Neutral: Honestly, it’s a pretty bad time for most of my clients, which means it’s a bad time for me.

13 million of that is going to have to cover the lawsuit or potential lawsuits.

This is a bit ironic since it kiiiinda feels like it had to have been the investors and C-suite guys who forced this out earlier than any of the devs ever wanted.

It’s very impressive, no doubt, but I’d put the question to devs if the resources required to simulate all those individual strands wouldn’t be better utilized in other areas?

This is the first time I’ve seen hair like that in a game that didn’t suffer from horrific aliasing. It legit looks next-gen.

It’s kinda crazy that this is the first I’ve heard of this. I feel like sports games always get that prerelease “Look how good these sweaty dudes look” trailers (pretty sure there was an NBA one at either the series X or PS5 showcase). And, sure, they tend to look good (though not always representative of the final…

And here I was thinking the hair in Cyberpunk 2077 was a step up. A good balance of physical presence without a mass of clipping issues.

It doesn’t have to be a small title to be left to die; I weep every time I think of the support EA/Bioware has given Anthem when they completely abandoned ME: Andromeda, a flawed game that had a great deal of potential. If they’d invested in that rather than Anthem, it could have been a great success story and maybe…

I’ve sometimes wondered if this did more long-term damage than they let on.

This is a quintessential tragedy of modern AAA game development: if Anthem hasn’t been cancelled then it’s not a failure, and if it’s not a failure, then by some perverse metrics it’s a success.

To be fair, not every light on the BMW’s dash is illuminated.

To their credit, the community had gotten Nintendo to a point where they were going “Alright, we’ll start supporting you guys to a point provided you do xyz and so on.”

Nah its all the woke SJW’s fault. /s

And they all wonder why Nintendo continually doesn’t want to acknowledge their scene’s existence...

Without some sort of governing body, it seems like it’s back to outting people on social media and hoping the community self-polices and shuns those people.

“...the Code of Conduct Panel was established in 2018 to provide competitive Smash with an infrastructure for handling allegations against players and other community members, ranging from destruction of property to physical attacks and sexual abuse”
It is extremely sad (and worryingly, not surprising) that this was…

You talk like CDPR is only able to pay expenses out of current revenue, which is not how this business works. My guess is that they have pretty substantial cash assets to fund production (after all, Witcher 3 made a metric fuckton of money). If not, they still have the option to raise more money from investors or just…

I agree with this. They’re a big, wealthy company that’s not struggling to make payroll. Would it have upset shareholders to delay the game again? Yes, shareholders want to see revenue now, not later. Would it have been better for consumers to delay? Absolutely. They weighed their options knowing exactly what they…

I know what you’re getting at, but CDPR is the largest publicly traded videogame company in Europe, worth over $8 billion. This isn’t a single make or break game for them. They’re sitting on GOG, which they own and take cuts from every sale through. They’ve also built a sterling reputation and years of strong sales…

They’re lying. From only sending out PC codes, to ordering takedowns of console footage, to not showing base console footage themselves, it’s clear they knew it was a problem, and they hid it.