They have no use. Most of them don’t even know how to make the products their company manufactures or produces, nor how those products function or should function. Elon Musk is the perfect example; most executives are silly rich kids and they all sit on the boards of each other’s companies in this weird incestuous…

Now that is a hot take. The Taken King pretty much saved D1. 

and, much like restaurants, when something special is made with love people respond to it (helldivers 2, palworld) and when it’s corporate crap people usually stay away (suicide squad, whatever else take your pick)

That is like Bethesda’s Redfall. Take a single-player dev and force them into making a live service game because it was the hot trend.

80% of my kid’s gaming time is spent in Minecraft. They might stop and play the new hotness for a day or two, but then it’s right back to building with virtual blocks.

Its the MMO thing all over again. Everyone was trying to get inon that sub money WoW had - and no one could really do it. Everyone one of them spent a ton of money and fizzled. It took how many years and a massive reboot before FFXIV came along?? That is a lot of studio time and money dumped in the trash heap.

We’ve reached a point in the games industry where trends are moving faster than development cycles, and the results are calamitous.

A smart exec would say, “Hey, this is popular in this moment and won’t be by the time we’re done, so maybe we should make something different.” But then again, when was the last time you heard about an executive that could see past the next fiscal quarter?

Imagine standing in line and the price wents from 10$ to 15$ for a burger menu while you wait. That is gonna piss people off.

I think what is being missed here is that I doubt there will be any way to access or view the current prices other than in the store itself. I think what they are largely counting on is that customers will a) not really pay attention to the price or notice the price changes regardless and b) will be unlikely to leave…

There’s also no chance they will let that price go lower than what they want it to be. It will basically be the normal price or higher. No bloody chance it will go lower, regardless of the demand.

The fact that they are even implementing “surge pricing” is because they are the greediest motherfuckers. No chance they…

I hope it doesn’t work, but there’s definitely cases where Wendy’s has a captive audience (drive-thrus in particular) and/or banking on people having limited time and deciding on the sunk cost of travel and I think it’s notably dastardly for this reason.

It’s very important to boycott Wendy’s, because if this system ends up working, you can be sure it will spread like wildfire through the fast food industry and beyond.

People keep including the “they can lower prices at times of lower demand” part but like they can do that by itself. I’ve seen a few places (most notably Sonic) have cheaper “happy hour” prices in the afternoon, usually 2pm until 4 or 5pm. And the great thing about this is that they advertise it, so you can actually…

I try not to make predictions, but a fast food restaurant charging more at times when people are hungry and/or have time to eat sounds like a big mistake. 

Guess I’m not eating Wendy’s anymore.

Japanese devs in general understood the idea of ignoring social media. Switch off YT comments like they do in Japan too. I don’t know why western devs like talking so much online. Gamers are parasites, invite them in and they’ll ruin you.

This is where I’ve been at this entire fucking time. I would actively discourage anybody working on anything to interact with any community at this point and go back to letting PR handle it. It is a liability and a safety hazard at this point.

I honestly can’t think of anything that has been made better by having…

For this game it seems like that people are mad that “official” support for them wont be happening for a while.  Its not the mods themselves but the fact that entitled gamers are mad a company said things take time.  Given how many game companies never offer support for mods at all, I would think they would be happy…

I’m not sure I understand, as someone who mostly played on consoles most of his life and only recently got on PC - why the controversy about mod support?