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[–] 37 points 3 months ago* (6 children)

In this thread, we each call out a stupid decision Microsoft made in the past!

Microsoft passed on Alan Wake 2.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    But they okayed Alan Wake's American Nightmare.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    True. Props for that, at least.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I didn't mean that in a very positive way.

    I know there's a post-hoc artistique justification where Alan is a hack writer and everything in the dark place is only as good as his imagination... but a poorly made game is still a poorly made game, and trying to shove half of a Max Payne action shooter into an Alan Wake game is just asking for disappointment (just ask Amnesia fans about pigs).

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  • [–] 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    they don't understand humans, or computers, or business, or laws

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    What do they understand? Money!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    Sometimes not even money. Microslop was left holding the bag when they jacked up the price of Gamepass and suddenly it became unaffordable for a lot of customers, and spent billions on a lemon. Sony is actively alienating their supporters, rejecting their largest market, and going all-in on a game that can't even reach five thousand daily concurrent players on Steam because they've also already spent billions on a lemon. Bad calls and sunk costs all around.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    You'd think they'd understand tech at the bare minimum. But slashing your team of highly technical people who made engines for almost 30 years sure disproves that notion.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    I don't know about all that, didn't they develop Windows just to have a platform to play FreeCell Solitaire?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No, it was a GUI designed on top of MS-DOS specifically to import Minesweeper from IBM OS/2.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    Windows is a 32-bit hardware extension and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    Bro they don't even understand software.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    And yet, they will make billions more because gamers don't care. They will keep buying their slop and using their slopware.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

    Gamers do care, they are buying less of their slop and using their slop ware way less

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