SkunkWorkz
@SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sony Implements New Customer Harassment Policy Following Backlash Toward Its Plans to Stop Making Physical Game Discs 6 hours ago:
‘Member when Neil Druckmann and Sean Murray got personal death threats from Sony’s customers and Sony didn’t do shit. Hell Shuhei Yoshida even threw Murray under the bus for the PR hype disaster of No Man’s Sky during post release interviews instead of standing up for him even though Sony helped Hello Games in hyping the game.
Only now when Sony execs get threatened they do something.
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 1 week ago:
And there are plenty of ways to get a Netflix like UI.
- Comment on What is my purpose? 1 week ago:
Block head
- Comment on No problem 1 week ago:
- Comment on business is business 1 week ago:
Processing won’t do shit to a shitty shot, with terrible composition and lighting.
- Comment on Horizon Hunters Gathering is reportedly being rebooted without its live service bits following negative playtest feedback 2 weeks ago:
Why Hermen Hulst still hasn’t been fired baffles me. They rather destroy a ton of value and uproot thousands of people’s lives by shutting down these studios than put the architect of their chase of fool’s gold on the chopping block.
- 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' 2 weeks ago:
Should grow fruits and vegs
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 weeks ago:
it’s day 54. I’m going insane. These weird looking anthropomorphic animals. They constantly talk gibberish, yet they can write letters in proper English. A raccoon gave me a tent to sleep in yet there is no toilet, no shower, not even a kitchen, but now I own him 100k in bells whatever that is. There are no other people here. I tried to leave by train but i keep ending up at a different village that is almost exactly the same as mine, same creepy animals, same houses. There is always one human in each village, but I don’t think they have a soul. They don’t even talk. This owl wants me to find bugs and fossils I think, it’s the only thing that is keeping me distracted while I plot my escape.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
Good chance if your game didn’t do well on Steam that you didn’t make a good game that has high product-market fit in the first place and didn’t promote it properly. We are now in an era where indie devs have become millionaires from their games. And I’m not just talking about Edmund McMillen and Johnathan Blow. Go back to the days of brick and mortar retail and that was nigh impossible when a small studio would earn pennies on the dollar for every sold unit.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
That data also shows which games never got out of the “limited game status”. Around 16200 had the limited games status. Meaning these games were not making enough money or nothing at all and had not enough player engagement to unlock profile features.
If you look at the numbers of games that unlocked profile features the growth is much lower. Those are the numbers that matter anyway. 5000 games made actual money. And if we apply the Pareto principle than a thousand games made the vast majority of the revenue that year.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
So what? The vast majority of games released on Steam are either hobby or student projects or just first time devs’ shitty pixel platformer. Many are low effort products, Steam will not even give those games “shelve space”. The algorithm will based on pre launch and launch metrics decide if it should push the game in front of customers in the recommendation sections of the store. If a game can’t even move the needle a bit after launch Steam will blackhole the game and basically make it invisible in the store unless a customer searches for it. Because even though it’s a virtual store, “shelve space” aka the recommendation section is still scarce.
The hidden gem games on Steam are rare. Every time I watch a dev’s postmortem who talks about how little they sold on Youtube I’m rarely surprised when I see the game.
Also Steam generates around $10+ Billion in revenue in a year. So the other games generate around $2 Billion. If that is generated by 2000 games that still averages to a million a game.
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 2 weeks ago:
At 19? Teens with kids have a much harder time to climb the socioeconomic ladder
- Comment on sometimes nature is a tattle tale 2 weeks ago:
A 19 year old with two kids from two different fathers. How forgetting to use contraception one night sets three lives up for failure.
- Comment on Team Car! 2 weeks ago:
In the Netherlands Fat Bikes are not those mountain bikes with fat tires, they are just electric motorcycles disguised as a bike because it has barely functioning pedals. Kids are a menace on those bikes, they go way too fast. Not to mention Dutch kids are getting fatter and unhealthier and putting kids on motorized vehicles instead of bicycle doesn’t help.
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 2 weeks ago:
Hytale, Tibia, Escape from Tarkov, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, Brogue
- Comment on Never Gonna Give You Up 2 weeks ago:
It’s the death of channels like MTV and the emergence of the internet that specific subcultures are not defining the decades anymore. Subcultures still exist they just aren’t shown on mass media anymore since people live in their own bubble on the internet.
And if you think about it the reason why certain styles defined the decades of post war 20th century was capitalism. Certain sub cultures reached mainstream status because marketeers pushed it to the masses to make money.
- Comment on I need an adult 2 weeks ago:
In Dutch they are called “rode ui” literally red onion. It’s not just English. In Japanese and Hindi they are also called red onions.
- Comment on I need an adult 2 weeks ago:
Also in Japanese they didn’t had a separate word for green for a very long time. Green was just a shade of blue. It’s why a lot of things like fruits and vegetables have blue in the name like 青豆 aomame literally blue bean or 青林檎 aoringo literally blue apple. Or why they call the green light on traffic lights blue.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 3 weeks ago:
Oh wow even the Netherlands that is as flat as a pancake and half the country sits below sea level has a higher mountain
- Comment on Laura Fryer - HR needs to stay in their lane (and out of Game Development) 3 weeks ago:
Laura Fryer just gives fuel to the gamer gate fire. Most of her stuff is just conjecture and speculation. She hasn’t been in the industry for a decade.
- Comment on US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers 3 weeks ago:
Breaking news: Pilot dragged out of the cockpit by swat team because of false bomb threat by air traffic controller.
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
Adults that buy and play with Legos suffer from arrested development and should do something useful with their lives
Guess all your hobbies are super useful to society?
- Comment on Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions 3 weeks ago:
They are not saying that Macs are good but they are refuting the statement that Mac users are all inept morons.
- Comment on Supermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 positions to be affected 3 weeks ago:
Their games are probably not easy to make and definitely not cheap if you hire these famous actors. Sure they are not s-tier level of actors but they are definitely not cheap. I bet many of those actors can ask a higher pay than the games industry’s favorite called Troy Baker.
Also the market for interactive movies probably isn’t mega huge either. Every interactive movie series they released was published by a different publisher. Doubt they were massive hits.
- Comment on Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my life' 3 weeks ago:
He doesn’t hold the copyright so has no right to distribute it. Like if you bought a manuscript from a book you don’t have the right to print copies of it and distribute it. Since you only are the owner of that specific manuscript not the copyright and distribution rights of the actual content.
- Comment on Centrists have such a Hard Choice. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah where is the Tubular Left and the Gnarly Right.
- Comment on Snooze 3 weeks ago:
I’m 39 and still sometimes dream about being late for an exam.
- Comment on Every time 4 weeks ago:
It was totally off in tone and characters, but as Hollywood adaptations go it was pretty OK.
It’s that basically every Asimov adaption?
- Comment on And Miss The Opportunity To Tap That Ass? 4 weeks ago:
Religion started because kids were asking their dad questions. “Daddy why is the sky blue?, Why does the sun move across the sky?, Why why why daddy” “Uh uh some sort of god does that, yeah a god”
And then those kids grew up and still believe that story et voila you got religion.
- Comment on Netflix is garbage 4 weeks ago:
The point is the almost guaranteed speed. I can stream a 4K BluRay remux immediately, no waiting, no buffering, no hitches. Sure a new or popular movie will work well without debrid but a lot of times older movies don’t stream well without a debrid especially high bit rate files.
