Will Borger

rapid fire wednesday

anyway, here's my latest review! this game hit me like a truck and i had no idea what the hell to do with it writing-wise, then finally landed on all this

enjoy?

Go read my boy Lucas

After planning 2 more paid acts, narrative scifi power-washer Ambrosia Sky is instead finishing its story in one free update to 'maximize' its focus on what players loved: 'People got in on that sapph... So much for slow burn.

"I was expecting it to take longer for people to care about Maeve and Dalia's relationship," narrative director Kait Tremblay said. "But it did not. People got in on that sapphic yearning right away."

I bought a PS3 for Versus XIII. Video games are not real until they release, and now that's barely even true. RIP Highguard.

This doesn't diminish your brand. It allows you to sell games to people who are not going to buy your console no matter what you do a couple years after all the people who own your console have already bought it.

"I will simply buy $529.99 worth of games on Steam instead"

And I know a bunch that won't. It has nothing to do with principle and everything to do with "I already own a gaming PC, I am not spending that much money for a few games. I will just play something else."

Also just kills goodwill! People don't like it when you tell them they can't have stuff they used to have anymore!

Those people are not going to buy the next one either. The only trying you've done is make it so you cannot sell them your games.

Right? All you did was tell those people to get bent. They're not going to magically buy a console now. They'll just move on.

I think it will be really smart if it works, but there was a reason they started porting games, and this smacks of typical "We own the space now, so we're going to make profoundly stupid decisions again" Sony arrogance.

Real "work two jobs to buy a PS3" energy.

Yeah, the next machines are on track to cost like $1,000. If you want a hobby that nobody can afford, congrats, you're doing a great job of creating one.

What ecosystem? There's genuinely no reason to own a PlayStation 5. There's like 5 games for the damn thing

Right? I'm not playing Helldivers 2 on PS5 because I'm not paying again to use my own internet, but I did buy it again on PC and have spent money on the War Bonds.

It's not, but it's still bad business. "Hey, you can sell games to these people who are never going to buy your console. All you have to do is port them."

"No."

Slightly less dumb, then

This is even more stupid when you consider that Sony has gone all-in on liver service games, which need big playerbases to survive.

It's crazy to watch a company say "we hate money" out loud. You are never getting PC players back into a console ecosystem. Maybe Sony doesn't care, but these cats made their choice, and all you're doing is very loudly saying "we do not want your money."

I did not do the poll, but I probably would have chosen most of those except Mother Russia Bleeds, which I haven't played

You hate to see it but you expect to see it

People really, *really* do not like thieves.

It's bad doing it as a student (you *will* be dragged before an academic board). If you get caught doing it professionally? God help you.

If you're a writer, you will never work again, and everything you've ever done will be looked at (and might be pulled), and rightly so. Seen it happen before.

Not about Marathon, but one thing you learn real fast while teaching is that nobody has ever plagiarized once.

It's a pattern of behavior, and they get caught because they get comfortable doing it and keep getting away with it. Right up until they don't.

Honestly I think the whole "Capcom wrote themselves into a corner by saying Jill Valentine doesn't age" is a fake problem. As if there's nothing interesting that can be written about a protagonist aging slower than the world around her. Watching her former comrades slow down while she still fights.

I think about this take more often than I'd like to.

It me!

Join the games industry and you too can work 100 hour weeks until you're completely burnt out in order to produce a title that will be unplayable in less than a month!

Luxuriate in harassment by your audience!

Tour the world as you desperately hop from job to job after every project lays you off!

The video game industry is a machine that turns hundreds of millions of dollars into live service games you can play for three weeks before they're taken out behind the shed.

Definitely seems healthy and sustainable.