It’s not a mistake when one of the upper management guys was ranting about it before it happened…

That’s interesting, as the initial reviews seemed to not like it.

Maybe the publisher wanted to push it onto some other team?

Funny coming from HP, who has poured billions into making their printing experience suck. Deliberately

People said the same thing when XP came to its end of life support dropping. You overestimate how technical the average person is. Or how patient those that are technical are who just want their programs to work without hours of tinkering each time they install something

You, specifically, enjoying a …remake of a spiritual successor to a game that came out decades ago… doesn’t mean the genre is alive and kicking.

Remaking a game from a few decades back reads more as desperate than anything else. They’re relying on nostalgia for sales, not actually attracting a new audience

I clearly touched a nerve. And, just like I’d expect from someone who would overreact like this to a very neutral comment, you completely misread what I said.

…Who was asking about Myst?

Point and click has been a dead genre for like 2 decades now

Maybe we should be barring these companies that dump their teams after releasing a game from winning awards?

It’s not defamation if you’re actually a piece of shit.

Not a damn thing. Doesn’t help that the endless mergers have lead us to just a couple AAA devs left. And MS grinds every dev they attitude into dust. Very few ever make anything actually good after being bought.

…except it was bright blue…

They have game-interrupting full screen ads? Our just product placement. Because only the former is banned

Too bad you didn’t stockpile your r’s

The answer to that is very little of it. Their networth is due to their ownership of these stocks. If the value of these stocks dip more than others (and due to the AI craze, they are more inflated than even other tech stocks), they lose collateral to borrow against (this is how musk bought Twitter).

Computers have a life span. Every year, there’s a whole swath of people getting their first one - often for school, which is already prohibitively expensive

There are chips in nearly every single appliance you own at this point. From your car to your toaster.

Hitting the tech sector harder than everything else will remove their ability to leverage their own tech businesses to buy up others.

Which is insane because it was all over the news just a couple years ago about why vehicle prices had gotten so high… Because of a chip shortage.