First negative tho is something I remember from the article where he said he didn’t really like majora’s mask cuz the time aspect then laughed at the irony since he made Stardew.

I won’t tell you to like or dislike Stardew Valley, as that’s your choice alone. Now that’s said, I profoundry disagree with this assertion that ConcernedApe is a hypocrite. In Majora’s Mask you’re stuck in a time loop where you have to complete the entire game within the limit. That is far from the case with Stardew. You aren’t expected to complete much in a day, maybe a single task per day in the early game.

As for people accusing others of gaslighting, that’s wrong. The game doesn’t really open up until you get through the first season. Sure, you’re free to drop the game before that, but you then miss the parts that people love about the game. I don’t think it’s fair to call the gameplay loop poorly designed when you haven’t even seen half of it.

That being said, a season in game is about 10 hours of play time. Though I personally think the onboarding process is fairly good, it would be valid to argue that 10 hours is too much of a commitment to find out whether you like the game or not. I don’t personally think that for SDV, but I can respect it

Don’t forget how they added anti-cheat to customers’ purchases after sale

GOG

Hell, they were already selling copies too. They were at 100% “completion” and still threw it out

Eh. I’d argue the Beyond Skyrim Team is the real successors

True, but if the VA (or their agent) has any sense of business they’ll be making more per hour

Well, there’s Sentinel Island, but we keep people away from there for many, many good reasons

They should have swapped a couple of the conch rewards, so you get a flimsy hammer at 60 and the true ending at 48. Pushing your players into an extra 5 hours of searching just kills the game’s pacing

Or management

It delights me to lie to myself that they are nervous someone somewhere would pick a golden ticket with their AI application and they’d miss out

Tbf, that’s exactly what happens sometimes. CVS partnered with Theranos despite the lack of evidence supporting their product. Their reasoning was that if only Walgreens partnered with Theranos and it was a success, then CBS would have been screwed

DBZer0, aka Divide By Zer0. He runs an instance with the same name. He’s one of the old mods on r/piracy and helped lead an exodus over to Lemmy

Or fanboys going through all reviews and downvoting any negative reactions. I’m willing to bet folding money that Hollow Knight’s user score is going to go up because of this because their fanbase is toxic af

That’s halo 6

I am aware

Sounds like a good thing. It’s not like Infinite was any good

Hopefully it’s a bit more polished since DOOM 2016 is an example of the system being used really well. I found the first game to be a bit clunky at times

Personally, I hope any issues are with multiplayer because I completely don’t care about it. Single-player ftw!

Any company that isn’t completely incompetent has some revision control solution like GitHub. It saves the original and all the changes throughout the life of the code. It’s designed specifically to allow developers to update or even delete code while still maintaining records

I don’t know where this contractor bullshit is coming from; if anything that should be aimed at Microsoft.

TBF, Valve does hire contractors to help work on Proton and Steam OS. I have no idea what the terms and compensation are, I’m just pointing out that they do hire contractors

Not only that, they got pissy when GeForce Now started and originally used users’ Steam keys to determine what games they could play. The Long Dark dev wanted to force players to pay for their game a second time to play it through GeForce

Tbf, there are a gun laws/classifications that are silly. Short barrel rifles were banned solely to fill in a loophole in the National Firearms Act because Congress was originally going to ban handguns. Then Congress realized that a handgun ban probably would be shot down by SCOTUS, so they took out the handgun ban and forgot to remove the SBR ban.