I'm worried for them to be honest, the expectations and hype are going to be off the charts, impossible to meet most likely.
I mean, I'll buy whatever game they make next but I don't think anyone can hit BG3 levels twice.
Man, the internet archive is one of the good sites that's not a puke gobbling corporate, can we direct attacks to someone worthy of the heat instead?
Imagine China comes out on top over the next few decades and then reach AGI with the CCP mindset.
That would be the enslavement of humanity on a scale never before seen or imagined
Is it high prices or is it less spending power in the majority of citizens?
And then the inevitable industrial shrink caused by that seems so surprising to everyone
Playing this now, it's really good. I last played just after EA launch, a lot has been added and refined.
Shareholders don't care about anything other than a rising share price, and one of the ways to get that is through cheap labor.
Responsible operation? Don't make me laugh.
And just to be clear: They're not responsible for those crimes themselves, no sir. No way.
Consumer spending power is decreasing. This is just the start.
In 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
"... accelerate the Company’s revenue growth and profitability.”
Yeah, that's the problem.
Riccitiello is actually not gone it seems, he's the chair of the board.
So that influence is still there, not that it matters, we've moved on to other platforms where there's still some trust (for now).
Edit: I misread the sentence in the article, it seems the chair went to someone else
Everyone would lose, but sometimes that has to happen to stop dictators from running over the world.
I will buy anything they make next.
I'm holding something the size of a mobile phone with no screen or buttons. Specs are that it supports up to 400mb/s NNB, or Native Neural Bandwidth.
Fortunately it's the newer wireless model so I don't have to worry about cable management in my hair.
Go for it guys, that'll maximize profits by eliminating all salary costs.
Just one thing... what's the plan when the majority of the population has no spending power anymore? Think the economy will still exist?
Agreed, the first steps toward fixing this are much deeper.
Peoples jobs will always be sacrificed to make that quarterly earnings call sound sweet to investors.
Profits above all.
30 years experience running enterprise development teams here. Switching databases has happened once for me, Sql Server to Postgres. We were busy with a huge rewrite of something existing, approx $100 million project for a major company.
The instruction to switch dbs came midway through the project, basically on the whim of the CIO. Luckily we were only lightly impacted by db specific features on a couple procs, but code base was abstracted away - which made it achievable.