My copy of Paprium shipped???
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MK had Arnoldâs likeness tied up so they put pictures of the alien hitman from X-Files and Til from Rammstein into that machine from Weird Science.
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âwhile we finish subsequent chaptersâ is exactly as ludicrous in games as releasing a movie ten minutes at a time while you film the rest would be
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itâs a first-gen kickstarter nostalgia play that has not been allowed to die for whatever reason (probably because matsuno/FFT have not become any less bankable in the intervening time) but which has like, no confidence whatsoever behind it at this point
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the lost method of game development
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turtles
apple litigation waiting room: the app store
this future fucking sucks
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so⊠like, just donât use it and itâs of no relevance to you?
like, the apple ecosystem is some remote island thatâs completely its own thing for me, and i have been able to live so for the last 20 years. A lot of people have done so, and why should it be any different with this store?
in this case itâs just kind of pathetic I think â the epic store has always been, basically, one big hedge thatâs couched in the language of computer choice, and that theyâre now announcing you can use it to install the doesnât-pay-artists streaming service is like⊠great
theyâve somehow managed to commodify package managers
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look if I could not use them AND have them be of no relevance to me I 100% would, but apparently I have to choose one in this current landscape so Iâm choosing for them to be relevant to me even if I donât use them
spotify inherited a broken music industry and managed to fuck it up even more, and epic gamesâ posturing as the only company standing up against the tyranny of the app store by being steam but with fortnite and itâs just yet another example of the trends moving further away from anything Iâd actually want
tech companies are really great at making their shitty products incredibly relevant regardless of whether people actually use them or not
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I continue to be 100% in favor of Epic as a route to shoveling Fortnite money to small devs through giveaways and creating store service fee competition with Steam
Iâm discounting evaluating the morality of their offerings or endgame because the strategic environment theyâre in directly benefits the small studios that wants to make things, and the strategic environment in an oversupplied unlimited-distribution world is stacked against small players almost as much as the boxed-products world was.
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yeah, no argument there, as with most of this stuff lately the consumer offering and messaging is basically pathetic by comparison to the benefit of at least moving money around and keeping people working on stuff they enjoy working on
I would just rather there were maybe less ersatz focus on a consumer sales model at that point
is a fickle patronage system where giant tech companies subsidize their stores to relevancy an actual path forward tho? like apple or epic arenât going to shovel money into anything with even a whiff of controversy or daringness to it and much like sonyâs funnelling of money to indies theyâre going to cut the tap off as soon as their marketplace is in the position they want it to be
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yeah it is no kind of path forward, itâs a temporary pressure on steam and a few short term jobs at best
yeah I donât know - you could say the same thing about spotify or even shit like red bull music academy but it turns out when thereâs fewer ways to disguise the industry with semblances of professionalism, things get way more dire
this has been the case basically the entire time Iâve been doing music and decades before - bandcamp is great and necessary, but only necessary in order to allow people to recontextualize music as something that shouldnât be commodified, and the real answer is something like UMAW
I donât think being just a few degrees removed from non-professionalism gives the industry a bulletproof vest as far as the precarity of working situations goes
so I donât know if Iâm willing to think of epic as favorably as others sorry
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and like, the thing epic could do right the fuck now to funnel fortnite money into small devs is talk to red candle to get them to release devotion on their platform, but of fucking course they wonât
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I think Epic actually has more PRC money than GOG does, who knows though
anyway at best all this does is create decent pipelines for people in their 20s who are happy to work, I donât think itâs markedly worse in that respect than anything else in terms of providing more than one sales venue in the current marketplace, but beyond that I got nothing
(I donât think gamedev wages are nearly as obviously inadequate as spotify royalties, so while that is not an example of a system that is getting better â they are still wages â it is also not getting as rapidly worse)