Kangaroos, demons, androids, dinosaurs, bears, oh my!
They wanted to write hard hitting commentary and "find the truth" at NYT or Washington ComPost but the only outlets that would employ them were pop culture ones.
Therefore, they use their job as a way to live out their failed dreams, hence the big push for politics at these websites that were supposed to just entertain people.
Use their voice?
How about they just focus on selling products and shut the fuck up about anything else?
Many modern pop culture consoomers cannot seem to think long term; they simply do not think about the possibility of deciding to play or watch an older work either for old time's sake, curiosity, or literally any other reason.
Only to have it not be accessible at all because it reached a BS expiration date.
What do you think some good solutions for changing this mindset are?
I'll bet it's because of chumps like those that game preservation is such a criminally low priority these days.
They can't possibly consider the idea that just because a franchise gets a new game doesn't mean it replaces the previous games.
Every game is different. The people I interacted with refused to understand that simple concept; not everything that was in the precious games will carry over to the new ones in the same way.
Even if they did, the context and structure in which the mechanics and content are used will be different from game to game.
I was in a GTPlanet forum recently and called out the forced DRM in Forza 2023.
I was told that hopefully, I didn't have a phone or email account if I didn't like this push for constant connectivity in everything.
I apparently didn't have room to talk if I did.
Because technologies that were expressly designed for communication from the outset are totally the same as products being designed first to entertain THEN get adapted around communication.
The amount of cope I see on that site is truly pathetic.
Isn't it crazy how people can be like that?
Literally having nothing else worthwhile in their lives other than video games and therefore being perfectly okay with bad design choices that let them get away with using online games as substitutes for real life human interactions and experiences?
I want to encourage everyone on this forum to check out the YouTube channel Austin Ogonoski.
He's done an excellent job of breaking down what really happens behind the scenes of racing game culture and how it has sometimes even affected real world racing. He has also discussed how esports participants in this genre are essentially tricked into thinking they'll be big stars by dedicating their whole life to a game only to be taken advantage of by greedy promoters.
He's currently a game tester, but also an oval race car driver at the grassroots level and a former aide in the mental health field, so he knows exactly what he's talking about having come from all these scenes and understood their respective ins and outs.
He's also discussed how the esports to real life racing stars are grossly misrepresented in the media. Essentially, such drivers like the GT Academy graduates and NASCAR racers like Josh Berry or Willliam Byron already had a good amount of real world race experience; therefore, their performances in video games were simply another way the people around them helped market them to teams and sponsors better.
I think his channel is well worth your time. A good starting point would be his videos on Jason Jacoby, essentially the Chris-Chan of racing games.
Apparently, car racing esports are not nearly as popular as sponsors and developers make them out to be.
Your average sanctioned iRacing event can barely get 5,000 views on YouTube, the official esports teams have very small social media presences and only like and retweet each others tweets; and at official Gran Turismo and F1 esports events, the crowd sizes tend to be rather underwhelming.
When you do see an audience, that's because it's mostly made up of sponsors, VIP members, and family members. There is almost no organic, grassroots fanbase around racing esports.
Gran Turismo Sport was curated around esports to the extent of being online only, and only a fraction of that game's players play the esports modes it was designed around.
Furthermore, that game has official FIA (the promoter for WRC, F1, and other big name real world racing leagues) championships, and the participants don't even get paid. They all have to pay for their own travel and accommodation, and in especially egregious cases, have had to give controllers and other prizes earned in the events back to the organizers.
All those hours spent behind the wheel of a pretend racecar, sacrificing one's life to become a top pro racing game player; are essentially for nothing other than maybe bragging rights. The same is almost certainly true of GT's contemporaries like iRacing as well.
When your ideas are applied to racing games (my favorite genre), it sounds like they're specifically being turned into always-online live services because an entire generation of consoomers has successfully been fooled into thinking that spending their entire lives playing these games every hour of the day online (we tend to call this "no-lifing" a game BTW) will be their tickets to real-world professional racing stardom a la Jann Mardenborough or Lucas Ordonez.
So, because so many people focus so much on the online portion of these games and demand more regulation and attention to them from the developers, this is the part of the game developers commit most to.
Anyone who just wants to play the game for fun gets neglected by the developers because they're too busy basing their game around being the subject of the next feel-good media story.
It sounds like you're saying that the pursuit for unrealistic fame and fortune is what ruined games rather than esports specifically.
What do you think some solutions to this could be in the long term?
But would-be pirates almost always find a way to crack the DRM.
Even Ubisoft admitted that nothing they do will ever stop piracy. https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ubisoft-drm-can-t-stop-piracy/1100-6420602/
So why do developers keep adding it? All it does is complicate the experience for honest players.
Doesn't DRM implementation just take resources away from other critical areas of the game?
No, Americans didn't perish from "Delta"; the death factories that pass for hospitals murdered them through malpractice and criminal negligence.
Until monsters like Dr. Frankenstein here stop selling their patients out to tyrannical corporate cabals, he shouldn't be so surprised that no one with half a brain would ever trust such a corrupt field again.
I've never modded a game as I don't have a gaming PC, unfortunately.
I did play F1 2001 & 2002 from EA Sports as well as Sports Car GT, NFS Porsche Unleashed, and Dirt Track Racing 2 on a relative's 2004 era Toshiba laptop, though. I had a good time with them and they played a big role in getting me into real motorsports.
I've heard good things about Assetto Corsa. It's apparently available for consoles, too.
How is that version?
I can't help but remember how Sony at first confirmed this for GT Sport, only to sneak them in at a later date.
Activision did the same thing with Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.
You just can't trust AAA developers at their word anymore.
I'm tempted to just focus on seeing how I can play the great racing games of yesteryear and maybe get their accompanying DLC like Project Gotham, Forza Motorsport 4, Enthusia, Racing Gears Advance, Blur, etc.
Perhaps I can take solace in how there are plenty of older games to keep me entertained for like 10 lifetimes.
Exactly. Anyone with common sense knows that those servers ain't staying up forever.
Try telling that to the shills on any comments section or forums for these games, though, and they shut you down.
Their collective meltdown will move mountains when the game gets permanently shut down.
I never cared about "achievements" or "trophies" when playing these games, personally.
I was just stoked to be playing a game that celebrates the amazing sport my heroes at Le Mans, Indy, Daytona, etc. get to compete in for real and drive all sorts of cars with different drivetrains, designs, etc.
I always preferred to play the game at my own pace on my terms. Bragging rights like those just weren't for me.
And the pirates always find a way to break the DRM.
Oh, BUt iT prEveNtS ChEatInG, the fanboys say.
Like, how do you know that? What's your proof that it stopped the cheating?
(I don't mean you, yourself literally, BTW)
Question:
Do you guys think that turning their games into spyware raises the company's ESG score?
I don't ever remember anyone actually saying "Yes, take away my ability to play and save the game anytime I want," yet this is apparently normal.
I love how one of those clowns on GTPlanet said that it's okay because e-mail and cell phones exist.
Yeah, they're totally the same thing as a video game designed to primarily to entertain.
Do these people think evangelizing greedy developers like this gets them VIP access or something? Microsoft likely doesn't even know they exist.
Because it worked so well for Gran Turismo 7, Diablo III, SimCity, etc.
Furthermore, people on GTPlanet are actually defending this because cell phones are connected to the Internet and several other games do it.
All I know is that when the servers go offline one day because the servers either shut down or get overwhelmed, I won't have sympathy for those who still choose to buy it.
They had their chance to vote with their wallet and say they don't want it. To think that some people think multi-billion dollar corporations are their friends...
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These crooks made this bed, now they can lie in it.
They unleashed a monster; it's only fair that now they have to tame it.
It's because they know they can't get respect with their personality or skills.
So they take any sort of position of authority to force others to respect them.
Even if all they truly have a say over is what colors the community's signs will be, they will milk that bit of power for all it's worth.
It's not for nothing that people on .win say that the ones most deserving of power are the ones who don't truly want it.
Takes one to know one, right?
Pedophilic, corrupt, senile piece of shit.
She's literally been disavowing them and Klaus Schwab by name throughout the past year.
People can change, and nobody's perfect. I think that being so quick to dismiss people like that makes you no better than the left.
In addition, the views of female globalists and tyrants don't represent all women. I'm sure there are more than a few women who actively engage with .win and feel exactly as we do.
I'm not saying that we should worship anyone who says what we want to hear, but we should at least give them a chance.
Let's never buy anything with the Activision name on it again.
We are focused on upholding HONOR.
I know someone who still struggles with socializing because the schools he went to punished and shamed students who even so much as talked in the hallways so much, they'd even punish the whole class for the actions of a few.
Basically, school made him more shy and introverted, and he's still trying to undo those effects decades later.