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Post by Sanunes on Jul 14, 2021 12:38:57 GMT
I think it also says a lot about the online community as well for he outright calls out the online community for chasing off developers. It's true, but that's a fact of life. There's bad actors in every demographic. I'm certain that, according to some people, Michael Jordan is the worst player the NBA ever had. That's a thing that happens, when you have fans that number in the millions, there's no way around it. Right, but they are still chasing off the developers that might want to make the changes they want to see in the game. To me those kind of players aren't any different then the publishers or the higher ups that are doing damage to the product for they are both chasing off the developers.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jul 14, 2021 15:28:57 GMT
Right, but they are still chasing off the developers that might want to make the changes they want to see in the game. To me those kind of players aren't any different then the publishers or the higher ups that are doing damage to the product for they are both chasing off the developers. We can say that it's not right. Other than that, we don't have much sway. I can't force someone to say something they don't believe, nor control other people. Nor would I want to. Which is why Control and Synthesis are shit endings.
Anyway, didn't want to double post, so here
CoH is back, with Relic at the helm. I hope it does better than, oof, DoW3. Can't believe that game just killed the Dawn of War franchise like that. What a waste.
And some gameplay preview
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Post by UutIVvdPw7END0Ef on Jul 15, 2021 18:56:19 GMT
Valve has announced the Steam Deck (previously known as Neptune/SteamPal), releases on December 2021 starting at $399. store.steampowered.com/steamdeckwww.steamdeck.com/en/Powered using AMD's Van Gogh APU (Zen 2 CPU + RDNA 2 GPU), It will be using SteamOS 3 (Arch Linux) and Proton, for some reason Valve decided to go with 16:10 aspect ratio instead of the more common 16:9. www.steamdeck.com/en/tech
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jul 16, 2021 21:51:35 GMT
NPD's report for June as well as year to date. Resident Evil village is, so far, the year's second best selling game, with just 2 months to its legs. Really impressive showing by Capcom, really impressive showing for the RE franchise, trailing only to Call of Duty: Cold War. What's more impressive is that you guys finally stopped buying GTAV in droves. I guess it's because there was no re-release for PS5/XSEX. Has there been one?
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Post by Sanunes on Jul 17, 2021 5:50:58 GMT
NPD's report for June as well as year to date. Resident Evil village is, so far, the year's second best selling game, with just 2 months to its legs. Really impressive showing by Capcom, really impressive showing for the RE franchise, trailing only to Call of Duty: Cold War. What's more impressive is that you guys finally stopped buying GTAV in droves. I guess it's because there was no re-release for PS5/XSEX. Has there been one? Pretty sure there was an announcement for one this Holiday season. Edit: Just did a Google search and its announced for November 11th.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jul 17, 2021 6:45:07 GMT
NPD's report for June as well as year to date. Resident Evil village is, so far, the year's second best selling game, with just 2 months to its legs. Really impressive showing by Capcom, really impressive showing for the RE franchise, trailing only to Call of Duty: Cold War. What's more impressive is that you guys finally stopped buying GTAV in droves. I guess it's because there was no re-release for PS5/XSEX. Has there been one? Pretty sure there was an announcement for one this Holiday season. Edit: Just did a Google search and its announced for November 11th. My fellow kings and queens, if you want GTA VI, I will urge you to contain your excitement and not purchase it for a third time. You'll make Rockstar take even longer and not release the game, until 2030. It's been 8 years already and the longer GTA V sells, the longer Rockstar will delay GTA VI's development.
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Post by UutIVvdPw7END0Ef on Jul 20, 2021 12:08:17 GMT
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Post by Sanunes on Jul 20, 2021 13:21:03 GMT
Makes sense it gets developers to start taking advantage of the feature while the majority of people aren't on Windows 11 yet. For I bet developers wouldn't even bother dedicating anything to its development until the Windows 11's userbase was at a specific level if it wasn't being applied to Windows 10 as well.
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Post by smilesja on Jul 20, 2021 19:57:31 GMT
This is why we can't have nice things.
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Post by river82 on Jul 22, 2021 3:40:44 GMT
Activision Blizzard, the publishing giant behind everything from Call of Duty to Overwatch, is being sued by the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing over a “frat boy” workplace culture that it alleges has led to years of harassment and abuse targeting the women in its workforce.
The company’s “frat boy” workplace culture is also mentioned, as a “breeding ground for harassment and discrimination against women”. Some of the examples provided include:
In the office, women are subjected to “cube crawls” in which male employees drink copious [amounts] of alcohol as they “crawl” their way through various cubicles in the office and often engage in inappropriate behavior toward female employees. Male employees proudly come into work hungover, play video games for long periods of time during work while delegating their responsibilities to female employees, engage in banter about their sexual encounters, talk openly about female bodies and joke about rape.
Female employees are subjected to constant sexual harassment, including having to continually fend off unwanted sexual comments and advances by their male co-workers and supervisors and being groped at the “cube crawls” and other company events. High-ranking executives and creators engaged in blatant sexual harassment without repercussions.
In a particularly tragic example, a female employee committed suicide during a business trip with a male supervisor who had brought butt plugs and lubricant with him on the trip.
UPDATE 21/7/2021 10pm ET: Activision has responded to the DFEH’s suit with a lengthy statement that calls the DFEH and its suit “irresponsible behavior from unaccountable State bureaucrats”.
We value diversity and strive to foster a workplace that offers inclusivity for everyone. There is no place in our company or industry, or any industry, for sexual misconduct or harassment of any kind. We take every allegation seriously and investigate all claims. In cases related to misconduct, action was taken to address the issue.
The DFEH includes distorted, and in many cases false, descriptions of Blizzard’s past. We have been extremely cooperative with the DFEH throughout their investigation, including providing them with extensive data and ample documentation, but they refused to inform us what issues they perceived.
The picture the DFEH paints is not the Blizzard workplace of today. Over the past several years and continuing since the initial investigation started, we’ve made significant changes to address company culture and reflect more diversity within our leadership teams. We’ve updated our Code of Conduct to emphasize a strict non-retaliation focus, amplified internal programs and channels for employees to report violations, including the “ASK List” with a confidential integrity hotline, and introduced an Employee Relations team dedicated to investigating employee concerns. We have strengthened our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion and combined our Employee Networks at a global level, to provide additional support. Employees must also undergo regular anti-harassment training and have done so for many years.I won't copy and paste the whole thing kotaku.com/activision-blizzard-sued-by-california-over-widespread-1847339746EDIT: Afrasiabi was so known to engage in harassment of females that his suite was nicknamed the “Crosby Suite” after alleged rapist Bill Crosby.This guy is an Ahole. And it goes right back to his behaviour as an Everquest raider back in the day.
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Post by river82 on Jul 22, 2021 3:55:17 GMT
I said years ago on THIS FORUM when gamers were being called out for bad behaviour that the devs people lauded on the same forum were once gamers. I used this guy as a prime example. He's one of the people who gets to sling toxic mud at "Manbaby Gamers" despite being one of the most toxic trolls back in the day.
Isn't that right Furor
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Post by DragonKingReborn on Jul 22, 2021 5:01:59 GMT
his suite was nicknamed the “Crosby Suite” Gross.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jul 22, 2021 7:31:46 GMT
Blue Steel (not related to Zoolander)video game gets footage leaked online.
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Post by phoray on Jul 22, 2021 12:27:25 GMT
can't force someone to say something they don't believe, nor control other people. Nor would I want to. Which is why Control and Synthesis are shit endings. I'm with you on Synthesis, but confused about the "control" ending being included. I saw that as the ending where only Shep suffers to save everyone. We get slides where Shep the Control Reaper helps out humanity and then flies off ultimately? where is the Control of -other- people?
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jul 22, 2021 12:32:43 GMT
can't force someone to say something they don't believe, nor control other people. Nor would I want to. Which is why Control and Synthesis are shit endings. I'm with you on Synthesis, but confused about the "control" ending being included. I saw that as the ending where only Shep suffers to save everyone. We get slides where Shep the Control Reaper helps out humanity and then flies off ultimately? where is the Control of -other- people? Well, you know, this is not the thread for that discussion. And I've already had that discussion, to be honest.
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Post by phoray on Jul 22, 2021 12:49:50 GMT
Well, you know, this is not the thread for that discussion. And I've already had that discussion, to be honest. 1. you brought it up in this thread 2. I can't be arsed to stalk your post history 3. I don't love Mass Effect enough to read any of the discussions about it outside of "what did you do today" thread. the only reason I'm in this thread was for Blizzard commentary. It was literally a curious question, because my lack of interest in such discussions have led me to not reading such an opinion before. not the start of a debate, and my appetite for a forthcoming answer from you on the matter has died now that you've been unpleasant. On with the rest of the thread.
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Post by jclosed on Jul 22, 2021 15:17:04 GMT
Well - Ubisoft has done it now:
And that's the perfect reason I refuse to buy games with "Game As Service" and on-line DRM for single player games. The people that have LEGALLY bought the game, are now depending on piracy to play the game they have forked out money for. That's the whole reason I buy my games on GOG if possible. I am glad they pulled that garbage out of the development of the upcoming Dragon Age, because -as you can see- developers and game publishers that use on-line DRM can pull the plug of any game you own at any time they like.
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Post by smilesja on Jul 22, 2021 16:57:21 GMT
I said years ago on THIS FORUM when gamers were being called out for bad behaviour that the devs people lauded on the same forum were once gamers. I used this guy as a prime example. He's one of the people who gets to sling toxic mud at "Manbaby Gamers" despite being one of the most toxic trolls back in the day. Isn't that right FurorNah they're worse than a random screaming child on Xbox Live. They have power which looks like they abuse constantly and hide under the guise of "equality and justice." Really awful people.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Jul 22, 2021 17:08:55 GMT
Watching EA Play and it seems that Seb's work is being put into FIFA, finally. Just a little reminder of what Seb does
And I am wondering if we are going to see NBA Live make a comeback, as well, or if EA is going to just leave that market to 2K.
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Post by SofaJockey on Jul 22, 2021 18:06:37 GMT
Dead Space? ok...
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Post by Sanunes on Jul 22, 2021 18:54:18 GMT
Dead Space? ok... Yeah, I don't get it. I think it might be along the same lines as the Legendary Edition of Mass Effect. Enough people wouldn't stop asking for it so they are going down the exploration route to see if its worthwhile. What I find interesting and its only mentioned in a press release is that this is a remake and not a remaster for I don't think Dead Space was ever that great selling of a game, for if the reports are correct only the first Dead Space game made EA money everything else was a negative sign. So if this remake doesn't do well I think its a final nail in that necromorph. Hopefully they can keep costs low so they find enough of an audience and don't start in too deep of a hole.
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Post by General Mahad on Jul 22, 2021 19:24:56 GMT
Yeah! We are back on the Ishimura!
I hope the other long-term Dead Space fans will be receptive to it despite the damage that EA did to the franchise.
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Post by smilesja on Jul 22, 2021 19:29:06 GMT
Yeah! We are back on the Ishimura! I hope the other long-term Dead Space fans will be receptive to it despite the damage that EA did to the franchise. It kinda needed a reboot given how it ended up.
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