The fact that they think it’s part of the same strategy is why they fail. They take a cursory look at both, see numbers go up, and think that all they have to do is push for common element X to succeed.
Gross oversimplification of business strategy and how products are built are why corporations trip over their own dicks over and over again. I wish they would just teach that in business school.
What do you expect from RPS, Kotaku, IGN, and the rest of the games “journalists”? Journalistic integrity?
That would require an actual journalism degree.
Did they fix all of the bugs? Subnautica 1 is still buggy as shit.
I loved that game for a brief time, but I felt like I could have gotten into a car accident with how much I was trying to take over outposts.
Fucking bonkers first season finale. I just couldn’t take it seriously after that…
My guess is because of shareholder pressure
Of course, the lesson to be learned that no company ever learns: Don’t go public. Don’t ever go public!
It’s made much worse by the games “journalists” industry paying too much attention to X. They find some crackpot spouting off controversy, elevate that shit to the moon, and suddenly other people are talking about this opinion that only lives in a vacuum.
IGN, PCGamer, RPS, Kotaku… they all live for this shit.
Right now, there’s an executive battle to wrestle control of the company away from the original founders. While the founders are probably a bunch of rich assholes, they want to go back to being privately-traded with Tencent’s help, and the alternative is so much worse: venture capitalists in a publicly-traded stock market. They have been driving their IPs into the ground, due to overexposure (looking at you, Assassin’s Creed). No doubt this whole face-to-face decision was bought on by the capitalist assholes trying to sabotage the company and distract the public from what’s actually going on.
Doesn’t seem like a very “open source” price to me.
The feature creep is a feature, not a bug. They want to be in a perpetual state of early access. They realize that it brings them more money than actually releasing the game and everybody being disappointed.
Just think of the hype of Cyperpunk 2077 before launch and after launch. Before launch, people would be willing to sacrifice their first-born child to play the game. After launch, the hype completely evaporated into scorn.
Depends on the context. We’re talking about an image editor, so showing a demo of the features in video form is helpful.
I’m sure that line of thinking will go over great when you stay home during Election Day and Trump magically gets elected.
Pocketpair also doesn’t know yet either.
They have the full wording of the lawsuit. I’m sure they know.
You can’t just sue somebody on “trust me, bro”.
The US has no federal requirement to pay for unworked hours, be they sick or holiday time off work.
“Federal” is the weasel word here. All states have their own requirements, including sick time, holiday time, and how long you can go without a break. Also, I’ve never seen an employer not offer PTO. Even your local McDonalds has paid vacation for full-time employees.
While I wish it was codified into federal law, your implication that nobody has vacation time in the US is patently false.
You’d be surprised.
I feel like you’re mixing up some companies, these sentences make no sense in the context of Embracer. Are you talking about Bethesda?
No. Microsoft.
Microsoft has no such excuse. MS leadership has been asked multiple times why they did it, and they literally haven’t said a single fucking word that makes sense.
I feel like you’re defending the wrong thing here. Wondering why MS shudder the studio is like asking a snake why it attacks its prey. It’s a fucking snake. That’s what it does. That’s always what it does.
Embracer screwed up and let itself be absorbed into the Microsoft empire. They have their IP. They care about nothing else.
Not even once.
Well, it’s more like a stopped watch sort of thing. Konami has lost its way ever since it cared more about pachinko machines than actual video games.