If this carries on, we’ll have exploding semaphore flags by the end of the week.
If this carries on, we’ll have exploding semaphore flags by the end of the week.
Both?
I mean I’m no fan of Israel, but Hezbollah ain’t exactly the Red Cross.
I could never get on with the weird shaped triggers.
Quite a few years ago now I went to my nan’s house for Christmas.
My cousin, I think he was about 13, had got a £50 Steam voucher for some games. Him and my other cousin who was a couple of year older went to Steam, swapped the voucher for something, and then took that to a gambling site. I don’t know if they’re still a thing. It was something to do with Counter Strike drops I think. Heavily advertised by YouTubers who ran them, with a bunch of videos showing them winning. The sort of thing they’d be sent to prison for in any right thinking society.
They took that £50, put it in, and clicked. The younger one went “what now?” and the older one just went “oh, nothing. It’s gone.” A couple of games worth of money, gone. For nothing.
He looked like he was about to cry, and only didn’t because he was going through that acting tough phase.
He’s an accountant now, and plays crown green bowling. I like to think that was a relatively cheap lesson in why not to fuck around with gambling.
The problem is that everybody sitting around that table thinks they’re skilled enough.
I stopped playing WoW because it didn’t value my time. There is a limit to how much you can spend on WoW. Sure, you can buy gold, but it honestly won’t help you that much. The upgrades come from the weekly content, mostly.
And then there’s the mobile stuff where whales rule the day.
It was made for British TV in the late 80s maybe.
It wasn’t going to be done on 35mm with movie making kit. What you see there is probably the best it’s going to be.
Will they collect data on you to profile you and your activities and use that in the future? Yes.
And that’s why the only thing I use my VPN for is piracy. Don’t really have a good reason to push anything else through it.
In fairness I doubt the NSA give a single solitary fuck about piracy and aren’t about to give themselves up over a telesync rip of Beetlejuice 2.
But probably best to plan 9/11 part 2 over something a bit more secure.
Looking at the domain name, they’re in Mali. Things must be cheap out there.
The PS5 controller is pretty sweet.
But the PS1 Dualshock is the original version of that, and has influenced basically everything since. It’s the Ocarina of Time of controllers.
That second analogue stick fixed everything to do with cameras in early 3D games.
For VR it’s the Oculus Touch. Takes everything about the classic Dualshock design and adds hand tracking.
200 million sounds like a lot, but it’s like 2 weeks of PSPlus money.
For all this losing, they’re sure making a lot of money. Just not out of this game.
And that money ain’t gone yet, there’s for sure a pivot towards a F2P, MTX ridden version of the game to be relaunched.
The problem is that gamers say they don’t like that sort of thing, while the success of the likes of Fortnite indicates that there’s a lot of gamers out there saying nothing, but buying V-bucks like a motherfucker.
I can’t even name another apart from Overwatch.
Unless you’re counting each hero as “soldier with a slightly different machine gun”.
I think the people that have never heard of it far outweigh the people that have and decided to ignore it. They’re chasing “normal” people, not people like us who would likely have ignored it even if it was a free to play, micro transaction riddled mess.
And “FREE!” does appear to be a key factor in making this kind of game take off. They live or die by initial player interest and retention.
These things are expensive to make, it’s not just going in the bin. I’m just not sure where it belongs. It’s clearly Overwatch’s stunt double, and even that seems like it’s on the wane.
That’s presumably why it’s going offline and everyone getting refunds
Oof. Pivoting to free to play then, or at least a PSPlus relaunch.
Because they’d heard of them.
The power of the fediverse is nothing next to the power of the normieverse and a couple of billion dollars in advertising money.
Because they’ve used it as an excuse to whack an extra $10 to the price.
I think some backlash is to be expected.
Sir, this is Ubisoft.
In 6 months everyone will have forgotten all about this and be playing the next shitty Far Cry game and complaining how it’s an $80 unfinished mess.
Probably because nobody was using it.
307 users over the last month is barely worth keeping the server running when mastodon.social is getting 249 thousand.