Ah, so Konami clearly hasn’t paid attention to Square’s experience with exclusives on PS5. So I guess this game isn’t going to meet sales expectations either.
If you’re snooping here, you gotta calm yoself down.
Ah, so Konami clearly hasn’t paid attention to Square’s experience with exclusives on PS5. So I guess this game isn’t going to meet sales expectations either.
So they fired, chief Maddrey, right?? Since he’s the one who actually abused his position. Otherwise, what the hell is the point of this payout? It’ll just happen again.
Ubisoft speed running to irrelevancy.
They still haven’t fixed the janky audio in 2 & 3.
Oh no, what ever would we do without the tweets from game developers? How How will clickbait articles survive? On the plus side, they’d get a lot less death threats for updates to their games. And we wouldn’t have a new news article for every fucking tweet that gets made.
This has happened before.
Kinda embarrassing this keeps happening
I get that. And I self host the things I care about. But for the average layman? I don’t see self hosting as a real option. Unless you are decently tech savvy, and have an aptitude for troubleshooting, most people aren’t gonna put in the time or effort of initial setup. Even if maintenance is minimal once it’s running. That first leap into self-hosted is daunting.
I think of it this way… would I expect my dad to be able to do it? Absolutely not. And my dad is decently tech savvy for 70.
Churn is inevitable with any subscription service.
The trick is creating just enough value and exclusive content/services that you feel like you’re gonna miss out if you leave. But not too much.
I haven’t seen any incentive to stay with any specific game subscription service via exclusive content or services. But I do see plenty of attempts to lock people into services with shitty tactics. Like forcing save data to the cloud. Good luck moving that saved file to your own personal copy of the game. Or multiple tiered service options with features/games locked behind more expensive options.
It’s all manipulative and anti consumer.
Don’t think they mean sharing data. I think they’re referring to sharing an equally regulated digital environment. That could totally be done without sharing info, but following equal practices.
Really at this point, the lack of regulation is already killing the Internet. Google search isn’t search anymore, it’s ad delivery. Reddit and Facebook are ‘news’ for a huge majority of people. Amazon is essentially the only online retailer people have available, and where other options exist, Amazon uses it’s leverage to make those other experiences just a bit worse. All of these companies use their size and monopolistic weight to prevent competition and by extension worsen consumer options and create worse experiences.
The digital market is doing what any market does, just a lot faster.
Sims 4 released in 2014. They had plenty of time to address bugs in-between the millions of stupid updates, but they didn’t bother. Who honestly expects any real work from these guys at this point?
Ah yes. Because that one Reddit users option holds equal weight to the thousands of professionals in the eyes of an LLM.
This is gonna get worse before it gets better.
You’re not supposed to be shitty to your corporate customers until after you’ve captured their business and they’re dependent on you. Elon can’t even enshittify properly.
I could also see a database being used to coordinate game ownership with a fraction of the power usage. But neither will happen because consumers always get the raw end of the deal and nothing will ever be done to their benefit without being forced.
The fact people didn’t know this was coming and it was accruing interest seems to be the one thing that saved this lady.
Did you also paste that image on Facebook?
The link at the end of all his posts instantly brought me back to all the Facebook users who would add “FACEBOOK DOESN’T HAVE PERMISSION TO USE MY POST” to everything they shared.
So we can definitely say Republicans support genocide harder than Democrats, right? Like this whole debate is over, right? Right?
Oh yeah, because the FTC is totally gonna do something.
Hash browns used to be $.90 ea or 2 for $1.
Used to be that people went to fast food because it was good, fast, and cheap.
These guys running the show have managed to reverse all three of those points. Now fast food is shit, slow, and expensive. It’s honestly amazing that people put up with it as long as they did.
Is it too simplistic? I have plenty of games I’d consider kids games that I haven’t returned.