Doxxing Files |OT| Do not use a pandemic to make a platform wars thread

[Joe Molotov]

Netflix for games.

[Boredfrom]

I think is fine for people to celebrate Gamepass. But I think that is a different beast from being worry about Microsoft notoriously bad management of video game studios.

I also agree Sony is going scumbag mode (they were already there when Jim Ryan started to get notoriety) and fuck paying 70 dollars for a game.

[ShutUp]

Continually bringing up studio mismanagement from the early part of this current gen as if that's at all how things are running now is lol. They have a fuck ton of studios now and games are going to get the time they need before release. Only a good thing for us when all three are firing on all cylinders.

[Rahxephon91]

I just want Lost Odyssey 2.

[Rahxephon91]

But I guess MS is just playing the long game and will be ready when gaming does really become less about the boxes and more about the service. I wonder when that will really happen though.

[mormapope]

All this Xbox bliss
Sony fans tasting piss
Ponies turning into glue
Taste this game pass stew

[Boredfrom]

Continually bringing up studio mismanagement from the early part of this current gen as if that's at all how things are running now is lol. They have a fuck ton of studios now and games are going to get the time they need before release. Only a good thing for us when all three are firing on all cylinders.

Halo Infinite debacle happened just a month ago. lol

[Straight Edge]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/dog-dilemma.292064/

So, my GF and I are expecting our first kid in November. It's been a really bumpy road- she's high-risk due to age and the fact that it was IVF. Along with that, she's got OCD (which she has cut down on medicating to ensure no issues with the baby) and has locked herself down due to fear of COVID. We were supposed to start getting me moved in at the end of March, but she locked everything down out of fear of catching it. I wasn't allowed in her house for 4 months, even though I was working full-time from home, and not going anywhere. I've been staying with my dad for that time.

I have a dog. He's 11, and has bladder cancer. He's been fighting real hard, and doing real well, but I'm starting to see the signs that there's a finite amount of time. Like, he probably won't make it till Christmas. Sleeps a lot. Drips blood when he walks around sometimes. It's getting worse relatively quickly. He gets a dose of Chemo every three months, and has his rabies vaccine, but isn't able to get any other vaccines due to his compromised immune system. Otherwise, he's on $120 in meds a month, and has a vet appt every 3 months that averages $400-$600. He's been with me for the last 9 years- through the toughest, loneliest times of my life. Dad loves having the dog around, but his schedule doesn't really mesh well with the dog's. He goes to bed at 830 every night- the dog needs to go out at least once more each night before bed, or he'll have an accident. He wandeRS the house looking for me at night when I'm not there- it's not uncommon for him to be sleeping in front of the garage door.

We're getting closer to the due date. We planned on me and the dog moving in over the summer, and staying in the basement, which was finished. Found black mold. Basement torn up. Mold taken care of, but there's still a ton of work. So, there goes that idea. She won't have the dog there and in the top two floors of the house- she's convinced she's going to catch something from the dog. I've checked with two vets, and they say outside of the 3 says after each dose of Chemo, there's virtually no risk to her. He doesn't go to dog parks, or even the people park- he walks around the block, so I can't even think of the last time he was around another dog. The idea he'll catch anything that could be possibly transmitted to her is also virtually nonexistent.

So, now she's decided that either I need to leave the dog with my dad and move in with her, or she moves in with her mom. I see where she's coming from. I do. She refuses to try to understand where I'm coming from. It's a real fucking dick move to tell someone else "Hey, take care of my dying dog now." He's not anywhere sick enough to need to be put down, but it's not far. But she refuses to try to meet me halfway on this. It's either I dump the dog off on my dad, and make him take care of it, or she stays with her mom.

Now, some preemptive clarification- I'm there every day before work and from Friday night until Monday morning. I basically work and sleep at my dad's. When I sleep there on the weekends, I sleep on the couch on the other side of the house- she takes up the whole bed.

I know I'm not not an asshole here. I just don't know what to do. Maybe there's nothing I can do. Just makes me sick to my stomach.

 
I'm guessing he'll find out about her other boyfriend soon.

[VomKriege]

I dunno why people here are celebrating Xbox buying Bethesda given their track record, but hey. 

Bethesda, for all its faults, was better as an indepedient company.

I think the only thing we're celebrating is Salt Christmas.
In my heart of hearts I'm not a big fan on the "consolidation", but without getting all Network here, those market tides are forces of nature that are way, wayyyyy above our pay grades as consumers. I'm already a lapsed gamer save for Star Citizen LARPs anyway so it's not like I even have to contend with any hypocrisy.

[VomKriege]

I think the only thing that'll hurt me, and it's a big unspoken elephant in the room in this console war shit, is the sun setting definitely on the Japanese vidyagame industry as a driving force in the art.

It already has, in many ways.

[paprikastaude]

I think the only thing that'll hurt me, and it's a big unspoken elephant in the room in this console war shit, is the sun setting definitely on the Japanese vidyagame industry as a driving force in the art.

It already has, in many ways.

They are way more successful than last gen again. Not CoD-levels, but they've found their own mainstream space again. Capcom and FROM delivering all the GOATs currently, among other things.

[mormapope]

I think the only thing that'll hurt me, and it's a big unspoken elephant in the room in this console war shit, is the sun setting definitely on the Japanese vidyagame industry as a driving force in the art.

It already has, in many ways.

The Nintendo Switch is sitting at 60+ million consoles sold after three years, Animal Crossing is at 20+ million sold and it came out this year. Nintendo and the developers they make games with are arguably the best games in the medium, this is true in 2020 and will be true for the foreseeable future.

Sony stopped giving a shit about Japan when they got behind their first party studios at the start of this gen. The PS4 will end up with less units sold than the PS3(in Japan).

[VomKriege]

I think the only thing that'll hurt me, and it's a big unspoken elephant in the room in this console war shit, is the sun setting definitely on the Japanese vidyagame industry as a driving force in the art.

It already has, in many ways.

They are way more successful than last gen again. Not CoD-levels, but they've found their own mainstream space again. Capcom and FROM delivering all the GOATs currently, among other things.

I don't disagree but I think the possibility of it looms large. Fanboys were always rabid but I think for some this has taken a very existential dread quality this last decade.

[nudemacusers]

consolidation is a natural outcome of the AAA push; nobody cheering on these cinematic games should be complaining about it. no independent company can afford to sit on a mountain of financial debt while they build a $60+ million product for years while shopping it around to publishers. the only alternative is to monetize the development process (ie star citizen) and look what that turned into.

[benita]

Wrong thread
Wrong forum
Wrong website

[OnlyRegret]

I think the only thing that'll hurt me, and it's a big unspoken elephant in the room in this console war shit, is the sun setting definitely on the Japanese vidyagame industry as a driving force in the art.

It already has, in many ways.

white people killed vidya then

[Nintex]

After his Xbox high Nadella will some day sober up like his predecessors and wonder why he sunk billions into something that will never be profitable and bring in someone new to restructure and then the cycle begins anew.

[nudemacusers]

BALLMER 2024

[Boredfrom]

I think the only thing that'll hurt me, and it's a big unspoken elephant in the room in this console war shit, is the sun setting definitely on the Japanese vidyagame industry as a driving force in the art.

It already has, in many ways.

The Nintendo Switch is sitting at 60+ million consoles sold after three years, Animal Crossing is at 20+ million sold and it came out this year. Nintendo and the developers they make games with are arguably the best games in the medium, this is true in 2020 and will be true for the foreseeable future.

Sony stopped giving a shit about Japan when they got behind their first party studios at the start of this gen. The PS4 will end up with less units sold than the PS3(in Japan).

Didn’t Sekiro also sold a ton? I think it even surprised Activision. Also Monster Hunter finally got outside the niche in the west...

[mormapope]

BALLMER 2024

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[Straight Edge]

I hired an artist a few years ago to do artwork for a visual game and card game.

I had seen his work before and I thought (and still do) think it’s amazing.

But, I didn’t have a lot of cash, so I sent money for commissions every so often and, since I wasn’t paying him a month’s worth of income, of course he had to get other commissions from other people, which delayed my commissions.

So, I used a couple of 401k loans to pay for the art in a few big payments so he could focus on my commissions and there would be less delays.

But then, he kind of put my commissions to the side, and then he had major health issues for about a year, and it’s not like he could pay me back since he spent the money and also was trying to fundraiser money for his medical expenses.

After a while, he got better and started working on my stuff, but because I had sent about $6,000 for the commissions, I didn’t feel comfortable sending him more money, which meant he had to get new commissions to make money, which slowed down my commissions.

I tried looking for an artist that could replicate his art style, because then I’d have to scrub ALL of the commissions he had already done and start all over again. Of course, I also wouldn’t see the money I had already sent. And again, there’s no way he could pay me back.

So, after looking and coming up short on finding an artist who came close to his art style, my artist and I came to an agreement: I would still send him money, but only have of what the commission is worth. The other half would be deducted from the “reserves,” or money that I already had sent.

Seems like it was going well, but he just emailed me today and said he is having nerve issues and will have to get surgery next month.

I believe him. I tend to deal with health issues that screw up all of my plans, and can empathize.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/having-a-game-design-dilemma-what-would-you-do.292742/

But... I don’t know... I was hoping I would release a short visual novel by the time the pandemic ends and kickstart the card game next year.

A couple of lawyers I know said to sue him and stuff, but the guy has no money.

This was a big dream of mine, but now after all these years and all this money I’ve spent (not just for art, but other things too for these projects, I’m starting to think I should give up on this dream.

When it comes to card games, you have to have 3 sets ready by the time the first set is being released.

And because I haven’t made any revenue on the project, I can’t declare these expenses as business expenses. At least not anymore according to my tax person. It’s just seen as a “hobby.”

 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

After his Xbox high Nadella will some day sober up like his predecessors and wonder why he sunk billions into something that will never be profitable and bring in someone new to restructure and then the cycle begins anew.

They must have lost upwards of $10 billion easily on running Nokia into the ground

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/theverge-amazon-prime-day-will-begin-october-13th-multiple-sources-say.292559/

lol at the "FUCK AMAZON" voices being completely ignored by people going "man I hope they got some great deals on shit I dont really need!"

[Jenkem]

J.K. Rowling is correct.

[Jenkem]

Benji, I don’t see why those posts are bad outside of being self grandiose wank. You guys should really, really, really don’t elect Trump a second time.

nice blog post, still votin' Trump 

[Nintex]

After his Xbox high Nadella will some day sober up like his predecessors and wonder why he sunk billions into something that will never be profitable and bring in someone new to restructure and then the cycle begins anew.

They must have lost upwards of $10 billion easily on running Nokia into the ground

I totally forgot about that disaster.

[nudemacusers]

After his Xbox high Nadella will some day sober up like his predecessors and wonder why he sunk billions into something that will never be profitable and bring in someone new to restructure and then the cycle begins anew.

They must have lost upwards of $10 billion easily on running Nokia into the ground killing their competition

sometimes it costs to become number one in mobile

oh wait that didn't happen

[Jenkem]

This isn't good for people who can afford one console

fake news. switch+pc master race will be fine.
 

[nudemacusers]

MS made like $1 billion in a single year off of just Samsung having to pay them royalties on Nokia patents didn't they?

Pretty sure that purchase was insanely fruitful despite the company itself going nowwhere.

are you expecting me to research my posts before i make them

[Snoopycat_]

Oh no, arrogant money grubbing Sony are up to their old tricks again

So I traded in the most of my remaining disc games on PS4 in prepreation for my PS5 Digital Edition and went to rebuy one of my favorites Ys VIII digitally and I noticed the price on the PSN Store $59.99.... this game is 3 years old the only other company I see keep older titles this expensive is Nintendo, anyone know what’s going on here?
 

[GreatSageEqualOfHeaven]

MS made like $1 billion in a single year off of just Samsung having to pay them royalties on Nokia patents didn't they?

Pretty sure that purchase was insanely fruitful despite the company itself going nowwhere.

MSs patent shakedown moneys come from Android, not from Nokias mobile specific patents, because its the literal same playbook they used in the 90s shaking down Linux vendors but being very specifically careful to not take Linux (in the 90s) or Google (now) to court to test those assertions where they would probably lose, but going after resellers who don't want the courtroom battle, and the settlement is exactly the same. They pay something like $10 per handset for a bulk OEM Windows licence, even if they don't install any form of Windows on the hardware they sell.

Their mobile specific patents - as with Apple - are literally there just as a mexican standoff scenario so nobody is paying anything to anyone to manufacture handsets because all of the patents individually don't mean shit, but in combination with everyone elses patents let you make mobile devices, and theres all sorts of legal bullshit MS and Apple tried to pull before things hit current equilibrium.

[FUME5]

Even bore members getting pissy over a microsoft acquisition.

You fucking nerds.

[nudemacusers]

MS made like $1 billion in a single year off of just Samsung having to pay them royalties on Nokia patents didn't they?

Pretty sure that purchase was insanely fruitful despite the company itself going nowwhere.

are you expecting me to research my posts before i make them

Well I could be wrong too hence the question mark.. I'm too lazy to google, but I thought MS's $3 share of every Android phone sold was at least partly tied to their Nokia purchase.

lol i'm not that serious... but even if they're scraping $ from other mobile sources the nokia buy did not go as planned.. killed ballmer's reign on microsoft but he's also crying in billion dollar pillows so he prob doesn't care.

[Boredfrom]

Benji, I don’t see why those posts are bad outside of being self grandiose wank. You guys should really, really, really don’t elect Trump a second time.

nice blog post, still votin' Trump 

Okay?

[benita]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-ceo-nadella-zenimax-bethesda-acquisition-is-all-about-future-of-software-will-consider-buying-even-more-video-game-companies-in-future.292613/post-46396883

This shit is like the Justice Ginsberg dying of video games. Please stop MS

 

[DJ Bedroom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-ceo-nadella-zenimax-bethesda-acquisition-is-all-about-future-of-software-will-consider-buying-even-more-video-game-companies-in-future.292613/post-46396883

This shit is like the Justice Ginsberg dying of video games. Please stop MS

 

Edit: the ones that are truly losing their minds are the visited by knack losers. Hmmmmmmm

[nudemacusers]

[Snoopycat_]

Jesus, witches are terfs too. Is nothing sacred.

It's unfortunate there is a small subsection of Witches who are TERFs. So, I am not entirely shocked that she has started doing this.

We must stop Rowling before she lures vampires and leprechauns into her evil web

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-ceo-nadella-zenimax-bethesda-acquisition-is-all-about-future-of-software-will-consider-buying-even-more-video-game-companies-in-future.292613/page-24#post-46396889

Sony has been going for timed exclusivity (which sucks!), but it's okay that Microsoft is locking down PERMANENT exclusivity? Truly equivalent force.

But didn't you hear? Sony bought Insomniac, and even worse, money-hatted an exclusive character in Avengers, so that makes Microsoft buying an entire publisher okay.

I love how they're acting like this is some kind of immoral thing that happened. 

But Sony having bought developers like Insomniac, Sucker Punch, and Naughty Dog, ?  That's OK!  Paying to make sure that games like Street Fighter V never release on Microsoft and Nintendo consoles?  That's just good business! 
 

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-ceo-nadella-zenimax-bethesda-acquisition-is-all-about-future-of-software-will-consider-buying-even-more-video-game-companies-in-future.292613/page-24#post-46396889

Sony has been going for timed exclusivity (which sucks!), but it's okay that Microsoft is locking down PERMANENT exclusivity? Truly equivalent force.

But didn't you hear? Sony bought Insomniac, and even worse, money-hatted an exclusive character in Avengers, so that makes Microsoft buying an entire publisher okay.

I love how they're acting like this is some kind of immoral thing that happened. 

But Sony having bought developers like Insomniac, Sucker Punch, and Naughty Dog, ?  That's OK!  Paying to make sure that games like Street Fighter V never release on Microsoft and Nintendo consoles?  That's just good business! 
 

 

They are not Bethesda big. Bethesda was Ubisoft big at this point.

Insomniac tried to separate from Sony an got screwed by EA and Sunset Overdrive got the brunt of Microsoft Xbone marketing disaster.

I don’t mind exclusives, btw. But Sony has been way better managing their studios than Mircrosoft so is not exactly surprising people have less problems with them.

[Jenkem]

And of course... OF COURSE they wait until the day after RBG died to announce this. She would have called it out for the monopolistic shit it is. Fuck 2020. Fuck Drumpf. This is what fascism looks like, folx.

[Boredfrom]

Okay Trumptard.

[tiesto]

I think the only thing that'll hurt me, and it's a big unspoken elephant in the room in this console war shit, is the sun setting definitely on the Japanese vidyagame industry as a driving force in the art.

It already has, in many ways.

They are way more successful than last gen again. Not CoD-levels, but they've found their own mainstream space again. Capcom and FROM delivering all the GOATs currently, among other things.

Yeah and 'niche' titles like Nier and Persona are selling better than ever. Hell, even games like Atelier and Otome games have found their own niche in the west. I think Japanese devs are in much better shape this gen than last, as they've adapted to a more engine-based development approach, and stopped forcibly 'westernizing' their games to make a quick buck.

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-ceo-nadella-zenimax-bethesda-acquisition-is-all-about-future-of-software-will-consider-buying-even-more-video-game-companies-in-future.292613/page-30#post-46406603

Is CD Project Red privately owned? That could be another target for them.

WHEN WILL THESE CONSOLE TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN!?

 

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[bork]

Are we hitting the acceptance stage already?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-ceo-nadella-zenimax-bethesda-acquisition-is-all-about-future-of-software-will-consider-buying-even-more-video-game-companies-in-future.292613/page-32#post-46410443

You know, I was a little bit bothered by Microsoft buying Bethesda and potentially more developers.

But today I pre-ordered an XSX, and now I think I'm okay with it.

[bork]

...Guess not.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-ceo-nadella-zenimax-bethesda-acquisition-is-all-about-future-of-software-will-consider-buying-even-more-video-game-companies-in-future.292613/page-32#post-46410740

I don’t know how can people trust microsoft after everything they’ve pulled, from rare, to the online shitfest, to scalebound, etc.

This shit is terrifying. At least you know with Disney you’ll be getting mediocre to good quality, consistent content... with Microsoft? Oh boy.
 

 

[benita]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jez-corden-on-if-starfield-will-be-xbox-pc-exclusive-it-will-be.292847/

But slayven said!?!?

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jez-corden-on-if-starfield-will-be-xbox-pc-exclusive-it-will-be.292847/

But slayven said!?!?

wrapped up in my Avengers blanket, surrounded by Disney pillows, literally shaking rn
 

[Hamarr]

All I care about is getting games on games pass.  Easier to stomach GAAS being shoveled into everything.  Imagine paying $60 for something like Avengers.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-ceo-nadella-zenimax-bethesda-acquisition-is-all-about-future-of-software-will-consider-buying-even-more-video-game-companies-in-future.292613/page-30#post-46406603

Is CD Project Red privately owned? That could be another target for them.

WHEN WILL THESE CONSOLE TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN!?

 

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Seriously, why the hell you would be even be okay with that, isn’t CD Projekt pet project is gog?

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-ceo-nadella-zenimax-bethesda-acquisition-is-all-about-future-of-software-will-consider-buying-even-more-video-game-companies-in-future.292613/page-33#post-46418021

Isn't Microsoft becoming a bit too big ? Isn't there some sort of law against that ?

Is this even Legal ?

 

[bork]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/microsoft-ceo-nadella-zenimax-bethesda-acquisition-is-all-about-future-of-software-will-consider-buying-even-more-video-game-companies-in-future.292613/page-30#post-46406603

Is CD Project Red privately owned? That could be another target for them.

WHEN WILL THESE CONSOLE TERRORISTS STRIKE AGAIN!?

 

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Seriously, why the hell you would be even be okay with that, isn’t CD Projekt pet project is gog?

Bruh.  This is the shit posting thread. 

[benjipwns]

They don't really understand how big Microsoft is. They only see it in the gaming sphere where it's on equal footing with Sony and, especially, Nintendo for the most part. They don't realize it's a massive, potentially trillion dollar, company that dominates the software field and can easily spend like a quarter of the entire value of Nintendo just to bolster its GamePass catalog.

[bork]

They don't really understand how big Microsoft is. They only see it in the gaming sphere where it's on equal footing with Sony and, especially, Nintendo for the most part. They don't realize it's a massive, potentially trillion dollar, company that dominates the software field and can easily spend like a quarter of the entire value of Nintendo just to bolster its GamePass catalog.

Yes, they're a horrible, soulless corporation who only cares about profits.  They want to swallow everything up.

The polar opposite of Disney and Sony!

[BikeJesus]

Now that MS is bringing all their shit to Steam, I don't care who they buy. Gamepass is fine, and I had it for a few months, but not being able to easily launch from Steam and use Steam input to customise controls made me cancel it.

The last console I owned was the 360. When I realized my XBLA games wouldn't be playable on PC or the next console, I decided I was moving to PC.

Fuck consoles.

[benjipwns]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/should-the-botw-sequel-have-breath-of-the-wild-in-its-title.292859/

And it has gotten me thinking that Breath of the Wild may be a bigger brand name then "The legend of Zelda" is.

[benjipwns]

I've been playing the games for 20 years now; narrowing things down to a sentence is improbable.

But playing the games for 20 years has afforded me knowledge of the gameplay mechanics, the control scheme, how those mechanics utilize those control schemes as well as those controllers, and how no controller currently on the market is well suited to take full advantage of the controls and the control scheme without adding additional button presses and holds into the mix.

[Boredfrom]

They don't really understand how big Microsoft is. They only see it in the gaming sphere where it's on equal footing with Sony and, especially, Nintendo for the most part. They don't realize it's a massive, potentially trillion dollar, company that dominates the software field and can easily spend like a quarter of the entire value of Nintendo just to bolster its GamePass catalog.

Yes, they're a horrible, soulless corporation who only cares about profits.  They want to swallow everything up.

The polar opposite of Disney and Sony!

People here have mocked Disney, Sony and Nintendo.

People here have mocked Sony because RE obvious bias to favor them, but pretend that Microsoft is somehow above all that because Gamepass and multi platform games is  . People being worry about them buying the only AAA studio that is anti DRM Is kind of legit to just mock about it.

[thisismyusername]

Now that MS is bringing all their shit to Steam, I don't care who they buy. Gamepass is fine, and I had it for a few months, but not being able to easily launch from Steam and use Steam input to customise controls made me cancel it.

The last console I owned was the 360. When I realized my XBLA games wouldn't be playable on PC or the next console, I decided I was moving to PC.

Fuck consoles.

It's a goddamn shame we never got Forza Horizon 3 on Steam, I'd have bought the shit out of that a second time (and for a high price) just so I could dump DS4Windows finally.

Steam Controller API Valve's Steam Controller

[Yulwei]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/jez-corden-on-if-starfield-will-be-xbox-pc-exclusive-it-will-be.292847/

But slayven said!?!?

Their copes are falling away one by one