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| News Comments > Rune II Released; Human Head Closes |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Nov 13, 2019, 19:14 |
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Parallax Abstraction wrote on Nov 13, 2019, 18:51:
Kxmode wrote on Nov 13, 2019, 15:41:
Wait. If they're closing, and they're the publisher, who's getting the money? Epic?
The management I imagine. Bethesda didn't buy the Rune IP and they also didn't buy Human Head, they just hired all the employees to help start a new studio from scratch that they wholly own.
This was clearly something they planned to do for a long time. I thought the whole point of Epic exclusivity bribes was to provide financial cushioning so devs didn't have to risk going under if their game didn't sell. That's what both Sweeney and several devs have said. On top of this, their Twitter statement said the game has exceeded their day one sales expectations. Big deals with Bethesda don't happen overnight so this really looks like the management just took as much money as they could, shoved the game out the door and are now bailing out with the riches. Anyone who wants to see this game on consoles or something not the Epic store, don't count on it.
They claim the game will continue to get support but don't lay out how that's going to work when none of the employees work for the company any more and Bethesda's not going to want them spending time on their payroll supporting a game they don't own. If I were anyone who bought this rushed mess, I'd refund it and wait to see if they actually do step up and support it. If they do, buy it again.
It's probably likely that they had publishers paying their bills for the last few years while Rune II was in dev.
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| News Comments > Diablo Mobile Backlash |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Nov 4, 2018, 01:53 |
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... this makes me even less want to go back into the gaming business. Salaries suck compared to outside of gaming development, the hours suck, the studios suck, and overall, there's a large vocal mass of customers that suck. Ya'all suck the life out of the devs, and then trash talk them for making things you don't personally care about. Hint: They didn't do it just for you, there's 6 billion other people on the planet, and a huge number of them who don't play PC games.
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| News Comments > Warriors Orochi 4 Character Trailer |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Aug 16, 2018, 22:00 |
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I had picked up a copy of 1 and 2 at a thrift shop a while back, and was testing them out, to see if they worked, so I could resell them (because apparently they are slightly valuable) . . . good god, what awful, terrible games. I could not believe how awful they were.
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| News Comments > A Typo Broke Aliens Colonial Marines AI? |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Jul 14, 2018, 15:08 |
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> Its totally believable something like this could have gone undetected. Its easy to write code albeit wrong that compiles and throws no errors.
If the development was rushed they may have cut out the unit tests or quality assurance testing. The other thought is maybe the code being called was a stub/placeholder and they forgot to update the configuration file.
… unit testing was pretty much unheard of in games when I last worked in the industry, 5 years ago, around the time this game came out. Maybe the really big studios had done some work with test driven stuff, but for almost everyone then, and I'd assume now still, writing tests is likely considered a waste of time, if it doesn't end up in the shipping product, it doesn't get written.
it was most definitely a typo. It was a misspelling of a word in a class name. |
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| News Comments > PUBG Known Issues |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Jan 28, 2018, 22:33 |
The Magician |
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Let me know when they fix the ass awful graphics, the ass awful sound effects, and figure out that the devs have absolutely no idea what they are doing, and why no one has created this game before them.
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| News Comments > PUBG Sells 20M |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Nov 8, 2017, 12:07 |
The Magician |
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Beamer wrote on Nov 8, 2017, 11:01:
Lot of really strong opinions here.
I don't think I'd like the game, but I'm not going out of my way to call all involved idiots.
Just starting the game, you can tell the devs have no clue.
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| News Comments > PUBG Sells 20M |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Nov 8, 2017, 10:50 |
The Magician |
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The developers of this game are absolutely rank amateur, and do not understand the technological reasons why no one has bothered to make this game before. Those technological reasons have not been solved, and they don't know the first thing about solving them.
This game is utter shit, it runs like utter shit, it looks like utter shit, it sounds like utter shit, and they are being handsomely rewarded for turning out utter shit.
Because this sounds like the holy grail of FPS online gaming . . but it's just a pile of shit.
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Mar 15, 2017, 11:50 |
The Magician |
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Re: Action Center
Open it, turn on "Quiet Mode", forget it exists. If you can't forget it exists, install Actual Window Manager, and replace the Windows taskbar. (you'll still need to turn on Quiet Mode though, to prevent the Action Center from popping up unnecessarily all the f'ing time)
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| News Comments > Evening Interviews |
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Re: Evening Interviews |
Dec 13, 2016, 05:58 |
The Magician |
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The multiplayer was just a shitshow, but the single player game was the most adrenaline packed experience i've had in a very long time, it was awesome.
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| News Comments > Defunct Digital Homicide Drops Lawsuit |
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Re: Defunct Digital Homicide Drops Lawsuit |
Oct 2, 2016, 06:02 |
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Mordecai Walfish wrote on Oct 1, 2016, 14:30:
Pr()ZaC wrote on Oct 1, 2016, 13:57:
Quboid wrote on Oct 1, 2016, 13:04:
Pr()ZaC wrote on Oct 1, 2016, 12:33:
They should Kickstart a new game and fund the lawsuit.
We all knew DH wouldn't succeed.
They're crowd funding their legal action. It's not going well.
https://www.gofundme.com/47uexn9c lol...
They don't have my sympathy.
Their crowdfunding is costing them far more than it's netting them. People are donating the smallest amount possible and then issuing chargebacks through their card company, which is costing them like $25 a pop.
That's kinda funny, but also fraudulent use of the chargeback capability, which could be a felony.
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