Maybe. Maybe publishers will finally move on from the Extraction Shooter fad. Its a dead genre, the peak concurrent player count of the top 10 Extraction Shooters (including the Arc Raiders Beta, there are that few lol) on Steam combined is within about 10k players of just Helldivers 2 alone. Purely PvEvP Extraction Shooters equal money loss for publishers.

Sounds like literally every other mobile game when they reach End of Service to me. No time given on when servers will shut down until a month in advance, no refunds, etc.

I will never use Wired as a source for anything.

Smells like jealousy that one game exploded and the other didn’t.

Digital Foundry are nowhere near any better than TI, if that is your implication. If you think TI doesn’t know what they’re talking about, then youre in for a world of pain learning what DF doesnt know. In their early years, like pre- RTX 20XX GPU release, they were pretty good. Seemed knowledgable. But now its pretty clear they get paid to shill products instead of talk about actual problems. I mean, they are owned by IGN now.

DF loves to talk about DLSS and TAA being good for gaming (LOL) and then they show video clips and its all just CyberPunk 2077 with little to no camera movement. Curated clips to specifically NOT showcase most of the problems of TAA and DLSS. TAA and DLSS specifically suffer with mdeium to fast camera movement, and they should show clips of this to demonstrate any “improvement.” However, this would be damaging to their business partners, so they will never do that.

DF compared Anthem on PS4 and Xbox One X, complaining that the Xbox version ran at a lower framerate, except they failed to mention (probably because they didnt know) that the PS4 version runs at 1080p and the Xbox version runs at 4K.

They have often shown “gameplay” footage of a specific platform, and then the footage literally shows input prompts for a completely different platform. (Darksiders III “Switch” gameplay showing PlayStation Circle button prompts, for example).

They actually said the phrase “smooth 30fps.” I am not kidding. Nothing about 30fps is smooth unless you are comparing it to a framerate below 30fps.

Digital Foundry puts out videos that contain entirely wrong information. Like when Digital Foundry said that RedOut on Xbox One X only runs at a fixed 1080p resolution, which was so wrong the actual developers of the game actually had to tell Digital Foundry how wrong they are.

They are the UserBenchmark of TechTubers.

Whether you like or don’t like Threat Interactive, I don’t care. I dont really like his attitude, personally. But Digital Foundry is worse, and everyone should unsubscribe from them.

That links to a Reddit associated Youtube channel, from the subreddit r/FuckTAA. Here are some of the latest top comments, they speak for themselves:

Please, Unsubscribe from Digital Foundry.

Japanese law both enables and encourages this kind of behavior. Unfortunately, Japanese companies have been increasingly strongarming people to follow Japanese law even when it does not apply to them.

I mean, I agree but what are you going to do about it? Even if they didn’t add features, itd be “supply chain issues” or some other made up excuse. Whatever it takes to get Jensen a shinier jacket. But I personally would rather have new features I may or may not use compared to no features for the same price.

Blaming GPU manufacturers for poorly optimized games is a bit like blaming forks for people being obese.

Yes, games should be optimized. Thats a given. But its not NVidias fault for making better, more performant graphics cards with new features each generation. Its the game developer’s fault for being lazy, not knowing how to use their game engine, and not optimizing their game. GPU makers could drop the most advanced card known to man and that would make no difference for developers. Its still on them to optimize their game.

The artifacting is way down compared to before. AI isn’t going anywhere, and I only see it improving with less artifacts in the future. In some videos I have seen some issues but its really unfair since to show them on YouTube they have to record at only 120 fps and slow the game to 50% speed, and even then they also get slapped with YouTube compression. I don’t know if the artifacts will even really be very visible or noticeable outside of some edge cases.

I am more curious to see if MFG can be used for games that have a forced framerate cap, or emulators.

Is that with or without multiframe generation? I am assuming without?

For competitive or fast action games you should have MFG off, but for games that aren’t so fast I could easily see MFG giving a very clearly smoother presentation, and that is only available on the 50 series cards.

They might not keep a game from going to a platform like Sony does, by literally preventing it from being ported, but thay doesnt mean they have to port the game. I don’t see what this is supposed to mean other than saying they don’t specifically prevent games from being ported (such as exclusivity deals).

Turns out when you stop selling something and close the stores people could buy them in, they dont sell as much.

Manufactured decrease in demand.

In other words:

“We ran out of time to add them and the investors want the game out NOW.”

“Its not OUR fault, its THEIR fault.”

Sure Execubro… Sure…

Not a good sign.

That’s pretty bad for something as big as Dragon Age.

Well no sex crime was kinda obvious. But just because its not a sex crime doesn’t mean its not a violent crime. Obviously not murder because 3 years for a murder would be crazy, but I was originally assuming some kind of physical assault or battery (possibly domestic violence), or something like serious injury while committing a crime / brandishing or discharging a weapon while committing a crime, such as armed robbery where someone got hurt.

It is strange that they claim to be a different person but they never turned themselves in or plead guilty or anything I guess? Like, I feel like a person who has decided to change would get that cleared up expeditiously, probably courts might be more lenient with the sentencing in that case.

“It isn’t anyone’s business,” but I mean, they are talking about it more. And there is a media outlet (admittedly Kotaku, lol) making an article about it. If it was a crime committed in the USA, thats public information, as is the court proceeding so if anyone knew them or wanted to know, they could legally get that information regardless. Seems like the developer should just not say anything and/or contact a lawyer for a public statement about it.

People are going to be curious. People are going to speculate. Thats how people work. Its going to come out at some point, there is no reason to try to obscure it now. If they really are different then they go in, serve their time, probably get out early on good behaviour, and everything goes back to the way it was more or less. Can’t change what happened now.

They seem to allude to a violent crime, as they said they “were a different more violent person in the past.”

Switching to Linux is literally free. It costs way more to get a license key for Windows than it does to just download Linux. People stick with what they know, and what they know is Windows is for PC, OSX is for Apple, and they may or may not even know anything about Linux at all. I would even go so far as to say most people would run Android for an OS instead of a traditional Linux distro.