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Fuck it. I’ll just say this instead. It’s time to break up the tech monopolies. Google, Microsoft, etc.
Fuck it. I’ll just say this instead. It’s time to break up the tech monopolies. Google, Microsoft, etc.
To the Moon.
It’s a short story that’s made into a game. The gameplay piece of it is minimal, but it’s all about the story. I can’t say too much about it buts it’s an absolutely beautiful story with SNES style graphics that reminds me of the movie Arrival.
Had me speechless… Didnt know how to exist for a few after…
If they have it, direct support is the best way. Like Patreon for instance.
You’d be surprised how things can change, and quickly. It’s not going to be a overnight win for another platform. It’s going to have to start from the ground up, in probably a decentralized way, but it can happen.
We don’t know that yet. I dislike Kotick as well, but doubtful that much changes from the monetization standpoint of the company.
From a purely morale standpoint, it’s mostly a W. But it’s not like Kotick isn’t getting his golden parachute and wiping his tears away with $100 bills.
No I’m saying, imo, they’re wasting a lot of energy on trying to get adblock users to stop using adblockers. Just my take, is all.
They’re serving ads just fine. They’re now targeting those that don’t want the ads and actively try to avoid them. That’s the main difference.
Issues like these will spur action though. I’m excited to see what comes out to compete.
Plenty of ways. Targeting your most intensive tech crowd is not the way to do it. You want the masses that don’t actively try and block their stupid ads. This will eventually bite them in the ass harder then it’s currently doing.
We’ve replaced Kotick with Microsoft lol
These ad block users should be considered the cost of doing business and they should be careful with targeting them.
This kind of thing springs users into action to either find or use work arounds or create a alternative platform.
This is going to come off as ‘non technical’, because well, it’s my personal opinion of course… Anyway, as someone who’s been playing this game since Action: Quake, the gameplay just feels different to me.
The two things I can think of offhand with the limited play I’ve had so far (about 3 days now) 1) things feel zoomed out (I’m not quite sure how to describe it). I’m sure this has something to do with the vision/perspective of the new engine. 2) the gunplay itself, while having hints of CSGO/counterstrike, feels inherently different. Spray feels different, burst feels different. I’m finding single fire to be way more prevelent then before and headshots feeling different as well.
Again, my personal opinion and feeling of the game. Maybe it’ll grow on me with time, but similar to CS: Source, it just doesn’t feel the same currently.
To put it into perspective I guess, I felt that CSGO felt more like counterstrike (minus the guys and other technical issues of course) then CSGO did at launch.
Imo it currently plays like shit. Cs has a feel to it and to me, this doesn’t quite feel like cs. The gunplay hasa very specific feel and I just don’t get the same feedback when shooting on it.
I told everyone that once contracts for cell phones were replaced with payment plans, companies would start gouging their customers with higher phone prices because the customers could now “afford” it.
Greedy ain’t the right word imo.
Have you looked at your phone recently? That’s all that thing is unless you literally don’t use it for anything other than calls and texts, and even then, phone manufacturers are constantly constructing their OS to guide you to other functions.
High positions of power/money/fame tend to attract those types unfortunately.
I left out of principle but there are a few communities I’ll scan from time to time because they don’t quite exist here and I don’t have the energy to make it myself.
What they meant to say was “We didn’t have the foresight to monetize these heavy users, so we will be doing that now. But first we’ll create the problem…”
This is part of the reason why they chose the launch day
Gotta start somewhere.