Amazing that they never accounted for being offline. Didn’t want to stick to the schedule that was set for a week of offline? Say it has to be online (it doesn’t) but just say it does. Why not keep a copy of the weekly schedule locally, and then follow that if internet drops. Have a rule that says it will continue for a week offline. But it was probably done at bottom dollar

CDPR has a stake in GOG, all of their games are available DRM free there. I know it’s not your preferred device, but your gripe is with Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo, not CDPR.

I know what CDPR did and they made up for it, which is a nuance most commenters don’t understand when it’s way easier to jump on the bandwagon of hating studios.

Why did I come here? This post crossed my feed, same as you I’m guessing. Why did I comment? Because I was excited to talk to people and all I saw were gripes, so I commented.

When companies release good games, they celebrate and praise them

Correct, which is what I was doing. Thankfully you came along to prove my point exactly, that there must be no positivity about games. Comments must be about how horrible all games are, and there may be no positive mentions about games! Otherwise you will absolutely get people commenting angrily about how you refuse to also be angry with them.

Want to know why gaming doesn’t feel fun anymore? It’s 60% the issues brought up by the commenters here.

The other 40% is how gamers are all extremely negative and it’s only been a downward trend. This is now the THIRD thread I’ve seen today about something I’ve been hyped about, and not a single one has had a positive comment. It’s all either “It’s going to be a corporate shitshow” or “You’re a bad person for even liking a game made by X company”.

And hey, the companies did it to themselves, but fuck I’m tired of the constant negativity. I’m excited for this! I don’t care! I loved the entirety of the Witcher 3, CP2077’s release was a shitshow but they more than made up for it afterwards with a stream of first fixes and then just free improvements, not to mention Phantom Liberty and now it’s like, my #2 favorite game ever. And I have a DRM free copy so I can keep it forever! I have no reason to doubt them. Sure it may be late. I don’t care. I’ll probably still love it.

I’m not going to go preorder it, or by the swag, or froth at the mouth like marketers want, but goddamn everyone is so freaking negative all the time.

Cue the standard Lemmy comments of “Did you know CDPR did X 8 years ago and you should never give them a penny” and “There was a moment in their game that didn’t land well so we should boycot it” or “it’ll be delayed so the entire studio sucks”

It’s a mod

Ironically of you had read my other comment too…

Yeah it’s important to keep perspective. To Take Two this represents material loss, millions of dollars potentially gone, ruining an entire marketing campaign and wasting shitloads of money. (Remember, whether or not you agree, that’s their perspective).

To this hacker’s perspective, it is a 100 dollar game. Do I agree with the fact that gaming has gotten insanely shitty? Absolutely. However at the end of the day it’s a game, and you’re gambling your entire future livelihood and wellbeing.

man I honestly do not know how these people are so brave. Seriously. They’re going to be absolutely giga-fucked when they’re found out, and it sounds like they’re going to be since they’re using OneDrive, Discord, and it sounds like their crypto address is directly linked to a known crypto exchange who validates IDs. It’s only a matter of time. At this point they should be planning on leaving the country IMO.

Also note how they’re asking for Machine IDs. We only heard about their existence a month ago over “security” and already the lawyers are using them. Don’t trust non-open-source.

Take Two won’t forget this, they go after mod developers. They’re only a step down from Nintendo in terms of their legal pushes.

If there is no jail (which at this point I’d be surprised), minimum they’re going to have millions owed. Guaranteed these are some idiot kids who are going to fuck up the rest of their lives.

Correct, “safety” compromises our privacy. Now you’re getting it, captain shithead CEO! So with that in mind, there is no way we can accept these cameras.

Recently too. Delta was 200 bucks hub to hub. Had family at the other hub so went semi frequently. Checked the other day and it was 600 fucking dollars. Hell no I’m not doing that.

Of course their idea is to raise prices even more! That’ll get people to fly more!

So much security through obscurity, or worse the dev doesn’t know how to do it properly and doesn’t have time to learn it. So many completely open blob storage buckets allowing full read write, cors * * *, I’ll roll my own authentication, database with plain passwords. “No one should be able to get to there anyway”

Doesn’t matter if it’s llm or standard old school mm models. You said AI so people immediate downvote without looking at anything else

Next week having closed courtains will be illegal. What’s going on in there? Probably something suspicious! Why is your bathroom window frosted?!

Very validating to hear others who saw the same. So frustrating that when I was there I really did pride myself on my work and making people’s lives easier. (I always am annoyed at people who are like “har har geek squad dumb” when they really don’t know what we do, doing the simplest tasks for people who are too afraid to do it themselves). Sadly, it appears that all of that has just gone down the drain as the search for more profit has eaten up all of that goodwill.

I also completely agree, with Fry’s closing and microcenter only in a few places, and then radio shack long dead consumer electronics is very sparse. Like them or not we need best buy as an electronics retailer elsewise most of the country is empty.

Yup, I started at the tail end of where you ended where they realized they done fucked up again, and then rinse and repeat. Good leaders learned it’s a long term gain, that services are there to support the sales. Then they get “line go up” short term morons who kill all of that good will for a good quarter, and the stock plummets. To me you can see it clearly in their stock price:

You can see your drop down, then they realized they fucked up, then my time was around 2011-2015, you can see the collapse and rebuild. Then wit does go up during the tenure of Jolie, until he was forced out. They enjoyed short term profits and got lucky through covid, and now they’re floundering because they don’t really know how to retain customers, so it’s wildly fluctuating.

It is, but more because they (employees as a whole) used to know, but now they just kind of “read the cards” that are in front of them. Not their fault, corporate killed all of the training

I worked at best buy geek squad for 5 years over a decade ago. I saw best buy turn their reputation around with a new CEO who focused on customer care, training employees so they knew what they were doing. I rose through the ranks to a full repair agent where I did repairs proudly.

About 6 years ago the board ousted the last CEO for not making enough profits. The new one essentially reversed everything overnight. Less training, lower wages, less employees. It shows every time I’m in a best buy and it kills me. We had something special then, but new CEO doesn’t care. Line must go up, and torpedoed all of that consumer trust. Now I don’t recommend anyone buy anything from best buy.

I had to buy a laptop 2 years ago and was eyeing a laptop, and a sales person attempted to help me. I tried to be nice, thanks but I got this, but obviously had a madatory spiel. Told them I was just going to install linux and they said “oh this won’t support that”. Okay sure, thanks for showing you don’t know anything, okay goodbye. I went from promoting geek squad warranties to now I wouldnt trust them at all.

ITT, people who don’t realized nationalization != bailout.

No, a bailout would be that they get a big payday to continue as normal. Nationalization would mean the government takes control and it becomes part of the government.

Airlines were a bailout. Amtrak was nationalized.

I bet it could, same principal and application. Take heat from homes during the day and apply at night. Problem only swaps from “do we have enough to make it through the night” to “do we have enough capacity to make it through the day”