EA doesn’t know how to predict a single player game’s sales figures then gets mad when their crazy high expectations are met with only a merely slightly profitable game instead of wildly. Kills the studio rather than learning from mistakes.

Meanwhile GTA 6 is one of the most anticipated games of the decade and other single player studios are thriving. Hm what is the difference, what could it be?

Gonna be interesting if that ai bill passed then.

If the alternative is being laid off, this is a decent approach imo. A lot of people probably are feeling burned out or ready to leave. The severance is probably going to be generous, probably a years salary and some stock. If you were on the fence, it would probably be tempting. Plus then only the people interested in leaving anyway leave, those passionate stay.

I’d like to see how they measured success. Was it to break even? Well from what point? Including the time that it was supposed to be a live service game? Through the committees and executives shutting down ideas? It was in the top 10 for games on Steam that week and had generally favorable reviews. If that didn’t match their plan, that’s on them.

Is it false? Even if it is dumb, here we are 15 years later talking about it. Still, after hours we’re still going back and forth about it.

Can someone ELI5? He’s admitting it was never truly open? Or they were wrong for thinking open was good at all?

I’m glad you shared that because if I go online people think I’m crazy for liking it. I thought the ending was good too, I liked that it wrapped up questions that I’ve had since origins in a way that felt honorable to the original game. The game and characters however were flat, but I’d vastly prefer knowing the ending to them never finishing the story

I brought up a story about a red square, of which you are, 15 years later, still trying to convince someone that it’s not art. Something that is still being debated on 15 years later is pretty interesting, especially for it being just a red square. The more we talk about it, the more it legitimizes it.

As a long time fan - it was fine. It was just… fine. People rage against it but gamers rage against everything. It’s not Inquisition. Inquisition is the best IMO personally. However, Veilguard was worth playing, I think it wrapped up the story fine, I thought the ending did do a fair job wrapping up all of those loose ends, I feel like it ended the story. However, it came out closer to Assassin’s Creed in terms of my personal fun level. If horrible is Anthem and Top level is RDR2, it came out at Assassin’s creed.

So yeah, pick it up on sale. I’d say it was a solid $40 game.

Half of those “AI Executives” are just part of hype companies wrapped up in the AI bubble. It’s the exact same as the crypto bubble, everyone started some company to get gullible VCs to dump money into them. Now it’s popping. Congrats. Now we’re going to lose the rest of the internet as we know it because they wanted to make it rich quick.

Yet here we are talking about it.

So EA put way too high of a sales target on the game, obviously held it back from becoming what it could be, and now are blaming the studio with layoffs, ensuring the next game will flop.

I don’t care what their “numbers” and “projections” were. The game was on the top 10 list in Steam. Even if it wasn’t an A+ game I’d say it looked like it at least hit Assassin’s Creed numbers, I’d hardly call that a failure. Sounds more like a failure to accurately predict, maybe they should fire their business analysts instead of the people who you know, make the games.

This is a very nuanced question, because art isn’t always about skill.

I remember I was one of those guys who thought modern art was stupid. My family took me to MoMA and I remember I was looking at a painting of a red square. It was a large 2 foot by 2 foot red square. I remember saying “but anyone could do this” to my aunt. She replied:

But nobody else did.

Stopped in my tracks and it clicked. The fact that they had done it, and we were there talking about it and discussing it, that right there proved it was art.

So it’s not just quality. I’m sure AI could spot out 1000 red squares, and some would consider that low effort, but no one would ever discuss them.

Incentives to sign up for psn and be tracked. Pass.

Guaranteed this was some idiot committee decision based on whatever hear they have today. They probably have zero idea what Linux is or that their entire infrastructure runs on it. In fact, if they were asked what Facebook uses I am sure they would say “we all use Macs!”

Plugging it in may give it more power, but doesn’t triple the CPU power.

Video editing requires heavy amounts of cpu, ram, and is detailed enough where you would want a large monitor with keyboard and mouse most times.

Deck is great for a lot of things, I would say this is not one of them. Can you do it? Sure, you can cook an egg on the back of it while you render for 36 hours. Should you? Probably not.

This sounds like the perfect thing for whatif by xkcd

I appreciate when you do, and I think others do too. One of the things I had to do was just stop caring about what other people thought. If they liked it, they’d upvote, or maybe they’d downvote, but no matter what you’re adding to the conversation. I just dump out whatever I’m thinking now!

I do have to step up my meme game tho

Thank you, Zoomies, that means a lot, honestly. I’m not one either, but I try to keep them going. I see the upvotes, people enjoy it, but I think many are a bit nervous to comment, but it’ll grow eventually. I’m going to put some time on this over the next week to automate something I think