It’s a fun game but an ultra competitive market. Either show you’re in it for the long haul or most players will never give you a chance.
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In my freetime, I play games, play with gadgets, solve Rubik’s cubes, play rando’s on Lichess, and take lots of naps with my 6 cats.
It’s a fun game but an ultra competitive market. Either show you’re in it for the long haul or most players will never give you a chance.
I don’t think folks expect to restart when the pre-order perk is 3-days early access… But we live in a world with day one patches on every single game too 🙃
If they were actually concerned about it, Valve could have done real NDA’s and/or plastered the build info and user name on-screen like most game tests. They’ve done it in the past so I assume this was a calculated risk/choice.
Worked for Blizzard before all the Xbox layoffs… The confusing actions are mainly because the gaming division is now it’s own company within Microsoft and responsible for its budget and making revenue for the first time in XBOX’s history. The leadership level all got promotions and new titles, they shared new org charts to everyone, and then the layoffs and closures began almost immediately. It’s no longer about making their user base grow but about making money so expect their games everywhere and to see Game Pass lose features and raise prices.
I was paying for it at a legacy price still but that gets wiped out with this I guess. Canceled.
I think of “retro” as pixel-based and early 3D games that were sorta killed during the PS1/Saturn/N64 era.
Once we get into more advanced 3D / Polygonal games (PS2/GameCube/Xbox), it’s a different era; but it’s not due to the visual shift alone, but the design philosophy and craft/code itself. I would consider them “modern” and point to series like Zelda as an example.
Games like WindWaker feel more connected to Breath of the Wild than it does to Link to the Past or even Ocarina of Time. And I think the same goes for series like Mario, Metal Gear, and so on.
I was initially shocked but that’s like 4 months away from the initial launch. I’m fine with that.
The only way the Fediverse gets ready is by going thru the growing pains that Reddit had to when we all fled from Digg. It also wasn’t ready then but the community stepped up and became mods and built apps and made it awesome. We will do it again… and this time it’ll be distributed and much harder for one person to screw over all of us
I do but try to remind myself that “wasting my time” is a concept that capitalism has forced on us bc they want us to feel guilty when not productive.
Just the idea/concept felt off… someone should have asked why we need a whole game about a side-character that no one asked for
I nuked a 15yr and 14yr old account on reddit. Just one more to go and today is the day.
Ooof… sad for all those devs, but wow was that game was a mistake from the start
What’s with every big tech company trying to destroy their userbase this year?
I moved off a while ago at this point… I still have to use some of it because of work being on G-Suites but otherwise my personal stuff has moved.
Doesn’t seem that surprising since AMD has its chips in all the consoles. Probably just makes the PC and Xbox version extra similar
I’ve been happy to see a few webkit browsers on Mac recently (like SigmaOS). Hoping others follow suit since that team seems to be doing good work again
It’s no more cheating than scrubbing through StackOverflow posts for help. Just a lot quicker.
I like having either tags or posts that start with the brackets (eg: [venting]) so you know what the poster expects in terms of responses. Are they looking for help or just venting? Is it a meme or actual discussion around a piece of media? It just sets some clear expectations at the start so the threads can be what’s most helpful or productive / fun
Sucks, but at least you can remove them
I don’t get why? It’s a great game