Gaming BS of the week

I remember posting about gaming industry avoiding taxes somewhere, but can't be sure which thread it was.
The point was to say publishers already don't pay taxes yet became an unloyal competition to online casinos where countries get nothing back from gambling addicts who buy lootboxes. Well…
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/artic...-in-ten-years-claims-investigative-think-tank

Rockstar hasn't paid UK corporation tax in ten years, claims investigative think tank
Grand Theft Auto V developer also received over £42 million in Video Game Tax Relief
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HMRC told GamesIndustry.biz that around half of large UK businesses are under investigation for tax reasons at any one time, and it cannot comment on a specific case.
"It is outrageous that the UK taxpayer is being asked to shell out tens of millions of pounds in subsidies to the developers of Grand Theft Auto, when at the time that the game's developers put in their tax credit application Grand Theft Auto V had already generated several billion dollars in sales and profits," said TaxWatch director George Turner.
"This is a drive-by assault on the British taxpayer and corporate welfare scrounging at its very worst.
"The Video Games Tax Relief was designed to help developers of games with a cultural content that would struggle to sell in the international market. The fact that such a large amount of that relief is going to the developers of Grand Theft Auto clearly shows that the relief is not working as intended."
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UK needed only 10 years to realize it's "not working as intended"?
ROTFL how many years it'll take to ban lootboxes?
 
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https://www.pcgamer.com/ninja-is-writing-a-book-that-will-teach-you-to-become-an-unstoppable-gamer/
Ninja is writing a book that will teach you to become an 'unstoppable' gamer
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Ninja? Gamer? LOL
MMO shills, advertised by PCGamer, no surprise there.

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https://www.pcgamesn.com/david-cage-quantic-dream-ray-tracing-graphics-lighting
The future of gaming graphics is “all about lighting” and ray tracing says David Cage
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If this statement came from PC developer and not Quantic Dream founder
who ported their console games to PC with huge time delay, it'd take it seriously.
But this is like reading a statement from an anime producer that the future of anime is extremization of CGI. It's not.
The future of gaming graphics was, is and will always be - the diversity of styles.
The future of GPUs on PC however *is* ray tracing. Which games will (dare to) use it, doesn't matter in the end. But those games won't be blossoming on phones.
 
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https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/...ith-gun-violence-following-weekends-shootings
22 people were killed and 24 injured when a lone gunman opened fire in a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday. A separate mass shooting incident occurred hours later on Sunday morning, this time in Dayton, Ohio, resulting in the deaths of 9 people, with 27 more injured.
Following the attacks, members of the Republican Party, and President Trump himself, came forward to single out video games as an influencing factor in the shootings.
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Okay, I really have to suggest a law that would enforce mandatory shrink for each and every politician. This is not the first time I'm seeing videogames killing people nonsense.

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https://www.pcgamesn.com/genshin-impact/gameplay
Players are so mad about this Chinese Breath of the Wild lookalike they’re smashing consoles
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Look, if Nintendo refuses to port the game on PC, well, there is at least one chinese developer who'll clone it. On PC.
Destroying inferior hardware is something that should be done unrelated to that.
 
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https://www.vg247.com/2019/08/07/sony-microsoft-nintendo-odds-loot-boxes/
Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo to require developers to disclose odds of paid loot boxes by end of 2020
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O_O
Till when our noses will be pulled?
This new bullshittery just path a way to another anchoring scam where a garbage with 0.01% droprate disclosed in a $100 lootbox will have 0.02% droprate in another gambling lootbox that's "only" $80.

Ban the bloody gambling in videogames already instead of opening more predatory possibilities! Or slap the damned Adults Only rating on scamware, noone will protest then.
 
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porcozaur said:
https://www.gamepressure.com/newsro...derlands-3-character-fl4k-may-get-you-b/z7f98 Misgendering Borderlands 3 Character FL4K May Get You Banned :D
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lol, yeah. That's pretty funny.

Also,

"While no company is perfect, Gearbox has consistently aspired to be an ally to the LGBTQIA+ community. In fact, as the headline suggests, damn near everyone in the Borderlands universe falls under the LGBTQIA+ banner — at least if you assume that the number of explicitly queer characters is indicative of the fictional universe’s unmentioned citizens’ sexual identity.

This overall queerness even includes a couple of playable main characters. Remember Axton, the cute Commando you can play as in Borderlands 2? He’s bisexual. And Athena, the beautiful shield-wielding Gladiator you can main in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel? She’s a lesbian. FL4K would bring us up to three playables if they turn out to be canonically representative of the LGBT community."

You know, I never could get into BL2. At the time I couldn't work out why that was, but now I'm wondering if it was because I'm not gay enough.

Either way, definitely not buying BL3.
 
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https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/intel-cpus-are-still-better-says-intel.html
Intel CPUs are Still Better - Says Intel
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This year at Gamescom…
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"A year ago when we introduced the i9 9900K," says Intel's Troy Severson, "it was dubbed the fastest gaming CPU in the world.
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i9 is not a gaming CPU. Of course it's not the only bullshit heard at Gamescom from Intel.

If one is not sure what am I talking about - do you fly an airplane to your workplace and back every weekday? It's faster than a car, bus or train. Or bicycle. So why don't you?
 
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The trailer (ad) of the century:



I feel sick.
 
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Wow. That is absolutely bloody shameless! :biggrin:
 
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Just to add, you can see on the video it's PEGI3. The similar ad in USA has ESRB everyone.

If this is where videogames industry is going, I'll have to find another hobby.
 
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Yes, I spotted that. Gross.
 
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Ad for what game? Youtube link says only "Loading" - apparently without loading anything.

pibbur who in this case perhaps should be ashamed to be curious
 
NBA 2K20. The original video seems to be down, perhaps something to do with the backlash and negative publicity (sometimes they repost a video to lose all the user downvotes.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46MQ1ZMZ-l4

Purportedly a basketball game suitable for ages 3 and up. You might as well give your pre-schooler 50 quid, and pack them off to play the slots.

EDIT: The gentleman demonstrating the joys of gambling, for grooming purposes, is apparently a youtube "content creator" aptly named Cashnasty. He can bugger off, too.
 
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Ouch!

I did actually google for "trailer ad game gross", and that ad came up as the first link.

pibbur who like the ripper and the joxer is disgusted. And who hopes that this one really backfires.
 
As one of the wags in the original comment section put it, "Why are people playing basketball in the casino?" :biggrin:
 
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news just breaking:

Zoe Quinn is alledgedly suspected of murdering a Night in the Woods developer. Gaming press in furious damage control mode, no reputable links are currently available to provide meat to this speculation at this point.
 
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