“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it” - George Carlin

Here’s a quick primer from 2020 (back before Trump bit flipped on his position):

Spoken like a poster child for armchair game designers. Bravo, you’re a stereotype!

Until the industry is more willing to openly discuss development processes, the lack of transparency will continue to be used as a straw man for bad-faith arguments that characterize DEI as an imposition by nefarious, unseen forces rather than an effort to cultivate a more accurate reflection of the world around us.

Management and shareholders are not game developers. So again, please try to separate development teams from studio and publisher management with your ire.

Amen. If players want games built like assembly line automobiles, well, AAA live service and mobile F2P games are for you. They’re not about fun, they’re simply a framework of retail and gambling psychology tricks with a pretty wrapper to generate sweat equity to hold players while they pick their pockets.

Your argument hinges on the fact that number of features = quality. Perhaps the minigames were cut because general audience reaction to them in previous installments was lukewarm, or perhaps it was just the fact that adding X more minigames to hit parity would force another feature to be cut. These decisions don’t…

I love these discussions, because in my 30th year in the game industry (i used to draw sprites for SNES games), I truly despise armchair developers who say stupid shit like “I can’t believe QA let this through” as if QA has final say on when a game ships. I’ve had to veto a QA recommendation to hold back a release…

Nic needs to take a good honest look at his True Detective output and STFU. He got lucky for season 1, faceplanted in his sophomore effort, and then cribbed his notes from season 1 for season 3. I certainly won’t be going out of my way to catch any of his future work.

My first thought was Amazon’s Crucible, but it managed to launch and stick around for 2 months before going back to closed beta, officially cancelled 5 months after launch. So yes, we may have a new record for game development, although plenty of non-gaming tech projects have launched and collapsed almost immediately,…

Someone on the cinematics team really liked this scene from Apocalypse Now

Those are not mutually exclusive claims. He can still be a problem, as can our tolerance for these clowns.

Good job illustrating that the “Worthington’s Law” Mr. Show sketch wasn’t parody!

In the case of This War Of Mine, these sales are intentional: 1) to hopefully educate “I don’t pay attention to politics” people to what people living in an active war zone are going through, and 2) donating the proceeds to relief efforts. To be fair, I haven’t seen a statement that the devs are donating to Gaza…

Welcome to humanity, you new here?

“Convenience” has driven every major paradigm shift throughout civilization as well as the rape and destruction of our planet. Just because the ruling class with the capital no longer wears literal crowns, and slavery hides behind things like tying healthcare to employment, doesn’t…

There was something similar at the Seattle Erotic Art Festival almost 20 years ago, and it’s certainly been done before and since, but your all caps snark is noted.

Here’s where your argument falls apart:
- Your perspective is that of a consumer, not a corporation looking to increase shareholder value.
- As others have pointed out (including your own example with CS:GO), blockchain and NFTs are not necessary to create and maintain a player cosmetics store.
- Game publishers and…

Todd has never been interested in a Morrowind remaster, because of the work that would require for minimal return on investment.

Cool, cherry pick all the distribution data and ignore the actual development and marketing costs rising astronomically in a crowded, hit-driven market. You’re only giving one side of the story, and you’re entitled AF. Signed, a game developer since 1992.

It has nothing to do with that. It’s all about content content content - get there first, get the clicks, get paid. It’s just that simple. Clutching your pearls over spoilers won’t change a damn thing about the business model.