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Comment Re:Why does there have to be a next? (Score 1) 45

As a developer, they're contracting. Their passion for games is gone. They've been choked out by the success of their own storefront.

Yes, they've got Deadlock in perpetual alpha. It'll come out eventually. Competitors looking to steal its thunder (such as Overwatch 2's Stadium mode) are already on the move. By the time Deadlock finally launches, it may be an also-ran in an industry reshaped by its very existence.

Comment Cut out the middleman (Score 2) 53

Good advice, almost. Big, bloated corporate behemoths want to use AI to replace some of their own workers, but what they fail to realize is that advancing AI tools in the public domain enable smaller independent developers to produce higher-quality software on a much smaller budget. Why waste your time with an $80 title from an MS publisher (or a subscription to Xbox Live) when you can buy a $15-$20 indie title that looks like it came from ~2016 and might actually be fun to play?

In other words, the people getting shitcanned by MS/Xbox should band together and make their own passion projects using the very tools that threaten to replace them.

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