Ross Scott's 'Stop Killing Games' Campaign

[mercerxiv]

Further goes to show game devs are scum
Pretty much anyone who has a career based on games is a piece of **** who deserves jail time

I wouldn't go that far. There are a lot of people like that in industry, but far from all. On top of that a lot of the decisions like that are made in the corporate side of the business, so pick an issue with the corpos.
Now, gay **** - that's some activists masquerading as developers.

Also funny thing I've noticed - an uptick in HR women/dev women with pronouns on linkedin complaining about being laid off.

[Norfleet]

Thor and many game developers, especially software engineers, have every reason to lie and ******** how difficult the demands of the initiative is to ensure job security. Louis Rossman just recently uploaded a video interviewing a software dev about the movement from their perspective and the guy couldn't even explain accurately how World of Warcraft ran. He said "probably multiple servers for each instanced dungeon and raid, pvp battleground, etc." I hate to say it since I generally agree with Louis on his pro-consumerism stance, but this software dev is a ******* ******. WoW ran on a single server with SQL backend, it wasn't that complex or difficult to get running years ago.

That's probably how the private server version runs because it doesn't have to handle kajillions of simultaneous players, but I'd imagine you'd have to split it up a bit more at the scale the real deal operates at. Still, I imagine World of Warcrap needs it far less than other MMOs because it was written in an era before programmers became increasingly ****. I know for a fact that other MMOs *DO* operate like this.

[rusty_shackleford]

Thor and many game developers, especially software engineers, have every reason to lie and ******** how difficult the demands of the initiative is to ensure job security. Louis Rossman just recently uploaded a video interviewing a software dev about the movement from their perspective and the guy couldn't even explain accurately how World of Warcraft ran. He said "probably multiple servers for each instanced dungeon and raid, pvp battleground, etc." I hate to say it since I generally agree with Louis on his pro-consumerism stance, but this software dev is a ******* ******. WoW ran on a single server with SQL backend, it wasn't that complex or difficult to get running years ago.

AFAIK, each battlegroup was in a separate datacenter, battlegrounds/arenas were ran on a separate server in the datacenter for the entire battlegroup.
This is for when there was PvP queueing for the entire battlegroup.

My guess for this is because I experienced my home server going down while I continued to play arena a couple times.

[RangerBoo]

Game devs truly are scum.

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[logincrash]

Game devs truly are scum.

He wasn't even a game dev at Blizzard.

He just makes indie pixel ****.

[Oyster Sauce]

Game devs truly are scum.

He wasn't even a game dev at Blizzard.

He just makes indie pixel ****.

Fun fact: this character is actually based on his dad



Edit: Hehe I didn't know the video mentioned it

[rusty_shackleford]

people like pirate software are a great example of one of the reasons games(among many other things) are so **** now: Nepotism!

[Brother Chad]

people like pirate software are a great example of one of the reasons games(among many other things) are so **** now: Nepotism!

Nepotism has always been around, but back in the day you're either expected to have some degree of talent or just not be highly visible.

Now all these nepobabies are highly visible.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

How does the piratesoftware/"sparkle pony sold more than starcraft 2" guy relate to this?

[rusty_shackleford]

How does the piratesoftware/"sparkle pony sold more than starcraft 2" guy relate to this?

He attacked an autistic guy nobody particularly dislikes and a lot of people like.

[WhiteShark]

How does the piratesoftware/"sparkle pony sold more than starcraft 2" guy relate to this?

He kept making statements to the effect that Stop Killing Games is stupid and bad and that Ross is stupid and disingenuous. Whether his becoming 'the villain' ultimately benefited the campaign or not, there is evidence that petition signatures slowed for a while after his initial statements, and Ross stated that it also scared one of the big YouTubers off from endorsing Stop Killing Games.

[Norfleet]

Who even IS "PirateSoftware" and why does anyone care what he says?

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Who even IS "PirateSoftware" and why does anyone care what he says?

Former Blizzard dev turned youtuber whose main claim to fame was telling us that the first WoW cash shop mount made more money than Starcraft 2.








Then I think there was something about him playing WoW classic hardcore, and not following some sort of apparent etiquette there where if too many mobs are pulled you are not supposed to just abandon everyone and flee, but to instead try to help CC or delay the adds for the sake of the whole group.

[KOS-MOS]

world of warcraft was a mistake

[J1M]

He wasn't a dev, he had a job in cybersecurity.

[KOS-MOS]

He wasn't a dev, he had a job in cybersecurity.

And he was total **** at it

I doubt he has ever worked once in his life. All he did was asking daddy to give him a job, wake up in the morning, put his big *** in a chair and pretend to be an adult

[J1M]

He wasn't a dev, he had a job in cybersecurity.

And he was total **** at it

I doubt he has ever worked once in his life. All he did was asking daddy to give him a job, wake up in the morning, put his big *** in a chair and pretend to be an adult

I haven't been following his drama but from the clips I saw of him before all of this I believe he was good at his cybersecurity job.

Why are you so emotional about this topic?

[KOS-MOS]

He wasn't a dev, he had a job in cybersecurity.

And he was total **** at it

I doubt he has ever worked once in his life. All he did was asking daddy to give him a job, wake up in the morning, put his big *** in a chair and pretend to be an adult

I haven't been following his drama but from the clips I saw of him before all of this I believe he was good at his cybersecurity job.

Why are you so emotional about this topic?

It's the first time i'm posting on this topic wtf are you talking about?

[rusty_shackleford]

He looks really gay so I'm biased against him. Caveman Ross is preferable.

[Kalarion]

And he was total **** at it

I doubt he has ever worked once in his life. All he did was asking daddy to give him a job, wake up in the morning, put his big *** in a chair and pretend to be an adult

I haven't been following his drama but from the clips I saw of him before all of this I believe he was good at his cybersecurity job.

Why are you so emotional about this topic?

It's the first time i'm posting on this topic wtf are you talking about?

Perhaps J1M was taking context clues.

[Reichspepe]

He looks really gay so I'm biased against him. Caveman Ross is preferable.

People dislike him because he is against SKG.

I disliked him the first time I saw him because of his looks with his ****** face and yeeyee *** hairstyle. (Plus the fact he uses a voice changer to not sound like a complete ***)

We are not the same.

[psychic_dream]

This whole movement is dumb because Ross thinks every game needs to be saved and playable, no matter how bad it is.

On the bright side BioWare is shutting down Anthem’s servers next January, good riddance.

https://www.ea.com/games/anthem/news/anthem-game-update

[Lord of Riva]

This whole movement is dumb because Ross thinks every game needs to be saved and playable, no matter how bad it is.

On the bright side BioWare is shutting down Anthem’s servers next January, good riddance.

https://www.ea.com/games/anthem/news/anthem-game-update

Only games that people want to be saved will be by the community though, that bad games will be forgotten is implicit by the publisher not having the duty to continue supporting but solely making it possible for the community to do so.

[Shillitron]

He wasn't a dev, he had a job in cybersecurity.

I always wondered why:

- Warden was such a piece of **** and created so much latency that it was disabled after a few months and thrown away
- Why bots were able to run rampant without any attempt to stop them
- Why the gold economy was completely destroyed through gold farming / account hacking
- Why there was so many exploits allowing players to teleport / speedhack / one shot bosses and blizzards ONLY intervention was GM's manually watching raids, responding to player reported activity or banning people off GM-island when people were stupid enough to go there


It's because their "red team" was a buncha script kiddy QA nepo-hires. Huh.

[logincrash]

This whole movement is dumb because Ross thinks every game needs to be saved and playable, no matter how bad it is.

Holy ****, you show how ******** you are with each new post.

[Shillitron]

@rusty_shackleford

How bad is it that gamers have to rely on the degenerate EU wasteland to get changes to the game industry because United States lawmakers are so ****** by corporate donors?

[rusty_shackleford]

@rusty_shackleford

How bad is it that gamers have to rely on the degenerate EU wasteland to get changes to the game industry because United States lawmakers are so ****** by corporate donors?

already acknowledged that this is going to go nowhere

[Shillitron]

@rusty_shackleford

How bad is it that gamers have to rely on the degenerate EU wasteland to get changes to the game industry because United States lawmakers are so ****** by corporate donors?

already acknowledged that this is going to go nowhere

EU made Apple bend the knee on USB cords though/

[rusty_shackleford]

@rusty_shackleford

How bad is it that gamers have to rely on the degenerate EU wasteland to get changes to the game industry because United States lawmakers are so ****** by corporate donors?

already acknowledged that this is going to go nowhere

EU made Apple bend the knee on USB cords though/

most that will happen is developers stop offering their games to the EU

[Acrux]

most that will happen is developers stop offering their games to the EU

Why should the EU get the best outcome out of this?