Most AI companies will die quite dramatically, but the big players will weather the storm and soak up all the rewards that come from monopolising on such technology. The ultimate product can turn to slop if you’re the only game in town.

No one will ever stop chasing AI. It’s the holy grail of corporate efficiency, just you… your shareholders… and some unpaid robot slaves. The dream.

$2000 gets you just a high end graphics card. >.>’

Everyone without a 5090 should immediately refund the game and use these remarks as the justification.

Yeah… victory belonging to the person with the widest reach and deepest pockets rather than the originator of the material/idea is one way to ensure that all creatives become paupers. This is one of those many on-paper ideas that, without the upheaval of pretty much every other established human social structure, would be awful in practice.

They’re communing with Satan, I hear!

Oh wow, we’re really hitting all the classics.

Well, the roguelike format is quite different too.

Gris.

And here we go… the inevitable conclusion. If you deviate from a fundamentalist ideal of the norm then your existence is pornographic by its very nature.

Oh wow… an anonymous complaint that is complete nonsense… whatever will they do. I at least expect the EU to correctly dismiss this pathetic attempt.

I wouldn’t really care if Steam decided to crack down on porn games, its their store. Payment processors being the ones to force Valve’s hands simply doesn’t sit right.

I’m not going to burn your house down, rest easy knowing that. :)

I have mine, I used it a few times, I did not care for it. I can’t stand using a touchpad in place of physical sticks. I found it to be worse than a mouse for mouse needs and worse than a standard controller for controller needs. All just felt a bit gimmicky.

Sooo… Gamepass is one of the services that is driving up the price of the non-gamepass versions of those games, right? They’ve got to recoup costs somehow, and then the rest of the industry takes that as an opportunity to consider these inflated prices as the new baseline.

It’s fun how when you could really most use a reliable distraction you start to not be able to find joy in things you used to.

Funny how that happens when people don’t have any money.

Smite the Reich?

Why would anyone have that strong a view about what you said…? I’m not clamouring for sequels particularly for those games, though I’d love more games like them. Then again, whatever gets me more beautiful soundtracks from Darren Korb.

It’s annoying that it isn’t at least on GOG, it’s such a prime candidate.

It adds more complexity and distinction between planets, at least.

Depending on what you want, Freespace 2 and all its mods/updates are still excellent. Wing Commander Saga is a standalone game based on it of remarkable quality.

Where can you get Freelancer these days…?

Because it’s badly reviewed and sales have dried up…?

Also because it is loaded with microtransactions, so they can make that back and more if they get you hooked.

Do you seriously think this is a Trump administration move…? The fuck does he care about extremism, he creates it.

I’m sorry that you had to find out this way.

Steam discussion forums on every game are a complete dumpster fire. Someone needs to do better, whether it is Steam themselves or moderators.

Mixed results.

If that man could live on snark alone.

Yeah… by these bizarre stipulations, there are few dozen games ranging from decent enough to poor quality that even pass the first hurdle of being “impressive”.

What a bizarrely restrictive set of criteria that focus on distribution logistics, rather than game.

Metal Fatigue

A fun little 2000 era RTS with customisable mech chassis units/base building/multiple fighting levels per map (separate air/land/underground maps). In hindsight, it has a fiendishly difficult campaign which I remember it being a lot easier than I find it now…

Almost feels Borderlandsy.

It’s not an overly sustainable service at the scale it is running.

“Gamers are dumb fucks and I’m a gamer.”

Well I can’t fault your logic.

I have a space in my heart reserved for Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel. :')

They’re raking in huge amounts of additional revenue across the franchise and its associated content, getting new F76 players in to their microtransaction store, etc. The last thing that they are doing right now is kicking themselves.

And the show was actually good.

They’re been working on BG3 for so long as a studio… I can imagine wanting to work on something else.

Here’s hoping for a Games Workshop based RPG, maybe a Warhammer Old World story.

Yes.

It is pretty absurd.