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Dielan

Appears Bioware is not giving out review codes to creators who might be critical of the game.

https://x.com/WolfheartFPS/status/1849861834330996789

Like they want the best prelaunch perception possible. Probably to get a critical mass of day one sales, expecting critics to drive people away. What are they hiding?

HelsEch

SkoomaDealer

Sadly, we're in a nostalgia boom. The Switch is an emulator for several old consoles, some of which aren't even Nintendo's. Games are getting rereleased, remade, and rebooted constantly and there is a real concern for a company that this could affect that market.

And to what standard specifically are we going to tell companies to give up their ability to put their IPs and previous products onto this old games market? Like, it would be wonderful if we could arrange some system for that for the sake of games preservation, but it's really contentious territory with how valuable those rights are.

I speak from a lot of personal experience on that. I play two different private servers for mmos that shut down over a decade ago. Only one of them operates in a way that is entirely legal and they certainly couldn't start out that way. There's a lot of issues currently in the way of preserving games and not all of them are there unreasonably.

Dielan

HelsEch Nintendo Switch emulators suck too. The PC ones are way better

However, playing Gameboy Tetris on my Switch on my work commute is pretty amazing.

(I know I could have simply taken my steam deck instead, it stays at home)

SkoomaDealer

HelsEch that’s also sidestepping the actual argument being made. It’s specifically about preserving out of market (no way to purchase from 1st or 3rd party sellers) software and video games. Rarely do companies rerelease games in those prior states, even collections usually make some changes. I didn’t follow the entirety of it, but I don’t think they’re asking for mmo servers to still function past sunset.

Idk to what extent things would really plague the market, but it certainly wouldn’t inhibit the properties from having remasters or remakes or anything.

It also speaks to the quality of major releases if people want to play older games more than new releases, but that’s not what’s being talked about right now.

HelsEch

Dielan They do, but the fact that the market for them exists creates an issue for these preservation efforts.

Dielan

I'd prefer to see some kind of IP regulation that clearly defines what abandonware is and let's us fuck with it

HelsEch

Dielan See, I'm totally down with actually just kicking copyright laws down a peg.

I get why they're useful, but the Mouse went too far in its law battle, and we've been dealing with an IP inflation dampening creativity in the entertainment market since

SkoomaDealer

Not a good look for BioWare.

https://youtu.be/LDRVdfzHXDI?si=qXNsAiqsehy1Znhw

Victim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDDuO2vSkzQ

Asmon reacting to Hero hei reacting to Fex, but he's echoing my thoughts here. Also, Rare Fextra W.

Dielan

Victim I feel like I said exactly something like this when I gave my Metaphor first impressions. Racism, intolerance, oppression, all of that is present in Metaphor but it is well written and natural.

Seeing the disclaimer on the left hand side for your dialogue choices in dragon age helps me understand what SkillUp was saying when he said the writing "felt like HR was in the room" if anything this reminds me of those annual online HR courses us corpos have to do every year, where each answer is explained just like that why it's right or wrong when you click on them in the training webpage. What an embarrassment

Dielan

We should probably make a new thread just detailing the dragon age shenanigans going on. By the time our show returns in January it will probably blow over

Dielan

Dielan and it is done

There's enough to say about JUST dragon age, so send those thoughts here --> https://melonmancy.cafe/d/94-dragon-age-veilguard-the-grifter-olympics

SkoomaDealer

I want to keep an eye on that Ubisoft NFT game for a couple of days. To see how quickly it flops, cause that’s a hilarious failure incoming.

Dielan

Mercante is out!

Here's the attached image on the tweet: saved it off just incase she deletes it or goes private

I know shewrote it as if she chose to leave, but it begs further questions. With her departure there's nobody left at Kotaku that has any ongoing controversy. They might actually be sticking to sports lmao

Dielan

Dielan wait it gets better

https://archive.is/lq2dO

Dielan

Another round of journo layoffs, this time inverse

So sudden its almost like several outlets suddenly lost a source of funding I wonder what kind of major event could have led to that

SkoomaDealer

Apparently, yelling, threatening, and blaming audiences didn’t work out. Neither did coercion or lying. AAA suffered bad this year specifically. As did anything relying on “in your face” woke ideology. People don’t like being talked down to and there’s a lot of establishment media and companies crumbling because they haven’t moved on from 2014.

Dielan

Not commenting on the occasional blunders of the pirat_nation account on twitter right now, but he has tweeted a meme about DEG Mods. Seen by half a million people

This is huge exposure!!!

Dielan

Dielan I know when we covered this I mentioned my first impression was that DEG might be short for degenerate (its not) but hilarious the meme in question was about a sex mod lmao

SkoomaDealer

I know the meme is about a sex mod (in a loose sense). But I think it’s a fair thing to mod in and highlights how easily lines can be drawn on the platforms that are better known.

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