It does strike me as trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube. They harmed the game tremendously chasing their competitive and esports dreams. Now the entire game design has been shaped around that. You’d need to do a lot more than change the limits in Quick Play to recapture the spirit that I and many others…

Before people start some guessing game, a reminder that if Eccleston had wanted to name the co-star, he would have named the co-star.

This is a great breakdown.

Most of us game devs also don’t want to use gen AI voice acting. It only makes this company and executives trying to avoid paying voice actors happy.

Hmm, lots of How-To articles that seem to be regurgitated Tik-Tok/YouTube shorts information.  

I genuinely do not understand all the comments worried about the Social Media like footage in the trailer. Have these people never played a GTA game before, or are they just too clueless to pick up on satire when they see it?

I would say the underlying intent matters more. If I just said “I think there are not enough stories about some groups and want to make stories involving members of those groups” then doing research and charting that information would be helpful and would generally be in the realm of any other research being done for…

Yay??

Doesn’t the OW dev team have a diversity chart that makes this feel a little bit insincere?

I have seen quite a few of his videos he does some REALLY wild stuff.

I want some kinda “Mario Kart Maker.”

Yeah, agile is at this point particularly old code for, “We don’t have clear direction and are trying to do more with less so everyone will be overloaded.”

Oh, but they WILL do more! They’ll give the executives bigger bonuses!

Agile = whipping back and forth between concepts and game direction as dictated by the mercurial boss of the week.

Anyone who automatically equates “Agile” to “smaller” doesn’t have the slightest clue what Agile is. If everyone involved is already tasked to capacity (not too far-fetched given that DA:D has been in development for almost a decade), then fewer people means more tasks for the remaining employees. But if they were…

I know it’s a boilerplate response from them, but the “we’ll do more with fewer people, more easily” response isn’t quite a good look.

Or! Hear me out here! Permanent ban from all multiplayer for life. If somebody hits eight strikes they’re being a prick deliberately. There’s no right to online multiplayer. Kick them to the curb.

They found what looked like a tape backup, but it turned out to be Laserbeak in disguise. (He was part of a deep cover mission to make Starscream look like an idiot...)

Honestly, if you’re interested in the Agatha Christie stories about Poirot, then you’re better off watching the ITV series Poirot with David Suchet. He played the character in 70 episodes for over two decades, and nobody has played Poirot better.

As a person who works in IT, you’d be surprised how much ignorance with computers there are from end users. I doubt the average end user knew this information.