Most of a game’s sales tend to be in the first few weeks, so the thinking is that even if it’s defeatable, Denuvo’s track record of taking weeks to months to crack (before the hypervisor exploit) made it worth adding to a game. If the only way to play the game while everyone’s still talking about it is to pay, their hope is that enough pirates will buy it to offset the massive Denuvo licensing costs.
Let’s hope they throw in some injunctions to really gum up the works.
The furthest you can bring them in the base game is that part with the falling elevator. I had like 7-8 NPCs following me when I reached that spot.
I’m guessing the most generous split they’ll offer is 70-30 (with the 70 going to them, naturally), but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s 90-10. Pretty much every publisher screws over user content creators and I don’t foresee Rockstar/Take Two being less greedy than the average.
Escape From Duckov is an excellent single player parody of Escape From Tarkov, one of the most famous extraction shooters. Duckov was one of my most enjoyed games last year.
Escape From Tarkov itself has the Single Player Tarkov mod which I hear is great, but I don’t own that game so can’t verify.
Netflix used to be good. It was cheap, had basically everything, and ran on any device you could name. It’s gone downhill in basically every way possible since then, but it was a beloved service once upon a time.
They could try by being the only place to get Star Wars games or Marvel or any of the many, many other IPs Disney has accumulated over the years. It’s how they got Disney+ off the ground.
Like I said, others have tried this approach and failed, but Disney might actually have the critical mass to get people to use a client other than Steam. Or at least attempt to and make getting certain games a nightmare for a few years until they come crawling back, like EA/Ubisoft/Microsoft/all the others.
I don’t care about them buying Epic, the game developer. I do care about them buying Epic, the game store owner, and trying to do to game distribution what they helped do to streaming (fragment a unified and beloved system into a dozen enshittified walled gardens). Other megacorps have tried and failed, but Disney is greedy enough and owns enough popular IPs that they could do some serious damage to the entertainment ecosystem if they try to go exclusive.
The pattern from every previous Disney acquisition is the same. A minority stake, then deeper integration, then ownership. Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm all started as partnerships before Disney moved to close the deal entirely.
Epic looks like it is following the same path, and the only thing standing between Disney and a full acquisition is Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney, who retains full voting control over the company and has given no public indication that he is ready to sell.
We’re stuck counting on Tim Sweeney’s ego to save the day. What strange times we live in.
Neither did many of the miners. There was pretty famously a near-universal shortage of GPUs for several years because crypto miners were buying so many cards - online, direct from the manufacturer, even big box stores; they drained them all. Most of those would be indistinguishable from a normal purchase (a lot of miners only bought one or two cards; there were just a lot of crypto bros looking to get rich).
They’re complaining that the revenue was filed under gaming, but crypto miners bought gaming GPUs. How would Nvidia have possibly been able to separate those purchases from regular gamers?
It’s worth noting that the new sync implementation shouldn’t cause any of the compatibility problems esync and fsync ran into, so it’s a worthwhile upgrade from a stability viewpoint even if a user won’t see huge performance gains.
deserved bonus
Contractually mandated bonus, but I wouldn’t call “more than all Unknown Worlds games have made combined” a deserved bonus.
The CEO was an idiot for offering a quarter billion dollars extra for a simple milestone bonus on a game that almost certainly couldn’t earn more than a fraction of that, and that’s on top of everything else they paid for the studio. Them using ChatGPT as an advisor explains so much about their terrible legal and financial decisions.
because you initially thought going with AI generated crap is fine, just so you can save some money and pad your managerial/C-suite pockets.
It’s worse than that. A lot of places are pivoting to AI despite knowing it’s terrible and self-defeating, simply because adding AI to a product is the only way to get investors interested right now.
The core developers of Godot already sell console export templates on the side since they can’t include the proprietary SDK integrations in an open-source project. Steam hardware support would at least be free and (presumably) open to all, provided it doesn’t require a Steam Partner account to use.
The best part is Slay the Spire 2 started development as a Unity project, but the devs switched to Godot in response to that Unity runtime fee fiasco a few years ago. Unity lost out on any royalties from one of the biggest indie games ever and Godot got a ton of visibility because of their idiocy.
I just started my first playthrough of Horizon and a few hours in I’m finding it pretty easy on Hard. Does it get harder later, or should I just crank up the difficulty now?
Having played the series back on original hardware, I can confirm it was a nightmare. Save states make old games so much better.
At first glance I thought that tattoo was a scar option and was getting excited to play as “person who ran face-first into an axe”.
Someone posted a great article about that game a while back. Was that what got you to try it?
How long does it take before everything clicks and you can play smoothly instead of constantly stopping to look things up? The core concept of a realistic investment simulator looks fun, but needing to know and follow all of the real life laws and regulatory minutia from decades ago sounds like a nightmare for a new player.
Am I crazy for thinking 20-60 writes per second is still way too high? I know it’s small enough to no longer matter performance-wise, but wouldn’t it make way more sense to increase the database cache size further and batch write the changes to disk every few seconds? That’s still well within the margin where players wouldn’t notice the lost data in the event of a crash, while also making it so the game’s not queuing disk IO operations nearly every other frame.