I’d say that’s currently grimdawn

Every arpg eventually adds a necromancer. It’s just the way of things.

We know very little about it at this point. It doesn’t reek of anything, seems like you’re just making assumptions based on very little information.

Apparently valve doesn’t really assign teams to certain projects. People can work on what projects they like and things organically get people behind them if they are looking good or interesting.

This means games that do get completed are often really good and ones that weren’t looking good fizzle out.

It’s an interesting approach for sure. I think it makes sense rather than steaming ahead with a bad game. On the flip side what could be an interesting product may die out.

It’s happened several times to half life 3 apparently.

That looks interesting thanks 😁

Already downloaded 1, nv, 3 and 4. Now I just need to spend a few weeks modding them and I’m good to go.

If they want to sell skins that are purely cosmetic I don’t have an issue with that. Some people have money to drop on stuff like that and it helps fund the game.

Loot boxes on the other hand can absolutely get fucked. It’s gambling, plain and simple. It has no place in games.

The thing is pretty much everything kids (and adults tbh) want is consumerist garbage. Like all the toys they never play with.

The entire system gets you addicted to spending on shit. Whether it’s the latest tech or trainers or whatever.

The engines often have most of the features already as they are used by the team when making the game.

Level, quest etc. creation isn’t generally done in code. So it’s likely there’s already tooling to achieve this.

Scripting of some sort is also often used by the engines to prevent the need for full rebuilds when changing things beyond the core engine components.

It blows my mind that mod support isn’t a top, day 1 priority.

It massively increases the replayability and longevity of a game.

You also get bug fixes for free from the community.

The title literally says exactly what happened though. You just added context that isn’t there. It doesn’t imply anything.

Kind of a good description of our mars missions.

I still play diablo and WC2 from time to time. Love them. Especially diablo.

That’d be amazing if it could take all the data that’s fed to it and readily produce solutions like that.

What a time to be alive.

Spyware is any software with malicious behavior that aims to gather information about a person or organization

I wish people wouldn’t just throw terms like this around. I do understand not liking anti cheat software but it’s really irritating personally.

Like when people call a driver a rootkit.

I find as I get older and I have less gaming time this becomes increasingly important.

It’s what Pokémon should have been a good decade ago.

Picking up charmander and using them as a flamethrower. Cooking Pokémon. Using them to water your farm.

Pokémon is one of the most wasted IPs I’ve ever seen!

There are some absolute gems out there that totally flopped or at least didn’t do that well.

It reminds me of seven kingdoms. It’s a really unique RTS that came out in the 90s. Still one of my favourite games. But it got completely shadowed by C&C

Personally I’m really enjoying it. As are my kids. It’s also bloody stunning.

That sounds way more like an ad to me hehe

The thing is it’s true. Before the internet grew and search engines got big you had a massive manual on your desk for whatever you were using. At my first job I had a yearly budget for buying technical books. That or you’d install a massive help library like MSDN.

Imo this is as big a change as moving from those to blogs and online docs.

So does everything that’s positive about a product.

I use bing copilot constantly at work. Anytime I need to search for anything I use it.

Saves so much time and gives way more tailored answers than reading blogs/docs.

I can get up and running in a new framework or language instantly now.

It’s also good at finding stuff in less popular languages. For instance searching for vb6 stuff (I know, it sucks haha) almost always gets you VB.net solutions. But bing AI is spot on with it.

It’s totally changed how I work. I can go on a project in a language / framework I’ve never used and be productive within the hour.

Source? Sounds interesting

Well it’s like 1/4 the cost of a game per month. So if you play more than one game a quarter it’s good value.

That’s every platform, except gog, right?

All the same to me. I have to install a specific client to play a game.

Either way you install a client and play a game. Already have a few so it doesn’t really matter.

Not to me. I just want to play games. Already have multiple launchers. Doesn’t make a difference.

The end result is the same for the consumer.

A large chunk of steam games can’t be brought elsewhere.

I totally disagree with the exclusives point.

So, so many games can only be brought on steam. It’s always been that way.

A huge amount of apps that an average user needs are on the playstore and require the services.

Google leverage that to force apps to use their pay services.

Google is using an unrelated thing to force the use of their pay services. Hence monopoly.

It doesn’t matter if a tiny percentage don’t do that. The vast majority need to.

I thought it was about them forcing apps to use their payment system.

Since many apps require Google services to function on android they are using that fact to get a cut of all payments.

The city looks amazing! I’m guessing they spent all their time on the graphics and forgot the actual game.

Phones are the primary gaming system for many people.

You pretty much need a phone nowadays. So for people who can’t afford to drop money on a console it makes total sense.

Chances are you are also older and not the primary audience anymore.

I still play warcraft 3 (non shitified version), StarCraft 2, diablo and the diablo2 remaster.

But yeah all their modern stuff is balls.

Hoping Microsoft will use the IP better.

I was so excited for this initially.

All they had to do was add higher res resources and release it.

Such a shame.

I remember people saying this with pretty much every console generation.

Why have a pc when consoles can produce similar or better graphics and are way cheaper.

It basically boils down to PCs being useful for way more than games. Many people are more willing to invest in a good pc that can do all those things over a gaming specific device.

Lol

He was just looking for a reason to use the domain name I’m pretty sure.