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Endorph posted:This is a thing that actually happens in Japan, which is why there's the disconnect between the JP audio and what the dub VAs get paid. JP fees also have their own weirdness--broadcast appearances are unionized but often the lowest-paying roles for the main cast, with a union scale that starts sub-$100 per session but then scales heavily on active years in the industry. I'm not hugely familiar with the interaction with the games side compared to the record industry/live entertainment side, but can confirm that there's definitely a thing where side products not covered under that contract get a hefty premium to bring the total compensation to what a young star can demand from what the fixed rate is.
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Showbiz in general can be extremely weird with different forms of media that are distributed in different ways, often which no one saw coming and so older contract stuff was not written with that in mind. And that's before you get into poo poo like Hollywood accounting.
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Bucnasti posted:Have you ever once bought a game solely based on who was voicing the main character? Personally no. Some Genshin Impact players will absolutely spend a game's worth of $ on character pulls largely or entirely because of a voice actress. Industry news, kind of. Apparently devs are getting tired of targeting the Series S. https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/developer-claims-many-studios-are-asking-xbox-to-drop-mandatory-series-s-compatibility/ quote:Maclure, who worked on last year’s Xbox Series X/S and PC game I Am Fish at Bossa, which also develops and publishes the Surgeon Simulator series, responded: “It might sound broken, but the reason you are hearing it a lot right now is because MANY developers have been sitting in meetings for the past year desperately trying to get Series S launch requirements dropped. I get it. This article is just from a couple indies so "many" is probably an overstatement. Curious if AAA publishers give a drat.
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I doubt that Microsoft really cares because the series s is selling really well.
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Heran Bago posted:Personally no. Some Genshin Impact players will absolutely spend a game's worth of $ on character pulls largely or entirely because of a voice actress. I mean that article talks about a dev on Gotham Knights losing his poo poo about it. The AAA publishers might not care but it sure sounds like the developers having to make the Series S work on AAA games do.
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I highly doubt the series s is what lead to the issues Gotham knight had.
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Gotham Knights was originally supposed to ship on the PS4 and Xbox One, the Series S was the least of their problems
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The real problem with the xbox series s is that I always have to look up which is the newer one, the series s or series x. Console naming conventions are dumb as heck (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Arivia posted:I mean that article talks about a dev on Gotham Knights losing his poo poo about it. The AAA publishers might not care but it sure sounds like the developers having to make the Series S work on AAA games do. In a major AAA studio any given dev has lost their poo poo about anything you can imagine. A single coder getting frustrated is just a dude at work.
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e: didn't realise which thread I was in, deleting.
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ilmucche posted:The real problem with the xbox series s is that I always have to look up which is the newer one, the series s or series x. Console naming conventions are dumb as heck Microsoft's naming conventions (or lack thereof) are idiotic. 1,2,3,3.1,95,98,ME,XP,Vista,7,8,10,11 cubicle gangster posted:In a major AAA studio any given dev has lost their poo poo about anything you can imagine. A single coder getting frustrated is just a dude at work. Yeah devs have complained about hardware limitations since the first line of code was written. I suspect Ada Lovelace was like "if only this difference engine had 7 more gearfeet I could play tic-tac-toe better" (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I hope this isn't straying into discourse, but what's Microsoft demanding that makes the Xbox so hard to develop for
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Soonmot posted:I hope this isn't straying into discourse, but what's Microsoft demanding that makes the Xbox so hard to develop for It's mostly that the Series S is far lower spec then the X/PS5, developed as a cheaper option to upgrade from the previous generation that is also what a bunch of folks wound up with because lol getting a PS5 or Series X during the first 18 months of release without jumping through some hoops. It's what everyone complained about the Wii or Switch being for multisystem ports except I'm pretty sure Microsoft requires any game released for one to run on both the S and the X. This honestly has nothing to do with why the Gothem Knights team is complaining but they need a scapegoat for why their game runs like rear end on every platform besides 'we hosed up' and the Series S is right there so eh.
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ilmucche posted:The real problem with the xbox series s is that I always have to look up which is the newer one, the series s or series x. Console naming conventions are dumb as heck I think it's just MS console naming conventions. Sony and Nintendo seem pretty straightforward. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Soonmot posted:I hope this isn't straying into discourse, but what's Microsoft demanding that makes the Xbox so hard to develop for We've had some discussion on this over in the Xbox thread and it may be better suited over there? Here is a standout post from forums user univbee. Tldr maybe it's a RAM thing? Idk I'm not good at computers. univbee posted:The main issue with RAM isn't so much the graphics as it is what's happening under the hood. Games wanting to do new things need resources to do it and RAM is a big one, which is why every console generation until this one has been a 4-8x increase in RAM, and reminder that's one of the big reasons why Xbox was as cocky as they were leading up to the Xbox One's launch (they thought the XB1 would have double the PS4's RAM and went with slower RAM to hit the 8gb number, but then Sony last minute managed to bump the PS4 to 8gb as well). Going from 8gb of RAM to...8gb isn't the news some devs were hoping for, especially since the XB1X even had more (12gb).
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Probably worth mentioning that the dev who blamed the Series S works at Rocksteady, but Rocksteady did not develop Gotham Knights, WB Montreal did. They were swooping in to provide a lame excuse for their sister studio, essentially.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Nintendo seem pretty straightforward. WiiU (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Xakura posted:WiiU That only confused grandparents and people that couldn't pay attention for more than 5 seconds (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Magmarashi posted:That only confused grandparents and people that couldn't pay attention for more than 5 seconds That name still killed the console stone dead. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Magmarashi posted:That only confused grandparents and people that couldn't pay attention for more than 5 seconds There was very little marketing for it compared to the Wii, and most of it just made it seem like an addon for the Wii because all it focused on was the touchpad controller. Outside of the extreme diehard Nintendo fans, pretty much everyone I knew thought it was an addon. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Inspector Gesicht posted:That name still killed the console stone dead. I remember my bed at the time being 5 feet away from my Wii U console, and the tablet controller stopped working if I ever rolled over on my side away from the console (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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This is not the WiiU thread. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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I'm not opposed to talking about sales/financials but if you're going to speculate on why the WiiU failed it should probably be more concrete than "my friends didn't know what it was"
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https://twitter.com/CAGames/status/1584862234941227008 Total War devs are the latest company getting whistleblowed
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Rarity posted:https://twitter.com/CAGames/status/1584862234941227008 "Former" and "Employee" is doing that passive voice thing the media does when it downplays police shootings. I guess they had to say something as it's clear word was getting out to the press but there's a big difference between a VP/C-suite person doing it versus some QAII team lead.
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It also looks like they're making this public on their own, and they're using an external investigator. That's already a better reaction than other companies have had.
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Shooting Blanks posted:It also looks like they're making this public on their own, and they're using an external investigator. That's already a better reaction than other companies have had. Ex-employees were starting to talk on Twitter so it was only a matter of time before it got picked up anyway
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pentyne posted:"Former" and "Employee" is doing that passive voice thing the media does when it downplays police shootings. That's not what passive voice means. Active voice: a former employee abused some people. Passive voice: some people were abused by a former employee.
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leper khan posted:That's not what passive voice means. Or more specifically, when we complain about the passive voice in press releases it's more like "some people were abused" and removes all mention of who is responsible for it.
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Here's an article on at least some of what's going onquote:Developer Creative Assembly is acknowledging recent public allegations that the company did nothing in response to reports of sexual harassment filed against a key former employee. So yeah it seems like this is less "getting ahead of it" and more "somehow in the froth of crap that is the internet at large, it's been viral for days and yet their statement is the first I've heard of it"
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some other kind of news for a change https://twitter.com/gamedevdotcom/status/1585650873090379777?s=20&t=WO08la-qpTIrr1J__my4BQ
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haldolium posted:some other kind of news for a change Too bad they don't disclose margins or the costs of that revenue. On the other side of it, it sounds like deal terms are a bit flexible if you get on the platform. Though I also expect they pay significantly more for "larger" titles. https://twistedvoxel.com/how-much-xbox-paid-bring-indie-title-game-pass/ https://www.pcgamer.com/xbox-chief-reveals-more-about-how-developers-earn-money-through-game-pass/
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https://twitter.com/ign/status/1585689542903857179?s=46&t=3c7ae9iF4V0l1nGvmc2V_Q This is the big major release for December, it’s super weird for a giant AAA title to not be getting released in one of the biggest gaming markets on Earth. Especially a country that loves horror games like Japan. Basically “we’d rather just not release our game than release a game with violence toned down to the point that you’re asking us to tone it down to” Bust Rodd fucked around with this message at 00:05 on Oct 28, 2022 |
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theyre including japanese subtitles in the us/eu version so people can just import it. CERO is restrictive enough that they would have tooverhaul massive portions of the game if it really is that gory. japanese the last of us 2 is almost unrecognizable and it got a ton of complaints from japanese audiences due to all the censorship.
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Well, this isn't what I expected to happen: https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1586002385281122306
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Mordiceius posted:Well, this isn't what I expected to happen: No way the Bayonetta lady would be about anti-abortion organizations.  Huh. Looks like the Bayonetta lady is about anti-abortion organizations.
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Calling a billboard scheme a 'charity' is a choice of words.
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It's a Catholic org affiliated with a diocese in Louisville which is where most of their permanent billboards are. Of course they love to travel and bring those smaller ones on trailers and park them at events with a table nearby. This is a bizarre choice to me because I grew up having to see their poo poo. Needless to say: very gross.
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Mordiceius posted:Well, this isn't what I expected to happen: List is - shelter dogs - London drama school - Dog welfare charity - Nonprofit big on veterans to help with disasters - Landmines - A Socal Catholic church - Arts/theatre support - This which needs to be quoted because uh.....not 100% sure if it's legit quote:Our mission is to help persecuted Christians worldwide. #RedWednesday Founders | Newsletter: http://ow.ly/glQo30l2SSF 💻 Get involved! Benefit of the doubt and all, but it seems like an incredibly weird "charity" and to include a US based anti-abortion group in what is almost exclusively UK stuff and also a CA church. pentyne fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Oct 28, 2022 |
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pentyne posted:List is Yeah, I"m hoping that is a typo because that seems really odd to include that in with the other great charities.
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