relationship meter to green.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 month ago:
I think i might have touched this subject before, but im really torn how many games handle sexuality of the characters.
I kind of hate how in many games every dateable character are main character-sexual. I feel like it robs the characters some depth when they dont care of the character is he/she/other. It makes the characters feel bland amd plastic.
But on the other hand games are a medium where player should be able to craft their own story and feel accepted, so devs should limit and hinder the player as little as they can. Especially when the real world can be so hostile towards the sexual minorities.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 month ago:
I have been thinking about loosing the “romanticism” with games a lot and i feel internet and the large amount of games available are big factor to it.
Back in the olden days as a kid living in the boonies i had only handfull of chances in the year to buy a new game. And when i had, i had allready made a decition that today i will buy something, before i even knew what was available in the store. Going in the game shop was a mystery. I did not know anything about the games beforehand unless i had seen one in the friends house. The purchase decition was made allready at home, but the product was chosen at the store by looking the package game was in and the few description words on the case. Some if those games i bought was really bad, but i could not just refund them so i played them anyway. And if i liked the game a lot i might play it trough multiple times a year.
Now when im buying something i know allmost everything about the game beforehand from reviews, if the game does not click the moment i start it, i will just refund it and when i finish the game its likely that i will never start it again because i have allready something new to play.
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 month ago:
I could say every Final Fantasy game after FF9
But real answer is GTA V. I loved my first playtrough and enjoyed the game a lot. Since then i have tried to start it fresh half a dosen times and every time i just loose intrest about midway trough.