Because someone in the gamedev community once posted about using achievements to measure engagement with users, it caught on, and now there are actual achievements mixed in with standard progress, including just launching the game, apparently.

Ahh, financial blackmail. That makes a lot of sense for him.

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There's some irony for ya. :D

They deserve their refunds, but...

This is a lesson that you never buy something based on a future promise. Buy it based on what it is, not what someone says it'll be eventually.

Yeah, it was a mistake... After they got called on it.

It was absolutely in there on purpose.

It also uses the name "Portal" in a way that feels official, too. If it said "Revolution: A Portal mod" it'd be fine.

Because what he did wasn't illegal. It was just wrong. They didn't want anything to do with him any more, but he didn't break the law and so they couldn't use that part of the contract to terminate it.

They felt it was so wrong that they paid him $20mil to break that contract. They absolutely would have taken another option if it was viable.

It seems like a pretty obvious lawsuit to me. They announced his promotion, and then never gave it to him, despite making him do the job for months. That alone is an easy win, IMO.

But then there was also a contract he signed? That super easy lawsuit time.

Is it a "review bomb" for complaining about a legit problem with the game that stops you from playing?

If companies can say they can respond to my concerns within 2 business days, then companies can also take 2 business days to take down reported content. It takes a human being to review that stuff and it's not instant. If it was, trolls would end up with everything being taken down. UFC's outrage that it can take "hours" to remove the content is ridiculous.

I'm really surprised about this. Amazon got called on their arbitration clause so much that they removed it because it was so expensive.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-faced-75-000-arbitration-demands-now-it-says-fine-sue-us-11622547000

Roku is practically asking for people to do the same to them. They could even do it about this clause, IMO. (I am not a lawyer.) This is a really dumb clause to have these days.

Threaten? I'm gone. Unity fit my workflow a lot better than Unreal, and I've never tried Godot because it previously wasn't ready for 3d. But Unity has made too many scary moves in the last few years, and I can't take that much risk.

I've never published a game with it, but I did a few game jams a while back, and I'm pretty confident that I could have. But now I'll be trying something else. I'm looking at Godot first, because UE made my head spin. I could handle Blueprints easily, but trying to make sense of their C++ stuff was very frustrating.

Non-amp link.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/motorola-edge-2023-announce-price-specs-google-pixel-8-rival/

I realize I'm getting on in years, but "Skibidi Toilet movie by Michael Bay" really, really makes me feel old.

It's a typical scenario of trying to solve a hard problem with a solution that ignores a minority community.

Unfortunately, this minority community already has a lot of problems, and no one is going to support this decision outside of the company. Even if someone isn't disabled, they can understand the pain of those who are, and might even become disabled one day. Everyone can empathize.

And all because some people have a slight advantage in certain games? Forget about it. Someone always has an advantage. This was an absolutely idiotic move.

It sounds interesting, but... Android only? I don't actually watch much video on my phone. It's mostly on my desktop browser.

"Developers" aren't going to get that tip. The company will.

I would love to know what they would port to. UE and Godot seem like obvious candidates.

People are so used to being lied to that they get angry when you tell them the truth instead, even though they already knew the truth.

I'm half joking, though. Part of what makes society work is all the things we do to put a nice facade on things that are ugly. If we all went around telling the hard truth all the time, everyone would be angry at everyone.

All that said... Basically saying "I underpriced the product of my hard work and I'm correcting that" shouldn't be that shocking. Especially when tempered with "Go pirate it if you want".

Intent does matter.

But the vast majority of complaints about a game being "woke" are just the inclusion of a character this a minority in some way. The complaint isn't about how they're included, just that they are, usually as a main or highly visible character.