That’s what you call bullshit PR talk, literally none of that is guaranteed and the company can and will change once the deal closes. This statement is made more than Microsoft goes in, hires who it want, fires who it doesn’t needs, and emphasize its own goals before handing over funding to development teams.…

Leon: The Professional: The Final Final Video Game

I would say that for everything in Tech or even just upper end highly skilled jobs in general like investment finance, consulting, etc. The highest pay level usually means burnout hours. Once you have enough and your current work life is 60 to 80 hours of work, why not just leave?

30% isn’t high according to you, dude. For a regular small time developer, its 1/3 your revenue any way you put it and you’re balancing that out with other cost to survive vs attracting your consumer base.

Yeah... you might as well ask WB to walk into a hail of gunfire with a question like that. The answer is pretty obvious that she is absolutely receiving royalties and if not, the only alternative to that is a massive contractual amount she’ll make regardless of how the game does. She still wins either way.

Idk, the technical improvement from generation to generation increases at a diminishing rate. I didn’t play Shadows but it’s just harder to say one game is remarkably better on the next gen in the previous with each new iteration, especially when these things are more developer problems and how they prioritize…

Again, I literally said I really don’t care about Epic. They have the money for their own phone, so what? Just because they’re assholes, doesn’t mean it isn’t a crap situation for everyone else under Apple and Google. Not even sure what the rest of your rant is even about.

An Oligopoly can be just as bad. I don’t really care about Epic but Apple and Google effectively made it so developers have no real option but to submit.

It’s on PC too so that’s probably be Sony’s compromise with SE to stay off the Box. I could see that as a strategy for Sony; shooting their exclusivity in the foot to keep console games PS5 while satisfying developers who want more platforms.

They’re going to bank on their brand for the rest. Can’t imagine they aren’t already taking a beating at that price point. 

Uh no, dude. Neither one of us cares about the other’s comment and takes it any more serious than what it was. The only difference is you assume I’m offended or “hostile” when I could eyeroll to Cancun right now.

Sounds like you’re over-blowing your importance in my universe, I really don’t care either way, I just responded to a random comment to trying to logic out a joke.

I don’t really know or care how you reacted, internet stranger. I’m just saying a very sad intern could just as easily be buying each game one by one without his millionaire boss really giving a damn beyond telling him to do it.

Uhh, because it’s a joke and to a crazy millionaire, why would either choice even matter? It’s not him doing the work either way and the extra cost is inconsequential, Any competent intern will do just what you said but it’s not like interns and assistants haven’t done things a million times worse or more tedious.

Simple Reason: Publishers put a hard No on that. That much of a price difference cannibalizes their New Games market and piss off the makers who supply said game to Game Stop. The new Zelda/Spiderman comes out, more people wait 2 weeks for a used and a 25% discount, who does that piss off? Nintendo/Sony who then…

Those old player contracts pretty much gave those rights to either the NBA or to the team they played under. Pretty much the same issue going on with College ball and I do believe Barker also voiced how unfair it is when college players pretty much can’t benefit from their likeness at all in games, past/current/future.…

Yeah, it’s called getting an intern to do it.

Well, the quality looks more like they’re just revamping the original materials versus a true “remake” from the ground up. Not sure how motion capture works but I couldn’t imagine they redoing all the original motions for it minus any added content.

I mean, credit and payment programs aren’t new. Pretty much all retailers have some kind of plan (usually zero interest at that) and it’s not like Microsoft is going to have more lenient credit requirements. The financing actually annoys me because it’s just a way for them to stick on items I may or may not need. I…

Retail Price isn’t really a consideration especially with all the markups in tech, manufacturing cost is significantly lower especially since getting the contract to be a key part in a major console means the part makers will gladly give some discount on it. No doubt they are getting a loss but quantifying how much is…