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sharknado slashfic posted:I need to know more about the teleporting camera. The camera has a zoom feature that works by springing the player's FoV forward several hundred yards in a second. Using an emote breaks this, slinging the player forward several hundred yards in a second. This can kill the player if they hit a wall. e: Nice.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Some recent article came out where a former Valve developer was interviewed and he laid out the massive communication problem the gaming industry has with its consumers. When the only outlet consumers have to make their concerns known is through review bombing or AMAs where developers cherry pick softball questions, it's no wonder backlash gets so severe. It's the only way developers and publishers actually hear about issues, and more often than not the level of anger needed to get their attention also engenders the anger among developers that consumers are ungrateful shits who want everything for free. It's on companies to cultivate kind of relationships they wish to share with their customers. You treat them like the enemy and they'll be more than happy to oblige you. Actually the problem is managers and executives but okay yeah the customers aren't being heard lol
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May 5, 2019 22:38
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Siljmonster posted:Actually the problem is managers and executives but okay yeah the customers aren't being heard lol Thanks for the pointless semantics. Non-communication (or only non-meaningful communication) with the consumer base is a management failure.
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May 5, 2019 22:48
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Chomp8645 posted:Thanks for the pointless semantics. Non-communication (or only non-meaningful communication) with the consumer base is a management failure. being money-grubbing sociopathic monsters who will squeeze every penny out of you is why they're making so much money so it's actually a management success
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May 5, 2019 23:39
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Hey if management made communities and fostered goodness and wholesomeness and uwu customewer suppowt this would cut down on crunch and low wages in the game industry and actual lack of established frameworks for developing games effectively that doesn't scam it's end users and kill it's developers
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May 6, 2019 00:01
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Crabtree posted:And yet they still double dip on that and their lovely battle season pass crap all the same. What's lovely about battle pass? It's a optional little side objective list that gets you some cosmetic poo poo. It's the most harmless F2P transaction I think I've seen. Hell you can't even buy multiples.
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May 6, 2019 00:06
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Gamedev: uh hey boss these gamers are whiny entitled pricks Manager: shut the gently caress up take their money and get back to work and tell them to EAT DICK Gamers: I love PipBoy!
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May 6, 2019 00:06
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Siljmonster posted:Gamedev: uh hey boss these gamers are whiny entitled pricks A lovely computer case with pipboy on the box? I can't afford NOT to buy it!
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May 6, 2019 00:33
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Vault-Boy is a dead name.
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Powershift posted:A lovely computer case with pipboy on the box? I can't afford NOT to buy it! Hey.
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Siljmonster posted:Hey if management made communities and fostered goodness and wholesomeness and uwu customewer suppowt this would cut down on crunch and low wages in the game industry and actual lack of established frameworks for developing games effectively that doesn't scam it's end users and kill it's developers socialsecurity posted:What's lovely about battle pass? It's a optional little side objective list that gets you some cosmetic poo poo. It's the most harmless F2P transaction I think I've seen. Hell you can't even buy multiples. This video about monetisation in fortnite is fairly interesting: https://youtu.be/dPHPNgIihR0
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Can someone please explain to me why everyone seems to be very vocally and loudly opposed to loot boxes and these other semi (sometimes completely) predator monetization practices but yet game companies are making money hand over fist by adding them to their games? This is something I've never been able to rationalize. It can't be that people are just complaining loudly while simultaneously buying a $100 in loot boxes a month... right? There's got to be some data out there by now.
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SwitchbladeKult posted:Can someone please explain to me why everyone seems to be very vocally and loudly opposed to loot boxes and these other semi (sometimes completely) predator monetization practices but yet game companies are making money hand over fist by adding them to their games? This is something I've never been able to rationalize. It can't be that people are just complaining loudly while simultaneously buying a $100 in loot boxes a month... right? There's got to be some data out there by now. Because they are fairly predatory in the same way that gambling is and a huge part of their audience are kids/teens. Also a large part of loot box revenues are usually derived from a pretty small amount of "whales" who are basically rich idiots who money has no meaning for and will happily drop $250k on some rear end in a top hat game to make numbers go up. Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 02:52 on May 6, 2019 |
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SwitchbladeKult posted:Can someone please explain to me why everyone seems to be very vocally and loudly opposed to loot boxes and these other semi (sometimes completely) predator monetization practices but yet game companies are making money hand over fist by adding them to their games? This is something I've never been able to rationalize. It can't be that people are just complaining loudly while simultaneously buying a $100 in loot boxes a month... right? There's got to be some data out there by now. Because 1,000 whales in the form of gambling addicts and/or actual rich people supply enough money to compensate for pissing off a million normies. The data is out there for mobile games and that's what it shows.
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May 6, 2019 02:53
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Yea I'm in the top tier for perks like return ability on steam because of all the tf2 crates I bought :/
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May 6, 2019 02:56
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Uhh, not your stupid blue case, of course, i was talking about somebody else's stupid blue case.
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May 6, 2019 02:56
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Could todd make a boy so full of pip that he himself would not be able to merchandise it
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SwitchbladeKult posted:Can someone please explain to me why everyone seems to be very vocally and loudly opposed to loot boxes and these other semi (sometimes completely) predator monetization practices but yet game companies are making money hand over fist by adding them to their games? This is something I've never been able to rationalize. It can't be that people are just complaining loudly while simultaneously buying a $100 in loot boxes a month... right? There's got to be some data out there by now. Lootboxes and other cash-sink mechanics have two target audiences: children and the mentally ill. Contrary to popular belief, neither group is particularly 'rich', they just have an almost-total lack of impulse control. There are shitloads of stories out there on the web like 'I lost my house and my family left me after I spent 10k trying to get a single ultra-rare character in a gacha game' and the like, which is why these systems are so exploitative and why they basically need to be banned.
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2house2fly posted:This video about monetisation in fortnite is fairly interesting: https://youtu.be/dPHPNgIihR0 pernicious
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Can someone please explain to me why everyone seems to be very vocally and loudly opposed to gambling, yet casinos are making money hand over fist? This is something I've never been able to rationalize.
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the lootbox stuff is a big problem but i cant stop lmboing at these gigantic companies releasing games that brick consoles. like, the one thing you should make never happen keeps happening in these loving games
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BMan posted:Can someone please explain to me why everyone seems to be very vocally and loudly opposed to gambling, yet casinos are making money hand over fist? This is something I've never been able to rationalize. ban casinos too and guillotine the owners any other questions
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BMan posted:Can someone please explain to me why everyone seems to be very vocally and loudly opposed to gambling, yet casinos are making money hand over fist? This is something I've never been able to rationalize. Because with Casinos there is always the chance that you can improve your financial situation (no mater how slim) while with games any money spent is money wasted no mater how you look at it.
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Vakal posted:Because with Casinos there is always the chance that you can improve your financial situation (no mater how slim) while with games any money spent is money wasted no mater how you look at it. And typically they don't let toddlers gamble.
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Random rear end in a top hat posted:Lootboxes and other cash-sink mechanics have two target audiences: children and the mentally ill. Contrary to popular belief, neither group is particularly 'rich', they just have an almost-total lack of impulse control. There are shitloads of stories out there on the web like 'I lost my house and my family left me after I spent 10k trying to get a single ultra-rare character in a gacha game' and the like, which is why these systems are so exploitative and why they basically need to be banned. Yeah, lootboxes and gambling aren't really bad in and of themselves. They can be fun. Hey, what's in this box? Ooohhhh look at all the sparkles the game showed when I opened it! Yay! The snag is you have stupid things like boxes that cost $5 to open and have a 0.02% chance of having the item everybody wants. EA in particular in that one Star Wars game basically made it so you couldn't play the game properly without spending a pile of money on loot boxes. Making a game pay to win and such is where the problem is. Like was said they're also under fire because you have people saying yeah well we aren't directly marketing them to children but if they happen to like them it's not real gambling because they're only spending video game funn buxx and you always win something sooooo. No actually it's predatory as gently caress.
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Crabtree posted:And typically they don't let toddlers gamble. This is the thing that I'm surprised people gloss over so often. Video game lootboxes are gambling schemes specifically and intentionally targeted at children.
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its hard for someone's kid to spend 100k playing keno at the mgm grand but it is easy for them to do that on microtransactions playing the my little pony game
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Necrosaro posted:The Internet Historian has made a "documentary" on The Fall of 76. This is utterly beautiful, it highlights all of the major problems the game has an how much Bethesda doesn't give a single solitary gently caress. Like, I knew they didn't care, but this just wraps it up with a nice bow of resentment towards the consumers.
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BMan posted:Can someone please explain to me why everyone seems to be very vocally and loudly opposed to gambling, yet casinos are making money hand over fist? This is something I've never been able to rationalize. Because people who don't like gambling are very loudly opposed to it because it is a predatory industry. Unfortunately other people love gambling, and the people who own casinos make all that money so they can buy off councils and governments.
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Vault-Boy is Pip-Boy's father I thought this was well-known and extensively documented
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yeah, lootboxes and gambling aren't really bad in and of themselves. They can be fun. Hey, what's in this box? Ooohhhh look at all the sparkles the game showed when I opened it! Yay! I will confess that I was part of the problem. ME3 multiplayer came out and it was tons of fun. I saw that I could play a Samaritan and a Geth. OMG I really wanted to play a Killer Salamander and/or Robot. So much. I grinded and grinded and got the same old bloody thing. Yes I was happy slapping fools for Tuchanka but my heart wanted a Salarian. I had disposable income so I figured “why not?” Spent a little and nope. Then I grinded some more. I like to think of myself as a reasonably intelligent guy but dammit I wanted to play a Salarian or a Geth. I spent more. Then more. Finally I got a couple and was overjoyed. I tried not to think about it overmuch but still it nagged me. I felt ridiculous and rightfully so. But I kept playing. Oh man I really want this other Geth Engineer class. Maybe just a little. Just a little more money. I mean... I can afford it right? Not like I’m spending someone else’s money eh? One day some kid gets on and talks about all these different classes and guns. Bit of a spaz and I ask him how much he spent. He said a grand. He used his parents credit card. I felt so bloody stupid. Kept playing of course as freakin killer bots with Flamethrowers and Salamanders of Doom. Luckily stopped paying for loot boxes. Haven’t since. Years later, in my 30s and thinking that 200 or so could have been spent in lots of ways other than toons in a game I can’t play anymore. I really should thank Bioware as it kept me from blindly wasting money on loot boxes and terrible games. Never payed for creation club nor bought Fallout76, Andromeda or Anthemn.
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NeurosisHead posted:If you ever get a chance, vacation in Death Valley in like, December - February. It only gets up to 70 - 80F or so during the day, so it's pretty comfortable. It's like going to the moon, it's such an alien and surreal landscape. The smallest I have ever felt was standing on the Black Rock Desert floor and watching the Milky Way come up over the mountains. If you ever get the chance, just roll out into the desert and turn off the lights, then look up. It's amazing.
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Liquid Communism posted:The smallest I have ever felt was standing on the Black Rock Desert floor and watching the Milky Way come up over the mountains. If you ever get the chance, just roll out into the desert and turn off the lights, then look up. It's amazing. I've had similar experiences in remote regions of South America. It really is amazing what the sky looks like when you get away from all the light pollution. On the topic of 76, any updates on those bag replacements? It has been radio silence since Bethesda let people request replacements but just ended up doxxing people.
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Powershift posted:Uhh, not your stupid blue case, of course, i was talking about somebody else's stupid blue case. I have a lot stupider cases tbh. I have some kind of fetish that started around 2002 with a Lian Li PC-60.
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Von_Doom posted:I will confess that I was part of the problem. ME3 multiplayer came out and it was tons of fun. I saw that I could play a Samaritan and a Geth. OMG I really wanted to play a Killer Salamander and/or Robot. So much. I grinded and grinded and got the same old bloody thing. Yes I was happy slapping fools for Tuchanka but my heart wanted a Salarian. I had disposable income so I figured “why not?” Spent a little and nope. Then I grinded some more. I like to think of myself as a reasonably intelligent guy but dammit I wanted to play a Salarian or a Geth. I spent more. Then more. Finally I got a couple and was overjoyed. I tried not to think about it overmuch but still it nagged me. I felt ridiculous and rightfully so. But I kept playing. Oh man I really want this other Geth Engineer class. Maybe just a little. Just a little more money. I mean... I can afford it right? Not like I’m spending someone else’s money eh? One day some kid gets on and talks about all these different classes and guns. Bit of a spaz and I ask him how much he spent. He said a grand. He used his parents credit card. I felt so bloody stupid. Kept playing of course as freakin killer bots with Flamethrowers and Salamanders of Doom. Luckily stopped paying for loot boxes. Haven’t since. Years later, in my 30s and thinking that 200 or so could have been spent in lots of ways other than toons in a game I can’t play anymore. I really should thank Bioware as it kept me from blindly wasting money on loot boxes and terrible games. Never payed for creation club nor bought Fallout76, Andromeda or Anthemn. I've spent around $1000 altogether for paintjobs in Elite and cosmetics in Guild Wars 2. I don't play Elite often and haven't touched GW2 in years. I don't feel the least bit bad because, as you say, it's my money. My bills weren't going unpaid. However, I would still prefer no loot boxes at all. If I had to get rid of all my Elite ship paintjobs and bobbleheads because FDev got rid of their storefront entirely, I'd support that.
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bird with big dick posted:I have a lot stupider cases tbh. I have some kind of fetish that started around 2002 with a Lian Li PC-60. show me your Lian li 777
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I wish I had a 777. It came out when I was in college and I didn’t have the money. I still have the PC-60 though. And four different Silverstones and an InWin and now the NZXT. Only the InWin and one of the Silverstones is currently in use. Ime the TJ-11 is the greatest PC case ever made. bird with big dick fucked around with this message at 17:38 on May 7, 2019 |
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I had totally forgotten about that case, I remember wanting it bad at the time. eBay doesn't even show any sold in recent history? I finished my Institute play through at just under 24 hours and at level 27 (and Idiot Savant triggered on the end quest which advanced me all the way to 31). But about 6 hours in or something I gave myself a basic gauss gun and 1500 rounds and 200 stimpacks, otherwise I probably would have had to spend another 10 or 20 hours leveling just to survive that final Brotherhood fight, which was still pretty crazy. Which reminded me of one of the few criticisms I had of this game which is that the ending cutscenes are offensively loving lazy. At the very least they should have mentioned all the factions and at least a few of the settlements. It makes me wonder if this was a stupid design decision (hey, we can't tell you whats goin on with Sanctuary cause the game ain't over!) or a stupid bean counter decision.
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