Well if they're out of original IP maybe they should, you know, CREATE some original IP. Surely there's bound to be some creatives left in that behemoth of a company.
I know I know, it's a stock listed company and these just stop innovating and just buy up studios, but they could try it for once.
30 million? For a billion pictures of faces? Lol. Of course they hacen't appealed, that fine is a pittance to them.
I don't understand the vitriol either. Must be a lemmy thing ( see every thread about microsoft doing something shitty and people going "you deserve it if you use windows/don't use linux" ). Even the reddit threads related to this issue aren't this bad, they're mostly friendly and helpful towards the guys that got grifted.
I'm cautiosly optimistic. On the one hand the ubisoft mainz team ( formerly Related Designs ) have always delivered wrt anno games. On the other corporate Ubi and their tendency to enshittify everything they touch.
As a fan of futuristic annos I'm also not big on the theme, but they did outdo themselves with 1800, so there's hope.
Starfield was the same. Looked pretty meh, but almost all (initial) reviewers gave it high marks. It wasn't until people started playing that the truthful reviews surfaced. Guessing either paid reviews, or reviewers having a skewed view of what makes a game great.
Its fascinating to see that a chinese state controlled app has the power to potentially destabilize small economies. Also fuck influencers, they are a plague on this world.
Wow, it actually looks ok. Fuck, ubi, you better not screw this up!
Not sure why you feel the need to defend your actions by drawing analogies with real piracy - it's their attitude towards you as a content consumer that you should note in this situation, and that's just appaling. Your actions may well be piracy but frankly that's just a word they use to guilt you out of choosing convenience and safety. Be a pirate and be proud, goddammit!
If they really wanted to emphasize its talking ability one would think they'd use a dialog-heavy RPG or smth, not a multiplayer battle game where existing AI can already bark 2-3 word orders at you pretty coherently. I doubt this will be particularly revolutionary.
Yes, god forbid they see opinions from outside their respective bubbles.
Serious question: in what way did maps.me get shitty? I've been using it for years as a gps replacement and other than being closed source and having a paid tier found no issue with it ( or at least no extra issues compared to other OSM apps )
Looks like modular is the new buzzword for phones that look like that new nothing phone, with straps, pins and whatnot. I wonder is there really a market for these things?
I mean, I love what they've done with the Skyline, but this thing looks kind of useless.