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31 minutes ago, Xbob42 said:

How much do Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony charge?

 

Last I checked, it was 30%.

Thus, industry standard.

 

Also last I checked, Fortnite is available on all of those platforms, didn't hear Sweeney pitch a bitch about that.

 

Not wanting to pay 30% makes a lot of sense, picking and choosing when it's "okay" to pay 30%? Ehhh.

Wanting Valve to just give up a huge portion of their main revenue "just because" is really funny though.

Valve isn't a console manufacturer nor does Valve offer the same level of assistance to game developers Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo do. There's a reason Valve makes more money per employee than just about any other tech company out there.

In 2018 a group of Valve staff tried to figure out just how efficient they were being—and found they were making more money per head than Apple, Facebook, and nearly every tech giant out there | PC Gamer

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A well-oiled Steam machine.

Either Valve is magic compared to Sony and Microsoft or they run wildly high margins thanks to their 30% cut. The only games company I know of that makes more money per employee than Valve is Nintendo and it is very much because they own the platform while also selling the largest volume of games for said platform. It's the biggest reason why people arguing Nintendo should put their games on PC store fronts like Valve's are crazy. No serious person is going to try to argue that Nintendo makes its off the party game sales, especially when this has been the case for Nintendo since way back on the Wii.

24 minutes ago, legend said:

I do think it would be nice if they made it a more objective sales metric that could then extend to the smaller groups.

100%. Valve just has no incentive to unless the publisher is large enough to realistically not need Valve. That's why it would be nice to have more competition, but gamers really are set in their ways. It's like all those folks wanting AMD to succeed but only to force Nvidia to drop their prices.

All I want in a store front is cloud saves, easy choices on where games are installed, and some reassurance the store front isn't going to disappear on me a year from now *cough*stadia*cough*.

8 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Yeah, that looks like fun. I'm in.

39 minutes ago, legend said:

 

On it's face that doesn't seem wrong to me? I mean I'm not saying that 30% is appropriate, but I don't think the fact that bigger games get better deals is all that wrong. There is going to be a higher purchase rate for bigger games so it's easier to justify hosting them and any of the other stuff that goes with hosting the game on steam, just like buying in bulk is cheaper.

 

Maybe there is a better policy where you change the rate based on sales so it gets cheaper the more you sell or something, and that way it's not limited to special deals with the big players, but on it's face it's not crazy to me that this kind of economic dynamic exists.

It's not crazy. However, I will say that for Valve it's a combination of things. They offer those sweetheart deals to keep the bigger publishers specifically to keep them from going their own thing while also being perfectly happy taking the full percentage from mega indie hits like Stardew Valley. Does anyone expect Valve to float a sweetheart deal over at Concerned Ape ahead of Haunted Chocolatier or Team Cherry ahead of Silksong?

Sweeney isn't wrong for calling Valve and Apple out for buying publishers this way. The only reason it doesn't bother PC gamers is because so many of them desperately want all their games in one location.

I mean, I'll say it. He's not wrong. Apple and Valve, both, giving some major publishers sweetheart deals and others not is bullshit. Especially when others includes ALL the indie devs.

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Right now, you assholes are telling the world that the strong and powerful get special terms, while 30% is for the little people. We're all in for a prolonged battle if Apple tries to keep their monopoly and 30% by cutting backroom deals with big publishers to keep them quiet. Why not give ALL developers a better deal? What better way is there to convince Apple quickly that their model is now totally untenable?

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13 hours ago, LazyPiranha said:

It’s hard to imagine Dragon Ball even ending, it’s not like there’s some sort of logical conclusion it just goes.  Berserk had a major conflict that could, in theory, end.  

The thing is DBZ ended in 1995/96. What's wild is how enduring its story has been. Like if you go back to 1995 you can find Spider-Man games, but they aren't telling the same story the recent Spider-Man games are telling. Go back to 1995 and you can find a game where you can replay the fight with Frieza on the SNES and then fast forward to today and you can replay that exact same fight on the PS5 with DBZ: Kakarot. No changes. No update to the story. No update to the characters. Just the exact same fight with the exact same characters on the exact same planet, just updated with modern graphics for a new generation of players.

I can't even think of anything else with such a lasting legacy. The original Star Wars trilogy and then...ummmm...

The gathering in Argentina was something else.

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On 3/8/2024 at 6:30 AM, LazyPiranha said:

First Miura, now Toriyama…

I was just thinking about this. Miura shared his vision for the end of Berserk, so Berserk can be completed. I'm sure Toriyama shared the ending of Dragon Ball Super with Toyotarou. Not that hard to guess, since DBS should end with the start of the 28th Tournament where Goku continues his terrible father streak and takes Uub on as his student.

Toriyama also probably shared the conclusion of Dragon Ball Daima with the studio, but that one is easy since it finishes where Dragon Ball Super begins.

The real mystery is what happens after Dragon Ball Z. I don't know if Toriyama has ever shared that with anyone.

17 minutes ago, Jason said:

Apparently in Mexico they were advertising the home stretch of Super episodes like a boxing match.

 

They actually got into trouble over this, but Mexico didn't really care. Just look at that crowd.

Looking for more short, story-centric games to play and noticed I still had Stray Gods installed. I bought it a while back after playing Mario Wonder because I wanted a musical game that wasn't a rhythm game. Not much in that department. Stray Gods lists itself as an RPG, but it's really a visual novel. I, quite liked it. Good music, good voice acting, an engaging story, and your decisions feel like they matter.

Very happy I played this. Now to find my next short game ahead of Horizon Forbidden West hitting PC.

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I know state politicians are already crazy, so their proposed bills should be considered insane and not taken seriously. Still, this is a wild proposal...

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A new Missouri bill would make it a felony offense for school teachers or counselors to support or contribute to the social transitioning of a transgender...

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1 hour ago, CastletonSnob said:

Does his death still not feel real to anyone else?

Nope and it's really not going to help that the Sand Land series starts airing later this month, the game comes out next month, and Dragon Ball Daima lands later in the fall anime season.

That's also ignoring that the most recent chapter of the Dragon Ball Super manga came out nearly a month ago so Toyotarou should, by now, be finishing up chapter 103 based on the final notes and comments he got from Toriyama.

There was a decade or two where the only thing Toriyama was doing was character design for Dragon Quest. Until now, he was as busy as he had every been.

This one is going to suck for a while.

51 minutes ago, Ricofoley said:

Wasn't that much of a Dragonball guy, but just for the Chrono Trigger character designs on their own he's an absolute legend

 

Or every Dragon Quest.

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24 minutes ago, best3444 said:

RIP 🙏 

 

I never watched that stuff but I understand how important it is to so many. 

It's really hard to explain how DBZ really became such such a part of the black and Latin American 90s zeitgeist. As a Puerto Rican kid born in 82, growing up in a largely Hispanic community, DBZ and Neo Geo arcade cabinets were my childhood.

I remember in the early/mid 90s asking my parents for a VCR for Christmas specifically to record the Spanish dubs of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z airing on Telemundo.

Well, fuck. I just saw this news as well. He just started working on Dragon Ball Daima and he also has his old passion project, Sand Land, finally getting some attention. I can't even begin to describe his influence on the shonen action genre.

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4 hours ago, Slug said:

I hope someone picks up RWBY.  I enjoyed that one.

Supposedly WB is looking to sell RWBY. However, can't help but imagine they suck at selling things and there's a chance nobody would be interested at the asking price. Also, rumors are they're looking to sell the IP, not Rooster Teeth Animation.

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5 hours ago, crispy4000 said:

Nintendo games could stand to get a lot cheaper relative to standard AAA discounting, but they won’t, because they sell gangbusters still.  That and lower production costs have made them riches while the rest of the industry suffers.

 

I think they’ll hold off on a Games Pass-like service until it’s evident their consumer won’t follow them without it.

I do wonder what Nintendo's production costs actually are. I'm sure they aren't crazy like Sony, but Nintendo also pays their devs enough to keep them loyal and puts out many games that have years long dev cycles.