“As the rewards contained within these loot boxes can offer competitive advantages within the game, they carry significant value for players”

Not to mention it’s deliberately done to confuse players to the point they don’t know the actual worth of the thing they are buying (with the standard practices of “if you buy 200 dollars worth of this nonsense, we give you 50% extra nonsense!”) and in my experience, you will always have leftovers after buying in-game…

I can get behind the flow of the game just not being fun. That’s a very valid criticism. However, complain about that then instead.

And the sickening part; it is working. Hell, this whole article is about this tactic working. In fact, it has always worked and this kind of tactic has been around ever since the first predatory tactics started arriving. The only reason we don’t make fun of expensive horse armour DLC any more is because all the other…

Well, if this is in any way comparable to Tsushima, I am all over it.

That’s what you are worried about? I am more worried that this is a Warner Brothers property, a company who may not have gotten the same bad press as EA and Activision, but is still very willing to milk their customers for all they’ve got, including using the latest predatory monetization schemes.

Before I even start…

Strange, the comment I read had the anger specifically directed at the director doing the bare minimum while making it sound like some grand thing (i.e. not working people into a burnout), not the game.

Wait, since when did Russia care about copyright? The source code of the Unreal Engine is right there; if the company would deny them usage of the engine, they would likely just steal the code and change the logos.

Heh, I have tried to make a rig like the one explained in the video, that contained 400-600 bones. It was an interesting experiment to be sure, but I am leaving that stuff to professional animators.

Still, yeah, those games are excellent examples.

I love how some of the more common solution came to life as well. Like how early reflection shaders in early 3D games basically stuck a camera under the water surface, let it capture whatever it was looking at and use that as the texture.

My guess is silencing the thing. From the tone in the article, it feels to me like the crypto idiots actually thought they had bought legitimacy by helping sponsoring the event, and only found out the organizers didn’t give a damn about them when they were stopped by said organizers.

I find these processes to always be super interesting.

“If you’re on a path that leads nowhere, you have to rethink things”

“The selfless art of anonymous meme creators is something to be admire”

Hehehehehehe, love this one. The selfless “art” of meme creators, huh. The very same guys that will steal photos or comics, often stick their own ugly as fuck caption on it, all for the sake of clicks? Totes selfless and mucho art, man! I am not…

Yeah, nonsense. Fuck that guy.

I am interested because the education I had included courses on logo design and graphic design. Not by any means an expert, considering my final goal from the start was game design, but I would still say that a part of me is emotionally invested in the logo design itself. The giant corporation has got nothing to do…

Let me be a bit more clear then as well. I will acknowledge you talking about the US system, but frankly, I don’t want to use that system as base for comparison, because then we can basically say any innovation goodbye. It’s inherently anti-human, by design.

That seems a bit shortsighted. Just because women aren’t telling you personally they are on their period (which would be weird), that means their problems are not significant enough to warrant a day off? Or how about that part about “we shouldn’t give women time off for their period because someone may say something…

Considering they do that already, this potentially fueling the discourse is really just a moot point. They will find excuses regardless. 

Isn’t private equity that thing where some company swoops in to buy another flailing company, loads it with debt to boost stock price and then sell when they have achieved their goal, leaving whatever remains with the debt problems? That thing where the CEO class wins and the rest loses?