I hate that that Sledgehammer is gonna eat the brunt of the hate and criticism over this when it’s obviously 100% the fault of Activision leadership.

Pricier cosmetics can be fine. The problem is that they were supposed to fund F2P games that didn’t have box prices and support ongoing development in lieu of subscriptions.

Yves, still doing his best to run the company into the ground before he fucks off and retires with his loser brother.

Apparently they want the fucking Windows start menu to be AI powered too?

Few studios ever really improve, sadly. Blizzard, despite running MMO’s and “live-service” games before that was a thing and despite having far more institutional experience with community management than most other developers still regularly shits the bed on that front. They had to do another apology tour following…

I doubt it’ll be DOA, this is Bungie and they’ve shown an incredible ability to turn around bad launches with Destiny and Destiny 2.

boy, the obviously rushed DLC positioned as a full game was obivously rushed DLC? Shocking!

I love paying $500 for nice hardware and then another price for an online sub to play games just so the company that makes the hardware and runs the service can then spam me with ads.

Because the community was falling apart and they need to try to stop the doomerism and try to change the narrative from, “BUNGIE IS FALLING APART AND LAYING OFF DESTINY 2 DEVELOPERS AFTER A BAD EXPANSION AND MARATHON DEVELOPERS EVEN BEFORE IT LAUNCHES AND SOME YOUTUBER SAID TARKOV TESTERS HATED A SUPER EARLY…

ah yes, it’s the sony fanboys that are the problem mr feels rofl

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damn, so the memelords didn’t turn gamestop into a roaring success with a solid business plan towards actual profitability and growth?

Cool, let me know when you actually meet and get some experience talking with gen-z folk, then. Because the strawman you construct based off bad stereotypes doesn’t actually exist outside of the internet.

largely do to the expansion not living up to the promises of setting up the final third act of Destiny.

I can’t believe we’re still talking about this subject in the year 2023 lol. Seriously, just admit you were horny and wanted to design a sexy lady in a skimpy outfit, it doesn’t need to be that fuckin deep.

Studio/game is underperforming? Layoffs.

I’m a 40 year old ex-WoW player that used to raid, nearabouts. So I’ve no clue what you’re talking about, I like my MMORPG’s to be MMO-y and my ARPG’s to be endlessly grindy. The two genres don’t really have a ton of design overlap beyond “kill lots of stuff” which is usually even done for respectively different…

This is a way more chill kpop song than I was expecting, especially for a game like OW2. Not my speed for kpop, but it’s fine.

The raid worries me. It screams MMO and not ARPG, and we already have some example of those MMO designs failing miserably in an ARPG in world bosses. They work in Lost Ark because it’s an MMO that just happens to use an isometric view, not an ARPG.

I’m glad that even bigger developers like Remedy are just throwing their hands in the air and giving up on PC optimization.