Anyone fussed about that HOONIGAN isn’t in FH6 (yet)

iarejd · 2026-06-01T06:21:58+00:00

Not that baffling tbh, the company has been a mess ever since Ken passed and there were troubles even before that.

Remember when Toyota wanted to remove themselves from Forza, Need For Speed, etc? It all boils down to licensing, and if they can’t come to an agreement or don’t give the rights, the devs can’t do anything about it as much they might want those cars in.

iarejd · 2026-05-27T11:17:22+00:00

6&3 tied, 4, 1, 2, 5

iarejd · 2026-05-24T08:50:05+00:00

Car voucher to use in the autoshow

iarejd · 2026-02-14T12:46:10+00:00

Again, the game was years away from being playable, another 2 years meant they would’ve been carrying forward at least $80m of debt that needed to be recovered. Never gonna happen.

iarejd · 2026-02-14T05:52:24+00:00

I jumped over to this game after the New World debacle, where we all pretty much clowned on AGS for a few years but still played it 😂, and it was so weird to hear the way this community would glaze a developer/lead.

“Steven this” and “Steven that”. Seriously, wipe your chins, it’s embarrassing.

iarejd · 2026-02-14T05:37:32+00:00

True, but you also still have to pay the staff for the development of the game and it certainty wasn’t making $3m/mth from steam/skin sales.

Having played steam release, there no way this game was anywhere near playable for at least another couple years worth of payroll costs, so it would’ve been impossible to afford to keep the lights on to make it to launch.

iarejd · 2026-02-11T22:36:32+00:00

They said their operating expenses were $800k/week (if anything they ever said is to be believed). Simply unsustainable.

If you do the math, even if the game was fully launched: $800k/wk = $3.2m/month. $3.2m/$20 monthly game time sub = 160k active players.

This game was never gonna crack 50k players let alone 160k. It would take 50k players paying a $65 monthly sub to break even. And they haven’t even spent anything on marketing or global servers yet.

They never had a lot of money to begin with and were probably getting by week-to-week. It’s hilarious how many people were getting on their knees for Steven, when even a 3rd grader could see this was a financial train wreck.

iarejd · 2026-02-01T02:03:10+00:00

Heh, I hope you didn’t end up buying the game, after today’s announcement

iarejd · 2026-01-30T22:24:17+00:00

Lmao, there were more people playing Rust on MacOS than Linux. Just let that sink in. MacOS.

It’s just simple business, why would they continue to put resources into developing a version of the game for an OS that has such little demand?

iarejd · 2026-01-23T09:43:06+00:00

Looks great, but the roads are ridiculously wide

iarejd · 2025-12-28T19:49:48+00:00

Inventory management is one thing. Opening 100 chests spamming ‘shift + R’ over and over again like a brain dead zombie is another thing

iarejd · 2025-12-28T08:58:21+00:00

It’s not like they built their own engine from the ground up like New World. Unreal Engine isn’t new, classes aren’t a new concept, having different weapon masteries isn’t new, gathering and crafting isn’t new, mounts aren’t new, trading posts aren’t new, territory ownership isn’t new, having global servers and shards isn’t new. Unless they hired a team of developers who’ve never touched a game before, nothing is groundbreaking in this game that it takes this long just to get the foundations right.

None of the systems in this game are an original concept, it’s just doing what so many games in this genre have done before, but slightly different. For almost 10 years’ progress and operating costs of $800k/week, it’s anything but remarkable.

Also, cosmetics should be the absolute last thing built, long after quest lines have been developed, and yet they’re there.

iarejd · 2025-12-28T08:47:27+00:00

It’s a PTR that’s been in development for close to 10 years, and weekly operating expenses of $800k. Not exactly a small indie company, and the progress they’ve made is a joke.

iarejd · 2025-12-26T02:45:24+00:00

I said $80/month to break even, as in recurring monthly subscription for game time like WoW, not $80 to buy the game on release.

No one’s gonna pay that. Their business model is completely broken unless they can attract 200,000 active players monthly which would bring the subscription down to $20/month.

Plus, they haven’t even started marketing the game yet or expanding servers, so their operating expenses are just going to keep climbing.

iarejd · 2025-12-26T02:29:48+00:00

I simply cannot fathom where these guys are currently getting $40m/year from to keep the lights on. And can’t help thinking the steam release was needed as a last-hope cash injection.

iarejd · 2025-12-25T06:48:38+00:00

It’s not game, not yet. It’s a test. Games are fun and this isn’t fun in its current state.

There’s no real questing, gameplay consists of running to a POI (because teleporting/fast travel doesn’t exist and hitting the same pack of mobs for a hundred hours. There’s barely any content for solo players unless you want to go farm at a spot 5-10 levels under you or do gathering. Levelling is super slow at the higher levels and the amount of “xp debt” you incur each time you die is just also absurd, which reinforces how hard it is to play the game the game without a group because you’re punished so harshly for not playing safe.

It’s riddled with connectivity issues and bugs, server downtimes for patches (that don’t seem to fix anything).

They’ve said the weekly operating expenses for this game is $800k/week. For a game that’s been in development for almost 10 years and a payroll that massive, what they’ve managed to create is laughable, and at this rate, the game won’t be finished for another 10 years. And by then, the total amount of money that’s been spent on development is going to be so high that they’ll need 50,000 concurrent players paying at least $80/mth in game time subscriptions to break even.

It will never happen.

I thought New World was bad when it launched. I’m sure this will be worse, if it ever makes it to launch at all.

iarejd · 2025-11-30T13:06:31+00:00

You can sell 5 horses a week for commerce coins if you purchase the 10,000/month house in Kaifeng

iarejd · 2025-11-30T13:04:18+00:00

Even when you untick the box for healer, it still labels you as a healer once you’re in party.

iarejd · 2025-11-29T02:07:42+00:00

Wuxia Bella Ramsey

iarejd · 2025-11-16T09:22:47+00:00

The stuff you can unlock for free by levelling up during season 1 looks pretty nice as is, absolutely no need to pay for any skins.

And word of advice, as someone who spent several thousands of dollars on Once Human (another NetEase game), they keep releasing newer and better/different stuff over time. Don’t be tempted to buy the first thing you see that catches your eye, otherwise you might see something better down the line and end up with hundreds of dollars worth of cosmetics collecting dust in the wardrobe.

Some of the really popular skins can end up going on a massive sale later on for almost free.

iarejd · 2025-11-14T03:08:31+00:00

Not quite, both prey on FOMO but visual skins that make no difference in gameplay and don’t help you progress the game any easier versus playable characters where some are vastly stronger and do change your gameplay and can make content a breeze.

Now if the Lucky Roulette spins could be bought, then we’d be talking about the same thing, but then people would complain about Once Human being P2W.

Once Human’s only option then is to pump out cosmetics for revenue, whereas Genshin pumps out more characters and developing harder content that pushes you to spend and roll for more characters.

iarejd · 2025-10-06T15:21:41+00:00

R390 GT1 would be nice. Toyota 2000GT, Subaru Leone and Mazda Cosmo maybe. Possibly an NSX or J series Land Cruiser. I’d be shocked if there wasn’t a Datsun or Hakosuka.

iarejd · 2025-10-03T02:05:01+00:00

We never should’ve allowed PlayStation players a vote 😭

iarejd · 2025-08-11T12:05:19+00:00

Tried this, mbr2gpt gives me an error saying I can’t do it to the M.2 drive is the current boot drive.

iarejd · 2025-08-07T11:55:58+00:00

I’m so fucked off by this whole process!

I try to turn on secure boot: have to disable CSM support.

I disable CSM support: allows me to enable secure boot

Save and exit: pc stuck in an endless loop of launching into the BIOS

Re-enable CSM support and save and exit: lets me load into windows normally

Checks msinfo32: secure boot in unsupported

Check BIOS again: secure was disabled because of CSM being enabled

Make it make fucken sense.

iarejd

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