Man, Anime Expo out there being good to their exhibitors/vendors/artists...I mean they’re not, apparently. Good lord, how are we still fucking about with this at this point.

As a longtime player...literally nothing in this report is very surprising to me and it both explains a LOT and validates a lot of the angry community commentary.

I’ll keep on saying it: Literally every “revolutionary idea” the crypto crowd comes up with - short of the hilariously stupid stuff like “use Cloud’s sword in World of Warcraft!” that’s impossible because crypto bros don’t understand copyright or trademark law (to say nothing about the often technical impossibilities…

Man, can he just take the $1B penalty for losing the game of chicken with Twitter, accept the L, and like...just go back to talking about rockets and fictional vacuum tube transportation that won’t be a thing for decades despite a bunch of cities investing big in it?

Honestly...with Jack at the helm there was a lot of concern. He’s a bit divisive in the MMO community. But it seems his departure to Jakelope or whatever ended up killing off the project.

https://massivelyop.com/2020/12/02/everything-we-just-learned-about-daybreak-thanks-to-eg7/

Their “legacy” games are still profitable. EQ1 is surprisingly a powerhouse, EQ2 is moderately profitable, DCUO is their best performer by quite a bit (and is honestly a great performing game overall despite how quiet it is), and Planetside 2 performs adequately. Even DDO/LOTRO are turning reasonable revenue,…

This release has been an unmitigated disaster for DICE. I’m done with them after this BS, and I can’t even get a refund now that the product they sold me is no longer the product they marketed me.

I’ll give the GME apes one thing - they killed Melvin, they’ve got a hedgie notch on their belt.

My initial reaction before reading this post was extremely negative, “Techbros, at it again! Quantifying diversity to automate it.”

Not counterfeit, fake. As in that like $125B that Tesla stock “lost” in value wasn’t actually real money, it was fake money that existed digitally as-value. Just like all the “billions” in crypto value lost recently was never actually “real” money, it was fictional value mostly based off of artificially inflating…

Ah SWG. Raph Koster is one of the only people, IMO, that has anything meaningful to really say about the metaverse right now. His is the only project I’m keeping any kind of eye on, everyone else is grossly out of their depth from what I’ve seen.

Can we start automating the C-suite yet?

This is what’s so wild to me...it’s all fake money. And not just fake money, but much faker money than even the stock market represents - which itself fake money. Like all those “$100M in NFT’s stolen!” headlines are hilarious. That money never existed, that was just the speculative value of the NFT after a few folks…

Watching the crypto world “pioneer” what Second Life and games like Entropia Universe did without the blockchain 10-20 years ago continues to be deeply amusing.

Watching this become essentially a sportsball event with #TeamAmber and #TeamJohnny and people projecting broader “political/culture wars” onto this is wild to me. Rich people don’t fuckin care about that shit as a rule and that’s not what this is.

It’s wild realizing just how “all-in” on CowaDuty that Activision is. They have some great IP’s and all and occasionally publish great games, but while Ubi or EA or Microsoft may have multiple franchises they support as central to their brand/revenue, it seems that for Activision proper it’s basically “All Call of…

BW working with Frostbite again? Probably a dumpster fire, even if they’ve abandoned the “live-service” angle for the game.

YO THEY FINALLY LET US KNOW WHAT WEAPONS AND GADGETS OUR SQUAD IS USING SO WE CAN PLAN OUR LOADOUT ACCORDINGLY!!!

I’m about to jump in and try this. Not expecting anything major since this was an almost exclusively bugfix patch - the design work is still to come, and that will likely take a lot more time.