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Ghost Leviathan posted:They sold off Hitman ages back. This might be apocryphal, but at one point Nintendo wanted to bring to the west one of the DQ remakes (I think 7 for the 3DS? Might be 8) and The House Yoshi P. Keeps The Lights On In threatened to cancel a pile of games including the then-hotly-desired Bravely Default if Nintendo didn't shut their loving mouths right now. The way Square's treated DQ in the west is nothing short of malfeasance, especially considering that when the games do get a decent western release, they *gasp* do loving gangbusters. (The DQ7 remake did eventually come out in the west much later, toward the end of the 3DSes life)
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Neito posted:This might be apocryphal, but at one point Nintendo wanted to bring to the west one of the DQ remakes (I think 7 for the 3DS? Might be 8) and The House Yoshi P. Keeps The Lights On In threatened to cancel a pile of games including the then-hotly-desired Bravely Default if Nintendo didn't shut their loving mouths right now. The way Square's treated DQ in the west is nothing short of malfeasance, especially considering that when the games do get a decent western release, they *gasp* do loving gangbusters. I wouldn't be surprised, a lot of Japanese devs have really weird ideas about what supposedly appeals to the West still. Also that one Dragon Quest composer is a fascist and a nutjob who refuses to let people listen to any of the music without like, physically attending orchestra concerts in Japan. (Though Nintendo's not much better about this)
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I wouldn't be surprised, a lot of Japanese devs have really weird ideas about what supposedly appeals to the West still. Anecdotal, but from personal experience working with Japanese devs for many years, that's still very much the case. What has changed though is that they have broadly recognised and accepted that they don't get it, so they mostly stopped putting in effort to craft games in a way to appeal to that market. If anything, I would bet that this general direction is the true root cause behind selling those studios. As I mentioned earlier, companies going big on AI typically don't close up shop in Montreal, they quadruple their presence. Nowadays, they mostly just do their own thing and pick, as best they can, titles to export. Doesn't excuse the DQ strategy though. Despite everything, I maintain a healthy dose of respect for how Squeenix treats mainline FF as a franchise. It takes a lot of guts to choose your flagship series to be the one where you constantly try experimental, off-the-wall, stuff with grandiose ambitions. The end result is often a mess, but they are never phoned-in. Aramis fucked around with this message at 13:49 on May 3, 2022 |
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Yay! My first Quote != Edit...
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Solkanar512 posted:That one outing being that priest, right? Or a different case?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I wouldn't be surprised, a lot of Japanese devs have really weird ideas about what supposedly appeals to the West still. Also that one Dragon Quest composer is a fascist and a nutjob who refuses to let people listen to any of the music without like, physically attending orchestra concerts in Japan. (Though Nintendo's not much better about this) Sugiyama is dead now at least.
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funkymonks posted:Sugiyama is dead now at least. I thought he might be but my memory sucks. Figured there's some copyright bullshit going on. Aramis posted:Anecdotal, but from personal experience working with Japanese devs for many years, that's still very much the case. What has changed though is that they have broadly recognised and accepted that they don't get it, so they mostly stopped putting in effort to craft games in a way to appeal to that market. If anything, I would bet that this general direction is the true root cause behind selling those studios. As I mentioned earlier, companies going big on AI typically don't close up shop in Montreal, they quadruple their presence. Makes sense. I think they realised after a while, someone put it 'better to try to sell sushi than to compete with McDonald's for hamburgers' for something along those lines. Ironically the original release of FFXIV was very much phoned in iirc. But then again, it makes sense- you can get away with experimenting with your flagship series, because you have a built in fanatical audience who'll play it and give you feedback, and you can work with that.
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PhazonLink posted:^ Perhaps Games Workshop could make bank licensing spess mehren themed respirator helmets.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Ironically the original release of FFXIV was very much phoned in iirc. But then again, it makes sense- you can get away with experimenting with your flagship series, because you have a built in fanatical audience who'll play it and give you feedback, and you can work with that. That`s really unusual though. Most publishers are generally not willing to rock the boat with their cash cows. Part of it is lazyness (i.e. why put in effort if the sales are guaranteed), but a big part of it is risk aversion. EA simply cannot afford an unprofitable Fifa, Activision would be in big trouble if a CoD tanked, etc... Obviously, this is a problem that mostly affects publicly traded publishers. Aramis fucked around with this message at 16:37 on May 4, 2022 |
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Ironically the original release of FFXIV was very much phoned in iirc. But then again, it makes sense- you can get away with experimenting with your flagship series, because you have a built in fanatical audience who'll play it and give you feedback, and you can work with that. Oh no, it wasn't phoned it. It was ludicrously high effort awful lol. Massive workflow and priority problems, a complete misunderstanding of what people wanted in an mmo, and a New World-esque lack of competence with the sort of skeleton a modern MMO needed.
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fool of sound posted:Oh no, it wasn't phoned it. It was ludicrously high effort awful lol. Massive workflow and priority problems, a complete misunderstanding of what people wanted in an mmo, and a New World-esque lack of competence with the sort of skeleton a modern MMO needed. Fair enough. Ironically they already went through all this with FFXI and apparently learned nothing.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Fair enough. Ironically they already went through all this with FFXI and apparently learned nothing. So much time spent on that game. It was an awful mess of continuity. It was nigh unplayable without Alakazzam. It took years for people to figure out the main story line quests. The net code being completely based around PS2 sure didn't help. The translator though, that thing was glorious [Galka][sausage][Party!]
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/timmarchman/status/1521477790813597702?s=20&t=4FrBGO8aQaQbLTtdudu3lw So combined with the info that fertility/period tracker data is being sold to law enforcement, would it make sense for folks of any gender to download these apps and start inputting fake data?
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No, because there's a ton of other tracking poo poo that goes on under the hood. Going from a duckduckgo's anti tracker beta feature, apps ask for a ton of side/meta info The only winning move is to not have the app at all and maybe just have old fashion pen and paper. Also do some digital spring cleaning, delete things you havent used in a while, dont need, etc etc.
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Clarste posted:I mean, afaik they keep losing money on all these other games while supporting themselves with FFXIV, so it's just good business sense to cut off the unnecessary parts that are bleeding money? If you look at the history of Square, it's a history of making absolutely boneheaded decisions only to be saved from bankruptcy at the last minute by a world famous game pulled from their rear end. So this is totally normal for them.
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golden bubble posted:If you look at the history of Square, it's a history of making absolutely boneheaded decisions only to be saved from bankruptcy at the last minute by a world famous game pulled from their rear end. So this is totally normal for them. The Dodge-Chrysler of game developers
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/timmarchman/status/1521477790813597702?s=20&t=4FrBGO8aQaQbLTtdudu3lw One thing that might help would be to make it illegal for firms like SafeGraph to sell this kind of potential PII to anyone who wants it no questions asked. On the other hand, it seems like this kind of aggregate location data is necessary for the CDC to evaluate the effectiveness of lockdowns, no? It seems like the CDC should be collecting data directly.
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Yeah, it was kind of like that article awhile back where some guy was incredibly horrified at China's hellstate during early Covid. You see, you had to have an app on your phone and scan it when taking a cab or going into a store so that they could trace outbreaks. "Yeah, could you imagine?" I say, as Google asks me to review a store I walked inside a few days ago or my phone successfully guesses where I'm going and offers traffic alerts, or well, all the other stuff we talk about in this thread  .It reminded me of the news that you could just pull anyone's geolocation through a bounty hunter if you had $300. https://www.vice.com/en/article/nepxbz/i-gave-a-bounty-hunter-300-dollars-located-phone-microbilt-zumigo-tmobile
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Apparently Bill Gates has been shorting a half billion of Tesla stock and it made Elon livid.
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Why is Elon so bratty and dumb?quote:Elon Musk said that if his deal to buy Twitter closes he would “reverse the permanent ban” and let former President Donald J. Trump back onto the social network, undoing the social network’s decision after Mr. Trump’s tweets about the riots at the U.S. Capitol last year. 
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Lol if musk is faux buying Twitter to boost Tesla stock
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Lol if musk is faux buying Twitter to boost Tesla stock Last I saw it seemed to be having the opposite effect. Tesla stock is down 18% over the last month
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I’m okay with Twitter being “ruined” to the extent that all the reporters stop using it as an extension of their jobs. Unbanning Donny doesn’t really do that because they were still there when he was posting, but just make it a place nobody is willing to share anything in secret so the reporters don’t trust it as much as they used to, and that’s great. It’s like they never learned anything from the reveal/shutdown of JournoList, or it’s just been too long since then. WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Lol if musk is faux buying Twitter to boost Tesla stock He does that thing where he sells shares to pickup more shares and then pay taxes on the shares being sold, so It’s probably to have some incompetent business he likes whose losses cut his tax bill to zero. He’d rather see his money spent on shitposts than healthcare and education. Those ideas don’t stimulate the Overgrown Ten-Year-Old part of his brain like a platform where nuanced discussion is discouraged and people post wojak faces as an alternative to thoughtful communication. Craptacular! fucked around with this message at 21:53 on May 10, 2022 |
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Tarezax posted:Last I saw it seemed to be having the opposite effect. Tesla stock is down 18% over the last month Uh oh. I hope Elon makes out OK.
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Craptacular! posted:I’m okay with Twitter being “ruined” to the extent that all the reporters stop using it as an extension of their jobs. Unbanning Donny doesn’t really do that because they were still there when he was posting, but just make it a place nobody is willing to share anything in secret so the reporters don’t trust it as much as they used to, and that’s great. Journalism has already been irreparably destroyed, it's entirely the domain of catty failchildren now.
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quote:Elon Musk said that if his deal to buy Twitter closes he would “reverse the permanent ban” and let former President Donald J. Trump back onto the social network, undoing the social network’s decision after Mr. Trump’s tweets about the riots at the U.S. Capitol last year. This has got to score amongst some of the dumbest things I've seen in a long while. Everything about this is so very dumb, inconsistent, and transparently corrupted. It infuriates me to no end that this man maintains such widespread public support amongst  smart people.
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Aramis posted:This has got to score amongst some of the dumbest things I've seen in a long while. Everything about this is so very dumb, inconsistent, and transparently corrupted. It infuriates me to no end that this man maintains such widespread public support amongst *******Stomper1488 would like to thank musk for replatforming him after Somethingabduls cancel culture of 2004 got to him
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I'd absolutely take Twitter as a virtual public square that does not ban anyone, provided the algorithms that recommend certain content to certain people were entirely removed. I've quit using Twitter on a personal level and now only manage (very loosely) a few corporate accounts, and... the poo poo that gets recommended to you when you're basically inactive, is absolutely dire. Ideally we'd get rid of that and also assholes like Trump, but if I have to pick one or the other: let Trump shout his loving bullshit into the void, but don't allow him to [paid] promote himself and don't recommend any of his, or anyone else's, bullshit to anyone.
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Invalid Validation posted:Does Twitter even make money? Yes but not as much as it ostensibly should given its userbase.
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I pray that Musk destroys Twitter utterly but it's absolutely going to become way more popular once Trump is unbanned and thus shall remain the primary source of evidence that not a single member of the commentariat can be assumed to be anything but a stupid as poo poo talking head, because god knows none of them are going to be taking any bold stands
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"If." Musk just wants people to talk about him, he doesn't wany to actually expend money buying Twitter. The deal will never close.
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The Lone Badger posted:"If." Musk just wants people to talk about him, he doesn't wany to actually expend money buying Twitter. The deal will never close.
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The Lone Badger posted:"If." Musk just wants people to talk about him, he doesn't want to actually expend money buying Twitter. The deal will never close. Every fiber of my being wants to agree with this, but let's face it, that's normalcy bias at play. "The GOP won't actually nominate Trump" "Roe v. Wade is too useful as a political tool to actually repeal" "Trump won't resort to physical violence to overturn the election" "It's probable that <powerful hypocrite(s)> won't actually go through with <thing>" just doesn't hold much water in general.
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abelwingnut posted:i’d argue musk bringing trump back to twitter is about the best thing that could happen to the democrats’ chances in november so in an ends-justify-the-means way, i’m for this. yes, it would be insufferable, but that’s what we want if we want more dems in government. We've been through that exact same thing during the run-up to the 2016 election. Platforming and promoting Trump as the avatar of the GOP in an effort to scare "reasonable" voters away from the madness does not work. There is no way this could possibly be good for democrats. abelwingnut posted:it would also fit with musk’s consistent pattern of wanting x, attempting to get x, and coming up with 1/x. everything this guy wants and acts on solo hilariously backfires so i don’t see why this would differ. Oh, backfire this most likely will. But as usual, Musk will probably see no negative repercussions, at least as far as public perception goes. This is the man who managed to go through that submarine nonsense unscathed. The benefit of the doubt he gets is bonkers. Aramis fucked around with this message at 13:08 on May 12, 2022 |
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Cheesus posted:I think that uncertainty is just as damaging to the company so that is a good outcome as far as I'm concerned. Employees are already bailing right and left and morale at the company is at an all-time low. Even if Musk doesn’t buy Twitter, the damage will already have been done.
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