So a studio owned by the company that also owns the azure infrastructure and has real time access to sales data was caught by surprise by the sales of their game and failed to boot up a couple more Vms to serve paying customers… Right, sounds totally legit and not penny pinching at all.
Red flags everywhere. Patient gamer pile it is!
This is what happens when an American monopoly giant tries to “spend sony out of the business”. Acquisition wars are bad for consumer. Hell, anything MS does is bad for the consumer. Now we have sony playing defence to make sure they don’t get excluded from yet another franchise via dumping.
And yes, what MS is doing with GP is dumping.
“I consider X a threat to both privacy and freedom.”
*uses change.org instead of the EU mechanism to submit petitions to the parliament…
This has to have been made by an American living in Europe.
I like how people just chose to believe the “trust me bro” attitude from bluesky’s leadership on web3.0 monetization when their investors quite literally have a track record of doing so. We’ve collectively learned nothing for the past 3 decades.
Honestly never thought I’d live long enough to see Idiocracy become a documentary.
Bluesky is truth social for the other side of the spectrum. Quite happy both sides are leaving mastodon alone.
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You are the champions of the western world
I’m an equal opportunity hater, I don’t discriminate. Of course, I’m not American so I understand that non discrimination is a hard to grasp concept overseas.
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Fuck America and their tip culture. It’s pure cancer and it’s spreading.
Sony funded and founded the studio, however, sony is not a monolithic abstract entity, within the organisation there are people who make decisions. Whoever made the decision to produce Concord as a premium game instead of F2P needs to get their head examined. Also, most in-house developed games at sony get very little oversight from corporate other than the occasional vertical slice demo.
What the Sony gaming division needs is to pivot back to filling their roster with Japanese and European talent, the california move is resulting in overwhelming enshitification. Holst is up to his head in shitty US office politics and career driven useless MBAs that are ruining the company from the inside out by focusing on abstract metrics and driving the generational know how away from the company. They need to GTFO of San Mateo, Yesterday!
As much as corporate is cancer, PlayStation is famously one of the most hands off owners in the industry. Concorde failed because it tried to emter a saturated market filled with F2P with a premium option that was underbaked and had nothing new to offer. Tale as old as time, shit, just from the top of my head I can cite lawbreakers from Cliffy or Blink. Both concord and lawbreakers had excellent gunplay and promising mechanics, but in a world everything else is free, why would the typical audience of these games shift to a new option while paying more?
Whoever greenlit this needs to be fired and have their head examined.
Forbes lists are basically a purge plan in case we ever get that dystopian.
Next, “apartheid” will be anti-Semitic.
Step 1, reality check an american
Step 2, get insulted
Step 3, the American flies away because their educational system doesn’t prepare them to have nuanced discussion so they only understand extremes. Kinda explains a lot of what is happening to the country though.
The fact they are in contention after 4y is evidence enough they mean jack shit for either side. Once they are codified into law they lose value in attracting single issue voters like you. I reiterate, from the outside looking in, same same. There’s a reason even though AOC saw good congressional results personally, her district swung wildly red for the presidential results. I just can’t wrap my head around backstabbing Bernie to nominate a female Kissinger for an election and 8y later you’re still paying the price. There’s no left in the US, just far right and further right…
Microsoft should rebrand to Tumorsoft. They have metastisised to an absolutely megalodon of a corporate structure with no redeeming qualities. Their position is justified by nothing other than their legacy of being the default bundled OS on almost every single computer. How this wasn’t already prosecuted to the ground is beyond me. They have “allegedly” bribed several government officials to stop the terrain Linux was making within the EU and suffered exactly 0 consequences.