Primalchrome wrote on Jan 30, 2019, 14:32:

Steam has failed to innovate,

While the Steam client is a dog, that's a reflection of the fact that there is no leadership at Valve to make it a priority. But saying "failed to innovate" is silly hyperbole : Workshop. Linux gaming. Friends/games/community integration. Steambox. Controller integration. Steam Controller. SteamVR. 3rd party keys. Which other storefronts have these failures of innovation?

VaranDragon wrote on Jan 30, 2019, 13:54:
Grow the fuck up. This is how you grow your business. People were green with rage when they had to install some barely working, piece of shit 3rd party software called STEAM so they could play Half Life 2.

BIGtrouble77 wrote on Jan 1, 2019, 13:00:
I feel like the layoff comment was added to increase the emotional response, they were most likely planning to do the layoffs regardless

RedEye9 wrote on Dec 26, 2018, 10:58:

theyarecomingforyou wrote on Dec 25, 2018, 19:18:

CJ_Parker wrote on Dec 21, 2018, 03:34:
Yeah, except it isn't for marketing.
I would bet real money that they are going to use a considerable part of that money to port the game to consoles.

Chris Roberts has always said he would consider a console release but that the current hardware isn't up to the task. It's not something that has ever been hidden from the community and the game already has controller support.

Marketing is a major expense, especially when Chris Roberts promised all crowdfunding for the game would go towards development. This allows them to promote the game to a large audience when the game is much closer to release. If you want to see a conspiracy where there isn't one then that's entirely up to you.

Now you know what the C in cj stands for. Anyone that doesn't think there will be significant marketing costs is fooling themselves.
From the looks of things the game is coming along nicely and appears to be ahead of schedule for something of it's scope. Time will tell.

CJ_Parker wrote on Dec 21, 2018, 03:34:
Yeah, except it isn't for marketing. That's just another Chris Roberts lie out of a billion more.

I would bet real money that they are going to use a considerable part of that money to port the game to consoles. That's the only way to substantially increase their customer base and to generate the much needed additional income to cover more years of SC development.
They have to expand their customer base big time and the only way is to tap the conslow market.

Chris is going to use the excuse that he could not foresee in 2012 how long it would take (immershun, fideliteh, the usual blahblah) and also how he could not predict how awesome the PS5 and the next Xbox was gonna be. When those are revealed he is going to praise the fuck out of them and maybe even sign some deals with MS and/or Sony. Guaranteed.

CJ_Parker wrote on Dec 23, 2018, 15:34:
I mean, their real motivation is pretty clear as they obviously want to add more value to their EA Access subscription service while maybe reviving the C&C franchise at the same time but it would still be pretty cool to get a less pixellated original C&C with some QoL improvements.

Creston wrote on Dec 9, 2018, 11:33:

CIG says their switch to Amazon's Lumberyard engine made these complaints irrelevant,

This seems weird?

So if I sign a contract with someone to use their product and to promote it, I can then just say "Yeah but I went with another product, so it's not valid anymore!" That seems very odd. What's to keep a professional athlete from breaching a contract this way? "Sure, I signed with the Dodgers saying I'd play for them for six years, but I'm playing for the Yankees now, so that's an irrelevant complaint."

Very, very weird.

WaltC wrote on Dec 8, 2018, 13:25:
If Crytek had said nothing, few would have ever noticed that CIG rejected their engine in favor of another...it was a bizarre suit from day one. It's what happens when you admit lawyers to the boardroom. Lots of billable man-hours to show for it, I'm sure

Teal'c SG:1 wrote on Nov 23, 2018, 13:22:
Except you cant login. Im getting a really odd error message so either 1/ They fkded up and the servers are swamped, or 2/ some sweaty asshats a DDSing the login servers. Mom never watched what she was growing in the basement.

FloorPie wrote on Nov 18, 2018, 04:22:
Dude has a skateboard intro and two macs on his desk. Totes actual lawyer awesomeness. Totes subscribing for more informed youtoob hip cool lawyerness.

G.oZ wrote on Nov 17, 2018, 20:39:
Except it's not even that.

Can anyone imagine a super adv tech future where AI/robotics won't be doing every single mundane task for us? Even today, just about every aspect of space launches/flight is computer controlled.

Prez wrote on Nov 13, 2018, 14:46:

Avus wrote on Nov 11, 2018, 23:08:
I don't want to buy my favorite RPG in the fucking Windows Store....

This has been my sentiment all along. I gave MS Win10 exclusives its first go with Gears of War 4. The entire process, from finding the game, to purchasing, downloading, installing, and playing was so cumbersome and frustrating from beginning to end that I swore to never touch another Win10 exclusive again. A few peeps told me that my stance was unreasonable, and not wanting to be an unreasonable fellow, I recently bought State of Decay 2. While admittedly a bit better of an experience than the first time around, the process was still 10 times more lengthy and cumbersome than the same process on Steam, GOG, or Origin. So yeah, I'm done with MS Win10 exclusives. Call me when they release their games on real platforms.

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