it is an actual problem, but I am starting to think I'm just feeding a troll, honestly. oh well.

ok like... they're filing patents for bullshit and litigating a bunch of dubious cases, but afaik no one has been cut up with bone saws and stuff into a piece of luggage. I don't put it past wario but....? did I miss something? because that's literally who EA's selling out to

I'm not a troll. I have made myself pretty clear here several times. But let's not waste each other's time.

I dunno, Nintendo at least still makes good games somewhat frequently

I forgot about the recent sale that put EA higher on the evil scale.

> put EA higher on the evil scale. I don't like where nintendo is going, but yeah, the EA thing is a whole new kind of 'fucking gross' the irony is EA started as a company that would (gasp!) CREDIT THE DEVELOPERS. Because previous companies didn't - there wasn't any credit given to anyone anywhere. EA said 'come program for us and we'll put you in the credits!' and it worked. But then sometime about 8 years later they'd become the EA we all know and hate and things really haven't changed much since.

Romhacks are not copyright infringement if you don’t distribute the ROMs. They only distribute patch files and users need to acquire the ROMs through _legal backups of their own copies of the original games_. It is not illegal to patch software, and it is not illegal to distribute a detailed list of all the things you’d change about a copyrighted work in order to make it into something else.

Nintendo, you mean the law firm?

Which AAA game dev isn't?

Larian is alright

It's debatable if La

> It's debatable if Larian is AAA What's debatable about Larian being a AAA studio?

They are not that big, and they are independent. Larian has less than a 1000 employees, while the likes of Ubisoft number in the multiple thousands.

I just discovered the FOSS pokemon called tuxemon. https://tuxemon.org/

So true, Nintendo, Disney, Nickelodeon, pretty much any institution I really looked up to as a kid has turned out to be pure evil.

Hello Games with No Man's Sky?

Did somebody forget about Microsoft?

Its just 6 giant supervillains fighting each other over the ruins of tokyo.

Ubisoft is a publisher, not a game dev studio. They publish games made by their child studios. They don’t produce games themselves. > Larian has less than a 1000 employees Yes, they have 500 employees which would be quite large for an Indie development studio. DICE (studio behind the Battlefield games), for example, has 700 employees. CD Project RED, (Cyberpunk, Witcher games), has 615 employees. If budget is the qualifier for AAA, Larian has put out multiple massive budgeted games in both BG3 and Divinity 2. I’m not sure which metric would disqualify Larian as being a AAA studio.