is there no $59.99 vesion of Baldurs Gate for PS5?
Feel free to dig out the tweet. Until I know that wotc gets 0 cents off of my purchase, I will promote sailing.
Just read my comment. I think 80 bucks is too much same as op and the fact that wotc is part of this fits perfectly with the too high price.
Also, please show proof that larian paid a one time fee for the license when you claim stuff like this.
That be as it may, to ask for 80 bucks is not ok, period. Paying 60 to get it early made sense to me for some games but I just won’t do it for 80.
Not to hurt anyone, just because I‘m not accepting this new situation. I didn’t get a 33% pay raise so they don’t get one either.
But since we‘re already here, can you please deliver a source for your claim that the „license is already paid“?
Yes, but apparently I phrased it incorrectly. The company behind the game, behind the game which is D&D and Wizards of the Coast. They’re also known to overprice stuff.
Sorry. I‘ll correct this shortly. Not larian, the studio that made the game but the company that owns D&D, Wizards of the Coast is who I‘m referring to.
Source:
It was a misrepresenation on my part. I should have said the company behind the game behind the game. Which isn’t larian but wizards of the coast.
And yes, I am correct with that:
Ok, I misphrased it. The company behind the lore ancestor (D&D) is who I‘m talking about: Wizards of the Coast.
Here‘s an explanation why they suck: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/the-dd-world-is-on-fire-right-now-and-wizards-of-the-coast-can-only-blame-itself/1100-6510643/
This is the best headline I have read in my life. The person that came up with it is a genius.
(It‘s news from yesterday but I wanted to comment on the headline)
Absolutely correct imo. Although bg looks great, the company behind it is also not known for their decency iirc.
Maybe consider sailing the high seas my friend.
Edit: I am not talking about Larian studios but the IP holder, Wizards of the Coast. They’re know for their less than stellar trackrecord.
I think this is a neat idea! How to make it work though…
From my perspective, the fediverse is mostly about pioneering. Venturing to new places where the others (twitter, reddit) have been for years and were established. We‘re still fighting trolls and stans from time to time but far less than on the reddit side.
There is corporate disobedience as we walk away from the known, the enshittified and the boring to brave places where new people might spit in our face or name you their bff.
I mean, the fediverse is really as if someone had hacked twitter, sold the code to 100 people and now they all spin up connected clones. Same with reddit. Benefit: one clone goes down and the service still exists.
If you need more inspiration i‘d suggest asking chat gpt. :)
Neat! Thanks for mentioning it!
Thank you very much! I appreciate the acknowledgment.
You‘re correct and then some, Social Media is more or less a giant ad platform, at least conventional ones are. The fediverse has no real „ads“ but a lot of jerks try to advertise for free here. That’s hardly gonna be a real problem (I hope).
Product design sounds like a cool job as well. Still tech or something else entirely?
The issue with marketing is precedent:
- you go to mcd‘s or any other burger restaurant, the image shows giant burgers.
- your mouth waters, you order a burger
- what arrives bears no resemblance with the picture. This should be outlawed!
From there we have precedent that we are allowed to lie „a little bit“. Not keep information for us like a good salesman but outright misrepresent the product.
The same goes for all other products. You see a motor drill in a hardware store prospect: 39,99* Farther down the page, it says „if you are gold member [and we sell your data], otherwise 139.99.“
And there you have it again, precedent. If we allow giant companies to market like this, we shouldn’t wonder why they bullshit us in every other alley (taxes, labor laws, environment).
Thanks for encouraging me to make a q&a, will definitely let you know if I do. But since you‘re seemingly one of three people on the internet who is open to learn stuff, how would you think some kind of podcast/blog? Would you participate?
I only see comments claiming they found a loophole and the move was anticompetitive so smaller manufacturers break down.
No sources.
Pretty easy. The organization that uses such technology, then the person/s who decided to use such technology and lastly the manufacturer of such technology.
Prison-, Death- or Financial sentences should be ascribed 3/2/1.
I don’t know if it is the „correct“ way but I do it the other way around. I have a server and a backup server. Server user can‘t even see backup server but packs a backup, backup server pulls the data with read only access, main server deletes backup, done.
Thanks again for explaining ans elaborating in depth.
I‘ve been saying this for years and I might sound like a broken record by now:
As someone who has spent 18 yrs in marketing I have the strong suspicion that „occasional blatant misrepresentations“ are not the problem. They are pretty easy to spot.
What isn’t as easy to spot is the following:
- Having tons of fun while drinking an alcoholic beverage
- Being so cool and free when smoking a cigarette
Those are two types of ads that don’t „misrepresent“ the product but still play with your desires (being accepted and having status).
Now people always go like „but thats how you make ads!“ Not true. Thats how you make them now. It used to be (google it) and in parts still is a product representation instead of a lifestyle brand thing.
This is where I see the danger, especially for young and/or vulnerable people. They are told that „cool, connected people need this“ and their subconscious gobbles it up.
Now a lot of people go „but I am not like this.“ Wrong, you and I and everyone else is like this. You just may not be as susceptible to it than others are, hurray! This argument still makes you unempathetic towards the endless number of people who are less mentally strong than you are.
I could go on for days. Probably should write a q & a about it and link to it at some point.
Some facts:
- companies use mental health professionals to analyse how to break our critical thinking to sell us more stuff, regardless if we need it
- alcohol and tobacco ads are banned in some countries for the exact reason that they were so successful (and deadly) with the lifestyle idea
- it is easy to break this by disallowing closed ecosystems, proprietary protocols and forcing interoperability and open standards
- outlawing lifestyle ads and any kind of misleading/easily misunderstandable language or pictures will stop pulling in non tech people into buying or wanting a phone they cant even use fully.
Very well thought out statement imo, thank you.
I agree that the hardcore apple people are kind of cult like. But next comes where I disagree: We can’t teach a cult member that his cult is bad without being a trained therapist (most times).
So imo we need to start earlier and outlaw the formation of these cults. They‘re not healthy and definitely not necessary as marketers would like you to believe.
Think about it: sports teams, digital games, consoles. They all are cult like and all of them take away critical thinking. People go nuts over their favorite sports team and will often complain (in my experience) of spending too much money on them, even if they struggle to keep stuff running smoothly.
The counter argument will be: „but that strengthens morale and keeps them going!“ No, wrong. It is one form of socializing that could have been done without alcohol in a better setting. It also keeps a lot of them on the hook.
The counter argument again is: „But not everyone has that kind of problem. No need to ruin it for everyone!“ Again, wrong. This argument is also self defeating as it implies that the person using it has no regard for people who fall victim to these practices. Also, I don’t want to outlaw soccer teams but the marketing strategies behind them. The aggravating language, the false sense of purpose behind owning a certain console and so on.
That sounds cool! I didn’t know that. Thanks for elaborating.
Those people you are talking about sound like the „willfully ignorant“. People who can’t be bothered to understand a topic they’re talking about. Oh, and sociopaths who just like others to suffer.
Which is ok imo. Still a lot of money but reasonable. The 80 bucks is for ps5 which is idiotic.