• mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    The three people were replaced with a guy who used to work at EA. And one of their first announcements was an unprompted “we wont put loot boxes in the game”…

      • Kyden Fumofly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Although Kerbal space program 2 had major issues from the dev team, only for the publisher to pull the plug because of how bad the progress was, and leave the game in permanent early access.

        • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          5·
          6 months ago

          Uh, its more like a new publisher bought the IP, functionally fired almost all of the original dev team, and then hired a bunch of other people who had no idea how their insanely modified version of Unity worked…

          And then the idiot in charge just started spamming out extremely grand and difficult to implement new core functionalities… with a team of mostly newbies who had no idea how anything worked.

          So, basically, they started out where KSP started out… and would very obviously thus need years and years and years to get it out of Early Access / Alpha state… but it needed to make money NOW, and it didn’t, so everyone got laid off (other than the idiot in charge), and the game was functionally abandoned, but not totally abandoned, because MY IP MINE NO YOU CANT HAVE IT!!!

          Or… maybe not? With regard to the IP rights?

          Nobody seems to know who actually owns the KSP IP at this point.

          https://techdriveplay.com/2025/01/03/kerbal-space-program-2-a-tale-of-corporate-neglect-and-failure/

          • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

            I never understood the fixation on IPs. For a kick ass universe with amazing lore etc, ok sure.

            I mean I love Jeb and the gang as much as the next guy, but they’re not core to my enjoyment of KSP1. The mechanics were.

            • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              lol, RIP Jebs 1 - 48395.

              But uh yeah, the… the lore is basically:

              We made some cute little dudes and dudettes that are… possibly animated, sapient fungi? Or something?

              Anyway they are sm0l and live in sm0l solar system.

              And they have a space program.

              And most of the characters are just obvious cutesy knock offs of famous humans in spaceflight.

              Woo!

              lol

          • EldritchFemininity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            One of the original goals for KSP2 was the use of a new engine to get rid of the technical debt from the first game that caused issues like the Kraken…but then the publisher forced them to use the KSP engine because “it would speed up development.”

            It was doomed from the beginning.

          • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            It was even worse than that.

            They were basically given the KSP1 codebase and told to rewrite it to be better. However, KSP1 was still being developed, and they didn’t want to demotivate the KSP1 team. Therefore they were banned from even telling them it existed, let alone ask for help or advice with the existing codebase.

    • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      It’s a canon event for any game company that achieves moderate success gets acquired by investors

      Very much not exclusive to the game industry

        • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Coffee Stain’s another good example on the bigger end.

          It does seem like there’s a danger zone behind a certain size threshold. It makes me worry for Warhorse (the KCD2 dev), which plans to expand beyond 250.

  • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    6 months ago

    Pop it in your calendars? Maybe I’m using calendars wrong, but mine aren’t filled with things I should avoid doing. But, I’m willing to learn. What date should I put “Don’t Buy Subnautica 2” on?

    • Dioxid3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      It’s Krafton. Just look at what became of PUBG. I mean it’s an OK game and a lot of QoL came to it after all these years, but there hasn’t been any major meta shift in 5 years or so. Only recently they’ve started looking into how broken certain semiauto snipers are.

      Instead you are drowned in lootboxes and emotes

  • Signtist@bookwyr.meEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    They did all this because they know that the vast majority of the playerbase will never hear about this, and many of those that do will either forget, or simply not care enough to boycott the game. We’re in an age of apathy across the board, with so much bad press that any given scandal just fades into the background noise.

        • Enkrod@feddit.orgEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Accurate but also not. PewDiePie came out in favour and PirateSoftware lied about it. But I think Thor lying created a huge burst of coverage about how he’s wrong and really created lots of noise about it.

  • dil@piefed.zipEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    Don’t use best coding practices, do not make readable code following good naming/formatting standards, have it only make sense for you in the moment and require weeks to debug even by you

  • Wolf@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I am also boycotting Microsoft and every product from companies owned by them.

    Sure, that doesn’t leave a lot of games I can buy, but hey, Indie games are often the best games. Also I have a backlog so huge there will probably be peace in the middle east before I’m through with it.

    Besides if there is a game I really want to play, I hear there arrrrr still ways to do so without supporting genocide.

    • kingpoiuy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Linux gaming is really hot right now. Out of my 575 games on steam I can play 568 of them.

      • Wolf@lemmy.todayEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        Ditched Windows permanently 11 months ago for Pop-OS and couldn’t be happier. I’ve been a big Linux fan for years, but would always dual boot for gaming purposes.

        I’m so glad that isn’t necessary any longer. Almost feels cheating, being Microsoft free with Zero downsides and plenty of benefits.

        You may already know, but a lot of times when a game isn’t listed as ‘playable’ it just means that particular game hasn’t been tested yet and will likely still work just fine*, unless it requires kernel level anti cheat ofc

        Just so happens I’m boycotting that as well. If I wanted you to do shady shit to my OS, I’d have stayed on Windows.

        Edit: *Check the games not listed as playable on protondb and see what that says. Since it’s a ‘crowdsourced’ platform, it’s often more up to date than Valve is.

        • Derpgon@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Anything works really. Mint, Gentoo, Fedora, Arch all work - usually just need to install Steam and done, possibly install drivers using your package manager if it doesn’t come pre-installed. Hell, you can even do SteamOS or something like Bazzite or Nobara if i remember correctly.

          • Typhoonigator@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            I installed Mint recently but a lot of my games don’t show as playable. I’m not as tech-savvy as I was 20 years ago, so I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong. Any advice?

            • Wolf@lemmy.todayEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              A lot of times when a game isn’t listed as ‘playable’ on Steam, it simply means that particular game hasn’t been tested yet, and will probably still work just fine if you actually try and run it. The only real exceptions to that is games that require ‘kernel level anticheat’.

              Edit: Check those games out on protondb and see what that says. Since it’s a ‘crowdsourced’ platform, it’s often more up to date than Valve is.

                • Wolf@lemmy.todayEnglish
                  1·
                  6 months ago

                  Not a problem at all. If you do end up having difficulties you might try a different distro, I’ve heard a few people complaining about Mint lately. In theory though it should work just fine.

                  In my personal experience every game I’ve tried to play works just as well or better than it does on Windows. Cyberpunk 2077, The Witcher 3, Prey, Red Dead Redemption 2, The Outer Worlds, No Mans Sky, Pathfinder Kingmaker, Pillars of Eternity 1 & 2, Divinity Original Sin 2, Skyrim SE, Fallout 4 & 76 etc. Even older games like Baldur’s Gate and the Original Fallout work great* :)

                  Edit: *The GOG versions, which I use the Heroic Games Launcher to play.

  • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I remember Flayra from Natural Selection, a half-life mod twenty years ago. I remember him making appeals for investors/donations to keep Unknown Worlds afloat (or maybe just launch it as a company. I recall a video he posted where he showed us his tiny apartment and the milk in his fridge.)

    Then Subnautica came out years later and I thought ‘Well I’ll be damned.’

  • TheBeege@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    Just gonna copy paste my comment on a related post…

    Similar shit happened when they were PUBG Corporation. Fuck these lying assholes. Player Unknown was a smart, capable dude, and they exiled him to a remote office because he got pissed at the CEO for over-monetizing things in a way that cost them players.

    When they released the battle pass while the game was retail, all of the non-Korean employees nearly revolted. It wasn’t smart, and it was a money grab on the players. When the team lead of market research told the product manager that the feature was a bad idea and would lose them all their Western players, the product manager got him demoted and moved to another team.

    When the numbers didn’t look good, the data analysts were freaking out because they couldn’t deliver bad news up the chain of command, even if it was accurate.

    When they acquired Mad Glory, they promised that the dev team would still be contracted to other game companies to build APIs and tools for them, keeping the game industry tooling ecosystem healthy (think op.gg). When PUBG Corporation acquired them, the company canceled their contract with Bethesda for the API they were in the middle of building and forbade them from working with other companies.

    Fuck Bluehole. Fuck PUBG Corporation. Fuck Krafton. Fuck game studios in Korea. Don’t play Korean games. Kpop and cosmetics and whatever are chill. Don’t play Korean games. Korean game companies are fucking cancer.

    Don’t buy Subnautica 2. The Subnautica franchise died when Krafton became the publisher.

    • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Kpop is extremely exploitative to the artists, much worse than game development.

      We’re talking physical and sexual abuse levels here.

      Not chill at all.

    • wellheh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Probably would not add kpop to the list of chill. That industry is rife with abuse like slave contracts.

    • L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Friendly reminder that Korea invented and perfected micro-transactions. MapleStory has done more damage to both worldwide gaming and Korean game devs than anything else could ever hope to.

  • Vintor@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    More importantly in the short run, remove it from your wishlists so that Krafton can see your choice! At the moment, they are super proud of the game being the most wishlisted on Steam.

    • abigscaryhobo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      It sucks that this is going around too. Because no matter what the “right” choice is the devs are still gonna have to see what should have just been their fun project get thrown around in gaming politic hell