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@yazumo There's a reason why #Underground2 #MostWanted and #Carbon are regarded as the peak trilogy and got #remastered by the #community with extensive #mods, because #EA won't (most likely due to #licensing & associated costs)…
- They would've to basically redo most of the game to modern spec.
- Pretty shure they'd have to renegotiate licenses if not swap entire brands and models of cars.
- Certainly they'll have to pay a pretty premium if they want to relicense the original songs used ingame.
Thus it'll be really hard to justify the cost.
- It's similar to #delistings of #Games like Driver: San Francisco.
Obviously the #zeebo flopped, espechally due to #Qualcomm's #BREW #OS ¹ which is basically '#JavaMobile but worse in order to circumvent #SoftwarePatents' whilst also having dogshit performance and being hard to develop for or even port games to, making it even worse than #Gizmondo or #NGage which used #J2ME.
- Making the #OUYA look like a piece of perfection in comparison, because that #cube didn't cost 20x more to port games to but merely demanded the (OUYA-exclusive) #GameController #API (which predates the later #Android-Standardized one!) to be supported, which is closer to a #patch than a #redevelopment!
But even in a starved market like #Brazil most households weren't gonna dump over 1 month minimum wage on an aging #3G-#Cellphone with composite video and 6-button #USB #controllers.
- Also who thought that announcing a price cut before launch was a good idea in a time the "Osbourne Effect" was already well known?
So yeah, blame Qualcomm for this shitshow...
- To add insult to injury, #piracy on it is rampant... and the #PS2 whipped it's ass around town cuz it even as #import #console like the #PlayStation2 could shaft them in spite of #tariffs because by that point #Sony closed their books on that platform and didn't give a fuck about #piracy, only allowing pre-agreed licensees like #EA to still shove out their games for it.
And lets be honest, #Edutainment is not a cash cow because in places like #Mexico it's way easier to get even cheaper #PC|s due to #NAFTA #FreeTrade (i.e. all the stuff #refurbishers couldn't sell in the #USA anymore got offered there before being sold further south...
- Really sad, cuz if the Zeebo was like a €50 box, it could've been a smash hit, so it died due to lack of resources...
Needless to say the Zeebo is the strongest argument for #StopKillingGames as these devices are nearly useless these days and piracy is the only way to get / change games on it and play them these days.
- Also respect to Derek from #SSFF for playing the entire Zeebo catalogue tho there's nothing to ride home about...
Nowadays the nieche of the zeebo is served by cheap #PCs for #gaming even cheaper #Android devices and (aside from few stores like #Steam that managed to upstell a #DRM as a #feature), rampant #piracy to the point that #MobileGaming outside of #iOS is basically dead unless we account #PayToLoose #Shovelware of the "#DisguisedGambingGame" kind as "#Gaming" which is an insult even for #gambling, because there at least in theory, with a honest operator the chance of winning is greater than zero (tho I'd still disrecommend it because no gambling game is *"fair" beyond the theoretical chance of winning by the rules)...
According to new filings discovered by the Wall Street Journal, Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is set to own 93.4 percent of Electronic Arts if the proposed $55B acquisition goes through. Here's more from Eurogamer.
#ElectronicArts #EA #Gaming #VideoGames #GamesIndustry #SaudiArabia #PIF
@StarkRG yes and all these criticisms I do share as they are all valid.
- Granted, there are very, very few companies "doing better" for consumers with #GOG's #DRMfree options being better.
I mean, #Valve's #Steam basically is the #monopoly and refusing to sell on Steam is basically suicidal for #IndieDevs...
- So it's less that Valve is good at marketing and being able to upsell an #OnlineDRM as a #feature, but that competition is furious that their halfassed attempts didn't work.
Not "genius" but "criminally incompetent competiton" from #EA, #EpicGames, #Xbox / #Microsoft, #Playstation / #Sony and #Nintendo is why #GabeN can just "Thanos - Snap" basically "look like a saint"...
The Saudis are buying Electronic Arts in a massive $55 billion deal — but why would they want a games publisher?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @nathangrayson to discuss how Saudi Arabia uses games to try to improve its image.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/302_saudi_arabia_is_using_games_to_improve_its_image_w_nathan_grayson
Some modern games basically come with kernel level or hypervisor level malware disguised as anti-cheat. This is A+ level enshittification, because it means these games don't run on Linux.
Let me tell you one thing - I wouldn't let some VIDEO GAME have that kind of control of my system. Please excuse me while I grab popcorn and wait for the first zero-day to attack this.
If you've ever worked on technological systems, you know that building a complex system on top of massive datasets is one of the slowest tasks there is.
They're literally advocating for ineffective decelerationism.
#EA #e/acc #EffectiveAccelerationism #TechnoOptimism #TechoUtopian
One thing that stood out for me, which hadn't really sunk in quite the same way for me before: longtermists cite things like runaway #AI and bio-engineered pathogens as so-called "existential risks" that might cause human extinction, but they downplay environmental degradation as a non-existential risk. Yet, experience is the reverse of this: we have exactly zero examples of AI causing the extinction of a species and few/zero examples of a bio-engineered pathogen causing a species extinction (1), whereas we have piles and piles of examples of species extinctions caused by environmental changes. In fact, we have loads of extinctions we ourselves caused via our alterations of Earth's environment in only the last few decades! We don't even have to resort to the fossil record, which includes many more examples, to make the case; we can look at recent, carefully-documented studies using modern techniques.
Of the many flaws with #longtermism, which the essay goes to pains to spell out, this one really nags at me. Longtermism being a goofy worldview held by wealthy and powerful people is concerning enough; the fact that its primary proponents say things running directly opposite to reality makes it very dangerous, in my view. I think this is a tell.
#TESCREAL #AI #AGI #EA #longtermism
(1) I'm hedging there because I am not knowledgeable enough to say with certainty whether anyone's ever engineered a pathogen that did cause an extinction event. I can't imagine something like this happening often if it has, though.