Yeah, pressure at all levels.
You can also look at a local station's website and see advertising partners. Not the little fish that buy 1-2 ads a year for a local business, the ones that get their ads ran the most and in the best timeslots.
That's where pressure is best applied on affiliates
Only Disney has those numbers, and releasing them would tank the stock that's already dipping.
There is zero reason for them to admit what is happening.
Also of note, trump is pushing for it to go from quarterly to (I think) annual reports, so companies will be able to hide this stuff for longer, the whole time doing insider trading.
That feeds back into what I was saying, it's the same thing.
The first couple times you dick someone over for money, you're gonna feel bad.
But everyone at the company is going to pat you on the back and say you're a genius cuz numbers went up.
Anyone who says it wasn't worth the numbers going up, gets fired.
The wealthy live in a bubble where the only people they interact with only care about money
Our whole capitalist society is a giant feedback loop that concentrates wealth and strips the wealthy of their humanity.
It's not like there's some problem where something is broken, this is the natural and logical result of how we've spent the last couple generations
Unregulated capitalism always ends in an oligarchy with most people penniless
But then again, maybe he is just another CEO asshole and has always been lol.
When you fire everyone that disagrees with you, it doesn't take long to loose the ability to handle criticism.
Like, there's a very good chance this guy has had absolutely nothing but praise while "working" on this game. So now that people whose job doesn't depend on making him feel like a genius are giving feedback, it literally breaks his brain.
He most likely genuinely believes the game is perfect and all the criticism is from "trolls and haters" who are just lying because their jealous of his genius.
There's a reason this attitude is so pervasive among the wealthy.
Apparently the graphics are basically the same as 3, but performance is dog shit on even the best hardware and crashes are unavoidable.
When people complained, he said they need to use AI fake frame and upscale from 720. Which still wasn't good performance.
It might get fixed later in updates. But this guy is handling so badly he might legitimately be mentally unwell. It's at the point it's weird he still has a job
That's not how any of this works...
The price point is static, $X for a console game.
It's weirdly like socialism. A game like GTA knows they'll sell a shit ton of copies for years after release. Likely on multiple console generations. All those customers subsidize each others portion of the development cost.
It's economics of scale, the greater expected sales, the less profit margin the corporation will accept.
Niche games come with a niche tax. It's not unique to gaming.
BG3 was insanely cheap tho when accounting for scale. It was easily 2-3 games worth of content for the price of 1 game.
And the reason it was able to achieve the scale it did, was people bought the shit out of it on presale.
I looked and checked, I bought it almost 3 years before it released. Because act 1 was already playable, and already the length of a regular 2020 full release.
Despite "never pre-order a digital good" being sound advice 99.99999% of the time, the studio and IP and it being 20 some years since the last entry made it able to fund its own development.
Expecting anyone else to replicate that absolute perfect storm that allowed for BG3 is just going to lead to constant dissapointment.
47 hours and 21 minutes before he was shot....
Sounds like they got the intensity off a little tho:
I want to make it clear, I’m not calling on dark forces to cause him harm. I just want him to wake up every morning with an inexplicable zit. I want his podcast microphone to malfunction every time he hits record. I want his blue blazers to suddenly all be one size too small. I want one of his socks to always be sliding down his foot. I want his thumb to grow too big to tweet. To ruin his day with the collective feminist power of the Etsy coven would be my life’s greatest joy.
Maybe they forgot Venus was in retrograde?
"My game engine had a bug, in that it would draw frames as fast as it could" said Plummer. At the time, the game was being coded on a MIPS R4000 processor running at a mighty 200 MHz, which resulted in the game running at 60-90 fps, a speed Plummer judged as "plenty, for a game like that."
We used to build Java games in a class, and the "cheat code" to every game was always open a shit ton of other stuff so the game ran slower than intended and was easier.
Without a doubt.
It just seemed clear grammatically that this was two separate people.
If it was some oligarch shenanigans instead of "the" it would have been "as a"
What did you think the headline meant?
Quarterly earnings...
https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/the-walt-disney-company-reports-third-quarter-and-nine-months-earnings-for-fiscal-2025/
But internally they monitor this metric on a day-to-day metric, people are absolutely losing their shit over the cancellation at Disney.