This can happen when the global economy is in the toilet.
If only retirees can afford to participate in a hobby, thats usually an indicator that whatever that hobby is is too expensive. A lower price would make it more prolific and generate more potential sales, likely to increase revenue overall by volume.
Like how Ferrari cars are designed for 20 year olds but only 80 year olds can afford to buy them.
Consoles and Gaming PC parts (GPUs especially) are increasing in price at a time when people are struggling to pay their bills. $70 for new games now, or you can pay $120 every year, but you don’t own anything. I meanz, you also don’t own the $70 games either, but you extra don’t own games on a subscription service. Old games are there and fine, but in comparison to the current economy, where inflation around the globe is higher than it has been on average since video games were really a thing, new games are a very expensive hobby.
Directly dollar for dollar, it may be comparable, but taking the economy into picture, games in the past were cheaper. Especially considering how much revenue video games generate now. Prices should be lower, but expected infinite business growth from shareholders is preventing that.
Also who said Ferrari’s are designed for 20 year olds?
Enzo Ferrari, the founder of Ferrari, did. He didn’t specify exactly 20 year olds, but his quote was “I build cars for young men that only rich old men can afford.” Or something similar to that effect, as the quote would have been originally in italian.
I must respectfully disagree. Classic Halo gameplay, such as the gameplay found in Halo CE-3 is timeless.
Infinite was a step in the right direction, particularly in the art department, but it ultimately still missed the mark for decidedly “Halo” gameplay. Not necessarily an “abomination,” but it isn’t particularly good either. Also, the open world design hurt the game. Not enough map variation, and non-curated encounters that felt stale and repetitive.
Halo 5 had perhaps the worst art style I think I have ever seen given the original games’ direction. Halo 5s gameplay also did not feel like Halo. It felt like Call of Duty or Apex Legends, or some other fast paced shooter. Not Halo. Halo 4 had abyssmal multiplayer, so Halo 5 was a slight improvement compared to Halo 4 but it was too different from Halo CE-3. Particularly, Halo 3 is universally agreed upon as the best one. Why stray so far from that formula that worked, as Halo 5 did? Well its obvious, developers that created Halo 4 and Halo 5 " are people that hate Halo." Yes, thats a real quote from 343i. People that hate Halo aren’t going to make the Halo they work on feel like Halo, and many of them were former CoD developers.
Halo 5s campaign was not up to par compared to the Bungie Halo games. The writing was passable to bad, the marketing was completely different from the actual game. And don’t even get me started on how Blue Team was treated. 4 missions to play as Master Chief? Really? How about "we arent going to launch without splitscreen again? That one didn’t work out too well for Bonnie Ross when they broke that promise instantly in their next game, did it? And good riddance she’s gone.
Also, Locke. Locke maybe wouldn’t have been so bad if he kept his helmet on and learned to shut up and let his body language do most of the talking. Instead, his helmet was off his head about as much as Jimmy Rings’ helmet was in the TV show (actually the worst thing 343i has done with Halo, hands down), to the point that every time he started talking I was practically taking my headphones off.
REQ packs. I won’t go any further on this topic, as I am sure you remember everything, especially the video telling everyone complaining about it to “shut [their] pie-hole.”
I can agree that Infinite does not feel like Halo, but I must disagree with the statement that Halo 5 was any good. In my opinion, ALL of 343is Halo games are subpar, with Infinite being the only one with the most amount of good points.
I get that Lemmy’s (and Reddit’s) favorite Bogeyman is capitalism, but the system of economics generally has absolutely nothing to do with region locking content.
Generally, content is region locked for reasons such as:
trademark is already taken in the destination country and the IP holder doesn’t want to register a new name
traditional Japanese companies literally do not care about any market outside of Japan even if that market offers more potential profit
the author doesn’t want to sell to the destination country
the destination country has content restrictions or censorship preventing sale of the work
the IP is licensed to a thirdy party but the third party refuses to make the content available in the destination country for whatever reason
It depends. Sometimes the authors retain the rights either through a less restrictive publisher or through self-publishing and can set terms for their works, while other authors cannot.
In your example, Kodansha may own the right to publish the manga in their magazine but that doesn’t always mean they own the IP for that manga. So if Kodansha decides to publish an issue of their magazine that has that manga in another country, they can, but they may need permission from the mangaka depending on how the rights were sorted. However, Kodansha may not own the IP rights and could therefore not release the individual manga. This is generally all stuff stipulated through contracts, and a particularly influential mangaka may get more leeway with a less restrictive contract over someone new or without a track record.
This gets even messier when multiple people or companies own partial rights to an IP. In those cases, usually one company just stops caring but refuse to sell their share, and the IP effectively dies forever.
There cannot be one single global distributor. They would need too much specific knowledge of trademark and copyright laws for every destination country, among others, in order to do that. Plus that would be a distribution monopoly, which in many Western countries is illegal.
This is not about the shooting victims, and is 100% about wanting more money.
The shooting sucks and I am sorry for the victims families, but Activision has no stake in that. What about adding Epic Games for Fortnite? Or Ubisoft for Tom Clancy games? Or EA for Apex Legends, Battlefield, and Medal of Honor? Or Valve for CounterStrike? Or how about the developers of PUBG and The Finals? And why not sue Activision in the time before they were acquired by Microsoft? Were they waiting for the acquisition to go through because they wanted a bigger pay out? That seems most logical to me.
Doing this just makes the families involved look like clowns.
I am still pissed about consoles being permanently dropped. I fully get dropping support for Xbox One, but I am on Series X and there is no reason that cannot be supported. Heck, even Series S could run Elite without issue. Its not a technical problem preventing them.
I think I have logged in about once or twice on PC because the forced the transfer to PC. Killed my interest in playing completely.
Well, I wouldn’t consider something embarrassing something bad. I had more in mind something like getting in a train wreck or a victim of crime. Those are some pretty bad things that would certainly be worse than nothing.
Used to love the gaming and gaming related sub-reddits. Its sad what its become. While /c/gaming (and other related lemmy instances) may not be as active, it feels like it has much more human reactions than reddit at this point....
No, because then information is locked behind walled gardens, plus the AI training material is still siphoned from them anyway. All it takes is one AI training user being added or one account being compromised.
If you don’t want AI to use it, don’t post it online. And don’t let people post it online.
Basically my point is there is literally nothing you can do.
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There's a fake leak for Halo 7 going around but it's too comedic not to share, whoever wrote this is an actual clown
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Used to love the gaming and gaming related sub-reddits. Its sad what its become. While /c/gaming (and other related lemmy instances) may not be as active, it feels like it has much more human reactions than reddit at this point....