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@marshallavfc @machop172 @SneakyBeaver We live in a world where people actually lie to themselves that a DIGITAL CARD GAME ROGUELIKE is more broadly appealing than a First person shooter. Slay the Spire is a niche inside a niche. Its just that It was a huge hit.

@BrenoSulz @machop172 @SneakyBeaver A rougelike deck bluiding game has a more boarder appeal than a fps extraction shooter.

@marshallavfc @machop172 @SneakyBeaver So why slay the spire 2 more than doubled their player count, while Marathon lost half?

@machop172 @SneakyBeaver Europe are working and alot of America are asleep. Arc had dropped 120k from its 24 hour high

@Quirrel__ @MegaCrit Silksong's name shall not be used to slander Slay the Spire. 2 goated games

@MegaCrit Bro you released the same set of cards you did 9 years ago and got free money for it. It's totally undeserved. An indie game sequel should be like Silksong but this was so disappointing.

Congratulations to the Marathon team on their launch! Don't let small indie passion projects like this pass you by just because Slay the Spire 2 is out ❤️

@TheBiasedVol07 @AliceJFox2 @Dexerto There are 405k playing STS2 on steam, right now. 38k for Marathon. Slay doubled the player count from yesterday (release date). Marathon Lost half.

@AliceJFox2 @Dexerto People have jobs and this is a new Bungie game we’re talking here, there is no “I’ll hop on for an hour before bed on launch day” for the vast majority of Bungie fans.

Indie game Slay the Spire 2 just launched in early access on Steam and has 145,000 active players It beats out Marathon which has 85,000

@KirkGotKarma @Daoshai1 @Pirat_Nation Yeah... Its already march 6th and slay the spire 2 is about to crack 400k players. Marathon is as 38k. Slay the spire 1 have 25k players right now, by the way, a game from 2019

Slay the Spire 2 launched almost at the same time as Marathon on Steam and has almost double the players.

@oheroutz Slay the spire é o joguinho porcaria?

Você sente que está rodeado de idiotas na internet? Eu sinto! Eu olho para um lado e tem um bando de urubus tentando fazer qualquer jogo que tenha cores flopar, gritando incansavelmente “Concord 2 ou 3” e criando narrativas falsas. Quando eu olho para o outro lado tem milhares de histéricos defendendo joguinho porcaria porque tem escolha de pronome e chamando todo mundo de criminoso. Ambos passam o dia todo pentelhando todo mundo e NUNCA falam de videogame de verdade. Tá foda ser gamer e habitar a internet…

@Pintorpin That was super slam for me with the goofy charms that had the game of the heroes in the art

First time seeing a fab set trailer and not feeling incredibly hyped right off. Is it the powerful, meta-defining classes? That lightning is probably the best element and getting more support? Am I still missing Iyslander? Can´t wait to be proved wrong and change my mind, tho!

@martinild0 @compraonicolas @soudoapito É a mesma coisa quando um chute vai no canto do gol e anulam porque tinha um jogador impedido na frente do goleiro. Não se faz de tonto

@compraonicolas @soudoapito com toda certeza atrapalhou.. o Feliz "papa léguas" torres chegaria inteirinho pra segurar o Amuzu

Análise do 2º gol do Grêmio, o Carlos Vinícius tava impedido? Cadê o VAR? Grêmio 3x0 Internacional 🗣️ Anderson Daronco - RS/FIFA 🖥️ Daniel Nobre Bins - RS/CBF

@Euavisei2023_ @EduMachadoBIO @avohaisccp @futebol_info Onde tu quer chegar com a análise desse jogo único? Nesse mesmo ano o inter teve 2-3 pênaltis sonegados em grenais no gauchão. No fim vocês querem que fique valendo só o que é a favor. Quando é contra, é roubo

@BrenoSulz @EduMachadoBIO @avohaisccp @futebol_info Só um time teve 3 pênaltis marcados a favor em grenal e não foi o Grêmio. Detalhe, tinha VAR.

⚠️ Máfia do Apito: Internacional recebe laudos do ex-árbitro Leonardo Gaciba que negam interferência em jogos anulados do Brasileirão 2005. Gaciba foi contratado pelo Inter para analisar 2 jogos do Corinthians que foram anulados após o escândalo da Máfia do Apito. O árbitro entende que a arbitragem de Edílson Pereira de Carvalho não influenciou no resultado desses 2 jogos, que haviam sido anulados e depois remarcados, resultando, na soma final de pontos, no título do Corinthians. As partidas analisadas foram Santos x Corinthians e São Paulo x Corinthians (2 dos 11 jogos anulados naquele ano). Gaciba afirmou que a arbitragem foi "tecnicamente segura" nesses confrontos. INTERNACIONAL QUER O TÍTULO DE 2005 O Inter está reunindo documentos, análises e depoimentos para apresentar um dossiê à CBF, pedindo que o clube seja reconhecido como campeão brasileiro de 2005 junto com o Corinthians. Ou seja, o Colorado quer que o Brasileirão 2005 tenha dois campeões. 🗞️ @geglobo 📸 Stephanie Pacheco/ge

@EduMachadoBIO @avohaisccp @futebol_info Perdão, na verdade foram 10 jogos. 2010 foi o último jogo que ele apitou em grenais e foi vitória do gremio. Engraçado que no mundo mágico gremista, 70% da população é gremista, mas essa proporção não se reflete nos árbitros gaúchos... esses são todos colorados

@BrenoSulz @avohaisccp @futebol_info Fica tranquilo que agora teu time contrata os "isentos" Vuaden e Simon tb para ajudar no laudo

@EduMachadoBIO @avohaisccp @futebol_info Realidade: Apitou 9 grenais, com 4 vitórias do inter, 3 empates e 2 vitórias do gremio. Isso de 2000 até 2009, anos de pleno domínio colorado.

@avohaisccp @futebol_info E se pesquisar os grenais q esse cara apitou deve ser tipo 20 vitórias do Inter e 3 do Grêmio. Os caras contrataram um colorado mesmo KKKKKK

@DragonFairyX1 @MadamSavvy Stop It. People also don't want to play as an ugly guy.

We don't hate beautiful women. We just want you to expect that you can't expect every woman in every game to have big hips and boobs. Just like snow you'll be sick of seeing it. It sexiness attracts players, why has the First Descendant lost a big percentage of it's player base?

When you sat down to make the character, did you model it after someone? did you specifically hire someone to model it after with a title of "looking for ugly woman"? Most humans are "attractive". attractiveness is more than just large breasts and nice hips- those traits however are biologically engrained in people due to the drive to reproduce- again, more biology. attractiveness can also be boiled down to math, not ONLY cultural trends. Attractive people have symmetry, ratios. Then the cultural trends get layered onto that for things like hair style, clothing, makeup, etc. But why do you also dehumanize "attractive" women? Why do you instantly jump to "porn" when someone is pretty? can you not control yourself? are you a danger to people? So when you say shit like this, what you're really saying is "we made sure our game appealed to the bottom percentile, made sure there was no symmetry, did bad ratios....we paid attention to all the wrong things." issue is, the bottom percentile doesn't show up, as I'm sure you learned.

@teo_sales @bdCastro_ A questão é que tem muito gamer que tá cagando pra esses jogos que tu listou.

@bdCastro_ GOD OF WAR UNCHARTED LAST OF US HORIZON DEATH STRANDING Realmente não perdemos nada. Sò as obras pirmas

que pergunta idiota. Das quatro na lista a Sony é a única que é só um console. Se sumir amanhã vão aparecer 300 concorrentes pra tentar tomar o mercado, e em termos de jogos não perdemos nada relevante. bye bye PlayStation 👋

@FalseAnswer180 @Nerry_pgn @astaranx There is professional outsource and there is asking for your wife and kids to record some sounds

@BrenoSulz @Nerry_pgn @astaranx It doesn't matter , the point of this guy post literally also Try to make it like new GoW game made by 300 ppl when 80-90% of this prob outsource for other stuff. Same to Hollow knight.

God of War 2D = 300 peoples needed to make it Hollow Knight = 3 peoples needed to make it Skill issue.

@TheZTarget @vladvl67 @thomasmahler @asha_shar Because the things you mention are money related stuff. Prices, virtual game boy. Yet, they deliver fun games. People complain about how unfair the price tags are, but they buy. You are right, they dont follow trends, they dont try to make live service shooters, just fun games

@vladvl67 @thomasmahler @asha_shar The "listen to the gamers" part is sort of naive. Look at Nintendo, they don't listen to nobody, don't chase trends, they even do the craziest stuff possible like releasing again the Virtual Boy, and are drowning in money.

I wanted to sit down and write a few lines about the recent news of @asha_shar becoming the new head of Xbox. Moon Studios obviously has a rich history with Xbox, and it’s absolutely fair to say that if the folks at Microsoft hadn’t been early supporters, there’s a good chance Moon Studios would never have existed. So I think I can share a perspective here that many others probably can’t. I’ll once again say some controversial things that I’ll likely get in trouble for, but if you know me, you know I’d rather be radically honest and deal with the fallout afterward than play that strange corporate game that I've never really grown fond of. First off, I don’t envy Asha. She’s going to have an incredibly difficult few years ahead of her, and if she genuinely wants to do things right, she’s just signed up for a back-breaking, largely thankless job where the odds of success are ridiculously lower than the odds of failure. But let’s start with the business basics: From a purely cold-hearted shareholders perspective, it’s fair to ask at this point why Microsoft - as a public company - is even keeping Xbox on its books. As much as we gaming enthusiasts grew up loving what Xbox brought to the table, Microsoft is a giant corporation, and Xbox has historically never been a true needle-mover for Microsoft as a whole. If you look strictly at the numbers, their B2B business and services like Azure generate multiples of what Xbox does. So… why even bother? I’d argue that if you only follow the numbers without understanding how you arrived at those numbers, you don’t really understand business. Let me give a quick example: I’m pretty sure Windows wouldn’t have taken off the way it did back in 95 if it hadn’t been for gaming. Think of Bill Gates what you want, but he was a very smart guy who understood that. He pushed for Windows and IBM PCs to become the place where people wanted to spend their leisure time and not just do work. And he doubled down on that idea when he feared that Sony, with the PlayStation 2, could become a serious competitor in the living room. Hell, that’s how Xbox was born originally. Gates understood that gaming - as niche as it might have seemed - is clearly a force multiplier. Now let’s bring in another legendary tech CEO: Steve Jobs. Steve returned to Apple in 97 after the company had squandered much of its potential and was basically in the shitter. When he took over again, it seemed pretty much hopeless. BUT, against all odds, he managed to turn Apple into the most valuable company ever. I think Asha is in a similarly difficult position: Xbox has spent years following a strategy that just clearly hasn’t worked. 80 billion dollars were spent on acquisitions, and so far the acquired studios have had painfully little to show in terms of genre-defining hits. Game Pass was supposed to reach 100 million subscribers within the first few years. Instead, it’s stagnated around 30 million, with no clear path to the originally projected numbers. Putting Call of Duty into Game Pass was probably the last major Hail Mary - and even that didn’t fundamentally move the needle. So... the situation looks pretty dire. It looks like you've just been named the captain of a sinking ship. But even in that situation, there is a silver lining - and history shows what the strategy has to be: Steve Jobs already pulled off an even more difficult turnaround. So it clearly can be done. Here's what I think has to happen: 1) She needs to listen to gamers. Gamers are incredibly frustrated because they’ve been shouting from the rooftops what they want, and they feel like nobody is listening. So… listen. And actually give them what they want. 2) She needs to be willing to make radical moves, even if they make her unpopular in the short term. When internal studios fail to deliver, some heads will have to roll. Leadership has to come in, identify who can actually execute and who is standing in the way of change. Those who aren't willing to change have to get the boot. Uncomfortable, but necessary. Anyone who has ambitions beyond delivering incredible gaming experiences and pushing the medium forward really needs to go work somewhere else. You shouldn't try to win a culture war, you should try to make Xbox the #1 gaming platform. Competition is healthy and makes everyone give their best. 3) There are no shortcuts. She has to be able to identify and obsess over quality. Xbox will need truly exceptional, genre-defining games. Anything less than that and the ship continues to sink. That has to mean partnering with studios that are deeply connected to gaming culture. Studios that understand players. Studios that have proven they can deliver what gamers actually want. You can't afford to be left out of the conversation anymore. Because clearly, the answers haven’t been coming from the inside for quite some time. And gamers, let’s be realistic: Even if Asha turns out to be a force for good in the industry, she won’t hit a home run every single time. No one does. The iPhone itself could have been a massive failure if Steve hadn’t listened to people like John Carmack, who warned that shipping a completely closed platform without an App Store and third party devs getting proper access to the hardware would be a serious mistake. Leadership is never about perfection. It’s always about being clear about your vision and then being willing to listen and to ruthlessly ensure that your vision will be realized. So ultimately, change is good. Xbox now has a chance to flip the table. And they'll have to: If she wants to do things the right way, it's gonna be a pretty shitty job for quite some time. But it can be done - if the person at the top has the right instincts and can rally the right people around her. Whether she is that person remains to be seen. I hope she is - Whether you like Xbox or not, gaming is in a better place with a strong Xbox directly competing against everyone else.

@Nerry_pgn @astaranx That's Silksong, not the first HK. And most of those numbers are the musicians hired to record the soundtrack. If you look at the actual dev part, its tiny. They even have a bunch of friends and even family members listed

@astaranx Here's the list with more than three people who was making the game for more than 6 years. youtu.be/gWcXYjvlxEc?si…

@sergyo182 @astaranx And most of them are the musician hired to record the score. The credits of Silksong literally have a bunch of their family members 😭

@astaranx Silksong has +90 people credited.

@ShashLuna @warcroft @Theoladeledada I'm curious, what do you do when a cockroach enters your house? What do you do when a mosquito pass by when you are watching tv? Spider?

@warcroft @Theoladeledada If ‘I need to eat’ justifies killing any conscious being, then it justifies killing the nearest one when you’re hungry. It clearly doesn’t, so necessity was never your real argument.

This is how they do electric stunning for animals in slaughterhouses, and they die instantly.. There are so many details of human civilization that if we really looked closely at them, we’d be shocked.

@spadezmusic @SouISeven @voidsentflame Guys made you look stupid 😭

@SouISeven @voidsentflame Where is it in tos for arc? Also no one be reading that shit 😭

best marathon marketing i've ever seen

@TheBlackHokage That's not exactly how it works. You really think that a good game will fail because some people are posting things like this? People outside the twitter bubble will play the game and they will keep playing or just leave

Saving this tweet just incase Marathon does fail as proof some were rooting for its failure before ever touching it. When things go bad folks love to revise history like they weren’t asking for that outcome. This new trend is beyond weird. Same “gamers” who claim it’s nothing to play. Dog piling on everything new. Just miserable.