Viri4thus @ Viri4thus @feddit.org

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That's precisely it, it's feudalism with extra steps. We're not so far removed from cattle.

Thank you for this, I nearly spit my coffee on the table.

That scandal was a big shitshow and vw got the short end of the stick. Everyone was doing it, VW being one of the largest, got caught. The problem with capitalism is that if one player cheats, it gets a monopoly if the others don't. (see every US company ever. US capitalism is based on two principles: 1: print a bunch of money to buy the competition. If that fails ->2 2: cheat) This mindset has sadly contaminated the rest of the world for obvious reasons.

TeSlA hAs ThE sAmE pRoBlEmS aS oThEr MaNuFaCtUrErS.

Not

Reality check time, Tesla is actually quite shitty and is even worse than Chinese brand electric vehicles. And that's before mentioning the absolutely horrendous post sale service.

I guess the cognitive dissonance lies elsewhere 🤔

Never once claimed to be smart, for someone claiming to be so smart, reading comprehension is not your forte. If minimum A -> B is a pretty easy concept to grasp.

Regarding the purported success of Avowed I just have to sit and wait for the other shoe to drop, so, I'm good. See ya at the next layoff party.

Let's put the marketing cope for the absolute flop aside (marketing can get anyone to install a game on gamepass for "free", we've seen with HiFi Rush and Veilguard that mimdgame is complete trash at predicting anything).

I like games, what I don't like is being advertised a deep RPG from one of the old greats, paying 70€ and refunding because I was not served an RPG but a middle of the road first person fantasy shooter with a static world and a bunch of numbers on weapons, that are even more insignificant that the RPG elements of destiny. Logically that creates antibodies towards what was supposed to be a great game and, conversely, ended up as a mindless shooter that would not be out of place among steam greenlight projects.

Avowed is not a good game, it's a C, painfully mediocre and unimaginative. Coming from Obsidian, with 6y of development and after the ad campaign they did, together with asking for 70€ upront!? Fuck that noise, that is unacceptable. Of course, Microsoft has a great marketing team, so they created a culture war around the game, if you like it, you're woke, if you don't, you're a chud. This poisons the well and destroys the discussion about how one of the dearest RPG developers in the West is now writing characters that sound like they were written by chat GPT. There's a reason the best RPGs of the past few years come from independent European devs and the best Action games come from Japan... So, keep your dearest mediocre game and your culture wars, Obsidian lost yet another fan and because of people burying their head in the sand, they won't know about the very large amount they lost... Well, they kinda do, looking at Grounded (not a masterpiece but a mediocre game like Avowed that conversely did not promise the wprld), priced at max 39€, and already for a long time on gamepass, 30k peak, current 3,5k. Avowed, the deep RPG, 19k peak, 2,8k current. Avowed flopped hard. Keep your feelings about the game however you want, it's quite obvious for anyone with two neurons avowed flopped and is yet another symptom of the "mobile game" trajectory a lot of US American devs are taking due to the subscription model becoming ubiquitous. Strap in for the slop avalanche à lá Netflix.

It's a AAA studio and it's part of the MS roster.

Clearly Avellone did something right, other than the great pentiment (which started as a rogue project), they have yet to release anything of note since he left.

Resounding success, barely anyone touched it outside game pass.

The publicly available data for those 6M comes from mimdgame, which is as reliable as divination.

There is a large contingent of people who don't like romance mechanics in their RPGs, often for the reasons she states in the article

Give me an example of an Obsidian RPG romance option where the character becomes a yes person? My argument is that reason is bullshit, either that or we hear it from the director that they believe Obsidian doesn't have the talent to write such characters. You know what, that actually makes sense, the talent is not there, clearly.

They should change their motto to: Obsidian, making mobile games for simpletons

doesn't have a really firm metric

Translation: Numbers look like shait otherwise we'd brag about them.

It’s always a bit of a letdown when you see a character who has a clear personality, and goals and interests, and suddenly, in the service of this romance that the player has embarked on with them, they now become the player’s yes-person

Looks at Dragon age Origins and Morrigan... How do these people, with 0 knowledge of the actual medium they work in, get to leadership positions? Was it a tokenism thing? To see how the brilliant Avelone got pushed out years ago, and clearly incompetent people are now promoted is truly baffling .

It's ok, we're going to use that steel and aluminium for our expanding defence industry.

Moon presence intensifies

And here we are, mod removed comment showing why we have to suffer idiots on a daily basis.

edit: nevermind, sh.itjust.works is predominantly us drivel, my failure for associating with the instance. Problem easily solved.

Good, people need to get used to pushback when they say stupid shit. Platforms are full of nazis because we tolerated stupid shit for too long not to be impolite. Nazis sponsored by Microsoft.

No.1 Why the fuck are you bringing up sony on this, we're not on reddit, fanboys foff

No. 2 Sony had a well known (for people with two neurons to rub together) partnership with Nintendo to have their tech (CDs) on Nintendo's next console, they backstabbed sony and that's the event that spurred the PlayStation. If you want to call out sony, NEC were the first to bring CDs to console.

No. 3 You're probably young and that's why you are not familiar with EEE. Microsoft's strategy is literally the same as cancer cells, I don't know how anyone can defend a corporation like this but, here we are...

No. 4 Microsoft has a history of copying better build/designed/thought out products with a facsimile electro trash designed to get people to subscribe to one of their cancerous offerings. If you want more details, you're welcome to hear more about it on your successful Zune player.

*Andy Wilson

It would have been better if it were a live service

Microsoft continuing the trend of copying someone else's homework... Poorly.

It must have been the Russians /s

Alternative title: "Tech debt saves customer data from wide distribution to the highest bidder..."

US americans trying to cash in on discontent with buzzwords like AI and trying to steal the thunder of actual worthy alternatives like lemmy. The fact Ohanian is part of the founders immediately places it into the shit tier bucket for me.

This is exactly it. Once it became clear it was "rules for thee and not for me" the gears were set in motion.