Do other major releases get “here’s how shit it looks in ultra low detail mode” stories? Did Control (the other RT darling)? Did RDR2 or Valhalla?

I think it’s just the people who are, like, self-described fans, maybe. Once you would use that word on yourself (or through so many actions that it’s clear that you consider yourself one), that’s where you go wrong.

I personally don’t like to use labels for myself, first because labels come with baggage, and second…

I run a company with 7 employees and it’s hard enough to course correct when we’re all basically on the same page, even though there are so few of us. We’ve never had any misconduct issues or anything, but we have had to pivot, especially during this pandemic, and keeping everyone on board with changes is always tough.

I guess I’m the only one looking forward to the game? Listen everybody. We know shit went down. But the people that got shit on, worked their asses off on this game. Ubisoft is restructuring is it not? So how long do we screw over the employees for things that a bunch of fired higher ups did?

“Epic wants to utilize its own competing services, for its own apps and for others.”

I just find it odd the demo is locked behind a pre-order or a burrito.

This is ... incorrect. Votes are by shares, and most shares of a company the size of EA are held by institutional investors who hold them in various ETFs and mutual funds. The thing about these entities though, Blackrock, Vanguard, Fidelity and so forth ... is that they are all starting to come to the conclusion that…

The top ten EA investors(all giant investment firms) own a combined 108 million shares. Regular people own a tiny portion of EA’s shares. As much as I’d like to see us little people making an impact, these votes don’t come from people logging into their Robinhood account.

Remember that a vote is a share, not a person. A major investor could represent tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of votes by themselves.

Small but important piece of data: votes are counted per share, not per person. So if one person has 60 million shares, that person counts for 60 million votes ^^ 

I guess the millions of votes refer to shares, where you have one vote per share or something. Some investors may have a big number of those.

You get stock occasionally when working at large companies (spot award (not in the million thoug) or convert a part of your salary to stock every 6 months), I suspect part of those votes were cast from the employees themselves.

You may already know this or perhaps I misunderstood you, but not each vote is a single person. You get one vote per share in a stock traded corporation. More often than not you have stakeholders on the board of directors with a large amount of shares, such that any of them could have cast millions or tens of millions…

“While recognising the need to retain top executives”

This isn’t a need. It’s the biggest lie in the corporate universe, in fact.

The difference between a “top executive” and “other executives” is literally a lottery pull. The vast majority of them are staggeringly incompetent or ineffectual people that just ride…

There are insiders with a credible track record who have reported the status on SFVI. You can google it. Many news outlets have been reporting it this past week.

“To keep people from absolutely hating their lives they give you booze,” she said, and after two years stopped attending many of the studio’s work mixers. “I didn’t want to get drunk anymore, I wanted to get a promotion.”

I think if they would have added in an “MMO”, “Tactical”, “Battle Royale”, and a good ole “Try not to cum” they would have had a hit.

One of the most exhausting things in video game culture these days (in addition to all the bad stuff that is not new) is just “keeping track of who all these inexplicably famous twitch people are”.

I saw this crossposted on Kotaku, so let’s throw another analogy out there: