Do you have any proof of the level of success or their sustainability? You’re making big cynical (and very cliche) assumptions here and being emotional rather than logical about why changes are being made.

Was it successful or sustainable though? Given how the site works and was started I’m not sure they had much of a long term plan and they just tried to keep their bills paid. As something gets popular that gets harder and harder to do as maintenance costs go up which include hiring more people. A more transparent…

I’m not sure how you gathered that from reading the article.

Developers don’t get to make the decision on when/when not to release a game. Cyberpunk 2077 was a hugely ambitious game that needed more time as evidenced by statements that they barely even looked at current-gen performance until right before release. Do you think people at these studios are sitting around doing…

Lazy developers? Yikes. Game development isn’t magic. It takes money. Money buys time. Time is needed for the workers you’re paying with that money to actually do things. With limited money, thus limited time, thus limited workers, you end up with less than ideal results. Given the budget for a game like this there is…

I care about the ethics of murdering the cow, the environmental destruction of waste regarding the crops and the water to feed the cow for its premature death, and I care about the workers who work in the field and the workers in the factory farm who have to take out that murder. It’s okay to care about things. It’s…

You can definitely tell that the hardware is better with stuff like load times but it still looks like the stream resolution and compressed haven’t improved which is my only complaint so far really. I think it makes sense for them to target lower resolution at first so it works for the most people but it would be nice…

“Educated guesses” still don’t represent the realities of game development. The farther out the harder it is to even guess. Then again I should probably stop discussing this with someone whose understanding of how game development works leads to statements like: “Oh man if I have to hear one more developer talk about…

I make my own fun out of this meaningless world and lazily mining pop music for instant kudos isn’t what I consider fun. I mean come on, this soundtrack is going to have KISS and Europe? That says a lot that they’re using some of the worst music of that era. That works for a certain crowd, which admittedly will have a…

I don’t see what’s fun about cheesy music choices. Guardians is plenty funny excluding those bits. The same goes for much of mainstream media - lots of bad music choices but still plenty to enjoy. A game is in a unique position to give you the option to listen or not. Why not celebrate that instead of trying to insult…

The convention center expansion does not look close to done so no way it will be open in time. As someone from Seattle you should know that this event gets tons of people from outside of Seattle. It, in of itself, is responsible for a lot of tourism and it’s very easy to notice when the bars and restaurants all fill…

I’m not going to stream and I might turn this on just to avoid the cringe nostalgia tracks altogether. 

Why blame Kojima for MGSV missing content? With more time it would have been in there but that was a point in time when it was clear Konami was really changing how their video game business was working so they had to cut plans short and get out what they could in a polished state. As with any studio sure there could…

If the game is over a year out there might be a lot more work than you’re expecting that needs to be done which makes hitting a specific quarter that much difficult to know if it’s possible. So no, that’s not acceptable either, a lot of work needs to be done to temper people’s expectations about how development works…

Please stop with this release dates shit. Video game development is too fluid. Maybe 6 months out is when you can actually have a realistic date on most projects. This is also a fan-centric viewpoint. E3 in concept is supposed to be a trade show as in it’s for the industry. It’s suffered because as it has moved to…

You only amplified my point here. Watch a streamer play a game is not the same thing as playing it and I’m saying this about a game I don’t even like that much. Streaming culture is some really weird shit.

I remember them saying at the time that they were making Among Us 2 due to the technical problems of the first game when I was reading news about it being cancelled in place for continued development on the first. As a player I think that was around when I started playing it and it sure was janky then. When I hop back…

“I watched someone else play”

OnLive launched in 2010. We’ve had game streaming for over a decade but there’s a lot more technical hurdles compared to music and TV to make it actually work well rather than just be an idea.