Insomniac, the dev team behind the wildly successful Spider-Man games just had a leak. In the leak, it’s discovered that they were strong-armed by Sony (who owns Insomniac) to downsize staff despite exceeding sales targets and hitting goals. They needed to downsize to help balance Sony’s books, who have acquired a slew of failing or underperforming studios.

Sony owns Studio A, and Studio B. Studio B have underperformed for the last few years, whilst Studio A has outperformed their targets. Because of the shortcomings in Studio B, Sony are now out of pocket, even accounting for the earnings of Studio A. Studio A are forced to eliminate staff roles to make up for Studio B’s mismanagement. A well oiled and well performing Studio have to butcher their teams to balance their parent entity’s books. It’s so fucking short sighted and stupid.

This isn’t just a Sony/Insomniac issue either, I guarantee this goes on throughout the industry whenever there’s a parent company. It’s just how it will always be in those circumstances.

I tend to be pretty pessimistic about these cases. Even if the UK Govt win, Google won’t change anything, or if they do the change will be subtle enough to not have any impact

Thing is, Trump didn’t actually have a vision. He didn’t think he was going to win, and he was using the whole election as a way to enrich himself. There is no Trump vision, he plans nothing.

I’m glad this game is still getting regular support even though I’ve stopped playing. There aren’t enough games like this that stick around

I enjoyed Frasier, but not because of Frasier himself. I really enjoyed seeing the interaction between him and his brother Niles, along with Roz, Daphne etc.

So if this is just a show about Frasier, then I’m out.

I was thinking “what the hell does social justice warriors have to do with this” and then I realised ಠ_ಠ

He goes back to Emerald Grove, and he’ll be at the bottom of the stairs where you had the encounter with the theiving tiefling child’s parents

I enjoyed playing a bit of Paladin. It’s got some great role playing mechanics too where you can’t break your oath

It’s a joke

There was a controversy a couple of weeks ago where some AAA developers were saying things like “don’t expect our standards to rise now that this game is out” and generally being salty about how good BG3 is

Yeah I agree that’s rough, and probably an unexpected interaction. That being said, other than that, I’ve played pretty much all Larian Games (even Divinity 2: The Dragon Knight Saga) and I’ve never felt like the game is working against me, but I have felt like the game is of punishing difficulty in some unexpected ways. When you make a game with so many permutations, there are bound to be issues with some of the edge cases. Not defending them, I’m happy you shared a legitimate complaint, unlike the OP review which isn’t a legitimate complaint, but is clearly just salt.

Oh yeah, couch coop, I think you’re shit out of luck

Amazing!

Sidenote though, unless you’re both in the same room, it doesn’t show the other player your sex scene if I recall correctly. Or maybe that’s just a setting?

Happened to me, lost a good few hours of gameplay from last night. I was signed into a Larian account, but with OPs method, it’s functional again (though I had to restart because I had no saves from yesterday)

Holy shit, I forgot this channel existed, I loved Primitive Technology a few years ago. Thanks for the reminder!

Not yet. It’s at about 40Mbps for me, and has been around that since I started downloading

Each to their own, sometimes a cosy game scratches just the right itch

Do you know roughly where Act 1 is? I assume it’s somewhere along the river Chionthar from Baldur’s Gate, but don’t know where

Mines been 4.5 hours remaining for half an hour now! I hope the download doesn’t slow too much as more people join the download train

Steam download needs to hurry up, I can’t contain all the hype!