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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Sony failing to get another live service game off the ground really highlights a few things.

    1. How hard it is to launch something in this space. Not only has the market moved away, it was also saturated long before they dropped Condord.

    2. Companies (still) fail to understand that a bad launch isn’t exactly death. There are several ways they could of tried to salvage this instead of just Zaslav’ing it for a tax write off 2 weeks in. We’ve seen plenty of examples in the past 10 years of games that were able to turn themselves around and find success. No reason a company like Sony couldn’t align resources to make it happen here.

    3. This should of been on PS+ Day One… I get not putting your shorttail, singleplayer, prestige titles up there at launch. I also get not wanting to go completely F2P, a microtransaction enabled MP game though? Why the hell wouldn’t you want the biggest audience possible out the gate? Halo Infinite was a shit show at launch but it was free and has maintained a pretty damn solid user base for years because of it. Hell, I’ve even picked up a few season passes and cosmetics despite never playing a Halo MP game in the past (outside of lan’ing up for Halo 1 waaaaay back).

    Lots more thoughts, but the schadenfreude is just too much right now to avoid jumping on a still warm corpse.



  • I’ll bite the potential bait. What did you mean then?

    I ask as a straight white dude that generally creates female characters in game and truly enjoy seeing how the game world reacts to the character (if it does) and find it enjoyable to experience challenges outside of those that generally color my world view.

    It’s cool to be Geralt or Male Shepard but I’ve seen, read and played that story quite a few times. For my personal enjoyment I’d like to live in a world (especially another CDPR one, doubly so for the Witcher universe) as a female character. It opens up a shit ton of new dialog possibilities and quest choices.

    Having played through Cyberpunk multiple times as both male and female V, there’s skme truly unique things that they do that are only possible by leveraging the PC’s gender when interacting with the world.