The leaks don't hurt developers. They've all been paid and their mass layoffs were already planned in advance.
None of the people who made the game will see a bonus if the game does well, only the CEOs and publishers do, and who cares if their bonus is slightly less fat? I don't
Sort of crazy how much of halo lore has been handled in such bizarre ways…
-Dr. Halsey losing her arm in Halo 4 spartan ops DLC that required XBL Gold.
-Didact’s death actually happening for real in a Halo comic book.
-The Rookie (ODST) randomly dying in a book.
-The big spartan ops villain getting killed in an H5 cutscene.
-The Weapon/Cortana 2.0’s name finally being revealed in a book instead of Halo Infinite.
Honorable mentions:
Guilty Spark is still alive and has a dumb looking body now - books
Jun is alive and well -books
Arbiter and Vale chillin’ after infinite - books
Lord Hood survived the Sydney attack mentioned in Infinite - books
So with all these big pivotal moments…
WHY THE HELL DOES CAMPAIGN EVOLVED HAVE POINTLESS PREQUEL LEVELS
please…. let’s hope they leak the entire source code.
the industry needs to learn there is a limit to greed.
We need GTA 6 to fail catastrophically, or we will be flooded with $100+ games that lock you out of basic features foreboding
"I feel so bad for the Rockstar devs!"
No you fucking don't.
Where was this energy when they came out and talked about 80-hour work weeks, being crunched to death, and not being paid accordingly?
Where was it when 30 employees were fired after unionizing?
Stop pretending you suddenly give a shit about workers because a game got leaked. You don't care about the devs. You care that your game got spoiled and you're trying to dress up your own disappointment as moral outrage.
>$80 base game
>vehicles, customisation options and entire shops locked behind $100 edition
>almost certainly locked at 30fps
>first proper trailer locked behind netflix subscription
>paid premium GTA+ for GTA Online which has no release date
>allegedly real world currency can be used for certain in game stuff, including single player
>graphical fidelity akin to GTA 5 with mods
>no physical copy
>ALL this hype and it's still just another bog standard GTA game with no real innovation
>game leaked
>rockstar can't even release trailers early for damage control due to netflix deal
I hope it gets worse
There is no place safe from this in the West now.
I'm living in Australia until my Maori girlfriend gets a greencard, and a lot of people like to sneer at Australia because of the COVID insanity... but realistically, this tyranny is everywhere now.
One of the original Halo developers is not impressed with Halo: Campaign Evolved.
Jaime Griesemer, who worked on Halo: Combat Evolved and was design lead on Halo 2 and Halo 3, has criticized several changes in the remake.
He thinks Halo Studios has gone too far with some of the “modernization.”
One thing that really bothered him is the new Halo ring shown on the main menu. The original game’s menu slowly showed the Halo ring in space, creating a quiet, mysterious atmosphere, and he feels the remake’s version loses some of that soul
One example is the Warthog section in The Silent Cartographer. In the original game, rocks and level design forced players to fight the Hunters on foot.
In the remake, the Warthog can smash through some of those obstacles.
“When you can just smash the crates out of the way it wrecks the encounters,”
He also wasn’t happy about trees being added to the landing area of the famous Warthog jump:
“But the worst part? They put trees in the landing area of the WooHoo Jump. Lame.”
He also criticized the addition of sprinting
“Sprinting into the shaft vignette so fast that Marty O’Donnell’s music transition doesn’t work properly is the perfect ending. Who is this for?”
I'LL SAY IT AGAIN:
IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL to charge a "convenience fee" for paying a bill online.
The convenience isn't for you. It's for them automated payment save them money on staff, postage, and processing.
So they cut their own costs, then bill you for doing their bookkeeping for you.
Try paying by mail instead. Slower, riskier, late fees if it's not on time. So "convenient" becomes mandatory, and the fee stops being optional.
it's not a service fee. Nobody's doing extra work. They eliminated the labor and charged you for it anyway.
Original CE: you can hide in place in a corner out of sight where the flood can't find you
CE Remake: you can stand on a pillar directly in front of the flood and they don't know how to get to you
"These are the same"
Kommander Karl comes out in SUPPORT of CANCEL CULTURE and deplatforming Halo Composer Marty O'Donnell.
This is not 2020, and people are SICK of this type of social justice BS.
You are not UNSAFE because someone has a different opinion from you. You are uncomfortable, and if that's a problem, you are a CHILD. And children should not be running conventions or making political decisions.
He got massive blowback from this, but instead of acknowledging it he wrote everybody off as toxic:
"Time to mute and move on. I've underestimated how much of a swamp ass infested shithole this platform has really become."
No Karl, you would have no problem back in Twitter days when YOUR people were able to post and get people banned at whim who disagreed with them. Just because you are seeing the REAL opinions now doesn't mean the platform has become toxic, it means you were never really the popular opinion to begin with.
I would QT but this sensitive snowflake has me blocked.
Context: steam refunded a users BF6 game, after EA removed all the game modes he liked and were the reason he bought the game.
The "dangerous precedent" is holding companies accountable for fucking their fans without consent.
Just a not friendly reminder, Communism
is NOT LEGAL in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA. It is in fact, a CRIME.
Also, attempting to overthrow the government, actively attempting to abolish the Constitution and the Supreme Court is a crime known as Sedition, punishable by death.
SacAnime just cancelled Halo composer Marty O’Donnell from a Halo 25th reunion at their conference.
Marty is running for Congress.
This is outrageous! Nobody should be banned from attending a convention based on their politics!
Banned for telling the truth because he's moderately right-wing.
But if you electrocute your dog, commit crimes on stream, or celebrate 9/11, nothing happens to you.
Twitch, your bias is so obvious.