Are you sure about that ? I don’t know that much about these kind of dynamics because I am not a soulless capitalist ghoul, but I remember reading that Kotick actually did that kind of stuff mostly by himself and was quite good at it (which did translate into more money being made, which probably kept investors happy and cemented his position)

Oh look it’s the thing everyone said would happen way back when Activision bought Blizzard

Can unfortunately confirm

As a professional gamedev : good. Except if they aren’t tackling similar issues in online gambling (am at work so I didn’t read the article)

Edit : read the article, they basically only mention displaying the real money equivalent when buying “premium” currency, which is only the tip of the iceberg, but also pretty easy to legislate I guess.

But just know that I’m order to set it up, you have to login with your account on their computer at some point to enable the family sharing feature

I doubt it, because I think that’s literally how it used to work

FOMO can be a bitch for some people. The fact that it is so widely exploited in tech/videogames is no coincidence

Yeah, me too, but I was on my phone

The absolute irony of clicking this link and being met by an ad for some gacha game featuring ample-chested anime characters

I don’t understand, why did you post a random picture of some pavement ?

I often describe slay the spire’s meta progression as “a roguelike with homework”.

Dude, I have not played mortal kombat in ages but I still seethe at the mere mention of Goro

Yeah they usually have the most dramatic impact on games that have bad CPU optimization, which is a lot of them tbh

I think the 5700x3d is the first one they made, iirc it outperformed even the high end CPUs from the next generation in quite a few benchmarks, but probably not the 7000 gen. If you want to keep the possibility of upgrading, I would advise against the 5700x3d because that’s basically already the best for this socket. By all accounts it’s great value for its price though.

You should try to go for a Ryzen “3D” variant with extra cache if you can spare the extra money, it works wonders on some games. I’ve had no issues with mine (7900x3d) so far on Linux

TF2 proved it was a viable model

TF2’s hats were just the beginning. The shit they’ve pulled with my beloved dota 2 over the years ended up disgusting me away from the game altogether

The original plan was to have all 4 together in a co-op game iirc

You need to shoehorn some AI into this tho

Yeah, just like Twitch, it seems that YouTube has a way of conveniently “forgetting” these directives every now and then

Bruv*

This DLC legit made visiting mount Zion national park one of my life goals