It really feels like Reddit circa-2023, particularly the bad ways. Lemmy.world is the worst for that.

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I played the game last year but it was incredibly easy as an adult. I didn’t even finish it because it was too boring. I might download a mod that increases the difficulty.

The frat-bro culture of harassment and abuse started way before the merge with Activision.

Blizzard North was separate from the Irvine studio, I believe. Their Diablo 3 was in development for a while too.

But yeah, I guess that’s what people mean, the old design philosophy. But I can’t help it now. Old Blizzard seems tainted to me. At least starting from the WC3+WoW era.

Do we really want old Blizzard back?

Personally, with all that we learned about the frat-bro culture there, I don’t want it back. Hell, if it meant people didn’t get abused, I’d erase it.

Like what? The BAFTA?

Exactly this. The comics property has Skybound, but HBO seems to just be doling out the TV show licence left and right.

Good idea, I’ll put it right by “Time Person of the Year 2006”!

Destiny 1 was planned to be live service, “updated until the end of time”. Seems like the design and technology did not work for that, hence Destiny 2

They get those people to help boost the credibility of the IPO and their experience in managing acquisitions and such.

QA people being mistreated is very, very common. They’d likely rehire some when required or use contractors.

Mismanagement and lack of direction sets a live-service game wayward. How surprising. /s

So many studios sold to massive companies to “ensure their future” in the last few years, but now that the zero interest era* is over, they’re being cut.

Amazing. I am really happy to hear it ended up in the hands of not only a hardcore fan, but also someone who will share it with world in a book.

Exactly what I do! I just wanted to keep my previous comment short.

Wikipedia is your friend for quick information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embracer_Group

Beats Google very often, in my experience.

A lot of studios accepted the sale to Embracer because of the decentralized studio model. I hope they took into account the risk of a subsequent sale to a more centralized owner…

“Advanced” combat in The Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

Most of the time combat is a slog and it’s the least interesting part of the games. I just get strong weapons and hit the enemies with them, or shoot them from afar. I don’t think I even broke more than 5 shields per game, and barely did that slow motion avoid thing. It’s much faster to just slash and slash, stagger, slash, etc.

Hell, a lot of the devices in TotK are useless because I can just slash or shoot the enemies myself. Tried them out once in shrines and that’s it.