sirfancy

@sirfancy@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Slammed For AI-Generated Art Promoting Indie Games⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the only point that matters. Even if AI is here to stay, that’s fine, you just don’t use it when specifically highlighting the demographic most threatened by its usage. The post was just a bad business decision; they should have known how it could come across. It’s their job to know that kinda stuff before hitting Post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game devs should follow the BG3 development footprint⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My opinion: Follow the Apex Legends one. Don’t tell the public literally anything. Build up zero hype, and then release it out of nowhere and let the game speak for itself. No hype = no overinflated expectations or impatient gamers. Obviously not every studio should do this, but I wish more would. I enjoy being pleasantly surprised rather than wait for a game for years, only for it to be overpromised and DOA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck OLED announced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t have a choice for some countries. If the item costs more to ship to somewhere than it is to make it, then by selling the item they are losing money and it makes no sense to sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck OLED announced⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can understand frustration with a product not being available in your region, but wouldn’t the anger be better directed at the transportation companies pricing up int’l trade and governments with import taxes and such? I don’t totally understand the general sentiment that companies should sell products at a loss just to get it everywhere.

  I’m not trying to defend companies or anything, I just never understand why they’re the first to blame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Escapist murica-fires Editor-in-Chief - loses Yahtzee Croshaw and entire video team in hours⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They literally just gave Yahtzee a new segment. Actually unreal. Hope they find a new better job soon, we all know how talented they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some alternative to soulless videogame franchises?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I really, really hope that it doesn’t get overrun with cheaters like warzone did. I have really high hopes for the game because I’m having a blast with the beta. Not often does a game come along out of nowhere and just ticks all the boxes with having just a solid formula. Last game I felt like this with was Alex Legends. Pls devs don’t screw this up 🙏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cities: Skylines 2 "absolutely cannot" have the decade of DLC features that the original game added | GamesRadar+⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That sounds like an absolute nightmare to realistically navigate but I would love to see it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield's lead quest designer leaves Bethesda to join other RPG veterans making a new open-world game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  "Why do planets have borders, I want to circumnavigate Mars"

  • Statement spoke by the utterly deranged
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally. Gamers be like

  “No more crunch culture! Take your time and release when it’s ready!”

  also

  “Why do games take so long??”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terraria developer bashes Unity, donates $200k to open source alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  …what. He just made an analogy about not consuming unethical beans. That’s literally his point. So no, he does not consume the beans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Like an Alpha: Strategies for Virtual Dominance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Get these garbage AI generated posts out of here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Payday 3's roadmap promises four DLC drops in the first year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That is far from normal. If these are free dlc, then that’s great, but this is more and more regular updates that they are locking behind a paywall. Many of them are not just cosmetic, and are entirely new guns that are overpowered enough to become the new meta in order to complete certain heists on certain difficulties. Some are brand new heists, too. They even added loot boxes two years after saying they wouldn’t (although they have rolled it back since then due to the predicable negative response). It’s always been a cash grab, and it’s unfortunate that it appears they may be falling back into old habits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Payday 3's roadmap promises four DLC drops in the first year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So uh, is this a good thing? Do we really want to repeat what happened to Payday 2 and have 50?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ignoring all of my comment again. Classic. See ya.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Once again, you didn’t read my comment lmao. You’re right. They do ignore it, but they don’t ignore it when money is involved. Literally look up cases where companies shut down mods, they usually are financially driven.

  Since you’re not here to actually have a discussion in good faith, I’m going to go. Take care 👋

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference is the legal boundary. Microsoft allows you legally to write your own code and sell it to people to run on their computers without owning Microsoft as a company. Bethesda owns their software, and has legal agreements you agree to when you skip through them when you start up the game, saying you won’t mod it or profit off their game. Look at my other comment if you want to actually see where.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Way to strawman me and ignore my points 👍 I do not want people working for free. I am firmly pro-union and pro-fair pay and all of that. They don’t have to work for free. They can monetize it the way every other mod does it by having a Patreon that you can subscribe to or donate to support them. Plenty of mods do this already and this is the generally accepted way to do it due to the reasons I mentioned before, which I will now spell out for you because you ignored them:

  1. If you have a problem with the mod, it doesn’t work how you want, you have no recourse if you paywall it the way they did.
  2. It is generally unethical and a bad look to make money using other’s IP as a base without their permission. Bethesda has potential legal recourse for this, as they’ve broken EULA. Section 3 - B, D, G, and 4. Section 4 is especially interesting because it states you agree to not have a monetary interest in the game or its content. By paywalling a mod, you are relying on the game not having DLSS to make money. Full stop. That’s the point of the mod. While the various paragraphs in Section 3 do say that modding of any kind is prohibited, this kind of thing is usually not enforced (as is very apparent with Skyrim or Fallout 4). Until money is involved. This is why a donation button is distanced far enough away from this kind of thing. A donation button is supporting the developer, and legal waters get a little grayer. For this mod, you are paying for the mod. That’s pretty black and white, and that’s exactly why it is frowned upon to go that route with mods.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure, but like most every other mod for any game out there, there’s donation pages and Patreons. What if you buy it and download it, and it turns out it doesn’t work for you? You can’t refund it like you would a Steam game. Locking mods, an already experimental thing, behind a paywall is scummy, because you’re not only profiting off of someone else’s game, you’re also taking money from people who aren’t even sure it’s right for them. There are tons of mods out there that are not paywalled and are comfortably financially supported through Patreon. Using a paywall in this situation is just a cash grab banking on a freshly released game. Literally the day after.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield players pirate the DLSS mod after the developer locks it behind paywall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, and I was just about to get that mod too. Really scummy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Call of Duty will get a new AI-powered voice chat moderation system⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this is what it does; all it is is essentially another player to sit in a game and report players. More games are adding ToxMod and I’m here for it. It’s funny when people get mad and review bomb games for adding it because they’re mad they can’t say the n-word anymore and call it “spyware”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 10-08-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For sure! It seems like DX 12 mode has raytracing and it really adds a lot of polish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 10-08-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you meant Deadlink, but yeah that’s what I was gonna put too. Really gripping. Dying in it gives you that bittersweet push to make you want to try again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA Will Shut Down Online Servers For These 12 Games By The End Of The Year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fifa 21 was released October 2020. 3 years is how long you can expect EA to let you play a game you paid for. That should be illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Obscure games talk⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Shenzhen IO is essentially the sequel and another great buy if you want to add circuitry to the mix.