Doc Blaze

cut those people out of your lives forever!

sorry mom and dad, kick the iPads or I’m not answering the phone anymore

Well it does seem a little hypocritical, no? I don’t hate any tech company, I’m heavily skeptical of them having our best interest, but I see value where value exists, if there’s a way to extract it/partition it from the company that makes it. Whatsapp for example, is still a decent app even though Facebook is awful. I even begrudgingly use Meta VR for stuff I can’t find on steam.

Exactly, and I don’t think Google really gives a shit what you do anyway, they just want to shelp your data to their ad partners. But any free open source software or hardware has value independent of the company that creates it. Degoogled chromium, FOSSized android rom Pixels, YouTube in browser with ublock, it’s not hard to remove Google/Microsoft etc from the equation and get a useful product if there’s one there.

many of you hate Google yet I’m willing to bet most of you flashed a custom or foss android rom like lineageos to your devices.

I’m not just taking about epic, there were layoffs in basically every gaming company that exists the past few months

see this for more: https://lemmy.myserv.one/post/2907340

unity, naughty dog, Ubisoft, EA, Amazon games (twitch) and much more.

bit of a strawmans argument you’re refuting here.

unnecessary

I hate to have to justify layoffs but it’s at least true that lots of studios are unexpectedly (from a couple years ago) hemorrhaging cash right now. anytime inflation is so high for so long, discretionary spending on entertainment is near the first to get cut from consumers budgets. people aren’t sitting at home like we were in 2021 only buying digital entertainment anymore.

The CEO is the founder and majority shareholder and epic is privately funded so probably not gonna happen

Evidently, all of Epic Games’ business had been “heavily funded by Fortnite” in the last six years, and different parts of the company became “disconnected” from their revenue streams.

Wait, so youre really telling me me Epic giving away a ton of free games on EGS every single month and free unreal engine marketplace assets to devs as well as regular epic megagrants was never a financially sustainable move?

Psssh. In other news, salt is salty. 🤭

I honestly believe Tim is not going to f–k this one up though, as a former one he clearly cares about the game dev community and as majority shareholder he isn’t needing to be driven by profits as much as publicly traded Unity head John Riccatello is.

Plus, fortnite is still a goddamn cash printer, just not printing as fast as they expected.

I could hear that gabeN is running an underground fight klub in his basement and my opinion of him wouldn’t change. the man is a national treasure and the savior of my childhood. godspeed, Gabe! 🏎️

starbreeze: payday 3 sucks donkey balls and nobody’s playing it.

naughty dog: okay, but we’re actually having to lay off people now.

epic games: sure, but so are we AND we’re also selling Bandcamp.

unity: whatever amateurs, I’m the one having the worst Q4 2023!

Ubisoft: snickers oh yeah? hold both my beers AND my shot glass.

seriously, you’d think with the holiday season coming up studios would be crunching to get their games ready in time, but since unity shit the bed and epic took their lead it’s been nothing but bad news in the AA and AAA space

ahem attention Walmart shoppers. PSA.

Do NOT. ever. EVER. use the snap store.

EVER.

Other responsible distros like mint have gone as far as disallowing it for good reason.

Alright now, have a good day, kiddies.

sidenote, it’s pretty telling to the state of games that GTA V and RDR2 is still there. id love to see these listed by release year.

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oh okay, thanks.

I feel like any seasoned Linux user knows to not EVER use the snap store. I’d rather use universal Windows platform apps, to be honest.

respectfully, what is this? it’s just a subject. what discussion are you having about NPCs? are they good, bad, unnecessary bloat? improving with the pace of AI? the best 10 NPCs of all time? NPCs based on real characters? I don’t really want to risk a click until I know what I’m fully getting myself into.

He might willingly sell shares to them

this is what I meant. unlikely but fortnite won’t be a cash cow forever.