What they should probably do is is cap the settings to what computers at release time can handle, then patch it later with “graphics enhancements” that do nothing but raise the cap. They could even do it more than one. It keeps users’ expectations reasonable at launch and then lets the developers look like they’re going the extra mile to support an older product.
As a bonus, they could store the settings in a text file somewhere that more sophisticated users can easily edit to get max settings on day one.
Bowties have been out of fashion for so long they just look silly most of the time. That seems like exactly what you’d want for a character who’s supposed to be whimsical.
Also a necktie doesn’t go with a tophat. For reasons I can’t explain, that kind of incongruity looks more accidental than it does whimsical.
I think what he means is that AI is needed to keep making substantial improvements in graphic quality, and he phrased it badly. Your interpretation kind of presumes he’s not only lying, but that he thinks we’re all idiots. Given that he’s not running for office as a Republican, I think that’s a very flawed assumption.
That’s about $32k in today’s money, using the “Other goods and services” category at in2013dollars.com.
A lot of people learned it wrong, myself included. I found out when I went to confirm that “Hap’s Burgers” is a funny as I thought. Sadly no.
I swore off early access after Phoenix Point. It sucks to already be bored with a game before it has the major kinks worked out.
Dead Cells is kind of a counterpoint, though. I’m not sure if I got it as “early access” per se, but since I bought it, they made some major balance changes that completely changed the meta, and those changes got me playing way more enthusiastically than I was before.
Making money isn’t capitalism. A market economy isn’t capitalism. You can look up the textbook definition, but to me capitalism means organizing absolutely everything around the pursuit of profit for the ownership class. Indie developers by and large aren’t in it for the money; that would make no sense, because they could make better money doing something else.
It’s a nice bonus but too short the be a full game.