Probably not going to watch a 1.3 hour long video review of a game I've already decided I'm never going to bother playing, but I did watch the bit at the timestamp you mentioned. Yeah, Joe saying good on the founders of Rocksteady for being smart enough to get out before things got bad... that's as fucking stupid as if some goof said something like "Man, Mojang sucks now after it got sold out to Microsoft. Good thing Notch saw the writing on the wall and got out when he did."
At this point in time, I say that any video game dev/studio/publisher that sells out to a big(ger) company fully deserves to have their IP gutted and destroyed and themselves unceremoniously laid off, assuming they bothered to try to stick around and didn't just float away on a cloud of money, of course. Sucks for those who may have liked their games, but it's not like those devs gave a shit about that at all, or else they wouldn't have sold out to a bigger company in the first place. Seriously, I would rather have a favorite video game developer simply go out of business and cease to exist entirely, than for them to sell out to some bigger company who, invariably, will almost immediately kill them off (or, at least, zombify them, e.g. BioWare) and bastardize their games from then on, until the heat death of the universe.
Prior to your post here, I had never heard of this HundredStar thing before. Probably just another thing for them to build up and then sell to whoever forks over enough cash to buy it, same as with Rocksteady. That's a pretty good hustle if you can pull it off, I guess. *shrug + eye roll*
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Date: 2024-04-01 12:25 am (UTC)At this point in time, I say that any video game dev/studio/publisher that sells out to a big(ger) company fully deserves to have their IP gutted and destroyed and themselves unceremoniously laid off, assuming they bothered to try to stick around and didn't just float away on a cloud of money, of course. Sucks for those who may have liked their games, but it's not like those devs gave a shit about that at all, or else they wouldn't have sold out to a bigger company in the first place. Seriously, I would rather have a favorite video game developer simply go out of business and cease to exist entirely, than for them to sell out to some bigger company who, invariably, will almost immediately kill them off (or, at least, zombify them, e.g. BioWare) and bastardize their games from then on, until the heat death of the universe.
Prior to your post here, I had never heard of this HundredStar thing before. Probably just another thing for them to build up and then sell to whoever forks over enough cash to buy it, same as with Rocksteady. That's a pretty good hustle if you can pull it off, I guess. *shrug + eye roll*