Man if big studios are constantly layng ppl off, that means in a few years we will probably have an influx of even more small game studios and it's gonna be way harder for big companies to acquire them.
Though I don't like the layoffs, I like the world in which game developers are back to steering their own company again.
Took long enough but it finally seems like consumer protection groups are pushing against this internationally.
The cool thing is, if either EU or US make laws surrounding this, it will put an incentive in place for the other to follow up. And because the US and EU are so influential, a lot of other countries will follow up. Even better, because China is already putting pressure on everyone to put limits in place, considering this year they already put laws in place against that. One of those rare China Ws.
No one uses Boolean values anyway and with the amount of resources available on modern systems we can just replace them with integers and we should be fine. This also makes it easier to teach people, as they would learn less different data types.
The perception that Western Europe is "left-wing" globally might oversimplify complex political landscapes and reflect a Eurocentric viewpoint. While Western Europe might lean left relative to some countries, this does not necessarily make it a global standard for left-wing politics. It’s important to recognize that political spectrums are not uniform worldwide, and perspectives on what constitutes "left" or "right" can vary dramatically depending on cultural, social, and economic contexts.
Wanna debunk that real quick. I live in Berlin, every major supermarket has a few sections completely dedicated to vegans. And I'm pretty sure they've also become a bit larger in general. Still the minority, but definitely significant by now.
That said, a very small minority is very vocal about it. A lot of people in my circles just live it, and they don't really care to proclaim it, that's the difference. And sure a lot of them want people to eat less meat, but no one is gonna get on your ass about it.
Doesn't really change the jist of what you're saying of course, just wanna make sure we're not dragging the whole movement into it.
I appreciated his take on it. Don't trust politicians to come up with a good solution, always present the issue when you have a good solution ready. And the solution proposed by that petition was weak at best and outright dangerous for the industry at worst.
If you want to force specificity on buying v getting limited time access, that's fine, but that's not what the petition focused on.
If you wanna force devs to plan ahead with huge infrastructure cost to make sure servers will be online for a specific time, this might result in online games being unjustifiable for smaller studios.
If you want to shield independent people hosting unofficial servers to games, now that's a different conversation that we first need to have to figure it out, before proposing an exact solution through a petition. Mind you this is a more complicated topic, as this gets into licensing and IP law.
And I really don't think stop killing games is clear on those, and that makes this endeavor a lottery with the entire multiplayer games industry in limbo.
Give me another more precise initiative and I'll join, but until then I'll definitely not sign anything. If we change things, we should change them for the better, so let's do our due diligence first.
Hard to know how much he was listening. It's def a mostly harmless prank so I'm also cool with it, but I wouldn't say he's been actively helping people.
From the trailers it even looks like the story is gonna be super linear and boring. At that point they'd need to rewrite the whole thing. Even the most ambitious studio is gonna have a hard time committing to that.
That sounds like a really dumb design idea. Why make a federating protocol if you still rely on the server? I don't even get why they did it at all then.
Man if big studios are constantly layng ppl off, that means in a few years we will probably have an influx of even more small game studios and it's gonna be way harder for big companies to acquire them.
Though I don't like the layoffs, I like the world in which game developers are back to steering their own company again.