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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guess The Game (#012)⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, Space Station Silicon Valley, published by take 2 (now known as the gta publisher and not much else) and one of very few (maybe the only) games for N64 that don’t work with the expansion pack. If you have the extra ram, it just won’t run at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Because with the contest itself he’s already got Johnny caught on pride and greed, and now Johnny will go around telling other people they can beat the devil, making his job easier down the line. The only winning move was not to play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot of reasons, but the big thing you need to keep in mind is that the average gamer buys less than 2 games a year. That’s who you’re targeting if you wanna sell a million billion copies of a game. Where most years that’s probably going to be a sports game or cod, GTA is a cultural phenomenon that will have millions and millions of dollars of advertising behind it. First buying the game will be social, a way to engage with cultural phenomenon, then it’ll be a good value proposition (typically they’ve had a lot of hours of gameplay per dollar thanks to open ended sandbox gameplay and breadth of features), and then it’ll be social again when GTA6 Online drops, and again when the PC release happens. This is all staggered out to maximize sale and resale and stay in the discourse to the point that it’s what an AI would say a CEO should do for a big release. After that they’ll be targeting whales because old GTA Online still makes over a million dollars a day in 2026 but that’s drifting away from the why

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom isn't worried about PlayStation and Nintendo shrinking the physical games market: "90% of our unit sales are digital"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  For capcom? Not a majority, but I think it’s their largest single segment. I’ll dig up the details

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how to cut aluminum pipe with hardly any comments about flock cameras⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they actually protest and have a history of killing fascists in the ruling class when faced with government overreach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A third so far!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Admitedly some of their stated platform goals are a bit weird and extreme, such as abolishing presidential elections.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What did the tariffs do for us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  $1.19 billion for apple, iirc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF Is Happening To The Video Game Industry?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’m not strictly arguing with your points here, I do feel like a lot of this thread is ignoring a lot of Japanese gaming companies, especially Sony, who have been playing the same game as microsoft, just on a smaller scale. Squeenix have also been obsessively chasing live service games, making dozens and then shutting them all down, most of them surviving 3 years or less. Meanwhile konami shut down their gaming development entirely (unless you onclude gambling games) not that long ago and have had 3rd party devs (like bloober team for silent hill 2) making anything involving their properties so they can back out anytime they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not forget they’ve been emulating amazons efforts to drive prices up across the market

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro they make an entirely different model in Europe so the batteries can be less replaceable everywhere else. Nintendo has supported region locking for ages and it can be done on a software level without a new SKU. I don’t see any reason they’d be doing away with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do both games & consoles cost more in the US when you factor in both sales tax and minimum wage?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yooooo! Anything worth reccing? That’s deeply nostalgic, and a friend has been starting dev on one, so it might be worth seeing how they’ve progressed in the decades since MUDs were commonplace

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon invents a time machine⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there’d also be no Israel. The creation of Mandatory Palestine, which would go on to be Israel, was just the British answer to the “Jewish question” after WW1, if you can just convince the Brits to be chill you can prevent a lot of atrocities

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld v1.0 - Official Release Changelog⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Totally forgot about this. Great call out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld v1.0 - Official Release Changelog⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They have been so far, both in terms of fan goodwill and generally good business practices. Haven’t exploded their budget on a hiring spree as if the success will keep paying out forever, have supported the game well and taken in player criticism, especially for this 1.0 release, fought Nintendo’s patent troll strategy in court (and it looks like it’ll pay off), and expanded into a spinoff while continuing to work on the original. Haven’t seen any greed on display, either

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld v1.0 - Official Release Changelog⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t call palworld similar to Pokemon or monster hunter in gameplay. It’s most similar to Ark Survival Evolved or other survival sandboxes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[OC] Anon is a femcel⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox testing disc-to-digital feature to digitize game collections⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes we get “our competitor has made a very publicly ridiculed mistake, and now is our chance to gain favor with our audience by doing the opposite” and others it’s “our competitor has made a very publicly ridiculed mistake, but we really wanted to do that so now’s the chance while they’re taking all the heat for doing it first”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this guy is right. You don’t need games. We should shut down this whole community. In fact, destroy all aspects of society that have ever had the slimmest negatives that aren’t vital to daily survival

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 2's co-lead designer was asked to make Baldur's Gate 4 after Larian declined: 'Having to compete against Baldur's Gate 3? That would be insanity'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft would have to buy hasbro in it’s entirety because wotc is the only piece worth anything, they’d never drop it. Other than that, disgustingly plausible. Could imagine microsoft buying hasbro just for wotc and shutting everything else down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now throw it at someone’s head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Hearts IV - Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t wait to see realistic everyone next to donald and goofy. Abandoning the art style for “vaguely realistic” is such a bonkers take in general, but especially for kingdom hearts. Maybe Disney pushed to have love action movies represented in 4???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable - 30 Minute Gameplay Demo | Build An Extraordinary Life⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Loathe this and it’s not totally unusual. Kingdom Hearts of all things is transitioning to realistic aesthetic away from it’s original art style and I am SO CONFUSED. Donald and Goofy will look so out of place alongside realistic Sora. Either way, I’ll take a real, deliberately chosen art style over “realistic” for anything any day of the week

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft admits Game Pass price hike drove away "millions" of subscribers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, also around that time they doubled down on supporting Israel’s genocide and, here in the US, mass surveilance by ICE. I know that’s equally if not more important for me personally

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We're determined to win justice for the 31 fired workers" - Rockstar Games workers publicly launch union, as legal battle with the GTA 6 maker rages on⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Feels like the last chance. If they don’t push before gta6 comes out rockstar will have a MASSIVE cash reservoir to sit on and no worries about their biggest project being delayed, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Baldur's Gate 2 remake is apparently in development, with the original co-lead designer returning⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And even lower level caps under 5.5e, and even lower lower caps with the subscribers only content on dndbeyond

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 683 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking this up, looks like there is a clip through a wall you can do to escape the soft lock, but this was back around release, so idk if it would have been found yet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 683 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I liked TP well enough, but it’ll always be polluted by a game ending bug I encountered. After teleporting something large into a cave to enable you to enter a dungeon, but before activating it, if you save in that cave, you’ll be trapped in that cave with an NPC preventing you from leaving, forever. This is towards the end of the game iirc. I eventually started over, but, that really killed the vibe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watch: Zuckerberg’s superyacht arrives in Seattle just as Meta cuts 1,400 local jobs (video in body)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t strictly disagree, but it’s harder for Americans to properly protest when they may be killed or jailed for a peaceful protest vs, say, France, where farmers literally coated government buildings with shit and their non-militarized police just went “well of course, that’s their right!” Meanwhile, when German press went to the US to cover the George Floyd protests, police shot at them, even though they were well identified, cooperative members of the press.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Off topic, but you seem likely to have opinions: If I was looking for a device to read in/before bed (ideally not a backlit screen) that would be used for more than just text (comics, tabletop rpg pdf content that would contain tables and illustrations, etc), are there any obvious choices, or things to look for? I’m comfortable jailbreaking, or even performing minor hard mods, but I haven’t really shopped for an ereader before so I frankly have no idea what to look for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call of controversy? Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 imagines a revived Korean war⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wat. SURELY the copyright for Sherlock Holmes expired ages ago. Wasn’t that part of the reason we got a bunch of movies and shows about Holmes a handful of years back?