Kind of silly that before the game is even released, competitors are calling foul that the game is going to be “too good”. Seems like cope to me.

If you check the article, it’s mostly other developers urging folks to not hold indie and smaller developers to a standard set by 400 developers spending six years working on a title in a genre they have previous success in.

Its developers from Xbox, Blizzard, and Obsidian among the indie devs. They do get to be compared. In fact, they should be exceeding the quality of Larian, or at least matching their peers at Playstation and Nintendo; but they aren't. You don't get to spend $70 billion dollars on an acquisition then expect pity from your customers because, gosh darn it, Larian just has so much passion and skill, give us a break we don't know how to make world-leading games anymore!

No one is going off to compare Baulders Gate 3 to, I don't know, Hollow Knight (actually, that might be a fine comparison!). They will compare it to Avowed, TES6, Starfield, and Diablo 4. It should be no surprise that there's a lot of people inside Xbox who feel embarrassed about comparisons like that.

Doesn't read like they are arguing on behalf of their own studios to me.

This is an indie developer who's not even making RPGs, pointing out that most RPGs do not have 5+ years, 400+ developers, and ~$100 million behind them, while still being very excited and positive about the game itself. Spinning it as "competitors crying foul" is weird.

They are in effectively open-beta right now, and people have been playing it for ~1 week. So there is lots of feedback and impressions out there now.

This is an unnecessarily uncharitable take.

Nope

Yeah, no, sorry. Been burned on that one. Ex couldn’t control herself and spent every last penny that came in. I have more money at the end of the day even with alimony and child support.

Agree. I started carrying during Covid and have had to draw once to stop a mugger attacking me when I was with my elementary school age kid on the way to the science museum downtown (Seattle).

I’d like it if I could browse what courses were available before signing up.

Ironically I’ve been using chatgpt as an Italian tutor.

There’s an interesting circularity to real estate values in downtown Seattle since Amazon owns so many offices there. GREF wields an outsize power inside Amazon so methinks they’re advocating for hard RTO it to stop cratering the value of all their assets.

Summer of love!

I loved that place, I spent an entire day there from open til close when I was contemplating changing jobs and it was really helpful to put my work as a developer into historical perspective. Running Unix commands on a PDP-11 and watching the output slowly scroll up the screen was awesome, and seeing the 17 step process to boot the PDP-7 taped on as stickies and then playing chess against it was cool. I always hope some other Seattle billionaire takes over the reins but at this stage my best hope is that my options are worth something in a few years and I can do it myself.

Don’t forget the second amendment!

I think the second amendment was probably intentionally not mentioned.