Wow, it's been 20 years since

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7bxXjQL3cY
#Music@GameDEV

Holy feck, that's not good

- Ghost of Yotei "everyone hated" sold well and was not too expensive to make. It is profitable.

- Death Stranding 2 is behind the original game in revenue with much higher budget. The game didn't pay off (and I'm not sure if it will on PC)

- Marathon barely sold anything (and yes, it's more popular on PC but even combined they are not covering production and support budgets even remotely)

#PlayStation@GameDEV
#Infographics@GameDEV

UPD: Death Stranding 2 has been released on PC this march and sold about 600-800K copies. The biggest limiting factor is the €80 price tag (vs €60-70 for other AAA games)

"48 people watching it on Twitch right now"

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3280350/DEATH_STRANDING_2_ON_THE_BEACH/

Holy crap, WHAT?

It already failed so many times in financial management, it was unable to manage even small sums. Why?

#AI@GameDEV
#WTF@GameDEV

Bungie published their farewell Destiny 2 video, since the game will no longer get updates:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyUzUuzlPmY
#Bungie@GameDEV

Marathon gathered 40K CCU on free week and it even got some marginal sales (at places 50-70th among top sellers on Steam).

But the stream of new players dried out quickly and CCU counter got back to numbers before free week and before the new season.

#Bungie@GameDEV
#PlayStation@GameDEV

PlayStation and their multiplayer games

- What are you laughing at?
- You wouldn't get it...

#meme@GameDEV
#Narrative@GameDEV

😑 Who's gonna tell them?

Off topic: Prototaxities, the only big land life for tens of millions of years that dominated the surface before trees, is apparently not made of mushroom (as it was believed for ages).

Both chemical and structural analysis of well-preserved fossils in Scotland failed to match mushrooms from the same sediment. It's an absolutely new form of life. And studying a 400 million years old life is not easy.

It used to have huge ring-enforced structures inside to pass liquids and gases + smaller ones to distribute it further (very similar to lungs and blood vessels). But there are no signs that it was an animal either. But what do we know about life if we fail to determine WTF is Paleodictyon nodosum which still exists, we just can't find anything but traces of it.

#OffTopic@GameDEV
#Science@GameDEV

There's no way to tell about We Happy Few without spoilers, so I'll just remind you it's on sale:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/320240/We_Happy_Few/

The game is huge: three main protagonists with their own chapters and interconnected stories + some extra ones in DLCs. I'm still not even halfway through.

Constant survival, when the character has to sleep, eat, drink, dress accordingly to each type of places, and such. You learn to lock the doors, switch costumes, plan every move.

And typical "multiple options" to solve most of the problems: stealth, combat, faking your access, and such.

The writing is good, every story is heartbreaking, a lot of things kicks you out of nowhere. I just dropped it just to breathe a bit.

#Narrative@GameDEV
#ImmersiveSim@GameDEV

Decided to give GTA V a chance (again)

- Installed 95GB
- Installed BattleEye (for solo)
- Launched a game
- It shows 3 minutes long unskippable promo video of GTA Online and how "cool" = "cringe" it is now.
- Shut the game down after 1 minute of unsuccessful tries to skip the video
- Uninstalled

Fuck that shit
#GTA@GameDEV

Please, enjoy! sovietwomble

#meme@GameDEV

Apparently, there are some court activities around Google trying to maintain and commercialize fakes in AI summaries.

Google is now legally responsible for its AI generated "facts" in the overview section.

In some cases they were actually keeping some of wrong things as the preferable answers if they were getting more attention from users = improved their revenue from the search request.

#Google@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV