Playing the world’s smallest violin in lieu of the admin listing of my least favorite lemmy instance. I probably didn’t have anything to do with it, but lying smearing dipshits have a way of garnering hostility towards themselves. Party time!
The problem with that is the back catalogue of games that developers have to compete with. There already are better games with worse graphics, the big studios aren’t going to risk competing in that crowded market that already has its crowned victors.
Profit incentive wins the day again! Although there are times even it doesn’t seem to.
Helldivers will never be what it was from now on, shame I missed that train. Specially considering it’s now essentially a free Steam refund (if you insist past the automated responses).
Valve tried to Android their gaming platform under SteamOS, yes. They really didn’t do it for Linux. Rather, they know Linux distros can’t really complete with their specialized house advantage for gaming, in the general consumer sense.
They used an actual photo from their offices as the thumbnail.
Imagine if Bethesda actually really listened to and catered to their modding community instead of just trying to monetize them. They would be legend right now.
Have they never had to deal with a Bethesda patch before!?
It’d be impossible to create a competitor in this day in age, because what made Steam win out is that it was the first and that it hasn’t acted like a greedy dick trying (too much) to monetize their platform dominance. Arguably, GOG is a better platform because it is much more against DRM, but when you get right down to it, gamers don’t really care enough about those issues to put a dent in it even if the loudest voices do, so I doubt Steam’s success has much to do with being a ‘democratic platform’.
In my experience, this is the norm.
Ding! You are correct.
Conflating correlation with causation, I think.
Then for this singular “experience” I would expect it to cost much less than the competing games I get to keep and replay, just like renting and buying movies used to be. Normally, it’s the opposite, and those “experiences” are being sold for much more. That word play you are trying to suggest just sounds like an EA quote that’s going to be making the rounds and getting mocked in the future, if they ever tried to sell it as such.
Had this happened with an MMO, completely drove me away from the publisher of that and other MMOs it held. Good guy shitty MMO publisher, helping you to overcome MMO addictions.
I think it’s pretty clear they were struggling to incorporate all the elements together, which ate a lot of their time. In the end, that resulted in player colonies basically getting thrown out and the game being a lot smaller than if they had just dedicated all of their time to worldbuilding.
It would depend on the skill of the team doing it. A lot of people are praising the FF7 remake even though the gameplay is completely different because of not only how it builds upon and unites all the lore that exists, but how it expands it and subverts expections, and it can only do this when it isn’t just a remake cash grab.
What I want in a Chrono Trigger remake is rather than asking us, asking the original visionaries that created it what they would want to add into it if they created it today, and to put in the effort into making and ensuring that vision works out.
The official term is involuntary manslaughter, but it would only be applicable to the Witch of the West, however it would require recklessness or negligence, neither of which were present. Then again, when Dorothy’s house falls on the Witch of the East, although it’s basically a death from natural disaster, she proceeds to steal a family heirloom, the ruby slippers, from the deceased witch and refuses to give them back to her kin, the Witch of the West, so there’s some degree of instigation. That does not excuse how Dorothy is kidnapped and detained, plus there’s the criminal intent the witch has to kill Dorothy. It’s a shit show all around, but that’s Kansas for you.
It’s an uphill battle. Better to focus on allowing players to police themselves in close knit community servers.
Piecing this to what they’ve also said elsewhere, I’m just going to assume that GTA6 will be sold as a service.
Because it’s about greed, not culture. And anything having to do with culture has itself been traditionally appropriated by greed anyway.
Really shortsighted view of it. Just because you make a new RTS that is more generally appealing is not going to change the existence of those that preceded it or their fanbase.