1st February 2022, 7:19 AM
(This post was last modified: 1st February 2022, 7:23 AM by Dark Jaguar.)
I'd put Black Isle over them... well MS bought that company too. Overwatch is just really um... tween? I just can't get behind that weird overly smooth "cereal box mascot" aesthetic they seem to be going for. A look that seems to say every one of them was designed by committee and scrubbed sterile in a lab before churning out to the public. Without any sort of single player campaign I guess I'm just expected to know the background of all these weirdos by way of promotional ads for each one? Like I'm sure the cowboy one has a tortured past and the weird mech lady one stays crunch in milk or whatever, but I just don't care, and especially in the face of what Blizzard's become.
Now let's look at their remasters lately. Starcraft Remastered has preorder exclusive DLC. Warcraft III Reforged changes the terms of their map creation so they legally own anything you make, supposedly in an attempt to make sure DOTA doesn't "slip through their fingers" again. Diablo II Re... damned took away LAN play to force everyone to play on their network or not at all. They've become VERY anti-consumer as of late and even their remasters show it. They are not now, and I think never really were, "the best PC developer". The scales have fallen off my eyes. I don't idolize them a bit now. The world we're in is burning ABF. Clinging to the old ways won't save us.
And then there's Nintendo. Slowly, VERY VERY slowly but surely, they are embracing the bad things in DLC. I doubt they'll ever get involved in NFTs, but only because they wouldn't want to invest in the basic infrastructure to run a block chain all by themselves. I don't doubt their investors are heavily pressuring them to get involved even as we speak though. I'd be a fool not to assume the worst at this point. But, I will say that Nintendo USED to be very much a fan-friendly company. In the past, they loved the fan projects we'd create which usually amounted to legos or artwork drawn on fan mail. They bent over backwards to win us over, and it worked. Now that they're as big as they are, they've forgotten what put them there.
Now let's look at their remasters lately. Starcraft Remastered has preorder exclusive DLC. Warcraft III Reforged changes the terms of their map creation so they legally own anything you make, supposedly in an attempt to make sure DOTA doesn't "slip through their fingers" again. Diablo II Re... damned took away LAN play to force everyone to play on their network or not at all. They've become VERY anti-consumer as of late and even their remasters show it. They are not now, and I think never really were, "the best PC developer". The scales have fallen off my eyes. I don't idolize them a bit now. The world we're in is burning ABF. Clinging to the old ways won't save us.
And then there's Nintendo. Slowly, VERY VERY slowly but surely, they are embracing the bad things in DLC. I doubt they'll ever get involved in NFTs, but only because they wouldn't want to invest in the basic infrastructure to run a block chain all by themselves. I don't doubt their investors are heavily pressuring them to get involved even as we speak though. I'd be a fool not to assume the worst at this point. But, I will say that Nintendo USED to be very much a fan-friendly company. In the past, they loved the fan projects we'd create which usually amounted to legos or artwork drawn on fan mail. They bent over backwards to win us over, and it worked. Now that they're as big as they are, they've forgotten what put them there.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)