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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporate management types are not organically recruited from experienced labour, they are from the “brahmin” echelons of society. Not only do they not understand that not all man hours are different, they have no clue of what is going on since they are recruited because of their pedigree and not competence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For years I’ve been warning whoever would listen that XboxGP, much like any other content subscription service owned by a public company would inevitably lead to a massive consumer squeeze. Fortunately it happened before MS managed to metastasise into a monopoly in gaming too. Good riddance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, I refuse to continue engaging with bad faith arguments.

  Have a nice day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It does shift review coverage, generally, toward the ones with the most advertising

  but that doesn’t mean that Redfall and Suicide Squad still can’t happen and review poorly

  Thank you for arguing in my favour. Both Redfall and Suicide Squad reviewed well above 50%. For people on Lemmy arguing about statistics it’s obvious the mean is shifted so anything around 75% is mediocre, however, to the average consumer, that is not the case. Furthermore, I mentioned Kane and Lynch because that game was the reason giant bomb exists and everyone nowadays knows big publishers strong-arm outlets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure Kane and Lynch are audience favorites. No reason not to think only the best games get reviewed and thus, shifting the mean 25% in the favor of the companies that just so happen to be the ones paying for advertising. It’s more likely outlets, on average, only review good games, that sounds more reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Statistically, if more than half of a random sample of steam games are rated to be good, the standards for evaluation are shit.

  And the people that were supposed to let us know if a game is good or not, the “professionals”, have a median score around ~75% according to open critic data, otherwise they wouldn’t have a job because sponsors would gfo.

  We’re on our own shifting through a pile of de facto shovelware to find anything of worth nowadays.

  It’s a problem not exclusive to games, mind you. Music, scientific publishing and other content for profit industries have the exact same issue: Vetting quality requires work so for profit institutions offload the vetting to the user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox invests big into indies, signs Game Pass deals with over 50 studios⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, that’s 50 studios that won’t ever see my money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t like it, don’t buy it. I’m happy for team cherry and their success. It’s not for me but I don’t resent them that it isn’t. This nothing burger discussion is yet another nothing burger designed to drive clicks and traffic off of the work of people who ACTUALLY create something of worth. Modern parasitism at its best.