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- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 32 minutes ago:
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 32 minutes ago:
Yeah, didn’t expect quite this much pushback but here we are. Apparently everyone else has jobs where they can tell their boss to pound sand regularly and not have to worry about ending up in the unemployment line in a few months, so I guess hey good on them.
- Comment on Major media company asks itself why major media companies aren't exposing what's going on--"Where's Mitch McConnell?" mystery exposes media failures 1 hour ago:
Failures? All I see is it working exactly as they want it to
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 day ago:
Is that what op was talking about? No I use headphones.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 day ago:
I mean, it was 2pm, but kk.
- Comment on people who take zoom calls in coffee shops are insufferable 1 day ago:
Sorry, couple of times it’s just been unavoidable. I do avoid it as much as possible, but I have a bus transfer that sometimes takes 45 minutes and there’s a coffee shop. The last one my boss’ boss wanted a sudden meeting, and well, it happened.
- Comment on Statement from OneBGS, the Bethesda Games Studios union 2 days ago:
All of those people are replaceable in the eyes of Microsoft. They do not understand creative talent, they only see cogs in the machine. Bethesda knee this going in.
- Comment on Xbox wanted 77M Game Pass subscribers by 2026 — today it has less than half that 3 days ago:
Yeah they really forgot games are something I would buy on a whim during good times. Now? I’m not going to spend even $60 on a game, or a subscription, until well after any game as released to make sure it’s worth it. I’d much rather replay red dead or mass effect or Skyrim again then spend $60 on some lame boring corporate game
- Comment on Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts 4 days ago:
See to me they should be suing those previous executives and clawing back bonuses since they purposefully screwed over the long term health of the company. Of course though I have apparently crazy ideas.
- Comment on Microsoft is selling off four Xbox studios as part of significant gaming cuts 4 days ago:
This is what I see too. Like so many industries short term profit chasers never thought that things might slow down after everyone went back outside.
They could have saved that profit and invested instead into long term longevity, but no, had to plan like it’ll be there forever. I swear to god it only takes a 5th grade completion certificate to be an executive.
- Submitted 4 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 29 comments
- Comment on Early Steam Machine user mourns "red line of death" following GPU failure 1 week ago:
Yeah all I see here is a starved news cycle.
- Comment on Microsoft Just Released a... Linux Distro? 1 week ago:
I take this as a win. They know they’re losing market share, and they know they’ve lost servers.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Its like they saw how much Xbox has been sucking and thought “hold on, instead of building on this market lead, I bet we could beat Xbox in enshittifying!”
- Comment on GTA 6 is a 'singleplayer experience,' GTA Online may be sold separately 1 week ago:
I like how aAanah Pearce put it. (Summarized) GTA online makes obscene amounts of money, like crazy amounts. Personally I’m not someone who wants to spend money on online, but others do. When you think about it, rockstar is able to build things like red dead redemption 2 thanks to the online players. Games do cost money to build, and it’s directly thanks to online players that they’ve had enough money to build these games for us.
I like this take. Is GTA Online slimy? Probably, and it can even lean on greedy. But people still pay for it, and thanks to them rdr2 and now gta6 were funded. The fact that GTA 6 has a single player experience proves they’re still committed together single player narratives, but at the end of the day they need to fund them. So thanks online players for funding our single player experiences.
- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I said DRM free, because I don’t trust them, so I would only buy something if I could take it and use it away from their store forever.
- Comment on Epic Games unveils Launcher V2 in re-attempt to topple Steam, says redesigned storefront is up to 6.5x faster — promises player profiles, user reviews, universal controller support, and much more 2 weeks ago:
It was never about any of that. It’s that Valve is a trustworthy company so far and epic is not. The only way at this point I would buy from epic store is if they offered DRM free copies.
- Comment on Star Trek Picard's Most Underrated Character Is Returning For New Series: Everything Known So Far 3 weeks ago:
Not quite all our dreams, seeing how we were asking for a show…
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 3 weeks ago:
Yeah this dude is clearly detached from the conversation, because people have been realizing that car superiority was a massive mistake and we should be correcting it. Like unfettered AI expansion
- Comment on Karma Just Hit Adobe. Hard. 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. I don’t think that’s quite karma hitting them like the thumbnail suggested
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Xbox: ‘We have to turn this into a sustainable business’ 3 weeks ago:
Its like they think we don’t see all of this. Why would we trust Microsoft at all? I’m saying this as a long-time Xbox fanboy, I was on board, I have shirts, I bought all the Xboxes, I defended them during the xbone era, and they still burned me. Your list is exactly right.
- They are incapable of making quality games internally.
- they refuse to let writers do what they do best and instead meddle and water down stories
- they set wildy unrealistic expectations on games and studios and then like you said if it’s not literally the best game ever made of all time (on the shoestring budget and timeline they set) they blame the studio and close them
Why would I ever trust anything they made?
My spouse is playing Outer Worlds 2. They enjoyed the first, so playing the second. It is a fun game. It’s not amazing or groundbreaking, but fun. A solid sequel. Not everyone will like it but there’s a good following. How did Microsoft respond? They raised the price before it released to 80 fucking dollars (for what is solidly a 40 dollar game), they then backtracked to 60, still people refused to buy it at that price, they blamed the studio (obsidian) for lack of sales, and now told them they won’t make a third one because they just don’t see the demand.
- Comment on Karma Just Hit Adobe. Hard. 3 weeks ago:
Can anyone say that this clickbait titled video is worth watching?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to startrek@startrek.website | 5 comments
- Comment on Love/hate relationship with Bethesda Game Studio 4 weeks ago:
Starfield is where the studio died for me, and it’s not because it was a bad game. It’s actually nothing to do with Starfield directly, but more that I realized they just don’t know how to make any other type of game, and the world has left them behind.
Skyrim came and went, and then Fallout 4, which was great, but then you got the Witcher 3, and Red Dead 2, and the bar has been raised for open world RPGs. It’s not that Bethesda is bad, it’s that they haven’t modernized their gameplay or engines.
Starfield had a great idea, but they couldn’t execute on it. 16 loading screens to jump between planets, annoying clunky animations, the game felt like it came out in 2013, not 2023. Even if ES6 came out next year I wouldn’t trust it simply because I don’t think they know how to make a modern RPG anymore.
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- Comment on Xbox Plans Significant Layoffs as It Transforms Under New CEO 4 weeks ago:
I feel you, I had a similar case. At the end of the day you’re a line in a spreadsheet. Taught myself early that no matter how connected you are with a company, it doesn’t matter at all. Family, friends, they matter. Work to live, because work will throw you away tomorrow if they want to. Your family will always be there.
- Comment on Xbox Plans Significant Layoffs as It Transforms Under New CEO 4 weeks ago:
Always remember when there is a massive leadership shakeup - you are not safe. They have their own people, they are there because the last person fucked up (in their eyes). Never believe anything they say, you are not safe in your position.
They won’t do it immediately. The first 90 days is them only observing, then at 6 months they have a plan. 6-12 months they’ll be implementing their new plans. Never feel safe because “they’ve been here a couple of months and it’s fine”.
- Comment on Game Reveals kind of suck now .. 4 weeks ago:
I just can’t stand marketers, and that’s all these shows are now. I hate the artificial dialogue in the trailers, the fake views of the games, everything is “curated”, and it feels so fake. Then also what’s the point of getting hyped because a heavy double digit percentage will be minimum delayed, or even full-out cancelled (because hype is a metric now). I wait for game dev streams, at least sometimes you’ll get a real dev who isn’t “PR trained” talking about their game, and then you can get a realistic idea of how complete it actually is.
Satisfactory did it best in my opinion. True early access, they had minimum monthly videos showing the progress, they had a regular EA release cadence every 6 months, they actually engaged on Discord/Reddit/etc (You could literally @ them on the platforms and they’d respond, not just “join our discord” with a bunch of unanswered question with no actual company presence). Then when 1.0 actually released it was (I believe) CoffeeStains biggest and most anticipated release. It felt real, authentic, actual people making a game. Not a marketing team shilling.
- Comment on Halo: Campaign Evolved | New Missions Trailer 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Scott Pelley on His Firing and the ‘Massacre’ at ‘60 Minutes’ 4 weeks ago:
No one should be trusting cbs or paramount now. It’s now an unofficial wing of the government
