Well that's another way to burn a few more billion.
this post was submitted on 28 Nov 2024
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Can he get gvmnt to fund this endeavour? Most times such ideas mean siphoning money and not releasing anything and he is bro-bro with Trump.
Cities skylines 2 is already out so IMO we don't need more games
Elon musk and Mel Gibson team up to form a new non woke game studio.
I guarantee his games will star him and push his agenda into poorly written stories.
It's going to be 50% pot and "69" jokes.
K.
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A certain type of goateed chungus will take as an article of faith that this is a revolution in gaming, preorder multiple copies of these games and send death threats to anyone who suggests that they’re not great.
Open world game where you make yourself an Oligarch?
It's a great short-term idea to possibly break stagnation in the industry, but it is ultimately ironic and therefore the expected evolution is likely.
I'd believe his words a bit more if he through backing toward indie studios with minimal strings attached. But, he will instead—probably quickly—become part of the same old problem we already have.
Guarantee you his games will be shit.
Definitely.
NFS Underground but Teslas
KSP but only SpaceX parts... Which wouldn't be bad until you want to go to Minmus and 6 months later your idea is playing out on a feed thanks to data collection skipped in the EULA.
Or it's just a bunch of rip offs. Xwatch, Stardew Valley X. XXCOM.
I hope they do some quest native titles
He figured out he can have an army of junkie fanatics if he gets into the videogame business. Just like his multi billionare colleague steam ceo gabe newell who owns a billionare mega yacht fleet and somehow still get praised even here on lemmy.
oh, please don't. please, pretty please?