SQS

video game enjoyer. rpgs especially.

[SQS @SideQuestSage]

First thing you should always check for when Steam reviews look like this is performance issues. Theyre notoriously harsh on games for performance. Look for that complaint first and if it’s there it’s not the game itself

[songbirds @songbirds54776]

these people can’t be playing the same game as me

[SQS @SideQuestSage]

If you’re a rational person you know this is insane. This game had no reason to cost $100 million. Its ludicrous.

[Fake Wizard @RealLifeFakeWiz]

South of Midnight cost $100,000,000 to make and no one bought it.

You can win all the awards.
And critical acclaim.
It means nothing.
Those are fake metrics.

Did gamers buy it?
Did it generate profit?
No?
Then you failed. Simple.

Generate a return on investment or get fired.

[SQS @SideQuestSage]

Companies aren’t in the business of eating losses for the moving target of your niche moral good.

[Nick Calandra @nickjcal]

Fucking wild to me how many people in the replies of posts like this and mine are licking the corporate boot of a company that made over $200B in profit last year as if they can’t sustain these teams and eat some losses on games to keep building institutional talent.

[SQS @SideQuestSage]

Good games sell bad games don’t. This and more News at 11.

[Mephisto - Lord Of Hatred ''🏴'' @robsoniecker]

De fato ninguém pediu um South of Midnight, e é justamente isso que o torna especial. Se a indústria só produzisse o que as pessoas já sabem que querem, nunca existiriam novas franquias.

O problema não é a existência de jogos como South of Midnight, mas a incapacidade da Microsoft de transformá-los em eventos. Você cria uma IP nova, com identidade visual própria, ambientação única e potencial para ampliar o catálogo da marca, mas não investe o suficiente em marketing para criar o desejo de jogar.

Hi-Fi Rush é outro exemplo. Ninguém estava pedindo aquele jogo porque ninguém sabia que ele existia. Mesmo assim, foi extremamente bem recebido pela crítica e pelo público e virou uma das propriedades mais elogiadas do Xbox nos últimos anos.

Se a conclusão for que só vale produzir sequências e franquias já estabelecidas, a indústria entra em um ciclo onde ninguém cria o próximo sucesso. Toda grande franquia começou como um projeto que ninguém pediu.

[SQS @SideQuestSage]

Played a bit of the SAO demo yesterday. Felt pretty good. Probably the thing that surprised me the most was how good the AI for your companion seems to be.

[SQS @SideQuestSage]

People don’t want to hear this, but Microsoft sees where things are headed with AI. There’s just not going to be room in big studios anymore for expensive niche games especially the ones chasing even narrower audiences or the ones that feel to gamers like they’re deliberately pushing political or identity angles. Gamers are going to start making their own stuff/slop with these tools soon enough, so why would they keep buying what they see as overpriced niche slop from studios, whether that perception is fair or not?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ There is no putting the genie back in the bottle. It’s over.

[Polygon @Polygon]

Microsoft should sell Xbox before it ruins everything https://t.co/CWjYU9U6BH

[SQS @SideQuestSage]

From all the already announced layoffs plus the rumors it really is a blood bath

[SQS @SideQuestSage]

“Generally positive reviews” from suspect game critics does not a good game make

[Shinobi602 @shinobi602]

Entire Luna Abyss dev team Kwalee Labs has been laid off less than a month after release

➡️ https://t.co/ksIeXr8Jcw

[SQS @SideQuestSage]

The amount of wasted money going on in game development is insane.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

According to entertainment lawyer Simon Pulman on LinkedIn, both South of Midnight and The Outer Worlds 2 had budgets of around $100 million each, including development and marketing costs.

Pulman also claimed South of Midnight sold roughly 500,000 copies, while The Outer Worlds 2 sold around 1 million copies.

How in the hell did South of Midnight cost that much money, At this point, one thinks it is money laundering there is no other way.

[SQS @SideQuestSage]

And ps5

[Cohh Carnage @CohhCarnage]

@Apogee_Ent My Steam backlog.

[SQS @SideQuestSage]

This might not end well

[klöss @kloss_xyz]

I prompted Claude Fable 5 to use Python to generate a 9:16 social video and render it using ffmpeg. Told it to put its own personal spin on it so it’s aligned with Anthropic’s launch and to fully express what it’s like to be an LLM hated by Theo from its POV.

It made this lmfao.

[SQS @SideQuestSage]

Could we just get a proper rpg please? Who is asking for an Avatar fighting game?

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game showcases Kyoshi, one of the greatest Avatars in history ⛰️

Witness her overwhelming power in the new gameplay trailer: https://t.co/IRawiwFPDv