Yeah I don’t care about it if it’s just a teaser. I’m not expecting gameplay or accurate graphics for something that’s probably a long way off release, when games try showing early gameplay it’s nearly always different by the time the game comes out anyway. A teaser trailer is really just for communicating the general…

Your anecdotes don’t speak for the whole industry. A job I had over ten years ago at a small company used tape. I currently work for a large university (as a programmer, not in IT) and I know they still use tape for long term backups. A quick google will show you that plenty of places are still using tape in 2023.…

Yeah without the additional context the actual impact of saving those backups is largely overstated. Though in fairness the entire project might have just got canned if there wasn’t a first version for executives to hate. Hard to say what might have happened if things had gone differently.

Oh hey it’s Dairy John. How are your NFTs doing?

I mean I know you're probably being intentionally hyperbolic, but just in case you aren't no there's very little chance this is intentional. Blizzard are shitty but not in this way. And they're also incompetent, and that's far more likely to be the cause of this.

I’ve also been around long enough to remember when Gawker redesigned its websites and when they switched out their perfectly functional comment system for the godawfulness that is kinja. So there’s a touch of irony in pointing out the old version of Reddit is better (though it actually is better). And yeah I know the…

I can definitely understand it if you live somewhere where space is a premium but being a homeowner now I have a loft (attic for the yanks) to dump old boxes into.

I’ve had to get a replacement PS5. Twice. Suffice to say I’m not getting rid of that box yet in case I have to return it a third time. Though after what Sony charged me the second time (because it was just over a year since I got the replacement for my launch PS5, which was dead on arrival) to fix the defective piece…

Yeah the problem with AI is fundamentally an economic one.

Not to mention that a lot of the time we create tools to make a task more efficient or effective we raise the bar on what the standards of production quantity or quality should be. We often don’t significantly reduce the labour required for a task when the task gets easier, instead we just increase the complexity of…

I think one of the big problems behind monetising mods is that the author of a mod has very little control over the lifecycle of the overall product. You could be paying for something that might be broken by a game patch within 24 hours. I’m not opposed to supporting the work that modders do but once you turn mods…

“ROFL. Tryhard internet argument man nonsense.”

Once again, I don’t think they’re infallible. I just put more stock in their ability to make informed decisions regarding their business than your ability to do the same. You have too high an opinion of yourself if you think that constitutes flawed reasoning on my part.

You obviously watched a very different trailer and saw very different gameplay to what I did. Everything I saw looks far more like Dawn of War than it does Total War.

No, I’m making an argument that on the balance of probabilities a large corporation that has been performing very well in the market over the last so many years likely has a better idea of what they’re doing right now than some rando on Kotaku. It’s hardly a great leap of logic.

At this point you’re just not listening to the myriad of reasons why they’re doing things the way they’re doing and why that’s potentially a lot better for them than what you’re suggesting. You’re convinced you’re right and that you know better than a multi-million dollar corporation who has teams of people they pay…

I’d disagree. This is an RTS, Total War games are not RTS games. And since the last proper Warhammer RTS game we got was Dawn of War 3 it can only compare favourably to that. Hopefully it’s more like 1 & 2 than it is 3.

Significantly? No. Simultaneous releases are a lot more straightforward though because as you mentioned they only need a single marketing push. They also don’t have to worry that negative reception on one platform will lead to reduced sales on a delayed platform, which is only particularly important if you’re…

This is the thing as well, Sony is undoubtedly doing that market research. Yet some commenters (not referring to you by the way) on a dying gaming blog think they have a better idea of what will make them money. It’s a little baffling.

Delayed releases don’t sell as well as simultaneous releases. This is a pretty well-established fact.