Did you just equate turning living organisms into a monitor with arranging rocks?

I know this might blow your mind, but different people have different opinions and that’s ok.

Depending on the game, this could open you up to a perma-ban (if found out). Which I think most multiplayer games take a hardline stance against circumventing their rules.

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Deep Rock Galactic and haven’t found my way there yet despite thinking of it often. Perhaps this will be that time. Either way, appreciate you doing this.

It’s only nebulous if you listen to lobbyists and corporations. Many people still know what it actually means to buy something.

It’s a bit wild how petty Bethesda comes off as. It’s like they’d rather spend a bunch of money to convince people their games are still good instead of, you know, trying to make good games.

It’s hard to do that officially when a big chunk of users are minors. Neither Twitch nor the streamers of this content want to admit that they make money serving softcore porn to kids. Cause that’d be weird.

They’ll pay by charging customers a reasonable licensing fee. Market standards are meaningless in an age of aggressive monetization and consolidation. Of course they’ll try and get away with as much as they can and people have been shown to excuse a lot. However, I would pose that is entirely unreasonable that providing access to tools earns anyone a portion of future sales.

This very clearly goes beyond paying to improve the services and is simply about maximizing profit.

Why does Unity deserve a cut of the profits from games made with their tools? Seems as ridiculous to me as a maker of power tools demanding a cut of profits from contractors using their products.

Oh no, the buffoons who mismanaged the company so badly that scores of people are laid off have to be fired! Now who will fuck things up while making off with tons of cash?

This time we’ll get FOUR options at the end.

If you wanna put things in perspective give Dead Money a whirl.

In this same vein I actually want Starfield to be even more immersive. When I take off in search of a new planet, I want to leave my computer on for 700 years while my ship travels through space.

What do you mean that’s stupid and boring? It’s real.

While this is a reasonable take, it ignores the fact that many modern video games (unlike the other things you listed) are specifically designed to be incredibly addictive while the marketing and PR does everything to belie this fact.

Both things can be true.

How is it that video games are causing dyslexia? That seems like a stretch.

My absolute favorite bit is that an in-game LFG is incredibly complex, while pretty much every other multiplayer game has this figured out. How totally fucked is their codebase that seemingly every feature is some gargantuan project they can’t figure out?

Classic Bungie.

Nothing quite like an article going on about unconfirmed rumors spread solely by a notorious clickbaiter.

No no, it makes more sense to hope that Bethesda charges us to finish their broken system.

Microsoft has been shitty for a long loooooong time. This is pretty gentle next to other stuff they’ve done.

No, but I have sat in a traffic jam caused by a human driver who caused a multiple car pile up because they wanted to be slightly ahead.

After playing their games for many years, I’m not convinced their tools are working.

Imagine it in five years when the modding scene has popped off though. It could truly be something spectacular. Which is frankly the only saving grace of Bethesda games. They’re a solid sandbox/framework for others to fill in.

This is a nice sentiment, but it falls apart when you realize that a lot of the exploration is procedurally generated POI that eventually copies not just assets, but layouts and granular details. That tends to detract from a sense of wonder and mystery.

Which is fine, if they would just embrace that instead of trying to change how people perceive their work.

Sometimes you need to be the content you wish to see.

If you wait a couple years there might be a new release for you to grab.

On the upside, it would lead to vast improvements in national cyber security.

I was actually really into it. Was the first time I saw them doing something new with the franchise that hadn’t been done before and the ship gameplay was really fun. Building up your ship was a good side goal to have to the main game.

Takes me back to a time when companies tried to make interesting games and not maximize profits.

I’ve been getting back into modded Skyrim. I realized that I’ve played so little of the actual game that this challenge is to complete some content instead of the same Helgen/Whiterun loop over and over again.

I’ve tried to re-engage with the Pokemon franchise, but nothing can mimic the magic of playing yellow on a shitty Gameboy for me.