alessandro

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"The gaming industry is rough at the moment, we all know it. But seeing how "gamers" react on social medias, wishing ill-fate to companies and people alike is sad. (And not only towards Ubisoft. Even though it is always the vocal minority that express themselves on social media, I was hurt, hurt and ashamed to be part of this community." "What is even more revolting, is coming on LinkedIn and seeing the same comments from people within the industry. On top of exposing yourself as a clearly non-decent human being, you are affecting thousands of employees that are already impacted by all the hate despite doing their best to deliver incredible experiences." "How can you wish a company to fail simply because they do not cater to you or that the produce does not please you is beyond me." "We are all on the same boat, please please please, stop spreading hate, we should all uplift each other instead of bringing each other down,"

Stevy Chassard - Ubisoft's Monetization Director.

Laments you won't buy because he does not make games that "cater to you or please you." Simultaneously trying to cancel fellow devs and silence them for being "non-decent human being(s)" if they disagree, while gaslighting and blaming gamers for hate. Bro, @Ubisoft and Ubi defenders were the ones calling us (and even Elon Musk) racist bigots for not liking your games. You started this hate. Also, catering to gamers and pleasing them is literally your job.

Mark Kern, Former Team Lead for OG World of Warcraft. Producer

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca -3 points 1 day ago

People generally loving, generally hating.

Valve is not that good if you take your time to realize few things more, Valve is not that bad if you take time to realize few things more.

For example, you can't say that Ubisoft can be that bad if you take a look at the industrial grade artistic output (allow you travel and interact with artistically astonishing worlds).

But when you check side as business entity, you can see everything is set up to please share holders and people that don't even know "what's a minecraft?".

Valve knows how, when and why they mess with their customers. Ubisoft is just clueless about their gamer-customers because they known only theirs shareholders-customers.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago

'keep fighting on until there's an ultimate victory'*

  • (asterisk). "their ultimate victory"... the day Apple and Google gives the little shit they want for themselves, Epic return to be a good servant: exactly as they are for both Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo today. We get the stuff we want, then screw everybody else.

You didn't see Tim Sweeney that much active in the campaign for StopKillingGames: let's make sure only publishers, and the publisher we're happy with, to have political weight.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago

To people talking about "sinking ship". I don't think that's it.

This is regular "I bought the IPs and customers perception of your history, not the actual human value of actual creators" from Microsoft.

Microsoft need the "CoD concepts" that force their platform (whatever Xbox/Windows may be) in the industry; anything else, doesn't matter.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The "Valve good guy" points are noto just with customers, they also don't mess with publishers, otherwise you wouldn't see this much AAA publishers get in business with Valve so easily.

Epic gives literally money for free to publishers, but due to lack of "good guy points" (after all they bribe publishers: publishers are happy to get bribe money, but once you fail their demand... they shit all over you: see Randy Pitchfork's latest comments on Epic) publishers are quick to forget them (despite much more convenient cut share).

TL;DR: if Valve annoy publishers, publishers take away the "Valve good guy" point.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Sony exclusive marketing black hole,

Epic exclusive marketing black hole...

SQ: "uhm... I wonder why Final Fantasy IP isn't memorable anymore".

Maybe a reality check around the fixed PlayStation platform being third place below to PC (Steam, not Epic) and Mobile?

There are other publisher that stick with Sony this much? 'Cus Capcom isn't, and their IP aren't just great... people actually pressure for more forgotten IP from them! (Dino Crisis, MegaMan etc.)

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

I see this game mentioned repeatedly over the meme-brink, but it's that relevant in the PC scope? Because I am beginning to think only people who had already played on PS4 care about it: it looks like the "I use Arch, btw" meme (a random guy repeated that make clear they use a product/thing... which nobody ask them about).

Bloodborne sold ~7million copies in the span of ~7 years ( ref ), for comparison a game like Sekiro (while not forgotten, you don't see random people jumping out and say "I played/want Sekiro btw") sold 10 million in ~4 years ( ref )

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Japanese developers may have a still lag towards the new generation of Japanese gamers (which are almost strictly on Mobile with PC gaming arising).

I wonder what's his stance towards fan made Doujinshi; yeah, I mean "those" Doujinshi.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 51 points 2 weeks ago

Can’t or won’t?

"money"

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago

I think this is more to have a look at a generational shift; Adults and elders may be still more familiar with movie stars, movie streaming services, Saturday cartoons, or things like those "Disney adults" I eared speak recently about, new generations just don't seems to feel it anymore: all those paradigm may go into the background such as a play and opera.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

People tend to forget that DLSS use physical, hardware taking, space on the material board. This mean that if you don't use DLSS, a portion of the GPU you paid for is unused.

Whenever you use, or not use, FSR... you can always reach the theoretical 100% of your GPU.

[–] alessandro@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

It depended on who use that word: your average CEO ala Elon Musk or TikTok's short... totally pointless crap to catch people interest.

Nvidia, Intel, AMD? That's a bit of different story, isn't?

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