You know that’s 100% accurate. It’s EA. If there’s anything that seems good for players, it’s a mistake.

Yeah the movie issues really go back to one root cause. They needed to write and maintain a single cohesive storyline for the trilogy. Allowing the directors to also write the movies as they wanted without any apparent oversight AND switching them in the middle and back was where the issues came from.

JJ started a story, Rian came in and threw that out the window to do what he wanted, then they brought JJ back in, who basically finished the story he started, largely ignoring the middle. It wasn’t cohesive in any way and felt disjointed throughout because of it.

It’s interactive media. Why just watch when you can do?

It’s not really surprising. Maybe Hideo Kojima and his massive interactive movies were ahead of their time.

Yes it is.

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With massive decisions like this that fundamentally screw up the company’s perception by clients, the CEO isn’t the only one to look at, they’re just the scapegoat.

Always need to see what happened with the rest of the Board of Directors. Are those the same people? The CEO works for the Board.

Source needed for it actually working to reduce piracy. It’s possible, but I’m gonna need sources since we know from history that simply providing a better product does more to increase sales and reduce piracy than anything else. People are willing to pay when they get their money’s worth. The ones that don’t, weren’t going to pay anyway, so there’s no actual lost sale.

It just makes the bean counters feel better and help justify their position.

China has a larger gaming population than many countries have citizens. It’s one of the reasons a bunch of western devs are trying to cater to that market more, and kowtowing to Chinese government to include their propaganda or exclude reality in the process. The games Chinese gamers choose to really get behind are rarely the same as the rest of the world. So when trying to compare sales numbers, it’s like having a gorilla sitting on the scale.

Technically yeah it’s selling a ton of copies, no one is arguing otherwise, but you also can’t really compare sales directly to other western games without removing those sales figures because they’re an outlier.

Cool, what are the numbers without China? Chinese gamers are so numerous that they will 100% shift the sales data of a game from failure to success just by themselves, and this game was 100% intended for that demographic.

Yup, don’t care about it. Not my type of game. Also a genre with too many games as it is for the genre to really support, IMO.

It will have to be nearly perfect to pull people from other similar games. It needs to fix the issues the others have, at launch, or it will be dead on arrival.

I can understand why they don’t put a Linux-specific icon, because there is such a variety of builds and hardware permutations that people could start complaining “it said it could run on Linux but it doesn’t run on my Linux.“

Steam already indicates which games will run on Linux, without any distro or configuration caveats. There’s literally an entire section of the store for “SteamOS & Linux” games, and games that support multiple platforms have the system requirements listed for each of those supported platforms.

We’re just talking about putting the icon for the platform they used on the review, to help you filter reviews that may be more or less relevant. Linux users complaining about Linux related issues aren’t relevant to Windows users for instance, and vice versa. Same goes for the 15 or so MacOS gamers I guess too.

I’ll believe it when I see it. These claims always end up being full of shit somehow. 190,000 of those hours will have been the tutorial area or some shit.

I was referring more to just like Windows, Linux, MacOS icons. Not specific distros. As a Windows user for instance, Linux issues from any distro probably don’t matter to me.

Just have another option for multiple devices or types used beyond a certain threshold. Just like here they’re using a majority of time spent playing on a Deck to show that icon.

It should also show icons for the OS as well. Since games can have dramatically different issues and performance depending on the OS sometimes. Having an icon showing a review is from a Linux machine compared to Windows for instance can help figure out if your system might be affected by reviews mentioning something that all seems to be from one type of OS.

Heck, I’d even take it a step further and have it include basic system specs for each review since Steam already gets that info.

This is what I did after running consumer Linksys and ASUS routers, including with OpenWRT.

I moved to a Unifi setup and haven’t had any issues. I can manage it remotely if I need to, like another household member needs something changed or fixed. I’ve never had to restart it to fix an issue, it just works.

Easy upgrades without having to replace the entire setup and move settings over manually. Especially easy wireless upgrades, almost just plug and play replacing the old access point antenna.

And if you need just a small setup and you run a home server you can run the management software on there instead of something like their dedicated Cloud Key device.

But they then change pricing like 4 times over the next 3 months to bring it to a semi reasonable level at least.

Nvidia just says, yeah the high end shit is $3k. Suck it. Up to the day a new one launches, or even longer sometimes.

Good. His story is complete. He should be involved at least tangentially in the world if we’re in a similar timeframe but otherwise it needs to focus on a new protagonist.

Weiters refusing to let completed character stories actually be finished in sequels is annoying. It’s a crutch indicative of poor writing. It happens in Hollywood all the time, and we get subpar sequels because of it. Games need to avoid that death spiral, they’re not as beholden to actor name recognition the same way Hollywood is. Voice actors often have a lot more range because they’re masters of manipulating their voice and the character model can look like whatever it needs to.

Because at that level it has nothing to do with the actual studio or people. It’s just numbers on a spreadsheet to a team of accountants moving columns around so the final spreadsheet every 3 months looks as good as possible.

Normally without a sale like this, they would maintain IP rights to sell or use later by whatever studio they wanted to use. The studios are a tool to make the product, nothing more.

So a second question is raised, if the members are still allowed to strike in solidarity and in THEORY can’t be punished for doing so how is GTA6 really exempt from the strike then IF they are using SAG-AFTRA members?

Members striking in solidarity probably aren’t eligible for any union assistance. During a strike there are programs in place for helping members with some bills, etc. that would not be available. This is one of the things that Union dues usually go towards, having a financial war chest saved for when strikes are necessary.