WHY NOT DLCS?!

They built this gorgeous world and barely put anything in there? I mean a sequel is great but I’ve been screaming since day one that they could make sims level money if they just added DLCs here and there. Look there’s some new classes. Oh there’s a new small 5 quest storyline. You don’t even have to build a new world, the world is great! Just needs more stuff to do.

Finally someone in industry is saying it. Execs are doing layoffs because they thought covid driven revenue would last forever, and that was a moronic thought. Like people would ever be at home in those numbers again, all at once, desperate for things to do. They could have used that time better, and they didn’t. Of course the market was going to dip after covid.

Great article. That’s exactly how I feel playing games like that too. They’re so well done, and the world’s are so great. They just forget the game part of the game.

Okay I was just watching something on Sizzler, you know the old buffet chain.

They were in a death spiral just like GameStop, but their marketers realized the same thing, that the company hadn’t changed anything in 20 years, so they could capitalize on the nostalgia of going to Sizzler. Quite literally they could say “Come on in, remember the 90s! Isn’t it so fun?!” Just ignore that it looks like the 90s because we never modernized anything or updated anything, but a fresh coat of paint will make it look new

I’m guessing this is the same thing. We have a company that honestly had 10-20 years to modernize and get with the times, and didn’t do really anything. Sure they fought to kept used games going, and they added funko pops, but honestly did they really try to modernize at all? I think they did some half ass attempts but they generally didn’t do anything.

So here we are, 20 years later, and they realized “Oh look, retro is cool now, it’s nostalgic. Let’s capitalize on that!”

Except nostalgia wears off, it’s not a business plan. Maybe this is the thing and maybe they become some sweet retro arcade, but honestly… probably not. The only reason they can do this is because they stayed in the 360/PS3 era so long that that’s all they have now. What’s going to happen in 10 years? They have PS5s in the retro area? But they barely had any in stock.

Anyway, something to think on. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. (Here’s the Sizzler Video I mentioned)

Well first I don’t know for sure, but I would be very surprised if it didn’t require it just from a game aspect because every Ubisoft game has lately even assassin’s Creed games.

Second, I was talking about the engine itself that they’re using. If it’s the one I think it is, they’re streaming data from the cloud constantly which would mean that it has to be always online

Me, because no one else will be so the price will drop :)

Just remember, it’s Ubisoft, and it’s on their cloud dependent engine. Treat everything about it as if it was a rental, because someday they’ll take it away. If they do that that’s their choice, but I’ll be waiting until it’s rental prices before I play.

It’s running I believe on their open world cloud based engine too, which means they’ll decom it the second it’s not profitable. So, I’ll gladly pay rental prices since I won’t get to keep it.

Ah that AI hype train is still rolling I see. Funny they said the exact same thing 24 months ago.

I have a feeling it’ll happen to us right around the same time Tesla self driving fully leaves beta.

They were anonymous until a few months ago when they rolled out a silent change. So yeah, now there’s no points to glassdoor

Welcome! Sorry that happened to you, and I definitely will think about it next time I stop in for a Pret. Glassdoor unfortunately has gone from anonymous reviews to extreme transparency, adding your real name to posts, and companies can now pay to remove negative reviews.

Ah “vertical integration”

Shock.

Meh.

I love the project, but ol musky’s self driving cars will be done before this will be

Meanwhile we will be charging $5 a month, plus a battlepass, plus the initial $100 pricetag, plus DLCs that are required for the story to make any sense, plus…

*deserve

yeah it is, also a west coast engineer, but there’s also nuance. There’s definitely a difference between HR telling you the corporate policies and then there’s going to your VP and telling them their pet product may have ethical ramifications. There’s a lot of rug sweeping if a project is important.

Professional sociologists, academics, and literal computer scientists who study AI: Hey we have a huge bias problem, and we haven’t really solved that yet. There will be huge ramifications if people blindly use AI

Tech bros: Lol ship it

I’ve found there’s a specific type of person who watched it who took offense to the ending. I was one of them.

After years of romcoms I was always told that if you persist you will get the girl. Just be nice to her. She’ll come around.

500 here did a good job shattering that, proving women are not slot machines you have to just keep persisting with. You need to move on. I did not handle that well back then, but looking back I respect the movie