Friendship

Agreed, I’d much rather have no Blizzard than the toxic swamp that it was/is(?). I do wish we could have a Blizzard that designed games more like they used to, but minus the toxic culture though, which is what I’m guessing the above comment was meaning as well.

Best: Baldur’s Gate 3, Star Citizen, Hunt Showdown
Worst: Starfield, Star Citizen

To jump in on Hunt Showdown, the initial learning curve of the game does require a little time to get used to compared to other shooters. However the biggest call out I would have is to not try playing the game solo. Hunt is very much a game that is made or broken by the company you keep while you play it and it takes a very special kind of player (a masochist) to enjoy playing it solo. Either way, definitely understandable to bounce off it, it’s a great game but not for everyone.

One can only hope. That policy has left Valve spinning in circles and accomplishing very little for a long time now.

As with the several times they tried this before, this is a train wreck of an idea for so many reasons. While I do love the idea of mod creators getting to make money doing what they enjoy, from the consumer perspective this is bound to be awful… I don’t want to have to get nickel-and-dimed by what are essentially third party micro-transactions… with no grantee that the product I just bought will even work with the others I bought or that they will continue to be supported if the game gets patched a year later. Not to mention virtually zero quality control, leaving users to trust in reviews, AKA other customers who put their money on the line.

And from the mod development side of things, this is going to make building off other mods a complete mess. Think of how many mods you have installed that have had other mods as requirements to work. Are those mods going to need to be bought by the user too? And are the mod creators going to have to set up some kind of revenue sharing with those dependency mods? What happens if a mod developer uses a free mod as a dependency, is that fair to the other mod creator? Do moders have the rights to request their content not be used by other mods? And if so what does that process look like and who arbitrates it? Having seen this tried before, it makes a mess and long term it will stifle collaboration leading to weaker mods.

Star Citizen. It’s a buggy mess as usual but it’s such a fun mess. Especially the Siege of Orison event going on right now, I’ve had some really amazing emergent gameplay moments come from it that have me very excited for the future of this game.

Saw this while I was in a meeting, working from home is great!

Unfortunately they’re likely well equipped to deal with that kind of situation as it’s not all that different than normal wiki vandalism.

The difference is having skin in the game. The problems with reddit didn’t really effect a lot of the users directly and definitely didn’t threaten most of their livelihoods (aside from a small number of app developers). Unity on the other hand is a tool people use to make a living and when it threatens that I imagine it will result in much more hesitancy to continue using it.

For new projects it’s absolutely a terrible idea to use Unity. The old versions not being subject to the new licensing is great news for existing projects that wouldn’t have been able to switch engines though.

Camels are pretty dang well designed creatures so I’d say the committee did pretty great there. And the alternative is being at the whims of a single person or a small group none of whom have any incentive to care about anything other than the enrichment of their own personal finances. It’s a literal autocracy.

Governance structures where the workers own and have a say in the means of production are bound to have their own issues to be sure, but it beats out the current model.

The issue really shouldn’t be about the porn aspect of it, it’s the fact that voice actors are basically having their likeness used without their consent, which for an average person is creepy and not cool but for them that likeness is also their means of income. AI is an awesome tool, but using it to mimic specific people without their consent is not okay.

That stops being valid when they start distributing said mods to other people though. That’s just stealing the likeness from people who rely on said likenesses for their income which is pretty scummy and not okay. I don’t know what the right way to approach this is, but replicating voice actor’s voices without their consent isn’t it.