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I'm sad that Madhouse isn't doing One Punch Man Season 2... I mean, J.C. Staff is OK and have done some good ones. I just wish they'd have stayed with the same studio.
Let's get one thing straight: Sony is publishing this. It is a full exclusive, and it's got nothing to do with the movie deal.
Marvel went to Sony looking for their teams to treat a Marvel property with as much care as a Sony IP. Sony ascribed Insomniac to the task, and Insomniac chose Spider-Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=906&v=wdWt2HFvWRk
https://kotaku.com/podcast-how-spider-man-ps4-came-together-1796328173
Email from Marty to Jason Schreier:
>I’m quite relieved and happy. This was the way it was supposed to have been heard 5 years ago. > >My wife and I spent the afternoon with my now 93 year old father and we showed him that people were finally able to hear this work. It made our Christmas even better. My mother, his wife of over 60 years died a couple years ago and although she loved listening and shared it with some of her friends (she was a musician) she never understood why it wasn’t released. > >I don’t know who actually did it but they have my blessing. I honestly don’t know how anyone could begrudge this any longer.
Just a reminder that this is about more than sticking it to Bungie.
Remember the human.
Yeah, Microsoft has a Kinect patent that blocks you from watching movies until you pay extra if there are too many people watching it. This article covers it.
I also remember the Xbone wouldn't work if you covered up the Kinect or turned it away from you.
It's not even that it slipped through playtesting. They playtested it, Ben showed concern about it being batshit insane, and they released it anyway.
From a Kotaku article that goes into a lot of depth about how Bioware works and what they're doing.
>The past year has been tumultuous for BioWare and involved some major changes to the studio. One was to reboot the fourth Dragon Age, which at the time was code-named Joplin, according to two sources. (There’s a running theme here—Anthem’s codename was Dylan.) The goal, those sources said, was to implement more “live” elements into the game, although two of those sources stressed that this next Dragon Age will still have a heavy focus on characters and story, whenever it does come out.
One of the things talked about is the removal of a phrase that said "KKK" (more info about it) from Akiba's Beat. I don't really think that fits under censoring. In Japan the use of "KKK" was just wordplay and had no reference to the Ku Klux Klan. Leaving it as "KKK" would just be distracting and add in a meaning that the original developers didn't intend at all.
Add Valve to the list of developers who have blacklisted Kotaku.
Edit: Not sure what their status currently is but Bethesda and Ubisoft both blacklisted them at some point. Here is an interesting article about it.
The second quote in the OP references Destiny 1's development, when they scrapped the "DLC every 3 month" plan.
> What if, instead of releasing two more DLC packs after The Taken King, they tried something new? What if they sold cosmetic items in the Tower? And then put out a dripfeed of free content to keep people playing in the months before “Destiny 2”—or whatever they wind up calling it—in the fall of 2016? > >“There was a bet that was, ‘Hey if we did microtransactions, I bet you we could generate enough revenue to make up for the loss of DLCs,’” said a source. “Instead of it going Destiny, DLC1, DLC2, Comet, DLC1, DLC2, they’re actually just gonna go [big] release and then incremental release. So it’ll just be Destiny, Comet, Destiny, Comet every year. It’s basically just switching the game to an annual model.”
They worked alone at that time. They apparently kept the MTX + "small DLC1/2" + "big Comet" cycle for D2, though, even with the additional manpower now.
The worst part about this is how it's idolised, and--I'd put good money on--entirely misunderstood.
It's like places that say "you can take as much leave as you want". The result, as unintuitive as it sounds, is that no one takes any leave. Everyone feels pressure to not take leave, because there is no longer a minimum amount. So a valid answer for "as much leave as you want" is 0, and to take leave becomes-- silently--socially unacceptable[1].
Similarly, when they have "no management team, do what you want", what that will really mean is that it's actually a giant secret club full of unofficial group dynamics, pressure and infighting. There are no structures to formalise what always happens when groups of humans work together.
All Valve does these days is yearn to make money. Steam is a giant cash cow. Every game they make must support micro-transactions, hats or whatever. I will bet large sums of cash that they will never, bar some kind of large management change or industry change[2], make another single-player narrative focused experience ever again.
Edit: Apparently if we all read the internet more, we would have known this 6 years ago: https://kotaku.com/5795355/valve-probably-done-with-single-player-games
[1] The way some companies have fixed this is to have unlimited leave with a forced yearly minimum. I don't think it's been long enough for those companies to report back on how that's worked, or at least I haven't heard anything.
[2] Say, Steam stops being free money or people finally get sick of microtransactions
Kotaku (insert laugh track here if you want) ran an article back in may about Twitch streamers and the things they have to deal with sometimes. One of the cases was when a Twitch streamer found a teenager who had flown in from Singapore with nothing but luggage, hoping that he'd be able to spend a night with his favorite streamer, on his porch in the middle of the night.
It's worth a read, at the very least. I imagine that for some YouTube content creators that upload multiple times a week, some of their fans probably start thinking the same of them. Best buddies, talking about their day, etc.
It's already on their radar for some indeterminate point in the future.
> The Overwatch team—which is now part of a Blizzard-wide anti-toxicity initiative as well as a collaboration involving companies like Riot and Twitch called The Fair Play Alliance—is also examining the other side of the coin: how do you reinforce good behavior?
> “We can start looking toward the future and talking about things like, what’s the positive version of reporting?” said Kaplan. “Reporting is saying ‘Hey, Adrian was really bad and I want to punish him for that,’ but what’s the version where I can say ‘That Adrian guy was an awesome teammate and I’m so glad I had him’?”
> “We’re punishing the bad people, so how do we get people to start thinking about being better citizens within our ecosystem?”
Keep in mind the context is very important in determining what is harassment. Complimenting a women in a bar likely isn't, shouting at a woman on the street likely is. Depending on how the YouGov surgery went down the one third that said it was harassment may have been thinking more along the lines if catcalling.
I like to share this Dr. Nerlove article where they call someone a "bad parody of a femenist" (in a loving way) for thinking that hitting on a woman is always harassment.
Its probably similar system to BF1 where people which perform 'Too good' are labelled as potential cheaters. In your case it seems to be soft auto ban.
Oh.
I mean we won't know until the game appears of course, but Andromeda was rebooted several times during production so that's probably a bad sign.
Also I don't know what 'live' elements are exactly but to me it certainly has a smell of 'unnecessary online features' to it.
So yeah, hype levels for me will remain low until more information appears.
Incidentally, I'm not sure what exactly is going on at Bioware but it seems to me as if the audiences are very clearly saying "We want detailed and story-heavy single-player games like the original Mass Effect/Dragon Age/KOTOR", but for whatever reason they seem determined to put out these hastily cobbled together things with sort of weirdly integrated online features that nobody seems to especially enjoy. And a sort of Destiny-style lootbox grinder (presumably) which I also haven't seen anyone get particularly excited for. :/
I understand where you are coming from but ultimately this will have no impact. Most people on this sub are either already not purchasing them or haven't been convinced by the many posts telling them to stop.
I feel like everyone is taking that quote way too literally. It was part of ~~a video~~ an article where he sounded like he was half joking. It's way more plausible that he did say that card seems broken or whatever, and the team talked him out of it, and he was just exaggerating to hype the card and make a more interesting story, rather than the game director having "no control".
Edit: It was an article, not a video: https://kotaku.com/hearthstone-director-reveals-the-craziest-card-weve-eve-1825114809
When their journo friend Dean Takahashi was ridiculed because he couldn't get past the Cuphead tutorial, they all started to find stupid shit to complain about in cuphead, when the game was a hit with gamers.
'Cuphead should have talked about the racism present in that era': https://kotaku.com/its-impossible-to-separate-cuphead-from-the-era-that-in-1820365021
'Telling a journalist to git gud at Cuphead is ableism': https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/10/the-physical-glass-ceiling-when-the-git-gud-mental.html
Yup... they seriously compared themselves to people with physical handicaps, using them as shield against criticism.
I didn’t notice a difference at all. I put it all of the way up and everything looks the same.
Edit: it’s slightly bigger
https://kotaku.com/god-of-war-patch-increases-the-text-size-but-its-still-1825451101/amp
Last info I could find is Jason Schreier's article about it on Kotaku: https://kotaku.com/sources-ubisofts-watch-dogs-2-teaser-is-a-real-sci-fi-1788999298
The game was in development trouble when the easter egg was put in, it was supposed to be fully announced in 2017, and there's been nothing since, so who knows.
How do you come up with the opening lines in your articles?
Examples:
> We’re rapidly approaching the end of Destiny, a video game in which players must travel through space, finding dumb ways to entertain themselves.
> Destiny, a video game in which players must travel the galaxy fighting against powerful adversaries like the Fallen, the Vex, and Bungie.
BioWare Bans Old Republic Player For Using Internet Meme
> "I'm 12 and what is this". If you don't know what that means, here. Everybody back on the same page? OK, so we can all have a laugh at this poor guy's expense when he was banned from Star Wars: Old Republic for using the line.
> Posting "I'm 12 and what is this" in a forum thread, the user was "permanently suspended" from the game for violating its terms of service, specifically - and deliciously - the fact you have to be aged 13 and over to have an account
https://kotaku.com/5878669/bioware-bans-old-republic-player-for-using-internet-meme#
To add a bit more spice to the pot, Bioware apparently has no plans at all to release any singleplayer DLC for the game. (Kotaku article)
Perhaps they completely gave up on the singleplayer part of the game and decided to remove denuvo for that reason lol.
In case anyone forgot, this is the same studio that created a nude model of Ellen Page's body without her consent, then claimed they couldn't possibly be homophobic because Page is an LBGT activist and they had worked with Page at one point.
https://kotaku.com/david-cages-quantic-dreams-accused-of-being-a-toxic-wor-1822068440
> Hennig also wasn’t used to working with a corporation like Electronic Arts. Despite being owned by electronics giant Sony, Naughty Dog had been able to operate autonomously, in large part because they were widely perceived as the corporation’s prestige video game studio. At EA, however, things were different. “She was giving these massive presentations on the story, themes,” said one person who worked on Ragtag. “EA executives are like, ‘FIFA Ultimate Team makes a billion dollars a year.’ Where’s your version of that?”
Xenoblade was a very rare game, at that time used copies were going for $90+. It was also a GameStop exclusive. New or used it was impossible to find. Then all of a sudden "used" copies started showing up in stores, with unused Club Nintendo codes to boot. So instead of selling them for the MSRP of $50 they could charge $90. Here's the article that started asking questions.
Reminds me of the most terrifying Preston Garvey that ever needed your help with a settlement.
(I know Kotaku is a pile of shit, but this is like a diamond in that pile of shit.)
This article barely grazes a topic which has already been thoroughly discussed. Here is Jason Schreier's article on the subject: https://kotaku.com/the-collapse-of-viscerals-ambitious-star-wars-game-1819916152
The situation was a bit more complicated than a 15 word quote can really do justice.
We shouldn't chastise a company for for pulling the plug on a project that didn't seem like it would work out for them. What we should chastise are the administrative decisions that lead to an unviable product as well as EA's definition of "a lot of money" is (incidentally, any kind of Star Wars game would probably sell millions; why this isn't enough for EA is rather alarming).
Nintendo markets mostly to kids, and kids are more destructive than fire, so basically that shit is built to last!
also relevant: https://kotaku.com/reminder-the-game-boy-was-almost-indestructible-1631762216
This reminds me of when it was revealed almost everything in WoW was tied to an invisible bunny that spawn-triggers actions https://kotaku.com/the-invisible-bunnies-that-power-world-of-warcraft-1791576630
Jeff have hinted twice at a looking for group-system in game so obviously it's not a guarantee but it seems likely to me that this feature will come to the game eventually.
1: https://youtu.be/RofvPl1zIU8?t=962
2: https://kotaku.com/overwatch-players-want-to-queue-for-roles-blizzard-say-1825028223
> Kaplan stressed, however, that he thinks the complaints that have led people to ask for role-based queuing are valid. He just wants to solve some of the problems people think role-based queuing would address before trying to implement such a system. That starts with grouping. Kaplan figures that if people grouped-up more, they’d find more people amenable to the idea of letting them play the roles and heroes they actually enjoy playing, rather than being disappointed by the hands that fate (and matchmaking) deal them. The problem, he explained, is that Overwatch doesn’t do a great job of helping players find people they’d actually want to group up with right now.
>“I do think people know what role they want to play before they play, I do think people would have more fun playing in a premade group than just sort of randomly hoping the matchmaker finds them someone with the same values as them, and I do think people’s reasons for not wanting to group are actually valid right now,” he said.
>“I think we need to address all those things at once before we can just get to a role queue.”
Tips for the RTS sections:
https://kotaku.com/5382233/tim-schafer-explains-how-to-play-brutal-legend
In short, think of it like Dynasty Warriors. You run around playing an action/brawler game with an army to help you out.
Same as that Korean chick who played Zarya (tank with high damage potential) in Overwatch insanely well at really high ranks. She had to play with a camera pointed towards her for people to believe it was her.
(Edit: Here's an article about her. My details were a bit off but anyway, she was accused of cheating because apparently nobody could be that good on Zarya, especially not a 17-year-old girl. She proved the accusers wrong by playing on stream.)
It's ridiculous the lengths women have to go to to get guys to understand that we can be good at videogames, too, and at more roles than just support.
I've been up to high Master on Overwatch and have had ~~men~~ boys literally scream at me to go back to the kitchen because we were "losing because of the girl" and girls apparently shouldn't play videogames cause they suck at it and I must have gotten a boost and so on.
> people are angry. the gaming community is seeing this as EA testing to see how far they can push the in game transactions
EA ain't the only ones who do it either. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. These guys can downvote, and get angry all they want, but at the end of the day, they keep doing the same thing: preordering video games (of which there is no scarcity), and/or buying them in Week One of the game's sale date (which is an indicator companies watch closely).
I can give no greater example than when the PC Gaming community stomped it's collective feet over a lack of dedicated servers in Modern Warfare 2, announced a boycott, and then proceeded to all buy and play Modern Warfare 2.
I swear, every few months, there's a game people are mad at EA about, and yet they keep going and buying EA titles.
Hmm...
Why not link the original report from Jason Schreier? This Polygon regurgitation has less detail and incorrectly refers to "a Dragon Age reboot", which (incorrectly) makes it sound like Bioware is rebooting the series (the original article only says they're rebooting their production strategy).
Some anonymous people in online communities or fan bases are short sighted idiots with thought processes insulting to those with legitimate learning disabilities.
Here's an example of something that happened to a game designer for Call of Duty for minor changes that amounted to just a fraction of a second... for a VIDEO GAME.
https://kotaku.com/death-threats-follow-small-call-of-duty-tweak-888324886
Poor guy received death threats.
Couldn't you beat the Generations version of GHZ in two minutes? SEGA even had a contest for it.
If they extended it for just one more minute, this would have been a good thing to implement.
The Curious Case Of The 'EA Game Dev' Who Said He Received Death Threats
https://kotaku.com/the-curious-case-of-the-ea-game-dev-who-said-he-receive-1820474458/amp
I recommend you read through the entire thing and make up your own mind, but the evidence is quite convincing for me.
You might enjoy this then:
There was a 17 year old girl that 2 Overwatch pros were convinced was cheating because of how good she was. They even said they'd quit the game if she was legit. She did a live stream showing her and her mouse and everything to dispel doubt, and Blizzard also confirmed that she wasn't cheating. The pros were forced into retirement.
https://kotaku.com/korean-woman-kicks-ass-at-overwatch-gets-accused-of-ch-1782343447
I was actually re-reading this Kotaku article that talks about how the original Destiny 1 story was scrapped
According to that, it was Bungie who approached Activision with the idea of Eververse replacing any DLC after The Taken King, with its funds being used to do smaller but more frequent updates.
As a side note, it's an interesting coincidence that Kotaku pumps out behind-the-scenes info about Bungie when the current design lead Luke Smith used to ghost write for Kotaku prior to joining Bungie...
Sadly, it's already in development according to Jason Schreier who usually seems to have insider info on Bungie.
>Kotaku news editor Jason Schreier tells me he hears that Destiny 3 is indeed already in development, as expected.
I speculate that the Live Team is the majority of those working on D2 right now. This might be why bringing us to parity with D1 Y3 is going to take a year from the launch of D2.
I think it's worth mentioning that Square Enix seemingly, for a long time, was not aware that people disliked the Steam ports of various earlier FF games, with the awful new sprite art.
> Why do they care so much?
Because > “This used to be a god damn community of gamers, nerds, kids that got bullied, kids that got fucked with, kids that resorted to the gaming world because the real world was too fucking hard, too shitty, too lonely, too sad and depressing,”...“the same sluts that rejected us, the same sluts that chose the god damn cool kids over us. The same sluts that are coming into our community, taking the money, taking the subs, the same way they did back in the day.”
Girls didn't touch their sad dick in high school and they're still angry about it as adults
That's just hearsay and conjecture, publishers do care about review scores even for games as a service. Otherwise they wouldn't do things like cancel bonuses as a result of low metacritic scores, https://kotaku.com/destiny-review-scores-may-cost-bungie-2-5-million-1635273500
EA does care about the metacritic.com score though... "According to one source, EA was pressuring Visceral to hit a 90 or higher on Metacritic, the video game review aggregator that big publishers rely upon as a rubric for quality."
https://kotaku.com/the-collapse-of-viscerals-ambitious-star-wars-game-1819916152
The article in question in case anybody wants a read.
Also, the movement it's about is called Game Workers Unite, and I happen to be the director of the UK Chapter. AMA if anyone wants to know about us or join if you work in videogames.
Like that dude who sued that British guy for pointing out that his games seemed liked scams and then steam started to pull that dudes games from steam.
I just looked it up. Jim Sterling was the dude who got sued. https://kotaku.com/angered-game-developer-sues-game-critic-jim-sterling-fo-1765484317 for 10 MILLION dollars. Sterling made a video about how the lawsuit was literally gibberish too. Like it made no sense. The dude insisted on representing himself.
A couple years ago, Jason Schrier wrote this article on the disaster that was Destiny 1's development (https://kotaku.com/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny-1737556731).
It mentions that Blizzard staff DID help a lot on Destiny 1.
> In December of 2014, Diablo III director Josh Mosqueira and a few other members of his team at Blizzard came to Bungie for a talk, according to two people who were there. The parallels were uncanny; Diablo III had launched to commercial success in 2012 but saw a great deal of criticism from fans thanks to randomized loot, frustrating online DRM, and a lack of endgame content. Both games shared a publisher, Activision, that thought Destiny could redeem itself in fans’ eyes the way Diablo III eventually had after its release.
>"They basically came in and said, ‘Look, here’s our story of developing Diablo III and then bringing in [the expansion] Reaper of Souls,’” said one person who was at the Blizzard talk. “They were saying, like, ‘Hey, random numbers are not fun—dice rolls are not fun. You can give the illusion of randomness, but you want to weight it towards the player… The only point you have to deliver on is that when people leave your game—because they will—when they leave your game, they need to be happy.’”
>People who were at the presentation say it was extraordinarily helpful for Bungie’s team. One source called it “invaluable.” Others said it drove some of the decisions they made for The Taken King. In previous interviews with Kotaku and other sites, director Luke Smith has talked openly about avoiding randomness and designing quests with guaranteed rewards, an approach that has served Destiny well throughout year two so far. Destiny’s meta-narrative has followed the same path as Diablo III’s: It had a rocky launch, then the developers found redemption.
The "satisfaction" you are describing is the exact issue with loot boxes. It's gambling, play and simple and preys on addiction.
I'm all for developers making money, but Loot Boxes are predatory.
You also gotta keep in mind what the IP is and the parent company, this is Animal Crossing a game directed towards a younger audience, and one of Nintendo's most popular IPs.
Some good articles to inform yourself on why people find them problematic:
https://kotaku.com/loot-boxes-are-designed-to-exploit-us-1819457592
Yes I used to be 500 SR I encountered these smurfs every weekend and it was horrible. Either they're throwing their way down or stomping up and it is a terrible game experience for at least 6 players. Also makes you feel you don't matter as the SR is just a playground and a joke to everyone else. I reported every single person to blizzard and with tickets, never any results or punishment. I was even told by one of these smurfs, there is a group who does this and they have a blizzard admin help them do it so they minimize the trouble they get in... but I have no proof to that claim.
Edit: Since I'm getting so much inbox grief about my last comment, I'm not saying if a staffer being involved is true or not, just had a conversation with someone who was doing the stomp back up and bragging through the whole match about it. Team Hanjo
Is that Faith from Mirror's Edge? Because Faith seems to have this "East VS West" design competition, with Asian fan art giving her larger eyes and breasts.
Why are you linking the Bungie forums, instead of, you know, the source directly? I agree that everyone should have read that Kotaku article.
And judging by that Article, Staten's storyline was a) scrapped completely (it can't "shine through"), and b) not everybody inside Bungie agreed that it was good (and, most importantly, the leadership did not).
According to an older Kotaku article, they cite it as between $5M to $10M for the advertising budget on DS2. Granted, they specifically state it was for the "Your mom hates Dead Space 2" campaign. Do you have a source for the $60M claim?
Regardless, if the marketing budget is even remotely that large, it speaks more to me of mismanaged funds than poor sales reception.
Don't forget about Kotaku, paragon of journalistic integrity:
Blizzard has to be involved somehow in this. None of these articles even allude to the fact Elysium still exists.
Yes hacks start popping up over a week ago, example = https://kotaku.com/sea-of-thieves-gets-its-first-wave-of-hackers-1824185739
Although an ESP hack isn't as bad of course as an aimbot or worse god mode.
I'm surprised that health is not server sided.
>ESRB does not consider loot boxes to be gambling,” said an ESRB spokesperson in an e-mail to Kotaku. “While there’s an element of chance in these mechanics, the player is always guaranteed to receive in-game content (even if the player unfortunately receives something they don’t want). We think of it as a similar principle to collectible card games: Sometimes you’ll open a pack and get a brand new holographic card you’ve had your eye on for a while. But other times you’ll end up with a pack of cards you already have.
https://kotaku.com/esrb-says-it-doesnt-see-loot-boxes-as-gambling-1819363091
They don't consider it gambling :(
Yeah Jason wrote about the alleged reboot in a post from May 2016 about the RoI leak:
> From what we hear, Destiny 2 was recently rebooted, with Taken King director Luke Smith taking the reins of that project in the wake of a Bungie staff reorganization.
This is also what I remember hearing during that time. Another thing I remember from around that time is that during the early phases development on D2 was lead by High Moon rather than Bungie because Bungie was struggeling with the D1 DLC. Not sure if that really was/is a thing or if i am misremembering this. We know high Moon helped with D2 but I'm not sure if they really lead the project at some point or not. But in any case, Bungie, a huge studio, is really struggeling to develop this game on their own and Activision uses their right to get other devs into the mix. Too bad it doesn't really show so far.
Edit: Don't want to spread any misinformation and just now got around to do some googling on the High Moon thing. It seems that I was indeed misremembering things. High Moon never lead D2 development at any point, instead they were allegedly in charge of finishing a previously cut a Mars location for D2 according to a Kotaku article:
> [Bungie] ultimately decided to focus it around a single major map—the Hive ship that had been cut from vanilla Destiny—as well as a new public space on Mars, complete with strikes and a new raid. (That entire last Mars chunk was later cut and passed to Activision subsidiary High Moon Studios to develop for Destiny’s full-sized 2016 sequel, a source said. They’re helping Bungie make the game.)
In fact that "guy" was not wrong. It was not easy to find the console in Japan, but that is because a number of retailers did not stock the Xbox One X in the first place and sold it only through pre-orders.
Lots of NDA's most likely. Jason Schreier has also had many articles (and a chunk of his book) dedicated to what a shitshow it is there using anonymous sources from Bungie. This is a good write up on it if you haven't already read it.
Microtransactions, loot boxes and anything Eververse related were Bungie's idea, not Activision's, believe it or not.
https://kotaku.com/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny-1737556731
https://www.pcgamesn.com/destiny-2/destiny-2-reboot-jason-schreier
actually there's an article by him on kotaku in 2016 about D2 reboot
https://kotaku.com/the-great-destiny-malaise-of-2016-1754495561
https://kotaku.com/leaked-poster-reveals-destinys-next-expansion-rise-of-1777705438
Fun but not really fun more depressing fact: the game Runescape has a 2007 version of the game and Venezuelans are creating accounts and camping monsters to collect loot to sell for gold and sell the gold for money. They are selling pixel currency for scraps of money to put food on the table. /r/2007scape
I’ll edit this if I can find a link about it
Edit: https://kotaku.com/the-runescape-players-who-farm-gold-so-they-dont-starve-1819720013
https://www.polygon.com/2017/9/10/16283926/venezuelan-gold-farming-runescape-targets
Coding abilities as minions is really easy and not neccesarily a bad idea. Many games employ similar methods, for example Blizzard uses invisible bunnies in WoW.
Riot probably has a simple flag somewhere that tells the game to ignore these minions for all effects that would typically affect minions (or be affected by minions) and some Rioter just forgot to set that flag. That's the embarassing part.
>the sad thing is they wont even acknowledge anything is wrong until the media picks it up, just like the xp fiasco.
Kotaku picked it up:
https://kotaku.com/high-level-destiny-2-activities-are-now-locked-behind-d-1821058051
https://kotaku.com/overpowered-new-gun-dominates-destiny-2-pvp-1821046902
https://kotaku.com/destiny-2-curse-of-osiriss-campaign-has-some-good-mome-1821028759
> Republican Herman Cain quoted a Pokémon movie as he suspended his campaign for President of the United States today.
> "I believe these words came from the Pokémon movie," Cain said during a speech in Atlanta. "Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line. But you and I can make a difference. There's a mission just for you and me....Just look inside and you will find just what you can do."
> Herman Cain has used those lines before, citing them to "a poet" rather than, more accurately, from the Donna Summer song called "The Power of One" that was in Pokémon: The Movie 2000. Today, dogged by allegations of sexual harassment and an extra-martial affair, all of which the former restaurant mogul denies, he gave the Pokémon movie its proper credit.
The sad truth is that the loot box fiasco that is EA's STAR WARS: Battlefront II has completely overshadowed the Visceral Games Studio shut down. EA will continue to put lootboxes/microtransactions/always online features in their games, and those studios that do not fall in line will be shut down. A quote from Kotaku:
> “Our Visceral studio has been developing an action-adventure title set in the Star Wars universe,” EA’s Patrick Söderlund said in a blog post. “In its current form, it was shaping up to be a story-based, linear adventure game. Throughout the development process, we have been testing the game concept with players, listening to the feedback about what and how they want to play, and closely tracking fundamental shifts in the marketplace. It has become clear that to deliver an experience that players will want to come back to and enjoy for a long time to come, we needed to pivot the design.”
I cannot emphasize this enough. EA will not produce any more games that do not have any of these features included. EA's bullshittery is way bigger than just the SWBF2 Loot Boxes, it's their entire company direction.
Did you know, Microsoft had plans to use Kinect, to determine how many people sitting on the couch, to charge each individual for renting a movie digitally?
That shit was crazy. Glad Spencer took over, even if I never owned a Xbox. Don't give other companies ideas.
EDIT: My bad, Microsoft filed the patent in the 360 era.
Marvel/Disney pulled the license from Gazillion, though I don't think the reasoning for that has been made public. The original deal for Marvel Heroes was supposed to go through 2019. It's sort of hard to know who specifically is to blame since we don't know what went on behind the scenes.
According to Massively, Marvel is the one that decided to shutdown the game earlier due to creditors pulling out, however.
Because he said PC Gamers are pirates.
https://kotaku.com/5056532/why-no-gears-of-war-2-for-pc-well-piracy-for-one
And he said PC gaming is driven by WoW and The Sims.
http://www.gamesradar.com/pc-gaming-in-disarray-says-cliffy-b/
Sorry, but I think this goth lolita chef knife is the worst $1,000+ knife in the world. Not quite a custom, but still made-to-order.
I'm curious how this will be handed. For the game Unsung Story, backers kicked in over six times the goal, then it's as if almost nothing happened.
https://kotaku.com/a-timeline-of-unsung-story-one-of-the-biggest-kickstar-1797466457
A different company took over, said everything was so incomplete that they were starting from scratch, and they didn't even receive the money from the original company, which got off Scot free. Kickstarter wouldn't write me back.
It's a proprietary, in-house engine, which is kind of confusing as to why they don't heavily invest in improving its content creation workflow. At least for D1, they had to load a map into their editor overnight even if they just need to move a single object (source).
It's definitely a problem that could be solved, and it looks like Mat Noguchi (main Bungie dev tools programmer since at least Halo 1) is still there. It must be a management/resource problem.
Pretty sure Valve only bans if they can individually verify that cheats were used by the account being 'investigated'. Since this process is likely automated, it IS possible some people might get banned unfairly, but this should be a very rare occurrence. Such bans would detected and undone, Valve said themselves that such bans are 'automatically removed'.
That's probably why you can't appeal to a ban, since all bans are based on evidence. The only way to get unjustly banned would be if a certain piece of software was incorrectly flagged as a hack (which, again, would be detected later and all people banned as a result of that software would be unbanned).
That's one of the worst theories ever. I've ranted so much on this every time it's posted.
Quick rundown.
- It's a standard "All a dream" theory. You can justify it for literally any story.
- The ice clearly hits him in the shoulder. Yes, I have that image saved.
- Healing magic is established to exist in universe before this point.
- The Laguna flashbacks are completely unexplained by the theory.
- The producer said it's not true.
> Destiny feels like a game where they got most of the way through development and then the dog ate it.
That’s almost exactly what happened. This article lays it all out pretty well.
TLDR: The game was completely overhauled and revamped less than a year to release, with the existing story being discarded and pre-existing elements being shuffled and rearranged to something completely different.
Nope. That absolutely terrible play this game for a month and then get a discount idea was changed.
https://kotaku.com/nintendo-details-switch-online-service-will-be-20-yea-1795743981
"Nintendo Switch Online subscribers will have ongoing access to a library of classic games with added online play. Users can play as many of the games as they want, as often as they like, as long as they have an active subscription.”
Like a walking ambulance? I like that idea
Semi relevant: Video games technically aren't allowed to use a "Red Cross" symbol for health
The game "Prison Architect" got caught out by this recently
Some games seem to get away with it while others get around it by using things like a red "H" or using a white cross on a red background
They haven't said much about the subject but one executive has been quoted as saying something along the lines of them wanting playing the games to be the reward, not some arbitrary trophy.
I get that reasoning though I don't necessarily agree.
Edit: looked up the source: https://kotaku.com/5740114/a-nintendo-argument-against-achievements
That's not true, that's just what everyone assumed happened. Marvel went to Sony to make a Marvel game, Sony suggested Insomniac, and Insomniac had a choice of any Marvel character and they chose Spider-Man.
https://kotaku.com/podcast-how-spider-man-ps4-came-together-1796328173
"Right after Destiny launched, Bungie’s developers started absorbing all the feedback they’d seen online, according to a source. Although they didn’t know where they’d be taking the game over the next year, they did quickly recognize that they needed to change a lot, including the obscure and often frustrating leveling system. They rebooted the first DLC pack, December 2014’s The Dark Below, scant months before it was due to ship, according to two sources. (One person familiar with development says Bungie sequestered a team and had them crunch out Dark Below in just nine weeks, which may explain how insubstantial it was.)"
The Kotaku article that everyone references all the time literally says the opposite is true.
https://kotaku.com/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny-1737556731
China passed the same law a year ago: https://kotaku.com/china-passes-law-forcing-games-with-loot-boxes-to-discl-1789828850
Not sure how it works there now, but I think we will get it in Steam, probably next year.
For those wondering what this was
Talonflame in gen 6 had an amazing hidden ability called Gale Wings which gave priority to flying type moves such as tailwind and more importantly brave bird which causes massive damage and flying type is either super or neutrally effective to all but three types (NVE against Electric, Rock, and Steel). Ideally you could send Talonflame out on the first turn, use BB which causes recoil damage, knockout the opponent, and then use Roost to heal on the next turn with out worrying about being out-sped by any attacks.
Then in Gen 7, gale wings was changed to only give priority to flying type moves when the user's HP was at 100% which removed the ability to quick use roost or tailwind unless Talonflame was faster than the next pokemon. seriously derailed a lot of people's strategies
https://kotaku.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-competitive-pokemons-most-hated-bi-1790594930
Two good articles on Steve Bannon and gamergate:
>In describing gamers, Bannon said, "These guys, these rootless white males, had monster power. ... It was the pre-reddit. It's the same guys . . .who were [later] on reddit" and other online message boards where the alt-right flourished, Bannon said.
>"I realized Milo could connect with these kids right away," Bannon told Green. "You can activate that army. They come in through Gamergate or whatever and then get turned onto politics and Trump."
Am I just missing the part where Nintendo explains why it purposefully made Switch cartridges taste awful? It seems like this is just Destructiod explaining it.
Edit: Here is a Kotaku article that actually includes an explanation from Nintendo.
Not long ago Jeff said that killing a story character is not out of the question. (But they will still be playable in game)
Source: https://kotaku.com/overwatch-could-kill-off-a-hero-one-day-but-theyd-stil-1825155693
Except that chargers do not cost much, at all.
Nintendo not including a charger for a device with a proprietary port was stupid, but whatever. The fans defending Nintendo because they are saving people money is what annoyed me.
Doing a quick amazon search, we see third party chargers for 4-9 dollars https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=3ds+charger
And that is third party where they probably have to pay a tax to nintendo for using the proprietary hardware (the general reason FOR a proprietary anything). So Nintendo is probably order 1-4 bucks per charger.
So clearly the 3ds actually cost 200 bucks and Nintendo are barely squeaking by, right?
Wrong. Doing a quick google suggests that the 3ds (based on timeline this was probably the original 3ds) costs about 101 USD in parts https://kotaku.com/5785605/so-how-much-does-it-cost-to-make-a-nintendo-3ds
Nintendo weren't saving the customers any money. They were just increasing their profit margins. And, more likely, ensuring they still had good terms with Gamestop and the like by allowing stores to push their "starter kits" where you pay 30 bucks for a shitty bag, a moist towelette, and a 4 dollar charger.
It's unfortunately a kotaku article but it should get you up to speed.
https://kotaku.com/american-twitch-streamer-causes-commotion-by-littering-1795974167
Note, the article seems to side against CJ but in watching the videos of him "littering" it's clear to see that Taiwan is really just getting its panties in a wad. Supposedly they're not that friendly towards foreigners and I'm sure they had major objections with his live streaming.
Je me suis permis de link la seule source en français vu qu'on est sur r/france. Mais c'est un simple commentaire twitter...
Le seul article en anglais pour l'instant est chez Kotaku.
Mon avis (édité) : je trouve ça complètement fou de la part de QD: Non seulement ça remet l'histoire sur le devant de la scène, de plus en plus proche de la sortie de Detroit, mais en plus les articles vont être difficilement attaquables. Les photo-montages ont été transmis aux journalistes, d'ailleurs QD ne dit pas qu'ils sont faux, juste que la direction ne les a pas vu... (ça n'empêche en rien la mauvaise ambiance de travail, si la direction ne voit rien...). Quand aux heures sup' et autres, beaucoup de témoignages d'anciens ou d'actuels travailleurs allaient en ce sens. Ces articles me semblent indéboulonnables.
Par contre je comprends pas du tout pourquoi attaquer les deux plus gros et pas Canard PC (qui avec l'histoire de Presstalis aurait eu beaucoup de mal à se défendre, je pense). CPC était pourtant au centre de l'investigation.
edit: un article vient de sortir sur Gamekult avec un petit résumé de l'histoire en prime (je me souvenais plus du faux licenciement...)
possibly, but apparently it has a longer tradition in Japanese restaurants.
https://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/04/17/do-play-with-your-food-dam-curry-rice-looks-dam-tasty-to-us/
https://kotaku.com/damn-that-curry-looks-delicious-1695199035?IR=T
This is incorrect, they said they were upgrading the engine, not that they were building it from the ground up. They had an engine from the get go, as it is the same engine that Witcher 3 uses (well, an updated version of it). You can read more about what they actually said here.
I'd aim at late 2018 to mid 2019 for a release date.
I think a lot of whales do have severe gambling addictions, but not all of them. It's basically just someone who is happy to spend an awful lot of money on MTX, but it can also just be someone who is extremely rich and so doesn't really care.
For example, I saw someone on the Hearthstone reddit who was a self-confessed whale. He had spent $12,000+ on Hearthstone cards but seemed to be completely happy with having done so. He said that he was fortunate to work a good job and not have any other commitments, so he set aside $15 a day for entertainment, and didn't see spending that money on Hearthstone as a waste as it made him happy.
However, the psychology of loot boxes is the exact same as that of slot machines, so a lot of whales can't really afford it and are just addicted and being exploited by those systems. (See: https://kotaku.com/loot-boxes-are-designed-to-exploit-us-1819457592)
In my personal opinion, it is worrying that children are being exposed to these predatory practices while their brains are still impressionable. Especially when you see how dumbed down Destiny 2 is, it really feels like it's targeted at children now.
Just my take on it anyways, hope that helps!
> In January, as we reported earlier this year, Bungie moved its internal target for Destiny 2 from 2016 to 2017. Replacing D2 in this fall’s slot will be Rise of Iron, although it’s not clear what else Bungie will release between then and fall of next year. From what we hear, Destiny 2 was recently rebooted, with Taken King director Luke Smith taking the reins of that project in the wake of a Bungie staff reorganization.
https://kotaku.com/leaked-poster-reveals-destinys-next-expansion-rise-of-1777705438
Here's the link to the particular creep I have in mind: https://kotaku.com/smash-tourney-organizer-steps-down-amid-sexual-harassme-1680691621
I actually created my reddit account in the first place to find his other victims and try to get him put away. He has a habit of going for underage girls. The first year I went to Apex (he got me the job, btw, so the power dynamic was not ideal. Also I was 20, so not underage, thankfully!) he tried to lure me into his hotel room. He was unsuccessful. :) The second year I went to Apex, he got a different girl, who was drunk at the time, into his hotel room. :(
As far as I'm aware he's still free and doing his creepy thing.
What's semi-interesting to people inhabiting the right slice of overlapping Venn diagram circles is that the Regalia is actually a classic car in FFXV and that in Kingsglaive (the FFXV tie-in 3D anime movie featuring more plot than the actual game) there's an Audi R8 with a bunch of sick Arabesque detail work prominently featured. And then Audi actually built one.
This is something that upsets me about the community. When the topic of their technology is brought up I try to tell people that this isn’t a new engine. Our beloved Destiny is running on the Halo Reach engine which is called Tiger, it’s just slightly modified. Just because you make some slight updates to the engine doesn’t make it a new one. Destiny got the Call of Duty treatment. Call of Duty has been using the same engine for over 10 years now which is ironically how old the tiger engine is. That’s why their very first GDC panel combined with the investigative story by Kotaku on The Messy, True Story Behind The Making Of Destiny is all you need to find out why it’s so difficult for the devs to truly do anything that we need for this game to stay alive. They are working with such outdated tech, with tools that take so long to work with, and they are literally pushing it to its breaking point. I wanted Destiny to get the Battlefield treatment. The first games were running on the Refractor engine I think? But EA and Dice decided it was time for a new engine and came out with Frostbite and it allowed for so much more in all aspects of the game. More enemies on the map, overhauls and improvements and additional mechanics. It certainly helped with graphical fidelity. We need to ask bungie to invest in better technology for the game. Period. Imagine how beautiful Destiny would look on something like frostbite. I don’t care if they need a 4 year development window I would gladly wait for the best version of the game at release. I did it for Halo and I would do it for Destiny.
Apparently the games development wasn't going too well.
It sounded so good on paper, it's a shame it didn't pan out.
There was a long history of shitty ethics in gaming journalism right before it, stuff like Dorito Pope and when a GameSpot writer was fired after he gave a bad review to Kane & Lynch, who had given money to GameSpot.
Gamers were up in arms about it because of this, and never stopped to think "Hey maybe this is a fabricated scandal to make gamers hate women and feminists and 'SJWs'".