Baldur's Gate 3 director and Larian CEO Swen Vincke reacts to the idea that we should get used to subscriptions, saying content is king.
    • DarkThoughts@fedia.io
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      11 months ago

      To be honest, I mainly bought the game to make a statement & show my support for what type of treatment & product I want as a customer. Nowadays everything just seems to want to milk me, games are quite often literally designed around it so that it becomes a core part of the games themselves. And I’m so damn over all of this bullshit.

      • huginn@feddit.itEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Between my partner and I we’ve spent 850 hours playing BG3 since October.

        That’s more than basically any other “live service” or subscription based game I’ve ever played, especially for the time period.

        Phenomenal game that made the team fabulous amounts of money and won awards while all the consumers left happy.

        Definitely raises the bar for AAA

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        A lot of us just want to have some fun after work and it is not fun when you feel served up like a buttered hot meal. I don’t want to feel like my games are consuming me.

  • Modva@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    The thing is that this guy is not the head of a public company where shareholders demand massive and continually growing profits. So he acts in the interests of the consumer, the customer, the gamer. But if this was a public company, shareholders would buy shares and then demand he do something to grow that share price, so they can sell the shares later for profit.

    When that happens we see that CEOs do everything they can to maximize profits, like promising release dates in earnings calls.

    The difference between private and public companies is the single biggest threat to us all because as soon as the company acts in the exclusive interest of profit, everything else gets fucked. And most do.

    That means employees, customers, everyone. Only the 1% benefit from the gutting of everyone else.

    • GlitchZero@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I mean yes, but also no. I work at a private company and profits seem to be the only thing to get anyone with a title to move their ass.

      Most Directors or below have their teams, or customers, or the product front of mind. But once you get to VP seats they just… don’t, it seems.

      And this is super anecdotal, I know, but… basically my point is private vs public doesn’t necessarily mean anything.

      This guy is just a good guy. He knows what matters to people and speaks from his heart, not his wallet.

      • wildginger@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
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        11 months ago

        Thats either because your boss privately wants to hoard wealth, or is trying to set the books up for a clean sell.

        Public means you sacrifice everything in the name of profit.

        Private means you operate on the ideals of the private owners.

        A private owner can have ideals of profit. A public company cannot have idealistic shareholders.