EncryptKeeper
@EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 4 days ago:
Little Nightmares 1 & 2. Cosmic horror very well executed.
- Comment on We could have lived in a world where Hideo Kojima made a Matrix game, if only someone had told him he was offered to make one 1 week ago:
- Comment on Beach Day (Black Desert) 1 week ago:
Yeah OP did a great job in composition but that lighting looks like the surface of the moon.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 week ago:
Who seriously believes that?
If an artist consents to the use of their song in a specific way, it’s not a matter of belief at all. It just is tacit approval. So when the government does this without consent, until the moment the artist responds, the implication is that the artist has approved it. Which isn’t as big a deal if a private entity does it, but it’s a much bigger deal when the federal government does it.
- Comment on US government uses Halo images in a call to 'destroy' immigration, Microsoft declines to comment 1 week ago:
The current government strategy of illegal use of copyrighted materials, often with the full understanding that the artist/IP owners will not consent to it should really have a harsher punishment to it. The DHS social media pages in particular keep using songs without artist permission because they know it will be taken down but by that point it doesn’t matter and they just steal another song. Given that the use of these songs implies tacit approval from the artist, this should absolutely count as the rights of the artists to free speech are being infringed upon.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They are inherently a sweat fest by their very nature and they appeal to a crowd that enjoys high risk high reward gameplay. Theres nothing wrong with you for not being into it. Not everybody’s dream job is being a fireman and running into burning buildings before lunch.
But it’s one of those niche genres that scratch an itch that more casual games don’t.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I hear the game is supposed to be fun so I suppose I should give it a shot. But styling they give the characters and weapons, essentially junk weapons and raiders from Fallout wearing whatever goofy scrap they can find puts me so far off. Like not everything has to be perfectly tacticool but like, something closer to the Metro series would be dope
- Comment on Xbox consoles and games will no longer be sold at Walmart and Target, according to employees 3 weeks ago:
I saw a post saying it’s untrue but their only evidence seemed to be that their Target had not removed anything g last time they checked. Meanwhile I have seen a half dozen posts from employees and customers showing the Xbox stuff being removed.
- Comment on Space battle games for casual player? 4 weeks ago:
Not sure I’d describe that spreadsheet simulator as casual lol
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 4 weeks ago:
The graph will also give you a note that the review behavior is unusual and that there may be review bombing going on.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 4 weeks ago:
Company gets a cut of every game sold, gets exponentially more customers that use your infrastructure on a day to day basis, meanwhile the price of games stays the same for 20 years and game development cycles get longer while games and infrastructure gets more expensive to make.
I wonder how Valve hasn’t gone bankrupt.
I don’t. Valve is in a super sweet spot in the market and their near-monopoly on PC game sales and lean business model gives them a lot of breathing room that Companies like Sony don’t have. Some benefits Valve has:
- They don’t need to worry about R&D of exclusive hardware often sold at a loss just to capture a user base. Valve has dipped its toes into hardware now, but even if its competitors eat some of its market share, those users will still buy games from Steam. On the other hand If people buy an Xbox instead of a PlayStation, Sony just loses out on the customers.
- Valve doesn’t have to operate a number of first and second party game studios to churn out increasingly more expensive games.
- Steam being a storefront on another company’s operating system means it can rely on external infrastructure to handle user services in many of its games.
- Valve is a privately owned company so they have a lot more wiggle room to tread water and “stay afloat” when necessary and aren’t being driven to an ever-increasing profitability targets year after year.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 4 weeks ago:
Sony didn’t need that infrastructure in the first place. Things worked great before they charged simply for you to play online
What you’re both missing here is that the infrastructure existed when it was free. They always needed the infrastructure, and it always cost money. There is no “before”. They were just eating the costs as a marketing strategy to attract Xbox players who at the time had to pay for Xbox Live.
As console adoption increased, as did the cost of the infrastructure and the salaries of the many people it takes to maintain it, it just wasn’t feasible to provide those services for free when it cost so much money to maintain.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 4 weeks ago:
You don’t buy… the fact that infrastructure that has to scale to millions of users globally, and the salaries of the many employees who maintain it cost money…?
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 5 weeks ago:
Yes, charging customers for a product that costs you money to maintain is an excuse, and a valid one. Sony and Nintendo were giving away an expensive service for free to the user. It was generous, and a way to reduce friction with onboarding new users.
They jumped on board because maintaining that infrastructure has become exponentially more expensive to maintain today than it was 20 years ago.
I don’t even know why you’d have a problem with Xbox charging more for their subscription when you already argue for paid online.
Because unlike paid user services, game ownership is not something that costs them any money. They aren’t recouping their costs for a service they provide, it’s just rentseeking.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 5 weeks ago:
Platform infrastructure like PSN costs an inordinate amount of money. People owning games they paid for does not cost you any money
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
No lie you can and do fix Minthara and become one of the most wholesome a devoted couples in the game.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 5 weeks ago:
I don’t mind subscriptions for ongoing infrastructure as much. My problem is with using a subscription to replace ownership.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 5 weeks ago:
I remember when GamePass was first announced and everybody lauded Microsoft for being “pro-consumer” and outright cheered when they started buying up independent studios.
I remember being downvoted to oblivion for pointing out the very obvious 5 year plan for GP and the fact that it would go… exactly the way it’s currently going.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 5 weeks ago:
Fret not, anything they aren’t going to actively milk will likely be sold off to try and pay back the $20 billion dollar loan they took to make this purchase.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 5 weeks ago:
Well there was just some base level of hope in the back of some people’s minds that one day they might get their shit together and now that hope is entirely gone.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 5 weeks ago:
I’m seeing a lot of games with what seems like a much steeper discount than usual. First thing I do when there’s a steam sale is look at my wishlist and sort by discount and there are a lot of games on sale for 90% off, many of which only a couple dollars.
- Comment on Ghost of Yotei | Review Thread (89/100 OpenCritic) 1 month ago:
They are because those same people are boycotting anyway for toe other reasons.
- The game features a female lead this time around.
- the voice and performance actress of the player characters is left wing
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Patch Due Out Today, PC Performance 'Our Top Priority,' Gearbox Says 1 month ago:
It’s so funny that this was their mindset when it doesn’t run well on my PC which cost close to $2,000.
Randy is so out of touch he thinks people with $2,000 available in discretionary spend are “the poors”.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 month ago:
There aren’t. The majority of political violence is committed by those with right wing ideologies.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 1 month ago:
There’s a difference between a game being way outside of your specs because it’s graphically very advanced and your hardware is old, and a game just being unoptimized slop that expects its users to deal with by throwing higher specs at a fixable problem.
I have a brand new 5070ti that can play all kinds of UE5 games with much better graphics than BL4 at 4k resolution with ray tracing at a decent frame rate without relying on frame gen. And I’m in the top few percentiles here.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 month ago:
Sure, but powerful systems don’t run it too well either. Especially given how mediocre the game looks visually.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 1 month ago:
Right but how do you know that didn’t impact the score? For all we know they knocked it down a point for that.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 1 month ago:
How do you know that?
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 1 month ago:
Depends on the game. In a looter shooter like Borderlands, it’s the looting and shooting
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 1 month ago:
They noted the perforemance issues in their review
