A recent leak from a fired Treyarch QA tester says that Black Ops 4 game crashes only mattered for big streamers. Black Ops 4 campaign got scrapped mid-2017, Zombie mode Easter eggs and lots more leaked.
Danish from eXputer: "The Witcher's upcoming sequel needs to overhaul the series' combat system if it wants to make a big splash among gamers."
after what we see ( 2015 - 2024 ) in dark souls 3, blood borne , sekiro , dragon's dogma 2 , rise of the Ronin combat they should really careful and bring very good combat in Witcher 4 this time
Saad from eXputer: "After suffering from massive financial hits, Square Enix & Bandai Namco appear to be turning over a new leaf but I'm still unconvinced."
I was talking about games with some Japanese guys here in Japan, and it seems like around here Bandai Namco has a fame of making low-quality games, with the occasional gem.
About Square Enix, I believe they lack the capacity to improve. They should learn with Capcom (although even Capcom still makes some bad mistakes), but I don't think they ever will. They keep chasing whatever is new at the time (blockchain, AI...) to say "we innovate", without considering the public perception and if these things actually improve the games or not. Them releasing too many small games with no advertising also shows a lack of trust in its own products. Even with their biggest games, like turning FF into an action game with XVI and the very divisive plot changes regarding whispers and timelines in VII Remake, shows them trying to attract a new generation of gamers without understanding what made the series so big in the first place.
I want a true ff7 remake. With thatcsaid I'm way happier with 7 remake then I was with ff16. I'd still prefer turn based but square keep chasing these Lil kids
Man, it is perfectly fine to prefer turn based. Turn based is amazing. But there's zero reason to call anyone who likes action games "lil kids". Liking one gameplay system over another does not make you more mature in any way.
People love the new FF's overall...the problem is the abundance of 7's they release that lose money or make very little like diofield, star ocean divine force, Valkyrie asylum, harvestella, foam stars, etc. Advertising wouldn't have saved those games. Apparently Forespoken had a big Advertising budget but we saw how that went.
Star ocean divine force actually sold well from what I've read not ff type numbers but well enough. Was a dope game to.
Bandai Namco is going to Bandai Namco, I do believe that Square Enix can't change without changing the entire management, they've had these issues for more than a decade and haven't learnt, I have very little faith they can course correct. I'll still buy their better remasters/remakes like Star Ocean 2 though (not FF7R).
Namco is just milking the same Sword Art Online with lack of budget as well as anime IPs that don't go to decent developers like Jujutsu Kaisen and My Hero Academia. Namco deserves their losses and no future Dot Hack or Xenosaga remaster :(.
Square allocated lot of their budget on Forspoken was a mistake. Square always had management issues. Star Ocean 2 was a great remake and I found their recent entries of FF(16 and Rebirth) better than 13 and 15.
I think they were better than 360/PS3 generation where Square went really downhill.
I don’t know why NOW they decide on this, but I guess later is better than never.
With confirmation that Larian Studios will not develop another Baldur's Gate game, the fourth entry has a major challenge on its hands.
Larian had big shoes to fill themselves. Hopefully another studio can pull off the same miracle, but uphill battle is an understatement at this point. It feels impossible that BG3 even exists and accomplishes what it does.
I doubt anyone will attempt a Baldur’s Gate 4 for minimum a decade. It took about 20 years to get a third one for a a reason.
I'd just copy every single thing larian did obviously with different story and characters. Sometimes innovation isn't needed at that particular time.
i remember in an interview that it was Larian asking constantly that they wanted to develop Baldurs Gate 3, there has to be some really ugly business going behind the scenes for them to leave in such a way, no DLC no sequel nothing, either they are getting very low return after the huge success, or some of the business practices they have seen are truly terrible.
Assuming this guy is actually legit, he's just invited himself to rather hefty litigation against breaking NDA's. If there's one thing any dev tells it's QA testers coming in, it's that they WILL pursue legal action against you if you break an NDA, and they do, which is why people who go anonymous on these kind of whistle blowing topics which do nothing to point out any real illegal activity, are best taken with a huge grain of salt. Hiding behind a username on the internet will not protect him from the legal teams that would come after him, and likely they'll even look into if this guy is actually a fired former employee if even one of those things happens to be true.
There are some things the industry takes very seriously. Especially at the big publishing house studios. It's that their temporary employees do not break NDA, because they are the most likely to do so. They will scare the crap out of you before you are ever officially hired. So I really hope this guy has the financial resources to pay off a settlement, or fight it out in court....to which he will most certainly lose.
That being said, while i hate to sound like I'm defending treyarch here, the premise of only caring about if a streamers game crashed doesn't make sense. If it could crash for them, it could crash for anybody, and there is no way to isolate what a streamer will play from what everyone else plays.
All the other stuff he leaked, assuming its true, is not really his place to go on the internet seeking some sort of vindication against Treyarch because he was fired. It's petty, and ultimately, serves no purpose, because those were business decisions and the product we got is what it was, and it matters very little what they had planned before. Every game ever produced has things taken out of it for business, technical, or artistic reasons, and it's for the companies themselves to decide if they want to divulge that information. Nothing done in that list is wrong, it just doesn't sit well with the gaming community, but the gaming community can decide for itself if the product actually released is worth their support and investment. They don't need a list of items they didn't get to do that.
I did find this one amusing
"There is one, and only one tester right now assigned to start at round 90 and play with god mode to round 150. He does this for 12 hours every day."
And? is that a bad thing? maybe I'm missing why this is bad, or important. The game released a month ago, and for a MP game that is still getting updates, I find it extemely unlikely they have one tester doing the same thing over and over again daily. There is no way to test the bugs in a game, or new content using this method, and while I don't know the structure of the game to know what those rounds mean, it seems rather unlikely that one thing is tested over and over again daily. That's not how game testing works....like about as far away from how game testing works as it gets....even if it's only one guy working 12 hours a day.
So basically treyarch are listening to big guys if so, ohhh boy the potential s***storm incurs ;)
Fired QA guy is bitter at a company and says bad stuff about them.
Seems legit
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Who cares.
game streaming is a gift and a curse to the industry. they have so much impact on a game it's embarrassing and insulting to a game's user base. both parties will tell you how much they want for their communities.. at the end of the day both only care about their pockets & own agenda.