Abundance114
@Abundance114@lemmy.world
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 week ago:
Haha, there’s not much I wouldn’t buy at a 95% discount.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 week ago:
Playstation is next; Nintendo has the securist market with its portable console.
I would think hand helds like the steam deck would be slowly strangling it but the switch 2 sold like hotcakes.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 week ago:
Indeed. Death to consoles. A piece of hardware/software creating a gated community where you’re charged twice to use the entrance and then gaslit into thinking that it’s a necessary fee.
- Comment on Unhinged... I'm gonna start doing that 1 week ago:
That is was too much for out. Lol
- Comment on PUBG publisher Krafton creates new Chief AI Officer executive role as it continues its ‘AI First’ strategy 1 week ago:
I just hated how it felt, if felt unresponsive and clunky. Like someone spent about 5 minutes in their engine creating the movement system.
I’m sure it was fun, otherwise no one would have played it. I’m probably in the minority on this opinion. I feel the same way about DayZ
- Comment on PUBG publisher Krafton creates new Chief AI Officer executive role as it continues its ‘AI First’ strategy 1 week ago:
I really never understood why PUBG was ever popular. It already played like a pile of slop without the use of AI.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
Let’s promis to only quote once per reply shall me? I don’t know how you’re doing it but I’m not going to write you a high school length essay with every reply. If you think I sound a bit two sides it because I am, every reply you make is doie of five different discussions.
Public malls, Your personal geographic experience of malls is limited and also irrelevant. Dial your mind back to the 1970s and turn off your adversarial mindset and I’m sure you’ll be able to make it work. Also malls are absolutely huge, and big booming business in some areas.
Cell phones - No, it’s hardware that didn’t require an extra subscription fee so that they could their expanded “infrastructure”. I can absolutely use a phone to make a phone call through numerous apps with just a wifi connection.
Now you’re changing directions to other products that did something entirely unrelated to what we’re talking about, in order to find some parallel in an entirely different market. We’re REALLY grasping at straws here now.
Again, it’s analagous to the “infrastructure development” of literally every other tech industry; and exemplifies how everyone else somehow expanded infrastructure, without additional subscription fees.
Feel free to leave if you’re not enjoying the conversation: or do I need to like… Send you $5 a month so you can integrate NOT clicking reply into your Lemmy experience.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
It seems you’re saying is that Microsoft created this amazing playground, and then sold solutions to the problems they created when they fenced it off, and then passed that off as innovation with a subscription fee?
The party system, the group screens, the voice chat, these were all created to make up for the short comings of consoles. Our players can’t install ventrilo on Xbox. They can’t quickly type a message on a keyboard and hit enter, so let’s create a solution for the problems that we created when we made this a locked ecosystem.
So I don’t know… You’re saying everything that Xbox did was doable before on PC, but required multiple accounts and apps; but then Xbox needs lots of money to copy those features into their product? Don’t know if I buy it, and I certainly don’t 20+ years and billions of dollars buy it.
You’ve said a few times now that steam took 15 years to add these feature and it seems obvious to me why. We already had that shit. Sure it’s convenient on console, but it’s not subscription worthy.
Think of any other system that incorporated already existing features together to form a more convenient enjoyable experience and you’ll see that there isn’t a subscription fee.
Public malls, smart phones (still replaces multiple products without a data plan), Gas station/convenience stores, Google has been consolidated products together and building infrastructure for decades; and no subscription fee, and I guarantee you Googles infrastructure is light-years beyond Xbox, Xbox probably runs a lot of shit through Google.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
Okay. Pick a gaming feature that you believe was created by console manufacturers from 2002-present.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
and only through Steam
Now you’re being a bit unfair by bundling together console hardware and software while keeping PC hardware and software separate.
To be fair you would need to take into account every available piece of software to make the determination if those features were available for PC before, at the same time, or after consoles.
If I had to guess I’d say that in 90% of cases the innovation occured on PC due to it being an open ecosystem with freely available development hardware and higher numbers of developers. Big successful companies generally don’t come up with big new good ideas, they steal them from other products that have already been proven.
But let’s just looks at this differently. In 2004 the Microsoft video game division reported profits of 2.75 billion. The Xbox live service reported 750,000 subscribers each paying $50 a year, or $37,500,000. The absence of Xbox live would have reduced Microsoft game divisions profits from 2.75 billion to 2.71 billion. Basically a rounding error. Microsoft could have easily funded any of the developments absent the subscription just as Playstation did for years later; just as PC does until this day
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
It is. The party system, voice chat services, and the ability to join on or invite friends in a universal way regardless of the game without having to make an account for that game all requires expensive infrastructure and manpower to build and maintain.
Yeah sorry, what is this… Like the third time I’ve stated this? PC did all of the things you’re claiming without an extra subscription fee. Sure, maybe Xbox took some subscription fees and funded infrastructure, that’s not my point. My point is they didn’t need to, as evidenced by someone else who did the exact same thing without the subscription model.
Playstation and Xbox, as a publicly traded hardware and software company, are much more pressured to discover and capture extraneous revenue sources; and the vast majority of the subscription income went to investors.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
but when you have to pay for the infrastructure for your video games it’s robbery?
We already discussed this. The Playstation Plus subscription isnt paying for internet infrastructure. PC has no monthly fee, and it’s infrastructure is exactly the same.
This tells me you weren’t around for the early days of PC gaming
Oh I was… So Xbox game pass released in 2002, PlayStation followed much later in 2010.
In 2002 Warcraft 3’s multiplayer was fine. In 2002 Battlefield 1942 was fine; It was a good as Halo’s multiplayer, which somehow ALSO had fine multiplayer at release in 2001 despite the subscription service for multiplayer not until a year after the game had already launched.
It was the game consoles that really fixed multiplayer early on with their party systems that persisted outside of each game.
Even if I gave you that, the subscription “fee” isn’t what fixed multiplayer design, that was fixed by… Game developers.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
well. The console network fees fund infrastructure
I mean where they spend the money is irrelevant. If I rob you, is it suddenly okay if I spend your money responsibly? No.
PC has had online multiplayer since the creation of the internet, and PC did it without ever having a fee on top of internet access.
I would also argue that playstation plus membership fees, with all their millions of dollars, have not created a better environment than what available on PC for free, so…
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 1 week ago:
The reboot just shat the bed.
Get woke go broke, rite.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 1 week ago:
I absolutely hate the whale hunting that developers go through these days.
It’s more profitable for them to find a few whales spending $10,000 on their game every year than making a good product.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
I dont think the analogy works. Gas taxes are universal in the U.S. for road fuel, they also fund infrastructure, not stock holders and CEOs.
A tax is not an arbitrary subscription fee, it’s an ongoing expensive.
In order for your analogy to work, the fee would need to be created out of no where for no reason other than self enrichment; and there would need to be a viable alternative that provides practically the exact same benefit with no fee.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 1 week ago:
Screw all the consoles. They deserve extinction for scamming everyone for years by requiring monthly subscriptions to play online.
Literally like selling someone a subscription to drive your car out of town.
- Comment on Sony plans to minimize effect of rising PlayStation 5 memory costs by boosting software and network service revenue, according to CFO 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like they are taking the loss. Subsidizing the increased cost of production with funds from online subscriptions…
Let’s talking about how much of a joke it is that consoles need an additional subscription to go online.
- Comment on Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks 2 weeks ago:
Also, when you love Trek, you love all of them
Mmm, it’s a bit like saying if you love gourmet food, than we’ll love pig slop.
- Comment on NO. 3 weeks ago:
Dat ass needs a trim
- Comment on Star Wars: Galactic Racer - Gameplay Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Really needs a RPG or at least a rogue lite system on top or it’s going to struggle to keep an audience.
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, maybe Call of Shootercraft
- Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 4 weeks ago:
Turns out there is a method of fusion power that doesn’t boil water. It generates massive electromagnetic fields that creates electricity.
direct energy conversion in a magnetic confinement setup, specifically leveraging a field-reversed configuration
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 4 weeks ago:
Ya haha, would you want to live in that world? I mean I feel like if we had enough people sorting the garbage we could find the gold.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC 4 weeks ago:
I played and refunded after my 3080ti had a hard time getting 60 fps in 1080p.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 4 weeks ago:
If everyone in the world suddenly created a video game and 99.999% of them are garbage, but 0.001% of them were good, that’s still 8,000,000 good games.
Vastly increasing the number of video games released undoubtedly leads to more good games. The problem at that point is more finding them rather than questioning whether or not they exist.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 4 weeks ago:
I agree, and lowering the cost of entry to the game development market means more games and better games for all of us.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 4 weeks ago:
I’ll straight up admit that I can’t compete in most pvp titles; and I don’t want to be a loot goblin for the high school kids who are going to 360 no-scope headshot me from across the map and then tea bag my corpse.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 4 weeks ago:
I could get info that game either. It looks amazing. I’m sure the experience is great, but it never really grabbed me.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 4 weeks ago:
StarCraft 2 is the bomb, just download it and play the campaigns, it’s worth it. Probably the best RTS campaign IMO.