Quote from blackdog10 minutes ago, blackdog said: It’s good to know you won’t need to #learntocode if all else fails! ?
Jokes aside, congrats! ?
still plan to #learntocode. We all should, I guess. Just had to do this first, or else risk forgetting everything...
Quote from Vaya9 minutes ago, Vaya said: are you gonna have to wear a suit now?
no immediate plans to wear a suit 
Quote from Radu3 minutes ago, Radu said: You're gonna be a bar? @FMPONE we're all so proud!
I want to be this one
Found out today I passed the Florida Bar Exam ?
Quote from General Vivi16 hours ago, General Vivi said: Yup! Fully funded! Thanks everyone :D!
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Congrats! ???
Quote from Minos2 minutes ago, Minos said: Lol, just watched this, this game looks rad!
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its literally one of the best platformer games I've played since the latest mario.
Within two seconds of going on Itch I found an amazing game that I just spent a few hours beating. ez pz
Quote from Pampers2 hours ago, Pampers said: does anyone actually use itch.io? or is it just indie developers buying each others games on there?
I’d really like to, super curious to check out some of the smaller projects out there.
Quote from blackdog3 hours ago, blackdog said: @FMPONE CDProject came out to say they won’t go Epic exclusive, so I wouldn’t even talk about that. Plus they have GOG, if they were ever going exclusive would be on their own platform… like Valve did!
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On the subject of Valve, I dunno how or why anyone would come out saying what has been reported, is just bollocks. Sounds like cheap damage control. If they cared about making a successful game, they would have made Artifact for mobile, it’s my understanding card games are quite successful there.
Ultimately it seems to show that the hyped flat structure doesn’t really work, at least can’t solve problems across such a wide spectrum of interest (google is pretty flat and I think there’s quite the parallel with Valve, how many projects have they killed because of poor engagement from the audience?)
CDPR probably are one of the few companies that can guarantee a very, very successful Steam launch nowadays. The platform is so bloated that for most companies it probably makes more sense to take the sure-fire cash injection from Epic. Even then, if Epic offers enough, it’s just so much better from a risk perspective to take their upfront cash. I wonder if Valve will start being very punitive with companies who dabbled with the Epic store and try to come back to Steam after their deals expire?
Valve says they’re going to try to fix Artifact... it’ll be interesting to see whether that’s sincere, or they call it quits and realize whatever logic lead them to make a card game, wasn’t logical at all. Artifact is a really tough one. As a Valve fan, I would have rather seen that game succeed so that they would feel more secure venturing back into game development. Now, I can totally see them turtling up and refusing to do any more game dev for a while, bringing us back to square one.
Agreed on the flat structure. It’s like a lot of walls closing in on them at once as a company, fighting so fiercely over a minuscule VR market, getting broadsided by Epic in the publishing game, having their most recent game launch do so poorly. Feels like the flat structure has been Valve’s problem for the last 10 years, but now the dam has broken and there are legitimate challenges that can’t just be ignored or handwaived because “hey, Steam is huge.”
Started watching The Expanse on Prime video. seems pretty cool.
Had to turn on Closed Captioning though, because the audio mixing is not the best.
Just now, [HP] said: Makes sense, the way I see it, competition is a great thing. Seems like even steam is getting more patched recently now that Epic games launcher is out?
Back in the day, you had to install every game you bought, if a game you wanna play is only available on a particular launcher, download and install said launcher and uninstall as soon as you're done with the game, what's the big deal? lol
it's not a big deal and competition is a good thing. the only chance we see HL3 is actually Epic big dicking Valve and exposing them for the hollowed-out publisher they are.
hate to see it come to this, it would have been a lot easier for them to just stick to high quality game development. But the exclusives have to come from somewhere, if you need to make them yourself, so be it. Worked out pretty well for Portal 2.
3 minutes ago, [HP] said: I've been gone a month, why is there so much drama over this store? It started with Metro, now it seems like any game that gets released here gets some sort of drama around it?
some gamers want Steam to be a permanent monopoly because Steam has a lot of great features and because managing multiple launchers isn't that great. Some pretend to care that Epic is "buying" exclusives, but I really doubt your average gamer gives two fucks about that business side of thing. Some pretend to care that Tencent is involved, like it's the Chinese government spying on them or something. Not saying there is no truth to it, but again, I really seriously doubt people give a fuck about that.
Meanwhile, a billion kids are obsessed with Fortnite and a lot of the big AAA releases are moving away from Steam, so I don't think the crying stands a chance of changing anything.
I really feel like if Cyberpunk goes to the Epic Store, that's gotta be the big turning point if it happens... if I'm Epic, I'd pay them whatever it takes for that exclusive. Whatever the cost.
As for Borderlands 3, Pitchford literally said that if HL3 was released he would reconsider launching on the Epic store. People act like Valve NEVER had first party exclusives, and it's not true. Steam was built on first party exclusives. What's changed is, they're no longer making exclusives, and Epic is buying the third party titles and making them exclusive. Maybe Epic will run out of money, but they have the high-tech engine that built Fortnite, they can keep pumping out hits, while all Valve has is an aging Source Engine.
Possibly, developers will begin to over-leverage, asking ridiculous fees from Epic because they know Epic wants the exclusives. That might end the bidding the wars.
I'd really like the narrative to change here, obviously being rather invested in the Valve side of things. But they're not really the same company that made Portal 2, it's not clear they still have the talent to do big projects like that. They're investing big in VR. Only problem is, no one cares that much about VR... The big title they invested in to show that "hey, we still make games!" was Artifact, and it bombed HARD. You have to fail to succeed, so it's a good sign in a way, but it's kind of ironic that Valve says "we were really wrong about what our players wanted!" once Artifact failed, but then they said for years "actually, our fans don't REALLY want HL3". It's like, hey uh, your sense of what your fans want seems pretty dogshit.
Definitely seems like Epic is winning this fight, and is going to win in the long run.
watch Epic Games steal this and make it exclusive LOL
Quote from blackdogOn 3/15/2019 at 3:57 PM, blackdog said: Sick trailer for the Battle Royale made in DICE
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EA is just competing with themselves when Apex is doing so well. Strange stuff.
If graphics get crazy enough such that hardware manufacturers can't keep prices low enough for the average consumer, or developers can no longer afford to optimize what they're making, or consumers get sold on the idea of "hyper-realistic" rendering that only Google data-centers could provide I can see this taking off. Not sure America's shitty infrastructure could handle the streaming aspect.
Ultimately this being successful wouldn't be great for anyone except Google.
This video, I think very convincingly, ties the success of Apex Legends to the worsening and widespread income inequality we see throughout our society.
It seems like quite a fun game and I obviously think it's great that Respawn has a bonafide hit on their hands. But on the other hand, it's hard to imagine the business model it pushes and normalizes being sustainable in the long term once the concept of "microtransactions" has less novelty to consumers, nor healthy for the industry at large when BR games cannibalize eachother's success so rapidly, and games that aren't chasing the BR trend hardly stand to be profitable.
Quote from Puddy20 hours ago, Puddy said: This was a great season. ?
Heard this in a few places. Sounds like it’s on the list!
Playing Dead Cells currently. I like the gameplay (sometimes) and the visuals are mostly OK and not bad.
Not a big fan of the gameplay gimmick or the repetition. However, I just keep coming back to it during downtime. It’s very addicting...
Think I’m ready to move onto RE2
That was a very good trailer. Andre 3000!
We enjoyed the gameplay on this one quite a bit and saw a very easy, linear path to having it look great too. Excited to run around the new version with all the updates. I remember the path where the bridge was felt great, and where the trees used to be feeling odd and disconnected, curious to see if that has been improved.
