Some publisher dickheads are totally unaware their business minmaxxing is absolutely the reason this product wasn't developed properly but I am sure the devs at rocksteady will get all the flak as per usual and the people actually responsible for this sabotage will probably move laterally to another position where they can ruin more shit people like for a six figure income.

[–] MamboGator@lemmy.world 49 points 9 months ago

Warner Bros owns Rocksteady and WB is absolutely destroying itself with bad decisions ever since the Discovery merger. They were already bad before, but David Zaslav seems to have made it his life's mission to ruin everything he touches and is of course as hands-on as he possibly can be as CEO.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 16 points 9 months ago

After getting disappointing sales figures they will probably conclude it’s all because console gaming is dead and that they should instead focus on making mobile live service games where the real money is.

[–] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

One of these days people will learn to not preorder games

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Did anyone preorder this dumpster fire?

[–] darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

Yeah I mean you had to buy the deluxe to be in the early access release

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Oh and they're going to frame this as a great success. Reality need not apply.

[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

I've heard of day 0 bugs but jesus guys, come on. Expectations were already low.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'd like to imagine this is analogous to autocomplete on a keyboard, like if I mash "A" a few times to get to the title screen and game's like "Did you mean A A A A A Start Start Down Start A A B Right Right..."

[–] GombeenSysadmin@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why does it look exactly like PUBG?

[–] Assman@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Pfft you can't even shoot purple orbs in PUBG

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I was genuinely checking whether it was the Onion when I first saw that headline. What the fuck, Rocksteady? 😅

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago

I can imagine Rocksteady could have made a solid game in the vein of the Arkham series if WB execs with zero competence didn't interfere. A real waste of talent.