They are all bullshit, but holy fuck, how the hell were they even allowed to register the third one ?

They brought that one upon themselves imo. They were privately owned for 10 years before their IPO in 2018

Turns out they do actually “nod” (to their corporate overlords)

They deserve to fail so fucking hard though

TFW I spent hours of my life debugging an issue that exclusively happens with czech/hungarian keyboard layouts and no one remembers it (to be fair the game was much more obscure than NMS)

In theory yes, in practice, as a long time sufferer of Stockholm syndrome Tarkov player (where sound is king), and occasional COD enjoyer, I can say that the level design hinges so much on their “lanes” concept that once you have some basic knowledge of the maps, and pay attention to the radar, knowing that another player in the vicinity is emitting sounds is usually enough to guess where they should be, without needing to rely on directional audio too much.

I can see it being actually important data when playing warzone though. And maybe S&D but that’s already pushing it imo.

Don’t give Nvidia any ideas

COD is so twitchy I’m not sure it matters that much.

Maybe they introduced a new bug, but last time I played that would happen because they were spending too much time hauling stuff, adding more haulers in some strategic locations usually fixed it

Maybe I’m doing it wrong or I’m just too shy to socialize with strangers in these games, but as someone who has fond memories of my favorite TF2/killing floor community servers, I feel like there is basically no sense of community in these games now that matchmaking is king and private hosting is a thing of the past

Are you sure about that ? I don’t know that much about these kind of dynamics because I am not a soulless capitalist ghoul, but I remember reading that Kotick actually did that kind of stuff mostly by himself and was quite good at it (which did translate into more money being made, which probably kept investors happy and cemented his position)

Oh look it’s the thing everyone said would happen way back when Activision bought Blizzard

Wouldn’t it be fixed by wiping the drives and re flashing the bios ? (Or the opposite order)

TF2 proved it was a viable model

TF2’s hats were just the beginning. The shit they’ve pulled with my beloved dota 2 over the years ended up disgusting me away from the game altogether

I assume it has a lot more players because it heavily invests in marketing and has broader appeal (not everyone wants to spend hours reading a plane’s manual and watching tutorials just to be able to get through the pre flight checklist). So more chances of a random player having access to (low level) classified docs, and then uploading them.

I have not played that god forsaken game in ages, but I think it’s a LoL launcher window so that actually makes some sense.

It’s definitely inflated but I’d say the real number has to be at the very least within 10% of that estimate (probably a lot more, but I’ve seen some AAA games at a 90% discount in the past) which is still in the billions of dollars, which is still kind of nuts

“just work 8 jobs at the same time lol” this guy, probably

It’s almost as if Valve thought this through when they engineered the steam deck