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It’s almost like a few other games that are hugely popular got released and initial launch numbers never stay that high regardless as the novelty wears off and only the really committed players come back regularly.

Depends, building good games that establish goodwill and a strong franchise will make you more money in the end than the quick pump and dump mobile game candy crush bullshit.

The difference is that the mobile game model can exist perpetually in a state of pump and dump because the platform of mobile is essentially purpose built to be a time waster. Consoles and PC games are intended to be an activity in themselves instead of a way to take a smoke break, the ramifications of attempting to convert the standard videogame model to the pump and dump model has been successful depending on your definition.

Sure we’ve established that whales exist in every market and some people will buy every MTX they can even if it’s CoD or whatever, but we’ve also seen people who used to spend a considerable amount of money on games stop doing so, because the market doesn’t cater to their preferences. That’s the point Larian is making, you can create a true fan base with their model, you can only create addicts with the pump and dump model.

Oh well, the market clearly accepts paid cosmetics. It sucks for people who don’t spend money on it like me but at the end of the day people will blow cash on it and that’s why it keeps getting up charged.

Starfield was so bad people consider The Outer Worlds to be a better Bethesda RPG in space, try telling that to someone in 2022.

Both mutant types were just straight up the same, the medkit and gas mask were virtually identical assets, the lighter burning spider webs, if you told me that was anything but Metro I’d be like “nah fam, that’s totally metro.”

I literally said they’re following the tech sector, and why wouldn’t AI also affect tech in general?

Right, but they’re doing it because they believe they can make up the lost manpower through automation that won’t be integrated enough to do so for another couple years. So they’re going to overload their current employees even further than they likely already are and the product/s will continue to suffer and fall off.

This isn’t happening in a vacuum, it’s happening currently because they believe AI is far enough along to pick up the slack.

It’s more due to AI and/or the expectation of automation being able to reduce the workforce before that actually gets set up functionally. Also that tech companies are doing it to try and kick back against people demanding their wages increase with cost of living, so game devs are piling onboard with layoffs for the same reason.

Sir, this is Lemmy. People treat the applications and hardware you use with ethical alignment and switching to FOSS literally has approval on the level of religious conversion.

It’s no wonder people around here care so much about random people’s opinions, the place practically filters for it.

That was just the assets he purchased, but yeah even if we are being generous in terms of salary how did someone put together a better game with like 1% of the time and resources?

Im downplaying the fact that they’ll be any different when the overall system that causes this issue still remains.

Who go to create a new dev studio under another corporate thumb and churn out the same garbage.

What someone believes and does isn’t the same as the situation they place themselves into. I don’t care if every employee in the studio is from the Witcher 3 days, they’re still funded by investors and will likely face the same pressures. Their desire to be free of those constraints mean literally nothing.

Because people always assume it means “the guys responsible for all of the good parts of the game franchise you love with none of the managerial/corporate oversight baggage that ruined the games these devs came from!”

It’s a blatant attempt at cashing in on brand recognition for starters. Second and most importantly its main purpose is to essentially disinfect the developer group of their previous failures. It’s not the same level of obviousness as say… The devs of “the day before” literally closing down their studio and opening up under a new name, but it’s essentially the PR friendly version of that process.

Make no mistake, this group and their new game are operating on the same level of competence as any other, don’t trust shit about them or their supposed pedigree. Don’t preorder, don’t hype, for fucks sake stop feeding this slot machine mobile game AAA experience.

Yeah Its really sad that we have to watch indie studios be the ground breakers and the AAA studios are all just flabbergasted as to how to make a good sequel.

About 7 years too late to the party anyways, even extraction shooters are getting a bit long in the tooth. Someone will develop a new model of game and that will take over the market, they should start trying to beat them to the punch.

That could be, I was trained in systems admin but work as a network engineer by profession. I’ve only set up one server in an enterprise environment and it was using RAID 6.

I’d assume you could read from both disks at the same time though.

Might as well, I think it’s how my instructor taught it when I was going through school.

If you have four drives you can do RAID 6 assuming your controller supports it.

RAID 0 just puts your data on multiple drives, giving you higher read/write speeds but with no built in redundancy.

RAID 1 is just a copy, you have your data duplicated so that if anything fails there’s an immediate copy. No increase in RW speeds.

RAID 5/6 use “parity data” which operates somewhat like RNA/DNA when going through mitosis. The four building blocks TCGA only connect with one of the other four in pairs of two, so even if you have half the data (RNA) you know what the other half is by logical extension. The difference is that 5 uses 3 drives at a time whereas 6 uses 4, you can only withstand the failure of one drive in RAID 5 but 6 can handle the loss of two.

RAID 10 (one-zero, not “ten”) does exactly what the name suggests, it combines the direct copy of RAID 1 with the striping of RAID 0 to give you double RW speeds with redundancy.

Each one will reduce your overall storage by a certain amount, either because of copying the data completely or taking up space for “parity data.” The only one that doesn’t do this is RAID 0 but you have absolutely no redundancy there and if You’re considering RAID for home use I’m going to assume that’s important to you.

I’m imagining this in the ProZD hydro homies voice about before and after you discover an online community for a hobby.

I doubt it, the main issue with Starfield is that everything is hidden behind a bunch of UI and you can’t get further than ten feet without another loading screen.

It’s a space game where the spaceship doesn’t matter, since you can only fly it in small skyboxes and it essentially gets used as a fast travel hub. They took all the most interesting aspects of Elite or SC and removed the parts that made it fun. Yeah I can land on a planet, but it was just a loading screen. Now I can explore, but only for a bit before I have to walk back to my ship. No ground vehicles or anything to speak of.

They shouldn’t have even bothered, because they couldn’t actually commit to it.