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Alcoholism said:


Larian Studios was spying on their customer base and then publicly castigated them for having the audacity to put themselves as themselves in a role playing game.

Twitter thread has the correct take that this strange and incredibly unnecessary breach of privacy is being supported by games journalism.
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What the fuck? What type of madman at Larian thought that was a good idea?
 
Alcoholism said:


Larian Studios was spying on their customer base and then publicly castigated them for having the audacity to put themselves as themselves in a role playing game.

Twitter thread has the correct take that this strange and incredibly unnecessary breach of privacy is being supported by games journalism.
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I'll play devil advocate, I feel that was overreacting for wrong reason.

That was like in 2020, the original forum thread, it could have been poorly worded for joking mood of the whole post, this is the part before that "sorely disappointed" default cave dweller.
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So I feel like journalists tried to mock average gamers being boring with the post rather than defending "privacy breach".

Of course, there are people responding negatively to the thread about creating default cave dweller thing. But to be fair, if everybody is special something not human, then they aren't really that special either. Also, I learn from tabletop thread here, people who plays elf/tiefling are danger warning.

The gathering/collecting gameplay info from players/gameplay session has been there since Divinity Original Sin 2. It might even be from Divinity OS1 definitive edition, but I could be very wrong.
Here is the thing about that gathering gameplay info, they actually ask do you wanna to participate in it or not before every "new gameplay", with the idea is seeing how players playing their game and your PC built thing.

Steam thread, I don't see anyone upset about "privacy breach".

Up to anyone saying this whole is privacy breach, I'm not tech savvy enough to tell. I played Divinity OS2 for 80 hours.
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Since we're talking about "privacy breach" drama, there are two games from Capcom do this, I don't see anyone crying about this because it really isn't "privacy breach" imo. They are Monster Hunter World-Iceborne and recent Rise-Sunbreak. They are automatically recording your guild card stats, aka gameplay profile (Achievements, weapon usages, food buffs, etc...)

So pretty much that's how people know weapon popularity in World-Iceborne from asking an NPC. And for Rise-Sunbreak they have these Kamura reports on player choice. Mind you vol 1 of Kamura report (2021) on weapon usage are Nintendo Switch only, PC version only releases in 2022.
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Thanks for the clarification. I didn't realize those comments were part of a standard rapport in the community. Definitely puts it in a different perspective.
 
I'm just tired of every fucking thing being tracked and analysis, no matter how insignificant.

I don't need some programming sock faggot telling me I'm gaming wrong because they are looking at context less metrics and need to make a point to their equally faggot friends for "how cis men average" articles
 
Hammr2 said:
So I feel like journalists tried to mock average gamers being boring with the post rather than defending "privacy breach".
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Yes. What else would they do than try to stick it to their increasingly alienated audience?

I also think that the shrieking online customization crowd is given too much attention and 99% of them are pervs. How many normal and sane videogame players do you think were excited about the visual genitalia options in Cyberpunk 2077 leading up to release? I would say zero and those that don't care probably makes up 99% of the market, a very quiet majority.

Hammr2 said:
So pretty much that's how people know weapon popularity in World-Iceborne from asking an NPC. And for Rise-Sunbreak they have these Kamura reports on player choice. Mind you vol 1 of Kamura report (2021) on weapon usage are Nintendo Switch only, PC version only releases in 2022.
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That sounds cool because there's a gameplay reason for it.
Collecting char-creation data and wondering why people aren't playing Baldurs Gate as their fursona or big titty tranny succubus is just weird. A normal person/company wouldn't comment on twitter(even if tongue in cheek), they would look at that data and allocate the leather thong department to do something worthwhile. Or fire them, they're probably fandom people and that's poison.
 
Alcoholism said:
The emphasis on minute customization is so people can self insert as accurate as possible, so it's also weird that media was joking about "normies" inserting themselves with normal representation.
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I don't think most people are inserting themselves by agonizing over character looks, they just play the game and make choices with the pawn they are controlling. The burning need for visual self-insertion like that is weird and probably mentally unhealthy, just look at JustinRPG. I have played not only a Pac-Man but also a Ms. Pac-Man and never had a crisis over them not resembling my physical appearance or gender.
 
Alcoholism said:
The emphasis on minute customization is so people can self insert as accurate as possible, so it's also weird that media was joking about "normies" inserting themselves with normal representation.
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most players don't seem to care about it and baldurs gate doesn't help much by not offering anything different besides the intro and a few comments stating that HELLO YOU ARE <RACE> plus having a "safest option" race which will almost always be humans don't really help other classes, people go for the safest options in gaming to avoid fatigue/grind because grinding is a fucking chore and only a few retards like chores.
 
Water-T said:
You're right. I mixed it up with the time that Fahey complained about a game "sexualilizing middle schoolers", and people calling out his hypocrisy on Twitter.

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Then Fahey is all like, "BUT, BUT....SHE'S REALLY A 1400 YEAR OLD DEMON!", yet ignoring that she looks like a 12 year old decked out to attend the Folsom Street Fair (Do not Google this at work).

I'm sure all the parents at the PTA meeting were satisfied with that explanation.
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Mike Fahey died ten days ago btw.
 
Giant Bomb fans are currently having two concurrent meltdowns.
  1. In a bizarre segment on the Giant Bombcast, Jeff Grubb admits to playing Marvel Snap (consooooomer gacha game) while driving. After receiving some backlash from his cohosts for distracted driving, he claims that he's "built different" and can multitask because he used to drive professionally. Redditors demand an apology, but Grubb comments and claims he was actually just doing a bit despite being very adamant he was not doing a bit.
  2. Someone noticed that Quick Looks now have promo codes for the game in the description. These are codes for a service called Fanatical, which is a product of Fandom, who now owns Giant Bomb. While not uncommon elsewhere in games coverage, this is incredibly funny given the whole Jeff vs. Gamespot fiasco that gave birth to Giant Bomb was entirely around advertisers attempting to directly influence game reviews, but this point is lost on Jess (AKA Voidburger), who ran to twitter to make a series of now-deleted tweets claiming that "reviews are just ads anyway" and "we have ads on the podcast for boner pills, why would it matter if we had codes for games?"
There's no way GB is making it through 2023, right?
 
Win98SE said:
There's no way GB is making it through 2023, right?
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Probably. I know adding Dan was a big deal for them and the fandom. That said, Dan can only carry so much in the face of the absolute wet blankets that is the crew today. (also Dan sucks anyway)

I don't really see a problem with promo codes on quick looks. Those aren't reviews.

Also, I've "played games" driving before. Don't know how much game is in that Marvel game, but there's a few phone games that basically play themselves, so I'll set it up, put the phone in the cup holder and check it every few minutes. As unsafe and irresponsible as texting.
 
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Win98SE said:
There's no way GB is making it through 2023, right?
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GB as we know it died years ago.

This version of GB will go on forever - it costs basically nothing to run and the current people on board are clearly and decidedly on board with "reviews are just ads anyway", which is clearly what they wanted.

I wonder if this was the direction it was always going and why Nextlander and Jeff decided to get off before it happened.
 
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