DebatableRaccoon

The legal proceedings technically were. Nintendo screamed illegal so a bunch of unfunded dev teams got sued into oblivion. Admittance can be from a perspective of guilt too.

Define a long time. Weren’t both Dolphin and Cemu both in active development at times their respective consoles were on the market?

Wrong campaign. The rabids already attacked 4 years ago

What exactly do they think Biden’s going to do? People already voted for the idiot who’s bringing in those new rules.

Bet they haven’t considered “Making good games”

Legally distinct is where things can get extremely murky already. A spiritual successor is in no way guaranteed to get the sales figures of the original IP. Sometimes fans go rabid, others not so much.

Now, in less general terms Dead Space is a horror game, a niche segment of the market that traditionally “doesn’t sell well”. In usual big game company fashion, it’s really difficult, if not impossible to get apples-to-apples numbers on sales and costs. I’m not claiming to be a DS fan, let alone expert but does spending $162M (Callisto Protocol’s reported cost) on the development of a niche game, that is a legally distinct game from a franchise that has been reported to not sell well sound like a good idea?

I couldn’t find a sales figure for DS3, a game that I remember being poorly received by fans at the time so the best I can do is use the 4 million copies from DS2, a game that was supposedly a commercial failure with a $60M budget. CP had a sales expectation of 5 million copies. At $60 per ideal sale, Krafton were apparently expecting to make $300M. Does 85% profit margin sound realistic?

Keeping in mind EA and other large publishers in the AAA and rolls eyes AAAA sphere have a history of over-estimating their sales numbers, begging the question of whether the people setting these numbers are doing so realistically or just because that much profit sounds nice?

Regarding your question of EA or IP (or market), I’d add on “Or is it due to project mismanagement?”. Are incompetence and greed making it so that fans will never see more of a franchise they love?

And yet they still won’t just sell off the IP, like many others they’re sitting on, doing nothing with. We need reform to the IP system. Make IP squatting both illegal and impossible by default.

Notice how there’s rarely an announcement for these things?

And unfortunately the real world is basically corpo world

SE1 is a game I’ve wanted to get into but the awkwardness and requirement to do homework for basically everything has always seen me bouncing off. Hopefully a sequel will iron out those issues. I don’t mind the potential complexity, just make the on-board less of a wall.

The manga and anime market is about to get real dystopian in the west.

My shocked Pikachu face is starting to feel worn out with shit like this. No duh they’re going to milk online again. Obviously, there’s not likely to be singleplayer DLC again, and they’ll likely lie about not being able to add the multiplayer update stuff to singleplayer. Just like last time.

There needs to be some kind of gold buried somewhere in this new version otherwise I can only see it as another step on the enshittification carousel for an app that has slowly been getting worse over the years.

That would certainly explain suddenly forcing Guilded users to have Roblox accounts to use a chat app. Get fucked, Roblox.