I would love HZD on PC but fuck the PSN requirement. As long as Sony keeps trying to monetize the player’s info via PSN they will lose business. Why can’t companies be happy when we buy their game? Why do they have to steal info from the players now?
Mods have always been free, a labor of love from the community for the community. Fuck paying for mods. I don’t give a fuck if the modders get paid - they mod because they love the game and want to participate in their own way. Modding has ALWAYS been this way and requiring a financial transaction to be a part of the community is scummy. Whatever your beliefs are, they belong only to you and Todd.
Sony would have more digital sales if they didn’t fuck with people’s libraries. The only way to be sure that you can still play some PS games is to have a physical copy.
Unless they push back from within, they will still suffer the backlash from not trusting the fan base.
Behind the scenes, the company was quietly funding and purchasing game studios, with the apparent intent of producing games it could integrate on its own blockchain platform.
How many is unclear. When asked what game studios it has purchased, Forte’s spokesperson confirmed its purchases of Rumble Games and Phoenix Labs, but said the company “hasn’t been announcing investments and partnerships for some time now, but more news will be coming from Forte soon.”
This secrecy does not appear to break any laws. KUSK Law partner Don McGowan, former general counsel at Bungie and chief legal officer at The Pokémon Company, told Game Developer that there’s nothing illegal about keeping these purchases a secret, but that it is “fucking weird.”
Forte Labs is super sketch.
Impressive consistency!
Oh no, we should warn people. What part is the scam?
Are you mad that parts of a game arent coded as a unified whole l? If those individual parts work, and they seem to be maintaining enough of a player base to continue funding the game, why are you actually mad? Are still trying to keep the meme of “Star Citizen Bad!” going when it is clear that the game doesn’t care what others think, the players don’t care, and no one is copying your sentiment?
That must be tough.
Some folks like bottom performers. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
But executives don’t look at fun. They want something flashy to catch attention in an ad, neither Minecraft nor Factorio look like they imagine a fun game should. They don’t have outstanding visuals for their generation not audio, so really they don’t see the appeal. They want cutting edge for the sake of being cutting edge. They want cool because, to them, being cool sells more than being fun.
The man is mad that people don’t like how he monetizes Ubisoft games and game mechanics. He is upset at the messages he gets when he upsets a game to inject a micro transaction. He is part of the wave of business professionals that don’t see game players as people - we are just cash waiting to be harvested from idle wallets. This is what quid-pro-quo looks like; he is seeing what we look like to him and he doesn’t like it. He wants to be a person with a name and friends and credibility that allows mistakes to be made in good faith. We want to have fun, sometimes with friends and other times alone, in a game world where we can be a person with a name, friends, and have the ability to explore. We both want the same thing.
So why is he treating people like cattle instead of people who are trying to have fun with the system they have been given? Fuck this narcissistic piece of executive hypocrisy. He doesn’t deserve peace until he exits the industry or finds a way to be actually useful.
Probably just biomes and fetch quests with extra steps to add some diversity.
Ultimately it is about the money and effort being put into the wrong parts of the game, which coincidentally is the part that is easiest to show off to investors and C levels.
Outside of a passing similarity to Pokemon, I wonder what the suit is about
The Rogenverse TMNT have been meh. The movie was fine but gave the impression that the mutant problem was mostly resolved. The TV show, Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, is absolute crap. Hopefully the game can turn things around.
Maybe if they nerfed something other than player tools it would be fun. The devs can choose to make the bugs stronger or the guns weaker and they repeatedly take the fun away from players in the name of “challenge.” Did they even see their own trailers for the game? Where is that fun energy? They keep nerfing it out of the game.
This is a side effect of YouTube content creation practices where a video will have an overview of the plot or story to pad out the run time or article. Often, because game journalism is basically long distance abusive relationships between the writer and the game publisher, the review is too mild to contain actual opinions and will draw on comparisons to other games instead of forming genuine critiques and admiration.
The end result is a generation of games and movies where the review is unable to provide enough genuine content to fill 10 minutes or 3 pages, so they instead spoil the game while riffing on very specific foibles. They don’t know how to talk critically about mechanics or story or design.
I love this game. It is in the same vein as Townscaper or Tiny Glade, where the object is to build a town without being limited by any statistics like money or happiness - just build something that you like. The recent update for adding little flying cars to travel through between the skyscrapers has reinvigorated my city building enjoyment.