A lot of game devs are dunking on this, but if you're not a game dev it's probably not actually obvious why. So I thought I'd take a moment to answer a little more thoughtfully in hopes of giving gamers a little more insight on what we do.

https://twitter.com/feydemon/status/1708903903025123641

Let's just start with the obvious: art directors all wish this guy was correct. And some art directors stick to their guns and either have no cues, or cues that only appear if you enter 'scan mode' or turn on 'spidey sense' or something. What in this screenshot is interactable?

Let's talk about X baby. Here's a roundup of the stupid of the last 24 hours.

(Incredibly stupid thread)

https://twitter.com/ZenOfDesign/status/1683145631395610624?s=20

They announced that would redirect to Twitter but ... it doesn't.
https://t.co/tZIitwnIHPx.com

https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1683469758988005377?s=20

The last week on Twitter has been really an amazing string of WTF, even by the impressive standards of Elon. It's really funny when you put all the pieces together.

it's important to start at the beginning. Twitter's pretty broke.

(amusing thread) Twitter is 'can't pay the rent' level of broke.

tech.co/news/musk-twit…

If the recent rumors of Broadsword buying SWTOR are true - which I believe by the way - it could be very good for SWTOR. SWTOR still earns considerable money if you’re a small studio like Broadsword. Them investing more in the title frankly makes more sense than EA doing so.

https://twitter.com/mexicola25/status/1666279255766884352

The confounding factor is, of course, the shape of the deal and how big a cut EA gets from any ongoing revenue.

But SWTOR is still a lively game with dedicated spenders, and it gets a boost of users any time new Star Wars content comes out.

Okay, real talk, let's talk Twitter Blue. A short thread on why this whole misadventure is so stupid and doomed.

I've designed monetization for F2P MMOs. I know about subscription fees, and I know about free options, I know about enticing players to upsell to the sub.

1/ When selling an MMO sub, the important thing to do is to add actual, tangible value to the sub, so that if you're going to spend money in the game, the subscription is the first thing you should buy. Subs are great because they're fairly predictable income.

2/

Two points I’ll make about this beyond ‘lol crypto games’.

1) In board games and traditional digital games, poop games are ‘cheap’ games. Board games about poop are ‘family fare’ you play with your 5th grader, and you buy them at Target.

https://twitter.com/katienotopoulos/status/1614623290353487873

Video games about poop are a little rarer, but they’re usually also bargain bin fare aimed at 13 year olds. Conker’s Bad Fur Day is the only one that I can remember having a serious budget. (Maybe the South Park games too, I don’t remember).

Once upon a time, there was a thriving social space that was utterly destroyed by capricious management destroying the community's goodwill through rushed and ill-advised changes to meet a ridiculous bullshit deadline. I'm talking of course about the NGE.

(/thread) I should note before I begin that I did NOT work on the NGE - or even at Sony. But Austin's a small town, and as such I know many people who did. But I freely accept that my viewpoint from the bleachers may differ from the memories of those who were in the trenches.

Movie: .. and then Rey takes Luke and Leia’s sabers to Tattooine.
Me: Why?
Movie: So their spirits will be home. You know, closure.
Me: Leia wasn’t from Tattooine.
Movie: ....
Me: Leia primarily remembered Tattooine as the place where she was a giant slug’s sex slave. @MikeWeaver800 @HarryTHop @delance2 @KentCiao @bhiner1029 They also could have made the movie longer - or split it into two - if they needed more time! Or alternatively, taken another year once they realized they were changing scripts and directors.