Depends on what is meant by “Influential”. Are we talking within the industry or among players?
Because, as much as I hate to say it, World of Warcraft pretty much revolutionized the industry. From the live-service, massive multiplayer format to every nasty type of monetization model we’ve seen in almost every big title since.
Just potted my new set of chiliplants. Yellow, red, purple and black fruits if all goes according to plan. (It never does. Chilies always get infested with something.)
Hopefully I can save enough fruits to make a few batches of hotsauce to carry me through next winter. ;)
I see how it’s different. And I’m not making excuses for anyone.
If anything, I’m saying I can understand where it’s coming from. But that doesn’t mean I’m onboard with it all.
The cost of developing games hasn’t skyrocketed. Developers have more means than ever. Many things that was handcrafted on crappy slow computers then are auto-generated in seconds now.
There’s no massive shipping costs or printing of physical mediums anymore. And no losses if the already printed cassettes or CD’s didn’t sell.
If a game costs hundreds of millions to develop, in this day and age, it’s by design and/or because of bloated companies.
I have no personal vendetta against any of these individual Devs.
My stake in this is slightly different. Like, when I heard about how Blizzard treated it’s own staff and then the whole sexual harassment thing popped up, I was done with them. From that point on, that company didn’t deserve to exist and I blacklisted them. So i try to keep up with gaming related news.
More studios have joined that list since, for various reasons, and I find myself mostly playing indie titles from small upcoming developers now. I feel better about that.
I do believe we should be(e) kind. But I also believe kindness is a two way street.
Mint has treated me just fine since I converted.
I’m not proficient with Linux whatsoever, but Mint has literally been the most newbie user-friendly OS I have tried to date. So Windows can suck it.
For gaming, Steam runs things great. And for other things like GOG, Battle.net, Lutris has server me well. Proton does a good job.
They’ll still make the Xbox consoles as long as they are selling. They’ll hopefully just ease off the “Exclusives” going forward.
It was a shitty way of trying to move consoles anyway.
Although they are late to the party, Sony is also trying to sell on PC and other storefronts. So my guess is that the console market isn’t treating either of them super well atm.
As much as I dislike Ubisoft, it’s nitpicky as hell.
The Year only has 365 days. Billions of people have inhabited the planet and screwed over each other for thousands of years in various terrible ways. Add in shitty natural causes like plagues and such, And well…
Good luck finding a date something shitty didn’t happen.
I wouldn’t put it past them.
Old meme is old and the red ring does not spice it up, nor make it more available for the “dumb dumbs”.
Yeah, I know it was unrelated. And I’m sorry for high-jacking your comment.
Just thought I’d add my own little “funny” when it came to writing. :)
my writing is so cryptic i am the only one that could ever understand it.
That sounds like my handwriting. And If written in a hurry, even I struggle to make sense of the mix of runes, hieroglyphics and child’s drawings I call my “cursive”.
Future headlines right there.
I’m talking about buying from small indie studios.
Every giant we have now all started as a small studio, doing their thing.
All we have to do, is shop around and make sure that whatever we buy isn’t affiliated with a big publisher.
Time to build the new giants.
Underground tribes living off of the mushrooms we can cultivate. Waging war on other tribes for ressources.
Basically ‘Metro 2033’, but less cool.
Seeing as younger generations have problems figuring out the kassette tape, I’d wager this list could get pretty long.