Of the year. No, of the decade.
Hell no. This is the biggest bs ever in gaming industry.
#1 bs of all time.

The way ESRB works:



It's not 1st of april and this seems not to be a joke. Game rating is not based on the actual game. It's based on a fart that might not be in the game at all.

You are right: Angry Joe really should stop messaging on his phone while he's doing videos.

No link on media today because every site and their mother reports Ubisoft's logic under p2w microtransactions in their brand new game and why are some temporarily disabled after the public outrage (temporarily as will return in the game).
The game's title is Ghost Recon Breakpoint. Yes I've never heard about it before either.

Here's the link to Ubisoft's divine logic by saint UbiBorghal on the official game forum:
https://forums.ubisoft.com/showthrea…asable-Content

Of course there are some people who bought this scam and even more who didn't but will defend this bs.

EDIT:
Well excuse me, there will be some people who won't buy the game but will receive it for free thanks to Samsung backing the afterrun scamware:
https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/ne…e-content.html

So many games, so little time.
And so many more bs.

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https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2…ockstar-source
It has no mmo potential = scrappit.

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https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2…-game-fortnite
Hopefully the canadian court will incarcerate the parents who forced their children not to be dirty (aka not to be children but Nintendo drones).

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https://www.pcgamesn.com/fallout-4/f…acy-collection
No comment.

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https://www.pcgamer.com/why-you-shou…ption-2-on-pc/
Lemme doublecheck if it's 1st of april.

LOL. Looking at the fact that so many things never appear outside of the U.S. …
Pool Of Radiance 2 Collector's Edition, I'm looking at you !
Or the TOEE Patches …
(European / German Star Wars collectors have a similar problem. Things just don't appear overseas.)

If you live in Venezuela and use Adobe products, then you have a problem now.
Adobe is deleting all accounts of people from Venezuala.
https://helpx.adobe.com/la/x-product…venezuela.html

I guess everyone knows about whatnot mmo tournament ban(s) and all of it is plain bs - from all possible perspectives. Whatever mmo needed some buzz I guess.

What amazes me is the "post mortem" bs.

First, PC Gamer, who else:
https://www.pcgamer.com/blizzards-dr…e-to-piss-off/
The ban has nothing with China being China, it was China before and will remain to be China and the focus on potential pissing off a country is misplaced.
The focus needs to be on morality of companies. Said elsewhere, today's companies behave as psychopaths. This needs to change.

Of course a buzz about irrelevant mmo created with politicking bullshittery needs a knight in a shining armor to save the day, and as expected, Epic Games wants to profit from it:
https://www.vg247.com/2019/10/10/epi…ical-opinions/
I'm not sure what's worse.
Videogames are supposed to be played. Not trolled the internet with.

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That is not gaming industry bs, but bs it is.
What happens next because of that decision? Piracy.
Every single company yells they want piracy on knees, and then make such decisions where blossoming of piracy in a country is imminent.
Also, depending on where you live and if you're Adobe suite subscriber, maybe it's best to start searching for alternatives as obviously you never know if the same ban will happen there too.

This is what Warlords in RL do as well, I fear : https://kotaku.com/eve-online-enemie…-mo-1838975271




Interesting, by the way, that this thread *never* focuses on BS created by players, only on BS created by firms …

That wasn't really the idea, but as I add most of it, and because players don't earn $ with their bs, it kinda doesn't interest me. Players' bs.
Now bs from nonplayers called streamers, who do pay bills by their streaming bs-ery are another story. Ability to sell bs so effectively I find fascinating.

In other words, my additions to the thread are (mostly) not about sheep but about shepherd(s). If it wasn't so, I'd question so many things. For example urges to make nude mods for every single game instead of overspamming developers to replace barbie dolls with naked bodies as a standard and an option to enable/disable nudity in a game.

Focus Interactive refuses to give rights back : http://frogwares.com/official-statem…e-interactive/

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/…-user-reports/

So, a WoW Guilds' name was automatically changed after user complaints.
What's the bullshit here: plenty.

1. The name change is nonsense, as the original name was not offensive in any way.
2. Automatic changes due to user complaints are a really bad idea. So if you want to blame Blizzard, blame them for that and for being cheap in terms of moderator force.
3. The report itself. Why not mention early on that the change was automatic? Instead of linking it to the (very intentional and not automatic) Hong-Kong-Protest reaction of Blizzard. Someone's trying to ride the anti-Blizzard sentiment here.

https://wccftech.com/cd-projekt-red-…-story-sooner/
Basically a dev wants to hollywoodize/hongkongize the company that proved videogames don't have to be cringefests.
Just don't please. If pisspoor scripts and stories are your thing, say goodbye to CDpr and move to Hollywood.

Per leak, EA is releasing University DLC for Sims 4 soon:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2…ims-4-are-true

Traditionally, although singleplayer only, Sims games were kept alive through years thanks to beefy expansions that added tons of new content on the base game.
The problem is EA is simply recycling old stuff and charging too much for it while some of the base concepts from previous Sims games never appeared in the 4th series (openworld, cars, etc). Sure, Sims 4 makes them enormous amount of $, but everyone and their mother don't want rebooted expansions but Sims 5 instead.

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Another leak that stinks. I dare to call it an artificial. Deliberate.
https://www.vg247.com/2019/10/21/dia…ssible-reveal/
After furious fans of different Blizzard titles and recent whatever card game tournament fuss over politics, after Riot announced all sorts of games that will compete with Blizzard's titles on PC, no wonder there has to be some damage control.

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https://www.onlysp.com/bioshock-crea…immersive-sim/
I say: ikghddduzkarvbyhfbvksduzvbaduvzusvzdv.
Grab a supercomputer to decrypt both their bs and mine.

Google translate tells me it's Russian, but refuses to actually translate.

:(

This is confusing. It isn't even clear to me who is at fault…. or being unreasonable…

First minute and a half. Please watch. It's a certain game review but it's actually the current state of the videogame industry.



I know some will call the intro of that video bs. But the real bs is not that intro.

https://www.pcgamesn.com/assassins-c…y/radio-towers
The idea worked for me where it felt a part of the game (environment puzzle in AC games), but I did hate it when it was slammed just to pose as ilogical filler (Watch Dogs 1). Why is the initial idea maker apologizing now can't say, but abusing that idea where it doesn't belong was not his fault IMO.
It's like hearing a developer apologizing for making random loot from crates in old games. Not their fault CEO Morgan from Alpha Centauri videogame turned it into scamware later.

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Remember the UK government based comittee or something spilling bs that lootboxes aren't gambling? Dunno if someone yelled "that's bs" too loud, but the story took another turn:
https://www.vg247.com/2019/10/22/uk-loot-box-gambling/
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https://www.vg247.com/2019/10/21/hol…ng-videogames/
Past couple of decades they couldn't make a proper script for movies either, hiring them in videogames industry is plain bs.

Action-RPGs ? They have almost no story but still drive in massive revenues …

Depends on the law.
In some countries, rights are handled differently.

I just wish this was going viral. :lol:

https://www.vg247.com/2019/10/23/cyb…rding-analyst/
Of all the clickbait titles this is one of the worst. Could.
The sky is blue. It could be blue in the next year too.

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https://www.pcgamesn.com/nvidia/hbr-…jen-hsun-huang
Okay this isn't bs by itself, nVidia was always strong and thanks to CPU war between AMD and Intel plus the high interest in so called AI (which is IMO not AI but a more efficient data processing) it was a bit easy to get the top spot. However:
For god's sakes. The name that's synonym to scam is one of best performing CEOs? Per what criteria? Turning people into sheep? Tax evasion? Milking schemes no other gaming company does?

Don't get me started. Well you just did. ;)

There's lots of good and interesting stuff going on, with some valid scientific and technological impact. But heaven forbid, don't call it something boring like "statistics". Nah, it has to sound shiny and cool, like "data science" or "artificial intelligence".

I'm quite sick of all these buzzwords that are flying around, recirculating the same old concepts with extremely vague definitions. And yet you need to keep using them to "sell".

Deep Learning

AI

Industry 4.0

Big Data

Cyber Physical Systems

Edge Computing

*sigh*

It will never end.

Sorry for the offtopic. Although, of course it's the same for AI in gaming. Rarely much more than some decent scripting.