There are too many dumb debates about whether or not listening to an audio book counts as reading, when the real question should be, have you actually read a book if you've only read it once
@EmbersofOkeener It's obviously largely the other way around. That if people aren't pressured most will just kind of spin their wheels. 'Early Access'. 'Listening to fans'. I wish I could get into a situation where I had to write to live.
Command Economics killed western games. Halo's done. Scale can't compensate for broken incentives. Gust (B-grade JRPG developer) released a new Atelier game every year for about 20 years straight. Now they take two to make a competitive *big* game. The power of direct incentives.
A new Halo leak claims that Halo Studios has changed its plans for the franchise after several reported project cancellations.
According to YouTuber Rebs Gaming, the studio originally planned to release three Halo games over three years, starting with the rumored Halo: Combat Evolved remake.
>Project Ekur was reportedly turned into a battle royale before being canceled.
>Another Halo campaign project was also reportedly canceled.
>Halo Studios doesn’t currently have a new Halo campaign or multiplayer game in active development.
>Teams are reportedly working on ideas for the next game before full development begins.
>Nobody at the studio has reportedly heard anything about the rumored Halo MMO.
>Campaign DLC for Halo: Combat Evolved has reportedly been discussed.
@EmbersofOkeener A few western companies used to be like this. Now virtually nobody is. Amazing what's possible when you're a sane production culture working in a fixed form you aren't being pushed out of, everyone knows what they're doing and you need new releases to keep the lights on.
All of the most noxiously "weird" stuff on the internet is a consequence of attempts to doctor the social order. The internet is a non-competitive space rigged against white men, like everything else. We are not suffering from too much freedom. Do you believe these ideas "won"?
People are having a field day with the “no anime” thing, but I do have to come down on the side of making an effort to ensure your kids aren’t weird. The state of things is dire. They’re wearing cat ears and tails to school. It’s not how it used to be.
Oh yeah, this happened. Even if a Chinese slave-studio stamp-pressed this thing, what a waste of time.
Konami explicitly said this is because gamers are ageing nostalgics. And MisterTD made the good point that the only true 'gamer' generation is millennials. Doomed medium.
@revenant_MMXX I’ve always taken limited reach for granted. Who knows what this means specifically? More than zero people can see me even if the indian mixed south african and his jowly h33b pig move me to the bottom of the pile.
@revenant_MMXX Working on it (by getting other people to) since apparently nothing is possible online unless I (they) am doing it. I have some kind of paradigm-shifting power you lack. Clearly.