p03locke

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[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Right now, there's an executive battle to wrestle control of the company away from the original founders. While the founders are probably a bunch of rich assholes, they want to go back to being privately-traded with Tencent's help, and the alternative is so much worse: venture capitalists in a publicly-traded stock market. They have been driving their IPs into the ground, due to overexposure (looking at you, Assassin's Creed). No doubt this whole face-to-face decision was bought on by the capitalist assholes trying to sabotage the company and distract the public from what's actually going on.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The feature creep is a feature, not a bug. They want to be in a perpetual state of early access. They realize that it brings them more money than actually releasing the game and everybody being disappointed.

Just think of the hype of Cyperpunk 2077 before launch and after launch. Before launch, people would be willing to sacrifice their first-born child to play the game. After launch, the hype completely evaporated into scorn.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

So cursed...

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends on the context. We're talking about an image editor, so showing a demo of the features in video form is helpful.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Piracy is a service problem.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm sure that line of thinking will go over great when you stay home during Election Day and Trump magically gets elected.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Pocketpair also doesn’t know yet either.

They have the full wording of the lawsuit. I'm sure they know.

You can't just sue somebody on "trust me, bro".

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Was this purely by prompt, or using img2img in Stable Diffusion?

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like you’re mixing up some companies, these sentences make no sense in the context of Embracer. Are you talking about Bethesda?

No. Microsoft.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Microsoft has no such excuse. MS leadership has been asked multiple times why they did it, and they literally haven’t said a single fucking word that makes sense.

I feel like you're defending the wrong thing here. Wondering why MS shudder the studio is like asking a snake why it attacks its prey. It's a fucking snake. That's what it does. That's always what it does.

Embracer screwed up and let itself be absorbed into the Microsoft empire. They have their IP. They care about nothing else.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Not even once.

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