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It's related to the bonus system. Execs are rewarded for share price increases instead of making good games. They'll alienate the whole playerbase and ruin 30% of future sales for 5% increase in revenue for current sales. The 5% is enough to increase the share price so that CEO's are entitled to compensation. So to min-max as a CEO it's best to alienate the playerbase.

Also spending more money on marketing than on the game will result in more games sold at the cost of next games sales in the same franchise.

The games industry is well overdue for a more product focused approach for brand building. Diablo 5 will probably never be made since polling will suggest no interest. It was a major cash cow and Diablo 3 sold like crazy because Diablo 2 was great. It's the enshittification of video games in full swing.

The entrenched Blizzard Activision is getting out competed by Paradox but Paradox is starting to screw up in the same ways by releasing Cities Skylines 2 without mod support. Cities Skylines 1 was good because of mods and Cities Skylines 2 is good, but not as good as 1 with mods.

Big companies should take a lesson from the indie book and do more closed betas, more early access and more mod support. Sell DLCs that improve a complete game instead of it being the last 10% of the unfinished game. Adding a map section like in Horizon Zero Dawn is great.

Return to Obra Dinn is some quality piece of art. There are still people making art instead of marketing.

I recently played RDR2 and Witcher 3. They're very good AAA

I mean, there is a case for discussing gas prices since it's the price of mobile energy for everything from tractors to trucking to electricity. The gas price, specifically crude oil price, used to be synonymous with energy prices so any increase in oil price would mean a major hit to cost-of-living increases.

It's outdated as hell.

In all honesty they could use this tax and an extra oil tax to subsidise the shit out of solar and EVs

Swiggity swooty the oil lobby is coming for your booty

I use vim macros. You can do some crazy formatting with it

Way to go Wayland

I would argue you need unions more. There's no minimum wage in Iceland because we have people who negotiate it for us.

For anyone wondering why people don't make cars like this it's because of front crashes with pretty much anything becomes extremely deadly.

It's the same reason why lights that pop out of the hood were banned.

Oxidative stress is a major factor in health and longevity. People who stop breathing oxygen before dieing generally live a bigger proportion of their lives healthy on average.

Sure it has a couple of bugs but it has been super solid. I'm on KDE Neon which is the least stable Plasma distro and I barely notice bugs. Once a month Plasma crashes but it does a full recovery with windows in the exact same places.

Only issue for me is that the KWin scripting API doesn't work the way it did so my custom shortcut doesn't work.

I can run all my games on Linux.

It was a different meta back then. Bottom right is as apex predator

We've been trending towards less but more active users but it looks like the user numbers stabilised

I'm fine with a bunch of them staying for the enshittification. Lemmy is growing and that's all that matters

AI is a very slow learner still. The base OS for humans is really advanced with hormones biases built in and a initial structure connected to input and outputs.

Sure, it's possible but we're not there yet. It could be still 10-100 years until we manage to get a good one, depending on how we don't know yet.

It's not much more than for regular people to vote. Electoral commission goes to the prison and they vote one by one.