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SUPER_METR0lD
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Absolutely gross. Literally starting out the new year with a big FU to their fans. Ugh...
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Chris Handsome
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No wonder why they are supporting Epic Gaming Store more these days.
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Gem-Bug
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A disappointed and pathetic way to begin a fresh year.
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Blanchimont
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From the source article;
All of the modding scene simultaneously shouting in unison; What am I, chopped liver?! also; console players around the world, playing their locked down consoles, drm'md games, having sudden urge to wring their heads in angst... |
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Hal14
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That line about "inconsistent personal feelings as goodwill and volunteer spirit" was also particularly horrifying. It's the reason why modders aren't considered people who "play to contribute" Because most mods are made to fix issues or make the game more fun. The kind of 'UGC' they want is the kind that is made to be monetized, i.e., the incentive he talks about = Goodwill + Volunteer spirit < Money. |
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ThatMoonGuy
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looks at literally all of Bethesda's games I literally can't imagine playing a Bethesda game without mods. Heck, the single best experience I've had in Skyrim was playing Vicn's Vigilant mod. The only things that community didn't mod were the things that they couldn't mod, like monster animations and the lockpicking system since those are hardcoded in the game. Even lesser known games, like the Shadowrun trilogy by Harebrained Schemes, had a lot of mods for it just because the devs made the game with the explicit intent of letting it be moddable. The 'player mod' excuse for NFT is just outright offensive to me as it ignores some incredible work done by incredibly talented people. And then going on to say that "goodwill and volunteer spirit" are somehow bad? Just screw thigs guy. You know what? You want to incentivize people to make mods? Financially even? Do a Bethesda and create a mod store. You don't need NFT for that. |
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Greed1914
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It isn't surprising to see Square Enix wanting to jump onto this bandwagon. Various games they published that were developed by western studios suffered because SE wanted to monetize them to their detriment. (Avengers as a competed single player with a dull live service tacked on, Deus Ex being partially complete to have a sequel).
It's ironic that he talks down goodwill since the positive ways they've handled their Japanese-made games is what keeps them in a good light. The part about user-content is makes it obvious this was aimed at investors. Modders contribute all the time, but not in way that makes money. Not to mention that modding basically needs company consent to be viable, and Japanese publishers aren't known for being ok with that sort of thing. |
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Fakerman
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wow i cant wait to get scammed
thanks mr president |
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Casval Rem Deikun
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Read the letter last night.
Not happy about this one bit. Everyone. Vote with your wallets. Do not support whatever they do. |
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Shiawase_Rina
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Welp, I can promise that no matter what I will never touch a game with NFTs, blockchains, or other crap along those lies.
Are there any good Japanese articles that explain what makes NFTs bad? I might need them in the future... |
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Hal14
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Don't know about Japanese articles, but the main issue isn't simply the technology but that the intent of the people behind the technology isn't to make entertainment media more entertaining but, to squeeze more money out of the consumer. In the full letter, he makes playing games for fun sound ... misguided. He also called buying and selling games a "one-way relationship" and that "goodwill" & "volunteer spirit" are "inconsistent personal feelings". |
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Ralph Snackshi
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What a moron. They might as well not be a game company anymore if their willing to go that far.
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jdnation
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TRANSLATION:
Our Shareholders who don't play or care about video-games and hold our stock outright or through various investment funds are demanding that we give these initiatives a shot, and we are fiscally obligated to try them. |
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Top Gun
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Everything in this statement is either laughable or straight-up disgusting, but the comment about there not being "major game-changing user-generated content" deserves particular ridicule. Some of the most popular multiplayer games of all time started their lives as mods of other games. You know, little obscure things like Counter-Strike, or Team Fortress, or DayZ, or PUBG, or DOTA, or...well, you get the idea. And that's before you touch the ridiculously-expansive PC modding scene for countless games spanning decades. Think about the tens of thousands of DOOM WADs still going strong to this day, or the who knows how many terabytes' worth of content created for Skyrim alone. This comment is so pathetically out-of-touch I don't even know where to start with it.
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Leviathonlx
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Almost sounds like something you'd hear from Bobby 'I want to take the fun out of making video games' Kotick. |
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