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@NEStalgia “ Whoops, yeah, I put that one in the wrong list. Rumor says Austin was working on.....a Marvel game....of all things”

Arkane Lyon is working on Blade… That make no sense for Austin to also be working a marvel game?

@XenonKnight You don't need a 4090 for 4k... And a 4090 won't run 80% of titles in 4K anyway.

@Shepherd_Tallon There is no tweet or reply where he took full responsibility. He only states that he played a part in the situation due he decision to display PSN requirement from day 1. I have been following this situation along all weekend and follow the CEO twitter.

Even if it was community management, they are looked as the voice of the studio, they’re say reflects back on the image of the studio cause it they messages where the one being pass along on twitter, Reddit… etc.

EDIT: It looked like one of community management was "Almost" fired. Quoting "Turns out that telling people to review-bomb and refund a game isn't a popular decision with the publisher. "

Sony definitely was not happy with the entire situation.

@Mortal "I run multiple PSN accounts, each set to different regions. A bunch of content creators do the same. I haven't been banned. They haven't been banned."

Running multiple accounts across multiple different regions have literally a hallmark requirement of PlayStation going back to PS3. You had to do it if you truly wanted the best experience since they never made it as easy as Microsoft to just swap regions.

I remember creating a Japanese account to play Demon Soul for free in Japanese XD

@Shepherd_Tallon All it takes is one bad situation to ruin the party for everyone. I'm sure Sony isn't too happy that Arrowhead was weaponizing their player base against them to reverse the situation

@Ainu20 ". Arrowhead clearly went to Sony and asked them to drop the requirement, which Sony did almost immediately."

This wasn't even almost immediately. Almost Immediately would have been like how Xbox tried to raise the price of live, and then only a couple hours later go back on that. The developers knew about this for 6 months. And it took Sony over 48hrs to go back on their requirements. This should have been changed Friday after noon the moment after the OG announcement and the back lash came in. They let it fester all weekend to the point come Monday morning. I'm sure news channel outside of the gaming world would probably be talking about it, and it could affect stock value. People was talking about lawsuits and getting governments involved.

Then you have developers in their Discord sever weaponizing the player base against Sony by approving the massive review bombing and mass refunding instead telling them "We're working on fixing the situation". This sound like Sony wasn't listening to the developers to not push this in the first place since they knew about it for months.

This is not good situation all around and can easily affect their relationship going forward. You don't bite the hand that feed you.

After all this, I’m more worried about Sony and Arrowhead relationship. I would not be surprised to hear that they purchased the ip back from Sony and that they are going independent with publishing.

This whole situation just reeks of PC gamers using poor excuse to not make an account or to link PSN account. People suddenly caring about these counties where PSN is not available... Another case of "Look at us! We're championing for the little guy and the unheard. We're such good people". Once they get their way, they'll go back to not care about these places and acting like they don't exist. 80% of these counties probably don't have access to plenty of services anyway much less PSN. They are probably used to using VPNs and proxy services to create accounts to access these services. The only thing this did was cause more issue... Cause now these counties can't purchase the game period. Even if they had a PSN account that they created the one time they visited the US and have been using a VPN ever since to access it.

@Vivisapprentice The Japanese learned from the struggles that they went through during the move to HD gaming during the Xbox 360/PS3 gen. So many studios and teams were either closing, or going through financial struggles... We had big names like Keiji Inafune stating that "Everyone's making awful games - Japan is at least five years behind", and that "Japan is isolated in the gaming world. If something doesn't change, we're doomed.", stressing the need for Japanese developers to bring in Western approaches to game development to make a comeback.

Now here we are 10+ years later with the Japanese video games industry in a somewhat healthy place. Now saying that Western developers should be looking at Japanese teams.

@BlaizeV Unfortunately, Fancy graphics are a major selling point for Remedy. Without the fancy graphics, their games are just "Meh" gameplay wise with a confusing story... Quantum Break is still a visual spectacle to play through 7 Years later.

@BlaizeV "Epic have a tiny percentage of the market share and releasing exclusively on it is guaranteed to severely impact your sales potential."

Unfortunately, they had no choice but to release it exclusively... Epic funded the complete development of this game.

@GymratAmarillo "indie developer isn't indie if they depend on publishers because if you depend on a publisher at the first signal of trouble for them you are done"

I think a lot of this come down to people hoping to get rich quick. AKA start a studio, pitch several ideas to publishers, hope one of those ideas get picked up, build a big fancy office with a bunch of perks to entice top tier developers to apply, release an okay product, sell studio/IP to publisher... profit???

With the massive BOOM the industry saw during COVID. It bought a lot of eyes to the industry as a way to make profit. People just don't release the massive profit gains don't last...

This is why I purchased my Quest 3 day 1. It my go to device for mainstream stuff. I am currently waiting for my Big Screen beyond to arrive today to replace my ancient Index for Sims and VRChat. Sorry, PSVR2, it was fun for month and half I used you. Back into the box you go.

@Bunchesopuppies "you sold your souls to Microsoft"
They didn't sell their soul... They didn't own their soul, Zenimax did, and that who sold it to Microsoft.

@PrettyPawsome Pepsi all the way. But that I may have some bias due to living in the original home state for Pepsi.

This is sad to hear. I really enjoyed Watch Dog since I'm a huge tech nerd. Legion could have been much better had it just stuck to creating an interesting main character instead of pushing 'You can play every one'... I didn't pick up the game till they bought Aiden and Wrench back.

I have actually never really played a Fallout… So too much “openness” which makes the game boring to me. Guess it a good enough time then any other to play it.

@NEStalgia I mean… All THQ Nordic has ever released was A/AA/F2P. They aren’t a AAA publisher nor developer.

@Northern_munkey 2022 saw 8,500, 2023 saw 10K, and so far 2024 will probably out pace them.

@Northern_munkey Has joined? They've been at forefront of these layoffs for years.

@Th3solution Not just the Witcher 4, but they are also supposed to be working on a new IP and 4 other projects.

@WizzNL These cancel projects were probably more likely with Private division. Game freak was supposed to working on a title with them… But we haven’t heard anything about it since the announcement.

Everyone is taking about GTA like that the only thing T2 handles… They also own 2k and private divisions which haven’t done too hot. They’ve also have done some massive purchases within the last 4 years. This was bond to happen.

@zebric21 That would be a good way to kill their already low PC sales.

Ah... the usual gamer mentality of "I like this game.... but I want it to play like every other game i play". Good on the devs for sticking to their vision of the game, and not just doing what the people want for brownie points. But this is always why a game becoming mainstream, popular, or being a flavor of the months isn't always a good thing.

@Ryu_Niiyama Yeah. It great when dev do pay attention to the lore. But it still has to be plateable for the mainstream audience. Most only know of Ororo Monroe as Storm. Most would probably get upset if T’Challa doesn't get a game only to himself.

@Ryu_Niiyama Yeah... None of the character are probably happening. I expect them to stay safety in the realm of just T’Challa.

@Gamer83 It wouldn't say it slim to none. Toys for Bob and Microsoft are still working together even after splitting. It now just up to Toys for Bob if they want to continue working on the IP instead of something different now.

@BowTiesAreCool You are replying to the wrong person with that quote

@Titntin “ Complaints of bloat in a huge jrpg are almost rediculous, it’s a pretty much an accepted part of the jrpg experience and part of the enjoyment of the title. It’s like asking Sega to make 'Like a Dragon' with just the story missions. Such people are missing the point and should just go play a narritive action game and leave jrpg's to those of us that enjoy the format.”

I do think the complaints are earned. While bloat is very much what makes JRPGs… well JRPGs. You have to find a balance. Like a Dragon finds a very good balance in bloat, and you can easily run from story mission to story if you choose to. It bloat very rarely completely stop player progression. Only a few times it happens. It left up to the player most of time if they really want pad out their play session.

I haven’t played Rebirth TBH… Simply cause I don’t play my PS5. I’ll probably wait till the PC version so I can play it on my 5090 and i9 16900k when those parts release. But from what I hear and seen from gameplay streamed over discord from my friend group. The bloat in rebirth completely stop story progression to stand still. Every new mundane task seem to involves a minigame now.

@NEStalgia “ Shenmue III came out 2 years later”

It actually came out 4 years later in 2019.

@J-Dubs They look like a company that specializes in providing this information to companies. So, there is probably a lot of behind the scenes and insider info that they have.

The franchise is dead again. All the hype for the remake from the gaming community. Only for it to release with a resounding “eh” as usual. Had it sold well… We would be looking at remake or sequel.

I dig it! Looks cool! The art style and color palette look would look real nice on OLED devices.

Interesting to see how this fit into the larger Star Wars Universe canon… Cause these Star Wars games are supposed to canon.

@CrackmanNL "But it's impressive regardless from Helldivers 2, it's telling enough my sister asked me if I played it since she saw it on TikTok (she dgaf about gaming in general)"

This is the true sign of when a game does well. My sister has also asked me about it. XD

@PsBoxSwitchOwner “ However had BG3 flopped, would larian have been able to keep all their staff?”

Was it even possible for the game to flop? BG3 was developed in such a way to always be finically successful for them… There is a reason they relied heavily on 3 years of early access, and a big paycheck from Google.

@Keyblade-Dan We've gotten quite a few mega man related stuff since 11... Mostly collections and 2 mobile games, but he didn't just go back into the basement.

EDIT: There is supposed to be a movie come out... Don't know what happened to since 20th Century Fox was working on it, but then they got bought by disney

It cool that Microsoft are actually putting effort into these ports. They could have easily done the bare minimum like plenty of studios do.

@Balosi The portal still have to have a SOC to handle WiFi/bluetooth, Decoding of the stream... etc. Storage for the OS for setup... etc

We're also talking about the PSP... It doesn't take much to run a PSP emu. My old iPhone 4s did that just fine.

@Neither_scene It sold 24 million. But what is the actual trophy/achievement ratio? Most people probably haven’t even made it past the opening area. I have a lot of friends including myself that bought it out hype but haven’t even killed the first major monster.

@Neither_scene I don’t really care about the mtx in DD2. I personally haven’t picked it up yet cause of the poor performance at a $70 price tag.

MH gameplay loop make it very hard for the general public to get invested in. So a lot of the MH playerbase are dedicated heavily to the franchise, and are less likely to make complaints. DD2 is much more approachable, so you’re going to hear a lot more complaints.

@Neither_scene I would agreed to this maybe 10 years ago. But even casual aren’t that blind and tone deaf anymore. Maybe the panned dead casuals are, but they also aren’t the one buying such a unique niche title like Dragon’s Dogma 2. This game is being bought by core and hardcore/enthusiast gamers.

Now imagine had the game launch in a more reasonable playable state without micro transactions.

The game keeps a very consistent player base, and people actually buy the dlc.

@nomither6 "R6 seige is a tactical FPS with classes" The operators aren't really classes. A hero shooter emphasizes "hero" characters that have distinctive abilities and/or weapons that are specific to them. That is basically what the operators are. They are named playable characters with lore and back stories, and distinctive abilities and/or weapons that are specific to them.

This is also why Apex kinda falls under the same thing as hero shooter. The Legends in the game are each different from the other due to their abilities, playstyle, personality, and backstory.

@AdamNovice There also Paladins... Apex and Rainbow Six to a degree are hero shooters.

@IndoorEnthusiast It cause while console sales are down. Everything else is going fantastic for the Xbox gaming division. With the purchase of ActivisionBlizzard gaming is now officially a tent pole division for Microsoft along side Windows and the cloud.

@Sil_Am PC gamers don’t care about that nonsense tho. The only people that would benefit from that are going to be PS gamer who also just happen to have a PC good enough to run these titles. Unfortunately, there is too much band loyalty to Steam/valve on PC from strictly PC gamers.

I still have to pick up Rebirth. But I'm too busy with being sucked into VR again to play anything else at the moment... I'll probably end up playing it once it decided to drop on PC (Steam, not Epic).

@MrMagic Insomniac is a big enough studio that they can easily support consoles and VR. I mean they were doing that literally before Sony purchased them. Look at the studio history and see they were popping multiple games a year, as well releasing top games like the original Spider Man PS4. Sony buys them then they suddenly drop to 1 game every other year… It doesn’t take much to task a small team of developers to make a VR game. Most big VR games are coming from studios with less than 100 people.