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The 7th Guest posted:Piranha Bytes (Gothic, ELEX, Risen) has been shuttered by Embracer Ugh, I was excited for some of their upcoming games. [edit] Ooh wait Gothic Remake is still safe, but still this news sucks.
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Turns out what all these game studios were "embracing" ... was the sweet release of death!
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Jan 17, 2024 20:50
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The 7th Guest posted:Piranha Bytes (Gothic, ELEX, Risen) has been shuttered by Embracer drat, they made some legit eurojank classics
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Jan 17, 2024 21:01
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It's doubly annoying because I cannot imagine a world where you buy Piranha Bytes and you don't know what you're paying for. Their costs can't be huge and their returns will never be huge either, it's what they do. What a shitshow.
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Jan 17, 2024 21:02
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Seeing tons of pre-release Palworld stuff, so it's an actual game and not some kind of meme NFT cash grab? Is there any content beyond grinding up the tech tree, making more and more elaborate structures?
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Jan 17, 2024 21:02
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The 7th Guest posted:Piranha Bytes (Gothic, ELEX, Risen) has been shuttered by Embracer poo poo, this hurts.
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Jan 17, 2024 21:05
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pentyne posted:Seeing tons of pre-release Palworld stuff, so it's an actual game and not some kind of meme NFT cash grab? Afaik not yet. There’s going to be PvP stuff eventually and coop play as well. There’s not really a story and not sure if they are planning on having one.
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Jan 17, 2024 21:08
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At least Egosoft still exists.
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Jan 17, 2024 21:09
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exquisite tea posted:Turns out what all these game studios were "embracing" ... was the sweet release of death! Embracer Group forces one of its studios to embrace total annihilation, incident no. 4,000,000
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Jan 17, 2024 21:10
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That's why you need to stay independent like Larian Alright you can let Tencent buy 30% of your shares but NO MORE
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Jan 17, 2024 21:13
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Risen 1 was the only game of theirs that resonated with me, and I loved the heck out of it, but I know they had a fairly large following for a AA developer. Sucks!
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Jan 17, 2024 21:20
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Tencent at least seems to be content getting stock in places that are already doing well and not loving with them too much, though I am curious if that'll change after the reports near the end of last year about the downturn in the Chinese tech/game sectors. Seems like it can't stay that way forever at minimum. E: Maybe after Bungie becomes independent for a third time Tencent can pick them up. 
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Jan 17, 2024 21:20
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Sucks that this is, iirc, the second time that PB have lost control of the Gothic IP. First Jowood, now Embracer. 
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Jan 17, 2024 21:23
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The 7th Guest posted:Piranha Bytes (Gothic, ELEX, Risen) has been shuttered by Embracer this sucks enormous amounts of rear end wtf
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Jan 17, 2024 21:27
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Is there a list of the studios that Embracer has sent to the abattoir? Because it's getting ridiculous.
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Jan 17, 2024 21:30
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palworld does what nintendont https://twitter.com/CONEY/status/1747670863682338994
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Jan 17, 2024 21:37
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SirSamVimes posted:Is there a list of the studios that Embracer has sent to the abattoir? Because it's getting ridiculous. also are they ever going to loving stop
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Jan 17, 2024 21:39
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Palworld seems like one of those fever dream Kickstarter projects from the mid-2010s that actually came out. I dunno if there's much actually worthwhile under the guise of its ridiculousness but it is funny.Oxxidation posted:also are they ever going to loving stop lol no They ballooned up to massive size and valuation and then the second that deal of theirs dropped out their valuation tanked so hard you'd think they were Enron. Remember that Crytek back in the 2010s had the temerity to open two new studios because of the success of Crysis and then immediately collapsed back down to a 40-ish person studio without releasing anything. Embracer did that times eighty. Orv fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Jan 17, 2024 |
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Jan 17, 2024 21:39
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I had never heard of Embracer before today but now I hate them
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Jan 17, 2024 21:41
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SirSamVimes posted:Is there a list of the studios that Embracer has sent to the abattoir? Because it's getting ridiculous. * Foxglove Studios (founded by THQ Nordic in 2016, divested in 2019) * Square Enix Montréal (acquired by CDE Entertainment in August 2022, closed in November 2022) * Plucky Bytes (founded by Amplifier Game Invest in November 2020, closed in 2023) * Vermila Studios (acquired by Amplifer Game Invest in August 2020, divested in 2023) * Campfire Cabal (founded by THQ Nordic in September 2022, closed in August 2023) * Goose Byte (founded by Amplifier Game Invest in December 2021, divested in August 2023) * Volition (acquired by Deep Silver in January 2013, closed in August 2023) * Free Radical Design (founded by Deep Silver in May 2021, closed in December 2023)
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Jan 17, 2024 21:44
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on the bright side, my new elex nft is gonna fund my retirement!
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Jan 17, 2024 21:47
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I somehow forgot about Volition
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Jan 17, 2024 21:47
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more like embracer poop
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Jan 17, 2024 21:48
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Squiggle posted:I somehow forgot about Volition It's okay, they forgot themselves a long time ago.
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Jan 17, 2024 21:49
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If only they'd made another Freespace instead
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Jan 17, 2024 21:51
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I was pretty skeptical that palworld would deliver on being a fun video game, but after watching a stream and how open they are with letting people show it off, it looks like people are really liking it and it looks pretty good. Honestly surprising.
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Jan 17, 2024 22:17
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repiv posted:palworld does what nintendont https://twitter.com/CONEY/status/1747671712475292017 human trafficking the video game
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Jan 17, 2024 22:28
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"Oh, Pokemon is cock fighting? Hold my beer"
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Jan 17, 2024 22:30
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Random question: Steam does this weird thing where it asks me to verify my birthday on some games, but it pre-fills the date. Except, it has the correct day and year, but always shows the month as January (my birthday isn't in January). Is this intentional? Can it be fixed/disabled? It's been doing it forever but I only just considered asking about it.
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Jan 17, 2024 22:30
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Rusty posted:I was pretty skeptical that palworld would deliver on being a fun video game, but after watching a stream and how open they are with letting people show it off, it looks like people are really liking it and it looks pretty good. Honestly surprising. I'm more skeptical about the fact that the Palworld developers still have their other really similar game Craftopia in early acess on steam.
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Jan 17, 2024 22:30
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Annath posted:Random question: Steam does this weird thing where it asks me to verify my birthday on some games, but it pre-fills the date. Except, it has the correct day and year, but always shows the month as January (my birthday isn't in January). I feel like mine always defaults to like june 15 1939 because i just quickly entered that one time years ago and I never bothered to change it because it works. 
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Jan 17, 2024 22:31
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Estel posted:I'm more skeptical about the fact that the Palworld developers still have their other really similar game Craftopia in early acess on steam.
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Annath posted:Random question: Steam does this weird thing where it asks me to verify my birthday on some games, but it pre-fills the date. Except, it has the correct day and year, but always shows the month as January (my birthday isn't in January). It's a bug. It's been there for like three years. No way to fix it that I know of, but it's not like I looked that deep into it. Probably nobody (Valve included) cares that much either, since everyone just presses the button to continue and forget it even happened seconds later. It's just a dumb thing, easily fixed that lingers.
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Jan 17, 2024 22:33
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Annath posted:Random question: Steam does this weird thing where it asks me to verify my birthday on some games, but it pre-fills the date. Except, it has the correct day and year, but always shows the month as January (my birthday isn't in January). It's intentional in the sense that Steam tries at least a tiny bit to not allow people to play games ratings boards say they're too young for but honestly the prompt has been busted for years and seems to basically half store info and do whatever, so if it's not too annoying I wouldn't gently caress with it.
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Jan 17, 2024 22:33
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repiv posted:palworld does what nintendont I don't watch face cam streamers, is this what they call pog facing?
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Jan 17, 2024 22:33
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Leal posted:I don't watch face cam streamers, is this what they call pog facing? it's only pogface if they look to the side, otherwise it's just soyface
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Jan 17, 2024 22:35
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actually it's only pogface if it's sourced from the pog region of france
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Jan 17, 2024 22:41
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Estel posted:I'm more skeptical about the fact that the Palworld developers still have their other really similar game Craftopia in early acess on steam. Yeah they are still updating it but I have no idea how much longer till they can say it’s 1.0.
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Jan 17, 2024 22:44
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SirSamVimes posted:actually it's only pogface if it's sourced from the pog region of france i checked and this is actually true ✅ 
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Annath posted:Random question: Steam does this weird thing where it asks me to verify my birthday on some games, but it pre-fills the date. Except, it has the correct day and year, but always shows the month as January (my birthday isn't in January).
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