• LGOrcStreetSamurai [he/him]
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    14 minutes ago

    I still think the good of FromSoftware has already been done. I think they put out a lot of great idea/art/games and whatever good that will come of those games will be seen in future titles from those who were inspired by it. If Elden Ring is the last good Fromsoft title, then I consider that a dub. If this beginning of the end of a golden era then so be it.

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      6 minutes ago

      Yeah, fair enough. Elden Ring was a masterpiece. I hear they did it again with DLC. Then, as far as I'm concerned, they exited stage right. Beautiful performance

  • git [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 hours ago

    From can buy their shares back. The bigger story is the effective monopoly Sony would have on anime after this.

  • Yukiko [she/her]
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    5 hours ago

    Natural conclusion of the gaming industry. Everyone gets absorbed by one of the big fish at some point.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      42 minutes ago

      Half a century ago, when Marx was writing Capital, free competition appeared to the overwhelming majority of economists to be a “natural law”. Official science tried, by a conspiracy of silence, to kill the works of Marx, who by a theoretical and historical analysis of capitalism had proved that free competition gives rise to the concentration of production, which, in turn, at a certain stage of development, leads to monopoly. Today, monopoly has become a fact. Economists are writing mountains of books in which they describe the diverse manifestations of monopoly, and continue to declare in chorus that “Marxism is refuted”. But facts are stubborn things, as the English proverb says, and they have to be reckoned with, whether we like it or not. The facts show that differences between capitalist countries, e.g., in the matter of protection or free trade, only give rise to insignificant variations in the form of monopolies or in the moment of their appearance; and that the rise of monopolies, as the result of the concentration of production, is a general and fundamental law of the present stage of development of capitalism.

      back-to-me

  • Thallo [love/loves]
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    5 hours ago

    On the one hand, it's the end of an era for a very beloved side of gaming.

    On the other hand, a lot of "deeply thoughtful" Fromsoft video essayists are going to be very mad mari-smug

  • peppersky [he/him, any]
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    4 hours ago

    If from soft games stop coming to PC day one I am finished with videogames

  • barrbaric [he/him]
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    5 hours ago

    Huh, didn't know Kadokawa had a controlling interest in From. I imagine this has more to do with the anime/manga side of things, and that From is just the cherry on top. Oh well, we had a good run!