edible_funk
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- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
You’re right Baldur’s Gate 3, Kingdom Come Deliverance and its sequel, Witcher 3, Cyberpunk 2077, all massive failures. You’re a fucking clown.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
You can’t even fuckin read kid.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
You just really like leaping to unimplied conclusions don’t ya? No DRM is a valid strategy as shown by the massive success of DRM free games, your assertion is stupid bullshit. And since you’re doubling and tripling down on bad faith ignorance like a shitty troll I’m ending the conversation here.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
You read so well you’re reading conclusions that aren’t presented! Actually read the fuckin link, it doesn’t say anything other than what it says and you’re some sort of ideological defender of DRM so you’re bad faith twice. Fuckin lemmy pigeons playing chess.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
You’re not academically literate are ya? Don’t parse many studies or papers or even know how to, do ya?
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
It looks like a modern arpg but plays more like paper Mario. It’s turn based combat but there’s a rhythm block/parry system that’s pretty important to not dying. I think it has an auto parry mode for easy difficulty, but it’s very much a 2000s era jrpg under a fancy French coat of modern paint. There’s areas and dungeons very similar to how final fantasy or Chrono Trigger are structured. Great story.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
If it’s remotely on par with their previous dlc offerings it’ll be a dozen hours of content easy. The entire god of war game didn’t last that long.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Troll?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Check out Dishonored and the Metro games. And Control. I think they would be up your alley based on your short list there.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
And how much worse would they have sold if they weren’t DRM free? You can’t assert they would have sold better without actual data, and there isn’t any available. But in the case of cyberpunk specifically, made by cdpr, the company behind gog, I can safely say that if they had DRM they would have instantly alienated a significant portion of their fan base.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
That’s not how data works. It doesn’t say anything but what it says. You’re making inferences, which sure fair but until there’s data specific to your inferences (there isn’t) you can’t say that. You can say denuvo cracks in the first week in the case of some 90 games resulted in up to a maximum of twenty percent loss of sales. It is an important distinction. And the massive success of DRM free titles also goes against your assertion.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
Cyberpunk sold well. Kingdom Come Deliverance sold well. Launching without DRM does not absolutely annihilate sales.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
That’s not exactly what it’s saying. It’s specific to denuvo games which generally means AAA publishers, it’s a small sample size, and it’s about the impact DRM has on sales, not piracy. It’s not an arbitrary distinction. I’ll grant it definitely implies piracy has a net negative effect on sales but that’s not at all what it’s actually saying.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
Don’t be so sure. Apparently they publishers don’t make hard numbers publicly available anymore so there’s no good data but there was a survey of denuvo games.
A Denuvo-protected game cracked in the first week after release can expect to make about 20 percent less revenue than if the DRM had remained in place, according to the study, while a crack six weeks after a game’s release only costs an estimated 5 percent of theoretical total revenue. After 12 weeks, new sales are so negligible that “developers could eventually remove unpopular DRM schemes with minimal losses (and possible gains from strongly DRM-averse consumers)
arstechnica.com/…/the-true-cost-of-game-piracy-20…
Unfortunately that still doesn’t answer the question but until publishers post honest numbers we’ll never have the proper metrics to measure the actual impact piracy has. But in the day freeware like Doom basically relied entirely on piracy for sales so it’s not an out of pocket take that piracy could benefit sales. It is an old take though. I’m old.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
Last I looked into it video game piracy actually had a net benefit on sales. Any advantage DRM has from a sales point of view is null after about 3 months post launch anyway. It can and does kill small indie devs but any big boy in the industry, piracy usually benefits sales.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
Expedition 33 might scratch your itch.
- Comment on Me this morning 1 week ago:
I always want to take a nap after a few cups.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
I get it but the distinction is not particularly meaningful when you’re discussing sexual attraction to children. There aren’t degrees of severity here.
- Comment on After laying off thousands, Ubisoft says losing "key talents and skills" is a big danger for the company 2 weeks ago:
I mean, they did review well. I guess not according to your unquestionable criteria but you don’t get to say in the seventies is bad. And it’s funny that people always mention botw and elden ring like they don’t do exactly the same thing but with their own gimmicks (and intentionally bad design) attached.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
I mean, not really? It means the same thing, it’s just not as stigmatized. That doesn’t make it suddenly not pedophilia. It’s still pedophilia, just nobody cares.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
Except the context is just that pedophilia is much less stigmatized. It still means pedophile it just doesn’t carry the social consequences because it’s more socially acceptable. It doesn’t mean something that can’t be expressed in english. It’s not complicated. Saying someone is perving on little girls would be less impactful than calling them a pedophile but it means the same thing.
- Comment on After laying off thousands, Ubisoft says losing "key talents and skills" is a big danger for the company 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but we weren’t talking about the games costing more than they made, we were talking about the general online opinion that Ubisoft makes shitty games when they consistently make quality games. You’re on to something with your point about the Ubisoft open world formula having generally lost favor among the masses. It seems like modern gamers that want single player experiences are looking for more focused and innovative narratives over curated playgrounds, though most of the money seems to be in online competitive games. Anyway I’m just pushing back on the assertion that Ubisoft makes bad games because that’s nonsense. They make good games.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
Can you link any of these studies?
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
It’s only the same argument if running around GTA shooting everyone makes you horny. The effects of arousal on brain chemistry changes things so it’s not really apples to apples here.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
Wait, you’re actually arguing kids can consent?
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
The lack of stigma against pedophilia does not make it not pedophilia, it just makes it socially acceptable to be a pedophile.
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 2 weeks ago:
So what you’re saying is that culturally Japan doesn’t have as much of a problem with pedophilia as english speaking countries. That’s not really a defense or a refutation that lolicon means pedophile.
- Comment on After laying off thousands, Ubisoft says losing "key talents and skills" is a big danger for the company 2 weeks ago:
Seventy is good bordering on great. What the hell is this trend of everyone thinking seven out of ten is garbage when it’s better than most? Seventy is a very good score. I understand that everyone says this and that, everyone says they underperformed but nobody has any hard data, and all the people that have actually played the games have a positive experience. I also don’t know why everyone is automatically attributing layoffs to poor sales when literally every game company and media company and just fuckin every company is doing the same. Clearly ubisoft is suffering financially, but it isn’t because they make bad games. Literally everything consumer-hostile practice they have other companies do more aggressively. Ubisoft doesn’t hold a candle to the mtx fuckery of rockstar and bethesda but nobody trashes their games like the Ubisoft dogpile. Like yeah, the games are derivative and remix mechanics ad nauseum but they’re high quality for the most part. You get a shit load of content, the writing is always solid, they’re fun to play. I just can’t help feeling like most of the people circlejerking Ubisoft hate were probably active in gamergate.
- Comment on After laying off thousands, Ubisoft says losing "key talents and skills" is a big danger for the company 2 weeks ago:
I’m not familiar with hyperscape but the other two are about 70 on metacritic. That’s a pretty great score considering launch performance. But then no game in the last five years at least has launched without shitty initial performance. Where are you getting information about sales numbers though? Most publishers are very vague about hard numbers what with the bullshit subscription services but I didn’t see anything that indicated they lost money on either title.
- Comment on After laying off thousands, Ubisoft says losing "key talents and skills" is a big danger for the company 2 weeks ago:
Yeah outlaws was great, we get a fun non Jedi star wars story that feels part of the universe and stays open for room for more? It was a damn good time and I enjoyed Kay Vess as a character.