Gaming Industry Realignment, Pac-Man Donuts, and Price Increases

And welcome to a new episode of Digital Coffee Gaming Brew,

and I'm your host, Brett Deister. If you please subscribe to this podcast and all

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rankings. Let me know how I'm doing. But this week, we're gonna be

talking about Krispy Kreme's,

well, new gaming centric donuts,

expedition 33, a little bit more about that, and

Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine two.

Marvel rivals, new interesting things going on there. Nvidia

in well, once again, the rising prices.

Ubisoft in their lackluster way of saying

that Assassin's Creed shadows is actually a successful game.

We also have Prince of

Persia, the sands of time remake may have finally come out,

maybe. Epic Games and its new unreal engine

5.6. And so this

this data breach that's not a data breach from Steam. So we're talking

a little bit about that

and what's going on with it. And then we're gonna

be talking about GSC game world.

Basically, the trilogy enhanced

edition, so the three previous games, they have already been

kind of talked about and plus with a bunch of new

updates as well. And, also,

we've got we've got Ubisoft's

Star Wars Outlaws as well that's gonna be out,

and then EA implementing in office

return to work. It's always going to be happening. And

are we talking about are we headed for a gaming crash? Is the gaming

industry ahead for another crash like it was in the eighties with Atari and

ET? We're talking about that but let's

get on with the show.

That's good.

Alright. So Krispy Kreme has announced a

collaboration between Namco to create

Pac Man donuts. The celebration or the collaboration

celebrates the forty fifth anniversary of Pac Man

video game franchise. New Pac Man cookbook is set to release

currently with the donuts. The donuts are currently available at Krispy Kreme

stores across The United States. There are three varieties of Pac

Man donuts, the Pac Man donut, an original glazed donut with yellow

buttercream flavored icing sprinkles, and a Pac Man

piece on top, the team ghost donut, an unglazed

donut filled with chocolate cream dipped in black

icing and decorated with a Pac Man maze and ghost

pieces, and the strawberry power berry donut filled

with strawberry flavored cream, dipped in red icing,

and decorated with white sprinkles and green

leaf icing. So it should be interesting if you're looking

to get some donuts, but you want a little bit more gaming flair to your

donuts, head over to Krispy Kreme. It looks like it's gonna be

good fun and it's gonna be good eating too.

Alright. So clear obscure expedition

33 is well,

it basically wasn't what it was supposed to be

when it was originally going to be made.

So apparently, it was supposed to be the game was set in this

Victorian England populated with zombies and

aliens. The narrative lead, Jennifer, say that the original story was

completely different from the the final version. The game is rebooted after

investors encouraged the developer, Sandfall Interactive, to take a new

direction. The studio has been developing expedition 33 for

six months before the reboot. The new new direction

was inspired by a painting liked by game

director, Broch,

and a short story written by Sedzberg

Yen. So basically,

what we we've got a way different version was supposed to be. I

mean, originally, it was going to be about

zombies and aliens, and then we got this, which is a completely different.

And I think it's actually better that they actually did it because it's a net

positive on actually what they did. But this is just kinda what

development looks like. Sometimes you're creating a game or

writing a story or something like that, and you're like, you know what? There's just

something not right about this, and I think

we just need to redo this and actually come up with something better.

And so that's what they did. They were working on for six months, and they're

like, change new direction, and this is how we got

expedition 33 instead of what we were originally going to be getting,

which I think it's a it's a good thing that they actually did this. And

I'm glad that the investors were

like, please figure out a new direction.

This may sound interesting, but I don't we don't think it's

actually gonna be a good thing. So I this was a

brilliant move by investors, a brilliant move by everybody at the team because basically what

we got was what is expedition 33 now, which

is a really great story and people are loving it. Alright. The

developer of Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine two has officially

released the integration studio for public use. The integration studio is the

same editor used internally by developers for gameplay development.

Modders can use the integration studio to modify level scenarios,

game modes, the AI director, and UI elements. The

game director made the announcement on Space Marine two modding discord.

He expressed excitement about the community's potential creation including

cinematic campaigns and new game modes. He know that creating

custom geometry for new levels would be too difficult for modders.

So basically what they're trying to do is they're trying to make this like a

Skyrim. So when Skyrim came out, it was a

huge hit and then everybody was modding it and people are still modding it to

this day to do whatever they wanted. I mean, sky oblivion's

coming out from the Skyrim engine. And so this is

what they're trying to do because once they're done with development, they're not really

gonna work on anymore. They're gonna work on whatever new thing they're gonna be working

on. But at least this gives everybody else a chance

to create new things, create new stories, and basically bring

a very long life for space marines too. Because, I mean, every

publisher and developer actually wants that because when you have a long shelf life,

it keeps on selling. The problem is that a lot of publishers like, alright.

Onto the next thing. No. We will not allow the people that love this game

to modify it because that's terrible for our

sales and something something. It just doesn't really

make much sense, to be honest with you.

Alright. So you Marvel rival fans is celebrating the one year anniversary

since the closed alpha test. The season zero battle pass is

being introduced as a thank you to fans, and

it's basically starting right now, May 15, and

it's going to May 29. So you don't really got much. And you can earn

free rewards. Player players must purchase the luxury pass for

5 5 hundred and 90 lattice, apparently

$5, to get the extra stuff. It

also includes the

Scion venom that everybody mostly missed.

Now the developer has acknowledged community feedback regarding the battle pass, including the

future returns may happen, but will span at least two

seasons and be priced at a minimum 20% higher than the original

rate. So get it now before it goes up in price.

I mean, the this is the thing about BattleBest is there really is no, like,

defined price, and they can charge whatever they want to as long

as you'll buy it. And, I mean, $4.99 is not a bad price,

but, you know, it is what

it is. But,

I mean, you got Overwatch two now with Stadium, and that

has kinda revived the game because it did need a revival. And now you

have this, which everybody's saying is, well, not doing very well

because of the revival of Overwatch two, but you're gonna have that push and pull.

And, yeah, they're gonna make mistakes, obviously, and

Blizzard has already made pretty big mistakes for Overwatch in

general. But we'll see what actually happens

with this and if actually season zero battle

pass is actually gonna be something good to get or not. I mean,

it's all cosmetic, so it's not really going to help you all that much.

But if it's gonna be a 20% higher rate than the

original, that's that's a pretty significant jump from the original. It's like,

well, I better get it now before it goes up in price again.

Speaking of going up in price, NVIDIA has reportedly

raised GPU prices by 10 to 15%.

The increase in prices is attributed to surging manufacturing

costs. Factors contributing to the price increase includes tariffs and price

hike from TSMC, and these costs are filtering

down to retailers. So if you're really wanting that sweet, sweet 50

or, yeah, 50 series graphics card,

well, enjoy the thing that you like right now because it's gonna be way more

expensive. And I don't think this is going to help Nvidia whatsoever when they

keep on doing this. This is insanity. It's already really expensive to

get the 5,000 series if you can get one, if you

can find one. And when you find one, you gotta get there quick or it

goes well, it goes away.

So I was considering upgrading, but after, like,

everything else coming out, I was like, you know what? These don't seem to be

that great. They're really expensive. They're only getting more expensive.

I'm gonna keep my $30.90 card for a while longer because

what's the point of trying to get something that is arguably better

than mine, but is arguably expensive?

And I'm like, well, 39 is gonna be good for a while until they can

all figure out the actual new pricing, until they can all

figure out the manufacturing and bringing things over to US if

need be because that's really where it's gonna go. So

I would say for right now, until they configure the manufacturing process and bring down

those prices, you probably should wait a while.

It's just not great.

Alright. So moving on to to Ubisoft reported that

Assassin's Creed Shadow South outperformed Odyssey in

sales and player count. Shadows generated the second

highest day one sales revenue in franchise history only behind

Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Well,

within a day of its launch, Shadow suppressed the Steam

launch of Valhalla, but Valhalla came out two

years after it came out on Steam. So I don't really

understand this. This, like, oh, it it did better than a

game that was already out, but finally came to Steam. Okay?

Player engagement for shadows has reached a hundred and sixty

million hours. Ubisoft acknowledged the decision to delay

shadows contributed positively to its quality. Yeah. Sure.

The game is currently holding a very positive rating of 80%

on Steam, and Odyssey is

rated slightly higher than shadows on Metacritic.

Ubisoft has plans for future updates

and additional shadow content, but you know what?

It's just it's not that great. I didn't even

I was like, I'm I'm I'm good. I don't I don't really want

this game. I don't really wanna touch this game.

There's just so many problems with it from my

perspective that I was like, I'm good. I don't want

this. Enjoy

enjoy playing this game if you enjoy it, but there was just a lot

of problems with it,

and it just didn't really hit that

plus with the black samurai and everything. And right now, if

I'm looking at this correctly,

it's at 4,222 players playing right now.

Now, obviously, this is more in the middle of the day, but even

if we look at historically, it's been around

probably around 4,000 players

playing. The peak was 64,000.

And even on Sunday, peak times is

about 7,000. Couldn't even crack 10,000. So my

issue with all this is that they are still not giving us numbers. They're

still really trying to make this look like it's a really great

game by skewed aggregates. But

when you look at steam overall, it just it

just doesn't look great because it just

there's just nothing to go off of because they won't actually

give us any numbers whatsoever.

And I don't know. I

mean, even looking right now, Assassin's Creed Odyssey still has

more players than the shadows, and it's older.

I mean, I don't really understand

this whole thing about it. I mean, even if I

look at Valhalla, it's lower.

So the previous game is lower, but the game came

out a lot late a lot earlier

is doing better than the one we have right

now. So

it's just these numbers just do not make sense to me.

And they keep not wanting to share the actual sales numbers. They go, oh, it's

a success. I'm like, if it's such a success,

why are you withholding the numbers? It's not really that difficult

to do.

Anyways, moving on to Prince of Persia, the sands

of time remake, which is finally going to be coming

out before April 2026. So you still got a little

while to do it. Development reportedly started over from scratch,

and the original writer and English voice actor may no longer be

involved. Now the game has been delayed three times and moved to

a different studio. The fiscal year for Ubisoft runs from April

1 to March 31. Meaning, the game must be

released before March. The

game is expected to contribute to Ubisoft's

financial performance alongside other titles like Assassin's Creed shadows and

Rainbow six mobile. So

the this is good and bad. It's unfortunate that original writer and the original

voice actor is not there anymore, but it's good that it's finally coming out. The

problem is that they had to start over for whatever

reason. It was starting over to DEI it. Yeah. It's not gonna go very well.

But if it's starting over to actually make it better, fine. I understand.

But Ubisoft does not have a great track record of making

great games as of late.

But we will see what actually happens with this and if it's actually

gonna be any good. So I foresee it coming out either

from now until March 31. We'll see

how far along they actually are. It's probably gonna be more around

March 2026.

Would be more accurate, but, like, again, we'll see.

Alright. Epic Games has released unreal engine 5.6 preview for

developers. The developers can download the preview via the Epic

Games Launcher GitHub and Linux. The game aims to

enable vast, high fidelity open worlds with a target of

consistent 60 frames per second. Ubi's,

Unreal Engine 5.6 includes device profiles based on Fortnite's

optimized setting to achieve 60 frames per second on all supported platforms.

Streaming performance has been optimized for content streaming in and out

of the world at run time. So, hopefully, this

will help with all the stuttering issues that has been reported because

Unreal Engine five has not been great. Four was actually

the the best out of all of it. It was stable. There wasn't all these

weird stuttering or problems that we've had

since five has released because five just added a lot of different types

of features. I guess the best way of saying it

was destruction with the lighting and

everything else. Really cool, really nice, but

it has caused quite a stir. So we'll see how well developers

actually make it with this one and see if,

like, Dune awakening can actually use 5.6 to

help kinda mitigate a lot of this issue.

Alright. So the very confusing, did Steam have a data

breach or not? So it was originally reported that there was

a a data breach

by affected users of Steam. The breach reportedly

involved the information of 89,000,000 Steam accounts, which has

appeared for sale on the dark web. The data allegedly

include users' one time passwords and phone numbers. A threat actor claims to

be auctioning off its information for $5,000.

At the time they're recording, more than 30,000,000 concurrent Steam users were

online. Users are advised to change their password to secure

their account. It's always recommended to to do two

factor authentication. So

we'll see about that. But then it came out that, well, no.

This didn't actually happen. What actually

happened was it really there really was nothing.

It was old passwords that were already

not really useful anymore, and it just

it it didn't make none none of this makes any sense.

So I don't even know if there was a hack or there wasn't, but

it's been auctioning off maybe just to get money.

Probably sure it's more to get money or not. But it's it's a weird

confusing time when it's like, yeah, this happened,

but not really it happened. But, yeah, it happened.

But, no, it didn't happen. It's like, wait.

What? Like, I I don't really

understand. Like, why would why did this

happen? But here we are. Here

we are. So I changed my password

because I've had it happen to me before people did compromise and

stuff. So I was like, you know what? I'm just gonna change my password. And

they came out that nothing actually this is a nothing burger. They

valve claims that there's no data breach whatsoever. Now if it

comes out that there was a breach, well, it's a good thing I changed my

password anyways because now I have to deal with it.

But as of right now, can't do

anything about it. It's unfortunate, but you

cannot do absolutely anything about this thing whatsoever.

So here we are. So as a precaution, I probably would

say change your password. If you don't have a password management system, definitely get a

password management system. Use the steam

app and do the steam guard as well. This will help with

any of that nefarious things going on. But having a

strong password and changing it would be even more beneficial

for everybody. Alright. Ubisoft has announced

well, it's gonna be addressing issues on Star Wars outlaw and also

is going to be the second DLC story, Pirate's

Fortune, is going to be, well, coming

out or actually already came out alongside with patches. The patch includes

Kay's ability to switch smoothly from her blaster to two handed

weapons, ability for Kaye to free fire while riding

her speeder. So you can actually fire your blaster instead of waiting for the

stupid, like, ability to shoot,

like, the dead eye but on your speeder, which is great because I don't no

one understood why, and I still don't even understand why I couldn't just shoot on

the speeder. Very weird that they never actually added

this. There's also new space contracts with multiple challenge

challenge types for additional rewards. Patch also addresses

various issues including audio lines playing out of order.

That's fun. Props disappearing or floating during cut

scenes. That's pretty funny. Fixes to prevent

players from being unable to complete intel quests. A fix to

prevent Kaye from getting trapped in a room on

T'Shara T'Shara while respawning. Well, that would

be uncomfortable and unfortunate.

But, hey, at least they're updating it. Do I still think they should

have just done, female protagonist?

No. I really think they should have just let you be a smuggler and choose

which one you wanna do. I think that would actually been a better move,

but here we're at it's not a bad game. They actually did

fix it, but they should have waited to fix a lot of these issues because

when it first launched, people were trashing it, and rightfully so, the AI

was stupid, and it's still pretty stupid.

You I mean, there was a lot of issues. You really couldn't do a lot

of things. I still am really confused on why why you as

a female smuggler, you can basically

knock out stormtroopers with your fist, but you can't move them.

So is she strong or is she not? Are we gonna be in reality or

we're gonna be not in reality? It it just never

made any sense. But fine. This

is where we're at right now. At least we get free fire while

riding the speeder now, which is small

victories, I guess. Alright. Do you love

Stalker? Have did you not get a chance to play the three original

ones way long ago? Well, developer

GSC Game World announced Stalker Legends of the Zone trilogy

enhanced edition. The remaster is set to be released on May

20 for console and PC to enhance. This edition includes remastered

versions of the first three games in the Stalker series, shadow of Chernobyl,

clear sky, and call of Prepyat.

The the remaster features updated lighting and reflections, upscaled

textures, improved water effects and sky boxes, and upscaled

cinematics. Both console and PC players will have access to mods created by

the stock community. The remaster includes performance options for

the PS five, Xbox series x, and s allowing players to choose between various

modes, quality, balance, performance, ultra performance. Console

players can opt to play with keyboard and mouse. Nice. And the

PC version is optimized for the Steam Deck and includes Steam Workshop

integration. Hey. That's a big win. I mean, the original games were

great too. If you haven't actually had a chance to actually do it, I would

say wait for the enhanced versions to get all of them. When they

released, they were well,

they had issues, but they were still really good

games. Way before

the souls like things, this was kinda like the old school souls like, but

in a first person shooter mode. Hard as hell, but fun

to play. So if you haven't played them, I highly recommend you look after

that because it's coming out in about five

or actually four days now. About four days, it's gonna be coming out,

so it should be good. And add on top

of that, GSC game will announce patch

1.4 for stalker two, which adds over 700

fixes. The patch addresses specific issues such as

means can now use a corpse eating animation if dead bodies are

nearby. Alright. The fix was made for an issue where

shooting sausages sausage props produce

blood particles. That's pretty funny. Improvements were

made to enemy behavior, allowing them to use cover

effectively and communicate tactical actions better.

Weapons now have a new stat called handling the weapon

stat has been recalibrated for accuracy. Human characters

can now melee attack mutants and have a finite number

of grenades based on their roles. Various bug

fix fixes and performance optimizations were implemented including

improvements for to m p c pathing and animation.

Alright.

Moving on to EA. So

EA has made a new office in office working

policy requiring local employees to return at least three

days a week phasing out remote roles. Employees living within a

30 mile radius of the office must commute at least three days a

week under the new hybrid policy.

Employees outside the 30 mile radius can continue to work remotely unless the

role is designated otherwise. EA plans to sunset the

off-site local work model over the next

three to twenty four months depending on location.

Any exceptions to the new policy of future remote

hiring will require approval from EACO

Andrew Wilson or company president Laura Mile.

The changes are described as a shift from decentralized approach

to a global globally consistent work model.

EA CEO Andrew Wilson stated that in person work

provides a kinetic energy that fuels creativity,

innovation, and connection.

So if you work for EA, you now gotta go back to work. You

can't just stay in your home office all

the time and work. You gotta go back into work at least three days a

week, whether you like it or not. If you live 30

miles outside of it, maybe depending on your role.

This is the this is the reality we live now is that companies don't like

it that you're not working where they can see you. It is very much

a control issue regardless if they will admit it or not.

And you could be doing your best work regardless of where you're at, but it

also takes a lot of discipline to actually work while you're at

home and not do other things. So there is this push

pull. Do I agree with it completely? No.

But I am not the head of the company, so

they can do what you want. Don't like it. Don't work for them. But that

is the state we are. Of course, not working from means you have to find

a job, and that is a train wreck as it is in 2025.

So good luck to everybody. I know it sucks that you

have to change everything over again. The COVID

remote work era is over. We are going back to

normal work time.

Alright. So my main thing is, are we headed for another gaming

crash? Gaming had a huge crash in the eighties

following Atari and their game

ET or extraterrestrial. If you don't know, ET was a is a

movie made in the eighties by Steven Spielberg. It was a very popular movie,

very fun movie, and that's how

was it his production company, Ambelin, I think it is, got the

little kid riding in the moon thing. That's where he

got it from. But

it's not the same. So in the eighties, there really wasn't very many

companies doing gaming. Gaming was still very, very new. You had

maybe the Commodore, but that wasn't popular. The popular most popular

gaming device was Atari, and Atari did several different

versions of Atari. Had a lot of really good

success. Pitfall was a really good one. There was a dungeon

game. There were some Star Wars games that came out. Like, it

was riding high on its success

until e ET came out, and

that was horrendously panned and actually drove

Atari to bankruptcy because it was just

unoptimized. It had so many bugs. They're funny

bugs. And it was just not a great game,

which apparently, they did

actually bury a lot of the Atari e t cartridges

in New Mexico. Memory hold that.

But here's the problem. After that came Nintendo,

because NES came out, and that revitalized

the gaming industry. Actually, it saved it as a lot of people

say. So we're not really in that same territory. We got

Sony. We got Nintendo. We got Microsoft

or Xbox. And they're all doing

relatively well. I think I read recently where Nintendo

sales figures were down because of, quote, unquote, the price. I'm like, no. No.

No. Nintendo. It's more than just the price. You'll

break my switch two if you, quote, unquote, catch me

emulating and or hacking or whatever. That

that doesn't sit well with gamers, and you should know better than that. And

you're you're raising your prices of games, the game the digital

game key, which is ridiculous in and of itself. There there's a lot of

issues with what Nintendo's doing, and it is affecting their bottom line. They just

want a minute. You also have Microsoft,

which is pushing its game pass more than it's pushing its hardware. It's also

diversifying where it's releasing its games to be more on

all of the platforms. You also have Steam, the number one

dominant digital distribution site on PC. It also

has the Steam Deck. You also have various other companies making

gaming PC handhelds too. So it

is a very diverse ecosystem now.

It just doesn't rely on one to do everything.

Now are we headed for, like, a realignment on things?

Yes. There has been too many games that have come out that have

bombed terribly, and they've had high budgets

to actually get them to release. Concord was probably the most

significant one out of all of them because it

had a very long shelf life of development and

a very high budget. We also had other ones. Anthem was another

big one that flopped a little while ago. We also had Star

Wars Outlaw flopped. We've had

that south of whatever I don't

know. It's the d I one that recently came out that nobody's playing.

We've had a lot of different games that just haven't done very well, but we've

also had a lot of games that have done very well. Schedule one isn't one

of them made by one person. We have Expedition

33, which sold really well. Kingdom Deliverance two sold

very well. We've had some shining moments in the gaming

industry to say that, no, it's not all crashing. The

issue is right now is price. The hardware is

getting expensive, as I said, with NVIDIA raising 10 to 15% on

their GPUs, and games are getting more expensive

with Microsoft and Nintendo saying that they're raising their prices

to fit to $80. Microsoft's

gonna be doing it this Christmas season, and Nintendo's already

implementing it with their Switch two games. So you do

have a lot of issues going on. Plus, we have a thriving free

to play market as well. There's so many different

avenues right now that a crash is not

inevitable, but it's a lot harder to do

because of the different things going on.

Now could we be facing a crash

eventually? Maybe. Unless the realignment actually works, which basically

means the realignment needs to be smaller teams. You you

stop having five or six developer teams or companies

working on one game. It's just it's insane. I never thought it

worked very well, and you can see with Call of Duty, you you can see

with Battlefield. It just it it's not it's not really going to work

as well as they hope it, and plus the budget balloons.

So instead of selling a few million and being a success,

you have to sell, like, ten, fifteen, 20, 30,

40 million instead, which is a lot harder to do

when your previous games on looking at battlefield

have really just made gamers more upset about

it. So

I think we're in a realignment phase right now where

where publishers have to understand that,

yes, make new games, but do not hate on

strategy games. RTS is as temp is writing. Great

game. Don't hate on turn based types of games as

expedition 33 has shown, and, I

mean, stop chasing trends all the time. It's very

easy to chase the trends, but the trends don't always offer you

big cash outs. The reason why Overwatch was so successful is

because it did something that we either haven't seen in a while or it was

actually something truly new. I think it's more of we haven't seen in a

while, and it kind of it brought about

this new genre of hero shooters that everybody was trying to

emulate. But remember, we had we had

Gearbox make I don't even remember the name of it, but they had a similar

one that didn't do very well either.

Because Overwatch was such a huge success that actually killed

Battleborn. In other words, they killed Battleborn. So we

have this dynamic of, like,

make sure that you're creating games that not

necessarily trendy, but they're new and inventive, and it's

a good story too. That means get rid of Sweet Baby Inc.

Means get rid of DEI. And understand, and I keep on

harking on this, and I hope someone from the gaming industry

understands. Your main target audience

is men, so stop hating on them. I don't

care what the journalists say. They're stupid. Most of them

are stupid. All of them. But most of them. Most of them from

Polygon to all of them, and they've they have all their issues going on too

as a lot of these are being sold off to other companies or just basically

filing for bankruptcy in general. So understand

that your main target audience is

men. If I see more women in your development than

men, I'm gonna be questioning if it's gonna be a good game

because time and time again, it's usually been

not good. Make a good

story and stop caring about gender so much.

Stop caring about gender. Stop caring about skin color. Just make a

good game. If it's a black person that's in the game and

that's your main protagonist, alright, show me as it's a good character written.

Don't show me that you just create a black character just to create a black

character. That does not work anymore. Show

us. Because we are gonna be very scrutinizing on every game

now because it's it's rising in prices. And

so that's what we're gonna that's what's going to

happen. I don't care if, for example, doing the

dark ages is only a single player game. Great. Implement a

co op portion too eventually. That will actually help

expand it as well. If you can, allow for modding tools.

Allow the gamer to eventually just create their own stories through it.

It can be unofficial. I don't it doesn't really matter to me.

But allow for a participation with the

community and look at what previous

ones have done really well. Look at what Helldivers two did really

how they did really well, then sucked, then did really well again.

Look at what expedition they're doing. We did well. They were six months into the

development, and they're like, this is not working. We're gonna redo the story.

That paid off hugely for them.

Look what kingdom come deliverance two has done. A really more hardcore

RPG with no magic. Not a bad idea to do as well.

Look and I and I hark on this. Look at old genres that are

dead and maybe revive them. Look

at I mean, Star Wars Squadron. I I still don't understand

why EA has not done a second one. It did really well for what it

was, and people loved it for what it was. So

it baffles me that Lucasfilm hasn't tried to figure out how to make

another version of it or make a version,

like, similar to this in Arcadia space in game.

Why not? Or make it more like no man's sky

than star wars. Or make an RPG like starfield and turn

it into star wars, which is happening. Like, look at different

things you can do and try to see if you can work on this

because doing the same thing over and over again, people just don't care about

it. And don't rely on your

remasters so heavily. I get it, and I'm glad that remasters are

happening. Don't rely on that. Make them for games that

were really stellar at the time, and you're like, you know what? These need a

new refresh. That's fine, but don't rely on

it. Don't do the Last of Us thing where you have 50 different remasters or

remakes, and you're like, okay, seriously, guys? It was a fun game, but

it's not that good.

This is all we want. Naughty Dog's losing it because they

just don't really understand see, usually Neil drunk

Dunkman or Dunkman or whatever. I don't know what he is then.

But we're not heading for a crash. We're heading for a realignment and gamers are

like, we want games that are fun. Stop trying to

anger to us. Stop trying to tell us how terrible we are. We just

want really good games that are fun, that have great stories.

And we can kind of, like, get lost in and escape reality.

Not really lose reality, but escape it for a time and then come back to

reality and then deal with the things we have to deal with. That's all we

really want.

Just some food for thought.

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