Dragon Age: Why We Can't Have Nice Things

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Gavinmad said:
Owlcat is hardly "killing it". They develop games in a nearly dead genre with minimal competition. To their credit they use their much smaller budget very efficiently but who knows how badly BG3 will have warped player expectations going forward.
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Owlcat is definitely killing it for those of us that absolutely love Iso-rpg's.

I just hope they steer clear of any more woke virus. They're already infected, but a lot of that had to do with compromised source material and influence from Paizo.
 
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Both Pathfinders sold over a million each so while not GTA or COD numbers, its nothing to scoff at either for a niche genre as this and a small Russian studio. Im sure BG3 will lead more people to these types of games too in the future.
 
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mkopec said:
small Russian studio
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Huh, all this time I had assumed they were just some dirty Cypriots but Shpilchevskiy and Mishulin definitely aren't Greek names.

Anyway I'm not trying to be unfair to Owlcat, WotR is definitely one of my favorite games of all time regardless of genre. But all three of their big games have been trainwrecks on release and if they had any real competition I don't know that I'd have ever given Kingmaker a try in the first place. That 'million copies' sold also means a lot less when a significant chunk of your playerbase doesn't pay full price for your game.
 
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Exactly. And if you cant take freedom of speech and people calling you out on your dumb takes, get off the fucking internet and do some self introspection.
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Goes back to something I've been saying for years: If your ideology only works if other people are prevented from arguing with it, it's probably a flimsy fucking ideology.
 
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Mist said:
I think you're wrong. Who the early adopters are, and why they're leaving X, doesn't matter in the long run.

The fact that you can choose your content algorithm(s), choose your moderation service(s), and that it's a protocol and not a platform means eventually everyone will end up there. A team of 20 people are currently building and supporting a platform 20mil+ users, which is efficiency even Elon would be impressed with. X did a lot of things right, but directly monetizing engagement will eventually be the death of it as a functional platform as bots continue to fill replies with slop for fake impressions.
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How long do you think it'll take them to effectively "kill" X?
 
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Gavinmad said:
Huh, all this time I had assumed they were just some dirty Cypriots but Shpilchevskiy and Mishulin definitely aren't Greek names.

Anyway I'm not trying to be unfair to Owlcat, WotR is definitely one of my favorite games of all time regardless of genre. But all three of their big games have been trainwrecks on release and if they had any real competition I don't know that I'd have ever given Kingmaker a try in the first place. That 'million copies' sold also means a lot less when a significant chunk of your playerbase doesn't pay full price for your game.
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Cyprus is Russian Expat Central. That's where you'll find every Russian who wants to have smoother access to the Western market (and probably better taxes, I guess).
 
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Mist said:
I think you're wrong. Who the early adopters are, and why they're leaving X, doesn't matter in the long run.

The fact that you can choose your content algorithm(s), choose your moderation service(s), and that it's a protocol and not a platform means eventually everyone will end up there.
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You can "choose" your content algorithm on Ttwitter too, its your "Follow list

Mist said:
A team of 20 people are currently building and supporting a platform 20mil+ users, which is efficiency even Elon would be impressed with.
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What is there to build? Its a copy& paste ripoff of twitter, down to the logo. There is no monetization, so there is no revenue and those 20 employees will become 200 in short order as they get filled up with leftists and assorted DEI losers who demand control of the platform


Mist said:
X did a lot of things right, but directly monetizing engagement will eventually be the death of it as a functional platform as bots continue to fill replies with slop for fake impressions.
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Its weird how leftists only scream about the bots when they no longer control the platform. When Twitter was under Dorsey and there was 20x more bots than there is now, they didnt seem to mind. Elon shows up, purges 95% of the workforce and 95% of the bots and leftists run to their fainting couches.

Mist Mist The most important aspect right now is the user base. This is why no single social media company has had success in almost 15 years. The graveyard is full of Ellos, Threads, Mastodons, soon to add BlueSky. Even the titans who were too late to the game, couldnt do it like Google with Google +.

Your side was outplayed by an autistic African American whom you taunted and mocked. You lost. Free speech won. Seethe and accept it instead of writing cope.
 
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Mist said:
Again, it's a protocol not a platform. Moderation on bsky.social only affects bsky.social, for people subscribing to the official moderation service. People can setup other ATProtocol apps and other moderation services. And yet it doesn't suffer from the same problems that Mastodon does because it's an actual protocol vs just a bunch of federated instances.

Ignore the early adopters, ignore even bsky.social itself. It's been a while since a relevant new protocol hit the web, but I think ATProtocol will ultimately lead to significant shift in how social media works and make it way more like the web/HTML before the internet became dominated by 5 websites filled with screenshots of the other 4.

(Remember that you're currently posting on a technology that pre-dates social media.)
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Literally doesnt matter what kind of protocol it is. The platform lives and dies by the users and what users want is other users.

It hasnt even been 3 weeks since the election and leftists are already fighting on BlueSky with each other about moderation. Platform will probably be back to dead by the time Trump is inaugurated. Just like it was with Mastodon, Threads, etc.

Hey Mist Mist maybe you should all go post on Truth Social
 
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Kirun said:
How long do you think it'll take them to effectively "kill" X?
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Platforms can linger a long time in zombie mode. See: Facebook, which still works as an effective local business advertising platform, but no real discussion of societal merit happens there.
 
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Mist said:
Platforms can linger a long time in zombie mode. See: Facebook, which still works as an effective local business advertising platform, but no real discussion of societal merit happens there.
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I bet the users discussing politics there have plenty of discussions of "societal merit", just not the kind you like
 
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Mist said:
Platforms can linger a long time in zombie mode. See: Facebook, which still works as an effective local business advertising platform, but no real discussion of societal merit happens there.
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Facebook is just a place to share baby pictures and hook up with slut single moms. It's never going away.
 
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Mist said:
Platforms can linger a long time in zombie mode. See: Facebook, which still works as an effective local business advertising platform, but no real discussion of societal merit happens there.
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I need a timeline. MySpace "lingered" too, but we all knew it was "dead". So did ICQ, AIM, etc.

Again, how long do you think it takes for Bluesky to effectively render X useless as a social media site/app?
 
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About as it took mastodon or threads or any of the other faggot liberal pedo havens to do it. Ie never
 
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Kirun said:
I need a timeline. MySpace "lingered" too, but we all knew it was "dead". So did ICQ, AIM, etc.

Again, how long do you think it takes for Bluesky to effectively render X useless as a social media site/app?
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Two weeks
 
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Mist said:
Platforms can linger a long time in zombie mode. See: Facebook, which still works as an effective local business advertising platform, but no real discussion of societal merit happens there.
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Rofl this bitch just said facebook, the only other platform that can compete with Google ad sense is dead. In a sea of bad takes you keep outdoing yourself. This is the kind of blindspot that lost you gals the election.
 
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Penance said:
Rofl this bitch just said facebook, the only other platform that can compete with Google ad sense is dead. In a sea of bad takes you keep outdoing yourself. This is the kind of blindspot that lost you gals the election.
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I suspect Mist Mist might be a wee bit lying about his IQ
 
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