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Larian pulled out of their contract after Hasbro fired everyone Larian worked with to make BG3.

It isn’t a case of Hasbro going “hey we can trade up” This is Hasbro on damage control going “how the fuck do we follow that up”

I hope the indie and AA game communities/devs keep moving off of Fandom.

As a millienial software dev:

Imo: What happened is twofold:

1. The business grads also played games, and saw the money to be made.
2. The best devs are smart enough to *not work in AAA Gamedev.

Thing is the article says the actual domestic investment growth was 9.8%, not 22%.

Yeah, but it’s like fusion. It’s always 20 years away for the last 60 years.

Realistically, as a dev who watched AI develop from cheap parlor tricks to very expensive and ecosystem crunching fancy parlor tricks that mangers think will replace all of their expensive staff who actually know how to design and create:

Modern “AI” is fundamentally incapable of actual thought. They are very advanced and impressive statistical engines, but the technology is incapable of thinking at a fundamental level.

Yeah, twenty years from now at the very least.

Warframe also called. They have all of the cool stuff Destiny fans have been begging for since forever.

And, somehow: Mario kart mode? Better-gameplay-loop-than-star-citizen space ship to ship combat? Boy band villains.

Also they recently re-optimized their game and added a bunch of modern compression algorithms so a DX12 game runs decently on the switch.

He has already made multiple comments on how he wants free access to Canadian water.

It was also a significant issue that almost derailed the original NAFTA, and is the reason that agreement had some of its nastier trap regulations.

He is already refusing to honor decades old agreements on the Columbia River, because he wants to just take it all.

If his goons create shortages in the US, they can work public opinion into trying to take it from Canada.

Because Biden opposed him.

Cynically, it increases US water usage and will make water more expensive in the US, allowing him and his ilk to push for an invasion of Canada.

All of the old Unreal Tournanent servers with crazy mods

E.g. Digital Extremes put out an April Fools that the (deservedly beloved) Creative Director of Warframe had been replaced by an EA suit, people were legitimately upset.

And an editor that does a decent job is not google docs.

It is embarassing that MS has dominated this for more than 30 years and Google, despite its infinite wealth, hasn’t made a decent office app.

Google docs is trash.

1. It doesnt work that well.
2. If they do that then they cant trick everyone into buying new devices, thus helping recoup the untold billions dumped into LLM-based content theft.

Moreover, its not like Ukraine hasnt been pushing for localized tech stack since at least 2016-2018 ish.

Fair.

I suppose it is groundbreaking in the same way as World of Warcraft and League of Legends are groundbreaking.

Neither of them actually introduced new concepts. But they put them together in a way that no one else had before.

It is worth pointing out that the first few generations were legitimately groundbreaking for mechanics as well.

Because the share price jumped up so much last year to give them that cash on hand.

Also the $34 million loss is their best result since feb 2018, most of their losses have been 10x higher. Although it does look like a long term trend into the positive cash flow. Also the CEO is mentioning a stock dividend now, so that takes care of the cash on hand.

That would be a valid assessment if the stock price had jumped after the quarterly earnings.

Their stock price jumped before the quarterly earnings was announced. It has nothing to do with it, nor any of their fundamentals

Also notice:
Cash flow is neutral or negative and has been for a while now. Revenue peaked in 2018 is now less than 62% of that peak. Revenue per quarter is also down 11% year over year.

Company lost 34 million dollars last quarter, and has not had a positive operating income since feb 2018. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/watchlist?tab=Related&id=a1tyxm&duration=1Y&src=b_fingraph&relatedQuoteId=a1tyxm&relatedSource=MlAl&l3=L3_Financials

Recall that the first quarter after the whole WSB thing, they had something like 2 billion in cash from that whole thing.

A year later, they had 1 billion.

Half a year later, 500 million.

All of a sudden this quarter, after shutting down stores all over the place and gutting their staff, they’re claiming 4 billion cash on hand, helped out by unproven social media claims growing their stock price 30%.

doubt. Their business model relies on physical games being sold multiple times, once when new, and then multiple times as used copies. This is why they’re focusing on retro consoles. New consoles have passable online marketplaces, so Gamestop cannot compete, and are completely inferior to PC gaming, which hasn’t needed Gamestop in 20 years.