Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[cRumB]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-sales-ceasing-immediately-offering-refunds-to-all-customers-the-game-will-be-taken-offline-beginning-sept-6th-check-staff-post.970872/page-69#post-128151789

The idea that the game was well on its way to success until ERA had a thread about the CCU being 600 hours after launch, which then caused the media and reddit to notice, which then caused players to stay away, is some incredibly bonkers stuff.

Some of y'all really think the tail wags the dog.

If Era had the ability to tank games I wish we'd have tanked the Wizard game over this

It's weird how Era only seems to tank games that would have tanked anyway but always seems to fail at tanking the games it doesn't actually want to see end up smash hits

It's almost as if a small forum of 60k 30-somethings doesn't have much sway over the multi billion dollar video game industry at all...

I think they are getting it now.

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/concord-ot-calling-all-freeguners-game-being-shut-down-sep-6th-check-threadmarks.957465/page-66#post-128138022
[quote=FFNB]

They were still gonna get the types of games that appeal to them. That's always been the case. It's why it's easy for me to just ignore the games that don't pique my interest and invest in the games that do. Not every game is my cup of tea. I have no interest in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 because of the gamer gate chud running the show, but that's okay. I don't have to trash that game and tear it down. I can just not spend my money on it and call it a day.

But these fuckwits will continue to attack anything they don't like, and will be buoyed by clout/engagement chasers online that will post countless videos trashing it that will reach millions, potentially turning off gamers that probably wouldn't care about things like pronouns, or diversity, or "unconventional" character designs, and just want to play a good game. But when the discourse paints a grim picture, or discourages people from supporting it because of fear of low player counts, or good old fashioned disinformation about the game, that has an effect on the game, and the devs that worked so hard to just make a good fucking game.

So surely he also calls out the people on RE who do exactly that with Kingdom Come, Cyberpunk, Hogwarts, Stellar Blade etc. etc.? 

Strange to be so deeply concerned about the culture war but to also not see that it very much both sides who keep it going.

[Uncle]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/post-128116770

I know she's oblivious, but I don't know how she can't see that highlighting a trans athlete who didn't even qualify for the finals hurts her argument that they have an unfair advantage.

They always trot out this defense even though when you look trans women they are this tiny percentage (0.15%) but somehow managed to win in disproportionately large numbers. 

https://womenssportspolicy.org/253-male-victories-in-female-sports/

This dude is like twice the age of these other competitors and he's still competitive. But no, these trans women are so weak. Then why is this dude able to compete against women half his age when he's fucking 50 years old? 


SAFARZADEH GHAHDERIJANI Hajar
Islamic Republic of Iran                            
Age:  24

PEREZ LOPEZ Alejandra Paola
Venezuela                                                
Age:  26

BARROS DA SILVA Clara Daniele
Brazil
Age:  26

PETRILLO Valentina
Italy
Age:  50

I know they'll never get it because in their mind any trannny is faultless even when they take away opportunities from women or shoot up schools. JK is right to point out that these weirdos are stealing panties trying to make everyone believe their fetish is some kind of human right. You want to make believe you're a woman while you're banging a real woman fine. But that doesn't mean you get to get in the ring with a woman and beat the shit out of her or go to a prison where you can sexually assault them.

god damn

[Propagandhim]

https://bsky.app/profile/melodyshreds.bsky.social/post/3l3d4fhba4h27

*Begs for money on the internet because they don't know how to feed themselves*

*Confidently knows how entire societies should organize their economic/legal systems*

And does the latter by saying something completely incoherent without even realizing how incoherent it is. If it's anarchist how can the central plan by the monopoly corporation everyone is required to work for be enforced across the entire society? I can simply refuse to participate, establish private property and freely trade.

she's probably doing what Chomsky does and refers to socialism as "anarcho syndicalism"

[Propagandhim]

okay this joke was made.  moving on.

[Uncle]

The darkest irony is so many “SJWs” that enjoyed being in a culture war have become Gamergate. The tactics are the same. The harassment is the same. It was always about power to them. Not principals.

[Besticus Maximus]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/j-k-rowling-and-her-legacy-of-hate-the-uk-gender-critical-movement.643740/post-128116770

I know she's oblivious, but I don't know how she can't see that highlighting a trans athlete who didn't even qualify for the finals hurts her argument that they have an unfair advantage.

They always trot out this defense even though when you look trans women they are this tiny percentage (0.15%) but somehow managed to win in disproportionately large numbers. 

https://womenssportspolicy.org/253-male-victories-in-female-sports/

This dude is like twice the age of these other competitors and he's still competitive. But no, these trans women are so weak. Then why is this dude able to compete against women half his age when he's fucking 50 years old? 

They have their black-and-white all-or-nothing thinking on this as their main thesis. And they think everyone is a narcissist. That's why they attack Riley Gaines for finishing fifth, even though she's a multi-time national champion and her criticism has nothing to do with the fact that Lia Thomas beat her in a single race. It's about the fact that Thomas participating at all takes a spot from women. The fact that any trans woman dominates is worse because it's taking both spots and victories. In college sports this especially matters because those spots and victories are tied to scholarships and opportunities. If Thomas or any other trans woman never gets higher than 4th that's still shunting every single other woman down a single spot which can mean the difference between a scholarship and nothing or a spot on a national team and nothing.

But they laser in on the wins or first place finishes as if that's what matters. They're trying to take advantage of the good faith intrinsic in ignorance to convince people to just DISMISS THE CONCERNS rather than actually look into them. It's the same thing they do with every single issue on this topic whether it's bathrooms, other women's spaces, "medical care", kids, etc. They try to manipulate it so your concerns aren't valid while demanding their concerns take priority over all of society.

Yeah? Well nobody would ever do this because Gender is holy and inviolable. Do you think someone would just like, pretend to be a woman for riches and fame once they've realised that the current plan is going nowhere and they're going to live an entire life without being famous 

That's without mentioning that in the top 100 people of all time only 50 of them are trans

[malfoyking]

If Era had the ability to tank games I wish we'd have tanked the Hogwarts legacy over this

It's weird how Era only seems to tank games that would have tanked anyway but always seems to fail at tanking the games it doesn't actually want to see end up smash hits

It's almost as if a small forum of 60k 30-somethings doesn't have much sway over the multi billion dollar video game industry at all...

You wish would have tanked Hogwarts Legacy? Go to hell you worthless wanker. Happy to wish they can tank other peoples games but whine when its their own nonsense checkbox game that gets canned.

[benji]

she's probably doing what Chomsky does and refers to socialism as "anarcho syndicalism"

I just like ragging on anarchocommunists who don't realize what communism means. I expect absolutely zero of them except Kroptokin or anyone else who argued with Marx to even know about any of this. They take that "position" because they think it's edgy and against anyone telling them what to do. Even though communism is specifically about being told what to do and no alternatives being allowed.

The syndicalism thing is even funnier because there's a reason all the actual fascists were former socialist syndicalists.  

Chomsky's "libertarian socialism" makes slightly more sense except that it would fail to remain libertarian for obvious reasons when the state is placed in the control of all production and distribution of everything. There's a reason libertarians have never been able to figure out a permanent means to restrict the state. 

[Besticus Maximus]

There was a country that did a pretty good anarcho communist. A load of people came over and worked on farms and gradually they worked together to supplant the oppressor. Oh wait

[benji]

Ironically, the Native Americans quickly picked up European property ideas and that was why the whites had to deny them these even in ways against the UK/US law to steal their land. Yet modern progressives are just fine with claiming the Natives were too stupid to understand their rights were being violated.

Even though Nepenthe doesn't care about actual Africans, there's a similar recurring pattern in a location there that the Marxist regimes keep having problems with and are part of why we now have Somalialand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeer

It's extra funny because Blackstone would have recognized and probably would have understood something like Xeer, but modern "experts" can't wrap their heads around it.

[kaleidoscopium]

1725459678[/url]']

If these work anything like Twitter's lists then unless you make it private people can see what lists they've been added to.

The way it works is you can find lists from the creators pages to also subscribe to that list, and external tools to see if you’re on a list, but nothing on the site currently exists for searching what lists you are on.

For example this tool https://clearsky.app/fat4all.bsky.social/blocked-by

You can see Fat4all is blocked by 83 people and on various lists of annoying people

[DocWager]

If Era had the ability to tank games I wish we'd have tanked the Hogwarts legacy over this

It's weird how Era only seems to tank games that would have tanked anyway but always seems to fail at tanking the games it doesn't actually want to see end up smash hits

It's almost as if a small forum of 60k 30-somethings doesn't have much sway over the multi billion dollar video game industry at all...

You wish would have tanked Hogwarts Legacy? Go to hell you worthless wanker. Happy to wish they can tank other peoples games but whine when its their own nonsense checkbox game that gets canned.

60K? HA, doubt it!

[benji]

The way it works is you can find lists from the creators pages to also subscribe to that list, and external tools to see if you’re on a list, but nothing on the site currently exists for searching what lists you are on.

No wonder Jack bailed out if they're this behind on replicating so many normal features of Twitter itself. See also the various complaints about blocking/etc. from earlier.

There has to be no way Elon is still funding this thing... unless...

[kaleidoscopium]

Bluesky also has around 6 to 9M total, not active but total, users and their infrastructure is on fire. Not a great app  


Also, 4 hours to noodle soups court case. Wonder if his county has some way to watch live…

[benji]

I spent two minutes looking at his posts to see if this FFNB lunatic identified where he's an "associate game designer" but all he does is post nonsense in Sony related threads about Sony exclusives. I only found this:

Lol, yeah, you can't put that toothpaste back in the tube.

Getting approved for permanent remote work status at my job has been absolutely life changing for me. The amount of time I save a week alone has been incredibly beneficial.

When I worked in the office, I had a 2-2.5 hour commute there, and a 2-2.5 hour commute back home (sometimes longer if there was issue with traffic, or the trains and buses were late, so I'd have to wait for the next line to come, which could take ages and throw off my commute; ditto for getting to work on time, actually).

Saving those 20-25 hours a week freed me up so much.

Getting off work and being able to just close my laptop, go into the kitchen and make some dinner, play some video games, watch/read something, or write/draw/create something, all within minutes of getting off work is amazing. Prior to this, by the time I'd get to work, I'd be exhausted from the commute, and by the time I got home after work, I was too exhausted from the work day + the commute home that I didn't want to do anything but go to sleep.

Time is one our most precious commodities, and we can't ever get it back once spent. So just having that extra time each day is something I don't take for granted and am extremely grateful for.

It's about 9:50pm where I'm at right now, and if I was still working in the office, I'd be getting home about this time (if I was lucky and traffic didn't suck). With work from home, I've literally been at home since I signed off at 7pm, and in that time, I made dinner, ate dinner, fed and played with the cats, chatted with my roommate, and am now browsing Resetera.

It feels good, and I hope more and more companies where WFH is a viable solution continue to adopt it.

What does everyone here do that wfh jobs are possible?

I work in the video game industry, and, fortunately, a lot of our work can be done remotely, so most of our studio has opted to WFH, while the other portion that works better in an office (some folks flourish in that environment, so I think they should have that option as well!). It's been working out incredibly well so far. Especially once we got past the initial adaptation to work from home during the pandemic shutdown.

It's really sad to think that it took a global fucking pandemic that cost countless people their lives (I lost 5 family members to covid...), in order for businesses to recognize that wfh isn't going to destroy their business and profits, or encourage employees to be "lazy" and slack off without their micro-managing eyes upon them at all times...

Which should narrow it down even in LA. But I'm asking if anyone has seen him post something more identifiable, I'm sure I've seen this guy post before but until his Concord essays I had never noticed him.

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/george-rr-martin-doesnt-love-the-changes-house-of-the-dragon-made-to-his-story-spoilers-in-later-half-of-his-latest-blog-post-tag-spoilers.971928/

ERA likes to hide how hyper ProCorpo they are by saying “think about the workers”  

Seems like an asshole move, but I don’t blame him post GoT Season 8, specially because is a finished story in this case.

[Boredfrom]

The amount of internet misery that is going to arise from this blog post is insane. I won't be going close to any HoTD forum for a long time.

[jooseloose]

Turns out bluesky lets you create "lists" to collect users in whatever categories you'd like. I made one to keep track of all the resetera member accounts we find. Feel free to follow or add more as you discover them
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ue7ybgjeys5ui3wzybix3swh/lists/3l3c6djrc4t2z

Back when a lot of fucking annoying furries were joining Bluesky and flooding peoples feed with furry porn some kind soul made a block list so you could block them all with one click

[benji]

it's one of the reasons why i appreciate what Firewalk is doing with Concord. at least i know i'm getting a full featured game for my money, and future content will probably not disappear once it's released, since it's free content, and the paid content is just cosmetics, so they probably won't be removing them from the store, since it's going to be the primary way they're going to be generating money outside of up front sales.

I can't help but feel like it would be better to wait to see if it maintains a player base.

Eh, I don't mind taking a chance day 1 on a game i enjoyed the beta of. if the player base falls off down the line, it falls off.

if everyone waited to see if it maintained a player base, well, it wouldn't have a player base at all XD XD

i'm not convinced the game is going to be the ghost town that a lot of folks online seem to be salivating at the prospect of.

[benji]

My thoughts are, until it has a release date, I don't really see why it'd be that much of a threat to Concord, which comes out in a few days. Sony and Firewalk are doing all they can to market the game, so we'll see how the non-enthusiast gamer bubble responds to the game. I don't tend to think comment sections on Twitter, or Youtube, or various gaming forums really represent the mainstream audience that are the main people spending billions on games a year. It's very possible it may find its audience, even if it's not some multi-million unit seller.

I think some people over-estimate how many units some of these games have to sell to be successful. That metric is different for different projects and studios. I'm not sure how big Firewalk is, or how much the budget of Concord is/was, but basing it purely off of the type of game it is, and what their current roadmap looks like, Concord doesn't strike me as the type of game that needs to be bringing in millions of dollars a week to keep going for at least a year. The focus lately has mostly been on the big, AAA titles that have $300 million budgets, and I just don't see Concord costing that much to develop. Firewalk was founded in 2018, so it's been 6 years since the founding of the studio, and who knows when the team expanded their staff.

The first 1-2 years of a new studio is usually a pretty small team, just hashing out what their first project is going to be. Then, once that's done, they'll start bringing on the necessary staff to tackle pre-production, with another hiring round as it enters full production, and then hiring tapers off once their production pipeline is in full swing and, ideally, running smoothly.

My impression is that Concord has been a relatively tightly designed game. The genre is simple; 5v5 Hero Shooter. The mechanics are straight forward, with some additional elements to give it a bit of its own identity (like the Crew Decks, Passive Buffs, Persistent field abilities, etc; none of those are mechanics that would require years and years of engineering and programming investment to solve and implement). Even the monetization model isn't overly complex; upfront cost, with free characters/maps/modes added later, with a shop for non-essential cosmetics for the players that really dig customizing their character's look, weapons, or trinkets/accessories).

Other live service games have to consider a lot of factors, especially if it's free to play (i've worked on pretty much nothing but free to play live service games for the past 12+ years), but Concord is being designed more like a "typical" old school MP game, with a simple marketplace for some extra cash. It doesn't have an SP campaign, but that makes sense, since that would no doubt have ballooned the budget having to design and execute a story mode that would be worth it.

I guess what I'm trying to say, and to bring it back to my original point, is that Concord trimmed a lot of the fat of a live service game, and focused on some core gameplay elements that wouldn't be overly expensive to implement. Asset creation was probably the largest part of the budget, but, again, I don't think it's some $200 million + project. So the expectations of units sold most likely doesn't need to be as high as what a larger budget game would necessitate to break even and make a profit. Though, obviously, the team at Firewalk and the folks at Sony wouldn't complain if the game sold beyond expectations lol

It's easy to assume that all of these first party games need to sell 5-10 million units in order to succeed, but I don't think Concord does. If reviews are good, it sells a healthy amount, finds a dedicated audience, and gets some positive word of mouth from the folks actually playing it, it'll probably be okay. With that said, all of that is easier said than done, but that applies to every game released, not just Concord. We all want our games to review well, sell well, find its audience, and have great word of mouth. It's how we survive lol

I know I wish Firewalk the best with the launch of the game. Releasing a game is such a mini-miracle, and it's something the team should be proud of, regardless of what happens once it's finally left the nest.

[Boredfrom]

I think more than burning bridges, he is giving a nuke for people who want to shit on this show. The discourse surrounding HotD was already terrible as S2 came to an end, now people will feel emboldened to attack showrunners and writers because GRRM is "backing" them.

Will anyone think about those poor Hollywood executives?

[HaughtyFrank]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/george-rr-martin-doesnt-love-the-changes-house-of-the-dragon-made-to-his-story-spoilers-in-later-half-of-his-latest-blog-post-tag-spoilers.971928/

ERA likes to hide how hyper ProCorpo they are by saying “think about the workers”  

Seems like an asshole move, but I don’t blame him post GoT Season 8, specially because is a finished story in this case.

Martin is an old guy and not in the best of shape. It's quite possible he wont live to see the end of the show so I don't blame him for airing the laundry now instead of waiting out of politeness. And while I haven't read fire & blood so I can't comment too much on the exact changes, it has been pretty frustrating in recent years to see works get adopted by people who are just so eager to change shit for seemingly no good reason other than to make it their own.

[benji]

Nevermind, I found him, same picture as his avatar.

He's worked on characters in Marvel Strike Force for six years.

Buy his comic: https://fanbasepress.com/publishing/comics-publishing/the-gamma-gals/item/7309-the-gamma-gals/

[benji]

[Boredfrom]

[benji]

One's bad enough but he went with a whole trinity of fascists.

[benji]

that rpgmaker game is never going to get made now

I'm interested in the details of this basic confirmation

"I was thinking about working on my rpg maker game and I thought to myself, nah that's boring

Maybe The Bire should all chip in and help:
https://www.humblebundle.com/software/gotcha-gotcha-presents-ultimate-rpg-maker-experience-software

Pay at least $65 for these 20 items

RPG MAKER MZ
RPG MAKER MZ - MV Trinity Resource Pack
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Pixel Game Maker MV
Pixel Game Maker MV - Weapon assets (100 varieties) and Dot Robot Set
Pixel Game Maker MV - 2D Side-scroller Shooting Game Sample Project
Pixel Game Maker MV - Cardgame Sample

[EaldNarche]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/george-rr-martin-doesnt-love-the-changes-house-of-the-dragon-made-to-his-story-spoilers-in-later-half-of-his-latest-blog-post-tag-spoilers.971928/

ERA likes to hide how hyper ProCorpo they are by saying “think about the workers”  

Seems like an asshole move, but I don’t blame him post GoT Season 8, specially because is a finished story in this case.

Martin is an old guy and not in the best of shape. It's quite possible he wont live to see the end of the show so I don't blame him for airing the laundry now instead of waiting out of politeness. And while I haven't read fire & blood so I can't comment too much on the exact changes, it has been pretty frustrating in recent years to see works get adopted by people who are just so eager to change shit for seemingly no good reason other than to make it their own.

He's justified in voicing his issues with it for sure, but I still think he needs to turn that TV off and focus on finishing those books before he croaks. He's got stuff in his will that makes it so no one can even finish the series for him, right? So Brandon Sanderson won't be able to save the day. Please write something George. 

[Anti-Monitor]

House of the Dragon changed so much shit for no reason that I am not surprised at all to see GRRM mad at it. Also not surprised RE don’t want him to complain since the dreaded chuds will probably agree with most of his criticisms.