Highguard - Concord 2.0?

[The Projects]

It's over. Highguard will shut down on March 12th

To quote myself four months ago:

GAY BEN IF YOU CAN HEAR ME PLEASE SAVE THIS TERRIBLE SHOW

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I DON'T WANT TO PLAY ANY GAME MADE BY THE APEX LEGENDS PEOPLE

 

[Wodanaz]

what the fuck are you talking about? tpm and secure boot platforms are 9 years old at this point. shut up u faggot

I am never installing windows 11

 

[Afinepickle]

It might sound like I'm just sperging about fast food like a fat kid whose mom forced him to eat steamed vegetables for a week, but there's a deeper meaning behind my rambling: McDonalds is the platonic ideal of a successful American megacorporation, and the way it's being mishandled by a fucking retard is, I believe, the perfect microcosm of the corporate rot infesting and destroying major companies all across the country

Doesn't there have to be a point where this becomes unsustainable though and shouldn't we have hit that point already? When quite literally nearly every business is headed and staffed entirely by these mass produced, born with jewel encrusted golden spoon shoved right up their ass useless retards kill the industries they inherited because they don't comprehend them then what even constitutes failure anymore if damn near EVERYONE is doing the same thing and making the same mistakes.

I guess what I'm getting at is why ain't these niggers going bankrupt already.

 

[NerdShamer]

I guess what I'm getting at is why ain't these niggers going bankrupt already

Depends on the industry. Someone already brought up McDonald's, but they'll still exists as long as they can keep downsizing and there's an cabal of autists who can only eat fast food.


With vidya, it's kind of complicated because you have investors who are constantly footing the bill. There's also the fact how there's barely any cost to digital distribution, and so on. But there is an limit and it falls back on just how much many people are willing to keep investing in the next obviously retarded game.

 

[Not Funny]

Game is shutting down and people can't help but argue about secure boot still.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

I guess what I'm getting at is why ain't these niggers going bankrupt already.

Real estate. Much of the value of the fast food corps that have any significant number of corporate locations is the land value of the property they own. Increased regulation and cost alongside an increasing shift towards services vs goods economies means the value of "a place that's allowed to serve food" is going up, and they can borrow against and collateralize against that valuation.

Realistically, they're going bankrupt, just slowly. They don't have a good answer to the pricing and product quality problem they're facing, and their real estate doesn't offer them an eternity to figure one out. So long as the local hole in the wall burger place can compete with them on price, they're fucked. But they're already using the cheapest feasible ingredients, stores are already operating with skeleton crews to the point that even robocooks don't help, and they can't reduce portions because that's the sole redeeming factor of fast food to most of their consumers, even if its all empty fill that'll leave you ravenous in a couple hours. The only real lever they can pull is the corporate one, but the existing corporate level can't manage shit by sheer incompetence and ideological inertia, slashing it would unironically kill them.

Barring a radical market shift, Fast foods probably looking at a tailspin. Modern devices, delivery services and general information availability and the near zero cost of distributing that information via the internet means a lean, low overhead local chain can beat mcdonalds on all metrics, still ubereats the food right to your door, and serve local dine in customers with an actual air of community and familiarity that the sheboons behind the counter at mcdonalds can never manage.

Burgerslop will forever be a thing, but the corporate burgerslops probably done.

Edit: In case you ment everyone else in gaming, they are. Something like a third of the entire games industry workforce is unemployed, investors have pulled the fuck out, the usual cycle of "flop, join new studio" is broken, there are no new studios.

 

[fml]

I am never installing windows 11

 

[moocow]

Maybe not. The Disney Snow BROWN bitch and Marvel's Brie Larson seemed to both adopt that same strategy as well, and it of course led to spectacular failure.

In an absurdly rare display of actual karmic retribution, both of those slags appear to have lost their careers over their antics (finally). Then again, it probably still only takes a visit to the casting couch to get back into Hollywood's good graces. I can see Larson biting a pillow to earn her way back in, though that Zegler bitch is absolutely too proud to ever consider it (and she's even more of a cunt IRL by all accounts than even Larson is) and her failure was so absolute I don't think they'd ever take her back even if she spread 'em wide and begged.

 

[Zenos Yae Viator]

Realistically, they're going bankrupt, just slowly. They don't have a good answer to the pricing and product quality problem they're facing, and their real estate doesn't offer them an eternity to figure one out. So long as the local hole in the wall burger place can compete with them on price, they're fucked. But they're already using the cheapest feasible ingredients, stores are already operating with skeleton crews to the point that even robocooks don't help, and they can't reduce portions because that's the sole redeeming factor of fast food to most of their consumers, even if its all empty fill that'll leave you ravenous in a couple hours. The only real lever they can pull is the corporate one, but the existing corporate level can't manage shit by sheer incompetence and ideological inertia, slashing it would unironically kill them.

This, all the big chains have already cut all the corners and prices are still going up to the point "sit down" chains are competing with them in pricing, there's nothing more to cut, no more to streamline, it cannot go anywhere else.

 

[Wodanaz]

Game is shutting down and people can't help but argue about secure boot still.

Not sure what there is to argue about. I was quite literally unable to play it without fucking around in BIOS. I am someone who actually understands how to do that, and I wasn't willing to, in order to play some garbage looking shooter with my friends for a few hours. What were they expecting? For people less tech literate than me to give a shit about the new hotness, looking up tutorials for an hour just to play fucking Highguard?

You know Fortnite didn't launch with those as requirements? They only added them later, in response to cheating, and importantly, after they already had a dedicated playerbase. Of course Fortnite is a bit of an anomaly.

 

[DickMain]

This, all the big chains have already cut all the corners and prices are still going up to the point "sit down" chains are competing with them in pricing, there's nothing more to cut, no more to streamline, it cannot go anywhere else.

Except to the auction house SUFFAH, COROPS

 

[fml]

Not sure what there is to argue about. I was quite literally unable to play it without fucking around in BIOS. I am someone who actually understands how to do that, and I wasn't willing to, in order to play some garbage looking shooter with my friends for a few hours. What were they expecting? For people less tech literate than me to give a shit about the new hotness, looking up tutorials for an hour just to play fucking Highguard?

You know Fortnite didn't launch with those as requirements? They only added them later, in response to cheating, and importantly, after they already had a dedicated playerbase. Of course Fortnite is a bit of an anomaly.

One thing I'll never understand is why every company wants to molest my computer with it's kernel bullshit that does who knows what. It's all pointless because it gets bypassed in a day anyways. Sure enforcing TPM 2.0 and Secure boot might stop some of the 5$ cheats but wont stop DMAs nor any serious cheat dev. Having proper heuristics and a decent user mode anti cheat should be more than enough for any game.

 

[moocow]

That's the other side of the coin, the whole idea of AWS and cloudshit is you can scale up and down with little to no maintenance; how many people are playing this game (and how was it monitzed)?

Eh, the other main idea of cloudshit is to make it as easy to over-engineer and overspend as physically possible to maximize revenue while delivering MVP.

Reminder that until about 5 years ago, there was an "exploit" in AWS S3 where if you could figure out a URL to a valid resource in an S3 bucket, you could spam it with endless unauthenticated traffic and drive the owner's bill into the stratosphere even if the requests were all met with "access denied." It led to increased billing for API calls (every action in an S3 bucket, from a simple "list files" to "get file metadata" to "retrieve file" has an API cost, and they bill a fixed price per N thousand API calls). The net result is a handful of computers spamming the S3 API endpoint with targeted requests could drive up somebody's AWS bill by thousands or tens of thousands per month.

There was no protection from this, and no "correct" way to configure an S3 bucket to prevent it. Even anonymous unauthenticated calls to the AWS S3 API "counted" against the usage quota, and even buckets set to private with strict IAM policies to prevent anything but "resource X in VPC Y" from doing anything could still be targeted. You just needed to know the name of the bucket and the path/name of an existing resource. Note: per-region, AWS S3 buckets are named in a global namespace per region, not per user, so if you make a bucket called "bob-bucket-1" in us-east-1a, nobody else on earth can make a bucket with that name in us-east-1a. This, naturally, makes bucket names very easy to guess (since you basically have to invent your own unique naming scheme, and people are boring and typically just use shit like "companyname-things-1").

They finally fixed it (I believe by making failed anonymous API calls "not count" -- your own authenticated API calls still cost you even if they fail for whatever reason, including service unavailability, which still cracks me up) but it took a lot of noise and public embarrassment to get it done.

AWS is dogshit. And the sad thing is it's still the best offering compared to Azure and Google Cloud. Those are poisoned, rancid dogshit.

Using the Concord word is now banned on their official discord, even the jannies are referring to it as "the C word".
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kek I wonder if they bothered to censor "cunt" or if "Concord" is the only "c word" they care about. Dumb cunts

 

[SITHRAK!]

But crashing, it is. I've never seen so many AAA devs struggling in the way they're struggling now. Before Concord, I'd literally never seen a big name console multiplayer title shut down so quickly, and now it's happened 3 times. The fucking Family Guy MMO lasted longer than Highguard, lmao.

@moocow has it right. ‘AAA’ used to be good, big-budget games, now they’re purely designed to drive people to microtransaction shops. AAA gaming should never have adopted shitty mobile game monetization tactics, the two markets are completely different.

When one-man developed indie games like Schedule 1 outsell and outperform crap like ‘AssCreed: Jamal the Samurai’ or ‘Pirate Game: all you had to do was copy the good parts of Black Flag’, you know the people at the top of the heap have lost the plot.

Meanwhile I’m on my ninth or tenth playthrough of ‘BattleTech Advanced 3062’ because nothing else appeals and hasn’t for years (except for a few months collecting fun guns in The Division 2).

 

[Wodanaz]

One thing I'll never understand is why every company wants to molest my computer with it's kernel bullshit that does who knows what. It's all pointless because it gets bypassed in a day anyways. Sure enforcing TPM 2.0 and Secure boot might stop some of the 5$ cheats but wont stop DMAs nor any serious cheat dev. Having proper heuristics and a decent user mode anti cheat should be more than enough for any game.

Because it's obviously just a way to collect more player data and sell it to Chinese companies so they can manipulate you better.

 

[The 199]

and people can't help but argue about secure boot still.

It's more annoyance when you have your rig setup a certain way, every other game works fine but a certain game then tells you it's all wrong.

 

[Gay Sex Enjoyer]

God Windows 11 sucked ass.

 

[moocow]

tpm and secure boot platforms are 9 years old at this point.

And yet they're still disabled on all my systems and always will be. They can shove their "attestation" bullshit right back up their asses.

 

[Hooked on phobics]

Morgan Park from PC Gamer is crying today.

You know, if a game journo is so CONSISTENTLY fucking wrong, I feel like it could eventually get towards lolcow status. You'd think eventually they would be scared of the reputation as someone constantly defending games which historically suck ass.

Using the Concord word is now banned on their official discord, even the jannies are referring to it as "the C word".

Its funny how the name of the biggest failed video game perhaps ever, is now basically a gaming slur.

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

In an absurdly rare display of actual karmic retribution, both of those slags appear to have lost their careers over their antics (finally). Then again, it probably still only takes a visit to the casting couch to get back into Hollywood's good graces. I can see Larson biting a pillow to earn her way back in, though that Zegler bitch is absolutely too proud to ever consider it (and she's even more of a cunt IRL by all accounts than even Larson is) and her failure was so absolute I don't think they'd ever take her back even if she spread 'em wide and begged.

I think Larson's autistic and doesn't really have the drive to get out there and fight (and suck) for parts like a normal actress whore does. Zegler's situation is odd, but I can only speculate that her rabbi Spielberg quietly dropped his support of her and that's why she's kind of floundering.