Chebucto Regional Softball Club

So is every server still massively overpopulated by cheaters? Have they finally implemented proper anti-cheat? I played at launch and in like 3 days every server had players using cheats spawning explosions whenever anyone spawned. Pretty much killed my interest in the game.

Generals being open sourced is massively goated. I can't believe EA finally made a decision I actually like.

Because the publisher usually gets a lump sum payment to put their game on these kinds of subscription services. Some money back is better than no money back.

Support is pretty much dropped for the game. No DLC or further content. Meybe they might have a small team assigned for something like bugfixes, but I doubt EA will want to.waste any more money on the project. They're trying to recoup some of their development costs.

Hopefully they finally do something like 99% of Western Developers haven't been doing and listen to some feedback.

It really is one of the best Yakuza games. The story so far is okay, its not as deep as 0 or 1 or anything, but its super fun and the gameplay is so crammed full of minigames and stuff to do that it truly feels like the most fun I have had with a Yakuza game.

Hope NieR Rein becomes playable again. Would be nice. Private servers, anything.

I have this game. Love the art style. This game has like 4 people that play it only sometimes because the developers didn't do anything to put the game out and the players that kept playing got too good for new people to learn how to play. I would say to get the game, but I dont see the playerbase getting anywhere big enough from this for the developers to care about it again.

Those are terms set by the games publishers, Steam and other platforms pass them on to the customer. The only platform big enough to strongarm publishers to not do that is Steam, but it would definitely make some publishers pull out of Steam completely.

Steam doesn't give customers permanent ownership of their games. Its extremely rare, but game licenses do occasionally get revoked on Steam.

This is interesting. As AI continues to mature and advance, I wonder how they will be able to overcome AIs current limitations. I wonder how long it will be until people would even be able to tell if something is AI generated or not. One of the benefits of AI in art is that sometimes it can suggest or generate something that is unexpected, or something that when a human sees it makes them say "why didn't I think of that." Which, I mean, its because you are a human and it is software. Future AI improvment will certainly be interesting.

Yeah, he didn't even use the Star Wars Force Brain Wave Headset. What a loser.

"A skater?" Does he kinda look like that one guy, what was his name? Tony Hawk?

It is amazing to me that developers now are paid more and given more time, yet developers from 20 years ago made way more with way less. Games come out now and the graphics might be great, but the gameplay and story is garbage, bug-riddled, etc. For an old game with a smaller dev team, smaller budget, and only like 1 or 2 years of development time, that is completely understandable. These days we get games that take 6+ years to develop with 150+ person studios and budgets averaging over $100 million per game, and we genuinely see these games get massively outperformed by 20 year old games in almost every way. What do they hope to achieve with this? I understand they want more pay, but if their work output does not reflect that they are deserving of more pay, then they're going to end up jobless anyway. Businesses are not charities, and work output that is subpar cannot sustainably be given bigger pay. That's just rewarding lazy or bad work instead of rewarding good work. If part of their terms do not include "shareholders have no say in the product at all" (which is impossible, by the way, that's not how that works), then they cannot possibly look to achieve anything other than getting a possible extension for a short time before ultimately being cut loose.

Is a video game social media? Is Roblox a video game? Is simply having social functions enough to define social media or is more necessary? When I think of social media, I think of forums, Reddit, Lemmy, Facebook, Discord, etc. Platforms and software with the sole or primary purpose of providing social interaction between users. I don't see video games as social media, though they may contain some content that provides a similar function such as an ingame chat. Vintage Story and Dead by Daylight both contain ingame chat and multiplayer functionality, but I don't see either as social media. Though if one were to define social media in a literal sense then they would qualify. Is Roblox any different?

I mean, I agree that EuroGamer plays shill to the highest bidder, but to say that people paying for Xbox GamePass directly paid Kotick is pretty disingenuous. Yes, it went into the same money pool that Microsoft used to fulfill Koticks contractual agreement to get him to leave, so did all of their other revenue. I could just as easily say that your grandmother's Office 365 subscription money, or the money I spent on a new PC that came preinstalled with an OEM Windows 7 key, all went into that payment. At the end of the day, blaming the consumer can only take you so far, but in this instance it is too many levels removed from direct consumer payment.

Ok. Well I say that I don't believe him. How about _that_, Mr. Fung?

It is completely stupid. There are mountains worth of prior art that easily negate any patent Nintendo would be granted by this point. Nintendo is a Japanese company, and the one thing you can rely on Japanese companies doing in recent years is not understanding that Japanese law only applies in Japan. They seem to think that they can apply Japanese law to US citizens or companies that conduct business in the US, so whatever strategy they think they can use will be swatted aside by the US government automatically. We have seen this already when Nintendo tried to sue Galoob Toys and lost.