Double Bill posted:

I have a hard time imagining what WoW2 would even be about, in terms of story and setting. They've been scraping the bottom of the Warcraft lore barrel for years now, and any new stuff has been increasingly uninteresting and dumb.

Canine Blues Arooo posted:

For a lot of reasons, I want to avoid posting in this thread, but I do want to clear something about this particular narrative:

A lot of these old games were good because the swath of individual contributors on the projects were good. In fact, I'd go as far to say that a game like WoW was good *despite* Alex's uh...'contributions'. Most of these people are not famous, but their contributions to the quality of the games were huge. It is my estimation that there has been a higher rate of migration away from Blizzard by a lot of these individuals over the past 5 years. More importantly, the vast majority of these folks are good people. To that end, while there are some prominent sex pests that definitely existed in the past, throwing all of those people under the bus is unfair at best.

The Gadfly posted:

I think people need to stop anthropomorpizing companies. Don't get so attached or loyal to them. Great games are made because a group of specific developers worked at the same company in the same time period. It's these developers that people should respect for solely their game-making ability, not the overall behemoth of a company.

It's disgusting when I see people reminiscing about Blizzard like it was an ex.

Vengarr posted:

Don’t like things you fuckos, when will you LEARN

orange juche posted:

It's because gamers by and large are scum. There's a few bright spots, a few good communities in existence, but by and large they're still the same poo poo-ape morons dropping the hard R while spraying cheeto dust on xbox microphones. Game devs originate from this primordial cheeto soup, and they carry their prejudices with them. They dress it up and put out the pride flag for pride month as the corporate world demands in order to avoid getting backlash, but they don't actually believe it, much like most of the corporate world, they just make the moves to get the money. It is a cynical opinion, but it's better to be a cynic than naïve.

Unless a game dev studio is making conscious, visible steps to increase diversity, and actually makes those diverse members of the team feel valued, assume they're the same shitapes from xbox live.

thetoughestbean posted:

So how bout that Diablo 2 Remaster. I hear it has problems

anime was right posted:

unionize already ffs

stev posted:

At this point I'm wondering why Bobby doesn't just resign. He could just take the L, walk away and retire on his infinite supply of blood money.

Mokinokaro posted:

Now, this? This is a sign things have a chance of changing

https://twitter.com/Shannon_Liao/status/1460981681024864263

CharlestheHammer posted:

Lol you all are seriously replying to stux and endorph.

Goons will fall for anything

dragonshardz posted:

i'm gay

Feels Villeneuve posted:

mutata posted:

Ah, ok, the thread is still like this. Message received! I'll go back to not reading it.

Endorph posted:

thus leading me back to my previous point: this thread should be deleted

Harrow posted:

Okay, two things.

First: the no shitposting rule is in effect. If you don't have anything substantive to say, don't post at all. It's okay to just read.

Second: I was honestly going to leave the thread closed for a while longer, but...

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1483428774591053836

Vegetable posted:

Honestly, NFTs are no more a sham than people getting, I dunno, autographed books or certified movie prop replicas or Pokémon card misprints or the brick from the Berlin wall. It’s not about the actual thing but the symbolism or the rarity of it. If they fix the carbon impact (and it’s already totally possible), then what the heck, go for it. Giant corporations will benefit but legitimate artists as well. And if anyone doesn’t want to participate that’s fine as well.

Of course it’s more than a little lol that Ubisoft execs think the right message is “dumbass consumers just don’t get it.” But I think people do get too upset about markets existing for nebulous things. The collectibles market was already weird and inscrutable for hundreds of years; this is not anything new.

CodfishCartographer posted:

https://twitter.com/Vivi_Flynn/status/1502081727254122503?t=luV7hA81XDhKDH_c04LHtg&s=19

Lmao

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

https://twitter.com/the_boyks/status/1516481592251674632
https://twitter.com/the_boyks/status/1516483232266551300?s=20&t=Xvfx24r8X3NJosYAEKwHPA
https://twitter.com/the_boyks/status/1516497800900403204?s=20&t=Xvfx24r8X3NJosYAEKwHPA

Ra Ra Rasputin posted:

That's a good summary of why builds in D3 are so braindead and you are basically just selecting the "Developer Approved Build of the Season"

Dr. Fishopolis posted:

Bust Rodd, I'd like to, as kindly as possible, ask you what in the holy gently caress you're talking about.

Bust Rodd posted:

As more and more video games delve into pornographic outlets, especially with the technology they’ve got in Japan RE sex-VR, I’m really worried about the conditions these actors and actresses are gonna be dealing with, as well as the devs who have to be fully immersed in this sort of stuff all day for work. It took porn like 50 years to stop being the grotesque horror show that it was, and it’s only really turning into something more progressive and safe now that the money is all out of it and every talent is a director now.

Bust Rodd posted:

I thought it was germane because the VR guy was watching VR porn at work, and it made me think about the stuff I was reading about in the Japanese tech and gaming magazines I read about how working in virtual porn gaming is a tightrope because it’s deregulated. Sorry if that wasn’t clear, I wasn’t trying to post about anything horny or inappropriate. It’s a way bigger deal that he molested his coworkers, IMO, and that should be the focus.

Randalor posted:

I'm guessing we can't just chemically castrate all the men at Activision Blizzard?

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