It’s also obviously not even the same paw flesh-wise

I think it’s well known at this point that grok in particular has been designed to be easy to manipulate by deliberately keeping it in the dark and feeding it only select information so that Musk can make it say what he wants.

There’s a middle ground. Maybe they shouldn’t be trying to release a new CoD every 6 months, but they also don’t need to take 11 years with it.

The issue we’re seeing isn’t really sure to production budget, it’s due to a broad squash on the middle class globally by governments going conservative and wealth pooling in the rich. And this is amplied specifically the response of companies to less people buying less games of increasing the cost of the games.

The reality is the people driving all the decisions just aren’t in touch with the reasons behind market shifts.

You’re against server based Anti-Cheat too?

Perhaps a little dramatic, but have you heard the phrase “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”

“things have changed” the makers of GDPR admitted it didn’t really accomplish what they wanted

The EU does great things, but this is an area plagued with issues. Like timed licences expiring, meaning even the devs/publishers can’t continue distributing the game, copyright and IP ownership being unclear who owns it after companies dissolve, leadership leaves or collaborations end. Not to mention the law still hasn’t really caught up over what it means to distribute a game. Does hosting a download for the client side of a game count as distribution? What happens if a company is obligated to stop distribution, but obligated to provide the community a way to keep playing? What if a member of leadership keeps providing a way to download the client-side, it might not contain copyright content, but maybe the server side does, which is actually distribution, is either?

We live in a world where 'I want to remaster <game> and I’m willing to buy the licenses and IP" can end with nothing happening because it’s too complicated.

So forgive me if “We want to continue playing games we bought =(” feels like too vague a direction for something this complicated and I can see far more concepts of terrible consequences for bad implementations than just having to click a popup box on every single website I visit and needing a VPN to visit the sites that try to block EU traffic because they don’t want to have to adhere to GDPR.

True, but it only got so popular because they had convinced both groups, hard and soft. I have no idea how they managed to convince people that Northern Ireland wouldn’t be an issue.

But back to the real point. Yeah, I thought GDPR would be good, but in practice it’s not changed the cookie/tracking landscape at all. Most places you’d have to send a letter to to get them to removed your data, and most would probably not be able to comply. Meanwhile we now have options that are subscribe (meaning they have legitimate reason to track and monitor you) or accept their ads and tracking cookies.

I think you have too much faith in them.

I didn’t say it was, but a lot of people are wanting offline access.

Point is it’s not inherently clear with one vision what SKG is. Just like Brexit and any number of dumb things it’s been marketed in a shotgun approach to get as many people on board as possible and coasting on a “well the EU politicians will just figure out what we want”

That’s not specific “the way we bought it” could be argued to require servers to be kept running and no company will take actions to put themselves in a position to get sued.

It’s not deep that Stripe uses whatever card network your card is on. Visa and Mastercard don’t actually do payment processing themselves, they have processors that do it for them. It’s those that they’ve told to put pressure on itch and Steam.

Stripe is just another 3rd party between Visa/mastercard and itch.

Mainstream betting has already gone too far even within the betting laws. There is no way to do it responsibly

That’s just how Steam bundles work. It decreases the cost by the undiscounted price of the parts you own to some minimum (I think it’s £1). Most likely they only thought as far as bundling the Rebuild edition and SnowRunner and giving it a cost of £60 and didn’t consider this.

Or maybe they did it deliberately given the name. Who knows

Now they’re having issues because sequels are the same game, better engine, but less content, but the old version is still fine.

Console updates and game updates are a thing. It will work, true, it just might be downloading and installing updates for a day before it does.

Didn’t one of the ea sport games have a literal slot machine you buy tokens to spin as part of their MTX?

I will say, going back to it I appreciate how light it is in comparison. It’s a shame the games feel overpriced compared to PC and rarely get discounted

Not to mention it’s still in closed beta, even if a lot/most people have a key now

Too true, it was good by virtue of being the only modern game in the genre since nwn2 and basically no competition. It’s good, but nothing incredible.

Between Owlcat’s pathfinder modules, Pillars of Eternity and Wasteland 2/3 we have plenty of strong contenders, but it’s still a genre lacking in games. I don’t think a DAO remaster does anything for that though.

The issue is doing DLC for an open world game is hard. The way it’s been done in the past is broadly one of the following:

• add a new zone that doesn’t interact with the rest of the world
• add a new location, a few new maps that link to the original zone and some quests The issue is that that’s not enough to necessarily make an entirely new playthrough worthwhile, but also an existing near-end save might trivialise loot and content.

The solution is so some combination of the following:

• Make the content spread throughout the world
• Balance the game so that new gear are choices rather than straight upgrades.
• Add new systems to engage with.

Fundamentally Bethesda as discounted the latter. It’s done with classes, it’s not added races, or new systems or new skills in years. They can’t add content throughout, that would require creating the space for the content to exist in ahead of time.

Not that it can’t be done, but that they don’t have the future awareness to make room for it.

The unemotive faces is the real issue. Facial animations from bioware seem really bad.

Except the complaints about Veilguard are about the pixar-like characters with very little expressiveness. So even if that were what he meant he’s still actually not addressing the real issues