I can see why patents are so long when you need to build like a billion dollar factory to make a product and mass produce it.

Digital concepts don’t take that much investment and once you have it you don’t need to invest in making more, it’s just there.

So yes, digital patents should be a fraction of the time that physical patents should be. Like 2 years instead of 20.

How is it that pokemon has a hold on things like animals allowing flight, but gliders allowing flight isn’t under patent?

Like, whoever did gliders first needs to sue Nintendo to change breath of the wild, no gliders allowed anymore.

Tune in on Monday to find out new tarriffs make this announcement no longer valid

I found humankind to be very difficult to go the domination path, but I haven’t played since close to release.

It was very prohibitive to take direct control of conquered cities as the cost seemed exponential, and you had to constantly declare peace and then go right back to war or something if I remember correctly. It seemed like a silly system

I don’t even mind microtransactions, but microtransactions DO NOT EXIST

$10 for a skin is not a MICRO transactions, that’s just a transaction.

The entire game costs $60 but ONE skin out of the thirty that already available or whatever is somehow $10? Why do people pay that? Why would they ever bother making a new game when they can design 6 new skins instead?

Man, I downloaded my data from steam for the past ten years I’ve been active and the total $ amount made me sad. It’s definitely not $42 a year…

If their zombie survival shelters are anything like the ones in the game I would have no faith anyone would survive a single night in a zombie apocalypse.

Doesn’t really matter if there is enforcement, something is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

If someone is willing to pay $100k for 1 Bitcoin then that is what it’s worth.

If someone isn’t willing to pay $100k for a piece of property in Idaho, the police can’t force you to pay that much.

Okay maybe not 3 months but some sort of time frame and maybe not a full halt but perhaps a more significant warning like an are you sure popup on adding to cart.

Plus maybe require monthly dev posts as to progress for early access so people know it’s still actually being worked on., otherwise the warning.

Plus the longer refund times if updates haven’t happened in months

Why not stop the sale of games that haven’t had an update in more than 3 months or offer extended return windows?

I might just buy one of their games now to support their decision.

I just don’t know how much I can trust them to keep their word and not just brick the game in the future until an account is made.

Unfortunately it’s quite unpolished. It works in certain areas for certain things but it’s by now means a decent replacement for what someone expects from Google maps.

It’s great for being free and for what it is but it doesn’t compare yet. Maybe one day.

I’ll be waiting for the swivtch

Nobody buys a game because they made a cool new and innovative mechanic.

They buy it because it’s a good game and the mechanic helps that.

If your game sucks and no one buys it despite the new mechanic, perhaps other more talented developers should be able to use that mechanic.in their games to improve the industry.

World of Warcraft

Love the world and history and characters. Gameplay is now pretty shit.

My main go to is city builders and I couldn’t get past like 20 hours in manor lords before giving up. I just couldn’t get into it.

I mean, when you have a few thousand two-bit internet media sites surviving off advertisement spam and hiring any freelance writer that can put together three paragraphs for $5 that’s what our media becomes.

My top 9 games sorted by playtime, with almost 1000hrs for Valheim and about 300 for dwarf fortress.

This is why I don’t share my steam tag with anyone.

I hate people being able to analyze my habits.

Yeah I can’t imagine choosing to game on a device that has no physical controls and just touchscreen which is what I imagine this device would have to be if it’s foldable.

It will probably also be over $1000 if it’s a foldable touchscreen and have shitty hardware so may as well get a steam deck if you’re intent is gaming.

If I want to game on a touchscreen I’ll do it on my phone because it’s convenient. I’m not carrying a second device around for touchscreen gaming.

Even if it were an exact clone I don’t think a single company should have a monopoly on the idea for almost 30 years. Pokemon red was released in 1996, 28 years ago. Why should they still be able to be the only company that releases pokemon-type games?

I had a phone with one on the back and currently have one with it on the screen. Personally I had absolutely no issues with its functionality in the screen and do prefer it over the back. I like that I can unlock my phone without having to pick it up off the desk or while its still in the mount on my vehicle dash.

Seems to work perfectly fine to me but maybe it’s a quality issues with the brand of phones. Mine is a OnePlus and it’s almost 4 years old now, still works fine and never had any issues.

If only they let you filter out games from being seen on your store page or showing up in recommendations using this as a criteria.

I disagree with letting whales waste their money.

Video game design has changed to specifically cater to whales and ignore regular gamers.

Ya I did go vertical in my last attempt, but I could only fit 24 smelters on the first floor and then got to tier 5 and unlocked more stuff which put me over the edge of needing more I needed to build a second factory or a new floor on top with more smelters and it just got super complicated for me, needing to send ore to two different spots and organizing the ingots going everywhere I needed. I also have a thing about organization, symmetry, and logic and I just could not find a “satisfactory” way to build it knowing once I unlocked a new tier, without knowing what I would need ahead of time, everything I built would probably need to be redone at some point again

I liked the factory stuff until it got too complicated for me lol

I’ve built and destroyed and rebuilt everything like 5 times after unlocking new things and it just got too overwhelming the last time I felt like I had to destroy my stuff.

It’s been tanking for a lot longer than that

Really? Just make the exact same game as Skyrim with better graphics and a new plot, while making it less likely to have bugs and glitches and maybe fix the largest complaints about Skyrim.

There should almost be some sort of technological transfer to nearby empires, like cultural influence. If your neighbour is at 10000 tech points or whatever while you are at 1000, you should be able to leech some tech points from your neighbour to develop faster.

Transfer rate increases with the disparity between nations and decreases with distance.

So a super advanced empire on continent A will contribute to nations on continent A and B, but those on continent A get more of a bonus than those on B.

This aligns fairly well with reality as neighbouring countries would transfer students to universities all the time, less so the further the nations are apart.

Eh, not really. They aren’t called star wars 1, star wars 2, star wars 3, etc.

They all have individual names and they are just ordered 1-9 without it being in the title.

Witcher has the number in the actual title (at least the second and third do)

So instead of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and then releasing The Witcher 4: ???, I just think it may be more logical to release it as The Witcher ??? 1: ??? or something, just so that it is obvious it’s a separate trilogy and storyline.

If its a new trilogy should they be referring to it as witcher 4?

Wouldn’t it make more sense to call it something like Witcher: ??? 1,2, and 3

And then PlayStation 6 will come out in like a year or something. Why would anyone buy this when they could wait for the ps6?

I view phoning someone like popping over to their house and knocking on the door to chat with no prior warning. No one likes that.

Does that account for the fact that the graphics in almost all Nintendo games are dogshit?

Like even with running stupidly low resolution graphics it still won’t perform as well as a steam deck with much better graphics?

Not the original you replied to. And I had a typo when trying to spell typo 😂 just adding to the conversation. Wasn’t disputing you, just meant the may have meant refresh rate instead of resolution. Easy mistake. It’s still quite disputed how well eyes can tell the difference in refresh rates.

I imagine it was a typo*, but this article in Nature reports that in specifics circumstances the median maximum that people can perceive a difference may be around 500hz, with the maximum in their test possibly being as high as 800hz.

Normally though it seems closer to 50-90hz, but I’m on the road and haven’t delved too deeply into it

Edit: Type to Typo

Why make a new game when you can just make a glove for fools with money?

Is there a valve index 2 on the way?

I would hate to finally get it only for the 2nd version to release a year or two after.

The thing about older games and Minecraft being addictive is that it’s sort of fine, because they don’t benefit financially from it so obviously it was unintentional and just because of the entertainment.

It becomes a problem with these new games when they are subscription based or have lots of microtransactions because the more addictive the game, the more money the company makes.

In the case of Minecraft the issues you listed are pretty much present in almost anything entertaining, video games or not, including in-person events and social functions.

As with anything moderation is key and people just need to learn not to let it control them. Some people are incapable of that though.

There are definitely certain things that game companies need to avoid doing but multiple goals, a little bit of luck, and online cooperative play is not it.