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Potsticker posted:Yup! Also annoying if you hover over a video for even a few seconds. And it starts at the beginning of the video instead of the old preview style where you could reasonably get an idea of what was in the video rather than just starting to see whatever inane intro the video has. I'm willing to bet it still counts as a view for the channel even if you remove it from your history AND counts towards discoverability for other people to be recommended it based on them sharing interests. Settings - Playback and performance - Inline playback on/off
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Xakura posted:Settings - Playback and performance - Inline playback on/off Cheers!
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Xakura posted:Settings - Playback and performance - Inline playback on/off It will turn itself back on any time you log in to your YT account. At least it does, weekly, for me.
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https://www.gematsu.com/2022/05/embracer-group-to-acquire-crystal-dynamics-eidos-montreal-and-square-enix-montreal-from-square-enix Embracer Group bought Square Enix's western development studios & IP. Press release says that the funds gained will help them with blockchain, AI, and cloud investments. 
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It's like that Simpsons bit about clown college, but with blockchain.
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Asteroid Alert posted:https://www.gematsu.com/2022/05/embracer-group-to-acquire-crystal-dynamics-eidos-montreal-and-square-enix-montreal-from-square-enix https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fKLmZNnMT0A
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Asteroid Alert posted:https://www.gematsu.com/2022/05/embracer-group-to-acquire-crystal-dynamics-eidos-montreal-and-square-enix-montreal-from-square-enix I mean that bit is just jingling keys in front of investors, for this thread it's more imprtant to know that Embracer is responsible for THQ Nordic and Gearbox
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Yeah I misread that as "Squeenix selling the IPs to a crypto/NFT company" since I guess THQ Nordic changed their name again while I wasn't looking https://twitter.com/EmbracerInvest/status/1460906337701974017 so really just a continuation of squeenix shooting themselves in the foot when it comes to anything not named final fantasy 14
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Someone in the Steam thread posted that Embracer is friendly with 8chan, wtf that is that about? Apparently it's from a relatively recent AMA on that website, which holy gently caress how would that pass legal/marketing approval?
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pentyne posted:Someone in the Steam thread posted that Embracer is friendly with 8chan, wtf that is that about? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THQ_Nordic#Controversy
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Their PR guy is either a moron or a chud and decided 8chan was an appropriate forum for an AMA. At some point the C-levels were clued into this and apologized for it, probably not understanding what had happened. I wish I was a fly on the wall for the discussion where some poor aide had to explain 8chan to the ceo and explain why they were fielding questions about “lolis”. E: uhh so he’s still employed there
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Fruits of the sea posted:Their PR guy is either a moron or a chud and decided 8chan was an appropriate forum for an AMA. At some point the C-levels were clued into this and apologized for it, probably not understanding what had happened. I wish I was a fly on the wall for the discussion where some poor aide had to explain 8chan to the ceo and explain why they were fielding questions about “lolis”. I imagine someone who is a Chud Online having to explain something like 8chan and lolis to a group of people that Are Not Online might lie a lot or at least downplay the severity of their poo poo to keep their job
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This happened in 2019? I could have sworn it was from earlier than that, like 2016 or so. It's a weird feeling to go from "oh that happened a long time ago" to "oh poo poo that happened three years ago."
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These particular past three years constitute a long time ago.
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THQ Nordic is a subsidiary of Embracer (previously THQ Nordic was the name for both the parent company that owns a ton of other publishers, which is now Embracer, and also one of those publishers, which is still called THQ Nordic) and the 8chan stuff seems to be limited to just a few high-ups in that division, not anything further out in Embracer, but it still sucks obviously
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Corbeau posted:These particular past three years constitute a long time ago.
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I can't comprehend anyone getting 1100 game devs and their associated studios in montreal for 300 million. Forget the IP, any publisher would absolutely lose their minds at that opportunity. That's like, a tenth the cost of recruiting those devs, assuming you can even find that many.
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https://www.videogameschronicle.com...ination-report/
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:I can't comprehend anyone getting 1100 game devs and their associated studios in montreal for 300 million. Forget the IP, any publisher would absolutely lose their minds at that opportunity. That's like, a tenth the cost of recruiting those devs, assuming you can even find that many. Yeah it's an insane deal. The tomb raider reboots sold 38 million copies.
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sebmojo posted:Yeah it's an insane deal. The tomb raider reboots sold 38 million copies. Yes, a complete failure. Tragic, for sure - Square
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Magmarashi posted:Yes, a complete failure. Tragic, for sure - Square Has anyone figured out what kind of numbers Square expects their games to put up? They've refused to make a ton of sequels even for wildly popular, successful games.
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They set insane expectations on their western division for a while to try and counteract their investors in Japan panicking over the Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 trainwreck but that's the only time I can remember them commentating on sales numbers outside of celebrating milestones.
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Mokinokaro posted:They set insane expectations on their western division for a while to try and counteract their investors in Japan panicking over the Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 trainwreck but that's the only time I can remember them commentating on sales numbers outside of celebrating milestones. Famously they said TR2013 and Sleeping Dogs underperformed while specifically not counting digital sales at all (where both games did quite well on Steam)
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kirbysuperstar posted:Famously they said TR2013 and Sleeping Dogs underperformed while specifically not counting digital sales at all (where both games did quite well on Steam) There was a powerpoint slide or something leaked from that year's presentation that said all three major games, Sleeping Dogs, TR2013, and Hitman I think, were failures for not selling more then 5 million copies each. Which was an insane sales projection at the time. TR and Hitman had both sold a franchise record and Sleeping Dogs was a new IP that sold several million.
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Magmarashi posted:Yes, a complete failure. Tragic, for sure - Square looking forward to a bunch of good IPs, that were mothballed for no reason, finally getting a chance to shine in a post Sqeenix buyout kirbysuperstar posted:Famously they said TR2013 and Sleeping Dogs underperformed while specifically not counting digital sales at all (where both games did quite well on Steam) Sleeping Dogs deserves a sequel ASAP
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pentyne posted:There was a powerpoint slide or something leaked from that year's presentation that said all three major games, Sleeping Dogs, TR2013, and Hitman I think, were failures for not selling more then 5 million copies each. Which was an insane sales projection at the time. TR and Hitman had both sold a franchise record and Sleeping Dogs was a new IP that sold several million. Western devs make CoD though, why you no give CoD? CoD pls
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Magmarashi posted:Yes, a complete failure. Tragic, for sure - Square The two deus ex games sold 12 million. Article with some more background.
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the recent marvel games did significantly underperform though, avengers did disastrously and gotg did decently but wasn't the insane hit square enix probably demanded it be, especially when you take into consideration how much they would have paid for the rights but that all comes down to square mismanagement by forcing their western studios to make games in genres they weren't at all familiar with on top of forcing avengers to have a gaas model that made no real sense
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I do wonder how much Guardians was hurt by Avengers being bad and the initial trailer not being great, since the game itself ended up pretty good.
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bobjr posted:I do wonder how much Guardians was hurt by Avengers being bad and the initial trailer not being great, since the game itself ended up pretty good. Going with almost entirely because even my perpetual online self mistook it for more Avengers at first.
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They burned a lot of good will over Avengers, because in addition to it being kind of a poo poo game, they also nerfed XP gain pretty heavily right before they started selling XP boosters, didn't they?
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I couldn't seperate the two either, it was damned by association. Not like I had any real reason to trust SquareEnix by that point regardless, or even now for that matter.
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If the Avengers game didn't exist, I'm sure that GotG would have been a massive hit. It's real good, but Avengers poisoned the well too hard for a lot of people to give it a chance.
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Tombot posted:I couldn't seperate the two either, it was damned by association. Not like I had any real reason to trust SquareEnix by that point regardless, or even now for that matter. Unfortunately a lot of people thought GotG was an expansion DLC for Avengers.
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Moola posted:Sleeping Dogs deserves a sequel ASAP well good news im pretty sure its one of the IPs Square sold so the chances are higher 
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I was in the test for Triad Wars. Oof.
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MechaCrash posted:They burned a lot of good will over Avengers, because in addition to it being kind of a poo poo game, they also nerfed XP gain pretty heavily right before they started selling XP boosters, didn't they? They made a series of Destiny-style scummy decisions without having a successful game like Destiny to back them up.
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Guardians of the Galaxy had a really bad initial showing, too. The E3 reveal trailer featured some of the worst bits of writing and humour from the game itself. They also downplayed the team command system in the bits of gameplay they showed, and they picked pretty boring segments of the game on top of that. I was shocked to hear Guardians of the Galaxy was good when the reviews started coming out, because the marketing made the game look terrible.
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Moola posted:Sleeping Dogs deserves a sequel ASAP Let Sleeping Dogs lie.  Or probably not, never played it.
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