It makes plenty of sense when you realize that this move, along with many other recent moves by the Chinese government, are about President Xi trying to install his style of nationalism on the country.
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Small businesses often can’t get licensing deals for IP as larger companies want proof a market exists for products first. This kind of market research is expensive and small businesses can’t afford it. So what small businesses often do is beg forgiveness and break IP law by producing products without licenses. Then…
If they did clean room reverse engineer they’re likely much safer. Especially after the Google vs. Java judgement. Where it gets tricky is the art assets.
There is almost no way to have an automatic detection system these days with the advent of cheats based off of visual computing utilizing AI. Though in the case of the cheats described above they’re probably more detectable since they’re the “traditional” kind that have to hook into the game, but even then it’s an…
It helps to understand that SE Japan and SE Global else are run very differently and are almost like separate companies. IIRC SE Global is run with the London office calling most of the shots.
Linus Tech Tips made the point that, outside of the DOA PSUs, it’s likely most users would not trip these PSUs and cause their fail states...
Except that these PSUs are being bundled with some of the few computer components (RTX 3080s) that draw enough power to cause the failure states. Oops...
That's only true on the Blizzard side. Call of Duty is doing the best it's ever been.
Well the biggest barrier to entry for FFXIV is the sign up process so there’s a lot of things to wonder :p
The attitude in the article is exactly why Jpop faultered while Kpop is continuing to explode in popularity internationally.
This is the same kind of attitude that hobbled Jpop and allowed Kpop to take over internationally, so I'm not surprised.
The newest capcha system (v3.0) is invisible and actually really good. Unfortunately it's also expensive so not many places use it.
They didn’t “borrow” the good writers, FFXIV has been promoting in house. For example, the main scenario writer for Shadowbringers and Endwalker started out writing the Crystal Tower and DRK quests. Also help’s that said writer is also a girl. Turns out having diversity on the writing team helps. In general Final…
I mean FF7R was fantastic up until they fought fate. I was really hoping the Whispers were just them breaking the fourth wall and being meta. Nope, it’s fate.
Um, what? You clearly have no understanding of Japanese culture other than what you consume through videogames and probably anime. It’s just as corporate as America. Which by the way, America has plenty of well known game devs and personalities.
Why would you share Jayne’s extraordinarily bad take? Like sure, OWL will save *checks notes* maybe 10 million dollars. That’s a drop in the bucket for Blizzard.
Which seems expensive but actually isn’t that bad for a Fender. Entry level Fenders start at like $700, so...
People don’t get that this is early research, so of course it’s going to look janky. Especially given that university researchers typically don’t have the money to go out and gather massive datasets and have to settle for what’s readily available. Interestingly enough, 2D animation studios are starting to invest in…
I mean, for MMORPG PVP, FFXIV’s is perfectly fine and seems fairly popular over in Asia which is why it continues to get the support it does. At the very least it doesn’t seem worse than World of Warcraft’s.
It is expensive right now, but the cost will likely go down. Realistically what you probably do is store the audio logs, and then if player reports come in you run the analysis system on the recorded voice chat. Then if that system identifies “bad language” it can be forwarded to a Jira queue for customer service to…
They have a different mindset because my understanding is that Square-Enix Japan doesn’t run the international studios, Square-Enix London does. Though obviously there’s a lot more nuance to it than just one office runs Japan and one office runs the rest of the world.