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Anarki_, (edited ) in You know what? I'll just wait...

There’s absolutely no way they’re not putting an aggressive DRM on it.

Good luck.

CluelessDude,

I’m a patient gamer if something is too expensive I just end up trying something else until I remember that I was interested.

At that point it’s usually on sale.

Frozengyro,

Who would buy the game for that damn much anyway

Anarki_,

Whales gonna whale

echodot,

No one would which is why it’s not happening. Even a collectors edition super deluxe version would not cost that much.

All that he’s saying is that by his super unrealistic view of the market the game should retail for about $150 but I suspect that even he knows that it will never sell at that price. Even if he doesn’t he isn’t the one that actually picked the price the marketing team will tell him that won’t work.

This is such a non-story. It’s like reporting every time that a Nintendo executive says something stupid about copyright, they’re always saying stupid stuff.

Pirate_lemmy_arrrrR,

Avatar has a digital version selling for $130. If anyone can pull off $150 it’s Rockstar.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/a0ff7f64-80ea-4ec2-8aa3-66b757d37203.jpeg

ColdWater,
@ColdWater@lemmy.ca avatar

Oh son you underestimated the pirate scene

dangblingus,

Only 1 Denuvo cracker left. And their plate is full.

wildginger,

Just means the crown is clear for usurping

WindowsEnjoyer,

Or maybe someone could leak a dev build without drm…

kromem, (edited ) in You know what? I'll just wait...

Rumoured from out of people’s asses.

The CEO of Take Two said a comment about how he wished games were priced based on the hours of gameplay provided and not flat pricing.

Which then got clickbait headlines being written as outrage bait hypothesizing that in such a world GTA 6 proving 150 hours of content would be priced at $150.

Which evolved to headlines baiting even more outrage suggesting the CEO was actually thinking of pricing the game at $150.

Then people falling for the outrage bait have been writing pieces or creating memes in opposition of $150 game pricing - which literally has zero indications of being a thing.

It’s total BS, and a good reflection of just how shoddy games ‘journalism’ is these days.

scrubbles, in You know what? I'll just wait...
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

But, I wouldn’t trust any rumor right now. We’ve had rumors for years

octobob, in Gatekeeping for profit

We have a very expensive engraver at our shop, probably to the tune of idk, $20-30 thousand. It’s a pretty large, heavy machine. We use it all day long for identification tags on cabinet doors, push button tags, serial ID tags. Absolutely critical to our business and the company that made it went out of business so if the windows 7 laptop that has the software ever dies, it becomes useless.

spookex,

Shouldn’t it be possible to image the drive and deploy it on another laptop?

Car,

That’s probably a good idea. A decent amount of old programs can be run on modern equipment if you can create a good disk image and get it virtualized. There’s some edge cases with figuring out I/O and getting timing to work correctly, but I’d say most old tech can be made to work with a reasonable amount of effort.

If over $10k is on the line, there’s almost no reason to not at least try if you can afford the downtime.

echodot,

I used to work at an airport and they had a internal tracking system for passengers with special requests (mostly for unaccompanied kids).

Anyway it’s programmed in assembly and only works on one particular type computer. Even if it runs on a different era appropriate processor apparently this app won’t work. So there was a buttload of old motherboards in a store room somewhere so that we could just swap the board out if the computer ever died. It’s critical infrastructure that there is no backup for.

So basically I’m pretty sure the way the world ends is because somebody threw away an important floppy disk, and now a nuclear reactor is going into meltdown.

TheFriendlyArtificer,

You can sell it to a Makerspace or just toss on a new main board. Engravers, lasers, CNC machines, mills, etc all operate on the same fundamental principles.

LinuxCNC or Marlin work with practically every piece of hardware that you can imagine. Stepper motors/drivers have 4 wires each. Once you figure out which is which, just plug them into a Beagleboard or something similar, load up the software, and you’re good to go. Often with far more capabilities and accuracy.

Plus you keep more tech waste out of landfills.

barrbaric, in I remember getting a PS3 just to avoid this back then

It was never going to be free forever, because that would be leaving free money on the table, which is unacceptable to any evil megacorp (which is to say, all of the big three). I imagine PSN initially being free was mostly a result of trying to bridge the gap between PS3 and 360 sales, given the multi-year delay and huge price difference.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

It was never going to be free forever, because that would be leaving free money on the table

So… When will playing online on PC require a subscription on top of the ISP?

Sprucie,

Probably about 2 days after Valve becomes a publicly traded company. While GabeN is alive I don’t think that’s a risk but after that who knows.

Kolanaki, (edited )
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

The biggest threat to gaming is Gabe Newell’s eventual death. I really hope he figures out the whole brain connected interface thing so he can upload himself to the internet and become immortal.

Piemanding,

I remember hearing it was originally gonna be paid, but Sony messed something up in their servers that made people angry and were forced to keep it free.

PersnickityPenguin, in You know what? I'll just wait...

With inflation, $150 is about $40 in 2021 money.

wafflez,

So? If you’re implying it’s a fair price you severely fail to understand the overall cost of living has gone up substantially. On top of that it’s not like the workers even get close to a fair share of that $150 either. Wage discrepancy from worker-ceo has also gone up substantially. Who are you really defending?

Mr_Blott,

Do you ever read flippant comments as they are intended, or do you just immediately flip into “Angry teenager with vague grasp of communism” mode?

echodot,

People don’t really realise that tone of voice is hard to convey in text.

You have to pick your market with sarcasm on the internet, it either has to be super obvious or it has to be in a context in which people are expecting sarcasm.

Also there’s always going to be someone who actually thinks along the lines of a sarcastic comment, and it’s always difficult to tell whether or not they actually think that’s the case.

Mr_Blott, (edited )

Sorry, we’re British. Everything is assumed to be sarcastic until proven otherwise. It’s far easier that way, skin like rhinos, us

sculd, in Hold my beer - Bungie

WHAT! This is very scummy, especially on the company shares part. Basically robbing employees of their money.

Asafum,

I really don’t understand in what universe this is not considered theft?

Wage theft is #1 in terms of total $ amount stolen out of all forms of theft, but business owners own government so… 🤷

mindbleach, in Hold my beer - Bungie

In 1997, Mindscape fired the entire Lego Island team the day before release. The team that just made a custom engine for their much-hyped and soon best-selling game that would garner sequels for years to come. The painfully obvious reason was the promise of giving people more money if the game did well.

Nothing has changed.

Unionize and fuck these corporations.

Even outside unions - pro-rate everything. No more hard cutoffs where some bastard can promise the world, get 99% of what they promised it for, and then give nothing.

Aria,

fired the entire Lego Island team

So they would’ve just fired the union, no? Do unionise, but at a certain point you can’t protect yourself without socialism.

Trainguyrom,

There’s legal protections against retaliating against unions. How much teeth those protections have will vary wildly, but there are protections that do exist

wildginger,

You cant just fire a union, legally. Thats part of why you make them

Aria,

Relevant law for Washington USA where Bungie is: app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=49.36
You can’t fire someone explicitly for being in a union, but you can still fire the union. If they fired the whole team, there’s no power left with the union. They can’t sue for being punished for forming a union, and they can’t threaten to quit or strike in solidarity, because the company doesn’t plan to keep any of them.

Default_Defect, in I remember getting a PS3 just to avoid this back then
@Default_Defect@midwest.social avatar

Funny, I remember the playstation’s online being dog shit and offline a ton.

WldFyre, in I remember getting a PS3 just to avoid this back then

I thought WoW, RuneScape and the like pioneered online subscriptions?

Buck,

They were not the first, either. But definitely the biggest in their day.

Franzia,

Everquest had a subscription. I think subscription models were common back then for being a member of a forum or getting a magazine or news letter.

BradleyUffner,

Ultima Online predates those too.

SexualPolytope, in I remember getting a PS3 just to avoid this back then
@SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

This is why I exclusively play indie offline games. Also because my PC is getting old lol.

WoefKat, (edited ) in You know what? I'll just wait...

It’ll probably be free to play without single player but in order to play it you need to keep buying shark cards. Basically what they’ve done with GTA V after release.

Ps just joking I really hope they won’t do that.

umbrella,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

Please stop giving them ideas

Anticorp,

Do you really think sharks need training from fish?

RogueBanana,

The leaks did have some singleplayer aspects but its pretty much guaranteed to have multiplayer with all the bs they got in gta 5. Its rockstar after all, they wouldnt pass on that.

TheBlue22, in 2 way communication is key

In houndreds or public matches I’ve played in CS over the years, maybe like 10 had teammates who all actually used callouts

Anticorp,

100% of them called out that they fucked my mother though.

MystikIncarnate,

I could never figure out the built in callouts… Anytime I played with the bots in CS:GO, they would always do callouts and I’m pretty sure they’re just baked in, but I have no idea where, or how to use them.

Cethin,

Those are displayed on your minimap. Some of them are used by players, and players will know what you mean anyway, but most position calls by players are different from those. They’re also frequently regional, so there can be many calls for a single position. They’re pretty much always one or two syllables, and usually there’s a few similar ones that appear on many maps. Cat, for example, is any catwalk (the most important one on the map if there are multiple). Heaven/Hell is any raised or lowered area respectively, usually with Hell just below Heaven.

You just have to listen to people and ask if you don’t know them, maybe also watch some professional matches as the casters also usually use the most common calls for that language.

MystikIncarnate,

Thanks for the insight. I appreciate it.

Cethin,

I used to solo-queue almost exclusively. Almost always every teammate communicated. This was like 5+ years ago though, so maybe things have changed. I also frequently initiated the communication and kept things going and didn’t get mad at people, so that all helps too. From my experience, be nice and communicate and general the same will be returned, but against this was a while ago.

(I’m assuming CS is Counter Strike, and not like competitive multiplayer Cities Skylines or something.)

Natanael,

(I’m assuming CS is Counter Strike, and not like competitive multiplayer Cities Skylines or something.)

“Natural disaster, meteor from northwest, prepare fire fighters!”

EvilMonkeySlayer, in I hope you enjoy ads we have to make our $69B back

And there's my decision not to buy an Xbox vindicated.

BruceTwarzen,

I thought about buying an xbox to install kodi on and play some games on the big screen. But when i saw their new trash ad interface and now this, i'll never buy any of their shit again.

mx_smith,

After the red rings of death, never again.

OrteilGenou, in I remember getting a PS3 just to avoid this back then

I haven’t played multiplayer since the PS3 days, before Sony joined the greed bleed

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