Minecraft is one of the biggest games on the planet. Very popular with the young. Not what many would consider beautiful.

That is quite a mixed bag response. Leaves me between they won’t do nothing, and they might do something.

Isn’t this just the tech version of cuckooing?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckooing

Illegally using someone’s property to make profit from dodgy business.

Oh yeah, I see now. I misread that.

She went to war with unions and the working class. Destroyed workers rights, used the police to antagonise and dismantle strikes, left towns and cities in economic decline. She screwed a LOT of people. Many hate her here.

I didn’t realise Valve had gone into vaccinations, but Mumps, Measles and Rubella are nasty fuckers.

It didn’t suddenly go that way. It was always the plan. A loss leader.

I cannot see this working. Unless it can ask if you have enough anaesthetic and stop when you do not, otherwise, it’ll be an expensive torture device.

It was more than one mistake. Where was the QA, the staged rollout, the CI? It brought unto question how competent this company is to be a dominant player in such a critical market.

Nothing like artificial scarcity to screw more money out of folks.

Oh no. That means I’m going to have to continue not buying EA trash.

Nah. I played it also. It was fun.

It’s fine. They said Windows 10 is there last operating system. It sure is for me.

I played this. A great game. That era and Bullfrog in particular were incredible. Dungeon Keeper is one of the best games I played. Theme Hospital and Theme Park were great. It was the golden age of strategy games. Age of Empires 2, Heroes of Might and Magic 3. Red Alert games. Railroad Tycoon. I have no idea why this type of game became unpopular.

I strongly recommend Dungeon Keeper 1 (ideally gold with Deeper Dungeons add on) and Theme Hospital. Can get them on Gog.

I think the important thing is consent to use data. If I can control what data I share with them, it isn’t the end of the world. If I choose to not, and it’s honoured, then this is a good thing. I’d prefer this approach funding development to Mozilla not being able to compete.

Mozilla is a far superior company to Google.

Which they could also report on. The fact they’re removing a standard metric they’ve relied on, rather than relegate it, shows they have fear this metric is going to be detrimental to publish. You can fairly safely assume it’s going to go down. It’s no longer sexy, tik tok is killing it, and most that would be on it, are, and are discovering it’s not greatly beneficial to them and spending less time on it. It is the start of the decline. How long and how fast is the thing we do not know.

Embracer extends then extinguishes.

Isn’t Minecraft one of the biggest games on the planet? RimWorld simply awesome. Stardew selling millions…

Chasing top graphics hasn’t always been the route to success.

A few lyrics from NoFX come to mind.

“Kick back, watch it crumble See the drowning Watch the fall I feel just terrible about it That’s sarcasm, let it burn”

"Where did all their money go?

Don’t we all know? Parasitic [gaming] industry As it destroys itself We’ll show them how it’s supposed to be"

"Dinosaurs will slowly die And I do believe no one will cry I’m just fucking glad I’m gonna be There to watch the fall

Pre-Historic [gaming] industry Three feet in La Brea tar Extinction never felt so good"

Switch a few words and it works perfectly well.

Gamers need to realise it’s all about the indies. Buy indie, screw AAA. Watch them grow and hire those talented folk that deserve better than this bullshit.

Probably just process. They’ll send an updated fob off letter. Right wing gov that represents business, not people.

No, but touring does and a bigger market for ticket sales is the best profit an artist can get.

They don’t discount often because they make great games that people go for.

Games discount to push sales, and high demand doesn’t need regular pushing.

Other developers should copy RimWorld and Factorio and make great games.

Yeah, it stood out to me.

It’s always in what they don’t say.

If they say it’s not a RCE vulnerability, it could still be a privilege escalation vulnerability etc. They avoided saying their software isn’t being exploited or “we have seen no evidence our software has been compromised”, or “there is no clear signs…”.

Which gives a little wriggle room.

Are they the worst ones that cannot design their own code?

So if it isn’t a RCE vulnerability, what vulnerability is it?

Maybe just prevent MS merging or buying anything ever again until they fix shit. Ultimately, if their assurances aren’t worth shit, any case they put forward cannot be believed, and to the contrary, will likely be unreliable.

If you can, force them to split in certain areas.

Drama?

They nailed marketing. They released it. Some love it, some hate it…

You give it a roof? Only player bed needs one…

Maybe just buy the games they play recently then, you’ll be quid’s in and not tied into a rental contract.

I think you have no idea how long it takes to make a game. Even the simplest game will take months. Most survival games take years.

Time to form a specialised union with all the top names and secure your own terms.

Was this traded away to get concessions elsewhere and a deal over the line?

Google has been dreadful for a long time and do not care. They only need creators so they can milk the content and take the lion share of the revenue.

YouTube are pushing more and more adverts so people are more likely to pay them. Straight up manipulation.

I wouldn’t pay for Youtube…

Embrace it. It’s a great game. Gaming doesn’t have to be about bloodshot eyeballs.

Try Minetest - https://www.minetest.net/

It’s a FOSS voxel engine, so they can play multiplayer with their friends for free. MineClone2 is a Minecraft clone on Minetest, so even if their friends don’t have Minecraft, they can still play with friends.

For paid games, consider indie games, as they’re less likely to be micro-transaction bullshit. Raft, Stardew Valley, Two Point Hospital are good options. Not so much multiplayer, but Stardew supports it. Multiplayer wise, maybe Among Us if the parents are comfortable with that.

Not necessarily.

Many held off buying a PC because they couldn’t get a GPU due to crypto mining slurping it up. When they came back, they price for years old hardware was scandalous. People held off, until they finally needed to update that hardware. Guessing that upgrade queue has been worked down somewhat.

To be fair, subs kept getting hijacked. I wouldn’t blame them.

Such a weird list. Powerwash simulator in it, but no Bullfrog game. No Dungeon Keeper, Theme Hospital, Populous, Theme Park. Not even Black and White. No Age of the Empires 2. Heroes of Might and Magic 3… Command and Conquor…

What a load of poppycock.

Considering they have Alpha Centauri in there (justifiable), they don’t seem to have many staff who have played some of the classics.

The thing is, if they don’t offer these cheap stuff, they may have to do something crazy, like pay staff what they are worth. This definitely looks like a false economy.