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- Comment on EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society' 1 day ago:
Shouldn’t dismember a journalist?
- Arkane veterans Harvey Smith and Ben Horne reunite: “We’re back to the games we love”www.thegamebusiness.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society'www.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 1 day ago to games@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Submitted 2 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 65 comments
- Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker says they won't stop until Rockstar and Take-Two apologize for 'anti-consumerism' and make a 'concrete commitment to do better'www.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on The legendary PS2 5 days ago:
Let me show you my original Nintendo game & watch young one…
- Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game musicwww.rockpapershotgun.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 28 comments
- Comment on Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement 1 week ago:
Sail the seas if it reviews good.
- Comment on Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement 1 week ago:
Yup.
- Comment on Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statement 1 week ago:
Dude went full psycho and confirmed story more or less. Not a great look for this asshole and the company.
- Saber CEO scorns writer who says she was fired in favor of AI with confusing, combative statementwww.pcgamer.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
What a utter next Tuesday.
However I guess it can be frustrating to hear about others having all the sympathy in the world for him having cancer, even if you didn’t particularly like him, versus no one giving a crap about him literally dying on camera while being “younger” than Biden.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Admits GTA 6 Could Have Cost More Than $80, but Rockstar Chose Restraint and Overdelivered Value 1 week ago:
It’s why you should listen because they’re telling you how they’re going to abuse the consumer next.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Admits GTA 6 Could Have Cost More Than $80, but Rockstar Chose Restraint and Overdelivered Value 1 week ago:
Since people don’t read anything past the headline, which is why we can’t have nice things, in an interview the CEO started the following:
So, we’ve established an $80 price point and a $100 price point for the regular edition and the Premium Edition of GTA 6. And I think most people felt that if we wanted to exert it, we had a great deal of pricing power.
This is basically the CEO trying to justify the new, and very much sounding temporary, price floor for games. Taking what Nintendo started and trying to provide more bullshit to solidify the new price.
Probably going to be the new temporary price floor considering gamers are reportedly buying the 100 USD premium edition that has sliced content from the main game.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Admits GTA 6 Could Have Cost More Than $80, but Rockstar Chose Restraint and Overdelivered Value 1 week ago:
Really shows that people some read past the headline.
- Take-Two CEO Admits GTA 6 Could Have Cost More Than $80, but Rockstar Chose Restraint and Overdelivered Valuewccftech.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 week ago:
Not having a physical disc is probably the least of our worries with this and other game companies at this point.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 week ago:
They’ve historically made a game with good writing in it, with good side quests that really immerse a gamer into the world and a lot of people like that style of open world play and those interesting side stories that wasn’t just superfluous padding that would give a player tens, if not a hundred hours, of just good fun. That seemed to be the draw for the game with just enough refinement of the original game play that was serviceable. Heck even I enjoyed GTA V single player quite a bit with all of the weirdness with Trevor.
I just don’t particularly like their online component where it’s all pay to win and massive amounts of what I would consider psychological abuse of addiction that they’ve devolved to and literally admitted what their target of console players was.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 week ago:
These games were not boycotted because of bad, predatory, literal psychological manipulation. They were simply bad games that were built without the proper dopamine loop, not understanding the original source material, looking at you Suicide Squad, to keep them addicted.
And they still made a lot of money, just not enough for their bloated development since these companies are still around and pumping out more games with these shitty practices and making millions of dollars, including even more of these extremely predatory GaaS, which Rockstar has even been on record stating that they were targeting console players first instead of PC because they’re more susceptible to their psychology department and spend more money on crappy FOMO microtransactions.
- Comment on More People Are Pre-ordering The $100 Edition Of GTA 6 1 week ago:
Same man. People on this forum who can see what’s going on outside of the bread and circus are the minority of the money spending gaming community. Most are just more than happily mildly complain and buy their next distraction from the horrors of life, which at times I don’t blame them.
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- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 1 week ago:
Betteridge’s law is in full effect here.
- Comment on Aliens: Fireteam Elite Is No Longer Playable On Switch 1 week ago:
Considering that even the EU squashed the 'Stop Killing Games" petition and declined to address any new laws, it might be a while for any country to do so.
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Valve emailed about a cyberattack against their shipping partner CEVA Logistics in Europewww.gamingonlinux.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week ago:
At this point it doesn’t even have to succeed, just be the only choice as the tech fascists kill the ability to buy hardware and software.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Says We'll All Be Streaming Our Games In 3 Years 1 week ago:
The tech bros like him, Bezos, Huang, and all those other tech fascists are working extra hard to make sure we don’t have the software or hardware to buy in order to play or do anything independently.
- Submitted 1 week ago to games@lemmy.world | 151 comments
- 'Locking a gameplay trailer behind a Netflix subscription is a new level of greed' — GTA 6 callout Rockstar for 'paywalling' the game's extended lookwww.techradar.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 83 comments
- Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annual costswww.gamesradar.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 80 comments