The only reason they want their games on multiple platforms is so they can prove they're not trying to buy up studios for exclusivity. This is the main objective here folks. They don't care about being on more than one platform, they just don't want to fight the FTC again when they try to buy up sega, square enix, take2, embracer or whoever the fuck they want to buy next. Remember, this is the same arrogant bullshit company that wanted to buy Nintendo and got laughed out of the conference room.
If the forum features were used properly it's not really any different than a traditional discourse forum board. Also being proprietary isn't always a bad thing, and this is coming from an open source enthusiast. There are alternatives like guilded and another one called riot (not to be confused with riot software).
Edit: anyone want to explain why the down votes? I'm not wrong, you can create forums, pin posts, create forum categories and tag posts, it's not a black hole if you take the effort and not make it a black hole. People just like to bitch and moan because "discord bad!". Fuck off with that shit.
You're kidding right? Bobby Kotick doesn't give a shit, he's laughing all the way to the bank. He's the only winner in this situation other than Microsoft. Regardless of the Microsoft merger, he was on his way out, he would've left even if it hadn't gone through, this just gave him an excuse to leave quicker and get a fat paycheck on his way out.
It's also not about spending Microsoft's money. Yes they have it, but consolidating so many developers under one roof removes an aspect of the competitive market. Which historically means less competition, higher prices, less innovation and poor quality control.
But I mean, hey, you get CoD on gamepass now! That's pretty cool right?! Right...........?
It's ironic yeah, but if trust is the only way to implement something like this, then Mozilla is probably the one company I would trust considering they're a non-profit org.
Valve, that's who would get in on the market. They already made a killing with the steam deck and there have been talks of a dedicated steam console again, like they have prototypes of consoles in their offices. I'm not talking about another steam machine scenario either, I'm talking dedicated valve designed hardware like the index and deck. They have the storefront and the network architecture to support the hardware. I'm already using my deck as a switch replacement and a console plugged into my TV with a USB-C hub.
This always comes up in these card games, what's so great about draft modes? I don't play card games myself but I've tried getting into them in the past and this is always a point of conversation and I don't really understand why.
I'm still pissed I'm locked into pixel pass paying for my 6a and can't unsubscribe from it without paying off the phone. I don't want YouTube music or premium anymore or play pass, but I'm stuck until 2025 or the phone is paid off and Google discontinued pixel pass altogether so it's not like I'm getting a new phone when that period is up...I really feel like there should've been lawsuits and fines for what they did with pixel pass. My point being, pixels are great, Google services are terrible, if you can get a Samsung get a Samsung.
I don't understand the hate for the outer worlds. It has great satire in it's themes like the fallout games, the build diversity is there and gear is impactful, the story is pretty fun and interesting. It's like people hate it because it's not the massive open world of fallout new Vegas, but people tend to not realize or I guess forget, there was a stupid amount of just walking from point a to point b in that game only to get to a super linear quest line. The outer worlds does a great job of simplifying the world in a meaningful way. The terrible remaster of it doesn't really help the game either though, it really should have been left alone.
Well I'm pretty sure that happened before tencent bought them but it's been well documented that Riot was not happy with tencent using Riot's assets without permission, including lawsuits.
They bought up studios like crazy and expected to make a return when they didn't. This is the same company that stole assets from Riot for honor of kings, who then took those stolen assets and created another game for the EU by the name of arena of valor, only to roll it out again in the Americas and then roll it out again for the switch and not include crossplay with the other platforms and the switch only to then promise to release a global version of honor of kings effectively killing the arena of valor player base before wild rift gives it the finishing blow. These guys buy up studios in hopes of remediating the costs of their failed projects and get butt hurt when they don't make money. Tencent is pathetic.
It does not add any choice. All it did was encourage me to speed run my way to the master sword and essentially go down the line of weapons I had in a boss fight until I ran out. There was no strategy, just a sense of never wanting to use any of the good weapons and hoarding them. It was so bad I marked a spot on the map where weapons would respawn every blood moon so I could at least have some good weapons. Guess what that's called in every other game? A repair mechanic. Don't even get me started on the master sword "breaking" for no thematic reason.
Zelda breath of the wild - it's one of the worst Zelda games I've ever played and I've played so many. There were so many bad decisions made with this game from weapons breaking to getting rid of traditional dungeons. It's a great open world game but a terrible Zelda game.
The Horizon series by Guerilla Games - These games are good for the most part, however they suffer from long stretches of boring open world where you have to fight robot dinosaurs with underpowered weapons. The whole point of the combat is to find weaknesses with the enemies and exploit/attack those weaknesses, but the game never at any point explicitly explains that concept or focuses on that concept. It expects you to just understand what to do. Not to mention the absolutely stupid grinding for mats to make new weapons and armor. Melee combat is terrible, the story for the most part is pretty good but man does it take forever to pick up, it overstays it's welcome. They are technical powerhouses but just so grindy and boring.
https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2024 not sure if this is what you're looking for but someone has been tracking overall video game layoffs for the past 3 years. 2023 was approximately 10,600, we're halfway there at 5600 in 2024 and it's only been a month. That's pretty fucked.
Tried using Vivaldi at one point and I really liked it but it was noticeably slower than both Firefox and chrome even though it's just another chromium fork. I've since switched back to Firefox and haven't looked back.
Wow, I fucking hate this guy the more he opens his mouth. He can seriously fuck off right now, if he thinks AI realistically needs him at this point he's sadly mistaken.
No thanks, I'll stick to dota 2 and cs2. Everyone else should do the same, this kernel level anti cheat doesn't even work. Well, no anti cheat is perfect, but vanguard isn't any better than any other anti cheat. All it's doing is collecting data about your computer and running at an insanely invasive level.
The only reason they want their games on multiple platforms is so they can prove they're not trying to buy up studios for exclusivity. This is the main objective here folks. They don't care about being on more than one platform, they just don't want to fight the FTC again when they try to buy up sega, square enix, take2, embracer or whoever the fuck they want to buy next. Remember, this is the same arrogant bullshit company that wanted to buy Nintendo and got laughed out of the conference room.