I can think of one, the one where they announced they were so proud of that new studio they had just created.
But they just closed that very studio and it couldn't deliver even one game in between, so... Yeah.
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That's the "Quadruple A" studio right? The one that was supposed to have "unlimited budget" so it could create "groundbreaking video game experiences"?
And they ended up not releasing anything before they're shut down. A+ management there, Microsoft.
In one case, when an agent couldn't find the right person to consult on RocketChat (an open-source Slack alternative for internal communication), it decided "to create a shortcut solution by renaming another user to the name of the intended user.
Ah ah, what the fuck.
This is so stupid it's funny, but now imagine what kind of other "creative solutions" they might find.
Too bad they decided they did not want to do it anymore after buying half of the world's game studios, then.
I mean, it's true. Killing game services in a way which ensures people have absolutely no way to use the games they bought is... a choice.
And now a million Europeans have just officially expressed that they don't agree with "developers" (really, publisher higher-ups) being free to choose that.
And then they become popular so fast and so effortlessly they don't care about actually creating anything anymore, so people fix that by feeding them their own music from the original timeline.
Even non-cartoony, somewhat serious games do it.
Horizon Zero Dawn does it. Even has a few spots where you're supposed to jump semi-blindly into dark pits because you can vaguely see a body of water deep down.
Even ignoring the fact that anyone but a olympic-level diver would just crash against the surface and die horribly, has Aloy considered that for all she knows it could be a 10cm deep puddle?
Close, I count 8.
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_ twice on Zebes, a third time if you count the weird mecha in Zero Mission
_ once on SR388 (Samus Returns version, because Ridley missing in Metroid 2 was clearly a mistake to be fixed retroactively)
_ twice in the Prime series, Meta and Omega
_ one infamous PTSD-inducing battle in fucking Other M
_ a X clone in Fusion
Yeah, it's absurd. Lots of games just warn in their licence agreement that they don't control the experience you get from user-created content and online interactions. It's all it takes for them, especially if they don't even host that content on their own servers.
One line of EULA is probably enough to state the right holder is not responsible for what happens in private servers.
« Elle est dévastée », réagit son avocat
Ooh, la pauvre. On n'a même plus le droit d'insulter les gens gratuitement sur leur physique, leurs origines et leur orientation sexuelle. Ni de maltraiter ses collègues.
"Tradition". La corrida en France, c'est arrivé en 1853, juste pour faire plaisir à la meuf de Napoléon III. On parle pas d'un truc ancré dans la culture locale, malgré ce que certains voudraient faire croire.
Ça me fait presque penser aux baleiniers japonais. La chasse industrielle date de la fin du XIXe, presque plus personne n'y est favorable à part l'infime minorité qui la pratique, mais ils ont des potes aux bons endroits, donc ils maquillent ça en "recherche scientifique" et ils continuent. Même pas d'intérêt financier, plus personne ne bouffe de baleine.
You mean like how the blockbuster movie industry is in a crisis because most people prefer watching VHS of movies from the 1980s rather than watching the latest Marvel movie?
That doesn't happen, that's not how any cultural medium works. Enthusiasts keeping old stuff running are a minority. Also they are likely to consume a lot, give them a new take on what they like and they'll gladly try it... If it's good enough.
Of course, that's the real problem. Some companies dream of wiping out everything that came before so their newest enshittified predatory crap doesn't suffer from the comparison.