They gave the Heroic Launcher devs an affiliate link, so while they don’t really support Linux they at least approve of it

I remember that being the “feature” which really highlighted the dumbing-down of the game. Work things out for yourself? Look them up? Remember what you’ve learned? No, we’ve solved the puzzle for you, don’t worry.

As with all offers like this Amazon are hoping that it causes people who weren’t subscribed before to stat paying them regularly, and posts like this are kind of giving them free advertising.

It’s similar to recommending something like reward credit cards (where you can make money off them as long as you pay them off in full and never pay any interest), if you’re sensible enough with your money then you can get a freebie but the provider is looking to profit off you messing up or forgetting.

Isn’t that how most businesses work? If a small company gets successful enough to be big but not so successful that they become the market leader then a big company buys them for their name and customer base.

As I post whenever someone complains about them not being free in [email protected]: you can sign up for a free trial of prime, claim the thirty or so games currently available, cancel, and keep all the games forever without having to give a penny to Amazon.

I don’t think anyone’s claiming it’s difficult, it’s just more of a risk. If you’re the investor calling the shots with your big bag of money do you choose a new idea which might be great but people might not like, or to rehash an existing idea that already has fans who will buy more of the same? The decision is entirely financial.

So…dev stumbles, fans harass, and the project is dead.

Goodbye Winlator…for now?

Ugh, another amazing one-person project killed by harassment. The internet makes it so trivial to bombard someone with hate-mail, and I doubt many of us have been through the “media training” necessary to deal with it. I only have the tiniest of projects going and if the people I thought I was making a nice thing for suddenly turned on me then I think I’d be saying “fuck it then” too.

You can do a call in a group chat, right?

I guess it depends on how big the company is, if they have a long-standing team and work on multiple projects or if they’re mainly contractors brought in for one big project. I’d hope a company like Supermassive have enough other projects going on that nobody’s losing their job over this.

Why would they fire the team instead of just moving everyone to other projects? Aren’t the tales you hear about projects being canned and the whole team made redundant specifically due to not having the money to do the project or because some new bigwig is trying to cut costs?

Maybe this will finally make people realise that using an unencrypted corpo-controlled messenger for all of their communications is a bad idea

Are you accessing it not from a UK IP? Always defaults to GBP for me.

Ah space exploration/hunting x restaurant management game hybrid, second only to hell city-builder/management game x evil god game hybrid as my favourite genre of game

TimeSplitters 4. If they’d have stopped baiting us with teaser art and promises of someone new buying the bones of Free Radical every few years then it wouldn’t hurt so much.

I think you can do both of those with BotW too

Gaming is becoming less and less accessible and more and more of a luxury.

Lots of people do their gaming on their phone or PC. And on the subject of phones, look at the top-spec models: they cost thousands, because some people have the disposable income to burn. There are still plenty of affordable options available if you don’t fixate on having the latest best everything.

Interestingly I’d say the complete opposite: BotW was my fave and I feel I could replay it in quite a different style (e.g. trying to beat it without any dungeons, trying to 100% it), whereas the others are all very linear and my only option is to play it again in the same way.

(Obviously I don’t need to pay any additional money to do either though!)

Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a Switch

A new one, but pretty soon the market will be flooded with second hand switches

ReactOS. Or TempleOS if you’re feeling holy.

We’d get a pretty good game format OS—if the players could agree to come together—and then licence that out. Just like we do with Blu-ray, just like we do with the compact disk—and let people compete on content.

I know this is the most Lemmy comment it’s possible to make, but oh, if only there were an OS that already exists that you could run games on and that didn’t even need licencing out!

Repentance+ is still in beta for now

I’d love this comment to be a sticky post on every new thing announcement. Trouble with us humans is we like to really get into a thing that’s completely out of our control, and then we get very upset when it goes in a direction we don’t like. Being able to take a step back and say “ah well, guess that’s not for me anymore” is much better for your own mental health than getting angry at consumerism.

I think putting something like (Dunky) in the title would probably have helped

Ah hell city-builder/management game x evil god game hybrid, my favourite genre of game

I know as much as you do

If it didn’t say it at the start I think I’d still have recognised this as an Edmund McMillan game pretty soon

Apologies if I’m coming off too grumpy, I’ve just seen a hundred similar comments over the last 24 hours from people outraged that a company known for unfriendly practices in an industry full of other companies known for unfriendly business practices have continued doing the same unfriendly business practices that are already happening everywhere.

Fair point, but I still can’t imagine they’ll be double that price for long. The only GBP price I’ve seen for a Switch 2 game is the MKW bundle which is only £30 more than the console on its own.

Same as the current Switch online, Microsoft’s game pass, and whatever Sony offers then?

Aren’t consoles and their new game always ridiculously expensive on launch? I know Nintendo stuff often doesn’t drop in price that much but I’d be surprised if they stay this expensive for long. Plenty of other games to play in the meantime!

Not sure if I like the 3D look, definitely keen to see more though

Interesting, does that mean there is just one primary account and to be part of a family group with it you essentially can’t have your own account or purchases?

That’s probably because it’s a PC game that was ported to phones!

Because if they don’t then you can essentially just give a game away, and that means less sales

How would you make it so you can only share games with your family? As in what technical definition of “family” would you use that can’t include your friends?

Sounds like it’s no more DRM than the limits of a physical cartridge, right?

Brand new account immediately starts spamming about cryptocurrency “games”? Seems legit.

I was specifically thinking of the guy in bed with the really long arm!

If you’re wanting to build a game, do it for you and not someone else. It’s going to be a difficult and thankless task, so make sure that you are enjoying the process!

Looks like a screenshot from Thank Goodness You’re Here