SugarApplePie

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Anyone buying a full price title without looking it up with a quick Google search or reading reviews on Steam is far gone from my compassion.

lol, some things go without saying

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I doubt the average player looks up whether the devs came out to warn players their game runs like shit before buying it, I think they just buy it. Similar to how people probably don't check to see if a movie director has mentioned how bad the sound mixing and lighting is in a movie before going to watch it. Might be a crazy take but imo the onus isn't on the person buying the game to make sure the game is finished, let alone looking up articles on the game to make sure the devs didn't admit that it runs like ass and isn't finished. Though with how often it happens and how often there's people that excuse it maybe that's where we're at now, you reap what you sow and whatnot lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

lol and lmao

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

By the time 2040 rolls around we're gonna need some good news like this!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

I for one am thankful we were born and raised in a society with no racial biases that could seep in to my work. Now, if you excuse me, I have to go back to writing up the only black person on my team for underperforming at the video game company with a history of racism and sexism B)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

All the best workplaces that don't have a racism problem are the ones where lightly suggesting diversity training is met with hostility, denial, and sacking of the person suggesting it. Such actions really highlight how seriously said company takes concerns of bigotry at the workplace and proves they're giving it their all to make it as inclusive as possible.

I’m siding with the employee who was treated like a racist

Proving how incredibly not racist I am by taking incredible, personal offense at the suggestion of checking possible biases I may have as manager at a company with a history of racial biases, because I care about combating racism just that much

[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (5 children)

For anyone interested in this news, don't forget to check out your local library. If you're in the US there's a good chance that your library card will also give you access to online audiobooks for free!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's what I thought, but I wasn't sure if the game industry had different standards to other fields for that kinda stuff. Sacking a bunch of QA agents does not sound promising for the games they're working on....

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Departments ranging from art to production were impacted, but the majority of those laid off worked in quality assurance testing. The sources said at least 25 developers were part of the downsizing. Full-time staff do not appear to have been part of the cuts.

Sources tell Kotaku that no severance is being offered for those currently laid off, and that impacted developers as well as remaining employees are being pressured to keep the news quiet. Their contracts won’t be officially terminated until the end of October and they’ll be expected to work through the rest of the month.

If I'm understanding right it sounds like only part-time contractors are getting cut. Do part-time employees usually get offered severance packages or is this (kinda ghoulish) business as usual? I wonder how much work those people will get done for the rest of the month

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

This would be the strangest thing to lie about of all things. I dunno what clout is gained by saying it took 2 days to set up a router lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Even if the remake was worse in every way, why would it matter when you can still buy and play the originals without any issue? The KOTOR games are some of my favorite video games so I can understand not liking a remaking that (hypothetically) changes some things, but I don't know why it'd be a positive to not get a new version of it that might have gotten more people interested in the originals.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yesssss, hard agree with this. I've been playing a lot of Euro Truck Simulator and I keep finding myself wishing it was 1:1 like MS Flight Sim. A woman can dream...

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