This is 100% PR spin. Player engagement numbers are being used to cover up poor sales and mislead people into thinking the game is a huge success. The fact is, it isn't. I know people are going to talk about Game Pass cutting into sales and I absolutely agree that it does. However, successful...
Bungie has been run by clowns for years now. I could give people a run down of a lot of the shady crap they pulled with Destiny 2, but that would make for a very long post. It would be easier for them to pay the artist for their work rather than scramble to remove everything connected with them...
I don't think it requires hindsight entirely. Even long running studios with a good track record have been absolutely screwing the pooch on releases for the last several years. The gaming industry as a whole has a problem thanks to its hiring practices and the inclusion of consultancy grifters...
It's a sad state of affairs that we have to beg for the opportunity to be customers of NVIDIA and buy their $2,000 GPUs. This is what happens when other companies fail to compete.
Not only that but the people that developed the games Monolith were known for are largely gone. We know who the writing staff were on Wonder Woman and it didn't bode well. These developers also couldn't get the patented "Nemesis" system to work with the game. Again, another bad sign.
This was going to be another in a long list of flops and massive disappointments. We dodged a bullet with this one.
When you see stuff like this getting written by people who worked or consulted on the game:
That's a red flag to me. It means the game was going to be preachy and most likely...
There is a big difference between Star Ponzi and everything else. Star Ponzi is crowd funded. As long as dumbass people keep buying JPEGs and empty promises CIG has the resources they need to continue to fund that scheme. Publishers and investors will not sink money into a studio on fruitless...
I've seen some **** from NVIDIA and ATi, AMD etc. over the years but this generation is probably the worst so far. Take any one of the issues and it would be crappy, but not all that big a deal so long as that issue was addressed adequately. In this case, the issues keep piling up.
You should. The American gaming industry is an absolute **** show. It takes twice as long to produce anything as their Eastern counterparts and they do so with quality and features that are a regression from games over a decade ago.
I've entered the NVIDIA verified Gamer program, the Newegg shuffle the two times its been up already, as well as multiple Zotac and MSI drawings to have the "privilege" of becoming a paying customer for a 5090 and I haven't been selected yet. I probably never will be. My luck with RNG is...