Games Realist

Sharing the facts about the games industry that people don’t like to say out loud.

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@thicc_stick_boi The thing is, if there’s anyone who could legitimately sue them with minimal risk of PR impact to his broader company, it’s @TimSweeneyEpic. But there’s something bigger here in that, he has an opportunity to take action to discourage the politicization of games media.

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@EleganceSBL It’s amazing how companies attempting to run live services fail to properly resource and estimate the costs needed to actually run the service. Security, moderation, customer support, live ops, community management are all not optional things.

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@DaveOshry Brilliant work

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@feydemon I can tell you who cares- the finance people at Sony who see what the burn rate is of a giant studio located in one of the most expensive parts of the US that hasn’t released a new original game in 5 years.

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@NextGenPlayer You love to see it.

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@Dansgaming @larianstudios Legends.

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@Grummz It is baffling how certain companies have not read the room and understood that gameplay is the thing you can’t afford to have fall down; not graphics or art.

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If someone was going to try and make a YouTube competitor, now would be a great time.

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@selectwario There is truly no better answer.

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@Rotaryhead8 @projectmracing You aren’t wrong, but this kind of accountability will never happen until gamers demand it with their wallets.

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@The_CrapGamer @JBishie Original tweet should have replaced “next-generation hardware” with “AI, outside of gaming”.

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@nib95_ That must be humiliating.

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@longislandviper It’s sad, but also kind of a situation of their own making. 😕

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@EndymionYT It’s deeply unethical to have a YouTube video removed because it expresses an opinion counter to the one desired by those in power. All YouTubers should be worried about this because, if it’s allowed to stand without material backlash, it will be used as precedent.

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@SpiritMacardi @ShitpostRock Microsoft likely wouldn’t have them remove it during that time because they would rather prioritize something that will help close the revenue gap. Then after the release, they shut down the studio 2 months later once the PS launch window was done.

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@SpiritMacardi @ShitpostRock The PlayStation version of this game was published about a year after it originally released, while it was still owned by Microsoft. Likely, Microsoft had the team prioritize the PS version for the revenue and then when that didn’t sell to expectations, sold it.

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@Acerola__t They don’t care about making good games anymore- just about playing their corporate games and pulling in enough for their 2 rental homes and 6 vacations a year until they retire.

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@Cromwelp I feel bad for that studio, having to now compromise the very soul of that game to appeal the internal political wasteland.

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@thomasbrushdev This is the way. It’ll be like non-GMO is today for food.