KSP2 is such a sad situation all around. The guys working on it had the same idea and were going to build a brand new engine for it to fix the tech debt of the original, but management demanded that they use the original engine “to speed up development time.”
This is why I stopped buying Sony games on Steam. Requiring a PS account for a singlellayer game is absurd.
It removes better wages due to the higher CoL and corporate tax rate in CA and therefore removes bias, obviously. /s
One thing I forgot to mention is that there were tons of memes like this with Linux as the third as well (or other random stuff, of course), so this is kinda relevant on all fronts.
I think when a lot of people talk about video games, the conversation largely revolves around the AAA industry. Especially considering how difficult it is still to get indie games on consoles, which locks the majority of gamers out of the space entirely. There’s definitely some good stuff in the AAA industry, but it often seems like sleeper hits rather than big-name titles. Compare Astro Bot to whatever Call of Duty came out this year, or my favorite to point out, the first Splatoon being the best-selling shooter in a year where both a Battlefield and a Call of Duty game came out. Both games that really came out of nowhere to critical acclaim rather than games people were excited for a year before release.
The games I play and enjoy the most seem to largely be from small developers that I never heard about until after they’ve already released.
As for Bloodlines 2, I’m not surprised. It’s in the same development hell as Duke Nukem Forever as far as I’m concerned, and I’d be surprised if it ever releases at all.
I’m not surprised, that picture is from 2009. It’s a play on an old Mac TV ad campaign and a long-standing stereotype in the furry fandom of fox fursonas being… very promiscuous.
I never thought I’d use this ever again…
I can’t speak for everyone, but I think more and more people who aren’t in the probably 80% of people who could be considered “casual” gamers are disnechanted with and turning away from the AAA industry and looking more and more to the indie scene. The industry is as stagnant as Hollywood, and for the same reasons. Some of the most popular games in the past few years have been projects made by a single dev that popped up out of nowhere.
Looking at my Steam wishlist, the games coming out this year on there are: Hyper Light Breaker, SYNDUALITY, Space Engineers 2, ERA ONE, KAISERPUNK, The Alters, Gravnir, The Necromancer’s Tale, MENACE, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 (yeah, right), Paralives, Mecha BREAK, Dolls Nest, FBC: Firebreak, and Nightreign (and if that wasn’t FromSoft, I wouldn’t have even finished watching the trailer).
The only game on there that could even be considered close to a AAA game is a spin-off experimental game from FromSoft, who is really a AA studio that’s becoming popular enough to be debated as being AAA.
I won’t buy from most of the big companies on principle. EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and Rockstar are all on my shit list for horrible business practices and worse working conditions, and Sony is conditional based on whether or not I have to deal with a PSN account - there were several games I was excited for last year releasing on PC that I didn’t buy because they require a PSN account for a single player game.
The EU should sanction the US for political interference the same way we’ve sanctioned Russia.
Except what happens when the rich piss off the ones who hold the leash. Then things get interesting.
The German government may not be so quick to act in cases where Musk’s property and companies were the victims…
Like with pirating, it was always an issue of expense. They could legally take away your disk at any time and force you to uninstall the software from your computer. It just would never be worth it to go after any specific individuals for any minor infraction of the license. Digital licensing just made them capable of doing that with the press of a button.