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A company can become more agile with layoffs if you have a bunch of useless middle managers who exist only to justify their existence and you lay them off.

I don’t remember who but someone made a good example with the “this is fine” meme in Clair Obscur. Someone on the development team came up with the idea and it probably took a day or two to set up. So they took a day or two and it’s in the game. Had the game been made by Ubisoft that meme would’ve never ended up in the game because the idea would’ve gone through 5 different managers who need to give their blessing (because none of them want to take the full responsibility in case it sucks), then it goes through legal to make sure there’s no infringement, then through pr to make sure it’s not somehow offensive. Eventually a week has passed and management is still deciding if it should be implemented. Finally it gets canned because the time spent on making the decision had already made it too costly to implement. Something that could’ve been done in a day took a week and nothing got done.

But I’d be surprised if that kind of downsizing is what Jagex had in mind.

I’m pretty sure the game is enjoyable, but is it really $70 (Or in case of EU 80€ which to be crystal clear is a fucking joke of a price) enjoyable? I thought about buying Doom TDA but when I saw the price tag I decided to buy V Rising instead. I’m pretty sure for more than half the price I’m getting as much enjoyment out of V Rising as I would out of Doom TDA.

My issue with the increase of premium pricing is mainly pragmatic. There’s no reason to pay that price when you could get just as good or better games cheaper.

Best example of character growth in all of media.

There’s no reason to look at Steam numbers because the biggest extraction shooter isn’t on Steam, yet.

We’re supposed to take racism and far-right conspiracies as legitimate backlash? Normal people don’t care about shit like that. I’m with the other person, the reception was lukewarm because it played it safe.

Just take some basic safety steps, like discharging the capacitor and you’ll be fine

You already lost the average gamer at “discharging the capacitor”.

Because the verification system doesn’t take performance into consideration at all. It’s more of a “how much effort does it take to get the game running” indicator.

I was just about to say that if you had spent your entire life doing parkour then you too could do parkour with ease. The reason we allocate specific times to train our body is because our daily lives don’t contain enough activity to naturally train us.

Young me got that lesson when trying to play ARMA 2 on a 5400RPM HDD. It would run 60FPS if I didn’t move but as soon as I started moving the game started stuttering. When I installed it on a 7200RPM HDD the game no longer had any performance issues.

It all comes down to what specs the game was designed for and I imagine most modern open world games are designed for SSD-s. Putting them on HDDs will absolutely have a negative effect.

My bad. For some reason I associate all the consent pop-ups with GDPR as I don’t remember any pop-ups prior to GDPR.

That’s also not entirely correct.

you’ve never had to ask for permission to store cookies that are required for your site to work

You don’t need to ask permission for cookies that are strictly necessary for your site to work. They can contain personally identifiable information (PII) but only to the extent that is strictly required for the functionality to work. If your “required” cookie does anything more than what is strictly necessary (such as collecting more PII than it needs or has built in tracking) you need to ask consent.

you have to ask for permission for third party trackers to store cookies when people use your site.

If you’re using something like on premise tracking, like Matomo, then you still have to ask permission. There are some exceptions like if you don’t use cookies and you don’t track PII.

And just for extra clarification, if you are collecting PII (for example into logs) you need to ask permission even when you’re not storing any cookies.

Actually they do. They can’t just process your data without your consent. The exceptions where they can process your data without consent are (at least to my knowledge) legal obligation (for example processing your income to calculate your taxes) and public interest (for example doing statistics on households), both requiring some legal work before actually being allowed to be used without your consent.

Technically they can do so that they don’t have to care about GDPR but then it also has to become public knowledge that they don’t want to care about GDPR and it becomes the responsibility of the citizens to oppose such moves.

EDIT: Forgot to add that in this case it most likely would become part of the law so yeah, they wouldn’t have to care about GDPR in this circumstance.