I kind of like banning simp in certain contexts. It’s not as bad as it used to be, but a lot of people still use it to criticize people who compliment female women (as in, there’s no way you would compliment that woman unless you’re trying to have sex with her), which is really sexist.

I mean

I can’t wait for the rest of the world to get their hands on the sheer terror of Thracia 776

Oh, certainly—I just meant the worst part of CDP’s choices.

The worst part isn’t them refusing to sell it. It’s that first they said they would, and then they backtracked!

It wasn’t actually a snow theme, but my favorite snow theme is Perpetual Motion from Unlimited Saga:

I imagined the game bugging out completely as it tries to load Keanu's model, only for Ashton Kutcher's face to appear as he yells "you've been punnnnnnnnnkd!"

Or that Sony isn't willing to play ball and CDPR is trying to figure out if they want to pay for refunds themselves or something else.

I really don’t think so. There would have been a backlash, yes, but no worse than what we’re seeing now. Especially if they only delayed the console versions. (And their stock probably wouldn't have tanked as much, either.)

It looks like a game that was over-scoped in the first place, and then experienced lots of feature creep and design shuffling over the course of development, before experiencing a sudden downshift late in the game. You're right that more time in the oven probably wouldn't have helped (besides the technical stuff).…

It’s a very 2020 game in many ways lol

If anyone’s read Death’s End, this is like when the universe was ending because too many people were stealing matter to create pocket universes... Except there are just too many dildos

Ash’s twitter is a delight and has a decent amount of YYH

“Ignored the signals”

Many games have voice chat built into the game rather than through the Switch Online app (Overwatch, Paladins, Fortnite). Just plug a headset into the headphone jack and you’re good.

I mean... Aren’t people using a headset on most platforms? Granted, we don’t know if it has voice chat built in, but many Switch games do nowadays.

You should read Jason Schreier’s book, Blood Sweat and Pixels. Each chapter goes over the development of a different major game, and a common theme in AAA productions with is how “front line” developers (whether they’re QA or programmers or 3D artists or what have you) struggle so much when the leads and executives…

They should definitely try! Like, the statement on Twitter was pretty good apart from the refund stuff.

Really? That’s still 3.2 million sales at launch during a global recession, and right before the holidays for most of the US and Europe. (I imagine many people will be getting it for Christmas rather than right at launch.) That’s pretty great numbers for any AAA game, let alone a single player RPG.

Except the game was supposed to be out in March 2020, well before either console would launch, and neither next-gen console had been fully announced at the time of the interview. (MS had said that “Project Scarlett” was in development, but that was it.) Any comment they made was 100% about PS4 and XB0.