|
qirex posted:lol crackdown 3, microsoft's big banner holder for azure gaming services for the cloud, is boring garbage, coming five years late it's somehow boring and buggy plus the cloud part hasn't even been released yet because they can't get it to work. they have basically no upcoming exclusives this year except for the annual forza and a vague promise of some halo game that will probably get pushed to the xbox zero or whatever the next one is called. I do feel a little bad for terry crews, he seems like a good dude they're even skipping Forza this year
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 19:14
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 4, 2024 21:09 |
|
|
pseudorandom name posted:every once in a while giant bomb mentions how they get pushback from game developers for their five point scale because it skews the metacritic average and how they have to explain to the devs that it isn't their problem that everybody else rates games the wrong way and that metacritic is trash good it's nice to see they have enough clout to be able to tell companies to go gently caress themselves considering that giantbomb was created after the head guy was fired from gamespot for giving a medicore review to a game that paid for every pixel of the site to be covered in it's advertising
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 19:15
|
|
|
qirex posted:fun fact: publishers link studios bonus structure to metacritic, there was a story a few years back that nobody in a whole company got a performance bonus on a game because it got an 89 instead of 90 yeah, this is precisely the issue -- a giant bomb "perfect" five star score is 100%, an giant bomb "great" four star score is 80% The_Franz posted:it's nice to see they have enough clout to be able to tell companies to go gently caress themselves considering that giantbomb was created after the head guy was fired from gamespot for giving a medicore review to a game that paid for every pixel of the site to be covered in it's advertising the funny thing is that he didn't get fired for that (Kane & Lynch), he got fired because Sony complained about him giving Ratchet & Clank Future a low score
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 19:31
|
|
|
https://twitter.com/jeffgerstmann/status/1096119055243653120
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 20:01
|
|
|
qirex posted:fun fact: publishers link studios bonus structure to metacritic, there was a story a few years back that nobody in a whole company got a performance bonus on a game because it got an 89 instead of 90 that's gotta be a scam to get out of paying bonuses. why the christ would a game studio's bonus be tied to game critic reviews instead of actual loving sales?
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 21:54
|
|
|
Farmer Crack-rear end posted:that's gotta be a scam to get out of paying bonuses. why the christ would a game studio's bonus be tied to game critic reviews instead of actual loving sales? presumably there are different tiers of bonuses with different conditions and for different departments.
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 21:57
|
|
|
qirex posted:fun fact: publishers link studios bonus structure to metacritic, there was a story a few years back that nobody in a whole company got a performance bonus on a game because it got an 89 instead of 90 that's a much better system than paying out bonuses for lovely games that sell well qirex posted:it's basically the enterprise version of those receipt surveys where if you don't rate the person who sold you a pair of sneakers a 5 they get in trouble when going through Chinese immigration and customs, the counters are all equipped with electronic "how did I do" devices where you push a button to rate their service from big happy face to big frown. one time I went and the happy faces were upside down and that really threw me.
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 22:20
|
|
|
PleasureKevin posted:when going through Chinese immigration and customs, the counters are all equipped with electronic "how did I do" devices where you push a button to rate their service from big happy face to big frown. one time I went and the happy faces were upside down and that really threw me.
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 22:21
|
|
|
Endless Mike posted:i've been seeing this in fast food joints and stores here are you in china or somewhere else
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 22:24
|
|
|
is microsoft going to be the sole e3 presenter this year since sony, like nintendo before them, realized that a live e3 presentation is a huge waste of money in the era of streaming video?
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 22:30
|
|
|
Farmer Crack-rear end posted:that's gotta be a scam to get out of paying bonuses. why the christ would a game studio's bonus be tied to game critic reviews instead of actual loving sales? This was from Bethesda's contract with Obsidian for Fallout: New Vegas. I think the required Metacritic score was 85. The_Franz posted:is microsoft going to be the sole e3 presenter this year since sony, like nintendo before them, realized that a live e3 presentation is a huge waste of money in the era of streaming video? Obviously, the best time to announce something is when all your competitors are doing it at the same time.
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 22:34
|
|
|
PleasureKevin posted:are you in china or somewhere else united states of freedom
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 22:45
|
|
|
qirex posted:fun fact: publishers link studios bonus structure to metacritic, there was a story a few years back that nobody in a whole company got a performance bonus on a game because it got an 89 instead of 90 New Vegas got a lower than expected score because Bethesda forced Obsidian to use a poo poo engine, which lost them out on a bonus and nearly killed the company. This is why Obsidian doesn't do licenses anymore (and which I largely see as a net good)
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 23:32
|
|
|
Farmer Crack-rear end posted:that's gotta be a scam to get out of paying bonuses. why the christ would a game studio's bonus be tied to game critic reviews instead of actual loving sales? Discounted sales/steam sales/key resellers can muddy the issue for linking performance to sales. Even "first week sales" could potentially be really good and still not make much money. I mean this argument is full of holes but capital managers don't think rationally and are all loving idiots.
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 23:34
|
|
|
SRQ posted:New Vegas got a lower than expected score because Bethesda forced Obsidian to use a poo poo engine, which lost them out on a bonus and nearly killed the company. no conflict of interest there, especially when they're embarrassing the publisher on what should have been a lower quality title of the publisher's headline ip
|
|
#
?
Feb 14, 2019 23:48
|
|
|
Bethesda has yet to get over NV upstaging 3 and I swear they are trying to nuke the franchise on purpose over it. New Vegas is the perfection of the model and Beth wants to get as far from it as possible even if it kills it. Fallout 3 wasn't even that bad but I guess Todd Howard is a baby.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 01:28
|
|
|
SRQ posted:Bethesda has yet to get over NV upstaging 3 and I swear they are trying to nuke the franchise on purpose over it. FNV loving owns.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 01:45
|
|
|
qirex posted:lol crackdown 3, microsoft's big banner holder for azure gaming services for the cloud, is boring garbage, coming five years late it's somehow boring and buggy plus the cloud part hasn't even been released yet because they can't get it to work. they have basically no upcoming exclusives this year except for the annual forza and a vague promise of some halo game that will probably get pushed to the xbox zero or whatever the next one is called. I do feel a little bad for terry crews, he seems like a good dude I can't believe how long they held onto the "xbox is more powerful because of the power of the cloud" bullshit remember they were saying how for every single xbox there would be three dedicated cloud servers providing processing power for stuff like lighting? lmfao
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 01:45
|
|
|
SRQ posted:New Vegas got a lower than expected score because Bethesda forced Obsidian to use a poo poo engine, which lost them out on a bonus and nearly killed the company. nah, you can make good games with the Elder Scrolls engine, the problem is that Bethesda insisted on doing QA for Obsidian and just ... didn't there's rumors that Bethesda either deliberately or incompetently hosed up the final game assets after Obsidian turned them in for release, e.g. supposedly in the version of Honest Hearts that Obsidian gave to Bethesda, the character that gives you the starting quest is Essential (immortal) because he arrives on scene in the middle of a firefight and players would accidentally kill him and then immediately fail all the quests in that DLC and yet somehow in the version that Bethesda shipped to customers the Essential bit got turned off.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 01:56
|
|
|
Didn't the xbone basically not work last week when Live was down? Like you couldn't even play one player games or watch a DVD or anything? Also Microsoft absolutely is not making another console after this. No way.
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 06:57
|
|
|
microsoft is dumb enough that they might
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 07:11
|
|
|
xboxes have achieved some level of success, which is more than they can say about the zune or windows phone or basically anything else they’ve done outside of the PC space they’re not going to give it up
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 07:25
|
|
|
Is windows 10 good yet?
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 18:06
|
|
|
it's worse than ever op
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 18:07
|
|
|
windows 10 literally begs you to use edge on the login screen lol
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 18:07
|
|
|
pram posted:windows 10 literally begs you to use edge on the login screen lol windows 10: a shaggar included in every box!
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 18:15
|
|
|
pram posted:windows 10 literally begs you to use edge on the login screen lol wdg should really unfuck edge before suggesting that people use it
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 18:21
|
|
|
Fiedler posted:wdg should really unfuck edge before suggesting that people use it but why if it's just going to be chrome
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 18:23
|
|
|
why does microsoft want people to use edge? because it defaults to bing, which brings in billions of dollars in search revenue. why would people want to use edge instead of chrome? how do you feel about the biggest advertising company in the world having your browser history?
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 18:29
|
|
|
infernal machines posted:it's worse than ever op its so loving bad
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 18:32
|
|
|
go easy, folks. windows 10 is still in the testing phases, wait for the GM
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 18:34
|
|
|
graph posted:its so loving bad it's the new normal. why bother fixing anything? we'll just shove a new thing out later to replace it that will randomly drop and add features and have a whole different set of bugs, that will itself be intended for replacement by another new thing later on. learning from others' mistakes is just backward thinking. we need to always be moving forward. new is good. embrace change. namaste
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 18:43
|
|
|
graph posted:its so loving bad I’m the two sets of settings with different scope and styles included in windows 10
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 19:52
|
|
|
Boiled Water posted:I’m the two sets of settings with different scope and styles included in windows 10 i hate you
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 21:29
|
|
|
Last Chance posted:go easy, folks. windows 10 is still in the testing phases, wait for the GM the future, todaytm
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 22:31
|
|
|
beta tested in the future
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 22:32
|
|
|
tm is option-2 - ™
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 23:04
|
|
|
you mean code:
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 23:08
|
|
|
infernal machines posted:you mean no, i dont
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 23:11
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 4, 2024 21:09 |
|
|
graph posted:tm is option-2 - ™ sorry, on phone 
|
|
#
?
Feb 15, 2019 23:12
|
|