Konami, as a video games company, died the day it fired Kojima.

I’m no Kojima fanboy, as the guy is all over the place on story and structure. But, Konami made that decision in favor of pachinko machines, so that choice gets to haunt them and disgrace them as a company for the rest of its life.

I wish it would combine comments for crossposts. It doesn’t have to break per-server instance bans or anything like that. Just combine the comments for servers that are friendly with each other.

I think the old ZA/UM developers still have a chance to reform as a new company and work on something new. After a while, this new company can buy off the remains of a now-defunct ZA/UM, get back the rights to Disco Elysium and the Sacred and Terrible Air universe, and make another game or three for it.

But, it has to happen now, and we need to stop talking about ZA/UM. Focus on a new project. I don’t quite understand why we haven’t heard any news about this.

Is Kurvitz and team so depressed about the current situation to not attempt at picking things back up again? They have so much hype it’s unreal. So, it’s nowhere near as hard as just getting your name out there like ZA/UM and Disco Elysium, and it would never flop as hard as Sacred and Terrible Air. They’ve made it. They have recognizable names, and if they ever re-form, it would be all over the gaming sites.

What a waste. Eliminate even did a launch event for the game.

All of this talent poured into this thing, just to get fucked by the monetization model.

You honestly, in your heart of hearts, believe that WB learns?

Considering the glowing reviews on part 2, I’m surprised there’s any sort of “loss” here.

Stop playing AAA games. They are just going to burn you in the end, or the beginning, usually.

The promise copyright holders were supposed to uphold was that the public received it as public domain when the copyright ended. How the fuck can you receive anything as public domain when the media is completely lost after only 10% of the duration of the copyright?

This is just another obvious sign that the whole copyright system is completely broken. If copyright holders won’t retain the media long enough for the copyright to expire, and hold up their end of the bargain, then we have no obligation to uphold their copyright.

Is this Persona or Pokemon?

The Swashbuckler change feels weird since it removes some strategy.

No, Swashbuckler change was a well-needed buff. The amount of times I’ve had to just ditch Swashbuckler because it wants me to put it to the right of a X mult was frustrating. Often, I was left with a near-useless +5 multi joker, since the good X mult jokers were rares.

In my opinion game studios companies should not sell out to investors and/or have any stocks as it will lead to profit making the calls eventually.

FTFY.

Yes she does sex work, but she’s also a great streamer in her own right and is actually playing the games on screen.

That’s like saying the porn stars are actually acting. Nobody watches porn movies for the acting.

She constatly holds a chat of like 4k people and streams for HOURS.

Those are her “m’lady” fedora-wearing parasocial white knights, willing to give her all the monies.

You can only horny watch for so long, at a certain point people are staying because they just enjoy her personality and stories.

No, at a certain point, they are going to her OnlyFans page to whack off for 5-10 minutes and then returning back to her stream. She does this to popularize herself for her real sex work, which pays real money.

Subjectively ofc, but If my owlverweight man ass were to do the same thing, everyone would just be laughing at me.

That’s kind of the problem, and it’s a big reason why male streamers are annoyed by how female streamers present themselves on Twitch. Hell, even female streamers who just want to play games are annoyed at this shit.

Keep sex work at the sex work web sites.

Consoles themselves are a source of microtransactions. Just look at how much money you have to spend to have online play.

Guess how much it costs on Steam. Come on… guess!

I’m disappointed that Minthara is the only evil companion in the game.

It’s an incredibly oversaturated industry because of that.

Don’t want to be shafted and taken advantaged over? Don’t jump into industries that has 10:1 ratios or more between the number of people wanting those jobs and the number of jobs available, aka “dream jobs”. Don’t be a video games developer. Don’t be an actor. Don’t be a musician. Don’t be an artist. Don’t be a streamer or YouTuber.

If you manage to land good gigs with those, great, but don’t be surprised when the bottom falls out all of a sudden because of some shift in the industry, like, I dunno, AI suddenly gets better at producing tools that make it easier to do your job.

What’s a real dream job? The one where your employer treats you with respect because you’re valuable and hard to replace.

Hasbro has been a shit company for the public of both MTG and D&D for years now. Even before the buyout, WotC was a shitty and greedy company, but Hasbro turned that dial up to 11 afterwards.

Here recently, they had all of those layoffs, but they were also trying to “de-open-source” the D&D 5e license agreement, which put most of the D&D community in a tailspin. The community revolted and fought back, and Hasbro/WotC caved. But, the fact that they tried something so brazen shows just how desperate for money they are.

Hasbro/WotC has also been making some terrible, terrible decisions with MTG, releasing way overpriced “anniversary” packs, messing with the frequency of standard rotations, putting out all of these pop culture media cards (LotR, Dr. Who, Warhammer 40K, etc.) with their Universes Beyond series, digging into older planes like Ravnica and Phyrexia waaaay too often, etc., etc, etc. Not to mention that they are finally at the point of porting older cards and formats from their extremely outdated MTGO client to MTG Arena, but their corporate greed is so great that they expected you to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to shift those card collections over there.

Now, they earn a profit from the biggest series they never created, and wonder why all of those other bad decisions didn’t pay off.

And this review by Skill Up. And this review by RagnarRox.

I guess the moral of the story is don’t listen to these shitty “games journalists” that have to crank out reviews on a daily basis. Listen to your favorite YouTube games reviewer, who actually fucking plays these games, and get their opinion.

Has anybody actually use this? The workflow seems complicated but promising, but I don’t see any examples of their results.

Odd, GManLives gave it a good review. I feel like a lot of these reviewers are basing their opinion off of the bad sequels before it.

You will not enjoy videogames anymore, if you play big game studio games.

Go indie. Stay indie. Indie 4 Lyfe.