CosmoNova

@CosmoNova@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  On one hand developers should always give players a way to play their games indefinitely. That should be a basic consumer right and I hope Stop Killing Games can change something.

  But on the other hand I would lie if I said I‘d actually use it. I never had the desire to hop into a dead online game out of curiosity and I think at least 99.9% of players feel the same way. Because what makes these games great is the active community.

  These things came and went after popularity faded. They need people to stay invested to legitimize their own existence. Pure nostalgia is not enough to preserve games even if developers release the server code. It‘s simply not that easy. I think it‘s important to be aware that communities make online games great and when there is no community then there is no game.

  Highguard could release their server code tomorrow, but more people would mock them for it than applaud them. Virtually nobody would play it still.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It didn‘t sell so no, it‘s not simply a grift. It’s just that nobody wanted it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I genuinely wouldn‘t say so. The game shuts down because nobody played it anyway. The chances you pick up a game no one plays is pretty slim by nature. But even if you have been burned in the past you can just pick up one that is already popular.

  Pre-ordering on the other hand is rarely a good idea and that goes for any game, not just live service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUBG publisher Krafton creates new Chief AI Officer executive role as it continues its ‘AI First’ strategy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. I mean good riddance o7

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Soulless corps and political parties love to put women and especially women of color in positions of power when things go sour. They don‘t expect her to be there for long. She‘s essentially a scapegoat hire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You have that alternative already so when you‘re in that boat nothing really changed. But yes indie games will see the largest growth in the game industry this year for sure. Mega corps can‘t help but shooting themselves in the foot in blind greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shares her gamertag — what it reveals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the fundamental problem in the game industry. It became so profitable over the years it attracted the worst kind of people to lead creative endeavors.

  Of course I‘m talking about scum from the finance world and big tech that we‘ve all grown to despise over the years. They don‘t know the consumer or the product. They‘re in it for the money and we can see that in mass layoffs, predatory monetization practices that make other entertainment industries blush and insanely bloated budgets for projects with no vision.

  They‘re disgusting parasites. They‘re killing games and that‘s why I play so much more indie and retro games than AAA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember plenty of GBA titles with language options. I used to buy them on flea markets abroad and didn‘t know a lick of english. I find it absurd that this one wouldn‘t have that option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am aware attention is the currency of the internet but games do exist outside of it. Unlike crypto. Their target group may overlap to some degree but games and unregulated gambling are still different things. Even when gambling is involved in games those markets are separated from the actual game like in CS2. That’s the extreme case and you can still play that game as normal without ever opening a crate. Games do not compete with crypto unless developers desperately try to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s funny. Because I was assured by this very community that it was when Tencent bought 30% of Larian Studios and they kept lying about having no share holders. They also have money in Fromsoft and Remedy by the way but I‘m eager to hear how Control and Elden Ring are shit because of Tencent alongside Baldur‘s Gate 3. You know’ since it‘s „never a nothingburger“.

  You know, dealing in absolutes and all that. To me this is a case of people warping reality to make sense of the world when they lack information. In reality you simply have no answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You know there are Nintendo fans and then there are Pokemon fans. They have a reputation of not really being into games but being into everything Pokemon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tunic, Night in the Woods Publisher Says TikTok Is Creating and Running Racist GenAI Ads for Its Games Without Permission⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish media would differentiate between different TikSlops. It‘s like Americans adopted the metric system but what they call meter is just a foot with a new label.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Crypto? Really? What data have they been looking at? I would say different people engage with these mediums for completely different reasons. Gaming being the more casual activity while crypto is for addicts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don‘t really see a future where game consoles die but gaming PCs don‘t because of hardware shortages. It‘s either cloud all the way or this becomes the era of mobile gaming even for core gamers.

  Personally I hope we can somewhat return to normal in a few years. That is after the bubble popped and even the last investor realized most data centers won‘t get built anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tencent invests in everything. This in a nothingburger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So you want a game where you can go… postal?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you fell out of love with.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The games I fall out of love with are always online games. They are the type of games I spent my most time with. By far. They give me the highest highs but also the lowest lows.

  So yeah, Team Fortress 2, Minecraft, League of Legends, you name it. Not even an Ocarina of Time or a Baldur‘s Gate 3 can come close to the fun I had in these games. But I still love the latter and not the former. Not anymore.

  I still play online and co-op games that I very much enjoy but one day I will feel burned out by them too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It‘s so funny to me that Nexon is now known as the Arc Raiders owner. They threw money at Embark Studios and had nothing to do with development otherwise so don‘t expect anything great coming out of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds more like the Discord I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese Developer Behind Tech That Studio Ghibli's Hayao Miyazaki Called an 'Insult to Life Itself' to Release Cosy God Sim Game - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Arc Raiders is the living proof if it. In no other game can you witness robot animations that look and feel as grounded and smooth as in that game. It‘s chilling sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It‘s sad to see they use the very tool that has become a true menace for anyone who wants to play games right now. There are so many aspects to it that put the entire concept of ownership at risk and they just use it nilly willy. I‘m not even surprised anymore but still so very disappointed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning Gaming Handhelds into Digital Audio Players: An Interview with Riley⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We‘re talking about running MP3s on them, you know? Something that has been done on mich smaller devices for well over 20 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And here I was ready to finally give VR a real go this year with the Steam Frame. It‘s probably not going to happen anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The antithesis to what you and OP are describing would be The legend of Zelda: Breath of the wild. But even fans of that formula are tired of it after 2 games in the series because as much freedom as it gives you, it‘s overwhelming.

  I think what I‘m trying to say is that trends have cycles. They come and go. What you said is a valid opinion that I can kot possibly disagree with. However, these down sides become more apparent with time until we‘ve had enough and move on to the next thing. I am sure we‘ll remember most of those games fondly one day regardless. Nostalgia will kick in one day and we‘re able to look past the flaws again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do AAA game CEOs even realize AI is the main reason sales are down? The very hardware to run your slop has become unaffordable, you clowns! Bloating about AI is about the most tone deaf thing you can do right now.

  Besides, we don‘t want slop in our games. If you actually used your products you would know why.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn‘t like the first one so this was a hard pass for me. However I didn‘t even know the sequel was out yet. This thing completely drowned among better priced indie games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"We don't use it, we have no interest in it" Romeo is a Dead Man's Suda 51 dismisses AI development tools, says AI images and videos "feel kinda 'off'"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He is absolutely right about that.

  I had yet another tiring conversation about AI usage with my boss at work the other day. Had to look at examples from competitors and how they use AI. What can I say? It was slop. Felt off. It wasn‘t the worst thing I have seen but god damn the shit people suddenly look past when AI is involved drives me up the walls. That sruff would not fly if I delivered results of similar quality. But when it‘s AI people half their expectations apparently.

  So yeah props to Suda 51 for not conveniently starting a tangent about AI when discussing wages with his employees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning Gaming Handhelds into Digital Audio Players: An Interview with Riley⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That‘s rare for small handhelds but it doesn‘t really change anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning Gaming Handhelds into Digital Audio Players: An Interview with Riley⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean they‘re little Android devices so I expect them to pull that off. Most of them can comfortably run games like Hollow Knight or N64 roms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game companies see share prices plummet following the launch of Google's very limited virtual world generator, Project Genie⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much, yeah. Markets have become a circus for clowns to prove each other how reckless they are. They haven‘t reflected growth in a while. Instead they have become tools to hollow out entire industries or serve as glorified Ponzi schemes.