Kelly

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[–] Kelly@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

Cool, now do blood dragon

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

I don't see how adding a few medkits in the inventory could lead to the boss to jump over the puddles :)

They could be using player character state as a proxy for player skill.

A player who successfully navigated earlier changes with such competence that they have an excess of health items might appreciate a more challenging final boss.

You may have inadvertently put it into hard mode!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_game_difficulty_balancing

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 27 points 7 months ago (10 children)

Mojang’s asinine version numbering

They do what now?

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm using the word "feel" because I'm not qualified to provide a legal opinion.

It lasting 10 years doesn't mean much to the people who were sold the game in the last 6 months without any warning they were buying into the final hours.

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Should they have announced and removed it as soon as the board meeting ended? How much earlier would that be in this case?

My unsubstantiated theory is the the licences they signed for all the vehicles and real world content had a 10 year lifetime.

Usually those contracts would just require that they stop selling the game, but they may have included something about the servers in the contract too.

Either way they new something was going to change in 2024 and realistically they knew which of these possibilities were viable:

  • sign new deals with all licensors and continue business as usual
  • sign new deals with cooperative licensors and modify the game to remove the others
  • remove the game from sale and keep the servers running for current customers
  • remove the game from sale and kill the servers - tell people to buy the sequal

I'd they waited until December of 2023 to have that meeting then that feels negligent.

If they had that meeting earlier and continued to sell the game (until ≈100 days to EOL) without warning customers that feels fraudulent.

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

Call me crazy but I expect businesses to guarantee their products.

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago (5 children)

On December 14, 2023, Ubisoft delisted The Crew and its expansions from digital platforms, suspended sales of microtransactions, and announced that the game's servers would be shut down on March 31, 2024, citing "upcoming server infrastructure and licensing constraints".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crew_%28video_game%29

People who paid around us$40 for the game on December 13 were being sold a lemon.

Given that it was released in 2014 it seems likely that their licenses were given a 10 year duration and they always intended to shutdown in 2024 at the latest (of course if its user base failed to reach critical mass they could have pulled the plug earlier).

Does selling a game in 2023 when you plan to kill it in 2024 legally qualify as fraud?

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It looks better than the art for the new snow bros game

 

It looks like Nintendo have finished testing every game.

Summary:

category count percentage
cannot be used 6 ≈ 0.04%
issues that prevent progress or startup issues 162 ≈ 1.07%
issues that have been resolved, or are planned to be 185 ≈ 1.22%
require JoyCon 1 10 ≈ 0.07%
no known issues ≈ 14759 ≈ 97.60%
total ≈15122 100%
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Kelly@programming.dev to c/nintendo@lemmy.world
[–] Kelly@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

These are the top 5 sellers on Switch:

These links take you to a price tracker with a chart showing historical prices. The RRP of each of these has been static, and discounts are short and infrequent.

In a break from form Nintendo hasn't released a budget "Selects" label for older titles this generation.

[–] Kelly@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

The project is Open Source (MIT license) and maintained by W4 Games with sponsorship from Meta. Contributions from the community are welcome!

This is a fantastic approach.

It would be great if other platform owners brought out official Godot support.

I know there are legal issues with the Godot project signing up for console developer program or releasing integration code as FOSS,.

But I don't see any legal reason why cobsole platforms couldn't make extensions like this or even export templates available to members of their developer program.

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