@TheRoseCompany @longislandviper All I’m saying is the timing isn’t great. Sony will have finally moved people off of PS4, only for them be behind again when the PS6 launches shortly after
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Richard
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Richard
@dayngls
Gamer and professional fan of terrible/non existent sports teams.
Beigetreten Ocak 2011
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@dayngls @longislandviper Why? It isn’t PlayStation’s fault they’ve taken this long. Why should console manufacturer base their next generation hardware around a third party video game?
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In preparing for Sacred Symbols, I'm catching up on the news that ⅔ of GTA Online's userbase is on PlayStation. Somehow more people on PS4 than Xbox Series, even. Insane.
Grand Theft Auto VI is likely to sell so many PlayStation 5s it's going to make our collective heads spin.
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Dan Moore@DmoWriter
Holy shit. @BernieSanders and @RepCasar just introduced The Home Team Act, a bill that would “Require team owners who want to relocate to first offer local owners the chance to buy it." This would have saved the A’s. Full stop. It would help prevent owners from "uprooting teams that people have rooted for for generations. No more extorting taxpayers for billions." (Casar.) It would prevent owners from "blackmailing one community against another for multi-billion-dollar subsidies." (Sanders.) It goes without saying this is needed. “Nearly every major city in the nation [has been] asked to mortgage its future to the sports industry," @fieldofschemes has written. If I may. The relationship between sports fans and the sports business has been broken ever since the Supreme Court gave MLB an antitrust exemption in 1922. Multiple Supreme Court justices have criticized the ruling as “unrealistic, inconsistent, and illogical.” The ruling stemmed from a whimsical interpretation of professional sports as a fundamentally communal, rather than capitalistic, enterprise. In practice the exemption merely grants team owners license to run their teams in the most ruthlessly capitalistic ways possible. “The major leagues” Kevin Baker has written, “remain to this day the most complete and enduring cartel in American history.” But it hasn't ever been addressed. In America, owners get to have it both ways. They're permitted to run their businesses like robber barons. The sports industry is insulated from both government regulation and free-market competition. Fans and cities possess no power or protection. This bill would give them some. Hell ya. It's also not that ridiculous at all. A version of this law already exists in Ohio. Lawmakers passed it after Art Modell moved the Browns, to protect fans in the state from ever having to go through that kind of thing again. Stronger versions of this sort of thing exist in Europe. In 2025, England passed the Football Governance Act, a regulatory framework designed, in the language of the law, “to protect and promote the sustainability of English football.” The law mandates team owners and league executives regularly consult with fan representatives on all matters relevant to fan interests. And it empowers an Independent Football Regulator (IFR) to evaluate the potential impact of all proposed changes by an owner to his or her club on fans and community members and to strike down those changes found not to be in fans’ interests. These include changes to a club’s name, crest, and, most fundamentally, its home. Versions of this sort of thing have been batted about by US lawmakers before. Most have not been given much attention. I hope this time it's different. It's too late to save the A’s. But I hope it passes so that no other fans have to suffer the indignities fans suffered here. So that sports work better for future fans like my sons.
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Bobcats, coatis and scorpions, oh my.
If the owners of Arizona's next NHL franchise don't want to keep the Coyotes nickname, which name should they choose?
For paid AZ Hockey Insider subscribers:
azhockeyinsider.substack.com/p/if-they-cant…
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@ChrisRGun There’s a reason why dipshits like TJ Smash don’t focus their bottom feeder content on actual games
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Trying to snipe with a scopeless SMG and showing everybody is fucking crazy
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@SmashJT If you're gonna play like this then you are probably not the target audience.
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To be fair to them, they promised no NEW wars and this is more like a remix of an old one.
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Makar pinching for a bouncing puck at the line and missed. Big time risk. That’s a wrap
Pete Blackburn@PeteBlackburn
BACK ON TOP 🏅🇺🇸
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@DetectiveSeeds “Both stated that the God of War Live Service game they were working on was pitched by Bluepoint to Playstation”
This is where PS needs to step in and get them back on track. Turn down the live service idea and get them back to what the team was built for. Terrible management
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On 2/20 I communicated with 2 employees via LinkedIn who were with Bluepoint Games (I reached out on Linkedin via message to numerous employees, 2 talked to me, 1 said not right now as they are technically still employed, and others did not respond). I talked to them separately in messages on the condition of anonymity. Each of these individuals had different roles within the studio, and were in completely different departments:
**Prior to putting this info out, both confirmed they are no longer employed with the company. I am only sharing this info as there is no risk of job loss to the sources. If they were still employed, I would not be sharing.
🔵Both stated that the God of War Live Service game they were working on was pitched by Bluepoint to Playstation DURING their work on God of War Ragnarok as their next game. Everyone enjoyed the God of War universe, and with Playstation wanting to do live service games, Bluepoint pitched this game and it was approved. However, they missed several deadlines and it became apparent how large of an undertaking this project was for Bluepoint. One of them said project sounded good, but we really should not have been doing a live service game. It was out of the norm for us, and our bandwidth. Ultimately, the project was shuttered by PlayStation after being given multiple opportunities, and Bluepoint was tasked with pitching new projects in 2025. Both said there was additional pressure turned up on deadlines on the heels of Concord being canceled (they said the scrutiny on live service games was intense). Both said they thought having the live service game canceled was the right move so they could take on other projects more suitable for them.
🔵Both said the studio WAS NOT currently working on any green lit project at the time of closing, and they HAD NOT secured any greenlit projects since God of war game was canceled. Both said any reports of them currently working on an approved project with funding are NOT accurate. There had been 4 projects pitched to PlayStation to their knowledge, and these projects were not greenlit. One of them said 2 of these projects were remakes they wanted to take on, but Playstation did not believe they would be successful in the market. Both were apparently single player experiences. I did ask if I could have the names of the projects. Both said no, and the reason is that at least one of the pitched projects is now being worked on by another studio and they do not want to be responsible for putting that info out. I followed up on why they did not get the greenlight but someone else did, and they did not know.
🔵One stated that Playstation DID offer them job opportunities within SIE due to what they do. The other stated they have NOT had help in getting jobs within SIE.
🔵One said the atmosphere had soured in their view after god of war project was canceled. It then got worse after the projects they were pitching kept being turned down. They said several had left the studio prior to closing, and they thought headcount was in the 50s at time of closing, maybe 60s. One stated they were fine with how the studio closing news was handled, but the other person said they were not happy with how things went down. I asked details and they said it was just the way it was communicated. Both said there was more that happened behind the scenes, but they were not directly involved in those conversations and hope others will give their side once they are no longer at the studio. The consensus after several pitches were declined, in their opinion, was that they were not going to get a project greenlit and it was a matter of time until they were closed.
🔵I asked about other potential studio closings. One did not want to discuss studios they did not work at. The other stated they have friends at other studios, and there are a few studios that they believe will be closed or more staff reductions in the near future. One did give me the names of studios they thought were next, but asked me not to share this part out of respect to those other studios still operating, and I agreed.
I am thankful they took the time to communicate with me and trust that I would not use their names. All research for this was done through LinkedIn. Make sure to follow me for news and updates around video games, movies, and tv shows!
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Matt Booty learning he somehow got promoted again.
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