The Games Industry And ATVI - Page 19

On August 01 2019 19:35 Simberto wrote:
Because that is how you make absurd amounts of money. You can rake in shitloads of cash by making your game worse, then demanding to be paid to make it less bad. Rational thought has nothing to do with this, just pure greed. Executives see others making all the money through microtransactions and loot boxes, and they get annoyed, because just making some money with a good game is not good enough. If others are making more money than you are, you are losing. Thus, you need to do the thing that makes the other guy more money.

On August 01 2019 22:05 Sbrubbles wrote:
Do you guys have a youtube channel/podcast to recommend for gaming and gaming industry news? It used to be that I followed TB for this before he passed away. Afterwards, I watched Jim Sterling for a couple months, but his style and talking points became repetitive and grating to me.

On August 01 2019 18:58 Simberto wrote:
Gotta always have the store working. Can't have a game where you buy the game and then have the game anymore. Constant user engagement! Recurring user spending!

Sadly, Bethesda is mostly good at making single player games which you buy once and then play. But executives hate those games. So they try to make Bethesda make "life services".

Have you seen that clip of Todd Howard talking about how people are still playing Skyrim and Fallout 4, and you can just see how mad it makes him that he has no way of getting money from those people? (Here is the clip on the Jimquisition, no idea where it is originally from)

The game industry hates it when you just buy a game. They want constant money from you. Thus, they make their games worse just to be able to get more "recurring user spending"

I gotta say that i am mostly disgusted at this shit, and that it is not going away. This basically means that i can currently only buy indie games, because all of the big studios try to get away from just having a game. And i like just having a game and playing it without someone constantly pestering me to give them more of my money.

On August 01 2019 11:05 JimmyJRaynor wrote:
Nintendo Switch over 36 million units sold
http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/07/nintendo_switch_has_now_sold_36_87_million_units_could_pass_snes_total_by_christmas

PS4 passes 100 million units faster than the PS2 and Wii
https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/07/30/sonys-ps4-finally-outpaces-the-wii-with-100-million-sold/#14399dafc4fa

we have no data on the XBOX1.

As usual, when a product outperforms expectations we get simple direct sales data. When a product under-performs we either get no information or some bizarro convoluted metric that doesn't measure units sold.

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the patron saint of Twitch, announced today that he is moving his channel over to the significantly less popular streaming platform Mixer. News of the frankly shocking transition comes the day before Blevins’ Lollapalooza stream, which will now take place here on Mixer.

“I know this may come as a shock to many of you, but as of today, I will be streaming exclusively on Mixer,” Blevins, who has 15 million Twitch followers, said in a video posted to Twitter. “I feel like this is a really good chance to get back in touch with my roots and really remember why I fell in love with streaming in the first place.”

Mixer, which is owned by Microsoft, pulls viewer numbers that pale in comparison to Twitch’s. According to recent data from StreamElements, the two-year-old platform has three percent of all livestreaming hours watched to Twitch’s 72 percent.

Twitch offered their own statement on the loss of their biggest streamer: “We’ve loved watching Ninja on Twitch over the years and are proud of all that he’s accomplished for himself and his family, and the gaming community. We wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.” Currently, Blevins’ new Mixer chat is blowing up, moving faster than light with questions, welcome statements, “POGGERS,” and other internet-y language honed by Twitch culture. Meanwhile, Ninja’s “partnered” check mark has been removed from his channel.

In a follow-up video, Blevins explained that he’d been holding onto the news for a while now, but didn’t further clarify the reasons behind his decision. One source with knowledge of the streaming industry says Mixer has offered money for streamers to switch over, with some deals exceeding $1 million. Kotaku has reached out to Blevins and Mixer for comment on whether that was the case.

At the end of the announcement video, the camera pans to a fridge of Red Bull, one of Blevins’ sponsors, dressed in journalist garb. Ninja responds as if it asked a question: “Wow, I mean, that was one of the best questions I’ve ever been asked.”

On August 01 2019 22:05 Sbrubbles wrote:
Do you guys have a youtube channel/podcast to recommend for gaming and gaming industry news? It used to be that I followed TB for this before he passed away. Afterwards, I watched Jim Sterling for a couple months, but his style and talking points became repetitive and grating to me.

On August 01 2019 20:43 Manit0u wrote:
It was so much better when game companies weren't publicly traded...

On August 02 2019 03:45 Carnivorous Sheep wrote:


Nintendo and Sony have given out unit sales for decades. It has nothing to do with product specific over-/under-performance.

On July 20 2019 08:36 cha0 wrote:
"We hope you enjoy the game. We're really proud of this one." Apparently that's just him in a nutshell.

On August 02 2019 05:40 deacon.frost wrote:

Skill Up for reviews, Laymen Gaming for news and memes.

On August 02 2019 15:52 abuse wrote:


I also recommend Bellular news.
It's been growing a lot recently, and it's legit great, with the guy being an actual game developer with industry knowledge, and they do their own research instead of making the same conclusions that pretty much every other games news channel does.
Prime example being the UK Gambling/lootbox legislation, where every other channel focused on "UK SAYS LOOTBOXES NOT GAMBLNB!!", yet Bellular actually read the entire transcript and pointed out that what was actually said was that while it is not gambling as per their current definition of the law, it's pretty open to change the legal definition after more research is done. They're just not willing to constitute it as such right now because it would affect a lot of industries, and it's dangerous to make the move with so little research.

On August 02 2019 16:21 deacon.frost wrote:

TO the gambling side of things, both Jim Sterling(probably the biggest anti-microtransaction YT channel) and Laymen pointed this out. Jim could have mentioned properly that the law needs to be updated. But both these channels ride on emotions, so some of the creativity side of things has to be accepted. Similarily AJS gets angry, like - duh?

On August 02 2019 16:45 abuse wrote:


Jim's video came quite a bit after Bellular's though, and Laymen didn't really focus on it much.
Anyway, I watch both Jim and Laymen alongside Bellular, but Bellular gives pretty objective insight into A LOT of news.
Jim and Laymen have their own personalities and their own biases, which is fine. But for straight up news, I go to Bellular.
He covers A LOT more stuff about overall gaming overall and game industry news in a very unbiased and knowledgeable fashion.

On August 02 2019 16:45 abuse wrote:


Jim's video came quite a bit after Bellular's though, and Laymen didn't really focus on it much.
Anyway, I watch both Jim and Laymen alongside Bellular, but Bellular gives pretty objective insight into A LOT of news.
Jim and Laymen have their own personalities and their own biases, which is fine. But for straight up news, I go to Bellular.
He covers A LOT more stuff about overall gaming overall and game industry news in a very unbiased and knowledgeable fashion.

On August 02 2019 20:20 Acrofales wrote:


Isn't news exactly what Kotaku is about? I go to YouTube for opinions and entertainment.

On August 02 2019 20:20 Acrofales wrote:


Isn't news exactly what Kotaku is about? I go to YouTube for opinions and entertainment.

On August 02 2019 21:03 deacon.frost wrote:
Except for Jason Schreier, who's the best gaming journalist out there(IMO)

On August 02 2019 22:16 JimmyJRaynor wrote:

In order to get the front line staff and low level managers to leak info he constantly talks about how amazing and incredible they are. That's his built in bias. The BS he pulled with Yongyea was nasty ugly.

These misdeeds aside, he is great at getting confidential info leaked.

On August 02 2019 22:25 abuse wrote:


is that something you just made up or has Jason said that anywhere?
I see no point in sucking up to devs to talk to them. Reveal pieces he's done are more than enough reason for devs to want to talk to him to shine a light on the shitty proceedings in their company.