... you ever get the feeling that “below expectations” involves the same kind of magical math that makes the most successful films of all time never be profitable, except for the fact that all the suits get all the money from them?
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Well, we didn’t get that until right now. And now I can’t unsee it, god damn you.
Not just that specific one. There’s tons of similar takes on the theme on Adobe’s stock image site via a “SF hexagon” search. Small sample:
They turned it into the world of tanks logo lol. If they fuck this up how are they going to get hte rest right.
Sir, this is an Applebees.
SFV was PS4 exclusive. Makes perfect sense to talk about the possibility of the sixquel being exclusive.
Translation: No one with actual authority will be held accountable for their own bad decisions, as they weren’t bad, because reasons.
God how I miss BF4! Such a high point... BF1 was pretty good too. But man 4 was just so much fun.
Microsoft also made the choice to delay Halo for a year on the eve of a console launch. Maybe instead of placing blame on a competitor they should learn a lesson from them.
Consumer protections is also a real concept. I didn’t preorder this, and for most games I buy it’s usually months after the release. That does not mean companies should be absolved from selling broken products to consumers.
It’s super hard for me to trust Google when I’m buying digital content now, given how I lost all the albums I “bought” on Play Music, now inaccessible to me...
The problem is thinking of “companies” as monolithic entities. There are plenty of people close enough to the ground to see these things for the dumpster fire they are. But if you tell shareholders and board members “there’s a technology out there that will allow you to sell an idiot nothing, and give them a .jpeg as…
Pretty much! You’d be surprised how much people start to mentally regress when they are at the top of the food chain and sheltered away from normal society. Money being the only thing that matters is typical for higher class people to the point they’re willing to sell their first-born.
Sony simply doesn’t have the resources to buy a publisher as large as Activision Blizzard.
Size-wise, Microsoft had more cash-on-hand than Sony’s entire market-cap (roughly $130bn). Market-cap wise, Microsoft is roughly 25x the size of Sony, which is why Activision-Blizzard was only in play for a company as large and…
I appreciate this reference.
pictured: the AAA gaming industry in a few years.
Odds are still long on this, but I could honestly see Sony being the next Kodak - have the early jump on the future of the industry they lead, but squander it out of fear of short-term cannibalization of their most popular business (like Kodak not pushing digital cameras because they didn’t want to hurt their film…
We gamers can be so ridiculous. In the absence of news, we seem to decide that there has to be something and then start making things up out of whole cloth and then get disappointed (at best) or even angry (at worst) when the stuff we made up in our heads turns out to be wrong. I include myself in this because I’ve…
I think Luke is referring to the obligation to defend copyright, not a moral stance. It’s an all or nothing gambit in the US. You either defend your copyright at all fronts or you allow projects without a license.