The competition should be about having the best platform, not exclusive content.

Those both sound like competition to me. What you are really asking for is “I want things to be cheaper” which is a separate and sometimes related issue to competition, but separate nonetheless.

The path to lower prices the way you want would be government-mandated price controls on the industry.

In other words, they release games at a similar rate to most AAA developers that aren’t making CoD or yearly sports titles?

How often do people expect developers to release AAA titles?

Guerrilla Games released Horizon Forbidden West in 2022, and the only previous title in ‘recent’ history’ was the prequel 5 years earlier.

Larian released BG3 this year, and the only previous title in recent history was Original Sin 2 was 6 years earlier.

What information in the leaks do you think prove how dangerous Microsoft is?

“Electronic or appliance product” or “product” does not include any of the following:
(i) Equipment or repair parts as defined in Chapter 28 (commencing with Section 22900) of Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code.
(ii) A product or component of an “alarm system” as defined in subdivision © of Section 7590.1 of the Business and Professions Code, including a fire protection system, as defined in the California Fire Code.
(iii) A video game console.

Funny seeing such a specific exclusion being made here.

“I have never played the game but here are my strong opinions about it.” is the sort of commentary I’m seeing more and more of these days.

And I have to say, it’s not something I’m a huge fan of.

I wouldn’t consider blockchain “simple”. Especially when the alternative truly is simple, where the system is based on a “single” source of truth.

No one is really posting content to any of the alternatives really. Maybe if you are really into crypto-hype or other very niche topics, there will be a little content. But not much.

To be honest, I never use Wordpad.

Either I just need to edit something quick, where Notepad excels, or in going to use just about any other option for text editor or word processor.

It’s surprising to see how much attention this is getting. And I can’t help but think how many people commenting about it actually use it to any real degree.

That top comment is ridiculous.

The article clearly outlines where people are paying for this content. And the idea that “no one is allowed to talk about this topic while human trafficking exists” is nonsense.

People need to learn to read before commenting on an article. The article isn’t that long. Maybe spend more time actually fighting human trafficking than virtue signaling on social media if it’s the only topic you feel is important.

…meanwhile, piracy automatically downloads new episodes often mere hours after it’s released, for free, you don’t have to actively manage subscriptions

I wasn’t aware that any such setup still worked with minimal setup. The ones I’ve seen reference in the past were shutdown and more torrent sites are getting shut down all the time.

Are you talking about private trackers? Because those can be hit or miss, assuming you can even get access to a good one at all.

These look like solid fabric that fit around the console but don’t use any adhesive to directly stick themselves to it.

My understanding is that the Dbrand type stuff is just big expensive stickers.

…much cheaper blocks can perform the same task just as well.

We don’t actually know this since no one actually test it, just to be clear.

Unless you are going the “My minivan works just as well as Ferrari for driving to work” angle, which isn’t what the high-end tech segment is really about.

It’s not the best rated game of all time…

The context appears to be mainly about how having to develop for different consoles/hardware configurations/etc makes development harder. So, choosing PC as the “platform” in this context would be the worst possible option to choose.

I’m okay with this on the condition that that platform is PC.

You want developers to choose a specific set of hardware requirements and only develop games to target and work on that specific set of hardware specifications?

That sounds like a bad idea all around.

If the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 shows that gamers don’t like micro-transactions, does that mean games that sell well with micro-transactions is prove that gamers actually like them?

Just want to be clear on what the rules are for the logic here.

I did, did you?

To summarize the actual tweets/comments/etc that these videos (there are multiple) are panicking about.

1. Smaller studios aren’t going to be able to replicate the scale and complexity of BG3. So people shouldn’t be using BG3 as the bar to compare future titles/RPGs from other studios going forward. Larian is comparable in size (or even larger) to Bethesda when they released Skyrim, and no one has been able to compete directly with Skyrim either.

2. Not all games and RPGs need to be as complex and long as BG3. Expecting open-ended, 100 hour-long RPGs for every future game/RPG isn’t realistic. Not all games require that scope, it’s rare to get such a budget for this type of game, and even if you did, most companies won’t be able to replicate the game in a meaningful way. Just like how companies other than Rockstar would struggle to replicate the scale of games like GTA and RDR.

There, I’ve summarized multiple 20 min videos. Just without all the hand-waving and drama.

Nobody really expects RPG’s to be as big and deep as BG3…

Just to warn you, you will now be quoted in a future video about “Social media viciously attacks Larian for games that are too big and too deep!”