RitualClarity

"Failguard" Bioware being shut down is exactly what was needed to be done. Now after a bit of time EA can always assign the IP to another studio that they have. Create new content with totally new studio. Why was it needed to be shut down. It was rotten to the core. The problems were throughout the entire studio from the very tippy top to the very bottom. Honestly, I imagine the janitors walking around cleaning up wearing rainbow hair. That is how rotten it was. It would never be able to produce what it did in the past. It couldn't even produce the game evne with the SJW and rainbows on time. A functional game. Regardless of how bad it was recieved. They just kept on churning and churning $$$ wasting it reinventing and reworking the games they were working on. For example, how long were they working on the Mass Effect 5? Their other IPs? They couldn't even get out of their own way.

Thats what they get for using Windows products. Doubly so for using it when they (Microsoft) moved to AI and fired all those senior experienced developers.

It looks pretty good. I have been working with immutable OSs for the past bit on my spare laptop. So I havne't been able to experiement with some of the others yet. I have to spin up the Omarchy just to say I did and play with that a bit, then this one. I'd have a third one but it was too old and the fan started making noise. Instead of searching EBAY for some parts to fix it I tossed it. It was like a 2nd gen intel. Maybe 3rd. Too old to really do much. It was starting to struggle with all but the lightest Linux OSs. New hardware is too crazy for picking up and most places that you could pick up second hand hardware have lost their Friggin minds with the cost they EXPECT people to pay for extremely outdated hardware. Before you could pick up a high end workstation for 1 to 2 hundred with plenty of ram and cores. A 6 to 8th gen intel or AMD equivilant. Servers for a bit more. Now it is TRIPPLE and you have to purchse the MEMORY seperatly if you want to have anything more than the bare minimum to say you have memory. (Smallest stick available to them)

Have you tried that OS?

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/ Kinoite Kinoite is really growning on me. A couple of commands to pin and rebase. Check status (which image you are using) Unpin and basic update is all I really use on this distro. I have it on a spare laptop and went through a full cycle from Fedora 44 to Fedora 45 that recently updated. No need to "reninstall". I rebased to Bazzite and rebased the same system to Silverblue and only had a brief glitch where it didn't work and I had to catch the boot manager before it tried to reload the same OS.( going to Bazzite as this hardware isn't qualified to run it lol) Then I slected a "pinned" os for my os and once in, deleted the old bad image. Note. I intentionally tried to break it and that was the worse I did to it.

"Fuck" sums up prettty much every week for me. But, that is me.

People have been saying that for years. It sitll hasn't happened. They are still around. I don't think failing the next release of TES will destroy them. They have rabid fans and they will take to the web shouting how great the game is drowning those that are saying otherwise. Then the money holders and those in charge will follow their (bethesda ) excueses blaming the gaming community for their issues. Just like they have in the past.

the strange thing is the games were different. Or so I was told by some modders over on LL and elsewhere. It was slightly different and still sucked. I had game pass from a present that was given to me. So I tried it. I really tried to see if I could like it. I was told by fans to complete the first part and get out in space. I did that and it promptly crashed, repetedly. I gave up. More accurately by that time I was fed up with the bugs and horrible animations and story. Starfield stil survives as a PC game. People mod the crap out of that game. They spend hours developing ships (apparently) and compare them on line. (one of my Discord servers) They love it. You are likely correct TES bullshit will likely fail on xbox and consoles but I honestly believe there will still be some that will eat that shit up and promote it out their asses till the end of time. I still get the same crap regaridng Fallout 76. The main question I get is have you tried it recently? It is much better now. So much better now. Unlike CDProject Red's Cyberpunk which did have substantial improvements over the past couple of years. I dont see anything Bugthesda creates or maintains having the same results. IN fact. their changes have broken old mods that were central to peoples mods list because they decided to change shit to make their Bullshit club better. I started to try to mod fallout 4 and gave up. Do I use the old mods, news this version or that version. Roll back this and do that. It was already a headache to mod the game to begin with didn't need this added to it.

I wonder if the owners of EA and Bioware IP would decide to start another studio with non SJW properly qualified serious game developers. If they did, The owners would have access to some serious IP power. I'd see perhaps a future where they reworked Mass Effect (come on, each game was mechanically different. Jarringly so) as well as some of the other IP. If they did so they could start with a engine of their choice (the best one for their purposes) Rework the original sound and such. Upgrade the graphics and animations. These can be used through all 2, 3 or more games they create. AT that point as I understand it, (with my semi limited understanding of this) they just need to write the story, set the enviroment and quest etc. and be done. This is an over simplication but they won't have to re-invent the wheel (new graphics and tools) for each of the games. If they use a game engine that is good for PVE/PVP they can add that anytime. Hear me out. They make a Mass Effect Studio and only have that studio work on that or those projects. If they are successful they continue working and have job security, if they fail, then they and that studio gets shut down. Same for Dragon Age. They can rework what they have to create a updated and good game for people to play. If that "studio" fails then they fail and loose their job. I got that idea from the previous video where the person mentioned that game studios should do like they do for Hollywood. Hire for a project. In this case, they can continue to work on the "project" or future releases. Using the same tools and such, they can also retroactively update the previous games (graphics, animations etc) while fixing bugs, (which would benifit all the games as they are all based on the same engine and game mechanics. Draw back? Yes, when the engine updates they would have to work on ONE engine and update ALL the assets and scripts. Even those that aren't on the current game development. It would cost more in a way. This is where they would loose the benifit of effectivness with the above. However, I think if the game is great. The players would appreciate updates to all their games so they can continue to play all of them without OS issues or other bugs as computers develop and OS move forward. One upside to this is if the engine is able to be moved to Linux or some future OS the entire collection of games can move over as well with less effort or issues.

Yea... My place of work only hires millennials and younger. I think in the past year maybe 2 people were hired that were older. With Bioware being shut down and the reasons like not having any decent game for the past 10 years. I think the industry is now moving from SJW politics and looking at BSG 3 and many games from the east making big $$$ and waking up and not hiring these "developers". So, with all their "experience" and "skill" they are unhirable in the gaming industry. Some might be able to color their hair normally and take out 20 piercing and go buy reguarl professional clothes and with luck and practice get a new job in the industry. Some of them that are very public likely won't. There is another possiblity of a job for them. At colleges that teach gaming. They have the "experience" that they (the colloges want). The colleges are still very SJW and want that.

Oh you know they have some fucked up shit planned. They will find a way to fuck it up. Maybe there might be a good use for A.I as it developes. Maybe someone could go through and de fuckify some of the games that have been released recently and make a decent game out of it Then distribute it as a mod. One could dream!

The actual fact is they were forced to remove the flags from the game demo by the owners. The key in my opinion was "demo" and for "owners". Who knows if they would hvae had to remove it later after it was released. As for Valeguard. Chance are they would but that would cost money and they don't want to rework a game that has been already released. Not to that level. Just my opinion. I like to think that the owners got wind that the developers of the game were told to remove the flags from the demo and decided nope. WE have to shut this place down. Their history proves they can't work with us. Likely, I like to think, they were told when the new owners took control that they were told to stop that bullshit and tone it down. They were warned. All this is my own thoughts. No evidence. It does track with what happened though IMO