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Really says something that, according to steamcharts numbers, Payday 2 has over 10x the current playercount than Payday 3 right now. Even peak, Payday 3 has 3,475, whereas Payday 2 has 34,680.

And as far as D&D video games go… Baldur’s Gate 3 already mastered that niche. I’ll keep an eye out if it sounds impressive, but I don’t see it living up to the same standard. Even then, going to a game shop and playing with real people around a table can’t be beat, either.


I remember reading about companies developing ML based software that touted some effectiveness at replacing CEOs, though it never seemed to have went anywhere.


I can’t believe a random technical error would design and deploy a Black Friday popup ad right at the time of year where it would be relevant.

The machines are going too far, we need to shut them down.


Man, I already had a hard time justifying my YouTube Premium subscription. I literally only have it for putting on stuff to sleep to on my TV without some ad telling me Mr. Beast wants to give me $10,000 if i click.

But the worse this gets, the more I feel like an asshole for giving them a dime.


I think they can in their own game forum, but not universally


So was Fallout New Vegas.

Though I would hesitate to count Fallout or Majora’s Mask here because they were based on existing games, so the breadth of the work on things like mechanics had already been done, and they had the ability to re-use a lot of assets.

I don’t know the extent of asset or code reuse for Vice City, so I can’t really say if that should be counted the same or not.


The thing is, MS made a command line package manager that allows users to submit configs for new packages via GitHub. But they haven’t made a UI for it and don’t tell anyone that it exists. You have to go out of your way to find out about it, which 99% of users are not going to do.

I use it when I set up new Windows VMs and it’s a lot easier than manually navigating to websites for software installers.


Hopefully development studios can hold strong and continue their boycott anyway. Backing down now basically means Unity got away with it, in a sense. Plus, companies are learning from each other’s shitty tactics lately ala Twitter, Reddit, and Recently Facebook coming out with payment schemes on things that used to be free.

So if Unity does this, other software companies will probably try some similar stuff.


I had a feeling something like this was gonna come. It’s an age old trick.

Do something that makes people mad and gets attention.

Let it stew for a few days while you’re “considering” things.

Come out and say you made a mistake and the initial plan was misguided, present the thing you were actually planning to do instead.

Brag about how much you “care about feedback” while still doing what you want


and since the game was not designed with modern network tools in mind such as rollback (which would probably be too heavy for the Switch)

Rollback netcode has been around since Quake in the 90s. It’s not a very new or computationally intensive technology, relatively speaking.



“By partnering with the Cfx.re team, we will help them find new ways to support this incredible community and improve the services they provide to their developers and players.”

Allow me to translate:

“By partnering with the Cfx.re team, we will help them find new ways to bleed the community’s wallets dry and force servers to pay a cut of their monetization revenue and offer nothing substantial in return.”


With any luck it’ll provide the authentic sort of answers developers have come to expect from a quality site like stack overflow. Like telling you to read the documentation, use the search feature, marked as duplicate, why you’re even using that programming language for this, or shilling it’s new JavaScript framework that came out last week. All the while reminding you that it’s superior and really can’t be bothered with your stupid question.



So basically, they’re not even using it to stop kids from buying games, just as verification when a kid signs up for a service. It’s a good thing a kid would never just change their age and say they’re 50 or something, and are always completely honest about their ages.

Also, a large company crying because nobody trusts them not to sell every piece of information they receive brings me joy inside.


Meanwhile Roblox has their own faux stock market with no age requirement, complete with price charts on site, where players can invest in items and probably lose their money either on a bad bet, or from Roblox taking a cut off everything.


I like how there was an article about it losing players and now they’re suddenly interested in going to steam after all these years of doing their own thing.


I think humans are too specifically hardwired for actual human interaction for it to work. Like, it’s so specific that even online communication with real humans doesn’t fill the void. I can talk to friends on Discord for ages, but it’s not the same as meeting up and going to do something.

I really don’t think an AI, even a convincing one, is going to make a large dent on loneliness in the majority of cases.


That’d be good for an indie game, but for a AAA, free to play Halo game? That’s almost nobody compared to what they should be pulling. BF 2042 is beating it, even if by a slim margin, and it wasn’t even made free.


I’d been waiting to buy one for some time. I pre-ordered on release, but my turn came around the day I was moving, so the move took up enough that I wasn’t willing to drop more.

But hey, a sale that lets me pick one up, plus a dock, for less than the price normally? I’m in.




I was going to leave a snarky comment about the game not being all that old, but then I double checked the release date and saw it was 11 9 years ago. Now I just feel old and I can’t even really make that snarky comment.


I am the system administrator, authenticate me.

If you know, you know.


I’m not worried about it. The “Legal” page of my Lemmy instance even spells out that anything posted on it is likely permanent.

I’m just pointing out that the issue being fixed doesn’t necessarily mean it isn’t still a concern to someone.


Even if it’s fixed, there’s nothing stopping anyone from running an instance with the delete functions turned off. Or making their own app that mingles with ActivityPub and uses federation to scrape data.


As long as they don’t give it the GTA Trilogy “remaster” treatment


That almost makes me want to start sharing Tarkov leaks because I’ve never played Tarkov, or anything else by that developer, so I have no contractual obligation to listen to them.


Yeah, but there’s at least a facade of game in there somewhere. Like how the 2K NBA games are slot machines with inconvenient basketball minigames attached.


Someone could probably make money by just making a platform where you show people ads, and there’s a leaderboard ranking for how many ads you watch.