It’s just a shame that some of the biggest of those issues appear to be fundamental game mechanics.

I think that’s kind of a shame.

I don’t care for Ubisofts bland and lazy open world design formula, but SW:O appears to not do a lot of the usual open world BS that they’re known for.

I only get this from Skillup’s review and he had a host of problems with gameplay, but I also got the sense that this is a game that will be remembered fondly by a subset of the star wars fandom.

Hopefully the lesson that Ubi learns isn’t “see, we should stick with what works. Another generic open world Assassins Creed RPG-Lite”.

Pivoting into NFTs didn’t help.

Because the C suite can blame market forces, not the product.

The layoffs aren’t about “removing bad eggs”, it’s about cost cutting.

Decision makers aren’t going to fire themselves of course, even if they should for steering the ship into this situation.

Great answer, thanks!

What is the big difference between Cosmic and Gnome? I know System76 are developing it so I would imagine they have a problem with Gnome and their hardware business.

I used popOS! for a year and did get annoyed that Gnome required extensions that were not necessarily maintained in order to allow for what I considered to be basic customisation.

On OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE now, but interested to see what the philosophical difference is between Gnome and Cosmic.

Fewer cabbages

Do you think Skywind, or Skyblivion, will release first?

Hard agree. There’s still a threat of the generalised nature of AI meaning it won’t just be a tool for people to use, but a complete replacement of large swathes of knowledge based work that can be automated.

AI being heavily implemented in voice acting is gonna suck so bad. Maybe in a few years it will be there but we’re too early for full scale voice talent being replaced. Wish these people all the best with the strike.

I was thinking about how I haven’t seen that term used in gaming journalism for quite some time.

I’ve been meaning to download the manuals of everything I own from here for my NAS. This website is a treasure.

I can’t help but feel that Web 3.0 will accelerate climate change. That said, I know nothing about it except that crypto people are excited about it, which means that money can probably be made from it.

Picked up Disco Elysium. All time low that I’ve been monitoring for a while now.

Also, Returnal ATL of 51% off on gamesbillet. Worked out to $45 AUD, probably like 20 USD

Really speaks to a troubled development that they would pivot so hard away from the original game. What the hell happened to Bioware? EA is the easy answer I suppose, but it just seems they can’t even get single player RPG done right anymore.

I think I was initially interested in the game provided I could get it for < $20, now I think my time is just more valuable than this game is worth.

Its a sad realisation, as a huge fan of the Oblivion/Fallout 3 era of Bethesda.

I’m hoping it’s got some more immersive sim elements, but it looks like it will probably be more linear. Didn’t play the original, so I’m not sure how close this is looking to that.

Looking fan-fucking-tastic

Exactly, that would be chicken feed compared to the overall cash flow for LTT alone. He’s got plenty of other YouTube channels and other means of making money.

YouTube ad revenue OF LTT in 2022 was $4.6 million, and sponsors would have paid the channel more than ad revenue was bringing in.

Is Adobe suite a major cost for LTT though? It’s the cost of a few licenses, and if it means just one less video goes out per year due to the inefficiencies of learning a new software package, it would not be worth the switch. I’m assuming each video they put out brings in revenue well into the 5 figures.