Goronmon @ Goronmon @lemmy.world

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I never claimed you said they were losers, it was part of my hypothetical example. Are you sure you read my comment?

Nothing was mixed up. You just seem confused with my simple example. My point was that taking an attitude of condescension is unproductive.

And your premise is flawed from the start, as the average game is definitely much older than you are claiming.

The average consumer of games is a 12 year old with Mommy’s credit card

Though I seriously doubt you are correct in this assertion, I'm not sure how this attitude is helpful?

It's like if someone said that the average person complaining about games online was just a loser living in their mom's basement with too much time on their hands.

Yeah, the homepage thing stood out to me as well. It doesn't feel like it's focusing enough on the games on currently playing and is just a "general gaming info" type of homepage.

BG3 is a much smaller game than Starfield overall though. There aren't systems like ship-building, base-building, and the scale is much smaller as well.

I've been using backloggery.com for too many years at this point. Any site that doesn't offer an import tool is likely one I'm not going to switch to. Just too lazy to import all that data.

I thought you were exaggerating but after reviewing the thread at https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDayBefore/comments/18ee3t9/i_present_to_you_the_asset_flip_file_dump/

Yeah, this is going to keep happening.

What's crazy to me is that the game looks as good as it does on a surface level. It doesn't immediately stand out as a "This is a garbage game that is going to lead to a studio closure", at least until you see the person actually play the game.

I'm definitely pumped for this. I never had time to get into a Rise despite playing a ton of Monster Hunter World. Will be interesting to see what, if any, changes are made to the formula.

I can’t believe anyone would approve it to begin with…

The main reason it didn't face as much resistance is how far behind Sony (and IMO Nintendo) Microsoft is in this console generation. And the merger was still really close to not happening at all despite there being no chance that it turns MS into anything resembling a monopoly.

And since AB isn't really a platform in the same way Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo are it's not as though it's directly reducing competition in that market.

And blocking the merger also benefits the market leader in the space.

And MS is a US company, while Sony isn't (which matters in the context of the FTC).

I would argue that had much more to do with the fact that Bethesda is one of the very few companies who provide a decent SDK alongside their games.

Wasn't that the actual developer of SkyUI who put it on the platform as a paid mod?

The only paid mods that Skyrim has are the ones for Creation Club, and I haven't heard of people getting through the approval process with stolen work.

Maybe I’m just cynical, but I’ve never seen an official supported modding marketplace exist without a significant number of free mods being sold as paid by not the original developer

Which games has this been a problem for?

Many updates for Skyrim have broken SKSE. That's not really a new problem. Hopefully they'll be able to fix it just like they have in the past.

Might not stop it, but having an approval process for developers and clear rules will make it harder.

This is the second time Bethesda has done this.

Kinda true in two ways.

1. There was initial paid mod attempt that they walked back due to player outcry, not because the paid mods themselves caused any problems. Which doesn't really work as an example of "paid mods are almost never a good thing for the game itself".
2. The Creation Club has been around for years, so technically speaking "paid mods" have been around in Skyrim for a while. Which maybe suggests that paid mods aren't going to cause problems if they've been in place for this long?

In addition, mods always end up in a situation where someone’s work was stolen, which no one cares about when it’s free. Everyone’s just using everyone else’s stuff because it’s all working to make a better ecosystem

Taken from https://creations.bethesda.net/en/creators/bethesdagamestudios

        Creations can range anywhere from simple cosmetics or gameplay tweaks to entire new quests and encounters - it's up to what you can conjure! Our internal document available to Verified Creators has some specifics, but in general:

    Creations must be standalone, so it cannot depend on other community releases, free or paid.

    Creations must be all-new to qualify for release. You cannot re-purpose older releases – or work by other authors, unless contracted.

  

You seem just as angry as I am? Why else would you still be responding? Just downvote me and move on.

Maybe, but people's egos alone are enough to causing issues in the mod community, I'm not sure paid mods are necessarily going to make this significantly worse.