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Dev of cancelled Life By You game shares some information, including just two weeks notice of cancellation after being given the thumbs-up a few weeks prior ( www.linkedin.com )

I cannot share specific numbers, but I can say that we had an internal metric we were aiming for that had been approved, and that we exceeded that number by a significant portion. We also got a thumbs up a few weeks before launch.

Don_alForno ,

How does this even make sense? You can't pay more in taxes than the earnings you're paying taxes on. If you deliberately cause a 10 million loss reducing your earnings by those 10 million and thereby saving a percentage of those 10 million in taxes, you're not very good at math, are you?

Don_alForno ,

It looks like an Octopath spin-off. Which is a good thing.

Don_alForno ,

Article without tracking paywall bullshit.

So, the player frustration this quest is inspiring isn't a straight-up next entry in the long-running paid mods debate that's been going on within the Bethesda community with regards to the Creation Club for a while now, but rather folks simply being unhappy with the monetisation practices Bethesda's employing with regards to its own stuff.

I suppose that will be part of it, but it takes a load of willful ignorance to not see that the reason they distribute it this way is to ease people into the idea of using the infrastructure they ultimately set up to monetize other people's work (i.e. mods).

Don_alForno ,

Maybe it's because Final Fantasy peaked at VII-X and went downhill from there, fucking up their combat further and further with every installment?

Don_alForno ,

Well, yeah, XIV as an MMO is a different thing. But that one also doesn't have revenue issues afaik.

Don_alForno ,

And people still have to lift heavy shit, crawl around in dangerous spaces and generally harm their health to make a living.

Don_alForno ,

FF16 to me is paper thin in every regard. I would rank it last among all the FF games I've played. The combat is especially bad. You can basically button mash your way through all of it. Dodge a lot, that's it.

Don_alForno ,

Wait for the kernel level anti cheat to be revealed before you get hyped.

Don_alForno ,

I love peanut butter M&M's. They don't sell those here.

Don_alForno ,

That's a movie ticket and a snack. Most games offer far more (or at least longer) entertainment than that. Even games I won't finish.

Don_alForno ,

If the game cost $20, they'd have to sell about 120k copies to break even on that Investment,

Far more actually. You have to deduct taxes, steam's cut etc. from those 20$.

Don_alForno ,

The average movie isnt worth ticket price either

The worth of a thing is determined by what people will pay for it.

length certainly doesn't equal quality.

For any single product that's true, statistically it makes the two classes (games and movies) comparable.

I don't think you'll earnestly want to argue that 1 hour of movie entertainment is in general worth multiple hours of gaming entertainment. There are good and bad movies and games, but if you compare those of similar quality, the fact stands that the game will give you more for your money. Whether you want more of course depends on you - I gather that gaming doesn't seem to really entertain you for the most part.

Don_alForno ,

Guess I finally have a reason to upgrade ...

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