Well, no.
Deep Rock Galactic has fully optional skin packs to make money and they’re doing great.
Warframe has been chugging along for over a decade now and they’re doing great. Beating the pants off of Destiny 2 for average player count.
The live service trick is that live service only works if the company actually cares about the product. Those two companies stand out because they legitimately care and have great communication with their communities.
Fair, I have connections to a few that were fairly serious during 2, most of which were in tournies, one of those never bought 3, but the rest gave it a shot.
The ripoff that is S3 seems to be nails in the proverbial coffin.
They killed Splatoon’s grassroots Esport community thanks to them making a quick buck with splatoon 3, that promised a bunch of network functionality improvements that never materialized.
So now, a game that used to have multiple small but growing international tournaments now has nothing. Hell, they used to have tournaments on the main stage at PAX East.
Given how they front-loaded the launch schedule and ended up wiping out some of their own game communities(the corpse of Arms say hi from under the former juggernaut that was the Splatoon 2 launch).
The silence on their front WRT games suggests that they might be ramping up for a similar blitz for a switch 2.
This. All this means is that they trained all of the input commands and documentation in the model.
I miss the old version of the game.
When it was in dev it had randomly generated animals on the planets. Made each planet more interesting and unique. For an unknown reason it was changed just before the official launch to have 3-4 mobs per planet type.
Steam, for all of the good it did still normalized digital distribution of games. Its normal now that we dont own the games we play they exist on corporate servers, and can be rescinded at the drop of a corporate whim.
Epic exists as an alternative to Steam in the same way that Russia is the world power opposing the US.
Microsoft has been openly against xbox exclusives since at least 2018. They used to brag about it at PAX back then that they were stopping xbox exclusives and that everything was at least going to be PC+Xbox release.
Sven doesn’t seem interested in being bought out.
Also Tencent already has some claws in Larian.
Its important for them to preserve any chance of profit that may be squeezed from old games.
Wc2: the Elven Archers would comment “that you don’t touch the other elves way.”
No. I would suggest you actually read the study.
The problem that the study reveals is that people who use AI-generated code as a rule don’t understand it and aren’t capable of debugging it. As a result, bigger LLMs will not change that.
Will to bet that Musk ends up owning it.