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Dune: Awakening@DuneAwakening
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Half-Life writer Chet Faliszek has called out 'haters' who hope that games fail
“If you hate game developers, you hate games ... If you’re cheering on for things to fail, if you think game developers have no idea about games, and only you ... just keep it to yourself”
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@towelthetank @Warcraft I dont know why. I've played since the game released and have made, countless memories that are separate from the game directly. I even met my wife while mythic raiding. So it isnt the game directly, but maybe the experiences I've had along the way.
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@RedPhoenixTR People can and will talk about what they dont like. They will share with the world about hating something. You cant silence the internet nor the abundant social media platforms out there. Learn what year it is and make something customers talk positive over.
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LOL, don’t look at the replies if you want to be sane.
“You shouldn’t make bad games then!”
Yeah by that logic, Kojima would have never made MGS because it was labeled a bad game/genre when he came up with the idea. How do you know something is bad before doing it? Live-service?
No, because there are millions of people actively playing live service games. You want people to stop trying even before they start creating. Then blame Ubisoft for making the same game over and over again. The problem is you guys, blame the dev when it’s not something everyone wants, but when a dev makes something you want 100 times you still blame the dev.
Ataberk Ateş@RedPhoenixTR
Every studio closed, every person laid off hurts this industry. If you are rooting for these games to fail / studios to close because you think they will start making what you like, YOU ARE MISTAKEN. That's not how things work. People try new things and that's the spice of games. Do you really believe people who made Titanfall is bad at making games and just suddenly decided to create something nobody will play? They tried, it may have failed but without someone trying we'll have the same things over and over again. The main problem is the time it takes to ship a game now. 6 YEARS! Even the biggest studios have 1 shot now, if a game fails you have to have 6 years of development costs to have another shot. Which currently most studios doesn't have the luxury. Making mistakes and producing less favorable games are the part of this industry but we have to make sure that the time to develop these games doesn't guarantee your studios fall once it fails. We have to reduce the scopes and make smaller games.
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@RedPhoenixTR 6 years to make something no one wanted. Someone is making poor decisions. Just because a team makes a game doesnt mean it must be successful. Its not the customers fault they didnt buy the product.
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Every studio closed, every person laid off hurts this industry.
If you are rooting for these games to fail / studios to close because you think they will start making what you like, YOU ARE MISTAKEN. That's not how things work. People try new things and that's the spice of games.
Do you really believe people who made Titanfall is bad at making games and just suddenly decided to create something nobody will play? They tried, it may have failed but without someone trying we'll have the same things over and over again.
The main problem is the time it takes to ship a game now. 6 YEARS! Even the biggest studios have 1 shot now, if a game fails you have to have 6 years of development costs to have another shot. Which currently most studios doesn't have the luxury.
Making mistakes and producing less favorable games are the part of this industry but we have to make sure that the time to develop these games doesn't guarantee your studios fall once it fails. We have to reduce the scopes and make smaller games.
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@madcap412 Its because when one studio mass lays off, another studio rehires all the same shit devs to make the next failure.. cycle keeps repeating.
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- Highguard's dev team got laid off
- Horizon Hunters Gathering got more dislikes than likes
- Relooted released DOA
- Ubisoft is in flames with strikes and cutbacks
Seriously, Western devs, STOP! JUST STOP!
This is not working...go back to traditional gaming!
How many more flops, layoffs, and how much more money do you want to lose to push this "modern gaming" shit?!
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@MazeAteThat @JohnnyGaming9 @JayBari_ Interesting take. The problem is the one buying the games. A 10yr old isnt buying their $500 console and then buying their $80 games, parents are. These types of games just aren't selling if the adult counterpart doesnt like it. Its like movies our parents wouldn't let us watch.
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My only comment is, and it may be a reach because I have no idea how old everyone is, but I’m just going to use the word we as an assumption…..we have to realize at some point that we are not their target audience anymore. The Fortnite , Roblox , cartoon graphic crew kids are. They don’t even care about graphics and mechanics. This isn’t for us. Now imma play and give it a whirl (the mobile version game look better tho) but I understand , I’m not their target audience , the generation coming up is. My daughter (13)
They need these multiplayer type games, it’s true, this is 4 the TikTok scrolling crew who wants to play Roblox for the most part, and Fortnite. They need this level of social engagement with games that look like this …..they want to play with their friends, or random peers that they can find to play with.It ain’t for us. I see the direction though.
That 1-2 tentpole title a year game , that’s for us!!!!
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From all the hate Horizon Hunters Gathering is getting. Im not seeing ANY of these ppl discuss the mechanics, gameplay, modes, abilities, story. Its surface level hate about its artstyle. Ive seen 1 or 2 go in depth and. One being @JayBari_ yall like to claim ur gamers tho 🤷🏾♂️
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@GermanStrands The art style is so unremarkable or lacking anything unique that when watching the trailer, I first thought it was an ad for clash of clans or another phone game, maybe even fornite items dlc. However, I realize that none of those options would make such ugly characters
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@kabrutusdeid This has to be made with AI, one girl has her weapon through her body. The staff location next to her is iffy as well.
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@ShitpostRock Ez, to sell you skins and battlepasses. Make it F2P so everyone can spend more money than ever before. Any1 with half a brain could smell how bad OW2 was gonna be a mile away.
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@depressedchimp @megcantplay @Wago_io @Fragnancewow @UnhaltedGB Why are upset when you can't read. Here, I'll type it bold for you, IMPORT STRING. You know, the thing people pay for. Using the addon was not the issue.
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@lockdown907 @megcantplay @Wago_io @Fragnancewow @UnhaltedGB UUF was used last season when atrocity was using elvui??? What are you yapping about
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FragUI is Midnight ready 👏 @Fragnancewow
If you're looking for a performance-optimized UI, you'll want to check it out!
FragUI is built for Tanks & DPS, with a Healer profile in the works
It also comes with both colour & dark mode variants 🫡
uipacks.wago.io/pack/fragui-co…
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@megcantplay @Wago_io @Fragnancewow @UnhaltedGB All I said was import string. Thats completely different from the authors working together. Thats not how UUF looks like by default at all. Don't believe me, go look at Atrocities UUF.
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@lockdown907 @Wago_io @Fragnancewow @UnhaltedGB Unhalted and Frag work together, and he is paid for his work. Nothing is ripped off from somewhere else.
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@TheAthleticism @sx6_magnusz Ppl are actively playing the beta in m+ dungeons of the midnight expansions. Also the prepatch is Midnight without the content, classes are the same.
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i'm baffled at how bad midnight feels. i cannot find 1 positive thing to say about it. addons or no addons the gameplay is slower and worse than the 1st iteration of arena ever introduced. how do we have 20 years of development to release something this bad? embarrassing
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@Azshava_1997 Thats the fun part, blizz makes xp wall > players buy items for gold to get xp > more ppl buy wow tokens to do so > blizz porfits.
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Yeah... Player Housing has definitely gone to complete garbage with this update with endeavors. The fact that there are diminishing returns on house exp with repeatable endeavor tasks is bullshit, and now housing feels like a grind in of itself. Not only that, but the amount of exp required to get from one level to the next is insane if you factor in these diminishing returns.
It almost makes you want to just spend millions and millions of gold on the crafted decor items (even though you might not use them) just for the purpose to gain house exp. Which the crafted decor items are already turbo expensive in the first place.
I just want my housing levels man... not this. It's so bad... Just let me play the goddamn game Blizzard...
@Warcraft @WarcraftDevs
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@formbextron Thank God its a new rig. It looks incredible, and it runs so perfectly!
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I can finally upload this reel! The Lunar New Year mount for WoW this year was the first rig I got to be point animator on. This is a brand new horse rig with all-new animations 🐴 huge huge HUGE thanks to Valentina Velieva for her amazing work on the VFX!
#warcraft #animation
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@RickDaSquirrel_ Why does it matter, they made money. Ppl watched it, even ones that hated it or say its terrible, still watched it. At the end of the day, the only thing that will effect how they feel is if no one watched it and they made little.
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I want to know how the Duffer Brothers feel right now.
How they messed up their show so badly, people don’t believe that it’s actually real and that the true conclusion was gonna happen because of how terribly made and written their actual work was.
GOT S8 wasn’t this insane
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
A secret 9th episode of ‘STRANGER THINGS’ Season 5 is not happening (Source: @Variety)
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@rivaLxfactor The game has a number of issues for me
Maps poorly designed
Plays like cod
Weps are either meta or completely unplayable
Lmg's have little purpose
Class system is trash, i.e medic/support
Challenges are unfun
REDSEC existing
Ttk/tic rate
Wtf is this menu
And way more.
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Why did you put Battlefield 6 down or cut your playtime back?
There are no wrong answers as this is based on your experience.
Trying to create a reference point so others, aka fanboys, understand the issues people face with the game.
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@SteelWicker I have a better one, its 10 years later.. they have released 300 new ships, and terminals aren't working, engineering now has you beam repair every bolt on a ship requiring 100 players per small ship, entry lvl ships cost $1500.. ppl forgot about sq42 as they have died of old age
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My Squadron 42 Hot Takes:
- Beta will be given to major publications and content creators
- SQ42 marketing cycle begins April-May 2026 with an IGN exclusive, big Summer Games Fest appearance in June with a trailer presented at the end of the show by Jeff Keighley
- It will release in September ahead of GTA 6 (Would be amazing if they dropped it on the 23rd of September, which is my birthday)
- It will be available on Steam, and Star Citizen will also be put on Steam
- Steam Deck and Machine verified on Day 1
- SquadronCon in October to celebrate the release, update us on what’s coming to SC in 2027, and potential announcement of a sequel or spinoff
- Console announced for 2027 release
- GOTY Nomination, possibly even winner given GTA 6 will be released too late in the year for a nomination
What do you all think? #StarCitizen #Squadron42
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