p03locke
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- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 1 day ago:
That’s what the pre launch marketing campaign is for. Getting on YouTube and Twitch channels is just to get the snowball rolling.
Right, and that’s what this game didn’t have. You have a trailer and some people who happened to discover this game and decided to play it. No real marketing campaign push to get indie streamers to play it. The name makes it even worse because it’s not a unique phrase.
- Comment on Are there any TV series you gave up on, or just forgot about due to insane gaps between seasons? 1 day ago:
It was only 6 episodes for the last season. I truly believe that they were trying to save as much money as possible for their LotR series, which is a shame because that series didn’t fair so well, especially with the billion or so dollars they spent on it.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 1 day ago:
It’s not one you should rely on. People don’t stare at their Steam page every day.
This should have been promoted through the usual YouTube and Twitch channels. Find all of the YouTubers that review indie games and start sending emails.
- Comment on Fallout TV Show Could Run for Six Seasons Says Aaron Moten 1 day ago:
Not at the rate they are releasing new seasons.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 2 days ago:
I think NRFTW is fantastic, and it’s exactly what I was expecting it to be. However, people saw it at the same “style” as Diablo or Path of Exile and expected the game to be like those… except they’re not. And for those that do realize that, you have the other idiots that refuse to accept that it’s an EA game that still has a long roadmap until completion and bitch about the lack of an “endgame.”
Honestly, I think trying to compete with Diablo and PoE2 is already too much, even if it’s trying to say it’s not those. Those games are huge, with long-running, dedicated fanbases, and they do enough to oversaturate the market just fighting amongst themselves.
This was the wrong type of game to be trying to dive into the first time they cut themselves off from Microsoft’s financial cushion.
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 2 days ago:
It’s always lack of advertising. The unfortunate fact of life is that 99.99% of indie studios have no clue how to market their game. They think they just have to make a good game, and boom, people will flock to it.
Steam is there to make sure users have a platform to download their game. It’s not there to market it.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 2 days ago:
At this point, I’m just calling this an excuse.
I mean, fuck Japanese IP laws, but also fuck Nintendo for trying to gaslight us into pretending everything is normal and standard. Nintendo of America is not in fucking Japan.
- Comment on Whoop backpedals on its paid upgrade whoops 2 days ago:
Awesome, a smart watch with no display. Very cool!
- Comment on Alabamians Want Answers About a Four-Million-Square-Foot Data Center Coming to Their Backyards 2 days ago:
A city with 70% black people, and they find the one white guy to put on the front page of the article.
- Comment on Are there any TV series you gave up on, or just forgot about due to insane gaps between seasons? 2 days ago:
No, there wasn’t.
- Comment on Are there any TV series you gave up on, or just forgot about due to insane gaps between seasons? 2 days ago:
Pretty much all modern TV series nowadays. You can’t make a proper TV series when your actors/actresses and the rest of the crew have such long breaks. At a certain point, you just end up losing critical actors or writers or other members of staff.
The Expanse just kept going until the end, and SyFylis cancelled then, and then when Amazon cancelled them for good. Five and a half seasons in seven years, and that’s even with the cancellations and COVID.
- Comment on Yes, AI will eventually replace some workers. But that day is still a long way off 2 days ago:
Oh, geesh, where have I heard this pattern before with technology? Is it self-driving cars? Remember when the sky was falling because everybody said car transportation was going to change overnight because a bunch of fucking college students figured out how to win a self-driving car race. Where the hell is my fully-autonomous Level 5 self-driving car that was going to replace all of the truck driving jobs? Oh, what’s that? Are all of the jobs still here?
Technology moves the needle. It does not jam it all the way to the other side. Stop spending trillions of dollars on pipe dreams, only to have to force expectations back to reality ten years later.
- Comment on internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 2 days ago:
Okay, now apply that argument to the next levels upstream, the ISP, backbone providers, CDN providers, the domain name holders, the SSL certificate trust companies. They all earn money with it.
You see how ridiculous that argument becomes.
- Comment on internal docs show Pornhub had 706,000 videos in May 2020 flagged for child rape or other problems, often not removed until flagged 16+ times 2 days ago:
If they had confidence in their reporting, they wouldn’t post this in their Opinion section.
- Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) 1 week ago:
Only off by a few orders of 10^x.
Typical shit journalism can’t be bothered to look at the units on their calculator.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Governments generally do their best to avoid that, because people would start holding off on purchases expecting lower prices next week, month, quarter,… and it would tank the economy.
That’s not how human nature works. If people need groceries, they aren’t going to hold off purchases until the prices go down.
- Comment on HBO Boss Insists 'Harry Potter' Show Will Not Contain J.K. Rowling's Anti-Trans Views 1 week ago:
Being a producer is more than just “involved”.
- Comment on Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet 1 week ago:
I don’t think even IGN has much of any critical/cultural/marketing value anymore so good luck to any other website
IGN, the EA of games “journalism”.
that somehow instead of a yes/no is instead an article of 20 paragraphs saying nothing
That we’ll later summarize with another LLM.
- Comment on From 4chan to the White House: James Ball explains how failing to take games seriously has fed the populist right 1 week ago:
I remember seeing JonTron videos back in 2011, well before the 2015 gamergate era. Even back then he’d make offhand remarks about how tough it was being White, how badly women treat men, etc.
You seem to mistake cause and effect. JonTron was an racist and misogynistic asshole because that’s who he was. He wasn’t doing that because he was trying to tap into some kind of audience as a trick.
And he has been largely forgotten because of his behavior and image. People ditched him and moved on. GameGrumps cut him out a long time ago.
- Comment on From 4chan to the White House: James Ball explains how failing to take games seriously has fed the populist right 1 week ago:
Let’s not forget that Russia was playing both sides. As soon as GamerGate started, a bunch of games “journalists” all posted garbage articles like this, in the same day, pushing this shitty “gamers are now dead” message, fanning the flames even further and basically just pissing everybody off.
Sorry, I’m a gamer. I’m still alive, even ten years later. Gamers ain’t dead.
And then CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, and the rest all ran with it to treat it like a horse race, which is exactly what the Russian experiment was trying to achieve.
Articles like this sound a lot like that garbage back then.
- Comment on From 4chan to the White House: James Ball explains how failing to take games seriously has fed the populist right 1 week ago:
I don’t inhabit those spaces, so I’m only going off the biggest names.
Obviously. Don’t spout off uneducated opinions about subjects you don’t know anything about.
Rich people tend to lean right. Is this the lesson you’re trying to illustrate here?
- Comment on ‘It feels empty’: is Hollywood film and TV production in a death spiral? 2 weeks ago:
Japanese anime is learning too many of worst lessons from American media:
- One short season with a limited number of episodes, followed by a 2-5 year hiatus
- More popular than ever, yet 95% of it is crap
- Constantly chasing trends, like driving isekai into the dirt for the past ten years
Don’t get me wrong, there’s still a lot of good stuff out there. But, I don’t think we’ll ever see another excellent mega-series like Naturo or One Piece or Bleach again. Not when they are going to take long breaks after 10-12 hours of episodes.
- Comment on Well played, Todd: You can see Skyrim, or at least its tallest mountain, from the edge of Oblivion Remastered 2 weeks ago:
Good job, reporter! You’ve done your work to signal boost an AAA game for corporate profits without managing to actually add any new information!
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 2 weeks ago:
Reality? I mean, I assume you live in the Aussie Zone, right? How often does that county ban things in the name of “protecting the children”?
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 2 weeks ago:
Parliament over the Australian
ban it for children
Banning shit from children in the biggest Nanny State the world has ever known? Really?!?!
- Comment on Google is paying Samsung an ‘enormous sum’ to preinstall Gemini 2 weeks ago:
Which is worse: Bixby or Gemini?
- Comment on 4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, he claims to understand 4Chan culture, but then post such a clickbait article that focuses 4Chan as the “violent, seething underbelly of the internet”. Oooo… spooky!
- Comment on Meta could take a $7 billion hit this year because of Trump's tough China tariffs 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty high gamble here, one that risk-adverse corpos normally don’t take. I don’t understand why they are going along with it.
- Comment on Bluesky rolls out blue check verifications 3 weeks ago:
Narrator: They could.
- Comment on Hayden Christensen Teases Return To ‘Star Wars’ Universe In Darth Vader Role: “There’s A Lot Of Rich Stories We Could Still Tell” 3 weeks ago:
Translation: “There’s A Lot Of Stories We Could Still Tell That Would Make Me Rich”
