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HAPPY 4th OF JULY

It looks like more layoffs are needed.

Interesting follow up. I believed hositng is pretty cheap even at this level considering the pay back. I believe you are correct with the added cost for bug fixing and curation. I doubt much work goes in to the curation except perhaps a check to make sure it doesn't host maleware or something (software). As for bug fixing I'd imagine they make the creator fix the bugs. There is another "cost" as places state that they "support" the modders. However, how far that happens is anyone's guess unless someone comes forward and talks. Likley they have a NDA on their contracts with Bethesda. The added profit is there is new "DLCs" (lol) for customers to explore. Used as a stop gap to the extremely long time between releases might be a benifit. I've met some people that have no problem with Bethesda's Creation Club and use it and even like some of the products there. (Disclaimer, they are new to the franchise coming from the popularity of the Fallout Series on Prime and likely are used to microtransactions etc. )

This is an angle I usually don't consider when I bash Creation Club. We don't know how much it costs to run Creation Club, but let's use Wikipedia as an example. In 2025, Wikipedia spent $3.4 million on hosting. Creation Club launched at the end of August 2017, so that's roughly nine years. If my numbers are correct, they're making $3 million a year — and that's a stretch, considering how bad the console market is currently. If their hosting expenses are similar to Wikipedia's, I doubt it's bringing in enough money right now to justify it. Other costs include curation, but they allow almost anything to be sold there, so I doubt it's much. Bug fixing? From what I've seen, they don't fix them. So the costs are probably strictly for hosting. I will concede that it is probably cheaper for them to pay 37.5% to modders than to hire someone full-time to produce Creation Club content.

Oh, now they care about the fans? I thought they hated the fans. Now that these woke, purple-haired, activist developers are facing layoffs, they want the fans to back them up. They won't get that from me.

If they are able to succeed in their plan.

Not mine, hers.

Where I work, they fired some people that were popular and it shut down the entire place for weeks. During a time when there was a heavy need for people to get the work done, nothing. I wonder with this "Celebration & Service" memorial if this isn't the same situation. The mention that they will march regarding the layoffs. So instead of focusing on the task at hand, they rather focus on other stuff. @Doublezero has it right. More needed to be laid off. I hate to wish something like that but it is possible that a contamination has gone that deep. From what I can tell from other articles it sounds like they were MASSIVELY overstaffed. This staffing was seriously inefficient. Too many bosses. To many steps and too many people making decisions and having to be checked in with to do a basic task. That isn't good for the company or the employees. IMO at least.

These are people that used to do good? Nope, those that used to do good have been gone for a long time.

Fallout: A New Hope

Clean house, trim the fat. I don't know if that will solve the issues.

Dropping some ideas for races. I generated these with the following prompt in ChatGPT. ChatGPT's suggestions.

Is it real???... who fuckin' cares?

Get this though- the studios are aggressively finding and taking down independent sites in order to monetize these old films. Their greed knows no bounds anymore. 2 years ago I couldn't find Felix the cat hardly anywhere. Now? Can watch it on Yuktube for $4.99.

I recently had a large truck stuck half way in my car.. also the missing weapons.. for some reason... It was an easy fix for the weapon. .just change them and then it came back. The Truck however, you have to save before you try to enter or you can die.. I am told sometimes the car / truck will explode if you enter it in that state.. Same for if it is stuck partially in the ground. Didn't have an explosion but did get stuck and couldn't do anything and had to reload. One thing they did seem to do well. lol.. .is the auto saves.. There are tons of them. A god send with the bugs you can encounter in this game. So far .. cross fingers.. I haven't been too far from a previous auto save where I had to do a substantial portion of the episode again. however, the bitch of it is.. they auto save in times where you can't save.. WHY? Why can't you save if you are autosaving? I want to get right up to a point and select my save.. not go the 3~5 minutes before at some point to restart.. I'd like to make one more comment not about the above. I mentioned I know several people in Discord and in RL that have this game. One of the main points of a game like this is the re-playabliity.. something that the company touted... Well RL reactions and play is the important metric. These are people that put in more than 50 hours.. some as much as 100 or so hours. Played it at least once through.. 2 of them have uninstalled the game. I an 2 others haven't really played it for the past few days. It seems to not be the game that hooks players like the company tried to claim. I will likely play it a bit later but not as much as I have the first week it was out.