X.E.R.O.

eXamining Entertainment, Rejecting Overhype
This age of hypocrisy is a right pain.

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

@GamesRadar Hard to care about the long term when months of crunch end with half the studio gone one day before the DLC launches. The remaining staff still get a paycheck, but their trust went out the window 🕊️

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

@LennyValentine @pcgamer One of the few comments here that actually makes sense. Hard to sell a game nobody knew was out.

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

@pcgamer Supermassive is heading into its third round of layoffs, its CEO left in June, and there are no public sales figures for Directive 8020.

But the lead is a Black woman with short hair, so naturally the Twitter detectives have already solved the case.

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

@pcgamer EA removed the game modes. Steam apparently removed the purchase.

Fair trade 🤝

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

Kids today will have different core memories. Nobody’s being robbed of a childhood. The ritual is changing. That’s all.

[八野 @yano_gamedev]

people all for PS going full digital have obviously never had their father take them to a midnight release of a game they were really looking forward to as a child

when physical dies, it's not just discs that go. we're robbing children of childhood core memories

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

After Helldivers 2, Sony knows exactly how PC players feel about mandatory PSN accounts. It made the login optional for other releases, then launched Marvel Tōkon with the requirement anyway.

They didn’t forget the lesson. They just decided the backlash was worth it.

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

Worth remembering: YouTube can still run ads on channels that aren’t in the Partner Program. The creator just doesn’t get a cut.

Now new creators will have to generate twice the watch time before YouTube starts sharing that cash.

[Insider Gaming @InsiderGamingIG]

YouTube Doubles Requirements To Join Partner Program

https://t.co/fueri0GHq6

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

@xMBGx True for some, false for others. It’s called preference. Glad I could help.

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

@GameSpot That's a W

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

@pcgamer Wait, RAM costing as much as a GPU didn’t increase demand? Weird.

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

This! Gaming magazines used to sell exclusive insights and previews. Then we got used to getting every leak and trailer for free online. Now they put one preview behind a subscription and paying for access is suddenly unthinkable.

We didn’t kill the paywall, we just moved it.

[Teddy @iCrazyTeddy]

You can tell who wasn’t there for GTA 5 launch

Laughing so hard right now at all the people crying about the GTA 6 trailer Netflix deal

Rockstar was releasing exclusive info in game informer magazine

Game Informer died because y’all weren’t supporting print and physical media

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

@IGN Are you for real, guys?

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

@MrSegovia @IGN Will you stop playing video games as soon as every publisher out there stop offering discs?

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

Don’t preorder GTA 6. Skip it if that’s where you draw the line. But waiting for the biggest game of the decade to flop isn’t a strategy...

It’ll probably break records. The real question is what the industry learns from that success and what players keep accepting afterwards!

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

Take-Two said generative AI played no part in GTA 6. That’s not the same as no AI assisted tools anywhere in development, and Rockstar hasn’t explained what else was used. Nice headline, though.

[justin waldron @jtwald]

GTA 6 will be remembered as the last major game made by humans alone

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

@pcgamer 123 million daily users is still 10% higher than a year ago, and the 70% stock drop happened across a year, not after this report.

The more interesting problem is that Roblox still has the audience. It just isn’t turning that audience into the money investors expected.

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

@IGN Japan has officially reached the “please log off” stage of diplomacy 😂

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

@IGN A disc can be lent, resold or bought used. All useful to consumers, none especially useful to Take-Two.

Maybe that’s the part that “doesn’t make sense” 🤑

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

Turns out people will still pay for old games when they’re easy to buy and priced like old games.

Someone tell the industry before it remakes another one for $70 🙃

[Eurogamer @eurogamer]

The Call of Duty: Black Ops 1&2 PS4 and PS5 ports sold more than 11 million copies in under a month. https://t.co/JGyb6jG6eO

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

Mine: digital ownership.

I used to think the convenience was worth the trade-off. Now I’m not so sure we understood how much control we were giving up.

[X.E.R.O. @NodeXERO]

What’s a gaming opinion you genuinely changed your mind about?

And what changed it?