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“Live Service? Oh it never works. I mean, these people delude themselves into thinking it might but…

it might work for us…” -WB, after watching WB’s Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League tank

In other news: Video Game publishers are grossly out of touch with what people actually enjoy about specific games.

Battlefield was consistently fun because it made you feel like a small part of a massive team in a large-scale conflict.

Battle Royale stands almost opposite to that principle since you’re fighting alone, or in a tiny group, against everyone else.

EA wants a F2P BR game, fine, but they already have one of the best in Apex Legends. The fact that they want to slap the name “Battlefield” on one shows that they have no idea what that name means to people.

Tim Apple presenting it like it’s a portal [to a new era of mobile computing] is exactly what would happen lol

“Early Access Hardware” is a new one lol

Ultron, is that you?

“New to Linux? Where the most daunting thing about switching to it is how many choices you have in configuration? Well, good news! You have more choices than you think!”

I’m like 99% sure “enshittification” is just a code word for “capitalism”

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Make that 100% sure.

There’s plenty of other comments ragging Ubisoft for their anti-consumer business practices so let me just point to those as a preamble and say “what they said”

… HOWEVER I remember someone on Youtube, maybe SirSwag, saying something years ago that rings true about Skull and Bones. For a big company, they’re taking notable risks by investing so heavily in unique multiplayer games. Basically every other big budget multiplayer game I’ve seen has been trying to compete with Call of Duty or Fortnite by being functionally the same thing with minor differences.

Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Rainbow Six Siege, For Honor, Shootmania Storm, Riders Republic, and Skull and Bones, are not like most other games that come before. Yes, Ubisoft is a massive corporation and fuck that noise, but as a consumer of video games I appreciate that they are at least putting a good amount of the money they trick people into spending into studios with designers and developers who have creative minds and they’re supporting that creativity. Games like For Honor and Rainbow Six Siege can’t come from indie teams with no funding.

And I’m not too happy with how capitalism chows down on the poor like the fucking Oroborus it is yet here we fuckin are.

Has anyone reported on it aside from a self-proclaimed conservative news outlet?

Edit: Just found NPR reporting on it

That doesn’t change that this planet can’t burn up soon enough.

This is some next-level fucked up man-behind-the-man-behind-the-curtain conspiracy bullshit.

One of the biggest issues with Super Hero stories in general is they’ve all been told already. If a videogame does nothing to make its super hero story stand out, like letting you interact with the story in a unique way, it’s probably not worth the money, and it’s very likely not worth the time. If you are into super hero stories regardless of if there’s an ounce of originality, or if you’re into gameplay that is proven to be solid but also purely derivative of better games, then by all means go for it.