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They've ruined the games market to such an extent that it doesn't even have to be the game's fault if it's a flop.

First: A decent, average game is now a flop. In a highly saturated market, this means that 98% of all games will be flops, because people can only buy and play a certain number of games, and the highly acclaimed games were never more than big outliers. Each small problem a game has turns its chances on the market drastically down.

Secondly, I saw The Lamplighters League and I said: "This is a shoo-in for Humble Bundle, I will wait."

Games are worse than lettuce these days. They sell today or become pig feed tomorrow. I got about 60+ games for free this year, not counting F2P games, just normal games, good games, for free, including triple-A games. I got about 100+ games on Humble Bundle for a tiny fraction of their release price, and most of them were not older than a year or two and when the year ends my subscription there will end, because I definitely do not need more games. I get games every few months with my free Amazon Prime subscription because they keep offering me and everyone in my family 30-day paid trials and we keep them on one Amazon games client so we have them all in one place. Then there are Fanatical bundles, and Steam has a big sale so often that it's hard to find a day when there isn't some sort of sale going on.

On top of that, on PC most games stay playable forever. I played more old games (2004 - 2010) this year than new ones, because I have access to so many of them and I lost interest in the "latest thing" because I am flooded with so many new game releases that I just can't keep my interest for them up anymore.

Where is this industry heading? More ingame shop games on mobile and more gambling sports games, but live service hasn't worked out for a lot of games the last two years. Some didn't make it into a second year or just barely when they were thought to live for 10 years or more. At least in Europe video game gambling with loot boxes and alike is under attack.

I look at this and I am happy for my backlog. If this industry collapses, I have games to play untill I am 100 years old and most of them did cost me close to nothing. On top my hardware works forever it seems, no need to upgrade that either. So weird. I am 57 years old and playing games since 2000 and when I started there were less than 70 games coming out per year on Steam, in 2022 the number was 10644 add to that console and Nintendo and others and it's crazy.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/552623/number-games-released-steam/

This opens up future plans for some Rocket League vehicles to come to other Epic games over time, supporting cross-game ownership.

The Meataverse. The shitshow which lead to 900 people being laid off. "Everything EPIC" needs to get under one huge umbrella for this.

Next step will be that you can buy a skin in one game shop and getting it in multiple games, so a pumpkin skin in Fortnite turns automatically into a car skin for Rocket League but costs three times what it costs now, because "You will get sooo much more!!!!" All to make you stay inside the EPIC game world, because the next new game that comes out you can use all these crazy skins in from the start and why would you want the game on Game Pass or Steam where your skins won't work? FOMO meats sunken cost fallacy.

Everything and I mean EVERYTHING Epic does from now on is done for the Epic Metaverse, nothing else will count, not the people working for Epic, not the gaming communities.

The good thing is: It has already started to ruin them and it will continue to ruin them and it will ruin Epic until the CEO has to go and he owns half of the company, so I doubt it is going to happen soon. Look at what this same idea does to "X" or Facebook and in the end there can only be one Metaverse if that idea would work, but it won't.

Tim Sweeney's "apology" for laying off 900 people: "I was spending to much on the Metaverse" - first sentences. "I am going to spent more on the Metaverse anyway!" - last sentences.

Source: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/layoffs-at-epic

9 years of everyone telling him that forcing the UNITY splash screen on "baby's first game" was a bad idea and was hurting the engine, because people were assuming all games made in the engine were bad, because good games didn't show they also used Unity. Now that he is gone this changes.

Also he is a huge fan of the "metaverse" idea: https://venturebeat.com/games/unity-ceo-john-riccitiello-the-metaverse-will-have-millions-of-destinations/ and I am sure some of Unity's money went there at a time they could not afford it and with nothing to show for it.

The first new paying model was also targeting games that were old(er) and already out for some time. That was one reason the backlash was so terrible. They backpaddled now because of the backlash, but I am sure this developer was sweating a lot in the last weeks.

They must have had a hard time with the Unity bullsh*t then. I guess they weren't so sure if it was going to be a party or bancruptcy for two weeks.

This article speaks right out of my soul, when comparing Starfield and Cyberpunk 2077 2.0.

The quest qualtiy itself is comparable, but the delivery of Starfield makes it solely my job to create immersion (which I can and will do), while Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 grabs me by my balls and drags me into the world.

A similar quest in Starfield:
I talked to the barkeeper in Starfield from the wrong angle and he only turned his head and it was very uncanny valley, because over the whole conversation I was questioning how he can still talk with a broken neck.

EPIC is laying off 900 people so Tim Sweeney can follow his stupid dream of a Meataverse. He even said this in his "apology letter" where he writes, that he spends too much on metaverse, so he has to lay off people, but then he ends with the promise to continue to overspend on the same thing going forward.

He lays off 900 people, 1/3 of them even core people making his game(s).

It is stupid decisions like this that make the layoffs "necessary", not anything actually related to the development of games, when it comes to these big developers/publishers.

Don't let them fool you that this could not have been prevented.

https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/layoffs-at-epic

For a while now, we've been spending way more money than we earn, investing in the next evolution of Epic and growing Fortnite as a metaverse-inspired ecosystem for creators. I had long been optimistic that we could power through this transition without layoffs, but in retrospect I see that this was unrealistic.

and

About two-thirds of the layoffs were in teams outside of core development. Some of our products and initiatives will land on schedule, and some may not ship when planned because they are under-resourced for the time being. We’re ok with the schedule tradeoff if it means holding on to our ability to achieve our goals, get to the other side of profitability and become a leading metaverse company.

He is totally fine with crunch because he on purpose understaffed his core development teams, he is happy for an upcoming community event while having laid off all the staff for that and will continue to make the same mistake again, while laying off 900 people at a time where getting a new job is hard and where many of them rely on finding a new job or losing their working visas.

Fuck him! Do not defend him!

It took me forever to find my mistake. 😅

No, no, do it per tweet getting a retweet or a heart or whatever "X" does, so that everyone using the service does it with a huge risk to get bancrupted if people either like or hate your tweet too much. It will definitely work, thrust me Musk.

and I didn’t keep vaping afterwards.

That's the important part and glad you found a way to quit that worked for you!

Insulting people who take their time to explain why people downvote you doesn't make you any different than the worst of Reddit. Also you seem to not have an argument against what I wrote so that's settled then. Have a nice day!

dodger

badger, my bad, English is not my first language

And any dog can become reactive.

Any cat can give you a scratch or a bite, it's just worse if the cat is a tiger. That's why most places do allow a small pet cat and not a tiger.

Sausage dogs are extremely tough dogs with a lot of prey drive, because they were bred to hunt alone for example a dodger badger underground defending its home. They bite often, are often (pro-)reactive but if someone dies through them it is an old lady stumbling over the leash and breaking her neck, not the dog ripping her guts out.

You are not completely wrong, but you are wrong enough to be voted down.

It's the owners' fault for not accepting that they have an extremely dangerous animal on a leash and that they haven't done the minimum necessary to control it. They make excuses until shit happens and that shit could happen to them and their own family as easily as it could happen to a stranger.

On top of that, these breeds are far more dangerous than others. Even if another breed bites as often or more, the damage they do is less. This breed will bite and not let go, they ignore pain completely, their jaws make large wounds and with their muscular necks they can rip out large chunks of flesh. I do not care if Sausage Dogs bite more often and are rarely well trained, they do not manage to kill anyone, except an old lady who stumbles over the leash and breaks her neck.

Even the best-trained American XL bully dog is a weapon that can shoot itself, and once it starts it is unstoppable except by a bullet or being choked into unconsciousness. The breed was bred for this, it is in them like a sausage dog was bred to hunt alone under ground and chase a badger defending its home. They are tough as hell and bite attacks are common, usually ending in a small scar on someone's lip or a torn trouser. If you keep your finger, your eye, your face or your life with an American XL bully dog you got lucky.

Many Texas leaders (and other Taxans) see any energy source that’s not oil and gas based as “part of the radical liberal agenda.”

Solar energy is also decentralized, so people/villages can have their own source of energy and the profits won't go to one monopoly and that can't happen, because free market - yes - but not actual free like this.

Do indies really sell that kind of numbers?

Some do and can you risk to be one of them if Unity takes that much after the first week?

Terraria, a game that got fresh content for years, meaning people were each update reinstalling the game, installing it on multiple platforms etc.

During its first week of release, the game sold over 200,000 copies. That number increased to 12 million by June 2015. As of the end of 2020, the game has sold over 35 million copies worldwide. Read more: https://www.tuko.co.ke/421556-top-20-selling-indie-games-time-out.html

Sounds trustworthy to me! _/s

The amount of media we have instant access to has reached a level that I find intimidating rather than inviting. Consuming media is becoming more of a chore than a pleasure. Dividing the available media into more services is a plus for me, if I am honest.

I have access to a streaming service, and if they don't have anything I'm interested in, I just walk away and read a book, play a game, put on some music, go outside, or do my chores.

The days when I thought there were things I "should" watch/read/play/listen to are long gone. Not being driven by what is "the thing to do" makes life so much better.

Not having much choice also makes life easier. There were times when I spent more time clicking around in the flood of what I could consume than I did choosing and enjoying. Now, if I can't decide in less than 5 minutes, I take it as a sign that I should do something else.

I am not very helpful, but don't kill these hours, befriend them!

"On Cardassia, the verdict is always known before the trial begins."