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MH Knights
Aug 4, 2007

And now ABK employees have filed a charge with the National Labor Relations Board! Specifically union busting and employee intimidation.

quote:

“[The company] told employees they cannot communicate with or discuss ongoing investigations of wages, hours and working conditions; maintained an overly broad social media policy; enforced the social media policy against employees who have engaged in protected concerted activity; threatened or disciplined employees on account of protected concerted activity; engaged in surveillance of employees engaged in protected concerted activity and engaged in interrogation of employees about protected concerted activity.”

It should be noted that the law firm representing ABK, WilmerHale, has a history of union busting and is the former employer of WoW lead Ion Hazzikostas!

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MH Knights
Aug 4, 2007

Fruits of the sea posted:

ESO has a pretty robust format for earning money from players. Apart from the subscription, they release a paid expansion every year (which is rolled into the subscription after a year has passed) and they release new cosmetics and minor dlc every financial quarter as microtransactions. The only downside is that the pace at which they add new content means they just ignore balance and make everything scale to the player. Which is neat but also weird, because there is no endgame and 90% of the content can be completed with a low-level character.

WoW could in theory use the same model, but they would need to reliably put out new content at a way faster pace than they are, as well as implement player housing and making cosmetics more affordable.

One thing to note about ESO's yearly expansions, Chapters as they are officially called, is that they are WAY smaller in both explorable game space and amount of content than a WoW expansion. The game space players can actually explore is about the size of a large WoW zone with about as many quests, though all quests in ESO are fully voiced...by the same half dozen voice actors. True to the mainline ES games! As part of the yearly Chapter story two dungeon DLC packs containing two dungeons each will be released as paid DLC while a free, to those who purchased the Chapter, questing zone will be released as the ending of the chapter. The This zone will be smaller than the main chapter zone and accordingly have less questing content. A raid will also get released at some point. Or is it two raids a year? The raids are completely separated form the main story and very few people do them.

MH Knights
Aug 4, 2007

Mr. Crow posted:

A few days ago but I can't believe madden still sells that well, hasn't that game just been roster updates for over a decade :lol:

Why bother putting in effort when you have a total monopoly on the license/sport? :capitalism: Gridiron football has little appeal outside of the USA so the biggest alternative is the Canadian Football League which currently has nine teams. Then you are down to the joke leagues: The XFL and other wannabes who can only get one or two games into a season before shutting down.

There is college football but that still has issues to work out before games can be made again.

MH Knights
Aug 4, 2007

Speaking of NFTs, Folding Ideas recently released a long form video, about two and a half hours, that goes into crypto, NFTs, Play To Earn/Axies and even how the 2008 mortgage crisis factors in to all of this . If you have the time I really recommend it.

MH Knights
Aug 4, 2007


Killzone reboot/revival? Anybody want more from the Resistance series?

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MH Knights
Aug 4, 2007

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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