But it wasn’t worthless to Epic, who potentially sold it, active address or not. It doesn’t really matter what happens with it further down the chain after that sale. The point is that simply signing up for an account, even with fake credentials, does give Epic something. Not a lot, but something.

They can. That’s literally what data brokers do.

Sure. I’ll be more clear next time. I think my original point still stands.

Chances are they have already gotten more than a cent from you – depending on what they do with your account data. Even just an email address has a price. That’s my only point, really. Just signing up gives them something.

I mean, I dont think it’s controversial to say it is surprising that a game had an expansion in 2000 but and then only had any other after the HD re-release in 2013. 13 years is an eternity in gaming. That’s my only point; I dont think it has anything to do with keeping “up to date”.

Oh, I mean the OG expansion “The Conquerors”. As far as I know that content is just included in the Definitive Edition now. But back in the day, it was the AOEII expansion.

AFAIK all the other DLC came after the Definitive edition re-release. My original point is that I didn’t expect new expansions to what is ultimately a 90s game.

I legit never imagined I’d see another expansion for this game. I say expansion because we didn’t call the others DLC back then.

A challenge that they themselves don’t understand and couldn’t undertake, but they’ll happily risk the livelihoods of others for their hunch

Mankind Divided is free right now btw

It’s not free. The point is to get me to make an account on Epic and install their stupid launcher. That isn’t free and I’m tired of people claiming things are “free” when in fact they exist to get you to sign up for another service. It’s not free-as-in-air.

And not to mention: the original versions actually run fine to this day. Pure money grab and they made the product(s) worse to do it.

Just to add: the Steam Controller may have been a commercial flop, but I still maintain that it is one of the best controllers out there, in particular for playing strategy games from the couch (right pad > mouse). I still use mine regularly and have a couple backups. The price of the Steam Controllers now reflects that it’s technically a niche success.

Edit: and the dual trackpad setup plus integrated configurator technically does live on for the Steam Deck

When did it die?

And I think every live service is a “no buy”.

If they don’t want to make money, they should do it and make whatever business goon suggesting it very happy (until that person looks at the balance sheet).

I want both the “iOS ecosystem” and Epic to fail, so I guess I just enjoy this new form of entertainment.

I think (at least in tech) we are seeing a brain drain where companies with strong RTO mandates can neither retain nor attract talent. Remote-first companies should be at a big advantage. Time will tell if it matters.

As someone who has been remote for 8+ years, it’s extra disconcerting that now some companies are more in the office than they were even before covid. It’s totally about control as you said. I’m at least hoping that it eventually returns to where it was.

The original comment was pretty snarky so I see about as much snark as I’d expect, tbh.

I wanted to love this game. I love this style of game and I loved the first one. But CS:2 is sadly a clusterfuck, and the response from devs has been lackluster at best.

Yeah, mod support would be nice. CS:1 had Steam Workshop support, which was great. CS:2 has nothing, because they want to completely control the mod ecosystem with a new tool. The excuse was to bring console modding to parity with PC, but that’s already bullshit since they admitted that even when the tool is released, some PC mods won’t work on console.

More worrying is the base game. The mods would mostly be useful to fix weird decisions by the devs. From my standpoint, you CANNOT LOSE the game. Have a city in the red? You get free “government subsidies” to bring you into profitability. Even for a good city in the black, it’s like having millions of free dollars thrown at you. You can’t shut it off.

Couple it all with a “simulation” that doesn’t seem to respond to user choices in any meaningful way, a UI that lacks a ton of shit the old game had, a lack of animated assets, etc etc… It’s a shit show.

I’m sorry I bought it on good faith. I knew shit was gonna get wild when I pointed out what seemed to be a glaring bug on their forums (garbage trucks coming from surrounding cities to clear out my city’s garbage – FOR FREE), and was met with the dev tagging it “by design”. Oh boy. It’s a city painter, not a simulation.

Most definitely. I don’t think personally I would have an interest in using GFN, but I just didn’t understand what it was at all.

Makes sense. Yeah, I can see advantages for people e.g. on a laptop but with a good enough network infrastructure to make it work.

Thanks for the details!

Ah interesting. So rendering isn’t done locally?

In that case I wouldn’t even expect it to have a free tier since there are significant costs.

What advantage is there to using GeForce Now instead of Steam itself?

That’s not bait btw; I’m an all-AMD Linux gamer and I’ve literally never used GeForce Now.

They entered multiple industries and took losses to rise to the top and outlast the competition, in many cases. Now that they’re running what are practically utilities, they see there is no money in it and pull out.

Modern tech industry 101, and yes, it’s dumb as fuck.

I guess I’ll wait for it on a platform with a Linux client, then.

…so did OP, lol

This was a fun game on the Wii – the second one was maybe a bit better.

“ChatGPT, solve this problem for me.”

“As an AI language model, username checks out.”

If only there were some regulatory body the government had that could set things right!..right?

At a time when AAA often sucks so much, it sounds really out of touch to say your overpriced game is “quadruple-A”.

Xfinity “10G” energy

Windward is pretty fun and under the radar.

Sid Meier’s “Pirates!” is old as hell but still a great game.

Love it. I wish there had been a single car in the game. Not one that you can buy, not a bunch of models. But one person in Saint Denis or Blackwater that happens to have a car. You could jack one car in the whole game.

Taking it on crazy trips across the map would be like a whole little minigame. Plus a nice nod to the GTA roots.