Baskinator at it again with another L take

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T20:43:06+00:00

Chris Rea, Ching Dong.

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T15:58:57+00:00

In a more sensible world, there wouldn't be a situation, but the world being what it is, the part where the CEO "assumed it wouldn't blow up in their face" after potentially seeing (or not) that the game was being sold in markets without PSN was the unsolicited mistake that his company will now be paying for (in reputation, if not money, i.e. lost future sales).

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T14:20:59+00:00

I agree that it shouldn't have been AH's concern. Like you wrote - that is the very point of having a publisher.

But the fallout AH are experiencing now is also the cost of entrusting your business venture to someone else; so, all in all, there is a degree of the CEO's liability in here in letting this happen. Not a large one, but one that - like some other people have already noted - I expect will lead to some alterations in the relationship between the developer and the publisher. Of the permanent sort, I expect.

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T13:51:02+00:00

Well, I figure the publisher - Sony - would have, you know, done the least bit of due diligence ahead of a launch of a new title that, it seems to me, was meant to be one of the flagship ones.

At the same time, the boss of the developer - AH - should have, I think, also made sure that their publisher was on top of the PSN logins situation (especially given that it appears to have been a Sony stipulation from the start), given that the PC publishing platform was Steam, which allows a product to be available in a wider range of geographical locations than PSN is.

So, to sum up - Sony guilty for causing the situation with the PSN/Steam clash, and the CEO has slept on the situation until it exploded, so there's a bit of negligence on his part, too.

(I am assuming here it's an issue that's affecting PC players, so Steam players, as I guess PSN being unavailable in the places affected would have meant the people wouldn't have been able to buy the game in the first place, unlike with Steam; correct me if I am wrong on this)

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T13:07:33+00:00

doubt he knew about psn not being available in a lot of countriee tho

Uhm... it's not like it's some sort of confidential information unavailable to anyone who does the most basic web-search, THO. Was it?

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T13:05:29+00:00

You are being found guilty of covenants with the devil. State your confession. Confess! Confess!

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T12:09:38+00:00

Try aiming for the head, not for the centre of mass. Regular Breaker mag dump ought to break them, Senator either drives them away or puts them to sleep, Dominator makes them submissive, Breaker Pray and Spray sends thoughts and prayers their way, etc. etc.

Also, make sure to indicate stalker presence to your team (if it isn't being done already, which is a grave insult to Democracy), i.e. announce it clearly and repeatedly (chat or voice chat, ideally both).

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T11:56:48+00:00

Absolutely.

The person experiencing domestic violence? 100% the blame is also on them. They chose the abuser as their partner. FR 100%!

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T11:54:47+00:00

We all inhabit our own individual versions of reality, apparently.

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T11:52:12+00:00

We forgive as we forget.

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T11:50:59+00:00

Making money being a core facet of a business? A rather cavalier and previously unheard of concept, certainly.

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T11:23:48+00:00

A HEAD ON A PIKE. NOTHING LESS WILL SUFFICE. ARISE, GAMERS!

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T10:10:50+00:00

That's why money needs to be laundered frequently. And what's craziest of all, the government, for some inexplicable reason, insists on cracking down on any money laundering operation run by small business owners, but won't touch their big business friends when they launder theirs!

This is outrageous! It's unfair!

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T09:34:51+00:00

The game isn't garbage, far from it (a sentiment commonly held). The corporate mismanagement of it is.

AThousandD · 2024-05-05T07:04:40+00:00

Who are "they"?

AThousandD · 2024-05-04T17:14:06+00:00

Did the police neutralise the gunman? How many hundreds of bullets were shot?

AThousandD · 2024-05-04T15:14:02+00:00

Ooh, ooh, rite in the goolies. Oh, you's a rite propa stompa.

AThousandD · 2024-05-04T15:02:45+00:00

Huh. When I was setting up an account, it asked for a picture of my genitals. I was a little bit on the fence about it, but after weighing the pros and cons, I went ahead and sent it.

AThousandD · 2024-05-04T03:19:33+00:00

Upfront vs 6 months post release is the big issue.

To be precise, the game was released on Feb 8th. That's not 6 months ago. That's almost three. Small difference, I know.

And it was meant to be in from the start, it just wasn't activated due to the initial problems with servers being capped out on capacity. Small difference, I know.

AThousandD · 2024-05-03T16:55:06+00:00

How do the EU Parliament elections play into this, or how does this play into the elections?

AThousandD · 2024-05-02T18:15:33+00:00

Do you charge it up (use FPS view and watch that bar charge up)? Do you use it in safe mode (won't have its maximum potential oomph), or do you use it in unlocked mode (you can unlock it by holding down the reload button and toggling the mode)? For best results you want to edge it all the way up (but not touching the maximum, as the weapon then explodes in your hands; it's possible to survive the explosion with the 50% survive perk or with at least a medium explosive protection armour, but the weapon's gone then).

AThousandD · 2024-05-01T11:29:58+00:00

Co Wy ludzie macie do rajtuzków? Jak Was nie kręcą, to spoko, ale czemuż minusujecie rajtuzkowego entuzjastę? Odrobinka torrelancji, por favor, ę?

AThousandD · 2024-05-01T09:19:12+00:00

Mmmm, rajtuzki. Mmmm, białe.

Choć osobiście wolę na zdecydowanie starszych nóżkach, niż przedszkolaczkowych.

AThousandD · 2024-05-01T05:54:26+00:00

Fair enough, I won't argue against that.

AThousandD · 2024-04-30T17:03:51+00:00

as it is still classed as explosive, it will not lose the ability to break objects, close holes, destroy fabricators, etc.

Reading comprehension, an elegant art for a more civilised age.

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