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it's so adorable when people get mad at "this" capitalism or "current" capitalism or "crony" capitalism honey, it's just capitalism, and it's a system as natural, just, and permanent as the divine right of kings
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Harrow posted:Why wouldn't they just use Inquisition's engine? They already solved a bunch of Dragon Age-specific problems with that particular "branch" of Frostbite--why would you suddenly pivot to the much more broken Anthem one? What the hell? It was a management decision quote:From the beginning, Anthem’s senior leadership had made the decision to start from scratch for a large part of the game’s technology rather than using all of the systems the company had built for Inquisition and Andromeda. Part of this may have been a desire to stand out from those other teams, but another explanation was simple: Anthem was online. The other games were not.
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Apr 2, 2019 20:33
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pnumoman posted:I understand how someone would devote their entire business to chasing that lootbox dragon if all they cared about is money, but do they honestly not realize they're just peddling slot machines at this point? Does morality play any part in their decisions? There is no such thing as ethical gaming under capitalism
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Idealistic it may be, but I genuinely believe the future of capitalism is simply a shift from a short term view to a long term view. Corporations are slowly beginning to figure this out, extremely slowly and cynically, but they are starting to do so. And I'd rather be naive and idealistic than some jaded person who simply shrugs and goes lol capitalism.
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pnumoman posted:Idealistic it may be, but I genuinely believe the future of capitalism is simply a shift from a short term view to a long term view. Corporations are slowly beginning to figure this out, extremely slowly and cynically, but they are starting to do so. no they aren't
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Cowcaster posted:no they aren't okay
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pnumoman posted:Idealistic it may be, but I genuinely believe the future of capitalism is simply a shift from a short term view to a long term view. Corporations are slowly beginning to figure this out, extremely slowly and cynically, but they are starting to do so. It's quite literally been going the other direction.
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Apr 2, 2019 20:36
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Tei posted:It was a management decision No, I'm talking about for the next Dragon Age. The article mentions that they're going to use the Anthem codebase for Dragon Age 4--I'm wondering why they would do that instead of using the Inquisition one for that case.
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Apr 2, 2019 20:36
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Harrow posted:No, I'm talking about for the next Dragon Age. The article mentions that they're going to use the Anthem codebase for Dragon Age 4--I'm wondering why they would do that instead of using the Inquisition one for that case. maybe you can fly on a griffin or something
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Apr 2, 2019 20:37
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Harrow posted:No, I'm talking about for the next Dragon Age. The article mentions that they're going to use the Anthem codebase for Dragon Age 4--I'm wondering why they would do that instead of using the Inquisition one for that case. So they can impress the next exec with cool graphics.
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Apr 2, 2019 20:39
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There's no way that Dragon Age 4 comes out
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Apr 2, 2019 20:39
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Anthem dragon age mashup game
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Apr 2, 2019 20:40
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Harrow posted:No, I'm talking about for the next Dragon Age. The article mentions that they're going to use the Anthem codebase for Dragon Age 4--I'm wondering why they would do that instead of using the Inquisition one for that case. because if DA4 actually happens, it will be an online-enabled game more in the vein of Anthem so it makes more sense to use the platform of the game that does always-online rather than brute forcing that into the Inquisition platform
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Apr 2, 2019 20:40
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Asema posted:There's no way that Dragon Age 4 comes out Kill Bioware to free the employees of their shackles so that they might move on to better jobs.
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Apr 2, 2019 20:41
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Zedsdeadbaby posted:get ready for a spike in lame memes, positive-titled screenshots and astroturfing attempts on the anthem reddit!!! Take your pick quote:In this moment I’m posting as a player and member of this community, not as a Mod of this subreddit. quote:Oh, man. I feel for the developers who worked so hard on Anthem, I really do. quote:That's the best game under 18 months i've ever played !! The whole article just gave me hope and motivation to play and wait for fixes and patches. Go team ! quote:Absolutely. It's clear to me the developers did everything they could to make Anthem amazing. A lot of the issues the game has had and currently has are due to the devs being rushed, having to work with a difficult engine, and having to restart too close to launch.
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Getting functional flight would've been impressive in 2 years. Getting amazing, fun, dynamic flight is a marvel.
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Asema posted:There's no way that Dragon Age 4 comes out I feel there's a 35% chance DA4 gets made and it's Bioware's last shot before EA cans it, 25% chance DA4 is in development up 'till 2021 but gets cancelled and Bioware is shut down, and a 40% chance that EA just shuts down Bioware sometime in the next fiscal year.
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Apr 2, 2019 20:43
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Take your pick all disgusting but this one: quote:That's the best game under 18 months i've ever played !! The whole article just gave me hope and motivation to play and wait for fixes and patches. Go team ! should be a felony
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Apr 2, 2019 20:45
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:I feel there's a 35% chance DA4 gets made and it's Bioware's last shot before EA cans it, 25% chance DA4 is in development up 'till 2021 but gets cancelled and Bioware is shut down, and a 40% chance that EA just shuts down Bioware sometime in the next fiscal year. I can't make heads or tails of these probabilities, someone give me the Bioware Needle.
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Legs Benedict posted:because if DA4 actually happens, it will be an online-enabled game more in the vein of Anthem so it makes more sense to use the platform of the game that does always-online rather than brute forcing that into the Inquisition platform It will be a FIFA/DA crossover, forcing you to spend a fortune on loot boxes to get Wizard-Ronaldo.
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Hammerstein posted:It will be a FIFA/DA crossover, forcing you to spend a fortune on loot boxes to get Wizard-Ronaldo. wizaldo?
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Pattonesque posted:maybe you can fly on a griffin or something After 10 seconds, your griffin's lactic acid meter fills up and you both plummet to the ground. You'll then need to water and rest your legendary companion, before taking off to the skies once again. But not too high - if you try to fly above a certain height, your griffin will be afflicted with vertigo and you'll gradually lose height until you decrease altitude enough to re-acclimate your noble steed.
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Apr 2, 2019 20:58
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Skull Knight posted:After 10 seconds, your griffin's lactic acid meter fills up and you both plummet to the ground. You'll then need to water and rest your legendary companion, before taking off to the skies once again. But not too high - if you try to fly above a certain height, your griffin will be afflicted with vertigo and you'll gradually lose height until you decrease altitude enough to re-acclimate your noble steed. gently caress make sure to stay in your Griffin, the Magic Radiation of this area is too high, pathfinder
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Just finished reading that article. Yeesh, it was basically thisisfine.png, guest starring “Frostbite is a Piece of poo poo Pt. 3”
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fun fact about that article: it accurately summarized everything wrong with game development. every EA studio is like this. Every studio i got to work in is rife with mental illness, depression, and anxiety. but if youre a manager youre fine because you get paid 5x more for no reason
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Siljmonster posted:fun fact about that article: it accurately summarized everything wrong with game development. every EA studio is like this. Every studio i got to work in is rife with mental illness, depression, and anxiety. but if youre a manager youre fine because you get paid 5x more for no reason  How do you fix this? There must be some that are decent / aren't riddled with this much toxicity.
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Apr 2, 2019 21:19
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Skull Knight posted:
Unionize.
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Skull Knight posted:
Unionize. Fire the bosses. Build actual structure to your development process and build something that doesnt need to impress a loving executive in another office in another part of the world. The people making video games are all either extremely overworked and mentally ill because of it, or never do any actual work and thus cause the former to go nuts.
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pnumoman posted:Idealistic it may be, but I genuinely believe the future of capitalism is simply a shift from a short term view to a long term view. Corporations are slowly beginning to figure this out, extremely slowly and cynically, but they are starting to do so. uh companies aren't figuring this out at all. The new CFO at Activision got a $15 million dollar paycheck at the low low cost of 800 plebian jobs. Do you think he's learned that he should be a more compassionate businessman? EA makes $gently caress you every quarter because of a deliberately predatory business model in a single franchise. They clearly haven't learned that's wrong. A former US presidential candidate and current senator literally made a new fortune on top of the one he inherited by buying businesses, sucking them dry, and dropping their carcasses in the dust. The present and future of capitalism is a roaming executive class devouring consumers and cannibalizing companies all in pursuit of an extra 1% growth on their bank accounts every fiscal year.
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:Take your pick lmao, look at all this employee abuse. let's spend money on the game to encourage that!!!
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gamers are killing game developers and its hilarious
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Skull Knight posted:
You don't. Don't work in any industry that 20 year olds are willing to grind themselves to dust at in order to "make it". Dont participate or follow the constant hype of the mega studios next thing. Pray for a videogame crash
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:
I'm sure everyone on the dev team is super happy that some random redditor is proud of what they accomplished.
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Apr 2, 2019 21:31
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Skull Knight posted:
Play Dead Cells or Night in the Woods and think hard about whether you want to support anything you see at a big E3 or GDC presentation. Big games are in a real rough place from a "is this produced in any sort of reasonable way" standpoint.
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Skull Knight posted:
Kill the bosses and claim collective ownership over the computers
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Siljmonster posted:Unionize. Fire the bosses. Build actual structure to your development process and build something that doesnt need to impress a loving executive in another office in another part of the world. Just curious - are there any active studios that either are unionized or were able to successfully unionize and actively developing new games?
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Asema posted:There's no way that Dragon Age 4 comes out I'm starting to think it actually might. It will be the product of a 10-12 month poorly directed crunch, be barebones & buggy as hell and be the shovel of dirt on the Bioware coffin as EA kicks it into a shallow grave. I look forward to the "Why Dragon Age 4 failed so badly Bioware closed down" articles & YouTube videos.
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Ben Kuchera tries to convince BioWare that the press is not their enemy: https://www.polygon.com/2019/4/2/18292304/bioware-press-response-anthem
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DancingShade posted:I'm starting to think it actually might. It will be the product of a 10-12 month poorly directed crunch, be barebones & buggy as hell and be the shovel of dirt on the Bioware coffin as EA kicks it into a shallow grave. Dragon Age 4 will definitely be an MMO, but the new kind of MMO that swaps tedious grinding, stupid attunement systems and hundreds of players in the same area with tedious grinding, microtransactions and 2 - 6 players in the same area. So, Inquisition but this time Sera's awkward lines are deafened by a 13-year-old from the other side of the world spouting memes at you, a slight improvement
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