I mean, in a way it does suck for the people who are being directed to work on this thing

“Everyone in this organization should make it their mission to fall in love with Horizon Worlds,” these agonizing memos from Shah are claimed to continue. “You can’t do that without using it. Get in there. Organize times to do it with your colleagues or friends, in both internal builds but also the public build so you…

It’s still a pretty big exaggeration. It’s kind of sort of almost as tall as a PS5 - but honestly even there there’s a pretty big difference. And across the other two dimensions it is much smaller.

Not what I’m doing. You either didn’t read or entirely missed the point.

I don’t have a lot of good things to say about MUT but I’m not convinced that’s the problem here. Plenty of games are monetized in similar fashion but still manage to ship functional games. Madden is buggy because they make a new one every year - if anything MUT would be the thing that might have the potential to…

I think this boils down to the TV show existing. TLOU has shown Sony that if they can make a good enough remaster of an existing popular game, they can get away with selling it for $70. And an upcoming TV show is a great jumping off point for marketing that remaster.

I’m more than happy to pay $70 per game if it means more content and less DLC/P2W microtransactions (hopefully).

So has the addressable market. It’s not as if profits of gaming companies have been trending down with inflation or something. They’re hitting record highs year after year.

Some games listed above, like Call of Duty and Dead Island 2, are charging $70 regardless if you are playing on PS4 or PS5.

Google couldn’t get it to work because they didn’t have the content, and because they chose the wrong model. Microsoft’s model (and even Amazon’s) is way different, and of course Microsoft already has the content thanks to Xbox (Amazon, as far as I can tell, is just streaming the PC version of games so unlike Stadia I…

Sounds like the issue we need to address is access to reliable, high speed, low-latency internet for all, rather than declaring game streaming bad for all eternity because right now the internet isn’t where it could and should be.

Insofar as they care that it’s at least good enough to make back their investment. Not necessarily a good sign that a game that has been in development for like a decade and really, really just needs to ship to start making back some of the burned money, is in such bad shape that they can’t even justify shipping it as…

There’s 6 seasonal weapons that need 5 patterns each so even if you didn’t have to worry about RNG luck with the new way they’re doing seasonal patterns, it’d still take 30 weeks to unlock them all without having to grind them out in seasonal activities (which are all dropping at such abysmal rates right now that they…

They’re definitely being less than upfront about why they’re doing it this way, but I also don’t know that it’s really that bad. The game is free. Or you can buy it. If you don’t buy it with money then you’re “buying” it with your playtime (because in a F2P game monetized by MTX, having a large engaged playerbase is…

I don’t think being a returning, experienced player is what makes a player likely to pay $40. They should tie the “skip past all this” to your account that shows how much Overwatch you’ve played, not to how much money you’re willing to spend.

The problem with most free-to-play games is that they get the “grind and pay continually for new stuff” part in place right away, but then struggle with the “new stuff is frequent and high-quality enough to be worth it” part for sometimes several years (Halo Infinite is in this stage right now, Destiny 2 had a similar…

The initial launch coverage I saw had them marketing it as 2-4x. I’ve since learned that they were being really deceptive in presenting that number, as it was DLSS 3.0 vs. native rendering.

Just because they can make it even stronger doesn’t mean it isn’t the next-gen equivalent of last gen’s Ti. The same was true with the 80 series when they got their price increase last time. The point I was making is that price comparison should be based on its most comparable last gen card, not its name (this is…

They fucked up the naming. That’s where a lot of this outrage is coming from, I think. It seems pretty clear that they feel like they can’t do better than the 3080 at that $699 price point (or better than the 3070 at its price point, etc.) These 4000 series cards seem pretty clearly meant to be the next evolution of…

Not necessarily. The player who gets good at balancing both when they do and don’t appear on a minimap, as well as at keeping tabs on the minimap while also aiming and shooting and generally playing the game, is going to have a big advantage.