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👇 THIS is why the Looting Mk3 Survivor augment is a game changer 🥵🔥 Run this augment or become goop ☠️ #ArcRaiders #arcraidersgame

@MarathonMedia01 Let Rook do campaign missions

Name one thing you would change in Marathon! 🧐 #Marathon | #MarathonGame

@AI_EmeraldApple I mean the devs were the ones that said "We don't need [player counts] to be super huge in order to be successful"

HighGuard isn't just facing end of service. The studio is staring down complete closure and the firing of all employees. Wildlight Entertainment has a 100-person team with a monthly burn of about $800k USD. Games like this need roughly 20–50k concurrent players (200k+ daily average users) for sustained profitability. There is zero chance the game is generating $800k a month with under 10k peak concurrent players. Even with optimistic 50k daily active users, revenue would max out at $150k–300k per month. Realistic estimates point closer to 30k daily active users and only about $45k-90k monthly revenue. With a 94%+ drop from peak in just one week, the game is in a death spiral. Such poor metrics deter whales from spending, since their cosmetics will become inaccessible after EOS. The negative press and numbers are also preventing many potential players from even trying it. Low players -> empty queues -> more quits ->whale flight -> revenue crater. To survive, the game needs 20k+ average concurrent players by mid-February... or both the game and the studio are finished. I also don't see any competent VC saving the studio either.

@ClownWorld Was bro even break checked?

@TheChamp2105 @coco22TV They said

@coco22TV Probably a legal reason.

You know its bad when Highguard removed "from the creators of Apex and Titanfall" from their description...

@Rumotu @coco22TV From the creators of Halo and Destiny

@coco22TV Honestly "from the creators of" is a big red flag. Lately every single game that was "from the creators of" ended up being a huge flop

@ArcRaiderAlerts That’s just an artistic interpretation of dam battlegrounds. That’s research and admin in the bg

Imagine a swamp mangrove map in ARC Raiders featuring frog-like jumping Arcs. Drop a 🐸 if you need this map!

@DisfoldAI @BoringBiz_ There’s just one little problem

@BoringBiz_ OpenAI needs to prove revenue or get sold for parts.

State of AI right now > Anthropic CEO talking about AI winning nobel prizes and taking over the world within the span of 5 years > Elon talking about AI making money completely useless and creating infinite prosperity for humanity > Google using AI to solve quantum computing and drug discovery > OpenAI is talking about adding ads to their LLM The discrepancy is uncanny. OpenAI might be this generation’s Netscape

@Ruan3D_ @vitrupo Hey wtf why haven’t they cured anything yet

@vitrupo We just need another 500 billion dollars please. Oh and it also cannot cure cancer or any diseases as we promised.

Sam Altman: “By the end of this year, for $100–$1,000 of inference and a good idea, you’ll be able to create software that would have taken teams of people a year to do. That magnitude of economic change is very hard to wrap your head around.”

@IGN Why would he do this?

The developer of Highguard has confirmed streamer Dr Disrespect did not attend a preview event after he created a fake badge and pretended to have been invited to play the game early. Dr Disrespect re... bit.ly/4qM2LVY

@ns123abc The irony is that coders don’t use ChatGPT, and if they do, they’re cooked

BREAKING: OpenAI CEO admits they sacrificed ChatGPT’s creative writing to chase coding Sam Altman: >“I think we just screwed that up” >“We have limited bandwidth” >“We decided to focus on coding” OpenAI is playing catch-up now.

@Kotaku “… and other fun make-believe stories”

I love mining crystals in Highguard kotaku.com/mining-crystal…

@Pirat_Nation Wait I preordered one of those

Concord trilogy is almost complete

@LookAtMyMeat1 Calling it comparable to Apex is too much credit, this is just slop

>the one thing people wanted from Respawn was Titanfall 3 >all they're doing is making Apex content >a bunch of devs leave >instead of giving people a spiritual successor to Titanfall they make Fantasy Apex Legends They knew what people wanted and made slop instead

@KingRichard What if the real goop was the squads that wiped along the way?

@Designatedkitty Ok this is low key genius

How the fuck you gonna put guns in fantasy bullshit and not make a single one of them use magic or anything. How the fuck you people didn’t come up with the sniper rifle being a wizard staff or something. Just had to put an ak in the thing they couldn’t help themselves.

@ARCRaidersNews My thoughts: I didn’t ask for this. No one wants this. There is no benefit from this at level 75. Why would they do this?

What are your guys' thoughts on the new matchmaking option? Solo vs Squads, which also requires level 40 to queue.

@jrq3rq @Nocapmedia How do you think it got caught?

@Nocapmedia The proportions would not allow flight, possibly glide. Definitely AI. Probably AI. Hopefully AI.

This better be F*cking AI

@ArcRaidersIntel Has anyone figured out how to change squad leader?

January Update 1.13.0 New Items 2 new types of Epic Augments 7 New Quests Stella Montis Seed Vault extract fix. Mouse smoothing option added. Squad Invites Added the option for squadmates to invite others to the party as well as the party leader. More Below ⬇️

@Okami13_ To be fair, it’s not really anyone’s kind of game. Predictions on number of players by the end of the month?

I tried Highguard. They basically took a bunch of different ideas from popular games and combined them into one. Apex, Fortnite, Counter Strike, and Rainbow Six Siege to name a few. Not really my kind of game. I don't think it will last unfortunately.

@geoffkeighley Thank you Geoff 🙏

Thoughts on Highguard so far?