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- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 1 hour ago:
They gave the Heroic Launcher devs an affiliate link, so while they don’t really support Linux they at least approve of it
- Comment on Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style? 1 day ago:
I remember that being the “feature” which really highlighted the dumbing-down of the game. Work things out for yourself? Look them up? Remember what you’ve learned? No, we’ve solved the puzzle for you, don’t worry.
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 1 day ago:
It’s still providing a correct explanation to people, I guess
- Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) 2 days ago:
Libel if it’s in print, slander if you say it in person
- Comment on All of this month's 'free' games with Prime Gaming 5 days ago:
As with all offers like this Amazon are hoping that it causes people who weren’t subscribed before to stat paying them regularly, and posts like this are kind of giving them free advertising.
It’s similar to recommending something like reward credit cards (where you can make money off them as long as you pay them off in full and never pay any interest), if you’re sensible enough with your money then you can get a freebie but the provider is looking to profit off you messing up or forgetting.
- Comment on Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet 6 days ago:
Isn’t that how most businesses work? If a small company gets successful enough to be big but not so successful that they become the market leader then a big company buys them for their customer base.
- Comment on All of this month's 'free' games with Prime Gaming 6 days ago:
As I post whenever someone complains about them not being free in !freegames@feddit.uk: you can sign up for a free trial of prime, claim the thirty or so games currently available, cancel, and keep all the games forever without having to give a penny to Amazon.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 6 days ago:
Resist the FOMO, don’t buy a game just because it’s brand new and they paid for enough marketing that everyone’s talking about it. Go through your backlog, replay your favourites, find some cheap indies or second hand classic or free giveaways. Nobody can force you to pay through the nose for games and there’s more choice than ever before!
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 1 week ago:
I don’t think anyone’s claiming it’s difficult, it’s just more of a risk. If you’re the investor calling the shots with your big bag of money do you choose a new idea which might be great but people might not like, or to rehash an existing idea that already has fans who will buy more of the same? The decision is entirely financial.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #13 1 week ago:
So…dev stumbles, fans harass, and the project is dead.
Goodbye Winlator…for now?
Ugh, another amazing one-person project killed by harassment. The internet makes it so trivial to bombard someone with hate-mail, and I doubt many of us have been through the “media training” necessary to deal with it. I only have the tiniest of projects going and if the people I thought I was making a nice thing for suddenly turned on me then I think I’d be saying “fuck it then” too.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 week ago:
You can do a call in a group chat, right?
- Comment on 🤙 hang ten 🤙 1 week ago:
Despite being a shitpost this is actually quite a positive statement for your own mental health
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 1 week ago:
I just go with “corpo social media” - is there a company trying to get infinite growth and profit behind the website?
- Comment on World’s First ‘Splashless’ Urinal keeps the Floor Clean and your Pants Pee-free - Yanko Design 1 week ago:
Nautilus was torture-tested with poor aim scenarios, erratic flow rates, and simulated misfires
reducing splashback by a staggering 98%
Seems like they did this properly, and while it’s not perfect it handles sprinkler mode pretty well
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- Comment on Unannounced Blade Runner Game Canceled At Supermassive 1 week ago:
I guess it depends on how big the company is, if they have a long-standing team and work on multiple projects or if they’re mainly contractors brought in for one big project. I’d hope a company like Supergiant have enough other projects going on that nobody’s losing their job over this.
- Comment on Unannounced Blade Runner Game Canceled At Supermassive 1 week ago:
Why would they fire the team instead of just moving everyone to other projects? Aren’t the tales you hear about projects being canned and the whole team made redundant specifically due to not having the money to do the project or because some new bigwig is trying to cut costs?
- Comment on *hands to an undergrad* 2 weeks ago:
They’re a camera company, so I imagine they’ll do anything with lenses
- Comment on Nintendo lawyers want to force Discord to reveal Pokémon Teraleak source 2 weeks ago:
Maybe this will finally make people realise that using an unencrypted corpo-controlled messenger for all of their communications is a bad idea
- Comment on Doom (2016) now DRM free on GOG 2 weeks ago:
Are you accessing it not from a UK IP? Always defaults to GBP for me.
- Comment on Space Chef (in development), a space exploration/hunting x restaurant management game hybrid, releases demo on Steam. 3 weeks ago:
Ah space exploration/hunting x restaurant management game hybrid, second only to hell city-builder/management game x evil god game hybrid as my favourite genre of game
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 3 weeks ago:
TimeSplitters 4. If they’d have stopped baiting us with teaser art and promises of someone new buying the bones of Free Radical every few years then it wouldn’t hurt so much.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
I think you can do both of those with BotW too
- Comment on PS5 price to rise in Europe, Australia and New Zealand 3 weeks ago:
Gaming is becoming less and less accessible and more and more of a luxury.
Lots of people do their gaming on their phone or PC. And on the subject of phones, look at the top-spec models: they cost thousands, because some people have the disposable income to burn. There are still plenty of affordable options available if you don’t fixate on having the latest best everything.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
Interestingly I’d say the complete opposite: BotW was my fave and I feel I could replay it in quite a different style (e.g. trying to beat it without any dungeons, trying to 100% it), whereas the others are all very linear and my only option is to play it again in the same way.
(Obviously I don’t need to pay any additional money to do either though!)
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a Switch
A new one, but pretty soon the market will be flooded with second hand switches
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 3 weeks ago:
I’ve not tried Winlator for a year or so, wasn’t really useable but looked like it had a lot of promise. Guessing if you’re successfully emulating Switch games then it’s pretty capable though?
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 3 weeks ago:
ReactOS. Or TempleOS if you’re feeling holy.
- Comment on A retro gaming handheld console has been amazing for me and I want to recommend it 3 weeks ago:
I’ve seen these devices mentioned quite a bit on Lemmy but I’ve never looked into what they actually are. Is it basically just a small Android tablet with built-in controller? Does it run (x64) PC games or just (arm) Android games and emulators?
- Comment on Ex-PlayStation exec argues 'only the dog can hear' differences between consoles and gaming PCs: 'They're all quite similar' 3 weeks ago:
We’d get a pretty good game format OS—if the players could agree to come together—and then licence that out. Just like we do with Blu-ray, just like we do with the compact disk—and let people compete on content.
I know this is the most Lemmy comment it’s possible to make, but oh, if only there were an OS that already exists that you could run games on and that didn’t even need licencing out!
