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>china

why is it parsing > as a command prefix?

is it the soundboard lol

>china

/china is a command

I can't remember previous forced refunds, that one scam game (The Day Before?) did universal refunds but you got to keep the game in your account

Concord doing forced refunds is kind of expected tbh, ~20k sales shouldn't be too hard logistically

but wtf do they salvage this into

has to be singleplayer slop

they can't do anything else

people don't want hero shooters

OR

they make it a moba

that's the funniest timeline

lol

I wish

i will buy it for two hours if it becomes a moba

the game has nice assets (ignoring the characters) and they have 3 season of story cutscenes done

They should copy paste the assets overs the Crash Bandicoot moba

i think they have to just finish and drop singleplayer

and hope that campaign redoes costs

not even that deep yet

ok Max, hear me out

dating sim

lol

they double down on their characters being 10/10

do you think this is enough to push devs/pubs away from woke games

like enough to convince the market isn't there at all

i feel like there hasn't been a big enough woke "flop"

for them to care

I say this a lot, the entire industry is going to crash

yeah, this probably reduces the over-the-top woke influence on stuff

but the number of AAA games flopping rn is unheard of

The new Star Wars Ubi game that came out this week also lost millions

games are far too expensive now for the wrong reasons

i genuinely dont even know where the costs are coming from

motion capture?

i blame 4k assets

when you stretch out those staffing costs, from 2-3 years to 6+

and the amount of textures people believe they need

that + forcing people to learn new engines constantly with shifting actual dev staff over and over

^

I hate that everything is going UE5

i keep saying this but UE5 is AWFUL

every single developer cries about how hard and shit UE5 is to use

"devs love to work with it" No they fucking don't

bad devs like it

the ONLY people that can use UE5 are people that have used it for YEARS

aka fortnite devs

because it lets them lean on it as a crutch

that's literally it

notice how much better fortnite runs than any other ue5 game

which 10x the detail

because they actually know how to use ue5

literally no one else knows how to use it

UE5 is genuinely better for movie CGI

than it is for standard use for most game studios

it's being used for that gundam show

lol

The Game of Thrones dragon show uses UE5

im sure in like 5 years we'll have college classes and people that grow up using ue5 and it'll get better as a standard

It's the first major one to do it, and now suddenly all of Hollywood is picking it up

but because pubs want to push it so hard

we're going to have 10 years of suffering

i mean there's not many other options anyways because apparently no one can make their own engines anymore

i doubt you'd even able to budget it since that'd take time but it's not like making 10000 useless high res assets is taking any less time

there was a period of time where studios were complimented or commented on about the engines they used

stalkers engine, idtech

etc.

being tied with a good publisher to be able to USE their engine

Fox Engine

had the best ads

like how dishonored 2 took idtech6 and made void engine/id6.5 or whatever

and it was noticably shit compared to ids next version

(lol)

and im sure they're still using their void fork

There are just a lack of capable people wanting to get into AA or AAA gamedev, so salaries have gone to shit and to compensate you have these huge marching armies of slavedevs and support studios, everything is outsourced and that drives up cost and dev time, product is inferior overall, and it's often stuff no one wants