Goronmon @ Goronmon @lemmy.world

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I keep going back and forth on this game on how much I want it to resemble the original. If it's too close it might not feel I'm playing a new game, but I also don't want it to be so different that it loses what I enjoyed so much about the first one.

I think that's the issue with this "janky" games. There are obvious problems with the game, but it's very easy to lose the positives when you are attempting to smooth out the rough edges.

Over half a million dollars isn't "very small" for this type of charity in my opinion.

Not to mention, they seem to admit they've known about the issue for a while, but have continued to fund raise and present the charity as if it's been running along doing good this whole time, but they've just been hoarding the money so far.

Of course, none of that involved any public disclosure of the issue, nor did it prevent them from continuing to raise donations for their charity.

Also add Google Maps and Gmail to the list.

Yeah, correcting those types of typos on mobile is a pain in the ass, haha.

I don't see where it's trying to make it sound controversial. Switching game engines isn't a "normal" thing developers usually do very often, especially after releasing such high-profile games with an in-house engine.

And with how often you see gamers demand developers "just use a different engine" to solve some specific complaint I think it's reasonable to remind people why that isn't usually a good idea.

The issue with Google is the scale of the data they can collect and their ability to use that data. Between Chrome, Search, Android, Waymo, Google Fi, etc they have a lot of ways to gather and use data on users.

So, Google is clearly paying lots of money directly to maintain their lead in the search engine market.

Bad look for Apple as well. They say they take privacy seriously, but are selling their user's data to Google, one of the last companies you would want getting your information if you were concerned about privacy.

The only thing the charity has done with the money donated has been to pay for it's own expenses. The rest has just been sitting in an account somewhere. No grants or anything have been made with the money so far.

At least that what the charity's filings claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethesda_Game_Studios

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larian_Studios

Both articles have references to where that number comes from. If you have sources that indicate otherwise that would be good to know.

I really think that normies are psychologically incapable of judging or even noticing quality.

I almost feel like I'm back on /r/gamingcirclejerk with this type of perspective.

That's not really a source, that still just one person's opinion on what constitutes AA vs AAA. and companies like Platinum Games are really stretching.

Larian is definitely bigger than those companies either way, and if Baldur's Gate 3 is a AA game, then I guess so is Starfield. The companies are pretty similar in size at this point. And games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 would definitely be AA games as well.

AAA industry is doing great and still pumping out great games. This seems more of some surface level "indie good, AAA bad" nonsense that I don't much value in.

There are plenty of great games out there and trying to turn gaming into some purity test is unnecessary.

In no way is BG3 a AA game. It is firmly in the AAA category. The rough numbers I've seen indicate a team of 300+ people working on it, not including all third-parties that were involved.

BG3 is a AAA game.

Vote with your wallet, and they’ll make a good game again

People are voting with their wallet, you just don't like the results.

At the end of the day, people who post on places like Reddit and especially even more niche communities like lemmy making up a meaningless percentage of the gaming market. And expecting the entire market to cater to your personal whims is just unrealistic.

The video game market encompasses people who buy Pokemon games and FIFA games is the same market where people buy Baldur's Gate 3, Witcher 3, Factorio, etc. All you can do is buy and play games and you enjoy and go from there.

Just because they are for kids doesn’t mean they have to be garbage.

The hyperbole makes it hard to take you seriously. Games being either amazing or garbage is just an exhausting mentality to be around.

There has always been a steady stream of "promising" MMOs from smaller developers over the past couple decades. So that's not really a new phenomenon.

As for the Riot MMO, I'll believe that when they actually have something that people can play.

So it's not that the games are bad, it's that the goal of the games is to provide a simple and fun game for kids to be introduced to Pokemon.

Makes sense to me and clearly they are doing a good job of it. Even if it makes the hardcore games angry that their tastes aren't being catered to.

MMOs are definitely on the decline at this point. They are too big and expensive to make, and companies think GaaS setups are more lucrative.

All those quotes (none of which I could I actually find working references to support, I even have a copy of the "High Score!" book referenced in the article, at least the 2nd edition) are focused on budget and production value. Any expectation of quality is just based around bigger budgets leading to higher expectations.