DupaCycki
@DupaCycki@lemmy.world
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 1 hour ago:
The end of ownership came a long time ago for PS players. Now it’s just the end of fancy boxes and discs that give an illusion of ownership.
Which is still bad, but let’s not mix up facts.
- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 3 hours ago:
Hopefully there will be no next president. Let the country end with this one.
- Comment on “Teaching crabs how to read” 8 hours ago:
I don’t remember the last time I had search/browsing history enabled.
- Comment on no one is getting back to me on filling my hole 14 hours ago:
One of the few non-major American cities I recognize instantly. This one from… a lot of true crime documentaries. Great to know the roads are improving though!
- Comment on Sick as hell 14 hours ago:
That’s wallpaper material right there. Now give us a source to a 4k image.
- Comment on They're F*ing trying again 1 day ago:
Don’t underestimate my 10000 hours in counter strike, half of which was playing as terrorists!
- Comment on They're F*ing trying again 1 day ago:
How can they stop people from just sending encrypted messages?
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 3 days ago:
ESO is developed by an entirely different company - Bethesda’s parent company, Zenimax. The only input from Bethesda is lore-related. They also use a completely different engine, and not Bethesda’s creation engine.
- Comment on 'We Need to Change Course' — Bethesda Boss Tells Staff the Company Must Focus on 'Our Strongest Franchises' as Xbox Layoffs Hit Hard 3 days ago:
Depends how you look at it. Obsidian was more like a modding team than a game development team for New Vegas. They had the engine and all mechanics ready to use. All they had to do was minor tweaks and new content. So essentially modding, not developing a game.
Arguably, most of ‘game development’ these days is more akin to ‘modding’ from 10+ years ago, so the terms kind of lose their meaning. But New Vegas was made in 2008-2010, so I think it fits.
As we can see years later, games made by Obsidian from scratch aren’t nearly as good. Perhaps what made New Vegas great was the mix of Bethesda and Obsidian. Or maybe Obsidian just lost their edge, like most studios, sadly.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 3 days ago:
Don’t tempt him. One call is all it takes for Fifa to suddenly declare that actually the USA won. Turns out refs missed 87 fouls by the Belgian team.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 3 days ago:
Are you suggesting Fifa or football in general wasn’t already shit?
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 5 days ago:
Very slight difference to note. Leopold II was alive 150 years ago. Trump is alive today.
- Comment on Sony 5 days ago:
Game companies realized their mistakes in making some fun games in the past, and now are trying to make sure nobody can play them.
- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 1 week ago:
They’ll probably release a new Series S as a streaming only console. And a new Series X, maybe with a disc drive. Gen after that it’ll be streaming only.
- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 1 week ago:
…where you can pirate every single one of Sony’s games. And emulate not ported ones. Pirated too, of course. Pirate and seed even if you have no intention of playing.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Personally I bought a PS5 only to collect physical games and be able to play them. I’m not paying premium PS prices for temporary, digital access.
I think it’s safe to say this means PS6 will either be digital only, or heavily focused on digital. Which for me is a non-negotiable deal breaker.
PlayStation is pulling off the best marketing campaign Xbox could ever dream of.
- Comment on It's that time again 1 week ago:
Do you have any idea how many homeless (and some with homes too) animals die from heart attacks caused by fireworks?
Or how many people with ptsd, anxiety, or other issues need to cover their windows and ears, just to not have a panic attack?
All just so a bunch of retards can laugh about their great country.
Same for all other countries on new year’s eve. Except the ones that banned fireworks.
I can excuse people having intellectual disabilities and not realizing this. But anyone who does and still chooses to play with fireworks belongs in a re-education camp.
- Comment on I know which one I'm picking! 1 week ago:
- Comment on Before the revolution 1 week ago:
Hold on. It used to be… blue?!
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
There was a big study the EU commissioned to show negative effects of piracy on sales of various media. When it concluded that there’s no negative impact, the EU decided not to release it. The only exception in the study were recent big movie releases, which did see significant (about 5%) financial losses due to piracy.
Link: engadget.com/2017-09-22-eu-suppressed-study-pirac…
In 2016, the Technology Policy Institute looked at 25 piracy-related studies to analyze the combined data. According to them, there was a negative effect shown in 22 out of 25 studies. However, they also noted that it’s a very complex question, and that the results were ‘economic theory inconclusive’.
Link: techpolicyinstitute.org/…/the-truth-about-piracy/
When you take a look at these studies, you will very quickly notice a trend. They’re always published by big, very much pro-copyright corporations. They use vague terms and employ questionable methodology.
A study showing a positive impact of piracy on video game sales (but negative for music). Music and movies seem to be the most likely to actually suffer from piracy.
Link: researchgate.net/…/288206476_The_impact_of_piracy…
While it may be difficult to gauge whether piracy is overall beneficial or harmful to any industry, it seems to be quite clear that for video games specifically, it does not present any threat to sales.
Bonus: several successful studios are getting closed, and others will face layoffs. Because it literally doesn’t make a difference how well a game performs. If it’s a big corporation - layoffs will continue happening.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
Paid actor or just retard?
There’s clear data showing piracy almost never has a negative impact on sales. If anything, it’s usually a positive impact. And the exceptions to this are not video games.
Don’t kid yourself. The artists will get fired either way. Whether or not the game sells well will not change anything. Aside from the point above.
Anti-piracy advocates like you are the cancer of the gamer community. You’re doing absolutely nothing for the world, but spewing corporate propaganda that is based on nothing but the words of an ultra rich pedophile.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
It’s like trying to boycott Nestle.
Sooo, like… entirely possible with some effort?
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
Piracy isn’t stealing either way, but this slogan is good. We need more people to pirate than ever before.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
Why is Netflix on the list??
Because it does make games and is part of the anti-stopkillinggames lobby.
And why is Riot on the list?
Shit game company in general. Also part of the lobby if I remember correctly.
ESL is an e-sports organisation, they do e-sport events, they don’t make games. Why are they on the list?
This one I’m not sure. Probably part of the lobby as well? Can’t confirm right now, but a lot ot companies you haven’t even heard about are lobbying against it.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
Advice:
Just pirate.
- Comment on She skipped groceries for a week to pay for that Little Caesars. 1 week ago:
“Its” is deprecated.
Looks like your brain is deprecated.
- Comment on We found their kryptonite! 1 week ago:
The government would hate it if you happened to lose a sizeable device capable of spontaneously combusting near a data center.
- Comment on Surviving a heatwave : Prison Edition 1 week ago:
If they lived in Sweden they’d have AC in prison.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know where the gatekeeping comes from. Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but I literally encouraged the other person to play more varieties of games, which as far as I know is the opposite of gatekeeping.
Though I can agree the ‘take’ wasn’t particularly good. I found the other comment stupid, so I wrote a stupid, maybe mocking reply. That’s all there is to it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I guess it depends on what you’re into, but for me stories in GTA are mediocre at best. Just average action movies dragged out into 40+ hour walking, driving, and shooting simulators.
