I might be misremembering some details, but I kick-started the game too and remember feeling betrayed by Frontier when they announced the game would be online only.

Xenogears! Yes! I guess I’ll have to be happy with Xenoblade

Dangerous was originally supposed to be single player only, then they got so much money they promised to add the mp… And long after the ks finished they switched to online only. I was really pissed off. There’s always X I guess

Ultima 7 I guess. I never got into it but I keep hearing his great it was. Final Fantasy VI, because it was my first and therefore the best. Space Crusade because it was just that fun.

It’s cute that you think changing engine weight only add one year to a project

Valve asked several companies to build something like Steam, was turned down every time and decided to do it themselves.

I once worked on a dance game that officially had a team of 400

Daggerfall is their best game

Inquisition was excellent and underrated

I’d rather have them force the stores to actually sell the products

Ah, my apologies, I missed that when I skimmed the page.

Apparently the fairphone does: https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/10492476238865-Manage-the-Bootloader

It’s a de facto monopoly, just like windows was a de facto monopoly despite macos and Linux existing. There are plenty of good games that don’t make it on Steam, and Valve does very little for the money.

It’s worth it if you’re in the 1% of titles that succeed because of Steam. The next question is should any company have that kind of power. Steam’s monopoly is a real problem. Microsoft had less of a monopoly on computers when they got investigated.