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2 days agoBlack Myth Wukong had one of the highest concurrent player counts of Steam of all time. The game was very popular in China.
Meanwhile Astrobot’s sales figures were lacklustre, according to some reports.
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I largely agree, but the interests have gotten misaligned. Back then it was the threat of regulation which changed things up, I think the governments should do a little more of that.
but… Looks like they don’t audit so good, if this article is evidence
That’s the whole issue with it being a lobby group. It makes them a ton of money, so they are incentivised against making a rating for it because that would draw more attention/limit sales.
And that’s where the whole government lobbying part comes in.
Not entirely sure about the European PEGI, but the American ESRB is funded by the same companies that it regulates. It was created after the outcry about violent games and was the industry self-regulating to avoid the government getting more involved.
It is a lobby group for the industry, for better and in this case very much for worse.
I assume PEGI is little different.
The “EA Originals” that they have put out have mostly been fairly solid, Hazelight’s games especially so.
Eternals of Aveum had its fair share of flaws, but it was a complete package.
Though, because it is EA, I cannot help but wonder if/when they’ll pull the switcharoo
Might as well add those details to your comment.
Cynthia Williams
Whatever the car in Distance is called
0·2 months agoNice example link you used there
Generally anything that comes after a questionmark in a URL can be safely stripped out, though not always. The random string of characters you get after a youtu.be link is tracking, the ?t=123 is a timestamp.
uBlock Origin also has a filter built-in, though you have to enable it. It’s under Filter Lists > Privacy > AdGuard URL Tracking Protection
It does have back buttons, which is why it’s unlikely to launch in the west as Scuf (owned by Corsair) is a major patent troll when it comes to those. That’s also the reason for the original Steam controller no longer being released.
The Hori one is launching at the end of this month, if I recall correctly. I might look into importing it once it does.
Nordic Games bought what remained of THQ back in the day when the latter went bankrupt. (THQ used to be comparable to the likes of EA and Ubisoft before they made some poor decisions)
The holdings company behind THQ Nordic rebranded into Embracer some years ago.
Fortunately, the remake is being made by THQ Nordic.
How is that fortunate though?
THQ Nordic, the company which became Embracer, bought Piranha Bytes, shuttered the studio when they fucked up, and is now using their IP for a remake?
Piranha Bytes GmbH was a German video game developer based in Essen. It was best known for their Gothic and Risen series of role-playing video games.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha_Bytes
Embracer has reportedly closed Elex developer Piranha Bytes
:/
Disastrous, unoptimized launch. Paid DLC whilst the game was still full of performance issues (DLC which was later made free, after outcry. But their hand was shown).
Probably much more, but those are the two big things I remember.
Yeah. And consider the verification process games have to go through on consoles, probably easier to do it all in one big update.
I keep avoiding RPS links for that reason.
Oh, you want to withdraw consent? Have fun disabling them separately for each individual partner.
They need admin permissions to install, not to launch.
But, you know, so does basically any other application you install.
You may get a second pop-up when it begins installing the anti-cheat, but that depends on how the application is configured.
Ubisoft Connect gives me three (!) separate pop-ups whenever it has an update. (or at least it used to).
^(Edit: typo)
If you say one thing to a single customer, there’s that. But when you make that snarky post on a public forum it has a chance of getting amplified and misunderstood.
It’s going to be based on user votes, and given just how popular that game was I don’t think it unlikely to win.