@dogsoftheshire@jeff_xrp@LeighWolf "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition."
@AngeloStagnaro@LeighWolf Can't forget the Japanese believed themselves to be the most superior Asian race, so they even had the racial element like the Nazi's — the "Greater Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" was the equivalent of Germany's "Lebensraum." Very misguided for OP to say Japan was not fascist.
@ItsPingu3D@jamskins@Pirat_Nation No. I put out my game on Steam, and Steam MANDATES that your game is NEVER cheaper ANYWHERE AT ANY TIME. If your game goes on sale? It's gotta be the same price on steam or they'll remove you from their storefront.
Also, Valve owes me money, fucking bastards.
@cid_gonzal@Jackson652472@Pirat_Nation New developers won't develop multiplayer titles because of the bill (this bill legally mandates a lot of extra work to get nothing for the company or the game itself in return)
That means the established titles everyone already hates will only further solidify their place.
@Minmatar0@Holyniwa@Pirat_Nation You're definitely right. The entire industry definitely needs more incentive to get away from that kind of thing.
I like Steam, appreciate use it, but I know that Valve is not some saint of a company that protects us from the evils of big mega corps. They ARE the big mega corp.
@kontolatoss66@Holyniwa@Pirat_Nation Right, the privately owned company that has no reporting obligations is all about honesty and transparency.
I've got a bridge to sell you.
@Holyniwa@Pirat_Nation Nothing to love about Gabe Newell. We can respect what Valve has done, but at the end of the day, just like Ubisoft, Valve is an "Own nothing and like it" company. Everything you buy is a license to use, basically just a tenant on their servers who can be evicted for any reason.
@PhillipHelbig@simongerman600 Appalachia is a great place, so different from outside regions. I moved from Ashland, KY to Michigan in 2020, and I still miss those mountains!
Warner Bros. has announced that #SpeedRacer (2008) will be released in theaters, including IMAX, for the week of April 25, in addition to being remastered in 4K Ultra HD, digitally and on disc, on May 19. 🍿
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@Escapissed85@Pirat_Nation The developers on Highguard had profit sharing built into their employment. Everyone was vested in the game doing well, but, according to the article, leadership refused to listen to the concerns of the team. It was proposed that they do public tests but that was rejected.
@MadamSavvy If all 10 of those people were getting a $100,000 salary, that's a million a year — and I bet for that California lifestyle, 100k is probably pretty low. Million a year for an "Indie" studio, eh? Whoever put up their money in this studio really fucked up bad
@JosephStec@KareemRifai@Randaccounting@obsessedriah Figure Skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics had 4 events, with Russia winning 3 golds. Baiul for Ukraine was the only non-Russian to win a gold. If this was before 1991, Baiul would've been considered a Russian athlete, thus would've been a sweep in figure skating.
@Lassharleymari1@HarlequinClips@Muj_in OW and Fortnite also had the support of multi-billion dollar enterprise machines behind them before day 1. These devs had investment, but it was also made up of a core group of proven developers who shipped games that sold billions before. They were "insider indie" but w/o the QA
@RedPhoenixTR@Raptor_16 You don't get an ad slot in something like TGA and then get to say "Maybe you're not the target audience of our game" and "We have no obligation to make games you want." A slot in a show like that is meant to attract broad appeal, not focus on a "target audience."
@Ruzgfpegk@ScarabScary@JojoDigitalArt@Wario64 Problem is, the studio head isn't the one writing the checks that pay the salaries of the people he just had to lay off. He can publicly declare all he wants that player count doesn't matter. The money is what matters, and investors are pulling the rug.
@KoneToivonen@shinobi602 The devs behind this game thought "From the creators of Titanfall and Apex Legends" garnered them enough good will that people would try the game in good faith lmao. Those were pretty much the same guys who ruined Apex in 2021 and then blamed EA. Now we know, it wasn't EA.
@dewkuwu@Crestxo@brandwhal96@ThePale_@shinobi602@geoffkeighley Expectations. The devs are being laid off now because investors are pulling the money from the studio. But if the investors expectations wouldn't have been "Last spot on TGA, megahit incoming" they may have been readyto have longer exposure on the investment.