The Video Game Industry

Uh...I know they have Killzone, but that series seems dead.

Same with Resistance.

I miss Killzone, 2 was my favourite shooter

And SOCOM.

… shoot, I had to hold off on that joke.

The ones mentioned as well as TLOU and the Uncharted games.

If you've shopped online at Gamestop over the weekend and you have noticed the ability to see someone else's private information when refreshing your order page, it's not just you.

I'm getting deja vu hearing about that.

Uhh, holy shit. I'm normally lenient in attributing glitches to human error rather than malice, but this sort of thing is inexcusable.

I can just smell the doxxing incidents that would occur thanks to this. Lives would be endangered thanks to Game Stop's incompetence

I wouldn't say lives were endangered, but dear god how easy it likely was to steal somebody's card info and identity.

Edited by ScubaWolf on Nov 26th 2022 at 3:53:55 PM

Shit, my preorder of Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball 5 Collector’s Edition can be seen by everyone.

Crypto and NFTs aren’t welcome in Grand Theft Auto Online: Rockstar follows similar recent ban by Mojang and Minecraft.

It's official now. Well done, Rockstar.

Ubisoft comes crawling back to Steam after years on Epic Games Store: In 2019, company said Valve's 30 percent commissions were "unrealistic."

It seems Steam is still the platform to be, for better or worse.

Edited by Redmess on Nov 27th 2022 at 11:17:57 AM

Always happy to see more games/platforms banning crypto.

Ultimately if it's a choice between Steam or Epic stores, Steam is the obvious one (unless Epic is paying you a good amount for exclusivity). Epic just isn't as well-developed a platform and although I haven't seen the numbers I suspect the number of users actually buying things is far, far lower than Steam (users who are there for free games and nothing else don't really count).

Has Epic still not gotten a shopping cart?

They added it in September last year.

Took them about 3 years, for those keeping track.

Edited by OrangeBun on Nov 28th 2022 at 10:20:25 AM

I will never understand why the shopping cart wasn't there from the start.

Yeah, that's webshop 101. 102 is having a persistent shopping cart that remembers what you might want to buy some day.

Sources say Microsoft to make a concession of mainly a 10 year licensing deal with Sony in order to appease the EU for their purchase of Activision-Blizzard.

Edited by tclittle on Nov 28th 2022 at 12:45:32 PM

I look at the review scores for the new Pokemon games, and I look at the responses to those review scores, and I once again wonder why anyone would defend a company that doesn't care about them.

…huh?

General consensus is the games are fun, in spite of the performance issues. Not sure what else is the matter.

Yep. Critical consensus seems to be that, as does most of the general consensus as well.

I've seen a fair number of players attribute the good/fun parts about it to Game Freak, while also laying the blame for the technical performance on Pokémon Company/the brand itself needing a new mainline game every year around this time. Which I think is pretty fair- that the game's still enjoyable despite its ridiculous lack of optimization speaks well about the design underneath and the direction of the series as a whole.

Just... for the love of lord, let the games cook some more and maybe let studios like Monolith help them get everything running smoothly.

Especially since most of the really egregious bugs people keep sharing are very, very difficult to trigger under normal circumstances.

The game just doesn't run particularly that well. That's not great, but it's also not a sign of anything but way too much crunch in way too little time.

I've seen it claimed that releasing a new game every year regardless of polish is a deliberate anticompetitive strategy - they started doing it when Pokemon's popularity was threatened by Yo-kai Watch, which wasn't able to keep up with this pace and stopped releasing new games outside of Japan.

I would like to call Pokemon being the new Assassin's Creed. Both became highly lucrative franchises with extremely large franchises. Parent company notices and decides to expand brand. It it comparatively innocent at first then the annual release is mandated. The money goes into the execs’ wallet than actual talent and new projects. Lots of pressure to have the games released no matter how bad the quality is. The result is an oversaturation of buggy games that loses the goodwill of consumers.

Scarlet and Violet arent bad at their core in multiple fronts as anyone can tell but the technical problems combined with the insistence of pumping out games to extreme success is more telling to the Pokemon Company that they barely need to go past standards. In fact, the Nintendo Seal of Quality is borderline a useless marker already considering that people compare the games to Cyberpunk’s launch.