• a4ng3l@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    How sad is it when gaming companies first advertise to their shareholders before the gamers…

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    1 day ago

    I’m fucking done with Rockstar after GTA5. Took a great franchise and fucking ruined it with online mode. One of my first sessions ended up with a hacker teleporting everyone to a single location on the map and dropping millions on everyone.

    Also, I can’t play Vice City (still my favorite) on PC without the Social Club bullshit or downloading a cracked version (I gave up on pirated software), despite it being a single player game. Just another company I’m happy to boycott forever.

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      17 hours ago

      I only ever bought RDR2 from them, which is still bringing me a lot of enjoyment, and after seeing how they squandered RDR online for the heinous crime of not printing money fast enough, I don’t think I’ll be buying anything from them for the foreseeable future.

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    1 day ago

    That’s not a headline. That’s like the science community releasing a headline that Earth has been confirmed to be an oxygen rich environment.

    • Kelly@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      The source the Tweektown article is quoting also says:

      Anticipation is so high that some competing game publishers are waiting as long as possible to commit to their release dates for the fall, according to people familiar with their deliberations who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. The publishers want to see whether GTA 6 will make its deadline or slip into 2026, these people say, and they’re determined to keep their own games far, far away.

      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-09/-gta-6-release-date-will-decide-much-of-the-2025-game-calendar

      This is probably more interesting, that some upcoming games which don’t have release dates may be waiting for this before they commit to a schedule is somewhat noteworthy.

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      1 day ago

      Confirming obvious things is still important. Everyone knows a PS6 will exist but it’ll be huge news when it’s official