You’re totally on point. Lemmy has a lot of people stuck in the past. It’s a significant bias.

The store will garner good sales and the Tekken devs will eat well. This will be enabled by people who see value in their work and happily pay for it.

It really doesn’t matter what a vocal minority thinks, when the valuable non-vocal minority is out there paying big bucks for Kazuya in a fundoshi.

In order to reach new heights as a game service, Tekken needs all the money it can get.

People also seem to forget that Tekken started off in arcades. These arcade releases were far more aggressive in their monetization, especially in Korea and Japan. You would have people paying 5-10$ for a couple of hours. Players would also have to pay for their online player IDs.

Tekken 7 still had this business model. The game released for arcade in 2015. 2017 for all platforms.

The game was thoroughly milked before it was more accessible.

If it has a separate price tag, it was outside of the main budget.

If nobody buys the DLC it will not make any money and time invested in it will be at a loss.

This is also perfectly fine. This is the free market. We have the right as a collective to decide the DLC’s value to us.

If nobody buys subscriptions, DLC or expansions, it will ultimately not get made. We will return to the good old days of games where patches are only made to reach new target markets (previously unsupported devices, resolutions, platforms or translations), never to serve the existing audience unless it’s a marketing gambit.

Games as live services will cease. This isn’t inherently bad either. It’s just a question of what you as a customer value.

I value game franchises that I love being treated well and developed by passionate people. You can see the love the Tekken team has put on display for the past 4-5 years in particular. While their track record remains good, I am a happy repeat customer.

There is nothing wrong with being picky with your purchases either. You don’t have to spend 20 bucks to get Eddy + the other 3 unannounced characters if you don’t assign it value. If there are more people like you out there, the devs will plan accordingly.

This is how we got only 36 characters at console/pc launch for Tekken 7, after Tekken Tag 2 despite its immense 61 character roster bombed.

People didn’t find value in Tag 2, so Bamco budgeted T7 accordingly. Luckily they made one smart choice, which was launching for PC and Xbox and got immense sales due to new untapped markets.

Admittedly T8 rolls out with less than T7 on non-arcade release, but it’s worth noting T7 had 2 years in the arcades with a starting roster of 20. However T8 skips arcades entirely and has reanimated much of the character roster, which is a rare treat considering they’ve been reusing animations made even as far back as 1995 in T7 still.

Either way, I hope you get the gist of what I’m going for here.

Releasing something you make outside of the budget of the main project for free is something a profit-seeking company will be very unlikely to do as it needs justification for months of work.

Sure, they could do goodwill in the hopes of a return of investment in the form of increased sales from being such good guys.

We’re looking an international entertainment giant here, not a small indie. They need to meet their profit margins or it’s time to fire some of the workforce.

In the announcement they’re showing a character that’s still a work in progress.

You’re saying they should push back the release of a fully functional game because they’re gonna get 1 more character ready somewhere near the beginning of March?

Based on what was shown, they’re fully redoing the mocap of a character with a 100+ moveset. This is a lot of work.

DLC is entirely sound when your goal is to support the game post-launch for years. This income justifies a slew of balance patches, large esports event funding as well as the addition of more characters.

You could argue that the Day 1 DLC of golden suit skins is a cashgrab or the retro t-shirts. This would be more valid, as they indeed are repackaging ready content as DLC. However, it’s just a golden suit and should be considered a tip to the developers.

One could say… The early bird caught the worm.

The cynic in me says nothing significant enough changed.

Not all Unity devs are small. Especially the ones Unity is prominently targeting this for. A good example is Niantic. They made 650 million in revenue last year.

Unity has a market share of 75% in mobile. Many major mobile titles with hundreds of millions in revenue are Unity. Plus a vast number of big publisher funded “indies”, however the revenue to gain there is chump change in comparison. Ranging anywhere from 0-200k depending on annual sales and number of installs.

Unreal’s business model is taking 5% of your revenue, which is more than Unity’s new cap of 4%. Which only activates at 1 million in annual revenue.

One might argue even that small indies are not small if they reach 1 million in annual revenue. While not neglible, it’s still just 40 000 if you managed to get like 200 000 installs.

Obviously it’s understandable why devs would rally to the barricades. It’s their money to lose. Unity’s value proposition is in how much development time they save. Which is often than not worth a lot more than 40 000 dollars given the amount of time it takes to develop an engine.

I think Unity also offers a wide array of added value services compared to Unreal in the form of easy-to-implement IAP and ads. Both are the cancer of mobile games, but also the de facto business model on the platform.

Their initial plan was poorly communicated and shit, but the adjustment is fair.

Agreed. We’ve been safe from all the bullshit here. Looks like those days might soon be over.

Unsure how this will really help. Anyone looking to really do damage using AI generated content would just make their own fork and run locally.

This content won’t have these hashes. Using the hash as a certificate of authenticity could just lead to a false sense of security. Unless we were to move towards applying said hashes to any and all content. Not just one generated by AI. That’s a colossal undertaking given the developmental overhead it introduces.

Yeah. They ran a social media influencing campaign based data aggregated from approx 270 million people. It’s debated on the degree of influence this data had.

One thing is certain though. Around 800 000 people had surrendered their data (admittedly through a seemingly benign Facebook app) to an app posing as just one of your usual fun personality quizzes. This data opened the floodgates through association to about 269 million other people due to the way FB APIs were set up.

This data was then used to create psych profiles that got utilized for targeted advertising.

Two of the biggest campaigns that used this data were Trump 2016 and the Brexit referendum.

Cambridge Analytica scandal maybe?

Don’t worry, the paperback was also made with ChatGPT

Sounds like a business savvy approach. You’ll see people who want to make content and promote themselves on the platform subscribing.

That’d be like saying 911 isn’t good because not everyone has a phone.

Again, it is an additional and optional service on top of the usual phone call. So those who have any old phone in hand will still have access. Just no video.

Pretty sure the standard option would remain as well.

However, given that almost everyone is on a smartphone here and hopped up on a cheap unlimited data plan, it’s pretty accessible for 99%.

r/tekken is sorely missed. Same applies for r/starcraft. I guess there is a com for StarCraft, but it seems quite dead.