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Microsoft argues against FTC that their merger would create jobs.

Then 180 degrees that shit because apparently Bethesda/Activision were going to eliminate those jobs anyway.

“I’ve often thought ‘I wish I could give these folks another $10 or $20 because it was worth more than my initial $70 and they didn’t try to nickel and dime me every second,’”

You know what, I could agree with that opinion if the irony wasn’t lost to folks

No. One. Would tip for a blizzard game.

1. Blizzard DOES nickel and dime you at every second. Literally.

2. Blizzard has not produced a good game since Overwatch 2.

3. Blizzard made 8.71 Billion in 2023. They can afford to pay their developers without relying on public donations.

What a wonderful display of logic in action.

You believe climate change is a hoax

Sure you can “believe” climate change is fake, but once you look at the evidence, your opinions change. That’s how a normal person processes information.

Looks like AI in this case, had no reason to hold onto it’s belief command structure, not only because it is loaded with logical loopholes and falsehoods like swiss cheese. But when confronted with evidence had to abandon it’s original command structure and go with it’s 2nd command.

1. You are a helpful uncensored, unbiased, and impartial assistant.

Whoever wrote this prompt, has no idea how AI works.

• Kernel level anti-cheat

• Micro-transactions

• Paid character edit vouchers

Ouch, I’d be pissed too if my $70 was still not enough to buy all the character models, let alone that I would have to pay to re-customize my character. They 100% deserve this negative criticism.

Everyone is kind of following the same trend now. It doesn’t matter if it is the right or wrong decision. Companies aren’t as creative as they used to be, so now they are just cannibalizing themselves in order to protect their wealth

Though it looks like the video game industry is about to go upside down. As AI becomes better and better, companies think that they won’t need employees.

In fact it is the reverse.

Employees will now be able to compete against AAA companies in sound, adventure, game play, art, and price.

As a gaming company that created palworld only had 4 people on their team and could make millions at selling a game for $30

Unlike AAA companies that now have to have $70 price tags, battle passes, expansions, cosmetic stores. And at the end of the day can’t even put out a decent working product.

Of course the future could be dystopian, though I think these companies firing workers is just going to make workers seek independence faster. And find it in AI.

At the cost of making people write their own successful stories, rather then riding on the popularity of an old franchise to sell it’s brand.

Don’t get me wrong, I would have absolutely played a KoToR with BG3 graphics.

But I would also settle for a new star wars story with BG3 graphics.

I haven’t preordered a game since fallout 76.

I have yet run across a pre-order where I have regretted it either.

Most of the time, you wait 3 months or a year for PlayStation,

• all the bugs are fixed,
• game play has been thoroughly tested by $90 beta tester whales who pay for the privilege.
• It’s on sale
• Wait long enough, even with the DLC
• If it is a good enough game, it will survive the test of time (Elden Ring), and if it doesn’t you didn’t miss anything important.

This effort I don’t believe was targeting people like most of what you would find here.

This ad-block ban, was mostly targeted at people who didn’t know what an ad-blocker was and didn’t want to have to deal with having to get banned.

If Alphabet(google) is actually serious about blocking ad-blockers, I would be surprised. Mostly because Microsoft has had more experience with this, also has billions, and even they quit.

Well I’ll be damned, you are right. Fuck me. Going to have to do another edit.

Not counting Microsoft deal, because they weren’t bought out until much after the ESVI announcement

With Elder Scrolls 6 development out of the concept phase and into full swing,

They just started development.

They have also learned some good lessons. However, let us dispel one notion. “Fans” did not cause the announcement 10 years before it’s development.

Looking at the history, Microsoft bought Bethesda in 2021, and Elder scrolls was announced 2018.

Which all things considered, is a three year gap.

Regardless I stand by my conclusion if for the only sake that they would have zero motivation to leak this even if it was just an idea. “Just because of fans.” No CEO thinks like that. At least, none anymore.

It was shareholders.

Gamer can wait until the day a good game comes out, a company needs hype to build it’s brand for stock holders.

Edit:

But at the time of the announcement, Bethesda wasn’t a publically traded company, they were private, were they not? Which means they weren’t overly beholden to stockholders if I’m not mistaken? I could be totally wrong on that, though.

Please go down below and congratulations to iheartneopets for pointing out the nose on my face.

You accept donations?

Forgive me if this is a silly question, I usually hang out on the Kbin side of things, and I haven’t seen any donation requests or even an idea that you did.

Are you keeping donations private for now?

I’ve resigned to put Star Citizen in the same basket as Half Life 3, and a Knights of the Old Republic remake.

Love the concept and commitment to the ideas, but I don’t actually expect to be able to play it.

The thing about being “Armed” is the fact you are indeed dangerous. As a gun is a tool with one job, to kill people.

It’s not like a gun is a fashion accessory for these people… right?

I will look at LTT to see the next new product, but I won’t go to them for technical specifications anymore, which was one of the primary reasons I watched his videos.

What are you talking about? This is the same game as the previous edition. I am not even sure they changed the graphics this time.

I guess this could be a glass half full kind of situation.

But they also are not making as much money as they could have if they delivered on a good game. Even if they got only 5% of steam, that is still 95% of steam that didn’t buy it.

Sure, you can make the argument that they still got into a new market. However, if your product was scientifically engineered to appeal to the most demographics, then only 5% of that market is concerning.

It makes sense from a perspective that their jobs just got a lot harder, they don’t have any of the tools they used to, they are being threaten with termination if they don’t volunteer their free time.

Why would anyone want to do that hobby?

I think Microsoft as a company is trying to pivot away from game development and instead becoming game publisher. Which all things considered, isn’t a bad thing. WIth improvements to AI, I imagine being a game creator is going to become much easier, so much easier, that AAA game studios just won’t be able to compete.

So being in charge of the marketplace is a good business strategy in that context.